Abstract
The burial cave, carved into limestone, consists of a square, vertical shaft and an elliptical room. The cave’s contents, which included pottery vessels, carnelian beads, a bronze toggle pin and a stone pommel, were scattered on a fill on the floor. Six adult individuals and one child were identified. The bones of sheep and cattle, which served as food offerings, were found as well. The pottery included bowls, a storage jar, a large krater with loop feet, jugs, dipper and piriform juglets, and a unique Tell el-Yahudiyeh juglet with a zoomorphic protome. The cave is a typical Early Bronze Age IV–Middle Bronze Age I shaft tomb, reused in the Middle Bronze Age.
Keywords
Lower Galilee, cemetery, Intermediate Bronze Age, archaeozoology, physical anthropology, typology
Recommended Citation
Gershuny, Lilly and Eisenberg, Emanuel
(2005)
"A Middle Bronze Age Burial Cave at Tur‘an,"
'Atiqot: Vol. 50, Article 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1163
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol50/iss1/1
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