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‘Atiqot 84 (2016)
ISBN 2948-040X
Human Skeletal Remains from a Cistern at Tel Hadid (el-Haditha)
(Hebrew, p. 23*–24*; English summary, p. 122)
Yossi Nagar
Keywords: anthropology, burial, demography
Human skeletal remains were found in a Byzantine water cistern at Tel Hadid. The scattered bones were mixed with grave goods dated to the Late Bronze Age, probably the result of the clearance of adjacent graves. The bones were in a very poor state of preservation, and included mostly teeth. The bones from Tel Hadid represent at least 20 individuals, including infants, children, sub-adults and adults, typical of a regular historic cemetery population.