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1351	A ground and polished stone axe of the Neolithic period is known as a	Anthropology Tool typology and technology	Easy
1352	A pebble from which flakes have been removed from only one face to form a rough cutting edge is best describe…	Anthropology Tool typology and technology	Medium
1353	A flake is 8 cm long and 3 cm wide with parallel sides. Under the usual definition, it is classed as a	Anthropology Tool typology and technology	Medium
1354	Why is pottery especially useful to archaeologists for identifying and comparing cultures?	Anthropology Tool typology and technology	Hard
1355	Bronze is an alloy of copper and	Anthropology Metal Age	Easy
1356	Cultures that used copper together with stone tools are called	Anthropology Metal Age	Easy
1357	Which Bronze Age civilisation of South Asia produced the bronze "dancing girl" figurine?	Anthropology Metal Age	Medium
1358	Although bronze was used earlier, iron later became far more widespread. The main reason was that	Anthropology Metal Age	Medium
1359	How did iron tools contribute to the spread of agriculture in the Ganga plain?	Anthropology Metal Age	Hard
1360	According to the law of superposition, in undisturbed deposits the oldest layer is usually	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Easy
1361	Radiocarbon dating can be used directly on which of these finds?	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Easy
1362	A charcoal sample has one-eighth of the C-14 found in living wood. Taking the half-life as 5730 years, its ap…	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Medium
1363	Archaeologists want the age of a volcanic ash layer lying just above early hominin fossils thought to be abou…	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Medium
1364	Which statement correctly distinguishes relative from absolute dating?	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Hard
1365	Pit dwellings and burials of dogs with humans are associated with which Neolithic site?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Easy
1366	The Great Bath is a famous structure at	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Easy
1367	An industry of pebble choppers and chopping tools in the Siwalik foothills of the north-west is named after t…	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Medium
1368	Why were the houses at Burzahom built partly below ground level?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Medium
1369	Which group of features best shows that Harappan cities were planned?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Hard
1370	A family consisting of a husband, wife and their unmarried children is called a	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Easy
1371	Marriage of one woman to several men at the same time is called	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Easy
1372	Among the Khasi, children take their clan name from their mother and property passes mainly through women. Th…	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Medium
1373	After the death of her husband, a woman marries his younger brother as expected by custom. This practice is k…	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Medium
1374	In a community, a person must marry within the same caste but outside his or her own clan. This combines	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Hard
1375	Who gave the classic definition of culture as a "complex whole" acquired by man as a member of society?	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Easy
1376	Judging other cultures as inferior by the standards of one's own culture is called	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Easy
1377	An anthropologist studying a food taboo explains it in terms of the community's own ecology and beliefs, with…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Medium
1378	The potato, first domesticated in South America, became a common food in India without Indians and South Amer…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Medium
1379	A tribal community living for decades beside a town adopts the town's dress, language and festivals while kee…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Hard
1380	Belief in spirits and souls, regarded by Tylor as the earliest form of religion, is called	Anthropology Religion and belief	Easy
1381	The division of the world into the sacred and the profane is central to the theory of religion of	Anthropology Religion and belief	Easy
1382	A healer makes a small clay image of an enemy and pierces it, believing this will harm the person. This illus…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Medium
1383	Members of a clan regard the tortoise as their ancestor and never kill or eat it. This practice is an example…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Medium
1384	Malinowski observed that Trobriand islanders performed elaborate magic before open-sea fishing but not before…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Hard
1385	Shifting cultivation in north-east India is commonly known as	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Easy
1386	The Toda of the Nilgiri hills are traditionally associated with	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Easy
1387	A small group moves seasonally through a forest collecting honey, roots and game, owns few possessions and sh…	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Medium
1388	Shepherds of the Himalayas take their flocks to high pastures in summer and down to the valleys in winter. Th…	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Medium
1389	Why does intensive plough agriculture usually support larger and more stratified societies than foraging?	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Hard
1390	Which political unit is typically a small, mobile, egalitarian group of foragers with informal leadership?	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Easy
1391	Power that is accepted by people as legitimate is called	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Easy
1392	A village headman holds office because his father and grandfather held it before him, as custom requires. Acc…	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Medium
1393	In a village, a man who repeatedly breaks rules is mocked, avoided and not invited to feasts, though no court…	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Medium
1394	A society has a hereditary chief who collects produce from several villages and redistributes it at feasts, b…	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Hard
1395	The idea that the language a person speaks influences how he or she perceives the world is called the	Anthropology Language and culture	Easy
1396	A child of Tamil-speaking parents is adopted at birth and raised in a Punjabi-speaking family. The child will…	Anthropology Language and culture	Easy
1397	Hindi has separate words for father's brother and mother's brother, while English uses only "uncle". This bes…	Anthropology Language and culture	Medium
1398	A student speaks Marathi at home, English in class and a mix of both with friends, switching smoothly. This p…	Anthropology Language and culture	Medium
1399	Human language allows people to talk about ancestors who died long ago and plans for next year. This property…	Anthropology Language and culture	Hard
1400	Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam belong to which language family?	Anthropology Diversity in India	Easy