Re: A Harappan export processing zone

[N. Ganesan]

அன்பின் தென்கொங்கு சதாசிவம்,

வணக்கம். நலமா? பிரண்ட்லைன் கட்டுரை கண்டேன். 3 முறை அனுப்பியுள்ளீர்கள்.

இவற்றில் அருமையாக மகர விடங்கரும், கொற்றியின் ஊர்தி கலைமானும் உள்ளன.

பார்த்தீர்களா? இதே போல, ஆதிச்சநல்லூரில் வேளிரைப் புதைத்த முதுமக்கள் தாழியில்

கிடைத்துள்ளது பற்றிப் பல கட்டுரைகள் வரைந்தேன்.

தமிழரின் சிந்துசமவெளி தொடர்புக்கு அரிய சான்றாக, இம்முறையும்

விடங்கர் - கொற்றவை தம்பதியர் வழிபாட்டுக்கான முத்திரை கிடைத்துள்ளது. வாழ்க!

மிக அரிய "seal" தோண்டி எடுத்துள்ளனர். விரிவாக பின்னர் பேசுவோம்.

நா. கணேசன்

On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 6:35:24 AM UTC-7, சதாசிவம் wrote:

On Jul 7, 2016 6:39 PM, "satha sivam" <then...@gmail.com> wrote:

A Harappan export processing zone

Beads in different shapes and designs made out of semi-precious stones such as carnelian, lapis lazuli, jasper, agate, steatite and amazonite were also produced in these workshops. Bangles and rings were made out of seashells and terracotta too. The assemblage of ceramic ware—S-shaped jars, perforated jars, storage pots, goblets, beakers, and black and redware—at 4MSR shows that the potters of the Early Harappan period were a creative lot.

Most of the artefacts, especially the beads, the copper ware and the gold ornaments, were traded in other Harappan sites. The weights, small and big, made from chert stone and seashells bear testimony to the long-distance trade links of the Harappans at 4MSR.
Rural settlement

“The usual plan of a Harappan settlement, which had a citadel, a middle town, a lower town and fortifications, is not traced here. This was a rural settlement,” said Sanjay Manjul, the director of the excavation at 4MSR. Manjul is the Director of the Institute of Archaeology, New Delhi, ASI’s academic wing, which offers a two-year postgraduate diploma in archaeology. It has been conducting the excavations at 4MSR jointly with the Excavation Branch-II of the ASI at Purana Qila, New Delhi. Students of Santiniketan, Kolkata; and Kumaon University, Uttarakhand; and the staff of the archaeology departments of Telangana and Assam also formed part of the excavation team.

Each of the 12 trenches dug in the second season this year measures 10 x 10 metres and has four quadrants of varying depths. “This site is important,” Manjul said, “to get a complete picture of the Harappan period and to understand the process of urbanisation at that time. Without studying a rural settlement, one cannot understand an urban settlement.”
‘A unique site’

R.S. Bisht, former Joint Director General, ASI, called it “a unique site” which “exclusively had a cluster of workshops for industrial activity right at the beginning of the pre-Harappan [also known as Early Harappan] period”. Bisht, who led 13 seasons of excavation of Harappan sites at Dholavira in Gujarat from 1990 to 2005, visited 4MSR both last year and this year.

He observed that 4MSR had “so many factories” and said: “I could not notice any street system. There were no lanes either. I saw so many fireplaces for the first time in a Harappan settlement.”

One other thing that fascinated Bisht was the discovery of a cluster of eight weights made out of banded chert stone, seashells (three) and sandstone. They weighed 0.25 grams, 0.46 g, 0.76 g, 2.26 g, 6.95 g, 13.68 g, 27.5 g and 52.10 g. The general ratio of the weights was 1:2. “So far, Dholavira is the only site which has yielded so many shell weights. It has not been reported from any other site that the Harappans were also using shell weights. But Binjor now has three shell weights,” he said.

                                                                                                                                   
























































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