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The Stone Age - Short Trick

Tools, firsts, sites and Chalcolithic cultures — one sentence each

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  • Guru Ram Each coloured word = one name in the list, shown below in the same colour
  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
  • ➜ Order the numbered order matters · ⇄ Any order no order
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Ages and Tools

The tools of the three Palaeolithic phases and the four marks of a Neolithic culture.

Trick 1

Three Palaeolithic phases — typical tools

➜ lines in phase order — tools in each line in any order

LowerHari cleaned the chimney.

MiddleBlessy posted books.

UpperBunty scrubbed the floor.

  1. 1Hand-axesLower Palaeolithic, 500000–50000 BC
  2. 2Cleavers
  3. 3Choppers
  4. 4BladesMiddle Palaeolithic, 50000–40000 BC — flake tools
  5. 5Points
  6. 6Borers
  7. 7BurinsUpper Palaeolithic, 40000–10000 BC
  8. 8Scrapers
  9. 9Flint blades

Lower is the earliest and longest phase · Homo sapiens (modern man) appears in the Upper phase · most tools are quartzite, hence "Quartzite Men" · the word Palaeolithic was coined by John Lubbock in 1865 · the Mesolithic hallmark is the microlith.

Trick 2

Four marks of a Neolithic culture

⇄ Any order

Polly ate dal with potatoes.

  1. Polished (ground) stone toolsthe change from Old to New Stone Age came with this
  2. Agriculture begins
  3. Domestication of animals
  4. Pottery

The wheel was invented in the Neolithic · fire was not new — it was known since Palaeolithic times · typical tool: ground and polished stone axe (celt).

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The "Firsts"

Where the earliest evidence of humans, herding, farming, rice and bone tools was found.

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Mesolithic and Neolithic Sites

The Mesolithic sites of the Ganga plain, the rock-art sites and what marks each key Neolithic site.

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Chalcolithic Cultures

The copper site of Ganeshwar, the hallmark of each regional culture and the Chalcolithic sites of Maharashtra.

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