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The Bampur Sequence in the 3rd Millennium B.C.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Beatrice de Cardi
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Bampur is today a dusty, straggling village in Persian Baluchistan (FIG. I). Bounded by a variety of desert landscape, blackened gravel on one side, rolling dunes on the other, the Bampur river is its lifeline, providing perennial water and a narrow strip of fertile soil along its course. Hydrants, as yet uncoupled to pipes, stand in the main road as tangible evidence that the village is included in the regional development plans. Bampur has in fact passed through many vicissitudes and it has grown considerably since 1 9 3 2 when Sir Aurel Stein described it as a cluster of some 50 mat huts [I]. In Islamic and later times it was a political centre of some importance and its ascendance almost certainly had an earlier origin.

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Antiquity , Volume 41 , Issue 161 , March 1967 , pp. 33 - 41
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1967

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[3] Notably at Shahr-i-Sokhta and Kalat-i-Gird: Stein, Innermost Asia, II & III (1928); Reg, Gardan, Walter, A. Fairservis Jr., ‘Archaeological Studies in the Seistan Basin of South-Western Afghanistan and Eastern Iran’, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 48.1, 1961 Google Scholar, and from an unpublished site 50 km. S. of Zabul (in the British Institute of Persian Studies, Teheran).

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