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This UGC NET exam is divided into two parts (i.e) Part I and Part II. You need to qualify in both papers to pass the UGC NET Archaeology exam.
| Exam Highlights | Details |
|---|---|
| Test Duration | 120 minutes |
| Total Questions | 100 |
| Marks per question | 2 |
| Total Marks | 200 |
| Negative Marking | N/A |
| Unit | Details |
|---|---|
| Definition, aim and Scope of Archaeology | Study of human activity through the recuperation and examination of material culture. |
| Retrieval of Archaeological Data | Understanding the procedure of recovery, particularly suited to the recuperation of ecological information, for example, seeds and little bones. |
| Chronology and Dating | Understanding the way toward ascribing to an occasion a date before, enabling such question or occasion to be situated in a formerly settled order. |
| Methods of Objective Interpretations | Analysis and the grouping of archeological goals; archeological research system; social procedures uncovered by archeological research and the relating measurable models suitable to various levels of elucidation. |
| Geological Biological and Cultural Dimension of Man | Investigating similar Human-nonhuman primate life systems. |
| Quaternary Period | Understanding the subdivision of geological time which covers around the last two million years up to the present day. |
| Appearance of Stone Tools and Development of Technology | Explain the improvement of progressively powerful inferential connections between archeological remains, past practices, and the important psychological and social systems supporting these practices. |
| Hunting - Gathering Stage | Study of humankind's first and best adaptation. |
| Beginning of Food Production | Investigation of sustenance generation roots. |
| Pre and early Harappan Village Cultures | Outposts of the Indus Valley civilisation (North and North - Western India) |
| Harappa Culture | Sites of the Indus Valley Civilisation. |
| Early occurrence of iron | Study of the last age of the three-age framework, preceded by the Stone Age. |
| Main Characteristics of the Cultures | Understanding the repeating collection of antiquities from a particular time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a specific past human culture. |
| Important culture and sites | Structural Stupas; sanctuaries. |
| Art | Structural Stupas; Rock - cut architecture; temples; |
| Origin and antiquity | Coinage issued by middle kingdoms of India; Study of the source and early improvement of the Indian scripts. |
| Proposed area of research | Understanding the firmly connected research question and technique. |