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Set26-Anthropology-II(A)-F

Signature of Invigilators
Roll No.
1. _______________________________
(Write Roll Number from left side
exactly as in the Admit Card) 2. _______________________________

Question Booklet Series X
2618
PAPER–II Question Booklet No.
(Identical with OMR
Subject Code : 26 Answer Sheet Number)

ANTHROPOLOGY
Time : 2 Hours Maximum Marks: 200
Instructions for the Candidates
1. Write your Roll Number in the space provided on the top of this page as well as on the OMR Sheet provided.
2. At the commencement of the examination, the question booklet will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you
are requested to open the booklet and verify it:
(i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the paper seal on the edge of this cover page.
(ii) Faulty booklet, if detected, should be got replaced immediately by a correct booklet from the invigilator
within the period of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the Question Booklet will be replaced nor any extra
time will be given.
(iii) Verify whether the Question Booklet No. is identical with OMR Answer Sheet No.; if not, the full set is
to be replaced.
(iv) After this verification is over, the Question Booklet Series and Question Booklet Number should be entered
on the OMR Sheet.
3. This paper consists of One hundred (100) multiple-choice type questions. All the questions are compulsory. Each
question carries two marks.

4. Each Question has four alternative responses marked: A B C D . You have to darken the circle as
indicated below on the correct response against each question.

Example: A B C D , where C is the correct response.
5. Your responses to the questions are to be indicated correctly in the OMR Sheet. If you mark your response at
any place other than in the circle in the OMR Sheet, it will not be evaluated.
6. Rough work is to be done at the end of this booklet.
7. If you write your Name, Roll Number, Phone Number or put any mark on any part of the OMR Sheet, except
in the space allotted for the relevant entries, which may disclose your identity, or use abusive language or employ
any other unfair means, such as change of response by scratching or using white fluid, you will render yourself
liable to disqualification.
8. Do not tamper or fold the OMR Sheet in any way. If you do so, your OMR Sheet will not be evaluated.
9. You have to return the Original OMR Sheet to the invigilator at the end of the examination compulsorily and
must not carry it with you outside the Examination Hall. You are, however, allowed to carry question booklet
and duplicate copy of OMR Sheet after completion of examination.
10. Use only Black Ball point pen.
11. Use of any calculator or mobile phone etc. is strictly prohibited.
12. There are no negative marks for incorrect answers.

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ANTHROPOLOGY

PAPER II

1. Descent in which the individual may affiliate 6. The Middle Palaeolithic Europe is known as
with either of the mother’s or father’s descent group is (A) Aurignacian culture
known as (B) Larnian culture
(A) Multiple descent (C) Azilian culture
(B) Double descent (D) Mousterian culture
(C) Ambilineal descent
(D) Matri-Patri descent 7. Match the items of List I with that of List II. Use
2. Encephalization can be explained as the codes below:
(A) expansion of brain volume List-I List-II
(B) expansion of motor cortex (a) D. N. Majumdar (i) Hindu Methods of Tribal
(C) relationship between body size and brain Absorption
size (b) M. N. Srinivas (ii) Baiga
(D) expansion of cerebrum (c) N. K. Bose (iii) The Changing Ho
(d) V. Elwin (iv) Marriage and family in
3. Which of the following statements is correct? Mysore
In terrace system
Codes:
(A) the uppermost terrace represents the
(a) (b) (c) (d)
earliest period.
(A) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(B) the lowermost terrace represents the earliest
period. (B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) the uppermost terrace represents the middle
period. (D) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(D) None of the above
8. An example of ‘Stabilising Selection’ could be
4. People who share a common history, culture or
(A) eruption of third molar
ancestry is known as
(B) age at menarche
(A) Ethnogenesis
(C) birth weight
(B) Hypodescent
(D) stature
(C) Ethnicity
(D) All of the above
9. Who amongst the following is the supporter of
5. Name the type of whorl where a loop is located ‘Foreign Invasion Theory’ of the abrupt decline of
inside a whorl. Harappan Civilization?
(A) Central pocket loop whorl (A) S. Piggot
(B) Double loop whorl (B) D. H. Gordon
(C) Accidental loop whorl (C) Mortimer Wheeler
(D) Plain whorl (D) All of the above

