Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.195

c12.195

It is possible to detect Harappā contact, however, with civilizations other than that of Sumer, and similarly there are imports to India which are non-Sumerian. In the Hissar III Culture of Northern Persia, which probably dates from Akkadian times in the main, there are several objects which seem to show Harappā connexions, and the same applies to Anau III - both sites, for instance, have Harappā metal types, and at Anau is a clay cart-model comparable with some from Chanhu-daro. The odd faience bead from this site too and a segmented bead from Shah-tepe might come from Harappā as well as from Sumer, and the etched carnelian beads at Hissar III and Shah Tepe could again be Indian rather than Sumerian in origin, though the evidence is not conclusive. Stone has recently published the results of spectrographic analysis which show identity of composition between an unstratified faience bead from Harappā and another from Crete of *c.* 1600 B.C., and this point is commented on in Chapter VI below.