Heritage record
Site 6-East of Lakes
SindhSettlementProtected
This site is located on a flat surface of a sand dunes. There is a low-lying limestone hill in east. The site of East of Lakes 5 is situated in the west at about 500 m in distance. At this site, the occurrence of cultural materials is very thin, mainly consisting of chert stone artefacts like core, flakes and blade. The other artefacts collected were stamped pottery and a broken weight. According to a preliminary analysis of material, it is observed that the stone artefacts are associated with the Upper Paleolithic period and the pottery belongs to the Historic period.
- Record ID
- 7301
- Province / territory
- Sindh
- District
- Khairpur
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Settlement
- Period
- Pre Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 27.12472, 68.71889 — 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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