1. Human beings have been living in India roughly since which year?
2. Consider the following statements regarding the Old Stone Age in India:
(I) Man used tools of unpolished, undressed, rough stones.
(II) These stone chips were used for hunting, cutting and other purposes.
(III) Man had knowledge of cultivation and house building during this period.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
3. The Old Stone Age in India generally continued till about which year?
4. Palaeolithic tools as old as 100,000 B.C. have been found in which region?
5. Palaeolithic tools belonging to the period 25,000 B.C.–10,000 B.C. have been found about 55 km from which town?
6. Animal remains found in the Belan valley show that goats, sheep and cattle were domesticated around which year?
7. The Old Stone Age or Palaeolithic culture of India developed during which geological period?
8. The Holocene period, in which we currently live, began about how many years ago?
9. In India, the first human occupation, as suggested by stone tools, is not earlier than which geological phase?
10. Consider the following statements regarding the phases of the Palaeolithic Age in India:
(I) The Old Stone Age in India is divided into three phases — Early, Middle and Upper.
(II) The characteristic feature of the Lower Palaeolithic is the use of hand-axes and cleavers.
(III) The Lower Palaeolithic hand-axes found in India are dissimilar to those of Western Asia, Europe and Africa.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
11. The Early Old Stone Age sites in India are found in the valley of which river, now in Pakistan?
12. Lower Palaeolithic hand-axes in the Belan valley (Mirzapur district) have been found in a deposit belonging to which event?
13. On what basis is the Middle Old Stone Age industry primarily based?
14. The Middle Palaeolithic sites in the Soan Valley show a crude pebble industry contemporary with which event?
15. Consider the following pairs regarding Middle Palaeolithic artifact locations:
(I) River Narmada
(II) South of the Tungabhadra river
(III) Soan Valley
Which of the above are correctly identified as findspots of Middle Palaeolithic artifacts?
16. The Upper Palaeolithic phase, in world context, is known for the appearance of new flint industries and men of which type?
17. The rockshelters used by human beings in the Upper Palaeolithic phase have been discovered at Bhimbetka, located how far from Bhopal?
18. Palaeolithic sites are found in practically all parts of India except which areas?
19. The Upper Palaeolithic Age in India came to an end with the end of the Ice Age around which year?
20. The Mesolithic or Late Stone Age in India is regarded as a transitional phase between which two ages?
21. What is the characteristic tool type of the Late Stone Age?
22. Consider the following statements regarding the Belan Valley:
(I) It lies on the northern spurs of the Vindhyas.
(II) All three phases of the Palaeolithic, followed by the Mesolithic and then the Neolithic, have been found there in sequence.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
23. In the world context, the Neolithic Age began around 7,000 B.C. In the Indian sub-continent, neolithic settlements are not older than which year?
24. Some neolithic settlements in south India and eastern India are as late as which year?
25. In ancient legends, which axe-wielding figure became an important hero associated with the neolithic stone axe?
26. Consider the following pairs regarding the three major areas of neolithic settlement in India, based on axe types:
(I) Kashmir valley
(II) South India, south of the Godavari river
(III) Hills of Assam
Which of the above are correctly identified as neolithic settlement areas?
27. The neolithic site of Burzahom, associated with the Kashmir valley settlements, is located about how far from Srinagar?
28. What was the primary economy of the neolithic people of Burzahom, who lived in pit dwellings on a plateau?
29. Apart from polished stone tools, the people of Burzahom are notable for the extensive use of which material for tools and weapons?
30. Besides Burzahom, which other site has yielded considerable bone implements in India?
31. Chirand, which yielded bone implements, is located on the northern side of the Ganga, west of which city?
32. What type of pottery did the people of Burzahom use?
33. Which distinctive burial practice, not found among neolithic people elsewhere in India, was followed at Burzahom?
34. What is the earliest scientifically determined date for the neolithic site of Burzahom?
35. Consider the following statements regarding the second group of neolithic people, who lived south of the Godavari river:
(I) They usually settled on the tops of granite hills or on plateaus near river banks.
(II) They possessed cattle, sheep and goats.
(III) They were unacquainted with the production of grains.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
36. The third area of neolithic settlement, in the hills of Assam, includes neolithic tools found in which hills of Meghalaya?
37. Neolithic sites in the Allahabad district are particularly noted for the cultivation of which crop, dated to the sixth millennium B.C.?
38. Consider the following pairs of neolithic sites and their states:
(I) Maski, Brahmagiri, Hallur – Karnataka
(II) Paiyampalli – Tamil Nadu
(III) Piklihal, Utnur – Andhra Pradesh
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
39. The neolithic phase in India seems to have covered roughly which period, although the earliest scientifically determined date for Utnur is 2,300 B.C.?