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10. The trading system that involves the exchange of 15. Neolithic revolution includes
scarce goods, competition for prestige and all the (a) Domestication of plant and animal
ceremonial exchange of Trobriand islanders is
(b) Pottery
known as
(c) Grinding and polishing technique
(A) Silent Trade
(d) Megaliths
(B) Potlatch Codes:
(C) Market Exchange (A) (a), (b), (c)
(D) Kula (B) (b), (c), (d)
(C) (a), (c), (d)
(D) (a), (b), (c), (d)
11. Name the chromosome number in which genes
of HLA system is located.
16. Given below are the two statements. One
(A) Chromosome number – 6 labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
(B) Chromosome number – 7 Indicate your answer from the alternatives below:
(C) Chromosome number – 11 Assertion (A): No human society that has formed to
(D) Chromosome number – 9 be without the rule of incest taboo.
Reason (R): The prohibition of sexual relation was
12. In Potassium-Argon dating, the half life is not established to begin with.
(A) around 1·3 billion years Codes:
(B) around 3 billion years (A) (A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect
(C) around 10,000 years (B) (A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
(D) None of the above (C) Both (A) and (R) are correct
(D) Both (A) and (R) are incorrect.

13. Marriage custom according to which a widower 17. Match the items of List I with that of List II. Use
marries his deceased wife’s sister is known as the codes below:
(A) Polygyny List-I List-II
(B) Polyandry (a) Macroevolution (i) Charles Darwin
(C) Sororate (b) Microevolution (ii) Infinitely large population
(D) Levirate (c) Hardy-Weinberg (iii) Variation
Equilibrium
(d) Natural Selection (iv) Speciation
14. The appropriate method which can be used to Codes:
study seasonal effect on growth is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) Longitudinal
(A) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(B) Cross-sectional
(B) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(C) Short time longitudinal (C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) Mixed longitudinal (D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

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18. Who has undertaken research in the Hungsi 22. Which one of the following measurements is not
Valley? used to determine the Heath Carter Somatotype?
(A) Shanti Pappu (A) Biceps skinfold
(B) K. Paddaiyya (B) Triceps skinfold
(C) V. D. Krishnaswamy (C) Subscapular skinfold
(D) Supra spinale skinfold
(D) S. N. Rajguru

23. Arrange the following tools in their correct
sequence of appearance.
19. Indicate the correct code which is related to (a) Chopper
‘Prohibitive Rules of Marriage’. (b) Adze
(A) Incest taboo (c) Lunate
(B) Polygamy (d) Scraper
(C) Monogamy Codes:
(D) Reproduction (A) (d), (a), (b), (c)
(B) (a), (d), (c), (b)
(C) (d), (c), (a), (b)
(D) (b), (c), (a), (d)
20. Given below are two statements. One labelled as
Assertion (A) and other as Reason (R). Indicate your
24. The method used by Anthropologists to
answer from the codes given below: understand another society through their own cultural
Assertion (A): In course of human evolution, the values, beliefs, norms and behaviour is known as
posture of human became erect. (A) Ethnocentric View
(B) Ethnographic Approach
Reason (R): The foramen magnum shifted towards
the posterior side. (C) Historical Particularism
(D) Cultural Relativism
(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct
(B) Both (A) and (R) are incorrect
25. Which of the conditions are true for Duchenne
(C) (A) is correct and (R) is the correct Muscular Dystrophy? Use the codes below:
explanation of (A) (a) It is a genetic disease.
(D) (A) is correct and (R) is not the correct (b) Males are more affected than females.
explanation of (A) (c) Lack of dystrophin, a protein found in the
muscle fibre which leads to the weakness in
muscle.
(d) Lack of myoglobin, a protein found in the
21. The corporate descent group whose members muscle fibre which leads to the weakness in
claim descent from a common ancestor and can trace muscle.
their genealogical link to that ancestor is known as Codes:
(A) Fission (A) (a), (b) and (c) are correct
(B) Clan (B) (a), (b) and (d) are correct
(C) Lineage (C) Only (a) and (d) are correct
(D) Kindred (D) Only (a) and (c) are correct

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26. Retouching means 31. In which one of the following cultural traditions
(A) primary flaking Levallois technique appeared for the first time?
(B) tertiary flaking (A) Azillo-Tardinoisean
(C) secondary working (B) Acheulian
(D) no flaking (C) Aurignacian
(D) None of the above

