Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.147

c12.147

which kept the rows parallel. The individual beads were made with very great skill, and a great favourite was the very long tubular bead of carnelian; other materials used include jadeite, perhaps brought from North Burma or Tibet. Lapis-lazuli was very sparingly used, in contrast to its frequent use in Sumer, but a curious technique of ‘etching’ a white pattern on red carnelian was sometimes employed, and, as we shall see, this type of patterned carnelian bead is known in Mesopotamia and Persia in the third and second millennia B.C. and has an interesting bearing on the trade relations and the date of the Harappā civilization.