Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.22

c11.22

Our survey of prehistoric Baluchistan can therefore begin with the *Quetta Culture*. So little, however, remains of this most interesting phase that it can hardly be dignified with the name of a ‘culture’; we are dependent on a characteristic pottery and a few fragments of alabaster cups, occurring as surface finds on five ‘tells’ in the immediate neighbourhood of Quetta. The largest of these was about 600 feet in diameter at the base and from 45 to 50 feet high, and could never have been more than a small village. As far as it was possible to determine on this and the other sites, the houses had been made of mud, or mud bricks, which had disintegrated again into homogeneous loamy soil.