History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET December 2012 History
In which one of the following places is the centre of stone tool manufacture found?
AMahbubnagar
BMalaprabha
CIsampur ✓ Correct
DPalaghat
Correct answer: (C) Isampur — The centre of stone tool manufacture is found at Isampur, so the answer is Isampur.
Explanation
★The centre of stone tool manufacture is found at Isampur, so the answer is Isampur.
★Isampur lies in the Hunsgi valley of Karnataka in the Lower Palaeolithic context.
★About fifteen hundred Acheulian tools have been recovered from this site.
★It shows how early humans quarried limestone and shaped hand axes on the spot.
★Such workshop sites reveal the technology of the Old Stone Age.
★They mark the earliest stages of human settlement in peninsular India.
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