Abstract

Kashmir perhaps possess an authentic account of its History from the very earliest period. The Neolithic site of Burzahom throws a light on the different phases of the earliest history of Kashmir. The Burzahom site is a prehistoric settlement in the village of the same name in the Valley of Kashmir, a valley located between the Karakoram and the Pir Panjal Range. It is located between 34010' N and 73054 E. It is 16 kilometers 9.9 miles to the northeast of Srinagar on the Naseem-Shalimar road. The elevation of the site is 1,800 meters 5,900 t above sea-level. It is the northernmost excavated Neolithic site of India. The site is on an ancient Pleistocene lake bed1.The location is in a high terrace which is part of the floodplain of the Jhelum River and has Karewa soil clay formation. The site has a commanding view of the Dal Lake which is about 2 kilometers 1.2 miles away. In the Kashmiri language Burzahom means birch , a tree species that generally grows in the elevation range of 3,000 to 4,200 meters 9,800 to 13,800 ft. in the Himalayas , which is found in the excavated housing area in the form of roofing material, and thus confirming the existence of the tree even in the pre-historic Neolithic times2. by Sartaj Ahsan Bhat | M C Dubey "Burzahom (Burzohama) a Neolithic Site in Kashmir" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-2 , February 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd21440.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/history/21440/burzahom-burzohama-a-neolithic-site-in-kashmir/sartaj-ahsan-bhat

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