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INTRODUCTION
Since the last presentation of our results in the first volume of this
series several articles appeared which must be taken into consid-
eration in order to be up-to-date regarding the present state of
research.
One of the conditions imposed by the Department of Archaeology
and Museums, Karachi, was the delivery of reports and articles to
be printed inPa/uxta/iMmA^co/ogy. In volume 24/1989, two contri-
butions were published (JETTMAR 1989a, 1989b) - actually they
did not appear before the end of 1991. So they could not be
included into the bibliography added to our volume 1 (1989) of
Anth/nihas o/ Abrthcm Pakistan (ANP).
One of these articles, the report on the campaign of 1988, contains
a chapter on exploration in the northwestern corner of Pakistan, ie
the Gilgit valley and Yasin, confirming and supplementing the
observations made during my earlier travels in Chitral and along
the Hunza river.
The results of this transgression of the limits imposed by our own
declared strategy, ie to concentrate our work on the historically
and artistically most interesting clusters of petroglyphs, will be
important for the planning of our next expeditions. The bulk of
the interesting rock carvings is definitely in the Indus valley below
Chilas, the area called Shamil by Bîrûnï (cf BELENICKIJ 1963: 221
and SAID 1989: 203). Apart from Hunza-Haldeikish, well-known
since 1979, there is no rock art site as yet discovered in the
northwestern marches of North Pakistan which could emulate the
diversity and quality of rock art observed in the Indus valley
between Indus-Kohistan and the Rondu gorge. Beyond this unique
concentration, we found almost no inscriptions, no Buddhist carv-
ings, but animals in many styles and techniques; seldom humans as
hunters on foot or on horseback.
VII
Since the last presentation of our results in the first volume of this
series several articles appeared which must be taken into consid-
eration in order to be up-to-date regarding the present state of
research.
One of the conditions imposed by the Department of Archaeology
and Museums, Karachi, was the delivery of reports and articles to
be printed inPa/uxta/iMmA^co/ogy. In volume 24/1989, two contri-
butions were published (JETTMAR 1989a, 1989b) - actually they
did not appear before the end of 1991. So they could not be
included into the bibliography added to our volume 1 (1989) of
Anth/nihas o/ Abrthcm Pakistan (ANP).
One of these articles, the report on the campaign of 1988, contains
a chapter on exploration in the northwestern corner of Pakistan, ie
the Gilgit valley and Yasin, confirming and supplementing the
observations made during my earlier travels in Chitral and along
the Hunza river.
The results of this transgression of the limits imposed by our own
declared strategy, ie to concentrate our work on the historically
and artistically most interesting clusters of petroglyphs, will be
important for the planning of our next expeditions. The bulk of
the interesting rock carvings is definitely in the Indus valley below
Chilas, the area called Shamil by Bîrûnï (cf BELENICKIJ 1963: 221
and SAID 1989: 203). Apart from Hunza-Haldeikish, well-known
since 1979, there is no rock art site as yet discovered in the
northwestern marches of North Pakistan which could emulate the
diversity and quality of rock art observed in the Indus valley
between Indus-Kohistan and the Rondu gorge. Beyond this unique
concentration, we found almost no inscriptions, no Buddhist carv-
ings, but animals in many styles and techniques; seldom humans as
hunters on foot or on horseback.
VII