Tag: life after stone ages

Gold, copper, silver, bronze metals were known to Indus Valley Civilization but not iron. The Indus valley people or Harappan people not discovered iron. The Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age Civilization extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India, it was one of three early Civilization of the Old World. Inhabitants of the ancients Indus river valley developed new techniques in handicraft (carnelian products, seal carving) and metallurgy (copper, bronze, lead, and tin).

Certain Seals and tablets found in Indus Valley civilisation have inscriptions which indicate towards a script being used during that time. It is a set of symbols or pictures whose meaning has not been deciphered till yet. These seals and tablets were used for identification during trade. It has been established that the script was written from right to left.

Main channels of our knowledge about the Indus Valley Civilization are Archaeological excavations. In archaeology, excavation is the exposure , processing and recording of archaeological remains. An excavation site is a site being studied. It is very helpful to bringing the past to life. Excavation involves the recovery of several types of data from a site