Which among following is NOT a proto-Harappan culture?

Zhob culture

• Zhob culture developed in the Zhob Valley in north Baluchistan between the 4th and 3rd millennium BC.
• It is not treated as a proto- Harappan culture.

Additional Information

• There were four contemporary, interrelated, archaeological cultures that can be called Early Harappan cultures.
• They are Amri-Nal culture, Kot Diji culture, Sothi-Siswal culture and Damb Sadat culture.
• The main differences between these cultures are their different pottery types.

Amri-Nal culture

• Location: Sindh, North Balochistan, and north Gujarat.
• Nal, in the area linking north and south Balochistan, probably dates back to 3500 BCE.

Kot Diji culture

• Location: Northern Sindh and adjacent regions.
• Pieces of evidence of sites that succeeded the earlier Hakra Ware settlements are found.

Sothi-Siswal culture

• Location: In the valleys of the Ghaggar-Chautang rivers.
• There are at least 165 sites of this culture, two of them larger than 20 hectares.

Damb Sadat

• Location: Quetta valley of central Balochistan.
• The largest site is Quetta Miri and Mundigak in Afghanistan with Damb Sadat pottery.