History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c17.s2.t3.6

v1.c17.s2.t3.6

While the dock collections at Lothal included both marine and fresh-water species of shells, the township collections specifically abounded in chank amongst other things. Hundreds of columella of chank-shell, rejected flakes, unfinished bangles and other finished objects of shell, found in the workshops of Lothal, confirm that shell-working was a flourishing local industry. One of the workshops encountered in street 1 was devoted to shell-bead industry.