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{{Short description|Archaeological site in Jammu and Kashmir}}
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'''Gufkral''' ('{{lang|ks|guf}}' means [[cave]] and '{{lang|ks|kral}}' means [[pottery|potter]]) is a site inhabited by potters who utilize the caves.  Caves and archeological site are located at Banmir village in the [[Tral]] Tehsil of the [[Pulwama District]], in the [[Kashmir Valley]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India. The cave of Gufkral is one of the oldest cave in Kashmir and some estimates trace their origin 2000-3000 BCE.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-08-03|title=Gufkral, the endangered legacy of cavemen, metallurgists and Shahmar Pals|url=https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/opinion/gufkral-the-endangered-legacy-of-cavemen-metallurgists-and-shahmar-pals/|access-date=2021-01-23|website=[[Greater Kashmir]]|language=en-US}}</ref>
<ref>A. K. SHARMA [https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/19245/1/AP-v25n2-23-41.pdf GU'fkraI1981: An Aceramic Neolithic Site in the Kashmir Valley] 1982</ref>

The excavation by an [[Archaeological Survey of India]] team led by A K Sharma from 18 August to 20 October in 1981 revealed that the site was occupied for five periods from the [[Aceramic]] [[Neolithic]] to [[Megalithic]] periods.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Neolithic site Gufkral facing official neglect|url=https://theins.in/2018/02/14/neolithic-site-gufkral-facing-official-neglect/|access-date=2021-01-24|website=The INS News|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Gufkral {{!}} archaeological site, India|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Gufkral|access-date=2021-01-24|website=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=SHARMA|first=A. K.|date=1982|title=Gufkral 1981: An Aceramic Neolithic Site in the Kashmir Valley|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42928083|journal=[[Asian Perspectives]]|volume=25|issue=2|pages=23–41|jstor=42928083|issn=0066-8435}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-01-23|title=Tral's Gufkrals'|url=https://kashmirlife.net/trals-gufkrals-issue-43-vol-10-199557/|access-date=2021-01-24|website=[[Kashmir Life]]|language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Location==

Gufkral is situated {{cvt|41|km}} southeast of [[Srinagar]] near the tehsil town of [[Tral]] in the [[Pulwama district|Pulwama]] district of the [[Kashmir Valley]] in [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India.<ref>{{Cite web|last=rashid|first=basharat|title=The Potters of Bonn Mir, and the Gufkral Neolithic Cave Site|url=https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/16/19085/The-Potters-of-Bonn-Mir-and-the-Gufkral-Neolithic-Cave-Site|access-date=2021-01-24|website=The Citizen|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ahmad|first=Syed Mustafa|date=2020-04-30|title=Neolithic Age with respect to Mehargarh, Burzahom and Gufkral|url=https://www.asnaav.com/neolithic-age-with-respect-to-mehargarh-burzahom-and-gufkral/|access-date=2021-01-24|website=Asnaav|language=en-US}}</ref>

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