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# An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c26.236

An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c26.236

- **Language:** English

### [v1.c26.236.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26.236.1)

Hampasagara, 258; sarcophagus at, 275 hand-axes, 198, 200, 285, 309, 331, 354 hand-axes cleaver tools, 19 hand-axe culture, 22; Madras, 19 Hanumangarh, 70, 72 Haraipur, 101; extended burial at, 100; grey ware with black-and-red ware at, 100 Harappa (Dt Montgomery, Pakistan), 6, 7, 17, 18, 69, 72, 80, 88, 89, 90, 165. 198, 233, 241, 328; anklets of paste beads at, 224; antimony stopper-rod at, 342; artefacts from, 324; baths and privies at, 293; bronze rod from, 84; bull with small hump at, 338; burial at, 265; camel bones at, 4; cattle from, 314; cemetery at, 86; citadel at, 70, 72; \*Citrullus\* Sp. Cf. \*C. Canatus\* (melon) at, 7; \*citrus\* Sp. (lemon) at, 7; copper and bronze awls at, 176; copper and bronze razors at, 186; copper mace-heads from, 350; copper mirrors from, 347; daggers from, 349; dates, legumes and sesame at, 319; disposal of the dead at, 265; dog skulls from, 4; double-axe at, 352; faience objects from, 221, 321; female figurines at, 267; figures from, 83; fortification at, 88; goat and sheep from, 211; graffito-marked pottery from, 359; granaries at, 85; grasses at, 8; heart-shaped bangles of faience from, 224; ivory mirror handles from, 348; leaf-shaped blade from, 349; lime mortar with magnesium at, 295; mortar specimen from, 186; mud-brick defences of, 76; necklaces from, 224; needles from, 183; perforated vessels of, 76; phalli and ring-stone at, 276; \*Phoenix\* Sp. at, 7; pottery at, 71, 78, 79, 83, 85, 182; Rana Ghundai pottery at, 76;

### [v1.c26.236.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26.236.2)

seals at, 79, 166, 331, 359; sealings at, 166; sling-balls from, 187; Sothi Ware at, 228; steatite beads, etc., at, 331; stone arrowheads at, 349; stone implements and chess pawns at, 79; storage jars of, 277; terracotta figurines from, 223; terracotta ring at, 224; time-spread of, 170; town planning at, 79, 83, 88; toy-cart frames and wheels from, 180, 335; toy-cart wheel at, 337; \*Triticum compactum\* from, 319; weights and measures from, 166, 190; wells at, 303, 304; wheel-ruts from, 336 Harappa assemblage, short-stemmed dish-on stand in, 71 Harappa civilization, 75, 79, 201, 365; bead-making in, 217; celts or blade-axes of, 176; spearheads of, 350; swords or dirks in, 349; water reservoir in, 302 Harappa culture, 69, 70, 72, 76, 77, 78, 90, 91, 97, 103, 131, 165, 324; \*Acacia\* Sp. (\*babul\*) from, 8; \*Adina cordifolia\* Hook f. (\*haldu\*) from, 8; adzes in, 172; \*Albizzia\* Sp. (\*kokko, siris\*) from, 8; animal figurines from, 338; archaeological dating of, 166, 167, 168; armour from, 350; artefacts from, 324; awls from, 176; baths and privies in, 293; beads from, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220; bone arrowheads from, 354; buttons and brooches from, 224; canals and channels from, 296; ¹⁴C chronology of, 170; \*Chenopod-Amaranths\* from, 8; \*Cicer arientinum\* (chick pea, \*chana\*) from, 7; comb in, 343, 345; copper trom, 324; Copper Hoard objects from, 350; copper or bronze chisels at, 178; docks and wharfs in, 297; \*Eleusine coracana\* (ragi) from, 6; \*Erianthus munja\* (\*munj\*) from, 7;

### [v1.c26.236.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26.236.3)

female figurines in, 339; fish-hooks in, 178; fortified settlements in, 297; gold ornaments in, 326, 327; \*Gossypium\* Sp. (cotton) from, 7; \*Hordeum vulgare\* (barley) from, 6, 319; knives from, 181, 349; mercantile ideology in, 73; metal forging in, 352; mortars and plasters in, 295; \*Oryza\* (rice) from, 6; \*Pennisetum typhoideum\* (bajra) from, 6; \*Pisum arvense\* (field pea, \*matar\*) from, 8; \*Polygonum\* Sp. from, 8; pottery in, 73, 77, 83, 85, 88, 90, 91, 230-33, 289, 330, 345, 359; \*Punica granatum\* (\*anar\*) from, 7; querns from, 184, 185; script from, 14; seal dies of, 14, 321; sedges from, 8; \*Sesamum indicum\* (\*til\*) from, 8; settlements in, 70, 72, 73, 82, 224, 363; sex symbol in, 276, 277; sickles from, 187; \*Sorghum\* (jowar) in, 7; \*Soymida febrifuga\* Adr. Jass (\*rohan\*) from, 9; sculpture at, 83; spindle-whorls in, 187; technical instrument in, 187; technology in 288; \*Tectona grandis\* L.F. (\*teak\*), 9; terracotta cakes, 187-88; terracotta skin-rubbers from, 346; \*Triticum\* (wheat) from, 7; \*T. Spaerococum\* from, 319; vessels in, 188, 189, 343; Ware in, 78, 230, 252; whetstones and hones in, 337; \*see also\* Indus civilization, Indus valley

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