Which of the following animals is NOT commonly depicted on Indus Valley seals?
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Correct answer: The horse, notably absent from early sites
While bulls, elephants, and tigers are frequent motifs on Harappan seals, horses are conspicuously absent from the early archaeological record. Horses are generally thought to have been introduced to the region later, associated with Indo-Aryan migrations.
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