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En Esur ('ein Asawir) III : Excavations in the Bronze Age Cemetery / Yehuda Dagan and Shelley Sadeh ; with contributions by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Anat Cohen-Weinberger, Yossi Nagar.

By: Dagan, YehudaContributor(s): Sadeh, Shelley | Mayer, Daniella Bar-Yosef | Cohen-Weinberger, Anat | Nagar, YossiMaterial type: TextTextSeries: IAA reports ; no. 68.Publisher: Jerusalem : Israel Antiquities Authority, 2021Copyright date: 2021Description: vi, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789654067461; 9654067463Subject(s): Excavations (Archaeology) -- Israel | Antiquities | Excavations (Archaeology) | En Esur Site (Israel) | Sharon, Plain of (Israel) -- Antiquities | Israel -- Antiquities | Israel | Israel -- En Esur Site | Israel -- Plain of SharonLOC classification: DS110.E59 | .D343 2021
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.