Pre-historic period in India was marked by the use of flint tools and animal bones. For the Mesolithic (from c. 9000 bc) and Neolithic periods, the evidence suggests, cultural advances in different parts of the country evolved at different rates in tool making, village settlement, agriculture and the domestication of animals, pottery, burial and the introduction of copper. Evidence of artistic activity is limited to the Mesolithic and Neolithic figural drawings on the rock shelters of central India and Karnataka. From 5000 BCE, pure copper was used along with bronze; in the south burial coffin- and urn-burials, often associated with ‘megaliths’ were common