Semthan: as a Neolithic site of Kashmir

Abstract

Kashmir is renowned for its attractiveness and usual outlook all over the globe. Its towering snow-clad mountains, dazzling spots, gorgeous valleys, rivers with freezing water, gorgeous lakes and springs and ever-green fields, intense forests and attractive health resorts, improve its magnificence and are a foundation of massive attraction for tourists^[i]. One of the renowned Persian writer Sheikh Sadia huge is supposed to have said, "If there is any paradise on earth, it is here in Kashmir". So far as the foundation of Kashmir is concerned here are a bunch of theories in relative to the foundation of Kashmir^[ii]. However, the perfect starting point of the population of Kashmir is not exclusively documented and might be an exciting theme for study. It is not documented whether a few anthropological or any DNA study of Kashmir has still been attempted. There are only some accurate and overwhelming systematic proofs regarding the start of human culture in Kashmir. The most significant and satisfactory theory about the derivation of Kashmir is Stone Age culture, throughout which we can apprehension the start of human culture in Kashmir. Based on tool manufacture customs, the total Stone Age has been separated into three main stages i.e., Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic cultures dated between 500000 BC to 3000BC^[iii]

[i] Ibid  p-2-6

[ii] Magid Kagimu “Religiosity for Promotion of Behaviors Likely to Reduce New HIV Infections in Uganda: A Study Among Muslim Youth in Wakiso District”, December 2013, Volume 52, Issue 4, Journal of Religion and Health

[iii] Dar Mohd sajad “Salient feature of different phases Neolithic culture in Kashmir” Department of history Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur, 2017, V-6 Issue -3 , p-112-115