Talk:Bahra 1

Oldest permanent settlement south of Mesopotamia?
I saw this claim on the main page and then in the article, and I beg to differ. This site is dated to 5500-4900 BC. Regardless of anything else, this should be prefixed with "known", as archeology is far from complete. Furthermore, this conflicts with content in History of Yemen of sites dated to 5000BC. On a wider geographical scale,History of Egypt has sites dating further back and Upper Egypt is to the south of Kuwait. Sites near Shiraz (which is about parallel to Kuwait Bay NS) predate Bahra 1:. Balochistan is to the south and has sites dating back to 6000-7000 BC. I think there are also sites further south in the Indian subcontinent. It may be correct that on the very local sense this is the earliest settlement directly south of Mesopotamia, but in terms of general geography this is dubious. Reading the context of the cited source, it refers to the Ubaid culture, and within that context (southernmost known Ubaid settlement) this is better defined.--Eostrix (talk) 07:35, 20 April 2020 (UTC)