HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF DISTRICT GHIZER: A CASE STUDY OF TEHSIL PUNYĀL, GILGIT-BALTISTAN

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dc.contributor.authorMUEEZ UD DIN
dc.contributor.authorSupervised By: Prof. Dr. M. Nasim Khan
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-27T04:25:16Z
dc.date.available2026-07-27T04:25:16Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis research is an attempt to understand the archaeology of District Ghizer, based on the data gathered through investigations in the research area, particularly in Tehsil Punyāl. As an outcome, the establishment of an archaeological inventory becomes possible, besides understanding the details of such sites and monuments. Moreover, an indepth and analytical study, based on synchronic and diachronic analysis, in relation to similar archaeological discoveries in the surrounding world, has helped in understanding the cultural profile of the area, on preliminary grounds. More than this, the focus of our learning is on the unique graves, known locally as bumbati or gumbati (mausoleums), dated to the formative phases of Islamic culture. This dissertation, presenting the investigation, is offered in six chapters. The first chapter attempts to introduce District Ghizer with special reference to Tehsil Punyāl. The second chapter is specified on the past investigations, conducted on the archaeology of District Ghizer. This portion of dissertation presents a brief review of ancient literature in broader context of Gilgit-Baltistan, besides that of colonial and post colonial attempts towards understanding the history of Ghizer zone. Our third and main chapter let us know the recent archaeological explorations, with the descriptive details of the explored sites of archaeological and historical significance. It includes the details about the selected archaeological sites, including the type sites of rock art, megalithic graves, settlement sites of proto-historic or early historic periods, Buddhist-age sites, structural dumps of medieval-age and monuments of Khuśwaqte and Buruśe period. The fourth chapter focus to explain the details of the gumbati (mausoleums). This portion also offers the influence of this burial tradition upon our contemporary model of Islamic grave and burial in Punyāl, in its adjacent valleys of Yasin, Gupis and Ishkōman, and that in Hunza. The fifth chapter is an attempt towards establishing the cultural history, reconstructed from an analytical study of explored antiquities. It help in understanding the cultural outline of this region, in relation to the archaeological evidences of ancient cultures in and around Gilgit-Baltistan. The last and sixth chapter of this study is our conclusion.
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.uop.edu.pk/123456789/466
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDepartment of Archaeology
dc.relation.ispartofseries100023
dc.titleHISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF DISTRICT GHIZER: A CASE STUDY OF TEHSIL PUNYĀL, GILGIT-BALTISTAN
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