ABSTRACT
Presents Grey Ware pottery and tools from Iron Age cemetery and settlement sites in Northwest Iran (Amlash, Khurvin, Chandar, and Sakkizabad) in the collection of the RMO Museum in Leiden. Compares these to materials excavated in Swat datable to the late Bronze Age - early Iron Age period (circa 1300-300 B.C.). This Swat culture had cultural, and possibly ethnic, links with Northwest and Northeast Iran. The many similarities in typology and production techniques of the pottery, but also in funerary practices, corroborate a common origin. ‘It is likely that one or more cultural strains [of Iron Age I culture] issuing into the area [Iran] by westerly and easterly routes ended up in Swat and settled there.’ [er]
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