Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.60

c13.60

At both Giyan and Sialk the latest settlements and cemeteries on the sites represent a semi-barbarian culture that numbered amongst its achievements, however, the domestication of the horse for riding and probably chariotry as well. Typical pottery and bronze arrowheads from the tell of Nad-i-Ali in Afghan Sistan show that these people had reached the borders of India, and at Moghul-ghundai in North Baluchistan a small cemetery of cairn-burials produced a whole array of bronze objects - rings, bracelets, horse-bells, a bangle, and a tripod jar - typical of the B cemetery at Sialk. In South Baluchistan the cemeteries of Jiwanri and Zangian have pots of distinctive shapes related to those from the same Persian cemetery, and from Londo not far from Nal come painted sherds in a provincial version of the Sialk B style with animal ornament, including a frieze of horses. The Sialk B cemetery probably dates from about 1250-1100 B.C., so that a date around 1100-1000 B.C. would be likely for the Baluchistan cemeteries just described.