Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c13.s2.11
Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c13.s2.11
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v1.c13.s2.11
Quite significantly, broken drills were found everywhere in Mound II and though these might have served again in the boring of the shorter hardstone beads, it is obvious that the drill-makers, if indeed the bead-makers did not manufacture their own tools, must have been hard put to supply the demand. Though unfinished beads of hard stones have been found on many Sumerian sites, only one stone drill has been found in that country. This was identified by Beck among some objects from Ur. Thus Mackay comments “indeed it is not at all unlikely that bead-making in Sumer was carried on by Indian craftsmen”. (MCK 212)