GENERAL QUESTIONS
Q1. Microliths are typical of ...?
Mesolithic Age.
Q2. What were the principal tools of early stone age?
Hand Axe, Cleaver, Chopper.
Q3. Pot making, a technique of great significance, made its appearance first during...?
Late Stone Age.
Q4. Mention a few Paleolithic sites?
DIDWANA - Western Rajasthan; UTTARABAINI - Jammu; RIWAT - Punjab, Pakistan.
Q5. Which Chalcolithic site of Malwa culture gives us the evidence of fire altars,bull worship and phallus worship?
Dhangwada
Q6. Where was the earliest evidence of man found in India?
Nilgiris - Tamilnadu.
Q7. Where do we find the three phases viz: Paleolithic, Mesolithi and Neolithic cultures in sequence?
Belan Vallely, UP.
Q8. The earliest evidence of settled agriculture in the subcontinent (Asiatic region) comes from?
Mehrgarh - now in Baluchistan, Pakistan.
Q9. Excellent cave paintings are found in?
Bhimbetka, Raisen Dt., Madhya Pradesh.
Q10. The Ochre colored pottery culture was mainly found in?
Western Uttar Pradesh.
Q11. Megaliths of South India are mainly associated with?
Iron Age.
Q12. How was the Borer also known?
Awl.
Q13. The earliest precursors of the Harappan sites were of?
Terracota seals found at Mehrgarh.
Q14. In which Indus site the archaeologists have discovered a middle town, as distinct from the citadel and the lower town?
Dholavira - Kutch, Gujarat.
Q15. The maximum concentration of Harappan sites is in the?
Plains of the Indus and its tributaries.
Q16. Which is the Indus city, whose citadel and lower town are together surrounded by its city brick walls?
Lothal - Gujarat.
Q17. Which is the other Indus city which has the distinction of having its lower town also surrounded by a separate massive brick walls?
Kalibangan - Rajasthan.
Q18. Which Harappan site has a stone fortification with square bastions at the corners and in the centre of the longer sides?
Surkotada - Bhuj region, Kutch, Gujarat.
Q19. How the Harappan bricks were mainly made of?
Made in open mould.
Q20. Where and when the major technological innovation, the potter's wheel was introduced?
In the late stone age - around 4th millennium BC at Mehrgarh.
Q21. Granaries and Warehouses were excavated at?
Mohenjodaro, Harappa and Lothal.
Q22. Which is the latest Indus city discovered in India?
Dholavira - Gujarat.
Q23. Majority of the Indus Terracotta figurines were made of?
Hand modeled.
Q24. A nude male dancing figure in grey stone with twisting shoulders and one raised leg, reminiscent of Lord Nataraja of the later times comes from?
Chanhudaro - near Mohenjodaro, Sind, Pakistan.
Q25. The religious iconography of Indus people consists of?
Amulets (similar to a talisman) and tablets.
Q26. Which place has revealed the actual remains of a rhinoceros, though there were earlier evidences represented on the seals, discovered from various Indus sites?
Amri - Yemen.
Q27. Which metal made its earliest appearance in India before anywhere in the world?
Silver.
Q28. The majority of the Harappan pottery was?
Plain pottery.
Q29. Bones of Camel are discovered at?
Kalibangan - Rajasthan.
Q30. Which process was mostly used in the manufacture of Harappan seals?
cutting.
Q31. What is the so called "English Bond" said to have been originally introduced by the Harappans?
The system of laying bricks in alternate headers and stretches.
Q32. Which was the most standardized product of Harappans?
Bricks.
Q33. Which Indus city has houses with doors on the main streets?
Lothal.
Q34. The whole area of Harappan culture represents?
A triangular area.
Q35. Which place has the earliest ploughed field in the world?
Kalibhangan. Rajasthan.
Q36. Who first noticed the ruins of Harappa?
Charles Mason
Q37. The Dockyard at Lothal was well connected through a channel to which river?
Bhogava.
Q38. Which most common materials were used for the Harappan stone sculptures?
Hard Sandstone.
Q39. Stone Symbols of female sex organs have come from?
Harappa.
Q40. The Harappan pottery was decorated with?
Figures of Human, animals, birds, snakes and fish and Geometrical patterns.
Q41. What amply reveals the importance given to children by the Harappans?
Numerous terracotta toys.
Q42. The Harappan villages were mostly located in the flood plains. Why?
For producing sufficient food grains.
Q43. Which Harappan site has the most impressive drainage system?
Mohenjodaro.
Q44. Who suggested that ecological degradation was the cause for the decline of Harappan culture?
George D. Fales.
Q45. What are the salient features of the Harappan houses?
1. Rectangular houses;
2. Brick dried bathrooms and wells.
3. Outside stair cases.
Q46. Which place of the Harappan sites gives us more clues regarding the transition of Harappan culture from the pre-Harappan to mature Harappan culture?
AMRI- Yeman.
Q47. Which place had the "Jhangar Culture" a late Harappan phase?
Amri - Yemen.
Q48. Which Indus site was destroyed by fire?
Kot Diji - Sind, Pakistan.
Q49. In which Harappan site, pot stone fragment of a hut pot of Mesopotamian origin was found?
Mohenjodaro.
Q50. Where were the "ash mounds", a mystery for the archaeologists found?
Pallavoy, Kupgal, Utmur and Kodekal.
Q51. Which are the two Neolithic sites which gave evidence of rice cultivation, probably the oldest to cultivation of rice?
Koldihwa (Indo gangetic plains) and Mahagara.
Q52. What are the Indus cities located in Gujarat?
Surkotada, Dholavira, Lothal.
Q53. Which Indus sites gives sufficient evidence of direct trading relations with Mesopotamia?
Lothal, Mohenjodaro and Harappa.
