Heritage record
Garda Babar/Kalwa
BalochistanRock ArtProtected
An archaeological rock art site, comprised of 8 rock shelters, having painting, petroglyphs and pictographs, subjects associated with both anthropomorphic and zoomorphic scenes. Besides this, birds have also been depicted in the form of painting on rocks. Prehistoric rock shelters of Kalwa paintings contemporary to other regions of the subcontinent where there are caves, rock shelters paintings that were applied to them in different ways by using brushes and fingers.
- Record ID
- 9860
- Province / territory
- Balochistan
- District
- Zhob
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Rock Art
- Period
- Pre Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 31.22912, 69.57089 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Ahmad, Tanveer. (2019). Recent discoveries of rock art sites in Garda Babar, Zhob Balochistan. Unpublished Master`s thesis, TIAC, QAU, Islamabad.
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