The Indus Civilization c5.34

c5.34

A finer type of matting than that used in the construction of ceilings and roofs may have lined the walls and covered the floors of the better-class houses, although the poorer dwellings probably had floors of beaten earth coated with cow-dung, such as are still to be seen in most parts of India. The inhabitants of some of the houses owned very large pottery jars, which, judging from their contents when discovered, must have served as cupboards; this custom, too, is still adhered to, for very large vessels of unbaked clay are made to serve exactly the same purpose by the people of the modern villages round the city.