{"title":"Pottery studies in Kabul (Afghanistan) and its region from 100 BCE to 1000 CE","authors":"Zafar Paiman , Jean-Baptiste Houal","doi":"10.1016/j.ara.2023.100440","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During the last ten years, intense archaeological activities have taken place both in the city of Kabul (Afghanistan) and on its outskirts. They presently highlight the development of this region from the 1st century CE, and especially the 5th century CE, onwards under the influence of important Buddhist monasteries. This presence was already known from excavations done during the 1930s, but in recent years, excavations on the Bala Hissar and the remains of Tepe Narenj and Qol-e-Tut, located on the slopes of Koh-e-Zanbourak (“the mountain of the small wasp”) south of the Kabul citadel, have revived the question of occupation. The establishment of a chronology based on clear criteria coming from new research on pottery allows us to rethink the first step of the occupation of Kabul and the Islamization of this region.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51847,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Research in Asia","volume":"34 ","pages":"Article 100440"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Archaeological Research in Asia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352226723000120","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2023/3/10 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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During the last ten years, intense archaeological activities have taken place both in the city of Kabul (Afghanistan) and on its outskirts. They presently highlight the development of this region from the 1st century CE, and especially the 5th century CE, onwards under the influence of important Buddhist monasteries. This presence was already known from excavations done during the 1930s, but in recent years, excavations on the Bala Hissar and the remains of Tepe Narenj and Qol-e-Tut, located on the slopes of Koh-e-Zanbourak (“the mountain of the small wasp”) south of the Kabul citadel, have revived the question of occupation. The establishment of a chronology based on clear criteria coming from new research on pottery allows us to rethink the first step of the occupation of Kabul and the Islamization of this region.
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Archaeological Research in Asia presents high quality scholarly research conducted in between the Bosporus and the Pacific on a broad range of archaeological subjects of importance to audiences across Asia and around the world. The journal covers the traditional components of archaeology: placing events and patterns in time and space; analysis of past lifeways; and explanations for cultural processes and change. To this end, the publication will highlight theoretical and methodological advances in studying the past, present new data, and detail patterns that reshape our understanding of it. Archaeological Research in Asia publishes work on the full temporal range of archaeological inquiry from the earliest human presence in Asia with a special emphasis on time periods under-represented in other venues. Journal contributions are of three kinds: articles, case reports and short communications. Full length articles should present synthetic treatments, novel analyses, or theoretical approaches to unresolved issues. Case reports present basic data on subjects that are of broad interest because they represent key sites, sequences, and subjects that figure prominently, or should figure prominently, in how scholars both inside and outside Asia understand the archaeology of cultural and biological change through time. Short communications present new findings (e.g., radiocarbon dates) that are important to the extent that they reaffirm or change the way scholars in Asia and around the world think about Asian cultural or biological history.