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The Cave Shelters in Panchmarhi are the archeological sites having paintings dating back to 10,000 B.C. Pachmarhi is the loveliest place in the Madhya Pradesh in Central India. Large plateau is the base of Pachmarhi, surrounded by the hills of Satpura range. Pachmarhi is bestowed with jewels of nature. It is called as the queen of Satpura owing to its splendid beauty. This hillstation is situated at a height of 3550ft. in Hoshangabad district in Madhya Pradesh. Pachmarhi is surrounded by low lying hills, dense forests, ravines, tranquil pools, miloky waterfalls which are 12 in number. This saucer shaped valley was chanced upon by Captain James Forsyth in 1857. At that tie it was developed as a sanatorium. It has got very pleasant weather.
Pachmarhi has lots of colonial structures. Besides that it has got archeological significance also as there are many ancient rock paintings in cave shelters on many location in the Satpura Hills. Dhuandhar around Pachmarhi are the best cave shelters in Pachmarhi and group of shelters. The paintings, mostly in white, include a group of arches with the typical gond bun and hooped earrings. At Bhrant Neer (Dorothy deep), depict animal paintings. At the time of excavation in 1930s, many microlith and pottery shards are found.
Other group of cave shelters in Pachmarhi is at Astachal (Monte Rosa), you will find linear drawings in four shelters. In Jambu Dweep valley, there are six shelters. It has paintings depicting animals, humans and including battle scenes. Harper's cave so named because of one of it's paintings - a man seated and playing a harp. There battle scene depicting two chieftains on horses in the the chieftain's cave. On the terrace that runs the length of the south, south-east and east faces of kites crag there are some fine cave paintings, the majority of which are in white or outlined in red.
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