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Classifying the Indian Stone Age

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The Indian Stone Age

  • The three age-system-the idea that there was an age of stone tools, followed by one dominated by those of bronze and then of iron- was first put forward in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by P. F Suhm and Christian Thomsan.
  • In 1863, John Lubbock divided the Stone Age into two parts, the Palaeolithic and Neolithic.
  • Edoward Lartert suggested the division of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic on the basis of geological age, the type and technology of stone tools and subsistence base.
  • The Palaeolithic is fur…

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Important Sites

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Lower Paleolithic

Lower Paleolithic { Million Years Ago to Years Ago}

  • The Lower Paleolithic or the early Old Stone Age covers the greater part of the ice age.
  • Bori, in Maharashtra is considered to be the earliest Lower Paleolithic site.
  • People were principally food gathers.
  • They took to small game hunting and lived also on fish and birds.
  • The tools of lower Paleolithic phase include mainly handaxes, cleavers, choppers and chopping tools. The tools were all made by removing flakes from a block or core of stone until it reached the required shape and size. Tools were made of quartzite mostly.

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