Which one among the following is not true of bead-making as a salient feature of mature Harappan crafts ?

Bead-making was a highly specialized craft in the Mature Harappan period. Harappan beads were indeed crafted from diverse materials including gold, copper, shell, lapis lazuli, ivory, and semi-precious stones like carnelian and jasper [3]. Archaeologists identify production centers by analyzing assemblages of raw materials, tools, and unfinished objects. Chanhudaro is recognized as a primary center for craft production, where excavations revealed tools, furnaces, and beads in various stages of preparation. While Banawali is a significant Harappan site, the specific archaeological description of a structure yielding a vast quantity of beads in all stages (finished, semi-finished, and unfinished) is most famously associated with Chanhudaro and Lothal rather than Banawali. In the context of standard NCERT and archaeological literature, the detailed evidence of bead factories with furnaces is primarily attributed to Chanhudaro.

Sources

1. [1] History , class XI (Tamilnadu state board 2024 ed.) > Chapter 1: Early India: From the Beginnings to the Indus Civilisation > Craft Production > p. 11
2. [3] https://ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in/icp02/chapter/99/