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‘Atiqot 66 (2011)
ISBN 2948-040X
The Faunal Remains from the Burial Caves at Sha‘ar Efrayim
(pp. 67–72)
Liora Kolska Horwitz
Keywords: archaeozoology, Gazzela horncores, ostrich shells
The faunal remains from the Sha‘ar Efrrayim burial caves (Nos. 1, 3–5) were attributed to two main periods, in accordance with the other finding in the caves: Late Chalcolithic and Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age I. They comprise a small, but important, sample, representing a wide range of both domestic and wild taxa. These remains seem to be the first convincing evidence of animal offerings in Late Chalcolithic/EB IA contexts in the southern Levant.