zhob valley culture
ZHOB VALLEY CULTURE
EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION:
Amidst the rugged wind-swept valleys and foothills of Balochistan, one finds a more continuous story of human activity of the Stone Age men. These pre-historic men of the Stone Age settled in the valleys or villages. The sequence begins with the transition of nomadic herdsmen to settled agricultural communities. They were both herdsmen and farmers who lived on the outskirts of the plains with their cattle and cultivated barley and other crops.
Early farming communities were established in the highland regions northwest of the Indus valley, namely the present Balochistan plateau and the mountains area of the NWFP. In Balochistan during the 8th millennium B.C., there were at least seven sites were occupied by Neolithic people. It was here, west of Indus, which enabled man in the South Asia, to break through the barrier between barbarism and civilization, occurred with the onset of the stone using farm villages.
With the discovery of Mehargarh in Balochistan, and its excavations by French Archeological mission lead by two French Archaeologists Richard H.Meadow and Jean Francoise Jarrige in Pakistan, brought to light a continuous sequence of cultures in Baluchistan between 1973 and 1980.
Neolithic sequence:
The first phase at Mehrgarh is Noelithic Sequence which is represented by the beginning of farming villages in the highlands, an independent move was made:
1. To initiate agriculture and
2. Domestication which results in the well established permanent settlements of early farming communities in the highlands.
While examining the earlier farming communities it appears that the geographical position of highlands rendered it more or less a single culture province in antiquity. Here many villages were established in the Neolithic period such as Mehrgarh, Killi Gul Mohabbat, Rana Ghundai, Anjira, Perino Ghundai etc. and continued to flourish right through the Chalcolithic and some of them well into the Bronze Age.
EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION:
Amidst the rugged wind-swept valleys and foothills of Balochistan, one finds a more continuous story of human activity of the Stone Age men. These pre-historic men of the Stone Age settled in the valleys or villages. The sequence begins with the transition of nomadic herdsmen to settled agricultural communities. They were both herdsmen and farmers who lived on the outskirts of the plains with their cattle and cultivated barley and other crops.
Early farming communities were established in the highland regions northwest of the Indus valley, namely the present Balochistan plateau and the mountains area of the NWFP. In Balochistan during the 8th millennium B.C., there were at least seven sites were occupied by Neolithic people. It was here, west of Indus, which enabled man in the South Asia, to break through the barrier between barbarism and civilization, occurred with the onset of the stone using farm villages.
With the discovery of Mehargarh in Balochistan, and its excavations by French Archeological mission lead by two French Archaeologists Richard H.Meadow and Jean Francoise Jarrige in Pakistan, brought to light a continuous sequence of cultures in Baluchistan between 1973 and 1980.
Neolithic sequence:
The first phase at Mehrgarh is Noelithic Sequence which is represented by the beginning of farming villages in the highlands, an independent move was made:
1. To initiate agriculture and
2. Domestication which results in the well established permanent settlements of early farming communities in the highlands.
While examining the earlier farming communities it appears that the geographical position of highlands rendered it more or less a single culture province in antiquity. Here many villages were established in the Neolithic period such as Mehrgarh, Killi Gul Mohabbat, Rana Ghundai, Anjira, Perino Ghundai etc. and continued to flourish right through the Chalcolithic and some of them well into the Bronze Age.