Chahooon Jo Daroo History

Chanhu-Daro is one of most important and bigger Town of Indus Civilization.The settlement was inhabited between 4000 and 1700 BCE, and is considered to have been a center for manufacturing carnelian beads. This site is a group of three low mounds that excavations have shown were parts of a single settlement, approximately 5 hectares in size. For building houses, baked bricks were used extensively at Chanhu-daro - similar to Mohenjo-jo-daro. Several constructions were identified as workshops or industrial quarters and some of the buildings of Chanhu-daro might have been warehouses. An impressive workshop, recognized as Bead Making Factory, was found at Chanhu-daro which included a furnace. Shell bangles, beads of many materials, steatite seals and metal works were also manufactured here.