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Early Stone Age Tools

A stone tool is, in the most general sense,

any tool made either partially or entirely out
of stone. Although stone tool-dependent
societies and cultures still exist today, most
stone tools are associated with prehistoric
(particularly Stone Age) cultures that have
become extinct.

Upper Paleolithic
layers
Blades are defined as flakes that are at least
twice as long as they are wide. They may be
used, unmodified, as cutting or piercing
tools. They can also be modified, via
additional shaping, into tools used for
scraping, grinding, notching, drilling and
etching a variety of materials.

Microlith
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made
of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or
so in length and half a centimetre wide.
They were made by humans from around
35,000
to 3,000 years ago, across Europe, Africa,
Asia and Australia. The microliths were used
in spear points and arrowheads.

Australopithecus
afarensis
The stone tools may have been made by
Australopithecus afarensis, the species whose best
fossil example is Lucy, which inhabited East Africa
at the same time as the date of the oldest stone
tools, a yet unidentified species, or by
Kenyanthropus platyops (a 3.2 to 3.5-million-year-
old Pliocene hominin fossil discovered in 1999)

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The National Museum, New Delhi, as

we see it today, has an interesting
beginning. The blueprint for
establishing the National Museum in
Delhi was prepared by the Maurice
Gwyer Committee in May 1946.

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