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Mora Banda Palai Painted Rock Shelter

Type: Archaeological Site - Rock Shelter
Province: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District: Malakand
Period: Proto Historic
Relative Chronology: 2000-1500 BCE
Description: A Rock shelter site, internally marked with thirteen painted images of horses, men and dogs and some unidentified animals in red colour. It was probably a hunting scene, most of the figures are in a bad state of preservation. Several small and large cup marks were also observed near the shelter. The shelter is about 2.5 m deep, 1.03 m high and 6m wide internally.
Latitude: 34.520668333
Longitude: 72.083163167
Ownership: Private
Legal Status: Not Protected
Title of Publication: Preliminary Report on the Recent Archaeological Survey of District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (2016-17)
Published In: Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language, Vol VII (1)
Year of Publication: 2020
Bibliography/Reference: Naz, Fozia, Badsha Sardar
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