indus valley civilization quiz set 3 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

The residential buildings are built in the lower town. Almost all the major sites (Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, Kalibangan and others), are divided into two parts–a citadel on the higher mound on the western side and a lower town on the eastern side of the settlement.

The citadel contains large structures which might have functioned as administrative or ritual centres.

Answer: (a)

Answer: (b)

Naushero gives the evidence of Sindoor in Harappan culture. The site of Naushero, located 6 km away from Mehargarh had developed Kotdijian settlement. It was a smaller settlement but sharing fully the developmental process towards maturity of urbanization.

Answer: (c)

The site of Mohenjodaro was discovered in 1922 by R. D. Banerji, an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India, two years after major excavations had begun at Harappa, some 590 km to the north.

Large-scale excavations were carried out at the site under the direction of John Marshall, K. N. Dikshit, Ernest Mackay, and other directors through the 1930s.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

The site of Mehrgarh provides evidence for the earliest agricultural and pastoral communities in South Asia. The first inhabitants of Mehrgarh, dating to around 6500 BC, were farmers who cultivated wheat and barley as their main grain crops and had herds of cattle, sheep and goats.