An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s8.3

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*Baluchistan.* In the 4th and 3rd millennia B.C. a large number of village communities were living in the borderland where the Iranian plateau drops into the Indus plain. The present Baluchi hills had, it seems, more rainfall in ancient days. The evidence of *gabarbands* or dams of antiquity might indicate irrigation and a larger population. These small cultures flourished in the Quetta and Zhob valleys in Baluchistan both n. and s.