Questions
From the animal bones found at the mature Harappan sites, archaeo-zoologists indicate that these animals were domesticated. Which of the following animals was not domesticated by the Harappan culture as there is no evidence of its bones at the sites?
- Cattle
- Sheep
- Buffalo
- Pig
- Horse
Saddle querns were found in considerable numbers at Mohenjodaro. Which of the following statements is/are correct about these saddle querns?
a. They were roughly made of hard, gritty, igneous rocks or sandstone.
b. They usually had flat chiselled bases.
c. They seemed to have been the only means in use for grinding cereals.
- a only
- b only
- c only
- a, b and c
- a and c
The first site to be discovered was
- Mohenjodaro
- Kalibangan
- Lothal
- Harappa
- Dholavira
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
a. The earlier Harappan cultures are evident from large-scale burning at some sites, as well as the abandonment of certain settlements.
b. The earlier Harappan cultures had small settlements with no large buildings.
c. These earlier Harappan cultures had distinctive pottery, agriculture and pastoralism.
- a only
- b only
- c only
- a and c
- a, b and c
Which of the following statements about the domestic architecture of the Mohenjodaro settlement is/are correct?
a. All residential buildings were centred on a courtyard with rooms on all sides.
b. There are no windows in the walls along the ground level.
c. The main entrance gives a direct view of the interior or the courtyard.
d. Many houses had wells, often in a room that could not be reached from the outside.
- a, b, c and d
- a, b and c
- a and b
- b, c and d
- c and d
Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?
a. The citadel of Lothal was built at a height and was fortified with baked or sunbaked bricks.
b. The houses at Lothal were built of mud bricks, drains were made of burnt bricks.
c. The number of wells in Lothal was about 700.
- a, b and c
- b and c
- a and c
- a and b
- only b
Gold jewellery has been found at Harappan cities ___
- from burial sites of women
- distributed throughout settlements
- from hoards
- from the citadel buildings
- from the burial sites of men as well as women
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
a. The Harappan script is written from left to right.
b. Harappan seals usually have a line of writing, probably containing the name and title of the owner.
c. Most inscriptions on seals are long, the longest containing about 126 signs.
- a only
- b only
- c only
- a and b
- b and c
Miniature pots of faience, perhaps used as perfume bottles, are found mostly in which of the following Harappan settlements?
a. Harappa
b. Mohenjodaro
c. Kalibangan
- a, b and c
- a and b
- b and c
- a and c
- only c
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
a. The Indus valley civilisation is also called the Harappan culture.
b. Objects of this civilisation were found from areas in Afghanistan, Jammu, Pakistan and Gujarat.
c. The late Harappan civilisation is dated between c. 2600 and 1900 BCE.
- a only
- b only
- c only
- a and b
- a, b and c
Specialised drills for craft production have been found at which of the following sites?
a. Mohenjodaro
b. Lothal
c. Chanhudaro
d. Dholavira
- a and b
- b and c
- c and d
- a, b and c
- b, c and d
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
a. Archaeologists have been able to reconstruct dietary practices from finds of charred grains and seeds.
b. Grains found at Harappan sites include wheat, barley, lentil, chickpea and sesame.
c. Millets and rice are found from sites in Gujarat.
- a and b
- b and c
- a and c
- a, b and c
- only a
Archaeologists have found evidence of a ploughed field associated with early Harappan levels. This field had two sets of furrows at right angles to each other, suggesting that two different crops were grown together. Which of the following sites is it?
- Kot (Pakistan)
- Mohenjodaro (Pakistan)
- Kalibangan (Rajasthan)
- Banawali (Haryana)
- Mohenjodaro (Sind)
When did excavations at Harappa begin?
- 1921
- 1924
- 1925
- 1946
- 1955
Exchanges in the Harappan culture were regulated by a precise system of weights. Which of the following statements regarding weights is/are correct?
a. Weights were usually made of a stone called steatite.
b. They were generally cubical with markings.
c. The lower denominations of smaller weights were binary, while the higher denominations followed the decimal system.
- a only
- b only
- c only
- a and b
- a, b and c
Which of the following is/are correct?
a. The study of layers in a mound is called stratigraphy.
b. Sterile layers indicate the period when a mound was deserted temporarily.
c. If a mound was abandoned permanently, it was termed as an archaeological site.
- a only
- a and c
- b and c
- a and b
- a, b and c
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
a. Chemical analyses have shown that both the Omani copper and Harappan artefacts have traces of nickel, suggesting a common origin.
b. Mesopotamian texts refer to copper being brought from a region called Magan, which is possibly a name of Harappa.
c. A distinctive type of vessel, a large Harappan jar coated with a thick layer of black clay has been found at Omani sites.
- a and b
- a and c
- b and c
- only b
- a, b and c
There is evidence that by c. 1800 BCE, most of the mature Harappan sites in the regions had been abandoned. In which of the following areas did new settlements form?
a. Baluchistan (Pakistan)
b. Gujarat
c. Eastern Uttar Pradesh
d. Western Uttar Pradesh
e. Haryana
f. Rajasthan
- a, c, d and e
- a, b and e
- b, c, e and f
- b, d and e
- b, d, e and f