Stone Age

Question 1

Different phases of Stone Age are?

Answer 1

1. Paleolithic Age [Early Stone Age]
   Period: 5,00,000 BC - 10,000 BC
2. Mesolithic Age [Mid Stone Age]
   Period: 9,000 BC - 4,000 BC
3. Neolithic Age [Late Stone Age]
   Period: 7,000 BC - 1,000 BC

Question 2

Copper Age which occurred after stone age is known as?

Answer 2

Chalcolithic Age
Period: 1,800 BC - 1,000 BC

Question 3

Paleolithic Age is divided into?

Answer 3

1. Early Paleolithic Age
   Period: 5,00,000 BC - 50,000 BC
2. Middle Paleolithic Age
   Period: 50,000 BC - 40,000 BC
3. Late Paleolithic Age
   Period: 40,000 BC - 10,000 BC

Question 4

Characteristic feature of Early Paleolithic Age and Stone tools used for?

Answer 4

Characteristics: Hand - axes, Cleavers, and Choppers
Uses: Chopping, Digging, and Skinning

Question 5

Type of tools used in Middle Paleolithic Age are?

Answer 5

Tools: Blades, Paints, Borers, and Scrapers made of Flakes

Note: Flakes are sharp ended objects

Question 6

Type of tools used in Upper Paleolithic Age and they are found in?

Answer 6

Tools: Blades and Burins

Found: AP, KA, Central MP, Southern UP, and Southern Bihar

Question 7

Major sites of the Paleolithic Phase are?

Answer 7

Remember: MAN DPSB

1. Mirzapur (Belan Valley - UP)
2. Attirampakkam (TN)
3. Nevera (MH)
4. Didwana (RJ)
5. Patne (MH)
6. Soan Valley (Now Pakistan then Punjab)
7. Bhimbetka (MP)

Question 8

Characteristic tools of Mesolithic are?

Answer 8

Microliths

Question 9

Earliest evidence of domestication of animals is seen in? (Which phase and which places)

Answer 9

Mesolithic Age

Places: Adamgarh (MP) and Bagor (RJ)

Question 10

Rock paintings from the Paleolithic and Mesolithic are observed in?

Answer 10

Bhimbetka Caves (MP)

Note: About 500+ Paintings found

Question 11

Major sites of the Mesolithic Age are?

Answer 11

Remember: CLABS

1. Chopani (UP)
2. Langhnaj (GJ)
3. Adamgarh (MP)
4. Bagor (RJ)
5. Sanganakallu (KA)

Question 12

Characteristics of Neolithic Age are?

Answer 12

1. Cultivation of plants
2. Domestication of animals

Question 13

What are the Neolithic tools?

Answer 13

Ground stone tools, celts, adzes, chisels, axes, saws, and burins

Question 14

Which site showed the beginning of agriculture and domestication of animals? (In Neolithic Age)

Answer 14

Mehrgarh on the bank of the River Bolan in Baluchistan

Question 15

Which crops were cultivated (in Neolithic Age)?

Answer 15

Wheat, Barley, Plum, and Dates

Question 16

Which animals were domesticated (in Neolithic Age)?

Answer 16

Cattle, Sheep, and Goat

Question 17

Important Neolithic Sites are? (Hint: Found on the Jhelum river in Kashmir (Valley))

Answer 17

Burzahom (Place of Birch) and Gufkral (Cave of the Potter)

Note: Birch is a deciduous Tree

Question 18

Earliest Rice production in?

Answer 18

Belan Valley

Question 19

Earliest Pottery evidence found in?

Answer 19

Chopani Mando

Question 20

Megalith refers to?

Answer 20

Burials amidst stones in graveyards away from the habitation area

Question 21

Pottery in Megalith is?

Answer 21

Black and Red Ware

Question 22

Major Chalcolithic Sites are?

Answer 22

1. Inamgaon (MH)
2. Daimabad (MH)
3. Malwa (MP)
4. Gilund (RJ)
5. Kausambi (UP)
6. Harappa
7. Mohenjodaro
8. Amri