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The stone age is the prehistoric period, i.e., the period before the development of the script, therefore the main source of information for this period is the archaeological excavations.

What characterises the Old Stone Age? Mention its features. 

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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class VI>Chapter 2 - From Hunting–Gathering to Growing Food>Exercise 1>Q 8

Archaeologists have found some of the things hunter-gatherers made and used. It is likely that people made and used tools of stone, wood and bone, of which stone tools have survived best.

Outline the instruments and tools that prehistoric humans utilised.

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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class VI>Chapter 2 - From Hunting–Gathering to Growing Food>Exercise 1>Q 11
Why did the hunter-gatherers travel from place to place? In what ways are these similar to/different from the reasons for which we travel today?
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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class VI>Chapter 2 - From Hunting–Gathering to Growing Food>Exercise 1>Q 12
Mark in a map of India: a chalcolithic site in Karnataka
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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class VI>Chapter 2 - From Hunting–Gathering to Growing Food>Exercise 1>Q 13
Make a comparison between the tools of the Palaeolithic Age and the Mesolithic Age.
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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class VI>Chapter 2 - From Hunting–Gathering to Growing Food>Exercise 1>Q 15

Look at these two sets of teeth. Which do you think belongs to a wild pig and a domesticated one?

 

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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class VI>Chapter 2 - From Hunting–Gathering to Growing Food>Exercise 1>Q 16
Describe how the stone age man turned from 'food-gatherer' to 'food producer'.
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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class VI>Chapter 2 - From Hunting–Gathering to Growing Food>Exercise 1>Q 18
How do you think your life differs from that of a child of the Stone Age? Elaborate.
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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class VI>Chapter 2 - From Hunting–Gathering to Growing Food>Exercise 1>Q 19
In what respect did the Old Stone Age implements differ from the implements used in the New Stone Age?