Harappans were the earliest people to produce?
Pre-Historic Period-Question 35
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Q35.Harappan were the earliest people to produce?
A.
Bronze implements
B.
cotton
C.
barley
D. seals
Copper
Note: The Harappan were the first to grow cotton. They produced cotton cloth hundreds of years before anyone else. The Greek word for cotton is Sindon, a word derived from Sind which is a part of the Indus Valley civilization region.
🔑Key Points
✔Farmers in the Indus valley were the first to spin and weave cotton.
✔In 1929 archaeologists recovered fragments of cotton textiles at Mohenjo-Daro, which is now Pakistan, dating to between 3250 and 2750 BCE.
✔Cottonseeds founds at nearby Mehrgarh have been dated to 5000 BCE. Literary references further point to the ancient nature of the subcontinent's cotton industry.
✔The Vedic scriptures, composed between 1500 and 1200 BCE allude to cotton spinning and weaving.
Mehrgarh
✔Mehrgarh is a Neolithic archaeological site (dated c. 7000 BCE – c. 2500/2000 BCE) situated on the Kacchi Plain of Balochistan in Pakistan. It is located near the Bolan Pass, to the west of the Indus River and between the modern-day Pakistani cities of Quetta, Kalat and Sibi.
✔The site was discovered in 1974 by an archaeological team led by the French archaeologists Jean-François Jarrige and his wife, Catherine Jarrige.
✔Mehrgarh was excavated continuously between 1974 and 1986, and again from 1997 to 2000.
✔Archaeological material has been found in six mounds, and about 32,000 artefacts have been collected from the site.
✔The earliest settlement at Mehrgarh—located in the northeast corner of the 495-acre (2.00 km2) site—was a small farming village dated between 7000 BCE and 5500 BCE.
✔Early Mehrgarh residents lived in mud brick houses, stored their grain in granaries, fashioned tools with local copper ore, and lined their large basket containers with bitumen.
✔They cultivated six-row barley, einkorn and emmer wheat, jujubes and dates, and herded sheep, goats and cattle.
✔Residents of the later period (5500 BCE to 2600 BCE) put much effort into crafts, including flint knapping, tanning, bead production, and metal working.
✔Mehrgarh is probably the earliest known center of agriculture in South Asia.
✔The oldest known example of the lost-wax technique comes from a 6,000-year-old wheel-shaped copper amulet found at Mehrgarh. The amulet was made from unalloyed copper, an unusual innovation that was later abandoned.
*This Question is a part of previous year paper gk questions on Pre-Historic Period of India.
References
1.Empire cotton-harappa.com2.Mehrgarh-www.wikiwand.com
3.Archaeological Site of Mehrgarh-whc.unesco.org
4.Mehrgarh Neolithic-www.wikiwand.com
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