BAZAR SHELTER
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Description
A »shelter« (GUIDE TO PACHMARGI 1936: Appendix; NEUMAYER 1990: 25) or »cave« (GUPTA 1967) in the –>Pachmarhi area is (has been?) used as a shelter and contains rock art (cave paintings), which does (GUPTA 1967) or does not (NEUMAYER 1990: 25) depict ostriches. »Two shelters … One shelter is now occupied the other is nearly directly above it, and has only one painting« (Glennie, E A circa 1948 s.a. Mss "Preliminary record" after GUIDE TO PACHMARHI 1936). SITUATION: The Bazar Shelter is somewhere »behind the Sub-Divisional Office Public Works Department's Bungalow [note 1]« (Glennie, E A circa 1948 s.a. Mss "Preliminary record" after GUIDE TO PACHMARHI 1936). CULTURAL HISTORY - rock art: GUPTA (1967) claims paintings of ostriches. Excavation of a small trench in the flat area in front of the shelter (or cave?) yielded an enormous number of both geometric and non-geometric microliths, cores and waste flakes but no pottery (GUPTA 1967: 206, plate XX-2; repeated by RAMAMURTHY 1988 and GOSH 1989). WAKANKAR & BHATNAGAR (1978: 9) »… suggest that Upper Palaeolithic [note 2] artists may have produced some of the earliest paintings, including those of an ostrich, in the Central Indian rock shelters« (JACOBSON 1979: 480). NEUMAYER (1990: 25), accompanied by Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar, visited »Bazar Shelter« in 1978 and arrived at concluding that the discovery of ostrich paintings in »Bazar Cave« (GUPTA 1967) is »a classic case of wishful thinking.«
NOTE 1: »PWD RH« (Public Works Department, Rest House) is indicated near N22°28'25": E078°25'40" (Everest 1830) on Survey of India sheet 55-J/07 (edition 1976). NOTE 2: »Indian archaeologists placed the ‘Upper Palaeolithic' between the Indian Middle and Late Stone Ages (using the nomenclature decided upon at the first conference on Asian Archaeology in 1961), or Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (using more recent Eurocentric terminology)« (HASLAM, M et al. 2010: 12). For the nomenclature decided upon at the first conference on Asian Archaeology, HASLAM, M et al. (2010: 19 note 100) refer to MURTY, M L K (1979): Recent research on the Upper Palaeolithic phase in India.- Journal of Field Archaeology, 6: 301–320.
Cavités proche
| Distance (km) | Nom | Longueur (m) | Profondeur (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | BAZAR SHELTER 2 | ||
| 0.0 | CHURNA SHELTERS | ||
| 0.0 | JHALAI SHELTERS | ||
| 0.0 | DAURI SHELTERS | ||
| 0.0 | PATTAN SHELTERS | ||
| 0.0 | BHUDIMAI SHELTERS | ||
| 0.3 | Saint Mary's Grotto | ||
| 0.7 | PANDAVA CAVE, Pachmarhi | ||
| 1.6 | DHUANDHAR |