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Article: Pakistan: Pakistan in History; 5,000 Years of Continuous Civilization
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- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- September 30, 1996
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PAKISTAN: Pakistan in History; 5,000 Years of Continuous Civilization
The Traces of Paleolithic Humans
Paleolithic humans left their stone tools in large quantities in the north of Pakistan. The tools, which reflect roughly the stages of workmanship found elsewhere in Europe, Africa and Asia, may be seen in the museums of Islamabad, Taxilla, Lahore and Karachi. Nor are tools the only traces of early man in Pakistan. In northern Pakistan traces remain of a crude shelter built 30,000 years ago, during the last glacial epoch of the ice age.
Neolithic Villages
In western Pakistan, neolithic humans lived continuously for 5,000 years at a site called Mehr Gahr along a now dry riverbed in ...