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‘Atiqot 80 (2015)
ISBN 2948-040X
Skeletal Remains from the Excavations at Ketef Hinnom, Jerusalem
(Hebrew, pp. 55*–58*; English summary, p. 143)
Yossi Nagar
Keywords: anthropology, pathologies, infants, life table, demography, ethnicity
The skeletal remains from the burial tombs at Ketef Hinnom date to Iron Age II and the Late Roman period. The bones from the Iron Age were scattered in a repository located in a Second Temple-period quarry; they probably belonged to a Jewish population. The bones from the Late Roman period were found in several tombs that contained mostly one interred; these burials seem to represent a pagan population. Bones from the Byzantine period were documented solely in previous excavations at the site.