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Mundigak (Pashto: منډیګک) is an
archaeological site in
Kandahar province in Afghanistan.
During the
Bronze Age, it was a
center of the
Helmand culture...
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contacts with
Mundigak were
close in this
Period and that
lapis lazuli arrived in Shahr-i
Sokhta from
mines of
Badakshan moving through Mundigak, and the relations...
- The main
cities so far
known are Shahr-i
Sokhta (in
modern Iran) and
Mundigak (Afghanistan).
Research on the
finds from both
places showed that these...
- of
peepal leaf
motifs in the
pottery of the
Helmand culture,
found at
Mundigak site, in Kandahar, Afghanistan,
dating back to
third millennium BCE. The...
- is
believed to have
begun as
early as 3000 BCE, and the
early city of
Mundigak (near
Kandahar in the
south of the country) was a
center of the Helmand...
- Shahr-i Sokhta, and the last part of
Mundigak Period IV.
According to
Jarrige et al., ... the
pottery of
Mundigak I, the
earliest occupation of the complex...
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ceramic comparisons with the
latest period at the
major Bronze Age city of
Mundigak have
suggested an
approximate time-frame of 1000 to 750 BC. This fortified...
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culture of the 3rd
millennium BC. Some
scholars link it with Shahr-i Sokhta,
Mundigak, and Bampur. The term "Helmand civilization" was
proposed by M. Tosi. This...
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Lithic material, such as leaf-shaped
chert arrowheads,
shows parallels with
Mundigak layers II-IV. The
pottery seems to anti****te
Harappan Ware. Later, bronze...
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emergence of the Iron Age
proper by
several centuries. Iron was
being used in
Mundigak to
manufacture some
items in the 3rd
millennium BC such as a
small copper/bronze...
