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Which of the following Mesolithic sites have exposed burials with skeletons of very tall (i) Adamgarh (ii) Bhimbetkas (iii) Mahadaha (iv) Sarai Nahar Rai Choose the correct answer from the code given below:

Which of the following Mesolithic sites have exposed burials with skeletons of very tall (i) Adamgarh (ii) Bhimbetkas (iii) Mahadaha (iv) Sarai Nahar Rai Choose the correct answer from the code given below: Correct Answer (iii) and (iv)

Human Past or History is divided into three main periods, namely-

1) Stone Age, 2) Bonze Age, and 3) Iron Age.

These are not simply technological stages implying that tools and weapons were made of stone during the Stone Age, of bronze during the Bronze Age, and of iron during the Iron Age. These Ages imply much more than technology. They imply subsistence economy or ways of acquiring food, social organisation, including caring for the weak, sick and old, mode of disposing of the dead, art, and other aspects of life.

Stone Age is divided into three periods, namely-

1) Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age, 2) Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age, and 3) Neolithic or New Stone Age.

The word lithic is derived from the Greek lithos, meaning stone. Palaeolithic means Old Stone Age, Mesolithic means Middle Stone Age, and Neolithic means New Stone Age.

Mesolithic Age- Mesolithic Age was a much shorter period than Palaeolithic, having lasted about ten thousand years in India. The technological hallmark of this period is tiny stone tools or ‘microliths’. In addition, the Mesolithic people also used non-microlithic tools made of flakes and blades.

The correct answer is option 4) Mahadaha and Sarai Nahar Rai.

Mahadaha 

  • It is an important Mesolithic site located in Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh.
  • In an excavation 1978-79, thirty-five well-preserved fossil hominid skeletons were discovered.
  • This site is located 50 km away from Sarai Nahar Rai.

Sarai Nahar Rai,

  • Discovered in 1968, the site of Sarai Nahar Rai, is located in Gangetic Plain.
  • This site has archaeological records and a series of fifteen human skeletons.
  • This is one of the largest skeletal series of Mesolithic hominids discovered in India.

 

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  • Adamgarh is a prehistoric site in the Lower Tawa basin at Hoshangabad.
  • It is a painted rock shelter site contains paintings of the Prehistoric period, done in red and white colours.
  • Few shelters were excavated and remain from the Palaeolithic period to historical period were observed.
  • Bhimbetka rock shelters, series of natural rock shelters in the foothills of the Vindhya Range, central India.
  • They are situated some 28 miles south of Bhopal, in west-central Madhya Pradesh state.
  • Discovered in 1957, the complex consists of some 700 shelters and is one of the largest repositories of prehistoric art in India. The shelters were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2003.
  • The complex is surrounded by the Ratapani Wildlife Sanctuary.

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