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  2. South Asian Stone Age - Wikipedia

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    Isampur in Karnataka, India, is one of 200 some Lower Paleolithic Acheulian sites in the Hunasagi and Baichbal valleys, and is dated to about 1.27 Ma. [19] Although older assemblages have been found in Attirampakkam and Bori, Maharashtra (1.4 Ma), [ 20 ] Isampur is a unique archeological site in that it is a quarry - a site of lithic ...

  3. Madrasian culture - Wikipedia

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    The Madrasian culture is a prehistoric archaeological culture of the Indian subcontinent, dated to the Lower Paleolithic, the earliest subdivision of the Stone Age. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It belongs to the Acheulian industry , and some scholars consider the distinction between the Madrasian and the broader, regional Acheulian tradition defunct.

  4. Lower Paleolithic - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Paleolithic (or Lower Palaeolithic) is the earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.It spans the time from around 3.3 million years ago when the first evidence for stone tool production and use by hominins appears in the current archaeological record, [1] until around 300,000 years ago, spanning the Oldowan ("mode 1") and Acheulean ("mode 2") lithics industries.

  5. Archaeology of India - Wikipedia

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    In the prehistory of the Indian subcontinent, the Iron Age in India cultures are the Painted Grey Ware culture (1300 to 300 BCE) [18] [19] and the Northern Black Polished Ware (700 to 200 BCE), the later corresponds to the transition of the Vedic period Janapada principalities to the sixteen Mahajanapadas region-states of the early historic ...

  6. Bori, Pune - Wikipedia

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    'Bori Khurd is a town located in Pune district, Maharashtra, India. It is known for the discovery of some ancient human artefacts. The reported artefacts from Bori suggest the appearance of human beings in India around 1.4 million years ago (middle pleistocene). This site is considered to be one of the earliest lower paleolithic sites in India ...

  7. Prehistory of Manipur - Wikipedia

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    Paleolithic period is the most primitive stone culture era. The Paleolithic period varies from place to place. In Manipur's neighbouring country Myanmar, the lower Paleolithic culture started from 750000 to 275000 BP. Homo erectus began to settle on the banks of the Ayeyawaddy river in Burma in 750000 BCE.

  8. Paleolithic - Wikipedia

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    The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (c. 3.3 million – c. 11,700 BC) (/ ˌ p eɪ l i oʊ ˈ l ɪ θ ɪ k, ˌ p æ l i-/ PAY-lee-oh-LITH-ik, PAL-ee-), also called the Old Stone Age (from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós) 'old' and λίθος (líthos) 'stone'), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the ...

  9. Attirampakkam - Wikipedia

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    It was the first time in India, the archaeological site in India was dated. By performing a luminescence dating method called Post Infrared Stimulated Luminescence (pIR-IRSL) on about 7,200 artifacts found at Attirampakkam, researchers have made a chronology of Attirampakkam stone tool technology with a span of about 200,000 years. [ 9 ]