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  1. Mature Harappan Period

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    Perhaps the most compelling evidence for centralized control during the MHP is the near-total uniformity of artifacts across the civilization’s vast expanse. This standardization extended to pottery forms, copper tool manufacturing, and, most critically, metrology.
    Harappan weights were almost exclusively cubical chert stones, marked with specific binary multiples of the lowest unit. The basic unit, …