Abstract
Between 2016 and 2018, three brief salvage excavations conducted northwest of Kefar Veradim uncovered twenty rock-cut shafts leading into multiple burial chambers dating to the Intermediate Bronze Age, as well as five associated rock-cut basins of purportedly mortuary function. These tombs are part of a burial ground extending along a rocky spur overlooking Naḥal Yeḥiʻam. At least ten of the identified underground burial chambers, which were of two different types and originally sealed with flat stone slabs, had been robbed in antiquity. The remaining tombs could not be explored due to significant interference from the ultra-Orthodox burial society Atra Kadisha.
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van den Brink, Edwin C.M.
(2025)
"Kefar Veradim: An Intermediate Bronze Age Communal Burial Ground in Western Upper Galilee,"
Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel: Vol. 1, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/3078-8528.1004
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/qadum/vol1/iss1/5
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