CBSE Class 12 (Arts) Bricks, Beads and Bones: The Harappan Civilisation — practice questions
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Practice CBSE Class 12 (Arts) Bricks, Beads and Bones: The Harappan Civilisation in the app →Which Haryana site is described as the biggest Harappan city, spread over 550 hectares?Which tiny Harappan settlement, under 7 hectares, was devoted almost entirely to craft production?What do archaeologists call the smaller but higher western part of Mohenjodaro?Standardised Harappan bricks had length, breadth and height in which ratio?In Harappan town planning, which was apparently laid out before the houses were built?Why do Mohenjodaro houses have no windows in the ground-level walls along the street?About how many wells have scholars estimated for Mohenjodaro?Where at Mohenjodaro was the Great Bath located?At which pair of Gujarat sites was the entire settlement fortified?Which grain is described as relatively rare among Harappan finds?Specialists who study charred grains and seeds from ancient sites are called what?Which specialists study animal bones from Harappan sites to learn which species were domesticated?Terracotta models of the plough were found at Banawali in which present-day state?The ploughed field at Kalibangan had two sets of furrows at right angles, suggesting what?Traces of canals were found at which Harappan site in Afghanistan?Water reservoirs at which Gujarat site may have stored water for agriculture?Who was the first director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India?In which year was the Archaeological Survey of India founded?Which viceroy pushed through the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act of 1904?Which ASI archaeologist did John Marshall direct to excavate the two mounds at Harappa?Harappan bricks were carted off as track ballast for a railway between which two cities?Who made the first modern accounts of the Indus ruins while travelling through Punjab in 1829?Which archaeologist excavated Mohenjo-daro from 1927 to 1931?By about which year had Early Harappan communities turned into large urban centres?Recent evidence traces Harappan culture to early farming communities of about when?By about 1800 BCE most Mature Harappan sites in which region had been abandoned?The longest Harappan inscription contains about how many signs?Roughly how many different signs does the Harappan script have?In which direction was the Harappan script written, judging from the spacing on seals?Harappan weights, generally cubical and unmarked, were usually made of which stone?The lower denominations of Harappan weights followed which numerical pattern?What did an intact clay sealing on a bag of goods show the receiver?Which stone were thousands of Harappan seals mostly made of?John Marshall linked the cross-legged seated seal deity to which Hindu god?The famous Dancing Girl statuette of Mohenjo-daro was cast in which metal by the lost-wax method?The cubical dice found at Mohenjo-daro were marked in what way?How was the red colour of carnelian beads obtained?Which very soft stone was easily worked into Harappan beads?Which two coastal sites specialised in making shell bangles and ladles?Shortughai in Afghanistan was set up near the best source of which blue stone?Expeditions to which Rajasthan region may have obtained copper for the Harappans?Chemical analyses found traces of which metal in both Omani copper and Harappan artefacts?Mesopotamian texts name which region, perhaps Oman, as a source of copper?Which place named in Mesopotamian texts is probably the island of Bahrain?Which Mesopotamian name for a distant land possibly refers to the Harappan region?Whose 1960s argument questioned the evidence of a massacre at Mohenjodaro?Which Rigvedic god did R.E.M. Wheeler say "stands accused" of destroying Harappan forts?What does the Rigvedic word "pur" mean?A stone statue from Mohenjodaro is popularly labelled with which title?Flesh-rubbers, needles and querns are classed by archaeologists as which kind of artefact?Who began excavations at Dholavira according to the timeline of Harappan archaeology?Which two archaeologists began the excavations at Kalibangan?Terracotta toy models of bullock carts suggest which means of transport?What do thick black clay coatings on large Harappan jars prevent?Harappan bricks kept a uniform ratio from Jammu to which region?The Late Harappan phase, with fewer things made and no cities, indicates what way of life?Why is the Citadel of Mohenjodaro higher than the Lower Town?Building platforms at Mohenjodaro would have needed about how many person-days of labour?How were the main brick drainage channels of Harappan cities covered?Where did waste water from Harappan houses first flow before reaching the street drains?