The corridor passes southwards into Karnataka. Here the earliest settlements seem to have been associated with a group of pastoralists who appear in the area early in the third millennium B.C., although no settlements as such are known before the end of the millennium.
What is striking about the culture of the earliest settlements of the southern Deccan is their apparently independent ancestry. There is an extraordinary continuity linking even the earliest settlements with the whole subsequent pattern of life. It is still not possible to decide whether this culture arose in response to some external stimulus, and if so from what direction it came. The indications are that there was a strongly indigenous flavour from the start. It has been suggested that the Indian humped cattle were domesticated locally in the peninsula, and certainly they had already achieved a dominant economic position in the earliest settlements of the Deccan. A range of food grains was cultivated, some of them almost certainly native to the region. It is interesting to note that local variations in grain utilization at the present day are already reflected during the Neolithic-Chalcolithic period. The house patterns of the earliest settlements, and the general layout of villages can also be found as living elements in the countryside today. The conservatism of material culture continues to exert itself over long periods thus the appearance of iron, which in the north is inferred to have coincided with the introduction of western tool types, such as the shaft-hole axe, in the peninsula witnessed the adaptation of a flat rectangular axe of a type already current in copper and bronze in the Harappan and post-Harappan periods. This type survived in the south until the opening of the Christian era.


1. Discuss evidence for mesolithic in south India

2. Which pastoral community follows the legacy of Neolithic techno-economy in Deccan

3. What was the date bracket of Neolithic stage in Karnataka

4. Describe main archaeological remains for pastoralism in Deccan.

5. Discuss archaeological evidence for the Cultural contacts between Deccan Neolithic and Harappans.

6. What is a Datum line

7. What was the Climatic condition of Boreal period

8. Discuss types of Morain.

9. Describe nomadicus group of fauna found from Narmada valley.

10. What is cranial capacity How is it measured

11. What are the main features of cro-magnan man

12. Describe micro-burin.

13. Describe a Mesolithic burial from any of the parse-shoe lake sites of India.

14. What do you know about Vallonet cave

15. Describe Sangoan Culture.
16. Discuss main features of the Chaitya hall at Bhaja.

17. What do you know about Didarganj Yakshi

18. Describe obverse and reverse of Kanishka coin depicting Buddha.

19. What do you know about Rummindei inscription

20. What is the significance of primary source in archaeological research

21. Discuss the pleistocene sequence of sohan valley.

22. Discuss Nevasian Culture.

23. What are the characteristic features of Upper Palaeolithic culture of India

24. Give an account of the mesolithic culture of Vindhya-Ganga region.

25. Discuss the salient features of Neolithic culture of North Eastern India.


21. Assess the contribution of Mehargarh in the development of Pre-Harappan cultures.

22. Outline the distinctive features of Harappan religion.

23. Evaluate the causes of de-urbanization of Harappan Culture.

24. Discuss the salient features of Ahar Chalcolithic culture.

25. What are copper-hoards Do they have any relationship with the Ochre coloured pottery

21. Examine the archaeological evidence for external trade as revealed from Taxila excavations.

22. Bring out the salient features of the Satanikota excavation.

23. Give an account of the Sonkh excavation.

24. Discuss the settlement pattern of Vaishali with special reference to its fortification.

25. Discuss the main characteristics of brick structures excavated at Bhitari.

21. Write a detailed note on the stupa architecture of Krishna Valley.

22. Evaluate the development of Vihar architecture in Western India.

23. Write a note on rock cut architecture of Barabar hills.

24. Describe the main features of Parvati temple at Nachana.

25. Write a Critical note on Yaksha/Yakshini images of early historic times.
21. Write a note on the antiquity of writing.

22. State the characteristics of the Kharoshthi script.

23. Bring out the historical significance of Hathigumpha inscription of Kharvela.

24. What light inscriptions and coins throw on the Personality of Samudragupta.

25. Discuss with examples technique base classification of Early Indian coins.

26. Examine critically the diverse Neolithic subsistence patterns in the Indian Subcontinent

27. Throw light on various facets of the Harappan trade with special reference to external trade.

28 .Evaluate the role of epigraphical sources for the reconstruction of cultural history from Post-Mauryan to G
29. Explain how useful are the punch-marked coins to ascertain the status of state authority and its extent.

30. Discuss the chronological development of main characteristics Chandela temples of Khajuraho.