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List the items of food available to people in Harappan cities. Identify the groups who would have provided these.

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Solution :
(i) The Harappan subsisted on plants and ANIMAL products.
(ii) Wheat, barley, lentil, chickpea, sesame, etc. where the main grains. Millets were consumedaround Gujarat. Agricultural groups provided these grains.
(III) Consumption of rice was not COMMON, its remains have been found at LOTHAL.
(iv) The Harappans also subsisted on meat of boar, DEER,gharial, fish and fowl.
(v) All are based on animal bones found, and studied by archaeo-zoologists.


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