Shiraz,[1] and Kashan[2] in the central part of the plateau; and in Seistan[3] and Baluchistan[4] in the east.
All the available evidence indicates that the painted-pottery culture persisted steadfastly within Iran while Mesopotamia was undergoing a gradual and distinct evolution. Susa alone on the border of the plateau felt the impact of the development on the west, and recent excavations have revealed the presence at this site of the typically Mesopotamian wares. Thus superimposed upon the pottery of Susa I are sherds which belong to the earliest period of Mesopotamian archeology, namely, the al-ʿUbaid period; can above these again are fragments which can be assigned in turn to the Uruk and to the Jemdet Nasr periods.[5] One group of pottery vases does not, however, belong with the Mesopotamian objects but has its closest parallels in far-off Seistan and Baluchistan.[6] This is the generally monochrome
- ↑ H. Field in AJSL, LI (1934/35), 208.
- ↑ A. U. Pope in the Illustrated London News, December 15, 1934, p. 1005; R. Ghirshman, ibid., March 16, 1935, pp. 416 f.
- ↑ Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in Gedrosia, "Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India," No. 43 (Calcutta, 1931); Innermost Asia (Oxford, 1928), II, 949–58; and Vol. III, Pls. 113 f.; "The Indo-Iranian Borderlands" (Huxley Memorial Lecture for 1934), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, LXIV (1934), 179–202.
- ↑ Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in Waziristān and Northern Balūchistān, "Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India," No. 37 (Calcutta, 1929).
- ↑ De Mecquenem, Mém., XX, 99–112 and 128–32.
- ↑ With some of the pottery published by Aurel Stein in "Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India," Nos. 37 and 43.
