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Q1. What is the earliest trace of human existence in India and what is the evidence?
3,00,000 to 2,00,000 BC. Stone tools found in the Soan Valley (Soan river, Punjab) and in South India suggest this.
Q2. When did the modern human being, the Homo-Sapiens appeared?
Around 36000 BC.
Q3. Into how many age the human existence has been classified and what are they?
1. Paleolithic Age 2. Mesolithic Age 3. Neolithic Age and 4.Chalcolithic Age.
Q4. What is Paleolithic Age?
Also called the Old Stone Age, the period covers from 3,00,000 BC to 8000 BC.
Q5. What is Mesolithic Age?
Also called the late stone age and covers the period from 8th to 4th millennium BC.
Q6. What are the important developments in the Mesolithic Age?
Development of sharp and pointed tools were begun to be used, followed by invention of wheel around 4000 BC falling under Neolithic Age.
Q7. What are the Mesolithic sites found in India?
Chotanagpur Plateau, central India and Krishna River Basin.
Q8. Tools developed during Mesolithic Age are called as?
MICROLITHS - meaning very small tools.
Q9. What is Neolithic Age?
Period between 4000 to 1800 BC. It is marked by the man beginning to domesticate animals, cultivation of plants, forming of community and villages and also use of polished tools.
Q10. What is Chalcolithic Age?
The period between 1800 BC to 800 BC. Also known as Stone - Copper age when metals like copper and Bronze began to be used.
Q11. What was the first metal to be used in India?
Copper.
Q12. Where in India, Early Stone Age Tools have been found?
Soan Valley, Punjab; Godavari Basin; Gudalur, Andhra Pradesh;Nagarjunakonda, Andhra Pradesh;Vadamadurai, and Athirampakkam near Madras; Mahanadi Banks, Orissa.
Q13. In which part of India, evidence for domestication of animals and exchange of commodities between different communities were found?
LANGHNAJ in Gujarat and ADAMGARH in Madhya Pradesh.
Q14. During which age, food production by man began?
During the Neolithic Age to the Chalcolithic Age, that is 4000 to 800 BC.
Q15. Which village of India (now in Baluchistan, Punjab) was the first to witnessthe transition from Neolithic to Chalcolithic Age?
MEHRGARH.
Q16. Pot making appeared first during….?
Late stone Age.
Q17. Which Chalcolithic site of Eastern India revealed the most impressive evidence of crops?
SENUAR
Q18. Where in India is found the earliest evidence of man?
Narmada Valley.
Q19. Where is the earliest evidence of settled agriculture in sub continent came from?
Mehrgarh (now in Baluchistan, Pakistan).
Q20. Where are the excellent cave paintings of Mesolithic Age found?
Bhimbetk(Raisen Dt., Madhya Pradesh).
Q21. What is AWL a prehistoric term?
Pointed tool of stone, bone or metal, used for piercing holes in leather, wood etc., It is also known as borer.
Q22. What is BURIN, a prehistoric term?
A tool made with a stone blade by flaking it's side at one end, so that it forms like a chisel edge at the meeting point, used for engraving.
Q23. What is CHOPPER, a prehistoric term?
An Early Stone Age tool made with pebbles by flaking a part of the periphery on the upper face. Used for cutting and scraping.
Q24. What is the half life of Carbon 14?
5730 years.
Q25. What is CLEAVER, a prehistoric tool?
An Early Stone Age tool having a wide chisel edge formed by the intersection of two large flake scars.
Q26. What is BURNISHER, a prehistoric term?
Tool of varying material used for providing lustrous finish to pottery.
Q27. What is KHAROSHTHI?
A script prevalent in the northwestern parts of the subcontinent from the third century BC to third century AD.
Q28. What are MEGALITHS and MICROLITHS?
MEGALITHS - Commemorative monuments characterized by the use of large stones in their make up.MICROLITHS - tiny tools made of fine grained stones came to be used during Mesolithic Age.
Q29. What is PLEISTOCENE?
Geological period immediately preceding the present Holocene period. Period during which man appeared and also ox,elephant and horse.
Q30. What is NASTA'LIQ?
A decorative style of the Arabic script, came into use in the 14th century AD.
Q31. What does TERRACOTA mean?
Things made out of baked clay.
Q32. What is meant by Carbon Dating Method?
It is a method of dating the past. Carbon 14 is a radio active carbon continuously produced in the atmosphere, and become a part of all living organisms. A living organism contains the radio active carbon 14 and normal carbon 12 atoms in a fixed proportion. Once an organism is dead, it does not receive any fresh supply of Carbon 14. On the other hand the Carbon 14 content of the material begins to diminish with time as per the radioactive disintegration laws. The known rate of decay of Carbon 14, combined with the facts that all living matter contains C14 and C12 in a fixed proportion and that the latter (C12) does not decay, forms the basis of the method of radio carbon dating.