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Revision note: Stone Age India: Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Cultures

  • Lower Palaeolithic: Acheulian hand-axes; Attirampakkam (~1.5 mya), Isampur, Hunsgi, Didwana; Hathnora (Narmada) fossil
  • Middle Palaeolithic: flake tools (Nevasa); Upper: blades, bone tools, Patne beads, Kurnool caves
  • Mesolithic: microliths; first domestication at Adamgarh, Bagor; burials at Sarai Nahar Rai, Mahadaha
  • Neolithic: Mehrgarh ~7000 BCE earliest farming; Burzahom pit dwellings & dog burials; Koldihwa rice; Chirand bone tools; Utnur ash mounds
  • Chalcolithic: Ahar–Banas, Kayatha, Malwa, Jorwe (Inamgaon, Daimabad); OCP + Copper Hoards
  • Bhimbetka (MP), UNESCO 2003: rock shelters and paintings from Upper Palaeolithic onward
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