Known from its "protohistoric graves" concentrated in the middle Swat River valley (the Swat Protohistoric Graveyards Complex) of present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, core-dated c. 1200-800 BC.
The Italian Archaeological Mission to Pakistan holds the burial tradition ends by 800 BC; some Pakistani scholars argue the tradition, more broadly defined, continued into the historic period.
Standard survey of early Indian history; sets the Gandhara grave culture in the north-west protohistoric sequence.