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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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