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Identify the following places marked on the map supplied to you and write a short note of about 30 words on each of them in your Question-cum-Answer Booklet. Locational hints for each of the places marked on the map are given below seriatim : (50 marks, about 30 words each)

(i) Neolithic site

(ii) Mesolithic site

(iii) Paleolithic site

(iv) Neolithic site with stone artefacts

(v) Site of Indus Valley Civilization

(vi) Early Harappan site with a fire-pit

(vii) Late Harappan site

(viii) The Ochre Coloured Pottery (OCP) site

(ix) Mesolithic site

(x) Megalithic site

(xi) Mahajanapada of South India

(xii) Site of Buddha's Mahaparinirvana

(xiii) Major Rock Edict of Asoka

(xiv) Asokan Minor Rock Edict

(xv) Commercial centre of the Mauryas

(xvi) Saka-Kushan coin hoard

(xvii) An inscription mentioning Ashvamedha Sacrifice

(xviii) Site of Post-Mauryan period burnt brick house

(xix) Terracotta craft centre of Post-Mauryan period

(xx) Important port of the Pallava period