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प्रश्न
Examine the tool making technical skills of lower Palaeolithic people.
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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
Hand axes and cleavers are the important tool types of the ________ culture.
Levalloisian tools are named after the _____ town.
Mention the importance of the upper layers of the earth.
The Lower Paleolithic culture conveys the cognitive skill of human ancestors. How?
In the Neolithic way of life, large groups of people were concentrated in the ______.
- The chimpanzee is genetically the closest to humans.
- Hominins & their origin have been traced to Asia.
- The Hominins emerged around 6 to 5 million years ago.
- The Great Rift valley in Africa has many sites for the Prehistoric period.
Why were the Levalloisian tools called so?
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 found near rivers and tanks.
Reason (R): Irrigation management developed during the Mesolithic period.
