CTET PAPER II 2021 · PYQ · History / Megalithic Cultures · medium
A megalithic burial had remains of two skeletons. An appropriate way for figuring out a female's skeleton from among the two would be to look at
A. the bone structures
B. the ornaments on the skeletons
C. size of the skeletons
D. utensils for cooking food found with skeletons.
A.only A✓ Correct
B.only A and B
C.only A and C
D.only D
Explanation
Bone structure (osteological analysis), particularly the pelvis and skull features, is the scientifically reliable way to determine the biological sex of a skeleton. Ornaments cannot reliably indicate sex (both men and women wore ornaments in megalithic cultures). Size alone is unreliable as individual variation is high. Cooking utensils with skeletons do not indicate the sex of a person, as the assumption that cooking implements were buried only with women is a gender stereotype.
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