Answer» Correct Answer - Option 4 : Zhob culture
The correct answer is Zhob culture.
- Zhob culture developed in the Zhob Valley in north Baluchistan between the 4th and 3rd millennium BC.
- It is not treated as a proto- Harappan culture.
- There were four contemporary, interrelated, archaeological cultures that can be called Early Harappan cultures.
- They are Amri-Nal culture, Kot Diji culture, Sothi-Siswal culture and Damb Sadat culture.
- The main differences between these cultures are their different pottery types.
- Amri-Nal culture:
- Location: Sindh, North Balochistan, and north Gujarat.
- Nal, in the area linking north and south Balochistan, probably dates back to 3500 BCE.
- Kot Diji culture:
- Location: Northern Sindh and adjacent regions.
- Pieces of evidence of sites that succeeded the earlier Hakra Ware settlements are found.
- Sothi-Siswal culture:
- Location: In the valleys of the Ghaggar- Chautang rivers.
- There are at least 165 sites of this culture, two of them larger than 20 hectares.
- Damb Sadat:
- Location: Quetta valley of central Balochistan.
- The largest site is Quetta Miri and Mundigak in Afghanistan with Damb Sadat pottery.
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