Silex cores and scrapers
Silex cores and scrapers.
Chert related objects and activities related to the ancient Indus Civilization.
Blades from different layers
Blades from different layers.
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.
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