SATPAHAR SHELTER 2
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Description
The second of three painted rock shelters which IMAM (2001) reports from somewhere on the east-west ridge of the Satpahar massif … (note 1) is slightly removed and on the west facing slope of the hill. CULTURAL HISTORY - rock art: Here we find record of a hunter’s paradise: A string of animals from right to left - a pair of huge humped bison or gaur, a pair of nilgai or bluebull (a type of Indian antelope), a pair of tigers, the male behind accompanied by three wild boar, then a langur monkey facing a pair of hunters with bows and arrows (one hunter is shown in its stomach), a wild buffalo, and a horned rhinoceros, with some more figures of x-ray animals (IMAM 2001).The second of three painted rock shelters which IMAM (2001) reports from somewhere on the east-west ridge of the Satpahar massif … (note 1) is slightly removed and on the west facing slope of the hill. CULTURAL HISTORY - rock art: Here we find record of a hunter’s paradise: A string of animals from right to left - a pair of huge humped bison or gaur, a pair of nilgai or bluebull (a type of Indian antelope), a pair of tigers, the male behind accompanied by three wild boar, then a langur monkey facing a pair of hunters with bows and arrows (one hunter is shown in its stomach), a wild buffalo, and a horned rhinoceros, with some more figures of x-ray animals (IMAM 2001).
Histoire
Cavités proche
Distance (km) | Nom | Longueur (m) | Profondeur (m) |
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0.0 | KOH BARA / KOHBARA | ||
0.0 | MARWATERI CAVE | ||
0.0 | SARIYA SHELTER, Tandwa | ||
0.0 | KHANDAR SHELTER, Tandwa | ||
0.0 | THETHANGI SHELTER, Tandwa | ||
0.0 | RAHAM SHELTER | ||
0.0 | SIDPA SHELTER | ||
0.0 | SATPAHAR SHELTER 1 | ||
0.0 | SATPAHAR SHELTER 3 |