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- Pets
- Some animals' paw prints have been preserved in the ruins of Indus cities. Children may have had pet monkeys, birds in cages, or even lizards and snakes!
- Hunters might have brought home young deer or wild pigs. Children would also look after farm animals such as lambs or kids (young goats).
- The Indus Valley people ate a healthy diet and from the evidence of teeth in skeletons, it seems men were better-fed than women.
- Farmers used wooden ploughs pulled by oxen to grow food like wheat, barley and lentils for the city to eat.
- Eating and drinking
- In their bathrooms people stood on a brick 'shower tray' and tipped the clean water over themselves from a jar.
- Keeping clean
- Dirty water flowed out of the house through pipes into a drain in the street.
- exchanged goods
- Indus Valley traders did not use money, so they probably exchanged goods. They might swap two sacks of wheat for one basket of minerals.
- If you pressed the seal into soft clay, it left a copy of itself on the clay. When the clay dried hard, it could be used as a tag, which could then be tied to a pot or basket.
- Farmers had to grow lots of food to feed the people in the cities. They prepared big fields using their wooden ploughs pulled by oxen. We know this because model ploughs have been found by archaeologists.
- They planted seeds after the rivers had flooded the fields because flood water made the soil rich
- Farmer
- Craft worker
- People who lived in the city usually made things to earn a living. Some workers made stone querns (for grinding grain to make flour).
- Others made beads, fishing nets, pots, baskets - everything people needed.
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