Pre-modern Warfare:India And Elsewhere

[acharya]

<b>Can anyone give me the details of the weapons used by the Indus civilization?

i'll heard that weapons were not found much, which goes to say they weren't ppl who liked war.. but a lil more of details will help me for my project!
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http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index...20015314AAO8Jby




They relied upon spears and lances tipped with bronze and clubs - - - here is a blurb and a nice essay..
http://history-world.org/indus_valley.htm


The cities of Harappa were major trading centers. The mysterious seals from the Indus civilization have been found in urban ruins as far away as Sumer in Mesopotamia. Jade from present-day China and precious jewels from what is now Burma have been unearthed at various Indus sites. Despite these overseas contacts, Harappan peoples appear to have been intensely conservative and highly resistant to innovations introduced from the outside. They cast tools and weapons in bronze, but most of their tools were inferior to those of Mesopotamian peoples with whom they had contacts, and their weapons were even more primitive. They lacked swords, tipped their spears with bronze points so thin that they would crumble on contact, and used stone for their arrowheads These shortcomings may have proven fatal to the survival of the Harappan civilization."

And perhaps even better

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-36...

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-36...

You 'll have to go to the link but a lot of weapons enumerated, I justr can't get it copied..

also
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imranthetre...

finally
http://www.indianetzone.com/1/indus_vall...

PEACE

Source(s):
http://history-world.org/indus_valley.ht...

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-36...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imranthetre...

http://www.indianetzone.com/1/indus_vall...