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#2416310

10 January 2018

A Kashmiri woman lift water chestnuts from a wicker basket before grinding them to obtain flour at a mill on January 05, 2018 in Kolhom, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Water chestnuts are a major crop for people living near Wular lake , Asia's second largest freshwater lake. Wular, looks more like a flat marshy plain than a large lake in winters, as the water level recedes entire families collect and extract the marble-sized fruit from its spiky casing . The sun-dried chestnuts are later sold in markets, particularly in summer capital city Srinagar, and are consumed raw or roasted and even ground into a flour which locals say has medicinal properties. Its flour is consumed mostly by the people living around the lake. Now it is also in demand for its anti-diabetic properties, and is used by diabetic patients, because it is free of both cholesterol and fat. Some researchers are even investigating whether the fruit has cancer-fighting properties. Six kilograms of the processed stuff, dealers said, is sold at $4.74 (300 INR), and rates go up as the winter progresses. The shells of the chestnuts do not go waste and are used as cooking fuel. The women take care to store them separately, to later use them as fuel in kangris, an earthenware container with an outer encasement of wickerwork, filled with burning coal and normally carried under the clothing for heat in winter months.

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#2416318

10 January 2018

A Kashmiri man grinds water chestnuts to obtain flour at a mill on January 05, 2018 in Kolhom, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Water chestnuts are a major crop for people living near Wular lake , Asia's second largest freshwater lake. Wular, looks more like a flat marshy plain than a large lake in winters, as the water level recedes entire families collect and extract the marble-sized fruit from its spiky casing . The sun-dried chestnuts are later sold in markets, particularly in summer capital city Srinagar, and are consumed raw or roasted and even ground into a flour which locals say has medicinal properties. Its flour is consumed mostly by the people living around the lake. Now it is also in demand for its anti-diabetic properties, and is used by diabetic patients, because it is free of both cholesterol and fat. Some researchers are even investigating whether the fruit has cancer-fighting properties. Six kilograms of the processed stuff, dealers said, is sold at $4.74 (300 INR), and rates go up as the winter progresses. The shells of the chestnuts do not go waste and are used as cooking fuel. The women take care to store them separately, to later use them as fuel in kangris, an earthenware container with an outer encasement of wickerwork, filled with burning coal and normally carried under the clothing for heat in winter months.

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#2416355

10 January 2018

Kashmiri women carrying tubs full of water chestnuts on their heads, as they are silhouetted against the sun, after harvesting them from mud and weed, on January 05, 2018 in Kolhom, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Water chestnuts are a major crop for people living near Wular lake , Asia's second largest freshwater lake. Wular, looks more like a flat marshy plain than a large lake in winters, as the water level recedes entire families collect and extract the marble-sized fruit from its spiky casing . The sun-dried chestnuts are later sold in markets, particularly in summer capital city Srinagar, and are consumed raw or roasted and even ground into a flour which locals say has medicinal properties. Its flour is consumed mostly by the people living around the lake. Now it is also in demand for its anti-diabetic properties, and is used by diabetic patients, because it is free of both cholesterol and fat. Some researchers are even investigating whether the fruit has cancer-fighting properties. Six kilograms of the processed stuff, dealers said, is sold at $4.74 (300 INR), and rates go up as the winter progresses. The shells of the chestnuts do not go waste and are used as cooking fuel. The women take care to store them separately, to later use them as fuel in kangris, an earthenware container with an outer encasement of wickerwork, filled with burning coal and normally carried under the clothing for heat in winter months.

