Cambridge, Mass.: The Peabody Museum, 1959. — xii, 177. — (Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University; vol. 52.).From January 6 to May 10, 1955, the Peabody Museum of Harvard University sent an expedition on a reconnaissance survey of Baluchistan and Bahawalpur in West Pakistan.
The objectives of this expedition were to fill in some of the known lacunae in prehistory, early history, and physical anthropology in these two areas lying on each side of the Indus Valley. Of special interest were the cultural and physical relationships with Southwestern Asia to the west and India to the east.
In Baluchistan it was planned to search for surface stone implements, make soundings in caves or rock shelters, collect surface pottery, especially on ancient mounds (dambs), to record anthropometric data and obtain racial type photographs, to purchase ethnological specimens, to compile tribal information, climatic data, and traverse notes, and to record native music, folklore, and customs.
The work should be of some interest to archaeologists of India and the Middle East, and the bibliography and some of the text would be useful for those wanting an introduction to Baluchistan.The land.
Makran State.
Races, tribes and groups.
The Baluchis.
Traverses from Pasni to Quetta.
The physical anthropology of the Baluchis, Brahuis and miscellanea.
Bahawalpur.