27. Religious rituals that mark the important stages
in the lives of individuals, such as birth, marriage and
death is known as 32. Match the items of List I with that of List II. Use
(A) Life cycle ceremonies the codes below:
(B) Functionalism List-I List-II
(C) Festivals (a) Scurvy (i) Vitamin A deficiency
(D) Rites of passage (b) Night blindness (ii) Vitamin C deficiency
(c) Kwashiorkor (iii) Biotin deficiency
(d) Scally red rash (iv) Protein deficiency
28. The most significant change during the
Codes:
evolutionary history of Homo sapiens can be traced in
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) loss of body hair
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) bipedal locomotion
(B) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(C) reduction of jaw
(C) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(D) remarkable increase in the ratio of brain
(D) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
volume to body weight

29. Remains of huts and hearths have been found 33. Apollonian and Dionysian are characterizations
from the palaeolithic site of of cultures formulated by
(A) Zhoukoudian (A) Margaret Mead
(B) Terra Amata (B) A. L. Kroeber
(C) Olduvai Gorge (C) Ruth Benedict
(D) None of the above (D) Francis L.K. Hsu

30. A severe psychological reaction that results
from adjusting to the realities of a society radically 34. Which one of the following is not a
different from one’s own during fieldwork is known as characteristic feature of the skull of Homo erectus?
(A) Culture shock (A) Thick supra orbital ridge
(B) Ethnocentric (B) Cranium is wider at base
(C) Psychic unity of mankind (C) Long and narrow skull vault
(D) Cultural psychosis (D) Thin cranial bones

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35. Match an item of List I with that of List II. Use 38. Big game hunting by Homo erectus is known
codes given below: from the site of
List-I List-II (A) Olorgesailie
(a) Didwana (i) Middle Pleistocene site (B) St. Acheul
in France (C) Hoabinh
(b) Terra-Amata (ii) Lower Palaeolithic site in (D) Zhoukoudian
Spain
(c) Torralba (iii) Lower Palaeolithic site in 39. Henry Maive’s famous book is named
French Riviera (A) Primitive Culture
(d) Lazaret (iv) Lower Palaeolithic site in (B) Ancient Society
Rajasthan (C) Ancient Law
Codes: (D) Primitive Marriage
(a) (b) (c) (d) 40. The portion of home range containing the
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) highest concentration and most reliable supplies of
(B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i) food and water is called
(C) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii) (A) Biome
(D) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii) (B) Niche
(C) Territory
36. Given below are the two statements. One is (D) Core area
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
41. Which of the following statements is correct
Indicate your answer from the codes given below:
with regard to upper Palaeolithic Rock Art in Western
Assertion (A): Social and political interactions within Europe?
the same society of people with (A) Most common are visually accurate
different ways of living and thinking is portrayals of ice-age mammals while
known as Cultural Pluralism. human portrayals are rare.
Reason (R): Although it is the most expected future (B) Most common are human portrayals while
condition of humanity, yet in reality it those of ice age mammals are rare.
has rarely worked out.
(C) Both portrayals of ice age mammals and
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect humans are common.
(B) (A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct (D) None of the above
(C) Both (A) and (R) are incorrect
(D) Both (A) and (R) are correct 42. Verrier Elwin Committee’s Report is called
(A) Report of the Committee on Special
Multipurpose Tribal Blocks
37. Characters that are modified from the ancestral
(B) Report of the Expert Committee on Tribal
conditions and are diagnostic of particular evolutionary
Development
lineages are termed as
(A) primitive characters (C) Report of the Committee on Forest and
(B) derived characters Tribals in India
(C) homologous characters (D) Report of the Study Group on Land Holding
(D) analogous characters Systems in Tribal Area

