UPSC
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How Pottery Offers Glimpses Of Cultures
Once pots were invented, humans could carry food and water wherever they went. This is why pots became objects of worship.
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Rediscovering the Unique, Prehistoric Sites
The word prehistory is typically used for pre-writing cultures and more specifically for cultures that existed before farming and the use of metal tools.
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A Fascinating History Of Coins In India
Ever since the existence of civilisations, humans have been trading to facilitate exchange. But trading can happen without coins by recording debt. In fact, it is debt or rinn — the word found in the Rig Veda — that played…
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Unwrapping the Meaning of Culture and Civilisation
Culture is what we are, civilisation is what we have. It suggests that culture is more psychological and about values, while civilisation is more material and about goods, technology, art and architecture. Can one exist without the other?
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Nine Skylines of Bharat
The first skyline is the contemporary 21st-century glass and concrete skyscrapers of cities like Mumbai and Delhi…