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Mind the Gap: Continuity and Change in Iranian Sistan Archaeology
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During the early-third millennium BCE, the Sistan Basin witnessed the emergence of an urban society at Shahr-i-Sokhta. Located close to water sources in a largely inhospitable environment, the population served as an intermediary for trade between the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia. However, after 1500 years of existence, Shahri-Sokhta and the communities surrounding it collapsed. What happened in the centuries following this collapse at the end of the third millennium is a matter of much speculation among scholars. Archaeologists have found no evidence of subsequent occupation at ...
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The cost of war, Part 2. (Asia).(wetlands in Afghanistan)(Brief Article)
; ...irrigation schemes during two decades of conflict. Without a stable source of water, much of the natural vegetation of the Sistan basin has died. The Iranian side of the Sistan wetland was designated a Ramsar site--a globally important wetland--in 1975. At...
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From the Editor
; ...an update on the controversies surrounding the inexplicable "gap" in occupation observed in the archaeological record in Sistan Basin, Iran, beginning at the end of the third millennium BCE. "Crossing Jordan," an international conference on the archaeology...
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Drought puts Afghanistan on brink 37% of population unable to meet basic needs, UN reports
; ...The Helmand River, which descends from the Hindu Kush and, along with other rivers, feeds the traditional wetlands of the Sistan Basin, has run dry in Nimruz. A new bridge spanning the Helmand at Zaranj, at the border with Iran built by the Iranian government...
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