Context:
A wildlife trail in Gurugram’s Aravalli forests has led to the discovery of cup-shaped depressions, geometric engravings, game-board-like patterns, stone tools and a large foot engraving. Experts suggest that the site shows continuity of human activity from early tool-making traditions to later symbolic, ritual and social life.
Explanation:
- Aravalli Range is one of the oldest fold mountain systems in the world and has several prehistoric and archaeological sites.
- Petroglyphs are images, symbols or designs carved, engraved or pecked on rock surfaces.
- Cupules are cup-shaped depressions made on rocks and are among the earliest forms of rock art.
- Palaeolithic tools such as hand axes and cleavers indicate early human tool-making and survival activities.
- Acheulean tradition is linked with Lower Palaeolithic stone tools, especially bifacial hand axes.
- Rock art may reflect symbolic behaviour, ritual practices, social communication and cognitive development.
- Game-board-like engravings indicate possible later social or recreational activities.
- Such findings help trace the transition from basic survival activities to complex cultural and symbolic life.
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Aravalli Rock Art and India’s Prehistoric Legacy