This paper explores the possibility to evaluate the intensity of an alleged 'Achaemenid impact' on South-eastern Iran in the light of researches on local material culture and settlement pattern. The focus of the paper is mainly represented by areas in Kerman Province and in Sistan (Sistan and Baluchestan Province) by virtue of a greater amount of information at disposal for these territories.
Gandhāra. The Author stresses the meagreness of the available data for the 6 th -4 th centuries BCE in this area (especially if compared with the southwestern portion of the empire), and discusses the main findings from the few excavated sites (particularly focusing on Qaleh Kutchek,
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