2004 Winning Entry - Greasbrough School
How and why can we classify artefacts ?
Terracotta artefacts - What was life like for children in Mohenjo-daro ? What else gives us clues?two moving animals, a home for a living thing, and a vase or pot!
Jewellery
Many people liked to wear jewellery
because it would show that they were Dress to impress!
What jewellery do you think was the most valuable?quite a wealthy person. Archaeologists think that jewellery was used as gifts to show friendship between different people.
Jewellery was also worn by children, because many small bangles were found.
It was made from Where did the Harappans get these from? How can we tell these might have been valuable? metal, gemstones and shell. The metal was copper, silver and gold and the gemstones used were carnelian, faience, jasper, onyx, lapis-lazuli, chalcedony and jade. Ordinary people wore terracotta bangles, because they were not worth a lot. Good point - did ordinary people have other jewellery?
What do photos of artefacts tell us about life in Indus cities?
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