What are the Palaeolithic culture of India?

Important Middle Palaeolithic Sites in India included Luni valley, around Didwana, Budha Pushkar in Rajasthan; Valleys of the Belan, Son river, Narmada river and their tributaries in central India {including Bhimbetka} and some sparse sites in Chota Nagpur plateau, Deccan plateau and Eastern Ghats.

What do you mean by Palaeolithic culture?

Paleolithic Period, also spelled Palaeolithic Period, also called Old Stone Age, ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development, characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools. Learn about early species in the genus Homo and scholarly debates over what defines being human.

What are three facts about Paleolithic?

During the Paleolithic Age man hunted and gathered for food. This meant that diet was varied. Food could include meat from animals, fish, fruit, wild vegetables, insects, nuts, and legumes. The Paleolithic Age man did not experience the same famine and malnutrition as later man because they ate a wide variety of food.

Which Stone Age is known as Microlithic age?

Mesolithic age
Option a- The Mesolithic age is known as the Microlithic Age not because the humans used very large stone tools. The term Microlith means small bladed stone tools.

What are 6 characteristics of the Paleolithic era?

Terms in this set (6)

• Nomadic.
• Depended totally on the environment for food (women= gatherers/men=hunter)
• Used simple tools.
• Learned to build fires.
• Kept records and communicated using cave paintings.
• Belief in the afterlife- started to bury the dead.

Which age is known as Mesolithic Age?

Middle Stone Age
The Mesolithic Age, also known as Middle Stone Age, was the second part of the Stone Age. In India, it spanned from 9,000 B.C. to 4,000 B.C. This age is characterized by the appearance of Microliths (small bladed stone tools).

What is Microlithic culture?

A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide. Microlith production generally declined following the introduction of agriculture (8000 BCE) but continued later in cultures with a deeply rooted hunting tradition.

What are Stone Age tools?

Early Stone Age Tools The Early Stone Age began with the most basic stone implements made by early humans. These Oldowan toolkits include hammerstones, stone cores, and sharp stone flakes. By about 1.76 million years ago, early humans began to make Acheulean handaxes and other large cutting tools.