Context
According to one of the studies, the diet of the people of Indus Valley civilization dominated meat, including extensive eating of beef.
What is about the discovery?
- The study, titled “Lipid residues in pottery from the Indus Civilisation in northwest India”.
- The food habit of the people is studied on the basis of lipid residue analysis found in pottery from Harappan sites in Haryana.
- It finds dominance of animal products such as meat of pigs, cattle, buffalo, sheep, and goat, as well as dairy products.
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Where the Indus Valley Civilization is spread?
- Indus Valley civilization was spread across large parts of modern Pakistan, northwest and western India, and Afghanistan.
- The Indus River Valley is also known as the Harappan Civilization.
- It existed in 3300-1300 BCE.
- The civilization saw the emergence of many cities such as Harappa, Ganeriwala, and Mohenjo-Daro in modern-day Pakistan and Dholavira, Kalibangan, Rakhigarhi, Rupar, and Lothal.
- The use of standardized weights and measures, seal carving, and metallurgy with copper, bronze, lead, and tin are some of the features of this civilization.
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