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प्रश्न
Examine the tool making technical skills of lower Palaeolithic people.
उत्तर
- The human ancestors of flaked large stone blocks and designed various tools including hand axes.
- They made various tools such as hand axes and cleavers to meet their subsistence needs.
- The hand axe tools are also known as Acheulian.
- Bifaces are tools that have flaking on both sides.
- This tool making tradition continued till 250,000 years to 60,000 years ago in India.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Direct ancestor of modern man was ____________
(i) The Neolithic people used polished stone axes called Celts
(ii) Evidence of Neolithic village is found at Payyampalli in Chennai district
(iii) The cultural period that succeeded the Neolithic is called the Bronze Age
(iv) The period that witnessed domestication of animals and cultivation of crops is called Mesolithic
Match the following.
| 1. Palaeo anthropology | Teris |
| 2. Hand axe tools | Venus |
| 3. Images on stone and bone | Acheulian |
| 4. Red sand dunes | Microliths |
| 5. Stone artefacts of small size | The study ofthe human ancestors |
What are the Wattle and Daub Walls? Where do you find them?
Enumerate the distinctive characteristics of Neanderthals.
Mention the contribution of Sir Robert Bruce Foote towards the Paleolithic culture of Tamil Nadu.
Answer all the questions given under caption.
Mesolithic culture.
- Mention the evidence for the existence of Mesolithic hunt-gatherers.
- What type of artifacts were used by the people of this period?
- What are the tool types used by them?
- What did they do for their subsistence?
Assertion (A): Many of the Mesolithic sites are found nearby rivers and tanks.
Reason (R): Irrigation management developed during the Mesolithic period.
Assertion (A): Many of the Mesolithic sites are founds nearby rivers and tanks.
Reason (R): Irrigation management developed during Mesolithic period.
Assertion (A): Many of the Mesolithic sites are founds nearby rivers and tanks.
Reason (R): Irrigation management developed during Mesolithic period.
