Strategies for procuring materials

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- Clay- locally available.

- Stone, timber, metals from outside the alluvial plains.

- There were men and women, craft persons, making in their own homes orn in special workshops.

- For construction of special buildings in the city, rulers sent people to distant lands.

- Terracotta toys models of Bullock Carts, suggested important means of transportation..

- copper - Rajasthan, Oman( West Asia).

- Tin - Afghanistan

- Gold- Karnataka

- Precious stones - Gujarat, Iran, Afghanistan.

6.1 MATERIALS FROM THE SUBCONTINENT AND BEYOND.

- Shell - Nageshwar and Balakot.

- Lapis Lazuli - Shortughai (Afghanistan)

- Carnelian - Lothal ( Bharuch). 

- Steatite - Rajasthan and Northern Gujarat.

- Metal - Rajasthan

- These expeditions of materials established communication with local communities.

- Ganeshwar -Jodhpura Culture developed in Khetri, here non-Harappan pottery has been found.

6.2  CONTACT WITH DISTANT LANDS.

- Copper- Oman ( West Asia)

- A distinctive type of vessel, a large Harappan jar coated with thick layer of Black clay has been found at Omani sites.

- There had a  contact with Oman

- Mesopotamian refers Magan, name for Oman.

- Mesopotamian texts mention contact with regions named Dilmun (Bahrain) , Magan(Oman), Meluhha(Harappan).

- It mentions the products from Meluhha - Carnelian, lapis Lazuli, Copper, Gold and varieties of woods.

- Mesopotamian myth mentions haja-bird. This get its name from its call Peocock.

- Communication with Oman , Bahrain or Mesopotamia by sea routes.

- Meluhha - a land of seafarers.

Videos.

MCQs.

1. Usually clay materials were procured ...............

a. Dilmun

b. Magan.

c. locally.

d. Meluhha.

2.  Lapis Lazuli is of which colour.

a. white

b. purple.

c. black

d. blue

3. Shell was available at which place,

a. Nageshwar and Balakot.

b. Lothal

c. Dholavira

d. Dilmun

4. Carnelian was found in which settlement

a. karnataka

b. Bharuch(Gujarat)

c. Rajasthan

d. Haryana

5. Steatite , a soft stone was found at which place.

a. uttar pradesh

b. Punjab

c. South Rajasthan and North Gujarat.

d. Jammu and Kashmir

6. At which place the Ganeshwar-Jodhpura culture developed.

a. chanhudaro

b. Lothal

c. Kalibangan

d. Khetri 

7.  Copper was also brought from which country 

a. Oman

b. Behrain

c. Afghanistan

d. China

8.  A distinctive type of vessel , a large Harappan jar coated with a thick layer of black clay has been found at which site.

a. Iraq

b. Iran

c. Egypt

d. Oman

9. According to Mesopotamian texts the word Magan and Meluhha refers to  which country

a. Behrain

b. Oman

c. Harappan

d Egypt

10. Mesopotamia texts refer to Meluhha as a land of ................

a. seafarers

b. peocock

c. tiger

d. rivers

11. According to Mesopotamian texts the word " haja- bird " means

a. peogion

b. parrot

c. peocock

d. Eagle,

Answer : 1-C,2-D,3-A,4-B,5-C,6-D,7-A,8-D,9-C,10-,A,11-C

Images.

Dilmun, Magan, Meluhha, Mesopotamia

lapis lazuli

terracotta model of bullock carts 

a Harappan jar foumd in Oman