Q54. Which are the animals accorded the honour of a standard or manger in seals of Indus civilization?
Humpless Cattle, Tiger, Elephant, Rhinoceros and Buffalo.
Q55. Which type of Harappan pottery is believed to be the earliest example of its kind in the world?
Glazed.
Q56. Bone Tools, which are not indigenous to India, are found in large numbers at?
Chirand, Gufkral and Burzahom.
Q57. What is the most beautiful brick work of Harappan culture found?
Great Bath.
Q58. Which animals are not found either in the seals or terracottas of the Harappan culture?
Cow, Horse, Tiger
Q59. Which Indus site gives us the evidence of death by violence of some people?
Mohenjodaro where skeletons together were found.
Q60. Which ancient vedic texts cites "Indra" the God as the destroyer of Indus civilization?
Rig Veda Samhita and Taittiriya Brahmana.
Q61. What is the latest source/method of determining the period of Indus civilization?
Radio Carbon Dating.
Q62. The burnt bricks found in the Indus civilization sites are an indication of?
The standardization.
Q63. Which present day tribe of Pakistan has been identified by scholars to be descendants of the Harappan people?
Brahnis.
Q64. At which Harappan site, the archaeologists have discovered four excellent bronze images?
Daimabad, Ahmednagar Dt., Maharashtr
Q65. Which is the oldest of the ages?
Palaeolithic Age.
Q66. Indus Valley Civilisation belongs to ?
Proto Historical Period.
Q67. Which was the biggest building at Mohenjodaro?
Great Granary.
Q68. How many granaries were there in Harappa?
six.
Q69. At which Indus city site a small pot believed to be an ink-well was found?
Chanhudaro.
Q70. Which material was mostly used in the manufacture of seals?
Steatite.
Q71. Which domesticated animal is conspicuously absent in the terracottas of Indus Valley civilization?
Cow.
Q72. Who has named the Indus Valley Civilisation as "Harappan Civilisation"named after the city of Harappa?
Sir John Marshall.
Q73. Which Indus site gives us the concrete evidence of the use of cotton clothes by the Harappans?
Mohenjodaro.
Q74. Houses in the Indus cities had entrances on the sides excepting one city which had the entrance on the main street. Which is the city?
Lothal.
Q75. Which bird was worshipped by the Harappans?
Pigeon.
Q76. Which animal figure is frequently represented in most of the Indus seals?
Unicorn - a legendary animal commonly portrayed as a white horse with a goat's beard and a large pointed spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.
Q77. What was the common practice of disposal of the dead followed by the Indus people?
Inhumation or complete burial.
Q78. Which Indus site practiced the system of burying the male and the female together?
Lothal
Q79. Which races were involved in the building of the Indus Valley sites?
Alpine, Mediterranean, Mongloid and Proto Austroloid.
Q80. Which are the Indus sites situated in Gujarat?
Lothal, Rangpur, Bhagatrav.
Q81. What are the constructed sites generally found at Harappa site?
Granaries, working floors, single room barracks.
Q82. Which crops are cultivated as "rabi crops" by the Indus people?
Wheat and Barley.
Q83. What were the main important items of export of the Indus people?
Cotton Goods, Terracotta, Pottery.
Q84. What caused the Indus Civilisation to perish and who said that?
Indus valley civilization perished as a result of internal decay and hastened by the barbarian raids as said by Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist.
Q85. Arrange the discovery of Indus sites in the chronological order?
Mohenjodaro, Kot Diji, Ropar, Surkotada and Banawali.
Q86. Which discovery has been the invaluable in fixing the time of the Indus civilization?
Indus Seals discovered in Mesopotamian cities.
Q87. Harappan stone sculptures are generally made of?
Steatite and soft limestone.
Q88. What were the Kharif crop of Indus people?
Cotton, field peas, Mustard, Dates.
Q89. In which product the Indus people achieved maximum standardization?
Bricks.
Q90. The earliest evidence of man in India was ?
Siwalik Hills
Q91. In which Indus city do we find a massive fortification wall of semi undressed stones?
Surkotada.
Q92. What destroyed the pre-Harappan culture at Diji?
Fire.
Q93. Where do we have the evidence of flooring paved with tiles and bearing typical intersecting design of circles?
Kalibhangan.
Q94. Which two places have yielded medical beliefs and surgery of skull of the Indus people?
Lothal and Kalibhangan.
Q95. What were the type of pottery used by Harappans?
Glazed, Poly chrome, Perforated, Incised and Knobbed.
Q96. A hunting scene showing two antelopes and the hunter is noticed on a pot -shred from cemetery H'. From which place was this excavated?
Harappa.
Q97. A painting on a jar resembling the story of a cunning fox of Panchatantracomes from ?
Lothal.
Q98. From where do we get the evidence of a Harappan game similar to the game of chess?
Lothal.
Q99. Pieces of black coal discovered in Indus sites are identified with?
SILAJATA.
Q100. The earliest known occurrence of metal trade was in?
Copper.
Q101. What is the meaning of "Mohenjodaro"?
Means "Mound of the Dead". Lothal also means the same.
Q102. What are the indications in Harappan sites regarding sanitation?
1. Street Drains 2. Rubbish Chute 3. Dustbins.
Q103. Ochre colored pottery is associated with?
Late Harappans.
Q104. Kuchai and Golbai Sasan are Neolithic sites from?
Orissa.
Q105. "House Burials" were prevalent in?
Uleri in Almora, Rajasthan.
Q106. Pit dwellings were found in?
Loebaur and Kalako Deray.
Q107. Neolithic sites of Giak and Kiari are in?
Ladakh.
Q108. Which Chalcolithic site has shown evidence of an irrigation canal and an embankment?
Inamgaon, Maharashtra
