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Clothing

Questions about clothing, textiles and the daily attire worn by the ancient Indus Valley peoples.

16. What did the Indus people wear and what material were their clothes made of?

Jane McIntosh
Richard H. Meadow

Submitted by Gharial Abramnova from school student questions

84. Is it possible for cotton used by the Indus Valley Civilization to preserved still after all these years?

Gwen Robbins Schug
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Massimo Vidale
Rita P. Wright

For arguments sake if we assume the people of IVC wrote manuscripts in such mediums as cotton, is it possible for those manuscripts to be still preserved? If so, under what conditions, would they be preserved?

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