[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950) › c14.55 # Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.55 Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.55 - **Language:** English ### [c14.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c14.55) Dogs were used for guarding houses and for boar-hunting, and they got driven away from the sacrifices, but there is no direct evidence of their use in herding, which seems to have been carried out by a herdsman armed with an ox-goad. The flocks included both sheep and goats, kept for their wool as much as their flesh. The Sanskrit word for a sheep is used by transference for wool, and no doubt sheep’s wool was mainly used, but there is evidence that goat’s wool was also used, presumably from such long-haired animals as those of Kashmir, already mentioned in Chapter V. The wool when spun was woven, probably by women, on a loom of which the names of warp, woof, and shuttle are preserved. - [Previous: c14.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c14.54) - [Next: c14.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c14.56) - [Up: c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c14.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.piggott-1950.c14.55) · Pramāṇa