ANSWER UNIT 1 AND 2
1. The Harappan seal
2. steatite
3. animals
4. Harappan script
5. The Indus valley civilization
6. a group of objects, distinctive in style, that are usually found together within
a pecific geographical area and period of time.
7. discovered at first in Harappa
8. 2600 to 1900 BCE
9. existed before Harappan culture
10. before christ
11. Anno Domini
12. Before Present
13. Before Common Era
14. Common Era
15. Ravi
16. Sabarmati
17. charred grains and seeds.
18. archaeo-botanists
19. Wheat, barley, lentil, chickpea and sesame
20. millets
21. cattle, sheep, goat, buffalo and pig
22. boar, deer and gharial
23. oxen
24. cholistan and Banawali (Haryana)
25. Kalibangan (Rajasthan)
26. Shortughai in Afghanistan
27. Dholavira in Gujarat
28. canal, well and water reservoirs
29. semi-arid zone
30. stone, metal and terracotta
31. saddle querns and curry stone
32. saddle querns
33. igneous rock or sandstone
34. pounding herbs and spices
ANSWER UNIT – 3
1. Mohenjodaro
2. Harappa
3. 2
4. mud Bricks
5. from wall
6. Alexander Cunningham
7. Alexander Cunningham
8. 4x2x1
9. Grid pattern
10. Lothal and Dholavira
11. windows, ground
12. courtyard
13. rooms
14. around 700
15. Ernest Mackay
16. Mohenjodaro
17. rectangular
18. north and south
19. 8
20. religious purpose (ritual bath)
ANSWER UNIT 4 & 5
1. yes
2. study of burial and luxuries things
3. faience pot and copper mirror
4. material made of ground sand or silica mixed with colour and a
gum and then fired
5. rare and costly
6. big cities
7. used as a perfume bottles
8. gold
9. Chanhudaro
10. bead-making, shell-cutting, metal-working, seal-making and
weight-making
11. red color stone
12. type of stone
13. type of stone
14. type of soft stone
15. gold, copper and bronze
16. steatite
17. firing the yellowish raw material
18. Chanhudaro, Lothal and Dholavira
19. sea coast
20. shell
21. from raw material, tools, incomplete objects and final products
ANSWER UNIT – 6
1. land and water
2. to get shell products
3. to get Lapis Lazuli
4. carlinelian
5. Rajasthan and Gujarat
6. Khetri from Rajasthan and Oman
7. Karnataka
8. objects found in Khetri area
9. Oman
10. particles of Nickel
11. Magan
12. dilmun
13. Meluhha
14. peacock
15. Harappan land (Meluhha)
ANSWER UNIT 7,8 & 9
1. For trade purpose
2. 26
3. 375-400
4. right to left
5. seals, copper tools, rims of jars, copper and terracotta tablets, jewellery,
bone rods and sign board
6. Chert
7. cubical shape
8. No marking
9. Binary
10. decimal system
11. small weights
12. lothal, kalibangan
13. Mohenjodaro
14. the similarity in artefacts, the evidence for planned settlements, the
standardised ration of brick size, and the establishment of settlements near
sources of raw material
15. John Marshall
16. Mohenjodaro
17. R.E.M. Wheeler
18. R.E.M. Wheeler
19. fort
20. Indra
21. Purender
22. George Dales
ANSWER UNIT 10 & 11
1. Alexender Cunningham
2. Alexender Cunningham
3. study of layers
4. Dayaram Sahni
5. Rakhal das Banerji
6. John Marshal
7. 1924
8. S.N. Rao
9. [Link]
10. Mesopotamian Civilisation
11. john Marshall
12. Horizontal method
13. stratigraphy method
14. [Link]
15. raw material, use, the place where they found
16. unusual or unfamiliar objects
17. kalibangan and Lothal
18. Shiva
19. Shiva
20. Rudra