Archaeology Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The correct matching is a-ii, b-iv, c-i, d-iii. 'Archaeology from the Earth' is by Mortimer Wheeler, 'The Personality of India' by B. Subbarao, 'The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan' by B. and F. R. Allchin, and 'The Saraswati Flows On' by B. B. Lal.

The other codes give Wheeler's book to Lal or Lal's to Subbarao, which is wrong. Option C, ii iv i iii, is the only one that matches all four.

Answer: B

The author of The Roots of Ancient India is Walter Fairservis, Jr.

Walter A. Fairservis Jr., an American archaeologist who worked in Baluchistan and Afghanistan, wrote this book on the archaeology of the Indus civilisation and its background.

Stuart Piggott wrote Prehistoric India. V. G. Childe is known for New Light on the Most Ancient East and What Happened in History. A. Ghosh edited An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology. So they are wrong.

Answer: B

The order of the books is I, II, IV, III.

H. D. Sankalia wrote Pre and Protohistory in India and Pakistan in 1962, and a revised edition, Pre and Protohistory of India and Pakistan, came in 1974. Prehistory of India followed in 1977, and his autobiography Born for Archaeology was published in 1979.

The other options put the autobiography earlier, or the 1977 book before the 1974 revision, which does not fit the dates of publication.

Answer: A

The correct code is iii, i, iv, ii.

The oasis theory of the origin of agriculture is that of V. Gordon Childe (iii). The Aryan invasion theory was supported by R. E. M. Wheeler (i). The Origin of Species is by Charles Darwin (iv), and urn fields are associated with Adichanallur (ii).

Code B gives the oasis theory to Darwin, code C gives it to Childe but the invasion theory to Adichanallur, and code D gives it to Wheeler. They break these links.

Answer: C

The correct code is ii, iii, iv, i.

The City in Early Historic India is by A. Ghosh (ii). Lothal and the Indus Civilization is by S. R. Rao (iii). The Indus Age is by G. L. Possehl (iv), and Indian Archaeology Today is by H. D. Sankalia (i).

The other codes give the books to the wrong authors, for example the Possehl book to Rao.

Answer: A

The correct code is iv, iii, ii, i.

The Birth of Indian Civilization is by B. and R. Allchin (iv). Ramayana: A Myth or Reality is by H. D. Sankalia (iii). The Personality of India is by B. Subbarao (ii), and Ancient Indian Numismatics is by S. K. Chakraborty (i).

Codes B and D give the Allchin book to Subbarao, and code C gives it to Chakraborty, so all three are wrong on the first pair.

Answer: B

The correct code is iii, iv, i, ii.

B. B. Lal excavated Hastinapura (iii). R. C. Gaur excavated Atranjikhera (iv). G. R. Sharma excavated Kaushambi (i), and R. E. M. Wheeler excavated Arikamedu (ii).

The other codes pair the archaeologists with other sites, such as Lal with Atranjikhera or Wheeler with Kaushambi.

Answer: B

The author of What Happened in History is V. Gordon Childe.

Childe, the Australian-born prehistorian, wrote this book in 1942 as a survey of human history from the Stone Age to the end of the Roman empire, using archaeological evidence. A. L. Kroeber is an American anthropologist known for Anthropology, Bridget and Raymond Allchin wrote The Birth of Indian Civilization, and R. Bruce Foote is the geologist who found the first Indian Palaeolithic tools in 1863, so none of them wrote this book.

Answer: C

The correct matching is a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii, which is option C.

Environment and Archaeology is by K. W. Butzer (ii). Models in Archaeology is an edited volume by D. L. Clarke (i). The Copper-Bronze Age in India is by D. P. Agrawal (iv), and Archaeology in the Field is by O. G. S. Crawford (iii). Options A, B and D swap two or more authors, for example giving the field handbook to Agrawal.

Answer: A

The key gives (III), (IV), (I), (II), option A. Mortimer Wheeler wrote Archaeology from the Earth, H.D. Sankalia wrote Pre and Protohistory of India and Pakistan, Krishna Deo wrote Temples of Northern India and the key pairs M.N. Deshpande with Murals of Ajanta. Options B, C and D give Wheeler or Sankalia the other titles and are rejected. Wheeler's book, published in 1954, explained the methods of excavation such as the grid and stratigraphy. The titles by Sankalia and Krishna Deo are likewise standard works, on the prehistory of the subcontinent and on the early temples of the north.