• Jarrige, J.-F. 1991 Mehrgarh: its place in the development of ancient cultures in Pakistan. In For gotten Cities on the Indus, edited by M. Jansen, M. Mulloy and G. Urban, 34-50. Mainz, Verlag Philipp Zabem.
Although basic similarities exist, linking Mehrgarh with comparable Levantine and Zagrosian aceramic neolithic groups, “...they are sufficiently general to discount straightforward diffusion among communities that otherwise preserved their own, highly individual characteristics” (Jarrige 1991: 40).
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• Jarrige, J.-F. 1991 Mehrgarh: its place in the development of ancient cultures in Pakistan. In For gotten Cities on the Indus, edited by M. Jansen, M. Mulloy and G. Urban, 34-50. Mainz, Verlag Philipp Zabem." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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