INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bead-making factories or workshops including furnaces have been identified in various sites of Harappan civilization. The Lower Town of Lothal incorporated workshops of faience and stone bead manufacturers, coppersmiths, shell cutters, and potters.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chanhu-daro is an archaeological site belonging to the Indus Valley civilization. The site is located 130 kilometers (81 mi) south of Mohenjo-daro, in Sindh, Pakistan. The settlement was inhabited between 4000 and 1700 BCE, and is considered to have been a centre for manufacturing carnelian beads.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most important discovery of Kalibangan is a ploughed field. A wooden furrow has been found, 7 fire altars in a row have been found and they suggest the practice of sacrifice. Bones of camel have been found at Kalibangan. At Kalibangan a tiled floor which bears the intersecting signs of circleshas been found.

Detailed explanation-4: -Soft steatite beads made by the Indus craftspeople were manufactured in very specific ways, using thinner cuts made by a bronze saw with distinctive serrations. They were drilled with tiny copper drills and then ground to become micro beads, thousands of which were required to make a single ornament.

Detailed explanation-5: -Making beads was an important craft of the Harappan people. It was mainly prevalent in Chanhudaro. Materials for making beads included beautiful red coloured stone-like camelian jasper crystal quartz and steatite. Besides these use of copper bronze gold shell faience terracotta or burnt clay was also used.