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Which innovation correctly illustrates Mesolithic advances in subsistence and technology in India?

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Use of microlithic tools along with bow-and-arrow and plant-processing implements

The use of microlithic tools along with bow-and-arrow technology and plant-processing implements correctly illustrates Mesolithic advances in India.

Polished stone axes with settled villages, heavy flake tools, and iron tool adoption belong to later Neolithic or Iron Age periods, not the Mesolithic.

Hence, 'Use of microlithic tools along with bow-and-arrow and plant-processing implements' is the correct answer.

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