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The Palaeolithic remains have been found in all
parts of India, especially in the Deccan. In ancient
times, south of the Vindhya Mountain and the
Narmada river, was known as Dakshinapath;
now it is called the Deccan. There were two
main cultures in the Palaeolithic Age, the
Sonnian and the Acheulian. Some tools from
the Sonnian culture have been found in the
Shivalik hills of the Indian subcontinent. Most
Sonnian tools belong to late middle period
found in past Shivalik sediments. Sonnian
artifacts have been recovered in Pakistan.
Acheulian sites have been divided in early
Acheulian and late Acheulian, on the basis of
the tools produced. Early Acheulian tools have
been recovered at the edge of the Vindhya
hills in the Narmada Basin. Flake tools were
the major features of the late Acheulian Age.
Small and medium size hand axes and cleavers
were main tools of this age used for chopping
meat. Various sites of Acheulian in the Deccan
are excavated like Chirki-Nevasa, Guhox,
Saswad, Nasre, Yeduwadi, Attirampakkam and
Bhimbetka. Various Acheulian tools have been
discovered from Nevasa, a tributary of the
Godavari in Maharashtra.
All this indicates that Nevasa was a popular
habitation of the Palaeolithic man for a long
time. From these stone tools we come to know
about food and shelters of early man. One
of these sites is Attirampakkam valley in the
northwest of Tamil Nadu. Archaelogical research
has discovered evidence of fossil remains of
animals and primitive stone implements in the
northern Tamil Nadu around 300,000 BC. Man
in Deccan lived in this Palaeolithic period for a
long time, using only crude implements.
Name the two main cultures of the
Palaeolithic age.
A Dakshinapath and Deccan.
B Vindhya hills and Narmada Basin.
C The Sonnian and the Acheulian.
D The New and the old Palaeolithic.
The right answer should be C but it says the right answer is A. How?