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#2416376

10 January 2018

Kashmir dealers remove water chestnuts with shovels from a road after being unloaded by a vehicle, on January 05, 2018 in Narbal, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Water chestnuts are a major crop for people living near Wular lake , Asia's second largest freshwater lake. Wular, looks more like a flat marshy plain than a large lake in winters, as the water level recedes entire families collect and extract the marble-sized fruit from its spiky casing . The sun-dried chestnuts are later sold in markets, particularly in summer capital city Srinagar, and are consumed raw or roasted and even ground into a flour which locals say has medicinal properties. Its flour is consumed mostly by the people living around the lake. Now it is also in demand for its anti-diabetic properties, and is used by diabetic patients, because it is free of both cholesterol and fat. Some researchers are even investigating whether the fruit has cancer-fighting properties. Six kilograms of the processed stuff, dealers said, is sold at $4.74 (300 INR), and rates go up as the winter progresses. The shells of the chestnuts do not go waste and are used as cooking fuel. The women take care to store them separately, to later use them as fuel in kangris, an earthenware container with an outer encasement of wickerwork, filled with burning coal and normally carried under the clothing for heat in winter months.

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#2416377

10 January 2018

A Kashmiri Muslim woman boils the water chestnuts on an earthen hearth to make their peeling easier, on January 05, 2018 in Narbal, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Water chestnuts are a major crop for people living near Wular lake , Asia's second largest freshwater lake. Wular, looks more like a flat marshy plain than a large lake in winters, as the water level recedes entire families collect and extract the marble-sized fruit from its spiky casing . The sun-dried chestnuts are later sold in markets, particularly in summer capital city Srinagar, and are consumed raw or roasted and even ground into a flour which locals say has medicinal properties. Its flour is consumed mostly by the people living around the lake. Now it is also in demand for its anti-diabetic properties, and is used by diabetic patients, because it is free of both cholesterol and fat. Some researchers are even investigating whether the fruit has cancer-fighting properties. Six kilograms of the processed stuff, dealers said, is sold at $4.74 (300 INR), and rates go up as the winter progresses. The shells of the chestnuts do not go waste and are used as cooking fuel. The women take care to store them separately, to later use them as fuel in kangris, an earthenware container with an outer encasement of wickerwork, filled with burning coal and normally carried under the clothing for heat in winter months.

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#2416378

10 January 2018

A Kashmiri Muslim woman boils the water chestnuts on an earthen hearth to make their peeling easier, on January 05, 2018 in Narbal, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Water chestnuts are a major crop for people living near Wular lake , Asia's second largest freshwater lake. Wular, looks more like a flat marshy plain than a large lake in winters, as the water level recedes entire families collect and extract the marble-sized fruit from its spiky casing . The sun-dried chestnuts are later sold in markets, particularly in summer capital city Srinagar, and are consumed raw or roasted and even ground into a flour which locals say has medicinal properties. Its flour is consumed mostly by the people living around the lake. Now it is also in demand for its anti-diabetic properties, and is used by diabetic patients, because it is free of both cholesterol and fat. Some researchers are even investigating whether the fruit has cancer-fighting properties. Six kilograms of the processed stuff, dealers said, is sold at $4.74 (300 INR), and rates go up as the winter progresses. The shells of the chestnuts do not go waste and are used as cooking fuel. The women take care to store them separately, to later use them as fuel in kangris, an earthenware container with an outer encasement of wickerwork, filled with burning coal and normally carried under the clothing for heat in winter months.

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#2416382

10 January 2018

Kashmiri men thrash the water with oars to separate chestnut from the mud and weed, on January 05, 2018 in Kolhom, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Water chestnuts are a major crop for people living near Wular lake , Asia's second largest freshwater lake. Wular, looks more like a flat marshy plain than a large lake in winters, as the water level recedes entire families collect and extract the marble-sized fruit from its spiky casing . The sun-dried chestnuts are later sold in markets, particularly in summer capital city Srinagar, and are consumed raw or roasted and even ground into a flour which locals say has medicinal properties. Its flour is consumed mostly by the people living around the lake. Now it is also in demand for its anti-diabetic properties, and is used by diabetic patients, because it is free of both cholesterol and fat. Some researchers are even investigating whether the fruit has cancer-fighting properties. Six kilograms of the processed stuff, dealers said, is sold at $4.74 (300 INR), and rates go up as the winter progresses. The shells of the chestnuts do not go waste and are used as cooking fuel. The women take care to store them separately, to later use them as fuel in kangris, an earthenware container with an outer encasement of wickerwork, filled with burning coal and normally carried under the clothing for heat in winter months.

