Jewelry belonging to the Mohenjo-daro, Harappan times included brooches, hair and head ornaments, amulets, buttons, girdles, breast plates, collar type ornaments, armlets, foot ornaments and finger rings. The designs, motifs and workmanship are very similar to the traditional Indian jewelry in use today including the very fine filigree work.

Gold and silver smiths, even of those times, excelled at the techniques of drawing fine wire, mixing alloys, soldering gold, moulding rolling gold into this sheet etc. They were also adept at inlaid work, plating, gilding, jade and en-repousse work.

We are thus able to conclude that jewelry making had evolved into a highly developed and specialized craft and played a major role in the adornment of the human body during that period.

This proto-historic period of Mohenjo-daro, Harappan civilization was followed by the Vedic age as defined by historians.

Harappan Period

Ear Ornaments