An Archaeological Survey on the Right Bank of River Swat: Shamozai, Matta and Tehsil Kabal

Abstract

This work is an archaeological report on “Archaeological Survey on the Right Bank of River Swat: Shamozai, Matta and Tehsil Kabal”, comprises three chapters. First chapter deals with the introduction of the topic and related previous work. Second chapter deals with brief history of Swat, from Prehistory to historic times. This chapter also contains a short description about the geographical location of Swat valley. The third chapter, which is the main part of this work, deals with the identification of sites, location of sites, nature of sites, present condition of sites and with the culture material from the sites. The discovered sites are of different types, belonging to prehistoric period (a Premature Hypothesis), Protohistoric Period and Buddhist period. The main purpose of this research work is the discovery and documentation of undiscovered and undocumented sites and the reconstruction of the past history of Swat.