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Damb Sadat (also Damb Sadaat, Damb Saadat) is an archaeological tumuli and ancient settlement in the Baluchistan region of Pakistan. Location map of Damb Sadaat in the context of early Harappan Civilization sites. In Vasant Shivram Shinde 2018, Archaeological and anthropological studies on the Harappan cemetery of Rakhigarhi, India.
Damb Sadat is related to the early phases of the Indus Valley civilisation, and dates to 3500 BCE; it is located in Quetta Valley, which is a rich agricultural environment, and was home to several earlier Neolithic cultures. The Harappan Civilisation: Its Sub-cultures, Daily Pioneer, 10 May 2018.
Quetta pottery (black-on-buff type) is the general term for the ceramic tradition in the valley. Damb Sadat pottery comes as a part of this tradition. It dates to the middle and last half of the third millennium B.C.
This pottery is also found at Said Qala Tepe, Deh Morasi Ghundai, Mundigak periods III–IV, and Shahr-e Sukhteh periods I–III, all of which date to the last half of the third millennium B.C.
Gregory Possehl sees Mundigak, in the Helmand River basin of Afghanistan, as part of the Damb Sadat Phase of Central Baluchistan, dated to 4500-2000 BCE.
According to him, there are thirty-seven Dumb Sadat sites averaging 2.64 hectares. The largest of them is the Quetta Miri (23 hectares).
This earliest phase of Damb Sadat lasted from 3500 to 2600 BC, with settlements remaining small but growing in number. It was related also to Kot Diji culture and Sothi-Siswal culture.
During Damb Sadat II period, multi-room dwellings were built of mudbrick with limestone foundations. The radiocarbon dates for this period is about 3000 BC.
Faiz Mohammed gray pottery comes after Damb Sadat pottery.
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