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43. The relationship between body mass or volume 47. Which of the following statements is correct
to surface area can be explained by about Bagor?
(A) Allen’s Rule (A) Phase I exclusively microliths; Phase II
(B) Bergmann’s Rule presence of copper with microliths,
(C) Gloger’s Rule phase III presence of iron with mocroliths
(D) Cope’s Rule (B) All phases are exclusively microliths from
non-geometric to geometric
(C) Phase I and II exclusively microlith
44. Massive walls of stones for protection against (D) Phase III microliths along with copper
flood, mud brick houses, a stone tower and mud brick
storage facilities have found from site of
(A) Hoabinh
(B) Jericho 48. The book ‘Mysore Tribes and Caste’ was written
(C) Lascaux by
(D) Olduvai Gorge (A) M. N. Srinivas
(B) S. C. Roy
(C) D. N. Majumdar
45. The largest government institute of
Anthropological Research is (D) L. K. Anantha Krishna Iyer
(A) Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav
Sangrahalaya
(B) Ministry of Tribal Affair 49. A study of a disorder reveals that monozygotic
(C) Anthropological Survey of India twins are concordant 40% of the time, where as full
(D) Cultural Research Institute siblings are concordant 10% of the time. Which of the
following is the best interpretation of this finding?
(A) The trait has no genetic component
46. Match the items of List I with that of List II. Use (B) The trait is completely determined by genetics
the codes below:
(C) Genes contribute to the trait, but are not
List-I List-II deterministic
(a) Brachydactyly (i) X linked recessive (D) The trait must be due to biology of twining
(b) Albinism (ii) X linked dominant
(c) Muscular dystrophy (iii) Autosomal dominant
(d) Xg blood group (iv) Autosomal recessive
Codes: 50. The well known rock art site of Bhimbetka was
discovered by
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) H. D. Sankalia
(A) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) (B) V. N. Misra
(C) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii) (C) Y. Mathpal
(D) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i) (D) V. S. Wakankar

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51. Match the items of List I with that of List II. Use 55. Which one of the following is not considered to
codes below: be a geographical race by S. Garn (1961)?
List-I List-II (A) Polynesian
(B) Bantu
(a) B. Mallinowski (i) Structuralism
(b) Edmund Leach (ii) Evolutionism (C) Indian
(c) A. Kardiner (iii) Functionalism (D) African
(d) L. H. Morgan (iv) Culture and Personality
56. Match the items of List I with that of List II. Use
Codes: the codes below:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
List-I List-II
(A) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i) (a) Dolman (i) Harappan ware
(B) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii) (b) Black-and-Red ware (ii) Ahar
(C) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii) (c) Painted Grey ware (iii) Brahmagiri
(D) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii) (d) Lusterous ware (iv) Ahichchhatra
Codes:
52. A period of time during which a child who has (a) (b) (c) (d)
experienced delayed growth because of under nutrition, (A) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
can increase in height to the point of his/her genetic (B) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
potential is called (C) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(A) Secular trend (D) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(B) Growth spurt
(C) Catch-up growth 57. Given below are the two statements. One is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
(D) None of the above
Indicate the correct code from the alternative below:
Assertion (A): Morris Opler, Oscar Lewis and David
53. Identify the correct sequence in ascending order. Mandelbaum did fieldwork in India.
(A) Chattelperronean, Solutrean, Aurignacian Reason (R): They were the pioneers in village
(B) Aurignacian, Solutrean, Chattelperronean studies in India.
(C) Solutrean, Aurignacian, Chattelperronean (A) (A) is incorrect, and (R) is correct
(B) (A) is correct, and (R) is incorrect
(D) Chattelperronean, Aurignacian, Solutrean
(C) Both (A) and (R) are correct
(D) Both (A) and (R) are incorrect
54. An anthropologist who focuses on the cross
cultural aspect of various ethnographic studies is 58. Which one of the following is not a typical
known as characteristic feature of prosimians?
(A) Applied Anthropologist (A) Incomplete eye orbits
(B) Ethnographer (B) Laterally directed eyes
(C) Ethnologist (C) Small body size
(D) Participant observant (D) Mostly diurnal

