Shortugai

Shortugai

Shortugai (Shortughai) was an Indus civilization trading colony established about 2000 B.C. on the Oxus river near the lapis mines in northern Afghanistan. [cite book | last = Kenoyer | first = Jonathan Mark | authorlink = Jonathan Mark Kenoyer | title = Ancient cities of the Indus Valley Civilization | year = 1998 | publisher = Oxford University Press | id = ISBN 0-19-577940-1 | pages = p. 96 | quote =Another source of gold was along the Oxus river valley in northern Afghanistan where a trading colony of the Indus cities has been discovered at Shortughai. Situated far from the Indus Valley itself, this settlement may have been established to obtain gold, copper, tin and lapis lazuli, as well as other exotic goods from Central Asia.] [Citation | last=Bowersox | first=Gary W. | author-link= | last2=Chamberlin | first2=Bonita E. Ph. D. | author2-link= | year=1995 | title=Gemstones of Afghanistan | publication-place=Tucson, AZ | publisher=Geoscience Press | pages=52. "During the height of the Indus valley civilization about 2000 B.C., the Harappan colony of Shortugai was established near the lapis mines."] According to Sergent, "not one of the standard characteristics of the Harappan cultural complex is missing from it". [Bernard Sergent. Genèse de l'Inde, quoted by Elst 1999]

Notes

Further reading

*Henri-Paul Francfort, Fouilles de Shortugai, Recherches sur L'Asie Centrale Protohistorique Paris: Diffusion de Boccard, 1989


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