Animal bone remains from the Middle Bronze Age burial cave at Beit Ṣafafa, Jerusalem

Marom, Nimrod
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Title Animal bone remains from the Middle Bronze Age burial cave at Beit Ṣafafa, Jerusalem.
Host Item Atiqot 106 (2022) 49–56
Description The Middle Bronze Age II burial cave at Beit Ṣafafa yielded a small assemblage of animal bones. At least nine different animals were documented, all adult at death. The remains of the funerary deposits are typical of MB II in their exclusive use of caprine offerings. The bones provide additional data concerning animal offerings that accompanied interments in the Middle Bronze Age.
Language English
National Library system number 997012280869505171
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