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0318 Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Īrān : vol.1
西北インドと南東イランにおける考古学的調査 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000189
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portion of the mound contained the remains of an Elamite settlement which, by
the evidence of inscribed bricks, belonged to the latter half of the second millen-
nium B.C. The underlying portion of the mound yielded a quantity of relics
dating from a chalcolithic settlement. They comprised coarse painted pottery,
corresponding to the types known as Susa I and II, stone implements and some
copper fragments.

M. Pézard's systematic excavations were carried by large trenches with a
maximum depth of about 27 feet right down to the natural soil, and have been
carefully recorded. The conclusions drawn from them can hence be safely
accepted. Among them there is one which, in view of the observations made by
me elsewhere along the coast of the Gulf visited, is of wider interest and calls
for special notice here. I mean the definite evidence here afforded of chalcolithic
occupation having existed in close vicinity of the sea-shore.⁵ The location here of
a prehistoric settlement contrasts strangely with the fact that, in spite of careful
search, I had not been able to trace chalcolithic or other prehistoric remains any-
where on the coast-line I had followed for close on 350 miles from Mīnāb up-
wards. On the other hand, definite indications of medieval occupation of sites
adjacent to the sea-shore were found at a number of points from Old Hormuz
onwards to beyond Daiyir.⁶

This absence of any prehistoric relics at places which in early medieval times,
if not before, can be proved to have served as ports and by their geographical
situation are specially destined to serve as such, led me at first to entertain
doubts as to whether the Persian Gulf could have seen in prehistoric times any
maritime development such as is abundantly attested for later periods by his-
torical records and by archaeological relics. But several observations have since
suggested to me another possible explanation for the negative fact above
indicated.

In my account of Old Hormuz harbour I have already described how its
remains are to be traced on ground which is liable to be flooded at high tide, and