Consider the following matches of sites of pre historic rockpaintings with the state they are ...........

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Consider the following matches of sites of pre-historic rockpaintings with the state they are located in.

1. Lakhudiyar : Odisha

2. Kaimurean extensions : Jammu & Kashmir

3. Bhimbetka : Madhya Pradesh

4. Kapugallu : Telangana

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1 and 3 only

2, 3 and 4 only

3 and 4 only

1 and 2 only

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Explanation:

Statement 1: The rock shelters on banks of the River Suyal at Lakhudiyar (Uttarakhand), about twenty kilometres on the Almora–Barechina road, bear these prehistoric paintings. Lakhudiyar literally means one lakh caves.
Statement 2: Richest paintings are reported from the Vindhya ranges of Madhya Pradesh and their Kaimurean extensions into Uttar Pradesh. These hill ranges are full of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic remains.
Statement 4: The granite rocks of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and provided suitable canvases to the Neolithic paintings. There are several such sites but more famous among them are Kupgallu (Telangana), Piklihal and Tekkalkota. Bhimbetkas has been covered in an earlier Test.