Mundigak was a large prehistoric town with an important cultural sequence from the 5th–2nd millennia BC. The mound was nine meters tall at the time of excavation.
Pottery and other artifacts of the later 3rd millennium BCE, when this became a major urban center, indicate interaction with Turkmenistan, Baluchistan, and the Early Harappan Indus region.
Mundigak flourished during the culture of Helmand Basin (Seistan), also known as Helmand Culture (Helmand Province).
With an area of 21 hectares, this was the second largest centre of Helmand Culture, the first being Shahr-i-Sokhta which was as large as 150 acres, by 2400 BCE.
Bampur, in Iran, is a closely related site.
Around 2200 BCE, both Shahr-i-Sokhta and Mundigak started declining, with considerable shrinkage in area and with brief occupation at later dates.
Apart from pottery and painted pottery, other artifacts found include crude humped bulls, human figures, shaft hole axes, adzes of bronze and terracotta drains.[Painting on pots include pictures of sacred fig leaves (ficus religiosa) and a tiger-like animal.Several stone button seals were also found at Mundigak. Disk Beads and faience barrel beads,copper stamp seals, copper pins with spiral loops were also found.
The female looking human figurines (5 cm height) found at Mundigak are very similar to such figurines found at another archeological site in Afghanistan, Deh Morasi Ghundai (cicra 3000 BCE).
Mundigak on a riverbank.
Remains of a large pillared ''hall'' from Mundigak archaeological site in Afghanistan. This could be the earliest example of a palace or temple from Indian subcontinent. Such large pillared ''hall'' is not encountered in other ancient sites though. Mundigak had significant connections with Harappan / Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization. Via A.
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Mother goddess figurines, right, from Mundigak, left, from Deh Morasi Ghundai, 3rd Millennium B.C. (h. 5cm)
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