Subconical Core
A characteristic Indus subconical core from which parallel sided blades have been removed before it was discarded.
Slides by the archaeologist Paolo Biagi of the Indus Valley civilization excavation sites.
Flint pre-core
An almond shaped pre-core recovered from the bottom of quarry pit 862. A pre-core is the working stage preceding the manufacturing core.
Kot Diji
Southwest of the hills lies the famous pre-Harappan and Harappan site of Kot Diji. From the surface of the site, it is very easy to collect flint artefacts obtained from Rohri Hills raw material.
The quarry pits investigated so far belong to the
Baluchi workers
The wadi bottoms of the Rohri Hills are today seasonally inhabited by groups of Baluchi families. They work in service to contractors to dig up the limestone terraces, which seriously damages the unique ancient archaeological features of the hills.
Acheulian Workshop
The Acheulian workshop of Ziarat Pir Shaban 1 (ZPS1). The Acheulian is a Paleolithic Culture (about 50,000 B.C.) characterized by the presence of bifaces and handaxes. Very little is known about the culture.
Unfinished biface from ZPS1
The exact date of the Ziarat Pir Shaban Late Palaeolithic site is difficult to establish. It is reasonable to attribute it to the start of the middle Palaeolithic period, or some 100,000 years ago.
Unifinished biface from ZPS1
The exact date of the Ziarat Pir Shaban Late Palaeolithic site is difficult to establish. It is reasonable to attribute it to the start of the middle Palaeolithic period, or some 100,000 years ago.
Late Palaeolithic workshop
Around the Tomb of Adam Sultan many late Paleolithic workshops were found. Some were of impressive diameter. The most characteristic tools are subpyramidal bladelet cores.
Late Palaeolithic workshop
Ziarat Pir Shaban 2 is a Late (Upper) Palaeolithic site. It is two miles southeast of the Tomb of Ziarat Pir Shaban in the Shadee Shaheed Hills.
Late Palaeolithic Workshop
The surface of one of the late Palaeolithic workshops discovered in the survey of February 1997. One pyramidal, bladelet core is in the middle of the slide.