Question

In which district of Madhya Pradesh is Bhimbetka located?
1. Vidisha
2. Raisen
3. Bhopal
4. Dhar

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Raisen

The correct answer is Raisen.

 

• The Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka is 45 kilometres southeast of Bhopal and 9 km from Obedullaganj city in the Raisen District of Madhya Pradesh at the southern edge of the Vindhya hills.

 

• Recently, researchers have discovered three fossils of the earliest known living animal, the 550-million-year-old ‘Dickinsonia’ on the roof of the Bhimbetka Rock Shelters.
• The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the prehistoric Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period.
• It exhibits the earliest traces of human life in India and evidence of the Stone Age starting at the site in Acheulian times.
• It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that consists of seven hills and over 750 rock shelters distributed over 10 km.
• The Bhimbetka rock shelters were found by V S Wakankar in 1957.
• Some of the Bhimbetka rock shelters feature prehistoric cave paintings and the earliest are about 10,000 years old (c. 8,000 BCE), corresponding to the Indian Mesolithic.
• The oldest of the cave paintings in Bhimbetka is believed to be about 12,000 years ago.