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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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