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A totem (Ojibwe doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe. It is a natural object, plant or animal that is inherited by members of a clan or family as their spiritual emblem. Hence, Option A is correct. Among the rest, a minute shaped flint, typically part of a composite tool such as a spear. Jhum or Jhoom cultivation is a local name for slash and burn agriculture practiced by the tribal groups in the northeastern states of India like Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland and also in the districts of Bangladesh like Khagrachari and Sylhet. Megalithic means relating to or denoting prehistoric monuments made of or containing large stones. Hence, these are incorrect. 

People first began making things from metal over 9000 years ago, when they discovered how to get copper from its ore. They then learned how to make a harder alloy, bronze, by adding tin to the copper. About 3000 years ago, they discovered iron.

The then capital city of Inkes civilization is called by Peru. Inkes Civilization was flourished in the regions of Equidor, Peru, Chili in the South America. This Civilization was flourished in 14th and 15th Centuries AD.

Spain country was known to have looted the wealth of American continent which marked the end of Inkes civilization.

Indus Valley Civilisation people did not probably know about the use of cow. The Important innovations of this civilisation include standardized weights and measures, seal carving and metallurgy with copper, bronze, lead and tin.

Cro-Magnon man is an early Homo sapiens  that lived about 40,000 years ago. Skeletal remains and associated artifacts of the Aurignacian culture were first found in 1868 in Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France.

The Egyptian civilization was associated with the development of first calendar. In the Egyptian calendar, there were 12 months of 30 days each. The months each had three "weeks" of 10 days each. Between the end of the 12th month and the beginning of the first month of the next year were five extra days, resulting in a fixed year of 365 days every year.

Following features was not the feature of Neolithic age:-

• Man was merely a food gatherer.
• The age was associated with the origin of usage of fire.

• Farming settlements began around 4000 BCE and around 3000 BCE there appeared the first signs of urbanization.
• By 2600 BCE, dozens of towns and cities had been established.
• Between 2500 and 2000 BCE the Indus Valley Civilization was at its peak

Panini was a famous scholar of language and grammer. Panini is the name of an ancient Sanskrit linguist, grammarian and a revered scholar in Hinduism. COnsidered the father of Indian linguistics. Panini likely lived in northwest Indian subcontinent during the early Mahajanapada era.