Important sites :

• Kashmir valley
• Chirand in Bihar
• Belan valley, UP
• Several places in the Deccan 
• South India- Maski, Brahmagiri, Hallur and Kodekal in Karnataka, Paiyampalli in TN and Utnur in Andhra Pradesh

Characteristic features:

• Practice of agriculture, domestication of animals, polishing of stone tools and manufacture of pottery
• Cultivation of plants and domestication of animals led to emergence of village communities based on sedentary life
• Mud brick houses were built instead of grass huts
• Wheels were used to make pottery. Pottery was used for cooking as well as storage of food grains
• There was also improvement in agriculture. Wheat, barley, rice, millet were cultivated. Rice cultivation was extensive in eastern India
• Domestication of sheep, goats and cattle was widely prevalent. Cattle were used for cultivation and for transport
• The people of Neolithic age used clothes made of cotton and wool
• Improvement in technology of making tools and other equipment. Stone tools were now polished for hunting and cutting trees