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| |Ute Franke Vogt| | |
 Ute Franke-Vogt studied Near Eastern Archaeology, Iranistian Studies, and Cultural Anthropology in Goettingen, Munich and Berlin, Germany. Having widely travelled and excavated in Iraq and Iran, she wrote her MA thesis on the Islamic tiles from Taht-e Soleyman, Iran.In 1981, she turned to Pakistan and worked with the German Research Project Mohenjo Daro, Aachen University, until the end of the project in 1987. Her Ph.D. thesis was devoted to the inscribed objects from Mohenjo Daro. Being also interested in the trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus, she visited the Gulf countries and worked on prehistoric and Islamic sites in the United Arab Emirates between 1986 and 1995. |
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| After returning from a year of teaching South Asian archaeology at Kanazawa University, Japan, the late G. F. Dales offered her the opportunity to join him for the publication of his excavations at Balakot, an Indus port site west of Karachi in Balochistan. Starting in 1994, this project was supported on a part-time basis by the German Science Foundation, Bonn, Germany. Delayed by the untimely death of G. F. Dales, the publication of Balakot I is scheduled for late 2000. Realizing the need for comparative archaeological material from areas adjacent to Balakot, she founded the Joint German-Pakistani Archaeological Mission to Kalat in 1996-7. The surveys will be completed in autumn 2000. The publication of the results is in progress. In spring 2001, the mission enters its second phase, during which excavations will take place. Bibliography |
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