History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c28.2

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Our knowledge of history of man’s earliest culture is almost entirely restricted to the stone tools that have been preserved. The concept of three Ages viz., Stone, Bronze and Iron was first given by the Danish archaeologist, Vedel-Simonsen in 1813. The Stone Age was later split up into Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic cultures.