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59. KARST geomorphology is associated with the 63. The kinship usage related to a special role
study of played by father’s sister in the life of her nephew and
(A) moraine deposits niece is called
(B) sea level changes (A) Amitate
(C) cave sediments (B) Lavorate
(D) terrace (C) Avunculate
(D) Couvade
60. Identify the correct sequence formulated by
D. N. Majumdar while categorizing the development of 64. Given below are the two statements. One is
Social Anthropology in India. labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
(A) Observatory, Verifying, Generalisation Indicate the correct answer from the codes below:
(B) Formative, Constructive, Analytical Assertion (A): In sickle cell anaemia glutamic acid in
(C) Primary, Secondary, Developed the chain is replaced by valine.
(D) Formulatory, Constructive, Critical Reason (R): Sickle cell haemoglobin is caused by
point mutation.
61. Match the items of List I with that of List II. Use (A) Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not
the codes below: the correct explanation of (A)
List-I List-II (B) (A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect
(a) L. Leakey (i) Genes, Peoples and (C) (A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct
Languages (D) Both (A) and (R) are correct, and (R) is the
(b) J. M. Tanner (ii) Adam’s Ancestor correct explanation of (A)
(c) P. V. Tobias (iii) A History of the Study
of Human Growth 65. Which of the following evidences characterize
(d) L. Cavalli-Saforza (iv) The Brain in Hominid the Harppan culture?
Evolution: Past, Present (a) Seals
and Future (b) Fire altars
Codes: (c) Coins
(a) (b) (c) (d) (d) Terracottas
(A) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i) Codes:
(B) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii) (A) (a) and (b) are correct
(C) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii) (B) (b) and (c) are correct
(D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) (C) (c) and (d) are correct
(D) (a), (b) and (d) are correct
62. Which of the followings is not a part of New
Archaeology? 66. R. R. Marett profounded the concept of power as
(A) Archaeology as a cultural process (A) Animatism
(B) Ethnoarchaeology (B) Animism
(C) Archaeology as Anthropology (C) Manaism
(D) Culture History (D) Super naturalism

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67. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly 72. ‘The Sacred Complex of Hindu Gaya’ was
matched? written by
(A) A chart depicting genetic relationship and (A) J. H. Hutton
transmission of inherited traits — Genealogy (B) B. K. Roy Burman
(B) Genetic drift — Founder effect (C) M. Marriot
(C) Macroevolution — Speciation (D) L. P. Vidyarthi
(D) Sickle Cell — Natural Selection
68. Match the items of List I with that of List II. Use 73. ‘––––’ results in mental and growth retardation in
the codes below: human due to iodine deficiency in the mother during
List-I List-II pregnancy.
(a) Palaeolithic period (i) Civilization (A) Albinism
(b) Neolithic period (ii) Higher Barbarism (B) G6PD deficiency
(c) Copper Age (iii) Savagery (C) Cretinism
(d) Early Bronze Age (iv) Barbarism
(D) Alkaptonuria
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
74. Which one of the following pairs is correctly
(A) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii) matched?
(B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(A) Bone tools – Homo habilis
(C) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(B) Preceramic and Ceramic Neolithic – Mehrgarh
(D) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(C) Mousterian Culture – Homo erectus
69. The classic work on religion by J. Frazer is (D) Interglacial – Miocene
(A) Coral Gardens and their Magic
(B) The Golden Bough
75. Given below are the two statements. One is
(C) The Elements of Religion
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
(D) None of the above
Indicate the correct answer from the following codes:
70. The growth curve of which of the following Assertion (A): Cultural Anthropologists must not
parts and tissues of the body reaches its maximum
only be trained in appropriate research
before adolescence?
and analytical techniques, but also
(A) Brain and head
abide the ethical guidelines of the
(B) Reproductive organs discipline.
(C) Muscle
Reason (R): Cultural Anthropologists should not
(D) Lymphoid
divulge their aims of the research to
71. Tertiary period includes the study population.
(A) Miocene and Pliocene only (A) Both (A) and (R) are correct
(B) Oligocene and Palaeocene only
(B) Both (A) and (R) are incorrect
(C) Pliocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Eocene and
(C) (A) is correct and (R) is incorrect
Palaeocene
(D) Eocene and Miocene (D) (A) is incorrect and (R) is correct

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76. Which among the following is not a racial type 81. The study of sounds in linguistic is known as
as proposed by B.S. Guha (1937)? (A) Dialectical
(A) Negrito (B) Idiolectical
(B) Mongoloid (C) Literal
(C) Indo Aryan (D) Phonology
(D) Nordic

