A Pottery Neolithic Cave near Kafr Bara along Nahal Qanah, Central Israel
Trial excavations carried out in 2019 on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the close vicinity of Kafr Bara, situated along the southern bank of Nahal Qanah in central Israel, revealed inter alia a cave that had been used for non-domestic purposes during the Pottery Neolithic, Late Chalco...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Israel exploration journal
Year: 2022, Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-13 |
| Summary: | Trial excavations carried out in 2019 on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the close vicinity of Kafr Bara, situated along the southern bank of Nahal Qanah in central Israel, revealed inter alia a cave that had been used for non-domestic purposes during the Pottery Neolithic, Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age I. While the remains attributed to the latter two periods clearly indicate reuse of the cave as a burial ground, deposits associated with the former period indicate a different, initially non-domestic use of the cave, possibly of a ritualistic or cultic character. This report focuses on some of the Pottery Neolithic Yarmukian ceramic finds and their contexts. The newly probed cave underlines the validity of a broader phenomenon recently observed in several natural caves in approximately the same region that contain similar non-domestic sequences from the three periods under discussion. |
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| ISSN: | 0021-2059 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Israel exploration journal
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