Abstract:
The role of Agriculture in the ancient civilization has long been emphasized. Civilizing
is the instruct in the arts of human life or regime of human life. History of civilization
was based on western perspectives, giving impression that the western part of the world
was central to the development of cultures. Though Eastern and Far East totally
neglected, very recent researchers has shown world's earliest civilization was in Eastern
part of the world, based on Rice Cultivation and fishing. Attempts were made in the
paper to analyze the agriculture of Pre-historic Sri Lanka including recent researches in
the Island and its influence of understanding the cultural development of the country
from Paleolithic Period to historical period.
There have been several attempts during the past decades to understand the pre-historic
life style of Sri Lanka. According to the archaeological evidences the environment has
been used since two million years ago by human being in Sri Lanka. The life style was
very simple in Paleolithic period and when Neolithic period it was complicated
specially, their subsistence system changed. As the result of this, hunter-gatherers
changed to farmers. Archaeology is a wide and multi-disciplinary science which seeks
to understand past human life styles. This discipline has been used to re-read the pre
historic period of Sri Lank
