Late Neolithic Period Sites Along Koh-e-Suleiman in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan: Recent Discoveries

Abstract

A recent survey in the area of Dera Ghazi Khan District (Punjab) carried out by a team of the University of Peshawar located some important late Neolithic period sites (akin to Sheri Khan Tarakai phase of the Bannu Basin and Jhandi Babar I in the Gomal Plain) in the foothill of Suleiman Range tentatively dated from 4500 – 3500 BC. In addition, Paleolithic, protohistoric, historic, Islamic and Colonial periods sites have also been recorded in the survey, but this paper is confined to the late Neolithic period settlements in the Tribal Area of District Dera Ghazi Khan, bordering Balochistan along the foothills of Koh-e-Suleiman.