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#2416383

10 January 2018

Kashmiri men thrash the water with oars to separate chestnut from the mud and weed, on January 05, 2018 in Kolhom, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Water chestnuts are a major crop for people living near Wular lake , Asia's second largest freshwater lake. Wular, looks more like a flat marshy plain than a large lake in winters, as the water level recedes entire families collect and extract the marble-sized fruit from its spiky casing . The sun-dried chestnuts are later sold in markets, particularly in summer capital city Srinagar, and are consumed raw or roasted and even ground into a flour which locals say has medicinal properties. Its flour is consumed mostly by the people living around the lake. Now it is also in demand for its anti-diabetic properties, and is used by diabetic patients, because it is free of both cholesterol and fat. Some researchers are even investigating whether the fruit has cancer-fighting properties. Six kilograms of the processed stuff, dealers said, is sold at $4.74 (300 INR), and rates go up as the winter progresses. The shells of the chestnuts do not go waste and are used as cooking fuel. The women take care to store them separately, to later use them as fuel in kangris, an earthenware container with an outer encasement of wickerwork, filled with burning coal and normally carried under the clothing for heat in winter months.

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#2416384

10 January 2018

An elderly man weighs water chestnuts after extracting them from Wular lake, on January 05, 2018 in Narbal, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Water chestnuts are a major crop for people living near Wular lake , Asia's second largest freshwater lake. Wular, looks more like a flat marshy plain than a large lake in winters, as the water level recedes entire families collect and extract the marble-sized fruit from its spiky casing . The sun-dried chestnuts are later sold in markets, particularly in summer capital city Srinagar, and are consumed raw or roasted and even ground into a flour which locals say has medicinal properties. Its flour is consumed mostly by the people living around the lake. Now it is also in demand for its anti-diabetic properties, and is used by diabetic patients, because it is free of both cholesterol and fat. Some researchers are even investigating whether the fruit has cancer-fighting properties. Six kilograms of the processed stuff, dealers said, is sold at $4.74 (300 INR), and rates go up as the winter progresses. The shells of the chestnuts do not go waste and are used as cooking fuel. The women take care to store them separately, to later use them as fuel in kangris, an earthenware container with an outer encasement of wickerwork, filled with burning coal and normally carried under the clothing for heat in winter months.

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#2416385

10 January 2018

A Kashmiri man grinds water chestnuts to obtain flour at a mill on January 05, 2018 in Kolhom, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Water chestnuts are a major crop for people living near Wular lake , Asia's second largest freshwater lake. Wular, looks more like a flat marshy plain than a large lake in winters, as the water level recedes entire families collect and extract the marble-sized fruit from its spiky casing . The sun-dried chestnuts are later sold in markets, particularly in summer capital city Srinagar, and are consumed raw or roasted and even ground into a flour which locals say has medicinal properties. Its flour is consumed mostly by the people living around the lake. Now it is also in demand for its anti-diabetic properties, and is used by diabetic patients, because it is free of both cholesterol and fat. Some researchers are even investigating whether the fruit has cancer-fighting properties. Six kilograms of the processed stuff, dealers said, is sold at $4.74 (300 INR), and rates go up as the winter progresses. The shells of the chestnuts do not go waste and are used as cooking fuel. The women take care to store them separately, to later use them as fuel in kangris, an earthenware container with an outer encasement of wickerwork, filled with burning coal and normally carried under the clothing for heat in winter months.

