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Question
Examine the tool making technical skills of lower Palaeolithic people.
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Solution
- 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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