77. The Harappan site located in Haryana is 82. Match the items of List I with List II . Use the
(A) Kalibangan codes below:
(B) Mitathal List-I List-II
(C) Kotdiji (a) Gibbon (i) Vertical clinging and leaping
(D) Lothal
(b) Tarsier (ii) True brachiation
(c) Gorilla (iii) Bipedal locomotion
78. The Santal kinship terminology is _____ type. (d) Human (v) Knuckle walking
(A) terms of reference
Codes:
(B) descriptive
(C) classifictory (a) (b) (c) (d)
(D) terms of address (A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
79. A researcher derives to examine the variations in (C) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
height of children aged 3-10 years of a population. (D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
What type of sampling technique will the researcher
adopt to get the precise estimate of the height
variations?
(A) Simple random sampling 83. Given below are the two statements. One is
(B) Stratified random sampling labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
(C) Purposive sampling Indicate you answer using the codes below:
(D) Systematic random sampling Assertion (A): Sedentary life is regarded as an
essential characteristic feature of
Neolithic culture.
80. Which one of the following pairs is correctly
Reason (R): Domestication of plants and animals
matched?
facilitated the sedentary life.
(A) Burin technology — Middle Palaeolithic
Culture (A) Both (A) and (R) are incorrect
(B) Natufia — Mesolithic (B) (A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct
(C) Barbed Harpoon — Lower Palaeolithic (C) Both (A) and (R) are correct
(D) Mindel Glacial — Eocene (D) (A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect

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84. Externalise social controls designed to 89. Iron technology helped in the emergence of
encourage conformity to social norms are known as second urbanisation in India by facilitating
(A) sanctions (A) clearance of forest
(B) norms (B) intensification of agriculture
(C) values (C) both (A) and (B)
(D) customs (D) none of the above

90. The revitalisation movement that tries to
85. The chromosomal aberration related to ‘5p–’ is reconstitute a destroyed but not forgotten way of life is
referred to as called
(A) Philadelphia syndrome (A) Nativistic movement
(B) Cri-du-cat syndrome (B) Tribal movement
(C) Down’s syndrome (C) Community movement
(D) Jacobsen syndrome (D) Caste movement

91. The dental formula of Aegyptopithecus is
86. Which among the following options provide the (A) 1 : 3 : 2 : 3
correct distribution of ‘Copper Hoards’ in India? (B) 2 : 1 : 3 : 3
(A) Rajasthan and Haryana (C) 2 : 1 : 2 : 3
(B) Chotanagpur Plateau and the Balaghat area (D) 2 : 2 : 2 : 3
(C) Deccan
92. Which among the following is the correct
(D) South India pottery sequence in terms of their appearnce?
(A) Red-slipped Ware, Painted Grey Ware,
87. The spread of customs or practices from one Black-and-Red Ware, Northern Black
culture to another is called Polished Ware
(A) Culture loss (B) Red-slipped Ware, Black-and-Red Ware,
(B) Migration Painted Grey Ware, Northern Black Polished
Ware
(C) Diffusion
(C) Black-and-Red Ware, Red-slipped Ware,
(D) All of the above
Northern Black Polished Ware, Painted Grey
Ware
88. Anagenesis is an evolutionary pattern defined by (D) Northern Black Polished Ware, Red-slipped
(A) a gradual change in a species relating to two Ware, Painted Grey Ware, Black-and-Red
or more lineages and resulting in sister Ware.
species
93. In acculturation, the blending of indigenous and
(B) a gradual change that occurs in a species
foreign traits to form a new system is called
without the need of splitting
(A) Melting pot
(C) a gradual change in a species loading to the
formation of many subspecies (B) Syncretism
(D) a punctuated change that leads the formation (C) Multiplisation
of a new species (D) None of the above

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94. A particular type of mutation causes the change 97. The total number of chromosomes present in
of a single base pair substitution of a different amino Chimpanzee is
acid in the resulting protein. This substitution may (A) 46
have no effect, or it may render the protein (B) 47
non functional. Such a mutation is called ________. (C) 48
(A) Synonymous mutation (D) 49
(B) Missense mutation
98. The script used in Sumerian Civilization is
(C) Frameshift mutation known as
(D) None of the above (A) Cuneiform
(B) Heiroglyphics
(C) Pictographic
95. The evidence of trade between Harappan and
(D) Phonetic
Mesopotamian civilization are
(A) seals and etched beads 99. Marriage outside the group is called
(B) seals and pottery (A) Endogamy
(C) etched beads and pottery (B) Out caste
(D) none of the above (C) Exogamy
(D) None of the above

96. Group of persons initiated into age grades at the 100. Based on Y chromosome and mt DNA markers,
same time and who move through a series of categories who suggested that peopling in the New World
together is called probably started with a single wave migration possibly
originating from Mongolia?
(A) Age sets
(A) R. Cann and M. Stoneking
(B) Age grade (B) C. Stringer
(C) Division of labour (C) G. B–ÛÁøÛËuer
(D) All of the above (D) A. Merriwether

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