[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2022: INSIGHTS STATIC QUIZ, 7 February 2022 – Polity – INSIGHTSIAS

Solution: c)

Bhimbetka is an archaeological site in the foothills of the Vindhyan Mountains on the southern edge of the central Indian plateau.

Bhimbetka, which has the oldest-known art in India, is also known as Bhima’s Lounge (Bhima – Pandava prince from the Mahabharata).

Solution: a)

The most extensive excavations have taken place in western Maharashtra. Several Chalcolithic sites, such as Jorwe, Nevasa, Daimabad in Ahmadanagar district; Chandoli, Songaon, and Inamgaon in Pune district; and also Prakash and Nasik have been excavated. They all relate to the Jorwe culture named after Jorwe, the type-site situated on the left bank of the Pravara river, a tributary of the Godavari, in Ahmadnagar district. The Jorwe culture owed much to the Malwa culture, but it also shared elements of the Neolithic culture of the south.

The Jorwe culture, c. 1400 to 700 BC covered modern Maharashtra except parts of Vidarbha and the coastal region of Konkan. Although the Jorwe culture was rural, some of its settlements, such as Daimabad and Inamgaon, had almost reached the urban stage.

Solution: b)

In the caves, the continuity of human evolution from the Lower Palaeolithic Period is noticed by the smaller size of stone tools in the following Middle Palaeolithic Period besides new tools like scrapers.

Shankhalipi or “shell-script” is a term used by scholars to describe ornate spiral Brahmi characters that resemble conch shells (or shankhas). They are found in inscriptions across various parts of India except the far south and date to between the 4th and 8th centuries CE.

Solution: c)

Black on Red ware is a famous pottery of this age.

It is marked by the use of copper as the first major metal in India. Bronze too was used. The Chalcolithic age is followed by Iron Age. Iron is frequently referred to in the Vedas.

Solution: d)

During the Neolithic phase, the cultivation of plants and domestication of animals led to the emergence of village communities based on sedentary life.

The people of Neolithic Age used clothes made of cotton and wool.