1)Write in short about pot making occupation of the Indus Valley people.
Q6. What are the reasons that show that the Harappans were skilled in the art of weaving and
spinning?
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1)Write in short about pot making occupation of the Indus Valley people.
Q6. What are the reasons that show that the Harappans were skilled in the art of weaving and
spinning?
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Explanation:
1...The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. Together with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilisations of the Near East and South Asia, and of the three, the most widespread, its sites spanning an area stretching from northeast Afghanistan, through much of Pakistan, and into western and northwestern India. It flourished in the basins of the Indus River, which flows through the length of Pakistan, and along a system of perennial, mostly monsoon-fed, rivers that once coursed in the vicinity of the seasonal Ghaggar-Hakra river in northwest India and eastern Pakistan.
From the discovery of many spindles and spindle whorls in the houses of Indus valley, it is evident that spinning of cotton and wool was very common. That both the rich and poor practised spinning is indicated by the whorls being made of the expensive faience as also of the cheap pottery and shell no textiles of any description have been preserved in the Indus valley owing to the nature of the soil.
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A close and exhaustive examination in the textile laboratory of the pieces of cotton, which were found attached to a silver vase, shows the specimen to be a variety of the coarser Indian cotton, cultivated in upper India today, and not of the wild species. Some more specimens of woven materials adhering to various copper objects have also been found to be mostly cotton, but some were bast fibres.