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“The Chalcolithic people were experts in microliths and were also skilful workers in stone.” Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Pre-history and Proto-history

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The term "Chalcolithic" (copper-stone age, roughly 2600/2000 BCE to 700 BCE in peninsular and western India) can mislead by foregrounding copper in its very name, when the archaeological record shows the opposite emphasis: copper objects at Chalcolithic sites are few, small, and mostly ornamental, while a sophisticated microlithic and ground-stone industry continued to do the…

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  • The Persistence and Refinement of Microliths
  • Skill Beyond Microliths: Ground and Blade Stone-Working
  • Why Stone, Not Copper, Remained the Working Material
  • Regional Corroboration
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