SSC CPO 2019 PYQ — Question 81

SSC CPO Tier I - 12th December 2019 - Shift 2 • General Awareness • Q81

The skull of a 'Homo erectus' was found in which of the following pre-historic Indian sites?

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Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct option is option2 i.e. Hathnora.

Hathnora Twenty-two years have since elapsed after the Narmada Homo erectus skull was discovered at Hathnora in Sehore district of the central India state of Madhya Pradesh. 
  Homo erectus (meaning 'upright man') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago, and its specimens are among the first recognisable members of the genus Homo.