what is meant by stone age
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a prehistoric period when weapons and tools were made of stone or of organic materials such as bone, wood, or horn.
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The term "Stone Age" is used to describe a period of human evolution where stone was used as the most hardest material for making tools. The Stone Age started around 2.5 to 2 million years ago when early humans first produced the first stone tools in East Africa and ended with the development of agriculture, the domestication of certain animals such as sheep, goat and cow, and the smelting of copper ore to produce metal.
Some important stone -age sites in India are as follows:
- Pallavaram in Tamil Nadu
- Hunsgi in Karnataka
- Kuliana in Orissa
- Didwana in Rajasthan
- Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh
- Inamgaon and Walki in Maharashtra
- Navdatoli in Madhya Pradesh
- Ahar, Balathal and Gilund in eastern Rajasthan
- Budhihal, Sangankalur
- Maski and Brahmagiri in Karnataka
- Utnur in western Andhra Pradesh
- Golbai in Orissa
- Pandu-Rajar-Dhibi in West Bengal
- Chirand in Bihar
- Burzoham in Kashmir
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