| 3401 |
Alexander Cunningham is best described as the: |
History
Discovering the Harappan civilisation |
Easy |
| 3402 |
What was the main weakness of John Marshall's method of excavation? |
History
Discovering the Harappan civilisation |
Medium |
| 3403 |
Why did Indian archaeologists explore many new sites in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana after 1947? |
History
Discovering the Harappan civilisation |
Medium |
| 3404 |
An archaeologist finds a bead in a lower layer and a coin in a layer above it at the same undisturbed site. W… |
History
Discovering the Harappan civilisation |
Hard |
| 3405 |
Evidence of a ploughed field with two sets of furrows at right angles was found at: |
History
Subsistence and settlement |
Easy |
| 3406 |
The Great Bath of Mohenjodaro was located in the: |
History
Subsistence and settlement |
Easy |
| 3407 |
Houses in the Lower Town of Mohenjodaro had no windows in the ground-floor walls facing the street. This most… |
History
Subsistence and settlement |
Medium |
| 3408 |
Which piece of evidence best supports the view that Mohenjodaro was planned before it was built? |
History
Subsistence and settlement |
Medium |
| 3409 |
A Harappan brick is 10 cm high. If it follows the standard Harappan ratio, what would be its length and bread… |
History
Subsistence and settlement |
Hard |
| 3410 |
Which Harappan settlement was almost exclusively devoted to craft production? |
History
Social differences and crafts |
Easy |
| 3411 |
Mesopotamian texts refer to contact with a region called Meluhha, which is possibly: |
History
Social differences and crafts |
Easy |
| 3412 |
Archaeologists identify a site as a craft-production centre mainly by finding: |
History
Social differences and crafts |
Medium |
| 3413 |
Small pots of faience are found mainly in Mohenjodaro and Harappa but rarely in smaller settlements. This sug… |
History
Social differences and crafts |
Medium |
| 3414 |
A Harappan settlement near a distant source of lapis lazuli in Afghanistan was probably set up to obtain raw … |
History
Social differences and crafts |
Hard |
| 3415 |
Most Harappan seals were made of: |
History
Seals, script and weights |
Easy |
| 3416 |
The Harappan script was written in which direction? |
History
Seals, script and weights |
Easy |
| 3417 |
Why do scholars think the Harappan script was not alphabetic? |
History
Seals, script and weights |
Medium |
| 3418 |
A trader finds that the clay sealing on a bag of goods is intact when it reaches him. What does this tell him? |
History
Seals, script and weights |
Medium |
| 3419 |
Lower Harappan weights followed a binary sequence. Which value would come immediately after 64 in this series? |
History
Seals, script and weights |
Hard |
| 3420 |
The stone statue from Mohenjodaro called the "priest-king" was given this name because: |
History
Authority and the end of the civilisation |
Easy |