Fwd: Charsadda (Pakistan) Project: the Bala Hisar

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IndiaArchaeology , " Carlos Aramayo "

<cararam50 wrote:

 

 

Dear friends,

 

The English archaeologist Robin Coningham recently has published the

long waited monograph of his investigations in Charsadda, Pakistan

that shows this site to be occupied since 1300 BC. His work is

called " Charsadda (Pakistan) Project: the Bala Hisar " . A very

complete updated information to 2007 can be found at the webpage of

the project:

 

http://www.dur.ac.uk/arch.projects/charsadda/

 

" The Bala Hisar or " High Fort " is located on one of Asia's great

thoroughfares in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. Commanding

the road from Delhi to Kabul, it is an imposing 20 metre high mound.

The mound was excavated by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in 1958 to examine

the origins of Asiaís Early Historic cities. He suggested that it

was founded by the Persians in the sixth century BC as they

consolidated the east of their empire. As Wheeler worked before

radiocarbon dating, Durham, Bradford, Leicester and Peshawar

Universities re-excavated part of the site with support from the

Society for South Asian Studies, The British Academy, the Ancient

India and Iran Trust and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological

Research. Analysis of dates from its lowest levels indicate that the

site was first occupied in c. 1300 BC and that far from having being

a colonial outpost, was strongly linked to local communities in the

northern valleys of Pakistan. This website provides a summary of the

recent joint British-Pakistani Excavations at the Bala Hisar, and

provides a link with the recently published monograph. The volume is

dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Fazand Ali Durrani,

Vice-Chancellor of Peshawar University, who provided the vision and

inspiration for this collaborative project together with Professor

Farid Khan and Dr Raymond Allchin of Cambridge University. Professor

Durrani's energy and dedication led to the creation of one of the

strongest Departments of South Asian Archaeology at Peshawar and

endowed it with a superb University museum. "

 

We can also find links to Introduction, Excavations, Dating, Web

Exhibition, Publications, etc.

 

Best regards,

 

Carlos

 

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