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#921541

22 November 2015

A drone view of chalcolithic settlement Bobata near Avren, pictured on 21 November 2015, Saturday, some 450 km from the capital of Sofia, lies on a top of a rock with an area of 0,25 ha on the north-western edge of the Avren plateau. It is aged about V-II century B.C. The settlement is approachable only from the north side, while the east, south and west sides are vertical and over 120 m high rocks. The accessible north side is enclosed by a 65 m long, arc-shaped stone wall. The settlement has a strategic defensive position, overlooking the major trade route leading from the lakes of Varna and Beloslav through the Balkan range via the low Aytos pass to Thrace. A 12,20 m long section of the stone enclosure wall was uncovered. The wall is constructed of large undressed stones without mortar and is preserved to a maximal height of 1,60 m. The width of this structure was 1,80-2,00 m. The chalcolithic cultural layer in the interior of the settlement is 1,30 m thick and includes two forts of habitation. The inner fort is 190 m long and there were lived thracian senior citizens, and the outer is 320 m long and there are traces of other population. It is believed that the settlement was inhabited by XI century. The excavations uncovered the well-preserved remains of burnt houses-collapsed wattle-and-daub walls, house floors, installations such as ovens as well as concentrations of finds in situ. All archaeological materials and features at the site date to the Late Chalcolithic period. The materials correspond typologically to the Late Chalcolithic finds from Durankulak and Varna. Photo by: Petar Petrov /Impact Press Group/NurPhoto

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#921542

22 November 2015

A drone view of chalcolithic settlement Bobata near Avren, pictured on 21 November 2015, Saturday, some 450 km from the capital of Sofia, lies on a top of a rock with an area of 0,25 ha on the north-western edge of the Avren plateau. It is aged about V-II century B.C. The settlement is approachable only from the north side, while the east, south and west sides are vertical and over 120 m high rocks. The accessible north side is enclosed by a 65 m long, arc-shaped stone wall. The settlement has a strategic defensive position, overlooking the major trade route leading from the lakes of Varna and Beloslav through the Balkan range via the low Aytos pass to Thrace. A 12,20 m long section of the stone enclosure wall was uncovered. The wall is constructed of large undressed stones without mortar and is preserved to a maximal height of 1,60 m. The width of this structure was 1,80-2,00 m. The chalcolithic cultural layer in the interior of the settlement is 1,30 m thick and includes two forts of habitation. The inner fort is 190 m long and there were lived thracian senior citizens, and the outer is 320 m long and there are traces of other population. It is believed that the settlement was inhabited by XI century. The excavations uncovered the well-preserved remains of burnt houses-collapsed wattle-and-daub walls, house floors, installations such as ovens as well as concentrations of finds in situ. All archaeological materials and features at the site date to the Late Chalcolithic period. The materials correspond typologically to the Late Chalcolithic finds from Durankulak and Varna. Photo by: Petar Petrov /Impact Press Group/NurPhoto

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#921545

22 November 2015

A drone view of chalcolithic settlement Bobata near Avren, pictured on 21 November 2015, Saturday, some 450 km from the capital of Sofia, lies on a top of a rock with an area of 0,25 ha on the north-western edge of the Avren plateau. It is aged about V-II century B.C. The settlement is approachable only from the north side, while the east, south and west sides are vertical and over 120 m high rocks. The accessible north side is enclosed by a 65 m long, arc-shaped stone wall. The settlement has a strategic defensive position, overlooking the major trade route leading from the lakes of Varna and Beloslav through the Balkan range via the low Aytos pass to Thrace. A 12,20 m long section of the stone enclosure wall was uncovered. The wall is constructed of large undressed stones without mortar and is preserved to a maximal height of 1,60 m. The width of this structure was 1,80-2,00 m. The chalcolithic cultural layer in the interior of the settlement is 1,30 m thick and includes two forts of habitation. The inner fort is 190 m long and there were lived thracian senior citizens, and the outer is 320 m long and there are traces of other population. It is believed that the settlement was inhabited by XI century. The excavations uncovered the well-preserved remains of burnt houses-collapsed wattle-and-daub walls, house floors, installations such as ovens as well as concentrations of finds in situ. All archaeological materials and features at the site date to the Late Chalcolithic period. The materials correspond typologically to the Late Chalcolithic finds from Durankulak and Varna. Photo by: Petar Petrov /Impact Press Group/NurPhoto

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