The Middle Holocene mangrove shellfish gatherers of Las Bela coast (Balochistan, Pakistan): new AMS dates from Lake Siranda shell middens

摘要

The discovery and AMS dating of many shell middens along the shores of the dry basin of Lake Siranda (Las Bela, Balochistan, Pakistan) have shown that it was a lagoon in the northern coast of the Arabian Sea in Neolithic times, densely settled by communities of mangrove shellfish gatherers.