Burzahom or Burzahama Kashmir “The Aarchaeological Site” in Kashmir, India by Ahanger HOBO

The Burzahom or Burzahama an archaeological site is located in the Srinagar district of the Kashmir Valley in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Evidences of wheat were found.[1] Archaeological excavations have revealed four phases of cultural significance between 3000 BCE and 1000 BCE.

Burzahama (20 km) 6 km Off the Habbak-Ganderbal road archeological excavations of pots, animal skeletons, tools from Neolithic age provides evidence of people living in the valley during 2500 BC in underground caves or pits dug into the karewa soil. Black burnished pottery, bone tools including awls, needles and harpoons, packed and ground stone axes, ring tools where the some of the articles excavated at the site near the present Burzahama village. It is believed that about l400BC the pit dwelling changed into structures built on the ground, which also included the innovation of the potter’s wheel. Towards the end of this phase knowledge of metallurgy and human & animal burials has been traced by the archeologists.