WBCS Exam Main Optional question Paper on Anthropology (Paper - I) - 2013

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W.B.C.S. EXAMINATION-2013

Optional   Paper

ANTHROPOLOGY - PAPER  I

Time allowed-3 Hours                                                       Full Marks-100

If the questions attempted are in excess of the prescribed number, only the questions attempted first up to the prescribed number shall be valued and the remaining ones ignored.

Answer may be written either in English or in Bengali but all answers must be in one and the same language. The figures in the margin indicate marks for each quesion.

Group-A
Answer any three questions.     16 x 3

1.  Discuss the concept of Evolutionary Biology with special reference to skull or vertebral column.

2.  Name the polymorphic variations of Australopithecus. Mention their distribution. Write the morphological features of an Australopithecus species. Discuss the phylogenetic status of Australopithecus.

3.  Give a comparison between Java man and the Cromagnon.

4.  Discuss the differences between Asian apes and African apes. Give an example to each one of them.

5.  Write what you know about the Upper Paleolithic cultural traditions in Europe.

 

Group-B

Answer any three questions.     16 x 3

6.  What is evolutionism ? Write the salient features unilinear evolutionism advocated by E B Tylor and L H Morgan.

7.  Discuss the political anthropological approach to the study of political organization in preliterate societies. Is there any role of kinship and descent in maintaining political integration .  Discuss with suitable illustration.

8.  Discuss human variation with special reference to human hair.

9.  Right what you know about socio-political movements. Discuss Revitalization movement with suitable example.

10.  Write short notes on any two of the following :

(i) Dendrochronology       (ii) K-Ar       (iii) Bergman's rule        (iv) Use of Anthropometry       (v) Australoid.

 

Group-C
Answer any two questions.         2 x 2

11. Geneology method was first invented by

(a) R. Firth       (b) V. Turner       (c) M. Harris       (d) W. H. R. Rivers.

12.  Laurel-leaf point was made on

(a) Stone      (b) Wood       (c) Bone        (d) Metal

13.  Harpoons were first invented during —— period

(a) Middle Palaeolithic      (b) Upper palaeolithic      (c) Mesolithic     (d) Neolithic.

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Group-A

Answer any three questions