indus valley civilization quiz set 3 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

The most famous bronze ‘dancing girl’ figurine discovered at Mohenjodaro. It is a female figure, with right arm on the hip and left arm hanging in a dancing pose. 

She is wearing a large number of bangles. It is the first sculpture in dancing gesture discovered in the Indian subcontinent.

Answer: (c)

Sutkagen Dor is the westernmost known archaeological site of Indus Valley Civilization. It is located about 480 km west of Makran coast near the Iran border in Balochistan province of Pakistan.

Sutkagen Dor would have been on the trade route from Lothal in Gujarat to Mesopotamia and was probably heavily involved in the fishing trade similar to that which exists today in the coast along with Balochistan.

Answer: (b)

Hastinapur is not a site of Indus Valley Civilization. Hastinapur was the capital of the Kuru dynasty of kings. All incidents in the epic Mahabharata have taken place in the city of Hastinapur.

Answer: (b)

There are over fifty-five burial sites in the Indus Valley which were found in Harappa. The burials are interpreted primarily as reflections of social structure and hierarchy.

The strongest evidence for this interpretation would be burial sites in Harappa, cemetery R-37 and Cemetery H. R-37 is the smaller site compared to Cemetery H, and has about 200 burials.

Archaeologists believe it was a restricted cemetery that was used by a particular group or family that lived in Harappa.

Answer: (a)

The Pashupati is the only possibly male deity of Indus Valley Civilization, as depicted on various seals.

This deity is surrounded by 4 wild animals and this gives an indication that it is Pashupatinath or a prototype of Lord Shiva. The deity is surrounded by 4 animals viz. an elephant, a tiger, a buffalo and a rhinoceros. Apart from this, there are 2 deers beneath the seat of the deity. The headdress of the deity has two horns.

It wears a number of bangles and has a pectoral around the neck, and an inscription of seven letters appears at the top.