in 1995 Shaffer, J.G. and D.A. Lichtenstein. "The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology." In The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity. G. Erdosy, (Ed.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 126-154.
• 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.
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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).

— Jean-François Jarrige

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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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Jean-François Jarrige

About Jean-François Jarrige

Jean-François Jarrige (August 5, 1940, Lourdes – November 18, 2014, Paris) was a French archaeologist specializing in South Asian archaeology and Sindhology. He held a doctorate from the University of Paris in oriental archaeology. He carried out the excavations in Baluchistan, Mehrgarh and Pirak. In 2004, he became the director of the Musée Guimet in Paris.