During the summer of 2019, a brief survey was carried out in the Bannu Basin under the patronage of the Taxila Institute for Asian Civilizations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. From an archaeological point of view, Bannu is a well-known region of western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where important settlements of different periods have been discovered and excavated in the last few decades. The main scope of the 2019 research was to check the presence of Palaeolithic sites, which were suggested to be present in the area. During our short visit, one typical Middle Palaeolithic Levallois artefact was discovered in situ on the surface of the gravel terraces that extend close to the Neolithic site of Sheri Khan Tarakai.
P. Biagi, R. Nisbet, E. Starnini, A Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the Red Desert (Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan), PAST 98, Summer 2021, the Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society
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Abstract
During the summer of 2019, a brief survey was carried out in the Bannu Basin under the patronage of the Taxila Institute for Asian Civilizations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. From an archaeological point of view, Bannu is a well-known region of western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where important settlements of different periods have been discovered and excavated in the last few decades. The main scope of the 2019 research was to check the presence of Palaeolithic sites, which were suggested to be present in the area. During our short visit, one typical Middle Palaeolithic Levallois artefact was discovered in situ on the surface of the gravel terraces that extend close to the Neolithic site of Sheri Khan Tarakai.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
