Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.57
Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.57
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c12.57
Other domestic animals in the Harappā Culture include the Indian domestic buffalo (*Bos bubalis*), goat (*Capra aegagrus*, r. *indicus*), sheep (*Ovis vignei*, r. *domesticus*), and pig (*Sus cristatus* var. *domesticus*). The goats appear to belong to the same group as those of Kashmir which produce the superb wool from which the famous Kashmir shawls are made, and so the possibility of goat wool being used in the Harappā Culture must be borne in mind. The sheep, probably forms domesticated from the wild Urial stock and similar to sheep from Sialk I and Anau, seem likely to belong to a long-legged, long-tailed race which includes various wool-producing forms, and the pigs belong to the lean, brisk, bristly species known in India today.