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Palaeolithic remains have been discovered in India in _______.

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  1. Lucknow

  2. Calcutta

  3. Punjab

  4. Bellary

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Paleolithic remains have mainly been found in South India at Tanjore, Madura, Kadur, vamti, Talya; Bellary district, in areas around Madras, and in districts of Guntur, Godavari and Krishna. In Northern India old stone implements have been found in Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.

Which of these was not a characteristic of early humans in the Paleolithic Age?

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  1. Ability to make and use simple tools

  2. Tendency to live in permanent settlements

  3. Reliance on hunting and gathering techniques

  4. Propensity for creating artistic cave drawings

  5. Mastery of fire for cooking and heating purposes

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Tendency to live in permanent settlements was not a characteristic of early humans in the Paleolithic Age. During the Paleolithic period, humans grouped together in small societies such as bands and subsisted by gathering plants and fishing, hunting or scavenging wild animals. The Palaeolithic is characterised by the use of knapped stone tools, although at the time humans also used wood and bone tools.

For what period would archeologists first begin to find permanent human settlements?

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  1. The Palaeolithic Age

  2. The Classical Era

  3. The Bronze Age

  4. The Neolithic Age

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

After the start of the Great Depression, Democratic candidates won the next five presidential elections over sixteen years.

Mesolithic tools are primarily ________.

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  1. Hand axe and cleavers

  2. Cleavers, choppers and chopping tools

  3. Blades, cores, points and lunates

  4. Chopping tools and flakes

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The main tool types of Mesolithic tools  are backed blades, obliquely truncated blades, points, crescents, triangles and trapezes. Some of the microliths were used as components of spearheads, arrowheads, knives, sickles, harpoons and daggers. They were fitted into grooves in bone, wood and reed shafts and joined together by natural adhesives like gum and resin

The Mesepotamians were the first people to invent the following. Which one of these is being used today?

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  1. Cuneiform system of writing

  2. Sexagesimal system of counting

  3. Kelekrafts for carrying goods on water

  4. Glasswares

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Mesopotamians were the first to make glassware. They were the first people in the world to issue receipts and bills in business transactions.  The Sumerians valued gold, copper and gems, rode in wheeled chariots, and used the mules to carry goods.

Pottery-making as technique emerged first in the _______.

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  1. Chalcolithic age

  2. Paleolithic age

  3. Mesolithic age

  4. Neolithic age

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Pottery-making as technique emerged first in the Neolithic age.  It is the craft of making ceramic material into pots or potterywares using mud. It is one of the oldest human inventions, originating before the Neolithic period. Neolithic pottery have been found in places such as Jomon japan, the Russian Far East, Sub-Saharan Africa and South America.

Who among the following were well-known skilled forest cutters?

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  1. Maasais of Africa

  2. Kalangas of Java

  3. Gonds of Orissa

  4. Mundas of Chhotanagpur

  5. None of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Kalangs were a skilled community of woodcutters and shifting cultivators. They were considered valuable due to their skills that were required to harvest teak and engage in other construction activities. Their value can be gauged from the fact that when the Mataram kingdom of Java split in 1755, the 6000 Kalang families were equally divided between the kingdoms.

Which of the following valleys is known for having a continuous succession of Paleolithic painting of different periods?

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  1. Buharbulang valley

  2. Bhimbetka

  3. Sohan valley

  4. Bhader valley

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Bhimbetka valleys is know for having a continuous succession of Paleolithic painting of different periods. These are an archaeological site of the Paleolithic, exhibiting the earliest traces of human life on the Indian Subcontinent and thus the beginning of the Indian Stone Age.

Identify the statement that best begins an explanation of the Neolithic Revolution.

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  1. In Northern Euroe, nomadic hunters began to produce more complex stone tools.

  2. In East Asia, early settlers began using markings on turtle shells and bones as an early form of record keeping.

  3. In the Middle East, people began to settle in small communities and practice agriculture.

  4. In Meso America, agriculture settlements saw an expansion of their populations and the beginning of more complex governments.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In the Middle East, people began to settle in small communities and practice agriculture.

The development of clay pottery was primarily important because _____________________.

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  1. It allowed for artistic expression

  2. It led to increased trade with neighboring communities

  3. It created a division of labor between men and women

  4. Clay was used to build most homes in the Neolithic Period

  5. It enabled early farmers to cook and store large amounts of food

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

After humans transformed from hunters and gatherers to farmers, they cultivated their food crops. Therefore, the development of clay pottery was primarily important because it enabled early farmers to cook and store large amounts of food.