Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.112

c12.112

All this trade, quite apart from that within the boundaries of the Harappā kingdom itself, must have involved a considerable merchant class, with the attendant organization of caravans along recognized trade-routes and not improbably the provision of halting-places or caravanserais in the remoter districts: I have suggested that such small sites as Amilano in Sind might represent such serais. In the transport of goods, one would expect camels to take a conspicuous place, though pack-horses may well have been used, especially in the mountainous regions, and what looks like a little clay model of a pack-saddle has been found at Jhukar in Sind, probably of the Harappā period. But many animals can be used for transport in the mountains, as anyone will realize who has seen the flocks of long-haired goats coming over the passes to India from Ladakh, each with a little pack of rock-salt slung across its back.