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The presence of Harappan flint workshops in the hills close to Rohri had been discovered by Bridget Allchin in 1975. The impressive mining activity in the hills is particularly well-represented near Shadee Shaheed. The 1993-96 surveys discovered mor… >

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. >

Small workshops are represented by small scattered groupings of flint, including flakes, blades and sometimes cores. >

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. >

The cores are of a type typical for Harappan culture, both conical and elongated. The blades have been struck off with the pressure technique. This involves pressing the surface of a flint or flake with a soft-pointed instrument. In Europe, the soft… >

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. The sites are attributed to the Late (Upper) Paleolithic period on the basis … >

One of the main minig areas from an altitide of 80 metres. The quarry pits are lighter, semi-circular spots which show areas where sand blown from the neighbouring Thar Desert has been trapped in the quarry depressions. >

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. >

The excavation of one of these quarry pits was carried out in February 1995. The excavation took place over a small 2 by 3 meter area facing the Indus Valley. >

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. >