Question

What does the word "Burzahom" mean ?
A) Place of birch
B) Place of birth
C) Lake - side
D) Mud huts

Answer 1

Hint: In the Kashmir Valley, Srinagar, India, a Neolithic era archaeological site is situated. The Burzahom site is a rare detailed storyteller of life between 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE, from the transition in architecture to the production of tool-making techniques to the introduction and diffusion of lentils in northwestern India.'Burzahom' is used in the Kashmiri language, a tree species (which typically grows in the Himalayas in the elevation range of 3,000 to 4,200 metres).

Complete answer:
The term Burzahom means 'place of birch' . The place was named because during the excavation of this site, burnt birch trees were found here in huge numbers. This has shown that during the Neolithic Period, birch trees grew in abundance here.In the district of Srinagar, India, the Neolithic Site of Burzahom brings to light shifts in human habitation patterns from the Neolithic Era to the Megalithic Period to the Early Historic Period. The Burzahom site is a rare detailed storyteller of life between 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE, from the transition in architecture to the production of tool-making techniques to the introduction and diffusion of lentils in northwestern India.

Now lets see our options :
A) Place of birth :The place where an individual was born is the place of birth or birthplace. Thus this is wrong option
B) Place of birch : The term Burzahom means 'place of birch' thus this is the right option.
C) Lake side : lakeside means The land that surrounds the lake. Thus this is the wrong option too.
D) Mud huts : Musgum mud huts or Musgum dwelling units are traditional domestic structures constructed in the Maga subdivision, Mayo-Danay division, Far North Province in Cameroon by the ethnic Musgum people in mud.thus this is the wrong option too.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: A birch in the Betulaceae family, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams, is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula .It is closely related to the Fagaceae family of beech-oaks. The large cache of bone and stone tools and implements found at the site indicates that the inhabitants were hunting and farming.