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Science 30 October 1964:
Vol. 146. no. 3644, pp. 638 - 640
DOI: 10.1126/science.146.3644.638
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Prehistoric Archeological Surveys and Excavations in Afghanistan: 1959-1960 and 1961-1963

Louis Dupree 1

1 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York

Afghanistan has long been considered an important transmitter of culture in the historic periods. Buddhism, for example, reached the Far East from Gandhara (the classical name for southern Afghanistan and parts of north-western West Pakistan). Recent research indicates that the foothills of northern Afghanistan may have been one of the early centers of incipient agriculture, transitional between the food gathering of the Paleolithic and the food production of the Neolithic. In addition, Upper and possibly Middle ("Mousterian") Paleolithic industries have been identified.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Ghar-i-Mordeh Gusfand (Cave of the Dead Sheep): A New Mousterian Locality in North Afghanistan.
L. Dupree, L. Dupree, L. H. Lattman, and R. S. Davis (1970)
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