Editing Mohenjo-daro (section)

=== Dancing Girl ===
{{Main|Dancing Girl (prehistoric sculpture)}}
[[File:The Dancing Girl, in a photogravure by Alfred Nawrath,1938.jpg|thumb|upright|right|"[[Dancing Girl (Mohenjo-daro)|The Dancing Girl]]" ]]
A [[bronze]] statuette dubbed the "Dancing Girl", {{convert|10.5|cm|in}} high<ref name=national>{{cite web|title=Collections:Pre-History & Archaeology|publisher= National Museum, New Delhi|url=http://nationalmuseumindia.gov.in/prodCollections.asp?pid=44&id=1&lk=dp1|access-date=3 February 2014}}</ref> and about 4,500 years old, was found in 'HR area' of Mohenjo-daro in 1926; it is now in the [[National Museum, New Delhi]].<ref name=national /> In 1973, British archaeologist [[Mortimer Wheeler]] described the item as his favorite statuette:<blockquote>She's about fifteen years old I should think, not more, but she stands there with bangles all the way up her arm and nothing else on. A girl perfectly, for the moment, perfectly confident of herself and the world. There's nothing like her, I think, in the world.</blockquote>

[[John Marshall (archaeologist)|John Marshall]], another archeologist at Mohenjo-daro, described the figure as "a young girl, her hand on her hip in a half-impudent posture, and legs slightly forward as she beats time to the music with her legs and feet."<ref>{{cite book|last=Possehl|first=Gregory|title=The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective|publisher=AltaMira Press|year=2002|pages=113|isbn=978-0-7591-0172-2}}</ref> The archaeologist [[Gregory Possehl]] said of the statuette, "We may not be certain that she was a dancer, but she was good at what she did and she knew it". The statue led to two important discoveries about the civilization: first, that they knew metal blending, casting and other sophisticated methods of working with ore, and secondly that entertainment, especially dance, was part of the culture.<ref name=national />