Ancient Civilisations Societies quiz

1. Which of the following terms does not indicate a tool tradition?

2. Microliths are typical of:

3. Which of the following is not a principal tool of the Early Stone Age?

4. Pot-making, a technique of great significance in human history, appeared first at least in a few areas during:

5. Which one of the following pairs of Paleolithic sites and areas is not correct?

6. Which one of the following pairs is not properly matched?

7. Which one of the following Chalcolithic sites of the Malwa Culture has yielded evidence of firealtars, bull worship and phallus worship?

8. Match List I with List II and select the answer from the codes given below

the lists:

List I List II

Chalcolithic Cultures Type Sites

(I) Banas Culture (A) Ghaligai

(II) Gandhara Culture (B) Inamgaon

(III) Malwa Culture (C) Gilund

(IV) Savalda Culture (D) Navdatoli

Codes:

I II III IV

(a) A B C D

(b) C A B D

(c) A C D B

(d) C A D B

9. Which Chalcolithic site of eastern India has revealed the most impressive evidence of crops?

10. Which site does not show evidence of the OCP (ochre-colored pottery) Culture?

11. Which one of the following sites does not have evidence of pit-dwellings?

12. Ash-mounds, which mystified archeologists for so long, have been discovered at:

13. Choose the answer from the codes given below:

14. The earliest evidence of man in India is found in:

15. Where do we find the three phases, viz. Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic

Cultures in sequence?

16. The earliest evidence of settled agriculture in the subcontinent comes from:

17. Pick the wrong pair from the following:

18. Which of the following do not belong to the same category?

19. Excellent cave paintings of Mesolithic Age are found at:

20. Which one of the pairs is incorrect?

21. The OCP Culture is found mainly in:

22. In the upper Ganga valley iron is first found associated with:

23. Megaliths of south India are mainly associated with:

24.‘Awl’ is also known as:

25. The half-life of Carbon-14 is:

(a) 3750 years

(b) 5730 years

(c) 7350 years

(b) 9530 years

Match the following:

List I List II

Cultures Pottery

(I) Malwa               (A) Black-on-Red

(II) Eastern Neolithic (B) Brownish-red

(III) Burzahom          (C) Grey

(IV) Jorwe              (D) Red

(V) Southern Neolithic (E) Burnished-grey

Codes:

A B C D E

(a) III II IV I V

(b) IV V II III I

(c) II III IV I V

(d) I II III IV V

26. Teri sites, associated with dunes of reddened sand, are found in:

27. Loebanr and Kalako Deray in northwestern India have revealed:

28. Which one of the following is not a megali,thic burial?

29. Neolithic sites of Giak and Kiari are in:

30.‘Horse burials’ are reported from:

31. At which one of the sites of Malwa Culture was evidence of a rampart along

with a ditch found?

32. Which Chalcolithic site of Maharashtra has shown evidence of an irrigation

canal and an embankment?

33. Elaborate gold ear-ornaments comes from:

34. Kuchai and Golbai Sasan are Neolithic sites from:

35. Which site is not in Bihar?

36. Ochre Coloured Pottery is closely connected with:

Assertion and Reason

Instructions:

Mark (a) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is the correct explanation for

‘A’.

Mark (b) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is not correct explanation for

‘A’.

Mark (c) if ‘A’ is true but ‘R’ is false.

Mark (d) if ‘A’ is false but ‘R’ is true.

37. Assertion (A): The genesis of settled, village-based societies generally goes back to the Neolithic period.

Reason (R): For the Neolithic people of Kashmir valley life continued to center around hunting.

Assertion and Reason

Instructions:

Mark (a) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is the correct explanation for

‘A’.

Mark (b) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is not correct explanation for

‘A’.

Mark (c) if ‘A’ is true but ‘R’ is false.

Mark (d) if ‘A’ is false but ‘R’ is true.

38. Assertion (A): There was an undeniable attraction for the early men in the hills of the subcontinent.

Reason (R): Hills provided sustenance to them directly.

Assertion and Reason

Instructions:

Mark (a) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is the correct explanation for

‘A’.

Mark (b) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is not correct explanation for

‘A’.

Mark (c) if ‘A’ is true but ‘R’ is false.

Mark (d) if ‘A’ is false but ‘R’ is true.

39.  

    Assertion (A): Microliths foreshadowed the forms and functions of later-day metallic implements.

Reason (R): Microliths, being compound tools, marked an advance in technology.

40. Assertion (A): The lithic assemblage of the Pabbi hills to the east of Jhelum seems to be pre-Acheulian.

Reason (R): This assemblage does not show any handaxe or cleaver.

41. Assertion (A): The chalcolithic settlers could not found villages far away from the hills.

Reason (R): The earliest agricultural settlements in the subcontinent were located west of the Indus system.

42. Assertion (A): Balathal in southeast Rajasthan shows evidence of protohistoric occupation from the closing centuries of the 4th millennium BC.

Reason (R): The beginning of Ganeshwar-Jodhpura culture of northeast Rajasthan is also as early as this.

43. Assertion (A): None of the neolithic-chalcolithic peasant groups developed in complete isolation.

Reason (R): There is evidence of a lot of interchange of raw materials of different types between different areas.

44. Assertion (A): Prehistoric stages involved constant adjustments with nature and its resources, as did other stages of human life.

Reason (R): The material remains of early man speak comprehensively about his life.

45. Assertion (A): The Paleolithic cultures in different parts of India displayed absolute uniformity in all their features.

Reason (R): In a broad cultural sense all Stone Ages in India represent the stage of hunting and gathering.

46. Assertion (A): Throughout the subcontinent iron led slowly but perceptibly to the transition from the pre and proto-historical to the historical phases.

Reason (R): The earliest occurrence of iron may said to have been in more than one region of the Indian subcontinent, almost simultaneously.

48. Assertion (A): Detailed characterisations of the different pastoral and farming communities can- not be made accurately.

Reason (R): In some cases we rely on undated surface finds and in others we lack faunal and botanical evidence on the nature of economy.

47. Assertion (A): The transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic was less a technological revolu- tion than one in land use.

Reason (R): There was little change in basic social or economic structures between the Neolithic and the Chalcolithic stages.

49. Assertion (A): With the coming of iron an unprecedented number of sites appeared in the Ganga-Yamuna Doab.

Reason (R): The population densities in the Doab even during the early iron phase were much lower than those in the Harappan civilisation.

50. Assertion (A): The area between Vidarbha and the southern tip of the Indian peninsula constitutes a separate cultural zone denoted by various types of megaliths.

Reason (R): Megaliths were no more than a burial style of the Neolithic-Chalcolithic phase of the area and formed a part of its cultural milieu for a long time.