Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I (Archaeological site): (A) Nevasa, (B) Isampur, (C) Didwana, (D) Gudiyam cave.
List-II (Present loc

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Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I (Archaeological site): (A) Nevasa, (B) Isampur, (C) Didwana, (D) Gudiyam cave.
List-II (Present location): (1) Rajasthan, (2) Tamil Nadu, (3) Maharashtra, (4) Karnataka.

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Correct — C (A-(3), B-(4), C-(1), D-(2)). Nevasa lies on the Pravara river in Maharashtra — a classic Middle Palaeolithic type-site that was later also a Chalcolithic settlement. Isampur is in the Hunsgi–Baichbal valley of Karnataka, a Lower Palaeolithic (Acheulian) stone-tool locality. Didwana is a Palaeolithic site beside the Didwana salt lake in the Thar belt of Rajasthan. Gudiyam (Gudiyam cave) is a Palaeolithic cave site near Chennai in Tamil Nadu. So the correct pairing is Nevasa–Maharashtra, Isampur–Karnataka, Didwana–Rajasthan and Gudiyam–Tamil Nadu, which is option (c).

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Nevasa–Maharashtra is right, but this wrongly puts Isampur in Tamil Nadu (it is in Karnataka), Didwana in Karnataka (it is in Rajasthan) and Gudiyam in Rajasthan (it is in Tamil Nadu).  (b) This swaps the first two: it places Nevasa in Karnataka (it is in Maharashtra) and Isampur in Maharashtra (it is in Karnataka). Only Didwana–Rajasthan and Gudiyam–Tamil Nadu are correct here.  (d) Nevasa and Isampur are matched correctly, but the last two are swapped: Didwana is placed in Tamil Nadu (it is in Rajasthan) and Gudiyam in Rajasthan (it is in Tamil Nadu).

Concept: India's Stone Age is mapped through a network of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) and later prehistoric sites spread across the modern states. Each site named here is a well-documented prehistoric locality: Nevasa (Maharashtra), Isampur (Karnataka), Didwana (Rajasthan) and Gudiyam cave (Tamil Nadu). Matching them tests whether a student can place lesser-known excavated sites in their present-day state.

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