Prehistory

Published on 3rd January, 2021, in Mid-day. Humans domesticated fire around 3,00,000 years ago. We started using tools around that time. But, the human brain evolved to its current size roughly 2,00,000 years ago. We migrated out of Africa into India, 50,000 years ago. So, when do we find the earliest signs of religion in India? It depends on how we define religion. In archaeological terms, religion means belief in something unseen, apart from the current, lived experience. As humans, thanks to our imagination, our experience expanded beyond the natural world of elements, plants, animals and humans, to the supernatural world of dreams, delusions, projections ..