Bhavani A TO Z INDIA SEPTEMBER 2022 PAGE 8 Petroglyph / Rock art: Signs of Pre-historic Cave Dwelling Age Zaingeer is an important basin of Wular catchment, and a view of the mountain massif locally known as Sherakoot separates the Lolab Valley from Zaingeer catchment. Near Yamran (Bomai), this mountain range has a vertical rock face locally known as Kootar Dab (Abode of Pigeons). This vertical rock face has many natural caves. It is believed that about 100,000 years ago humans were cave dwellers. This spo t seems idle for cave dwelling because of its natural caves and water resource. At the base of Rock face one can see a Petroglyph (Rock art). This rock art has some distinct concentric circles engraved. The people from archeology and physics have already submitted research papers on this rock art. Some claim it depicts meteorite showers, which in turn created the lakes of Kashmir and others claim that it is a sky chart depicting Nova/Supernova explosions. Whatever it is! It is wonderful to see the signs of cave dwelling age in this neighborhood. I therefore strongly recommend for the protection and restoration of this Rock art. Further this area should be explored and the moss must be cleaned from other rocks so that other Petroglyphs are discovered .