Heritage record
Pasni/Prahag B and C
BalochistanSettlementProtected
The sites of Prahag B & C are ancient occupations on the surface of sand-dunes and located 1-1.5 km west of the Prahag A site, at the northern foot of the great sand-dunes range. The sites look like sand-dunes with a covering of archaeological material (pottery, fish bones, and hearth stones). Prahag B is located 1 km west of Prahag A and its size is around 200 x 50-80 m. Prahag C is located 500 m westwards. The pottery collected from these settlements belongs to the Dasht and Harappan assemblages.
- Record ID
- 8596
- Province / territory
- Balochistan
- District
- Gwadar
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Settlement
- Period
- Proto Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 25.25417, 64.42083 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Besenval, Roland, and Paul Sanlaville. (1990). Cartography of Ancient Settlements in Central Southern Pakistani Makran: New Data. Mesopotamia, Vol. 25.
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