Pre-Partition #2 The Prehistory the Ancient Times
The most reliable evidence to the existence of prehistoric man everywhere around the globe are tools which he left behind.
The history of Indo-Pakistan goes back to the Stone Age. Ten million years ago, the common ancestors of both men and apes roamed the open woodland south of what is now Islamabad. Our own genus, Homo, a meat-eater and user of stone tools, was thought to have evolved here about two million years ago.
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