pre historic period quiz set 1 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

Who is known as the father of Indian prehistory?

a) Le Mesurier

b) Robert Bruce Foote

c) Subba Rao

d) Miles Burkit

Question : 2

Paleolithic or Old Stone Age sites are widely found in various parts of the Indian subcontinent. Which of the following statements are correct in this regard?

1. Food was obtained by hunting animals and gathering edible plants and tubers.
2. People used stone tools, hand-sized and flaked-off large pebbles for hunting animals.
3. Stone implements are made of a hard rock known as quartzite.

a) 1, 2 and 3

b) 1 and 3

c) 1 and 2

d) 2 and 3

Question : 3

Which of the artifacts given below could be used as source material for the prehistoric period in India?

1. Fossils
2. Hand axes
3. Pottery
4. Remains of bones

a) 1, 2 and 3

b) 2, 3 and 4

c) 1, 2 and 4

d) 1, 3 and 4

Question : 4

Which of the following is not a feature of Neolithic cultures?

a) Cultivation of Plants

b) Sedentary farming

c) Use of Iron for agriculture

d) Domestication of animals

Question : 5

Which of the following statements are correct with regard to the Upper Palaeolithic Culture?

1. The middle Palaeolithic culture slowly evolved into the Upper Palaeolithic culture.
2. Upper Palaeolithic age can be dated between 1,50,000 B.C. and 40,000 B.C.
3. The upper Palaeolithic tools have been found in Rajasthan, parts of the Ganga and Belan valleys, Central and Western India, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
4. One of the most remarkable discoveries of the Upper Palaeolithic period is that of rubble-built, a roughly circular platform of about 85 cm in diameter.

a) 1, 2, 3 and 4

b) 1, 3 and 4

c) 1, 2 and 3

d) 2, 3 and 4

Question : 6

In the Indian context, the Neolithic agriculture-based regions can roughly be divided into many regions. Which of the following may be called such a region?

1. The Indus system and its western Borderland
2. Ganga valley
3. Western India and the northern Deccan and
4. The southern Deccan.

a) 1, 2, 3 and 4

b) 1, 3 and 4

c) 1, 2 and 3

d) 2, 3 and 4