Sheri Khan Tarakai

Sheri Khan Tarakai is an ancient settlement site located in the Bannu District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province [1]. Excavations have shown that the settlement at Sheri Khan Tarakai was a small village, populated at any one time by perhaps a few hundred people who lived in mud-walled houses, some of which had stone foundations and flat roofs made of wattle and daub [1]. Sheri Khan Tarakai is located 17 km southwest of Bannu City [1]. The site of Sheri Khan Tarakai was discovered in 1985 by members of the Bannu Archaeological Project, and it is the oldest known village settlement in the Bannu region [1]. Archaeological excavations were carried out at the site for five seasons between 1986 and 1990 [1]. The available dating evidence indicates that Sheri Khan Tarakai was occupied from the late fifth until the early third millennium BC [1].