CH 5 WHAT BOOK AND BURIALS TALE US

DASA stands for Direct Admission of Students Abroad and is an initiative by the Government of India (GOI) for Foreign Nationals, NRIs (Non Resident Indian), PIOs (Person of Indian Origin) & Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) only.

A sign is a mark or shape that always has a particular meaning, for example in mathematics or music. Equations are generally written with a two-bar equals sign.

a large stone that forms a prehistoric monument (e.g. a standing stone) or part of one (e.g. a stone circle).

A person who was owned by another person and had to work for him/her.

giving up something that is important or valuable to you in order to get or do something that seems more important; something that you give up in this way

a religious song that Christians sing together in church, etc.

 harvest means the time of year when crops are ripe and ready to be gathered. The picked crop is also called a harvest: a bumper crop is a plentiful harvest, and a poor harvest is when things didn’t grow as well as expected. As a verb, to harvest something is to gather, trap, or cull it.

a bone used in early China especially during the Shang dynasty 1765–1123 b.c. in divination by writing a question upon it, heating it, and divining the answer from the resultant cracks.

Archaeologists wash, sort, catalog, and store recovered artifacts after bringing them back from the field. They analyze individual artifacts, but also may sort them into groups to see patterns. For example, they might weigh all the oyster shells together or count all the nails and consider them as one unit.

an activity in which one engages Pursuing pleasure has been his major occupation. The principal business of one’s life : vocation Teaching was her occupation.