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Like Paleolithic, Neolithic is also a Greek word. It means 'New Stone'. The period since the discovery of agriculture to the rise of urban civilization has been bracketed, as New Stone or Neolithic Age. This Age lasted approximately from 8000BC to 3000BC. The earlier anthropologists conceived everything on the basis of technological types, so they distinguished two grand divisions in Stone Age, which were different from each other by the technique of stone working. Palaeolithic tools and implements were made solely by chipping. They were very crude in nature. But the Neolithic stone objects were pecked, ground, rubbed and polished; they were far better in finishing as well as in effectiveness. Man was no longer a food-gatherer, he became a food-producer at the advent of Neolithic.
Twentieth Century anthropologists defined Neolithic Age in terms of domesticated plants and animals. They also counted the presence of pottery and absence of metal as indispensable criteria for a pure Neolithic site. V. Gordon Childe mentioned that the Neolithic had opened an entire new way of life and he termed it as 'Neolithic Revolution'. After the end of Pleistocene Ice Age, first acquisition of domestic plants and animals stood as the greatest achievement of man and therefore the period has been recognized as a great turning point or 'revolution', perhaps comparable in importance only with the 'Industrial Revolution' of recent period. But the origin and early spread of agriculture is still a matter of conjecture and only fragmentary evidences are found on this topic. There is no area in the world where the stages from pure hunting and gathering to farming can be traced step by step in adequate detail. However, the early development of agriculture was rooted in the environmental and cultural conditions at the end of Pleistocene epoch. By this time, the biological development of man was complete as evident in the skeletal remains of modern type of man corresponding to the particular period. It is therefore assumed that the people of this period had grown the capacities for cultural innovation. Discovery of agriculture belongs to:

Question: 1

Discovery of agriculture belongs to :

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  • Palaeolithic age
  • Mesolithic age
  • Neolithic age
  • Chalcolithic age
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The Correct Option is C

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The Correct Option is (C): Neolithic age
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Question: 2

The stone tools of Neolithic are:

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  • Pebble tools
  • Hand axe
  • Blade tools
  • Polished tools
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The Correct Option is D

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The Correct Option is (D):Polished tools
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Question: 3

Neolithic stone age existed during:

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  • 5000 BC to 3000 BC
  • 4000 BC to 3000 BC
  • 8000 BC to 3000 BC
  • 4000 BC to 2000 BC
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The Correct Option is C

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The Correct Option is (C): 8000 BC to 3000 BC
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Question: 4

'Neolithic' is also known as:

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  • old stone age
  • middle stone age
  • new stone age
  • modern stone age
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The Correct Option is C

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The Correct Option is (C): new stone age
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Question: 5

In Neolithic period the man was complete in terms of skeletal remains of :

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  • Homo habilis
  • Modern man
  • Cro-Magnon man
  • Grimaldi man
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The Correct Option is B

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The Correct Option is (B):Modern man
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