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Explain the strategies for procuring materials by the Harappans for the craft production.

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Procuring materials by Harappans

(i) The Harappans procured materials tor craft production in various ways. They established settlements such as Nageshwar and Balakot m areas where shell was available.

(ii) Other sites like Shortughai, in far off Afghanistan, the best source of lapis lazuli, a blue stone that was highly valued.

(iii) From Lothal and Bharuch-carnelian was procured, steatite from South Rajasthan and North Gujarat.

(iv) Another strategy for procuring raw material may have been to send expeditions to areas such as Khetri region of Rajasthan for copper and South India for Gold.

(v) Recent Archaeological finds suggest that Harappans procured material from other countries like - they got copper from Oman a region called Magan in Mesopotamian texts. It is likely that communication with Oman, Bahrain or

Mesopotamia was by sea.