Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.106

c12.106

The interpretation of these provincial sites does not present any difficulties – they represent the more or less peasant and agricultural background which the existence of the cities presupposes. Some of them must have been chiefly trading-posts – Sutkagen-dor seems a clear case in point, and probably Dabar-Kot as well, and the former may have had an added importance as providing contact with the sea-going trade of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.