40. What was the economy of the earlier neolithic settlers at Piklihal, who set up seasonal camps with cowpens?
41. It is held that primitive people living in circular houses, unlike those in rectangular houses, most likely owned property in what manner?
42. Which two food crops did the later, agriculturist neolithic settlers produce, alongside microlith blades among their polished tools?
43. In the early stage of the Neolithic Age, pottery was hand-made; later, which device was used to turn up pots?
44. Neolithic celts have also been found in the hill areas of which region, suggesting early rice cultivation there?
45. The period between 9,000 B.C. and 3,000 B.C. saw remarkable technological progress — including cultivation, weaving, house building and domestication of animals — in which region of the world?
46. A culture based on the use of both stone and copper implements, which emerged towards the end of the neolithic period, is called what?
47. Consider the following pairs of chalcolithic sites in south-eastern Rajasthan, in the dry zones of the Banas valley:
(I) Ahar
(II) Gilund
Which of the above are correctly identified as chalcolithic sites in this region?
48. In western Madhya Pradesh, extensive chalcolithic remains have been exposed at Malwa and which two other sites?
49. The most extensive chalcolithic excavations in India have taken place in which region?
50. Navdatoli, a chalcolithic site noted for yielding an unusually large number of cereals, is situated on the bank of which river?
51. Consider the following pairs of chalcolithic sites in eastern India:
(I) Chirand – on the Ganga
(II) Pandu Rajar Dhibi – Burdwan
(III) Mahishdal – Midnapore district
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
52. At Ahar, stone axes and blades are completely absent, while copper axes are numerous mainly because of what?
53. Flat, rectangular copper axes have been found at Jorwe and Chandoli, while copper chisels have been found at which site?
54. Which type of pottery, thrown on the wheel and occasionally painted with white linear designs, was widely prevalent among chalcolithic communities?
55. In Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, chalcolithic people produced channel-spouted pots along with which other distinctive pottery forms?
56. Consider the following statements regarding the diet and animal use of chalcolithic people in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra:
(I) They domesticated cows, sheep, goats, pigs and buffaloes, and hunted deer.
(II) They were certainly acquainted with the horse.
(III) They ate beef but did not take pork on any considerable scale.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
57. Besides wheat and rice, which other crop did the chalcolithic people additionally cultivate?
58. Cotton was produced in the black cotton soil of which region during the chalcolithic phase?
59. In eastern India during the stone-copper phase, fish and rice formed an important part of the diet, with fish hooks found in Bihar and which other state?
60. Chalcolithic people were generally not acquainted with burnt bricks; their houses were mostly constructed using which method?
61. At Inamgaon, the later chalcolithic phase (1300–1000 B.C.) featured a house with five rooms — four rectangular and how many circular?
62. The Jorwe culture, marked by settlements with more than 35 houses, takes its name from a village situated on which river?
63. Consider the following pairs of chalcolithic settlements and a feature associated with them:
(I) Inamgaon – fortified and surrounded by a moat
(II) Eran and Kayatha – fortified
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
64. In Maharashtra, chalcolithic burial practice involved placing the dead body in urns under the floor of the house, in which position?
65. At Kayatha, one house yielded 29 copper bangles and two unique axes, along with necklaces made of which semi-precious stones?
66. The chalcolithic phase, as scientifically dated, was not older than which year?
67. In south India, the neolithic phase imperceptibly faded into the stone-copper phase; such cultures are therefore termed what?
68. Among the following regions, which was the earliest to develop chalcolithic settlements, with western Maharashtra appearing later and West Bengal last?
69. More than forty copper hoards found across a wide area from the Chotanagpur plateau to the upper Gangetic basin are mostly concentrated in which region?
70. Consider the following statements regarding copper hoards:
(I) They comprise celts, harpoons, antennae swords and anthropomorphic figures.
(II) They were used for fishing, hunting, fighting, and for artisanal and agricultural purposes.
(III) They are believed to be the handiwork of nomadic people or hunters.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
71. In the upper Gangetic basin, copper hoard objects have been found in association with which type of pottery and mud structures?
72. Many copper celts associated with the copper hoards have been found in which zone of Rajasthan?
73. The ochre-coloured pottery culture is roughly placed between which years?
74. In the upper portion of the Ganga-Yamuna doab, significant habitation is not found until about which year?
75. The copper-hoard people, users of ochre-coloured pottery, were contemporaries of which civilization?
76. Bronze tools, which facilitated the rise of the earliest civilizations in Crete, Egypt and Mesopotamia, were largely absent in the chalcolithic phase in India because the people did not know the art of mixing copper with which metal?
77. The Stone-Copper Age people of India, unlike the Bronze Age people, did not know the art of writing and did not live in cities; these elements of civilization first appear in which region of the subcontinent?
