Ḥorbat Nevallaṭ: A Chalcolithic Habitation Site and Agricultural Installations in the Shephelah Foothills (with contributions by Yossi Nagar and Deborah A. Sklar-Parnes, and by Gabriela Bijovsky) (pp. 1–87)

Authors

Edwin C.M. van den Brink, Israel Antiquities Authority
Dorit Lazar, Israel Antiquities Authority

Abstract

Excavations at the site revealed the remains of a Chalcolithic broadroom building and adjacent activity areas, which were used for processing agricultural produce and the storing thereof. Two karstic caves were used intermittently during the Chalcolithic period and Early Bronze Age I for domestic and burial purposes. Also uncovered was a single shaft tomb, dating from the Intermediate Bronze Age, various rock-cut installations and three limekilns. The Chalcolithic habitation remains date from around 4000 BCE, based on two calibrated Carbon-14 readings of carbonized olive stones. Finds recovered from the surface and in unassociated contexts point to sporadic occupation at this site from the Iron Age through the Ottoman periods.

Keywords

Shephelah, settlement, cemetery, pottery, flint, ground stone tools, cupmarks

Recommended Citation

van den Brink, Edwin C.M. and Lazar, Dorit (2019) "Ḥorbat Nevallaṭ: A Chalcolithic Habitation Site and Agricultural Installations in the Shephelah Foothills (with contributions by Yossi Nagar and Deborah A. Sklar-Parnes, and by Gabriela Bijovsky) (pp. 1–87)," 'Atiqot: Vol. 94, Article 2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1997
Available at: https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol94/iss1/2