Question

Q. Which of the following characterize/characterizes the Paleolithic Age?

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

• A. 1 and 3 only
• B. 2 only
• C. 3 only
• D. 1, 2 and 3 only

Answer 1

The correct option is A 1 and 3 only

Explanation:

Palaeolithic Age

The term Palaeolithic age refers to the old stone age. The old stone age or palaeolithic culture of India developed in the Pleistocene period or the Ice Age, which is a geological period of the age when the earth was covered with ice and the weather was so cold that humans or plant life could not survive. But in the tropical region, where ice melted, the earliest species of men could exist.

Characteristics of Paleolithic Age:

• The Indian people are believed to have belonged to the ‘Negrito’ race and lived in the open air, river valleys, caves, and rock shelters.
• They were food gatherers, ate wild fruits and vegetables, and lived on hunting.
• They knew about the use of fire.
• There was no knowledge of houses, pottery, agriculture. In the upper Palaeolithic age, there is evidence of art in the form of paintings.
• Humans used unpolished, rough stones like hand axes, choppers, blades, burins, and scrapers.
• They were Hunting- Gatherers and knew about the use of fire.

Microliths were used in the Mesolithic age.

Hence, points 1 and 3 are correct.