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Mora Banda Palai Painted Rock Shelter

Khyber PakhtunkhwaRock ShelterProtected
A Rock shelter site, internally marked with thirteen painted images of horses, men and dogs and some unidentified animals in red colour. It was probably a hunting scene, most of the figures are in a bad state of preservation. Several small and large cup marks were also observed near the shelter. The shelter is about 2.5 m deep, 1.03 m high and 6m wide internally.
Record ID
3389
Province / territory
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District
Malakand
Typology
Archaeological Site
Subtype
Rock Shelter
Period
Proto Historic
Legal status
Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
Coordinates
34.52067, 72.08316 — source-provided, not field-verified
Verification status
source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
Sources
Naz, Fozia, Badsha Sardar. (2020). Preliminary Report on the Recent Archaeological Survey of District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (2016-17). Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language, Vol VII (1).

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