The Difference between Palaeolithic and Neolithic period are given below;

Agriculture brought about important changes. Man gave up his nomadic life and settled down at one, place in selected areas. He could grow his own food. He no longer was a wanderer or gatherer and settled down in one place. Man put forward the first step towards development.

The three stages of the Stone Age are:
(i) Palaeolithic Age : In this period, man used crude stone tools and weapons and led a nomadic life. It was also known as the 'Old Stone Age'.
(ii) Mesolithic Age : In this age, man used microlithic stone tools which were binded or joined to handles or sticks of wood/bamboo. In this age, man started domesticating animals. It was also known as the 'Middle Stone Age'.
(iii) Neolithic Age: In this age, man used polished stone tools, domesticated animals, used tools for agriculture and led a settled life. It was also known as the 'New Stone Age'.

(i) Mehrgarh is a site that is located in a fertile plain, near the Bolan Pass. It was one of the most important routes in Iran.
(ii) Mehrgarh was a place where women and men learnt to grow barley and wheat and rear sheep and goats for the first time. It is one of the earliest villages that we know about.

The literature in the books which gives us important information about the past is called literary source. The Vedas, Upanishads, Smritis, Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Sangam literature throw light on the political, social, economic and religious conditions of early India.

The Stone Age man lived in hilly areas by the side of rivers or lakes. In the beginning, he took shelter in the caves, rock shelters and later, in mud-huts. He lived by the side of lakes or rivers, to quench his thirst and for food i.e., animal and fish.

There are many similarities such as its shape, construction and material used in construction.

When the mound is dug up, what is found from the upper layer of the mound is generally made of discarded waste material than what is found from the lower layers of mound, which are older. So the layer 3 is the earlier layer.

Catal Huyuk is one of the most famous Neolithic sites, found in Turkey. This site had the strong relation with other sites of the sub-continent which is evident from the imports of materials such as flint from Syria, cowries from the Red Sea, shells from the Mediterranean sea. These things were used in the settlement. Animals were the important means of transportation of goods and no other means were available at the time.

The life of early people was as follows:
(i) With the beginning of growing plants, people had to stay in a same place for a longtime. It was not possible for them to migrate frequently as before.
(ii)They had to wait for a long time looking after the plants, watering, weeding, driving away animals and birds -till the grain ripened and then, the grain had to be used carefully.
(iii) In some parts of the sub-continent, people beqanrnaklnq large clay pots or wove baskets or dug pits into the ground as the grain had to be stored for both food and seed.

The culture of tribal society is as follows:
(i) In tribal society, some men are regarded as leaders, they may be old and experienced or  young, brave warriors or priests. Old women are respected for their wisdom and experience.
(ii) Tribes have rich and unique cultural traditions, including their own language, music, stories and including their own language, music, stories and goddesses.

Stone tools have been found from many sites. They are often different from the Palaeolithic tools and are called Neolithic. There were tools that were polished so as to give a fine cutting edge were polished so as to give a fine cutting edge grain and other plant produce. Mortars and st pestles are used for grinding grain even today. However, Palaeolithic tools were still used for some purpose. Some tools were also made of bone.

The cereals that we eat are rice, wheat, barley, maize, jowar, bajra etc.

Apart from food, some other things also could have been obtained from the animals like the services of animals such as pulling the carts and carrying goods from one place to another place, skin of animals etc. Animals like ox, buffalo, horse, mule and elephant are in use for carrying goods today.

I think hunter-gatherers would not have made and used pots because they were food gatherers not food producers. They did not have large quantity of grains as a produce from agriculture. They did not require any pot or basket to store grains.