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Sumer, Coastal Arabia and the Indus Valley in Protoliterate and Early Dynastic Eras

Sumer, Coastal Arabia and the Indus Valley in Protoliterate and Early Dynastic Eras SUMER, COASTAL ARABIA AND THE INDUS VALLEY IN PROTOLITERATE AND EARLY DYNASTIC ERAS Supporting Evidence for a Cultural Linkage BY ELISABETH C. L. DURING CASPERS (Leiden) Well-known cuneiform evidence from various phases of the late third and early second millennia B.C., deal with the southern maritime trade route through the Gulf, linking the Near East with the Indo- Pakistan subcontinent. This provides clear and indisputable proof of factual knowledge of one another's existence and of no doubt closer details relating to the intermediaries within the complex and intricate commercial apparatus of the time. Several cultures bordering upon the Gulf share a common deficit of available resources, resulting in the organization of a fully developed trade exchange with varied recorded cargoes of raw materials, finished products and other goods. This paper, however, focuses attention upon the possibilities of contact prior to these known records, during Protoliterate and Early Dynastic times. Certain limited archaeological phenomena, draw attention to the existence of cultural concepts commonly shared by the people of the Mesopotamian plains, Bahrain and its environs and the "Greater Indus Valley". It still remains to be judged, as to whether these representational parallels should be considered as having been effected http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

Sumer, Coastal Arabia and the Indus Valley in Protoliterate and Early Dynastic Eras

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Brill
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© 1979 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4995
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1568-5209
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10.1163/156852079X00052
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SUMER, COASTAL ARABIA AND THE INDUS VALLEY IN PROTOLITERATE AND EARLY DYNASTIC ERAS Supporting Evidence for a Cultural Linkage BY ELISABETH C. L. DURING CASPERS (Leiden) Well-known cuneiform evidence from various phases of the late third and early second millennia B.C., deal with the southern maritime trade route through the Gulf, linking the Near East with the Indo- Pakistan subcontinent. This provides clear and indisputable proof of factual knowledge of one another's existence and of no doubt closer details relating to the intermediaries within the complex and intricate commercial apparatus of the time. Several cultures bordering upon the Gulf share a common deficit of available resources, resulting in the organization of a fully developed trade exchange with varied recorded cargoes of raw materials, finished products and other goods. This paper, however, focuses attention upon the possibilities of contact prior to these known records, during Protoliterate and Early Dynastic times. Certain limited archaeological phenomena, draw attention to the existence of cultural concepts commonly shared by the people of the Mesopotamian plains, Bahrain and its environs and the "Greater Indus Valley". It still remains to be judged, as to whether these representational parallels should be considered as having been effected

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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1979

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