Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.15

c12.15

These settlements (such sites as that last mentioned excepted) do not seem to have been laid out for defence, and at the capital cities the defences of the citadels alone have been proved to exist, though town walls are by no means unlikely. Communication by the river would provide a great natural thoroughfare north and south linking the capitals – Harappā on the banks of the Ravi and Mohenjo-daro on the Indus – and pack-trails over the passes into Baluchistan would serve the traders into those parts.