Heritage record
Unnar site
SindhTerraceProtected
It is a low hill situated along the south western edge of the Rohri Hills. The top of the plateau is covered with Early Paleolithic and Early/Middle and Late Paleolithic tools. Typical Harappan chipping floors are also abundant. The Early Paleolithic instruments include one fragment of hand axe with smooth surfaces, sinuous profile, broken at one edge and a few typical unretouched flakes with simple platforms. The Early/Middle Paleolithic tools are represented by two hand axes with wavy sharp profiles as well as side scrapers on thick flake. one scraper with bifacial, bilateral, simple retouch and one denticulated scraper on large flake. The Levalloisian flaking technique is also present in the tool inventory.
- Record ID
- 7487
- Province / territory
- Sindh
- District
- Sukkur
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Terrace
- Period
- Pre Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 27.65523, 68.90571 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Biagi, P. & M. Cremaschi. (1988). The early Palaeolithic sites of the Rohri Hills (Sind, Pakistan) and their environmental significance. World Archaeology, Vol 19, No. 3.
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