The Indus Civilization c10.18

c10.18

Some at least of the inhabitants of the Indus valley were fond of hunting, although perhaps few of the town-dwellers had opportunity to indulge in this sport. On two amulets men are shown in the act of shooting a large antelope and a wild goat with bows and arrows. To judge from the numbers of copper arrow-heads that have been found, especially at Mohenjo-daro, the bow must have been widely used; it is also carried by some of the figures in the pictographic script, as well as by a curious horned deity on some of the copper tablets. Small pellets of baked clay which have come to light may have been used in slings, or with a pellet bow, a weapon employed for bird-shooting by the modern Sindi.