The numerous and substantial mud brick “granaries” built by the close of Period HA at Mehrgarh, in the first half of the 5th millennium B.C., suggest a concern, unparalleled in contemporary cultures, for surplus production irrespective of what was stored in them.

— Jim G. Shaffer The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)

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