Time Left - 04:00 mins

CDS || History || Palaeolithic Age in India

Attempt now to get your rank among 940 students!

Question 1

Choose the correct pair
1). Lower Palaeolithic : hand axes, cleavers, choppers and chopping tools.
2). Middle Palaeolithic : burins and scrapers.
3). Upper Palaeolithic : flake industries.

Question 2

Which of the following was the earliest age?

Question 3

Which one of the following is a 'Palaeolithic site'?

Question 4

Consider the following statements regarding Mesolithic Age:
A) Bhimbetka and Adamgarh are two important sites of Mesolithic Period located in Madhya Pradesh.
B) Backed blades, obliquely truncated blades, points, crescents, triangles, trapezes etc., are the main tool types of the Mesolithic Age.
C) Use of Palaeolithic Age tools stopped during Mesolithic Age.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Question 5

Which of these ages is known as hunting and food gathering stage ?

Question 6

Consider the following statements.
1) Palaeolithic sites are found in the alluvial plains of the Indus and the Ganga.
2) It was absent in hilly slopes and river valleys of the country.
Choose the correct statements.

Question 7

Consider the following statements:
A) The early Palaeolithic stone tools have been found in Soan valley.
B) In this period of ancient history tools were made of stone so this period of history also known as old stone age.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Question 8

Consider the following:
1) Lower and middle Palaeolithic Periods have shown a lot of artistic activities.
2) Images of hunting, dancing, music, elephant and horse riders etc. were central in Paintings in the Vindhya ranges at Madhya Pradesh extending into Uttar Pradesh
3) Bhimbetka Caves and Jogimara Caves two major sites of prehistoric rock/cave paintings in India.
Which of the above is/are correct?
  • 940 attempts
  • 1 upvote
  • 7 comments
Aug 23CDS & Defence