HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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North-Western India
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North-Eastern India
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The Deccan Plateau
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Indo-Gangetic plan
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tendency to live in permanent settlements was not a characteristic of early humans in the Paleolithic Age. During the Paleolithic period, humans grouped together in small societies such as bands and subsisted by gathering plants and fishing, hunting or scavenging wild animals.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some of the sites of the Palaeolithic period founded in India are as follows: The Upper Palaeolithic period includes sites such as Sohan Valley in West Bengal now in Pakistan; Kurnool Caves, Gichchlur, Nellure in Andhra Pradesh; Nevasa in Maharashtra; Bellan Valley in U.P and Madhya Pradesh, etc.
Detailed explanation-3: -Upper Paleolithic extended from Upper Paleolithic (40, 000–8000 BC). In India its sites were discovered in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Central Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, southern Uttar Pradesh, and South Bihar Plateau. During the Paleolithic period the man was a hunter and food gatherer.
Detailed explanation-4: -More prominent usage of stone tools. Increase in the diversity of artifacts. Evolution of humans from the genus Homo into anatomically modern humans. Fluctuation of climate between warm and cool periods. First recorded instance of music.