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الثلاثاء، 27 سبتمبر 2011

Burial customs in the Late Bronze Age

People continued during the first phase of the Late Bronze Age by using caves in the burial (Strange 2001:311) found examples of this type of burial sites Fahl, and Alqoalbh, and the spot is the burial caves found in the layer solution to the best example of this type, including No. 1, where the grave was found inside the pottery and scarab dated third phases of the middle Bronze Age and the first of the Late Bronze Age

The graves are in the original caves naturally used by the people's graves, but some of the other was cut off in the rock, and consists of more than a burial chamber, as is the case in the tomb No. 62 in the layer stallion, this is the tomb consists of three chambers cut in the rock soft with only a few height was found between the degree of purchase two 1 and 2. The miners, some of these rooms may have been used to prepare food during the Bronze Age Mediterranean. Also found in the tomb of nearly two thousand pieces, most of the pottery, and few of them made ​​of bones, shells, clay, gold, silver and bronze

 And found the jewelry, and jewelry such as pins metal earrings, bracelets, pendants, beads, and the scarab, and cylinder seals, and pots the other made ​​of stones, as well as the graves 1 and 21 Aarkhan the beginning of the first phase of the Late Bronze Age (about 1550 BC). Was inside them a large number of artifacts .

It seems people during the second phase of the Late Bronze Age followed the burial of their dead in caves, as was the case in the previous phase. Examples of this cave, which holds 3 B in Mount Caesar in dinars, or supervising the easy part of the western side. The dimensions of the cave X4 21 o'clock pm, with the entrance to penetrate the mountain horizontally, which is of the form of an ellipse, a large stone bridge. Prospector and was able to identify the two layers inside the cave Tdman remains of 62 individuals.

 In the top layer revealed skeletons of eight people, three of which are carefully placed on a dish or bowl painted in two colors red and black as bears traces of cooking smoke on the outer surface. Perhaps this gives the impression that people had come to a meal and buried inside the cave (perhaps to eat after the other back to life after death, according to people's belief in that period).

 And separates the upper and the lower layer of dirt for Atdm any residue or remains of archaeological sites. In addition to the remains of persons buried in the lower excavators found a hold of beads made ​​from copper and glass in addition to Khrzatan of agate. Were also found inside the tomb about 300 ceramic pot

  

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