Shortugai
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Shortugai is an Indus Valley site on the Oxus river in northern Afghanistan [1]. It was a lapis lazuli mining center. According to Sergent, "not one of the standard characteristics of the Harappan cultural complex is missing from it". [2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ e.g. Kenoyer 1998:96, Kenoyer, J. Mark. 1998. Ancient cities of the Indus Valley Civilization. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-577940-1
- ^ Bernard Sergent. Genèse de l'Inde, quoted by Elst 1999
[edit] Further reading
- Henri-Paul Francfort, Fouilles de Shortugai, Recherches sur L'Asie Centrale Protohistorique Paris: Diffusion de Boccard, 1989
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