Sanghao Cave, Mardan

A rock shelter in the hills of Mardan district where Stone Age hunters lived from about 18,000 to 8,000 BCE.

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Sanghao Cave is a rock shelter in the hills of Mardan district, used by people from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic period, roughly 18,000 to 8,000 BCE. Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani excavated it in the 1960s and found microliths, the small stone blades of Stone Age hunters, making it one of the key prehistoric sites of the region. It is protected under the Antiquities Act, 1975.

Why go

✦A Stone Age rock shelter
✦Excavated by A. H. Dani in the 1960s
✦Microliths of prehistoric hunters

How to Reach

In the hills of Mardan district; ask locally for the path to the cave.

Planning tip

Best Time to Visit, October to April.

Getting there, In the hills of Mardan district; ask locally for the path to the cave.

Allow, Half a day.

What to Do

◆Walk up to the shelter in the hillside

◆Imagine its Stone Age hunters looking over the valley

◆Go with a local guide

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