9. Name a place in India where megaliths have been found.
1. Answer the following questions in not more than 20 words.
1. Name two regions in India where mesolithic sites have been found.
2. Mention two types of archaeological sources that tell us about man's life during the Mesolithic Age
3. What do you understand by domestication?
4. Mention some regions in India where neolithic tools have been found.
5. What made up a typical neolithic village?
6. What kind of work did women, children and old people do in a neolithic community?
7. How did neolithic people dispose of their dead?
8. What are megaliths?
9. Where is Mehrgarh situated?
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Answer:
9. Megaliths are spread across the Indian subcontinent, though the bulk of them are found in peninsular India, concentrated in the states of Maharashtra (mainly in Vidarbha), Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
1. The region where mesolithic are Bundelkhand, Baghelkhand, Shivanna valley in Madhya Pradeshhavea number of middle Stone Age sites.
2. Two types of archaeological sources that tell us about man's life during the Mesolithic Age are tools and rock paintings.
3. Domestication is the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use. Domestic species are raised for food, work, clothing, medicine, and many other uses. Domesticated plants and animals must be raised and cared for by humans. Domesticated species are not wild. Plant Domestication.
4. Burzahom and Daojali Hading are two regions in India where Neolithic tools have been found.
5. A neolithic village consisted of a few closely built houses surrounded by a common fence of prickly bush or mud wall.
6. Women, Children and Old people performed light agricultural tasks like sowing, harvesting, grazing small herds and protecting crops from pests such as birds.
7. The neolithic people disposed their deads in the caves which were previously inhabited by paeleolithic people. Some sites have found where they buried the dead. The dead was placed in a pot in sitting position then this pot was emersed in the pit.
8. A megalith is a large pre-historic stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. There are over 35,000 in Europe alone, ranging from Sweden to the Mediterranean sea.
9. Balochistan
Mehrgarh (Balochi: Mehrgaŕh; Urdu: مہرگڑھ) is a Neolithic site (dated c. 7000 BCE to c. 2500/2000 BCE), which lies on the Kacchi Plain of Balochistan, Pakistan. Mehrgarh is located near the Bolan Pass, to the west of the Indus River valley and between the present-day Pakistani cities of Quetta, Kalat and Sibi.