A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
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Tribal feuds imperil the future of one of South Asia's most ancient sites. Although often overshadowed by the grander, and much later, Indus Valley sites of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, Mehrgarh is well known in archaeological circles as the only South Asian site with a 5,000-year-long continuous sequence of settlements, beginning in the eighth millennium B.C. It also happens to be the site of a violent battle between warring tribes, a conflict that drove away a French couple who had spent almost three decades excavating the site. ARCHAEOLOGY's Islamabad-based correspondent Massoud Ansari travels to Mehrgarh, in Pakistan's remote Baluchistan province, to take a look at the troubled past and grim future of one of South Asia's most important archaeological sites. Massound Ansari is an Islamabad-based correspondent for ARCHAEOLOGY.
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