Why the Mesolithic age is also called as Microlithic age? Answer the given question in a sentence.
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It is also called so because at that age people used small chipped stone tools called microliths that's why the name microlithic age
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It is so called because, at that primitive age, people used stone made small chipped stone tools called microliths.
That is the reason the name microlithic age was given.
It is the earliest Stone age period dating back about 2.6 million years.
The age is distinguished by category of most primitive stone tools.
Tools were Made on a flake 38mm x 19mm, 5.5 gms.
Small circular scrapers became more widely used.
They are also known as thumb scrapers as in the following examples.
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