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ANCIENT INDIA -1 Stone Age

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History of India is interesting because India offered to be a melting pot of numerous races religions communities and languages. The pre-Aryans, the Indo Aryans, the Greeks, the Scythians, the Hunas, the Arabs, the Turks, the Afghans, the Mongols,  Parsis, Jews, Christians, Muslims, atheists etc., made India their home. Each ethnic group contributed to the making of Indian culture. All these peoples mixed up so inextricably with one another that at present none of them can be identified in their original form. Father of Indian archaeology - Alexander Cunningham. Stone Age Paleolithic or Old Stone Age (BC 1000000-BC10000) Human being evolved qver millenium and the present form reached about 50,000 years ago. The archaeological site of Bori in Pune district of Maharashtra is about 1 million years old. The Old Stone Age sites are widely found in various parts of the Indian subcontinent generally located near water resources. They also lived rarely