The sites of Stone Age in India are Kondapur, Nevada, Mehrgarh, Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, and Edakkal Caves.

Such sites were known as habitation sites. Some of these sites were near the places where the stone was easily available and where the people could make stone implements. Such was the importance given to the stone tools. These sites came to be known as habitation cum factory sites.

Popular Habitation Sites

The excavations carried out in Nevasa throw light on the Palaeolithic period. The excavation was started here as long back as in 1954. Nevasa lies on the bank of Penganga, a tributary of the Godavari in Maharashtra.

From here different tools of the early, middle and later Palaeolithic period have been found. All this shows Nevasa as a popular habitation of the Palaeolithic people for a very long time.

Stone Age Artifacts have been found so far: 

A man by nature is weaker than animals like tigers, elephants, etc. He has neither sharp teeth nor claws or horns. Hence groups of men, women, and children lived and moved together. They moved in small groups because it was safer to belong to a group than move alone.

They used sharp stones to make knives, Axe heads, and choppers, etc to kill animals, to remove their skins, to fell trees, to dig the earth and to shape wood and stone. As a result, this period, when these people lived on earth is known as the Stone-Age.

Some Stone Tools and Artifacts of the Stone Age are the following:-

Handaxe– It was a pear-shaped tool with sharp edges on all the sides. It was used for cutting certain objects or for smashing certain things.

Chopper– It was made by sharpening the inner edge of the stone. It was mainly used for chopping meat.

Cleaver– It had a wide chisel-type edge to cut other stones or small branches of the trees.

Scraper– It was used to clean or scrape the skins of animals.

Budge– It was used to dig deep holes in the earth.

Arrowhead– It was used to kill running animals.