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A New Prehistoric Ware from Baluchistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Beatrice de Cardi
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The Bronze Age settlements of Baluchistan comprise an assortment of cultures and local wares which stylistic comparison with stratified sites in Persia and Iraq is gradually reducing to a workable chronology. Material, for the most part collected from the surface, abounds: the difficulty lies in its interpretation. With the close of the Bronze Age, however, the problem becomes not so much the interpretation of the material as its scantiness. Throughout Baluchistan there are signs of widespread disturbances during the second millennium B.C.: of cultures dying out and villages destroyed or occupied by alien inhabitants. Across the eastern border the Harappan cities of the Indus Plain were overrun by a semi-barbarian people from the west in or about the fifteenth century B.C. Between that date and the Persian invasion of the North-West Frontier Province some ten centuries later the course of events in Baluchistan is obscure. Of particular interest, therefore, is a new ware from Londo and other sites, which on account of its affinities with Persian pottery as well as on other grounds may be provisionally dated to around 1200-1000 B.C.

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IRAQ , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1951 , pp. 63 - 75
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1951

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