Question

Harappan seals were made of metal.
A.True
B.False

Answer 1

Hint:Harappa was the city of Indus valley civilization, which emerged around 2600 BCE. It flourished alongside the Indus River and flowed through Sindh and Punjab located in Pakistan. The city was noted for their baked brick houses, water supply systems and new techniques in handicraft like seal carving in metallurgy like copper, lead, tin and bronze.

Complete answer:
It is a true sentence that harappan seals were made of metals, at the time of harappan civilization most of the objects were made of stone, metal and shell. The various ornaments, vessels, tools and weapons were also made of copper and bronze. The archaeologists discovered thousands of the seals from the harappan sites and most of them were made of soft stone called steatite. These were used mostly in the ancient times for the trade to seal the rope around the bundles of goods so the different kinds of seals were used for commercial purposes. These harappan seals were mostly imprinted with the unicorn that represents a mythical animal and along with it runs the long inscription of eight symbols at the top of the seal. The standard harappan seal was square shaped in a dimension of 2 by 2. At this time some of the seals were used as jewelry or an ornament thought to protect from any kind of danger, evil or disease and some were used as a kind of identity card. During the Harappan civilization the seals also contain something in written form that is yet to be interpreted mainly the animals represented were elephants, tigers, bulls, goats, bison etc. Some of the seals had mathematical images that must have been used for the purpose of education. The seals have been written mostly on both the sides and the way of writing from right to left is called kharosthi style.

Hence, the correct answer is option (A).

Note:The harappan civilization is also known as Indus valley civilization. The pashupati seals were the most famous seals of harappan civilization from Mohenjo-Daro. This seal is with a figure seated cross legged in the center surrounded by the animals like elephant and a tiger to the right side of the figure and rhino and buffalo to its left side.