Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Atiqot
Angaben zur Quelle:
108 (2022) 113-143
Keywords:
Bronze age
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Dwellings
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Stone implements
;
Animal remains (Archaeology)
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Modi'in Region (Israel) Antiquities
;
Shephelah (Israel) Antiquities
Abstract:
The excavation at Ḥorbat Ḥammim (South) yielded a rock-cut basin and a small cave within a limestone bedrock outcrop. The basin is similar to other rock-cut installations previously exposed in the area and dated to the Chalcolithic period.The manmade rock-cut cave was entered through a shaft. The sediments from the shaft and the cave consisted of many potsherds, stone tools and animal bones, that may have been washed into the cave, or intentionally discarded in it. The cave may have been quarried as early as the Late Chalcolithic period, although the bulk of the pottery dates to EB IA, supporting the presence of a small community of early EB I dwellers in this area.
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