The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c8.23

c8.23

These northern cultures in Baluchistan have been grouped together by Piggott as the "Zhob cultures", from the Zhob river which flows towards the Indus plain and is roughly axial to the identified sites.³ The only Zhob site which has been submitted to systematic analysis is Rana Ghundai⁴ where, of four main phases of occupation, the earliest seems to represent a period of nomadism, and the second a devolving culture (at least as regards the pottery) having affinities with that of the earliest occupation of Hissar in north-eastern Iran.