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‘Atiqot 94 (2019)
ISBN 2948-040X
Ḥorbat Nevallaṭ: A Chalcolithic Habitation Site and Agricultural Installations in the Shephelah Foothills
(with contributions by Yossi Nagar and Deborah A. Sklar-Parnes, and by Gabriela Bijovsky)
(pp. 1–87)
Edwin C.M. van den Brink and Dorit Lazar
Keywords: Shephelah, settlement, cemetery, pottery, flint, ground stone tools, cupmarks
Excavations at the site revealed the remains of a Chalcolithic broadroom building and adjacent activity areas, which were used for processing agricultural produce and the storing thereof. Two karstic caves were used intermittently during the Chalcolithic period and Early Bronze Age I for domestic and burial purposes. Also uncovered was a single shaft tomb, dating from the Intermediate Bronze Age, various rock-cut installations and three limekilns. The Chalcolithic habitation remains date from around 4000 BCE, based on two calibrated Carbon-14 readings of carbonized olive stones. Finds recovered from the surface and in unassociated contexts point to sporadic occupation at this site from the Iron Age through the Ottoman periods.