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Site 2-East of Lakes

SindhSettlementProtected
The site lies on a low-lying limestone hill which are a part of the Rohri Hill sequence. On the surface of these low-lying hills, several nodules of chert stone are available, providing the best raw material source. The various kinds of fossils have been observed embedded in the stone blocks. The chert flaking area was observed, but does not constitute as a workshop because of the less density of flaking debris. It is possible that only needed tools were prepared for a hunting purpose. There is an alluvial valley around, where rain water can be stored for several days after the monsoon season. The wild animals may have been hunted there. The finds from this site include some chert flakes and cores. A preliminary morphological analysis suggests that these tools were associated with the Upper Paleolithic period.
Record ID
7294
Province / territory
Sindh
District
Khairpur
Typology
Archaeological Site
Subtype
Settlement
Period
Pre Historic
Legal status
Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
Coordinates
27.13778, 68.70417 — source-provided, not field-verified
Verification status
source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
Sources
Mallah, Q.H.. (2008). Surface and subsurface analysis of archaeological sites around the lakes of the Dubi Mirwah Desert in Sindh, Pakistan. Occasional Paper 4 Linguistics, Archaeology and the Human Past.

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