TY - BOOK AU - Dagan,Yehuda AU - Sadeh,Shelley AU - Mayer,Daniella Bar-Yosef AU - Cohen-Weinberger,Anat AU - Nagar,Yossi TI - En Esur ('ein Asawir) III: Excavations in the Bronze Age Cemetery T2 - Israel Antiquities Authority Reports SN - 9789654067461 AV - DS110.E59 .D343 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - Jerusalem PB - Israel Antiquities Authority KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Israel KW - Antiquities KW - fast KW - En Esur Site (Israel) KW - Sharon, Plain of (Israel) KW - En Esur Site KW - Plain of Sharon N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction / Yehuda Dagan and Shelley Sadeh -- The stratigraphy / Yehuda Dagan and Shelley Sadeh -- The Early Bronze Age pottery / Shelley Sadeh -- The Intermediate Bronze Age pottery / Shelley Sadeh -- The Middle Bronze Age IIA pottery / Shelley Sadeh -- Petrographic analysis of vessels from burial Caves 548, 562 and 567 / Anat Cohen-Weinberger -- The flint artifacts / Shelley Sadeh and Yehuda Dagan -- The groundstone objects / Shelly Sadeh and Yehuda Dagan -- The metal objects / Yehuda Dagan and Shelley Sadeh -- The beads / Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer -- The human skeletal remains / Yossi Nagar -- Summary and conclusions: Early Bronze Age burial caves in the 'En Esur Cemetery / Shelley Sadeh and Yehuda Dagan N2 - This volume is the third in a series of reports documenting excavations at the large protohistoric site of 'En Esur and its extensive burial grounds, located in the northern Sharon plain along a major ancient trade route. The four relatively intact and undisturbed Early Bronze Age burial caves presented in the current volume, excavated in the framework of the Cross Israel Highway Project, revealed over 2000 complete ceramic vessels representing an uninterrupted sequence over several hundred years. These four burial caves comprise an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the society, trad ER -