Lower Palaeolithic Culture
- 6,00,000 -60,000 B.C.
- main tool were handaxes and cleavers, along with chopper- chopping tools.
- they were made both on cores as well as flakes.
- the raw material used for making these stone tools are of various kinds of stone like quartize, chert, quartz,basalt etc.
- these tools are not found in plains of river like Ganga, Bramhaputra, Saraswati, Indus
| Sr. No. | State | Site - Discription |
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| 1 | Jammu -Kashmir | |
| 2 | Uttar Pradesh |
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| 3 | Madya Pradesh |
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| 4 | Rajasthan |
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| 5 | Maharashtra |
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| 6 | Karnataka |
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| 7 | Tamilnadu |
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Middle Palaeolithic Culture
- 1,50,000- 40,000 B.C.
- tool technology is characterized basically by the flake- tool industry.
- the toolsaremadeon flakes obtained by striking them out from pebbles or cobbles.
- the tool types include smalland medium-sized handaxes, cleavers and various kinds of scrapers, borers and knives.
- tool show regional variety both in terms of available raw material and shapes and sizes
- there are largeborers worked with steep retouch on thick flakes.
- the scrapers are of several kinds, like straight, concave and convex sided.
- Burines are found but not as widely distributed as in the later periods
- important sites are Bhimbetaka, Newasa, Pushkar, Rohiri hills of upper sind and Samnapur on Narmada
Upper Palaeolithic Culture
- 45,000 - 10,000 B.C.
- the basic technological innovation of this period is the method of producing parallel sided blades from a carefully prepared core.
- once prepared one good core, it can yield many parallel-sided blades with very little or no further preparation.
- the main tool types are scrapers, points, awls, burins, borers, knives etc.
- concept of composite tools start developing during this cultural period.
- the blade tools are comparatively large , sometime upto to 8 cm
- rubble built is most remarkable discovery of this period.
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