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'Atiqot 88 (2017)
ISBN 2948-040X
The Archaeozoology of Bronze Age Offerings from Burial Cave 900 in Nahal Refa’im, Jerusalem
(pp. 75–100)
Liora Kolska Horwitz
Keywords: burial, cemetery, butchery marks, ceremony, economy
The animal remains recovered during the salvage excavations in Cave 900 were interspersed among human skeletal remains, ceramics, weapons and ornaments. It is apparent that the faunal remains represent exclusively domestic sheep (Ovis aries) and goat (Capra hircus) that were slaughtered as part of Bronze Age mortuary rituals. This assemblage provides additional evidence for the widespread nature of the funeral feast in both the Intermediate Bronze Age and Middle Bronze Age IIB.