Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.110

c12.110

Southwards, the Kathiawar region, in which there is, significantly enough, at least one Harappā settlement, would have provided the *chank* shells used for inlay and other decorative purposes, agates, carnelians, onyx and chalcedony for beads, and probably rock crystal as well. The fish of the *Arius* species, today dried and salted in large quantities on the Western Indian coast, and known from the remains of its bones to have been eaten at Mohenjo-daro, may also have come from this region, or that of Karachi.