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The four factors that determine the choice of tools is as follows:

1. Availability of resources 

2. Minimal use of time and energy 

3. Maximum efficiency 

4. Skill of handling tools which is acquired through practice.

Homo sapiens brought about a revolution a in the technique of making tools.

Choppers were used to break nuts or bones.

With his improved tools, Homo erectus could have a greater variety of food as he could hunt a variety of big and small animals.

i. By the time of the New Stone Age, agriculture and animal husbandry became a routine way of life. 

ii. Therefore, hunting was no more a major means of obtaining food.

1. huts 

2. social 

3. adorn 

4. beads 

5. collar

In the Neolithic Age, the stone tools were polished to give a smooth, shiny finish.

The hand-axe and cleaver were more proportionate and symmetrical” than the tools made by Homo habilis.

1. old 

2. percussion 

3. crude 

4. choppers 

5. breaking

1. Homo erectus had improved tools. 

2. He could now hunt a variety of big and small animals.

3. He could thus have a greater variety of food.

He used things like antlers as hammers to obtain stone flakes.

1. hunting 

2. clearer 

3. Homo erectus 

4. Homo sapiens

1. Due to changes in the climate and the environment in the Middle Stone Age, the way of life of humans had begun to change. 

2. The Middle Stone Age man had started to harvest food grains and domesticate animals. 

3. Thus, he began to settle in one place for a part of the year.

The neolithic sites are Maski in Raichur, Cauvery basin, Bellary and Mysore in Karnataka, Salem and Tirunelveli in Tamilnadu, Hyderabad and Kurnool in A.P., Kathewar in Gujarat, Sindh, Bundelkhand, Kashmir, West Bengal, Orissa etc.,

In the New Stone Age, agriculture and domestication of animals or animal husbandry had become a routine way of life.

Homo habilis used the flakes of stone for scraping meat from hide, for chopping meat and other foodstuffs, for sharpening wooden sticks, etc.

The New Stone Age is called the Neolithic Age.

The sites of the New Stone Age culture in India are along the Ganga river and in South India.

1. The Homo sapiens made significant progress in knowing the environment, making tools for obtaining food. 

2. This enabled man to lead a stable life and live in one place. 

3. They started celebrating festivals and adorning themselves. 

4. Thus, we conclude that the beginning of human culture goes back to Old Stone Age.

Gangapur near Nasik and Chirki-Nevasa near Nevasa are among the few well-known Old Stone Age sites in Maharashtra.

The tools of the Old Stone Age were very crude

The species Homo habilis and Homo erectus belong to Old Stone Age.

1. Remains of the Old Stone Age were found in India at various places from Kashmir to Tamil Nadu. 

2. Fossils of a human skull and the collar bone of an Old Stone Age woman were found near Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh. 

3. The fossilized skull of a child was found at a village near Puducherry.