MCQ Pre Historic Period SET 4

1. Which one of the following species of fauna has been widely appreciated as pre-historic India’s gift to the world?

2. Arrange the following races of man chronologically:

1. Proto-Australoid
2. Negrito
3. Mediterranean
4. Mongoloi

Choose the correct answer using the codes given below: Codes

3. Beginnings of community life can be ascertained in the

4. From which of the following hoards were four massive copper replicas – of a rhinoceros, an elephant, a chariot, and a buffalo – typical or a Chalcolithic culture obtained?

5. Which of the following is the site of Chalcolithic period?

6. The practice of burial of domestic dogs, along with their dead master and pit dwellings was unique to the people of

7. Consider the following statements on Neolithic settlements in South India.

1. Lapidary art and domestication of animals are the remarkable features of the first phase of the South Indian Neolithic settlements.
2. The red coloured pottery were discovered in the Neolithic settlements.
3. Millet was the main crop harvested by Neolithic farmers of south India.
4. Crop rotation technique was started in the field of agriculture.

Which of the above is / are not correct?

8. Which of the following races was/were well-settled in India?

9. The earliest ‘man like creature’ which racially differed from ‘Homo sapiens’ is generally known as

10. Inamgaon is a chalcolithic site belonging to which culture?

11. Mesolithic tools are characterized by parallel-sided blades taken out from prepared cores of fined-materials such as

12. Which one of the following statements is not correct?

13. Both the settlement pattern and burial practices of Chalcolithic period suggest beginnings of

14. Palaeolithic men in India are also known as

15. The instruments used by the Neolithic culture were