Practice Sources of History and the Stone Age – GK Quiz with Answers – Level 3

Match List-I (Palaeolithic site) with List-II (notable find or fact):

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Consider the following statements about Stone Age tool-making and sites:

1. In pressure flaking, flakes are removed by striking the core again and again with a hammer stone held in the other hand.

2. Caves and rock shelters where people lived are examples of habitation sites.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Bhimbetka rock shelters:

1. They were discovered by V. S. Wakankar in 1957.

2. They lie in the Vindhya hills, to the north of Bhopal.

3. They were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Match List-I (Neolithic site) with List-II (find):

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Consider the following statements about Mehrgarh:

1. People at Mehrgarh lived in pit-houses dug into the ground to escape the cold.

2. It lies in a fertile plain near the Bolan Pass, an important route into Iran.

3. A burial has been found in which the dead person was buried with goats.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Match List-I (site) with List-II (description):

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Consider the following statements about the Palaeolithic age:

1. It lasted from around two million years ago to about twelve thousand years ago.

2. It covers roughly ninety-nine per cent of human history.

3. People of this age learnt to use fire.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Mesolithic age:

1. Around twelve thousand years ago the climate became warmer, and grasslands spread in many areas.

2. Microliths were used on their own, without being fixed to any handle.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Neolithic age:

1. Tools were made by grinding and polishing stone, which gave them a fine cutting edge.

2. People kept moving constantly from place to place in search of food.

3. Mortars and pestles came into use for grinding grain.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Chalcolithic age:

1. Copper was the first metal used, and stone tools were abandoned once copper came into use.

2. The Jorwe culture is the most important Chalcolithic culture of Maharashtra.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?