MCQ
Q.
Kalibangan civilization was excavated by whom?
Correct Answer: A
The correct answer is Amlanand Ghosh.
Key Points
- Prof Amlanand Ghosh excavated the Kalibangan site in 1952.
- The Kalibangan civilization is supposed to older than 4000 BC.
- This Rajasthan civilization was the first metropolis state in India.
- Kalibangan lies along with the left Bank of the dried-up bed of river Ghaggar.
- The site contains both pre-Harappan and Harappan remains, and therein can be seen the transition between the two cultures.
- Although the pre-Harappan culture worked copper and produced pottery, it had no writing system, and its ruins lack the orderly layout and use of baked brick that is found in the later Harappan sites.
- The Harappan remains include a cemetery and a fortified citadel.
Additional Information
- Ratna Chandra Agrawal:
- Bhinmal Civilization was first founded by Ratna Chandra Agrawal in 1953-54 AD.
- Bhinmal civilization is founded in the Jalore District of Rajasthan.
- Ratan Lal Mishra:
- Ganeshwar civilization was first founded in 1977 by historian Ratan Lal Mishra.
- This Ganeshwar civilization is more than 4000 years old and the estimated time period was 2500 – 2000 BC.