Palaeolithic Ages in India Lecture Notes

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What is the estimated age of the earliest human settlement in India?

  • 500,000 years ago
  • 1.4 million years ago (correct)
  • 11,700 years ago
  • 10-14 million years ago

Where were the earliest human skulls, Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus, discovered?

  • Bori in Maharashtra
  • Shivalik hills in the Potwar Plateau of Punjab in Pakistan (correct)
  • Narmada Valley at Hathnora, Madhya Pradesh
  • The alluvial plains of the Indus

What is the name given to the fossilized fragment of cranium discovered in Narmada Valley at Hathnora, Madhya Pradesh?

  • Narmada Man
  • Homo Erectus Narmadensis (correct)
  • Sivapithecus
  • Ramapithecus

What is the approximate age of the Narmada fossil representing Homo Erectus?

<p>500,000 to 600,000 years old (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where were the late Acheulean tools found in India?

<p>Throughout India except for the alluvial plains of the Indus, and Ganga-Yamuna regions (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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