Question

1.What is Neolithic age?
2.What is Mesolithic age?
3.What is microlthis?
4.Name three palaeolithic sites?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The Neolithic Period, also called the New Stone Age, is the final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans. ... In this stage, humans were no longer dependent on hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants.
2. Mesolithic, also called Middle Stone Age, ancient cultural stage that existed between the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), with its chipped stone tools, and the Neolithic (New Stone Age), with its polished stone tools. ... Polished stone was another innovation that occurred in some Mesolithic assemblages.
3. A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from around 35,000 to 3,000 years ago, across Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowheads.
4. Pahalgam Valley in Jammu-Kashmir.

Bhimbetka Shelters and Cave Paintings in Madhya Pradesh. .

Attirampakkam near Chennai in Tamil Nadu. ..

Didwana near Nagaur District in Rajasthan. .

Belan Valley in Uttar Pradesh.