Question 2706

Match the following Neolithic site: 1. Daojali Hading A. Baluchistan 2. Mundigak B. Bihar 3. Rana Ghundai C. North kachhar hills Assam 4. Chirand D. Afghanistan

Answer

1 - C, 2 - D, 3 - A, 4 - B

Why?

The correct answer is 1 - C, 2 - D, 3 - A, and 4 - B. Key Points Daojali Hading is a neolithic site in the Dima Hasao District of Assam , India on a low hillock about 1000 feet above sea level, dating to about 2,700 years before the present. Excavated in 1961-63 by a team led by M C Goswami and T C Sharma, it is the first stratified neolithic site discovered in Northeast India. Mundigak is an archaeological site in Kandahar province in Afghanistan . During the Bronze Age, it was a center of the Helmand culture. It is situated approximately 55 km northwest of Kandahar near Shāh Maqsūd, on the upper drainage of the Kushk-i Nakhud River. Rana Ghundai . the remains of a multilevel settlement of sedentary agricultural tribes that lived from the fourth to second millennia B.C. near Loralai, Pakistan Chirand is an archaeological site in the Saran district of Bihar , India, situated on the northern bank of the Ganga River. It has a large pre-historic mound. Additional Information The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age , is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts of the world. Thus, the prehistoric sites here mentioned are correctly matched in Option 4.