An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s15.4

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Large-scale horizontal excavations have not yet been carried out at any PGW site. Thus one cannot get a detailed picture of the everyday life of the people. However from whatever little is known, it appears that these people played the game of *chaupar* or *chausar*. This is indicated by the discovery of the typical gamesmen and dice [6.7] used in this game: from NOH comes a painted plano-convex gamesman in the PGW fabric and from ALAMGIRPUR a typical oblong die in bone, bearing on its four faces the markings 1, 2, 3 and 4. The children perhaps played hopscotch with terracotta discs [6.7.3]. The terracotta toys included the bull and the horse [6.7.4]. Women bedecked their persons with necklaces of beads of agate, carnelian, jasper, etc. They also used reel-shaped ear studs of jasper and agate [10.2.2]. But most notable is the use of glass bangles [10.2.1], the earliest specimens so far found in India.