The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t2.43

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Finally, the story of the Indo-Iranian border lands is one of continuous contacts between both the countries, and it also serves its function as a bridge between the cultures of Iran and India. These cultural influences need very careful scrutiny and since we know sufficient surface-material, the more urgent need seems to be stratigraphic excavations. Col. Gordon has shown the close affinities of the material from the Moghul Ghundai cairns and Sialk B cemetery (about 1000 B.C.).¹ More evidence of this late contact with Iran has been brought forth by Beatrice de Cardi from Londo and other sites in Baluchistan. As Stuart Piggot puts it: