Answer the following questions in brief.
1. Who were hominids?
2. What do you understand by the Stone Age?
3. What do you understand by a habitation site?
4. Name the tools used in the Middle Palaeolithic Age.
5. What is Bhimbetka famous for?
Answer the following questions in detail
Answers
Answer:
1.they were the family of primates,and also known as apes
Explanation:
1.A hominid is any member of the biological family Hominidae. These are the "great apes", living and extinct. At present there are humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.
2.The Stone Age is a very early period of human history, when people used tools and weapons made of stone, not metal.
3.Habitation site- An archeological site where people lived or worked over a period of time.
4.Stone awls, which could have been used to perforate hides, and scrapers that were useful in preparing hide, wood, and other materials, were also typical tools of the Middle Paleolithical Age.
5 They are famous for bhimbetka rock shelters.The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the prehistoric Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period. It exhibits the earliest traces of human life on the Indian subcontinent and evidence of Stone Age starting at the site in Acheulian times.