Dasht-e Nawar

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Location	Ghazni province, Afghanistan
Type	Palaeolithic site
Site notes
Excavation dates	1976 survey by Dupree & Davis

Dasht-e Nāwar (Persian:دشت ناور) is anarchaeological site inGhazni province in Afghanistan. It's situated at the northern end of the lake, on and around Tepe Qādagak, c. 60 km west ofGhazni. A brackish lake measuring c. 60 x 15 km. On the "beaches" to the east and north are severalpalaeolithic sites:Lower Palaeolithic on the east andMiddle Palaeolithic on the north, which includes a large stone hill fortification and associated structures of uncertain date. The surface sites are covered in stone tools, 98% of which are obsidian. These include cleavers, large scrappers, choppers and microblades, some of which appear Lower Palaeolithic. The others bear similarities to theDarra-i Kūr industry.

Collection:

• BIAS – stone tools.

Field-work:

• 1976Dupree &Davis – survey.

• Archaeological Gazetter of Afghanistan / Catalogue des Sites Archéologiques D'Afghanistan, Volume I, Warwick Ball, Editions Recherche sur les civilisations, Paris, 1982.

33°41′N67°43′E / 33.683°N 67.717°E /33.683; 67.717

• Archaeological sites in Afghanistan
• Paleolithic sites

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