indus valley civilization quiz set 4 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Answer: (c)

A piece of woven cloth has been found at Mohenjodaro. Spindles and needles discovered at many sites attest to the practice of spinning and weaving.

Harappan people loved to decorate themselves. Hairdressing by both, men and women, is evident from figurines found at different sites.

The men as well as women arranged their hair in different styles. The ornaments mainly included necklaces, armlets, earrings, beads, bangles, etc., used by both the sexes. Rich people appear to have used the ornaments of gold, silver and semiprecious stones while the poor satisfied themselves with those of terracotta. Men are mostly shown wearing a dress wrapped around the lower half of the body with one end worn over the left shoulder and under the right arm.

The other garment was a skirt like the dress to cover the lower portion. They used cotton and woollen clothes.

Answer: (a)

Answer: (b)

Answer: (b)

Answer: (b)

The inscriptions are thought to have been mostly written from right to left, but sometimes follows boustrophedonic style. A written pictographic language also existed as is evidenced by the Indus scripts written on clay seals.

We see rectangular Harappan seals in the Indus region, round Solutions Harappan seals in Bahrain and one combination Harappan script/Akkadian illustration cylinder seal in Mesopotamia, which is further evidence of intercultural contact. The scripts appeared as early as c.3300-2800 BC in the Ravi Phase at Harappa. We can assume with some degree of confidence that these were used in trade to mark ownership.

However, the Indus seals are not extensive, there is no Rosetta stone-like object and it is different to any other known language. Recent studies suggest that the Harappan script consists of about 400 signs and that it was written from right to left. However, the script has not been deciphered as yet. We do not know the language they spoke, though scholars believe that they spoke “Brahui”, a dialect used by Baluchi people in Pakistan today.

However further research alone can unveil the mystery and enable us to know more about the Harappan script.