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What does this mean about Palaeolithic and Mesolithic people?

Hi friends, I see this article, I find interesting, I have been to this place called Goa in Indian. It has Fantastic History like all of India Archeologists have found tools that suggest occupation of sites in Goa along the upstream Mandovi that date from the early palaeolithic to mesolithic stages. (Mesozoic is the geological era that extended from about 225 million years ago to about 65 million years ago. It followed the Palaeozoic era.) Marine archaeologist A.S.Gaur of the National Institute of Oceanography and M. Nambirajan of the Archaeological Survey of India have undertaken a study of pre-historic sites on river banks and ports of Goa in potential areas. “Field survey in Goa has indicated a concentration of prehistoric sites along the coast and in the Mandovi-Zuari river basin. Some sites are reported on other river banks too,” reported Gaur and Nambirajan. Their work has been encouraged by a number of recent finds reported in Goa. At Rivona, on the banks of the Kushavati river, mesolithic tools were found, while a site of neoliths has been reported at Chicalim. Most significant findings of recent times are rock carvings found at Usgalimol and Kajur on the banks of the Kushavati river. These carvings include symbols of the Zebu bull, a dancing female figure, a horned animal, harpoon and sex symbols. Their date is disputed, varying from the upper palaeolithic to megalithic period. Chandrapura in South Goa, now the sleepy village of Chandor, is another ancient site, whose earliest known epigraphical reference is in the Siroda copper plates of the Bhoja dysnasty. Some scholars have discounted the view that the city was founded by Chandraditya, a son of a Chalukyan king, and point to its earlier association with the Arab Sindabur. Finds including potsherd, bricks and copper coins are assignable to the Satavahanas, who probably ruled the Konkan from the end of the second century of the current era. This was on a website, So please explain more if you can share knowledge with me thank you

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1. Vlad I hope you realise your question covers an immense stretch of prehistoric time - prehistoric meaning before any written record of man's doings. You may be confusing the Mesolithic with the Mesozoic in that parenthesized comment. There were no men around, or even thought of, in the Mesozoic. The Mesozoic is an immense time lasting from the earliest kinds of dinosaurs to the time of their ultimate disappearance from the planet. Also, we don't know any personal names from the Mesolithic and certainly not the Palaeolithic - this latter era came to a close with the last ice age. The Mesolithic ended a couple of millenia before even Otzi the Iceman was born. New finds are continually being made in the field of palaeontology and archaeology. The picture is continually expanding and becoming clearer, but the findings often also shoot holes in previous suppositions and theory too. Unfortunately we have to go with what we've got rather than wait for better excavating and investigatory methods and for improved dating techniques that will surely come in the future.