Type: Archaeological Site - Settlement
Province: Sindh
District: Khairpur
Period: Proto Historic
Relative Chronology: 3500 BCE - 1800 BCE
Description: This site lies at a low-lying area sloping towards south, located in the south of Wadi Sim (Lake) and east of Bakri Waro where there is the Vakar Valley in the south. The lakes and alluvial valley make diverse subsistence resource bases. The site is very rich in the cultural material. The collection of several stone tools including many types of points, core and flakes are important. Majority of the tools are very small like geometric tools of the Mesolithic period. Pottery is mainly plain and is associated with various periods; for example, the hand-built and grit mixed pottery belong to the Hakra period and the short neck wheel-turned pottery shows affinity with the Kot Dijian period. Besides this cultural assemblage, terracotta cakes, terracotta bangles, shell objects and one sandstone polisher were also collected. The viscosity of scattered cultural material suggests that this site might have been occupied for a long time period and cannot be a campsite of nomads.
Latitude: 27.142222222
Longitude: 68.692500000
Ownership: Private
Legal Status: Not Protected
Title of Publication: Surface and subsurface analysis of archaeological sites around the lakes of the Dubi Mirwah Desert in Sindh, Pakistan
Published In: Occasional Paper 4 Linguistics, Archaeology and the Human Past
Year of Publication: 2008
Bibliography/Reference: Mallah, Q.H.
