Burial Contexts and Skeletal Bioanthropology of Bronze Age Populations from Nahal Refa'im in Jerusalem

Patricia Smith; Gila Kahila Bar-Gal; Emanuel Eisenberg; Helena Roth; Shannon Siegel; Lev Cosijns; Liora Kolska Horwitz; Helene Roth

Burial Contexts and Skeletal Bioanthropology of Bronze Age Populations from Nahal Refa'im in Jerusalem

Patricia Smith, Gila Kahila Bar-Gal, Emanuel Eisenberg, Helena Roth, Shannon Siegel, Lev Cosijns, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Helene Roth

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Abstract

Salvage excavations carried out at the site of Nahal Refa'im on the outskirts of Jerusalem uncovered ruins of a settlement and tombs dating to the Intermediate Bronze Age and Middle Bronze Age I—II (-2500-1750 BCE). The tombs contained the skeletal remains of a minimum number of 188 individuals associated with funerary assemblages that varied in quality and quantity. Here, we describe the human skeletal remains (paleodemography, morphometry, and paleopathology) in relation to their burial type in order to assess the extent to which tomb type or chronology was associated with differences in life history.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	30-58
Number of pages	29
Journal	Israel Exploration Journal
Volume	74
Issue number	2
State	Published - 2024

Keywords

Intermediate Bronze Age
Middle Bronze Age
Refa'im Valley
amputation
paleodemography
paleopathology
scaphocephaly
tomb

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Archaeology
History
Archaeology

RAMBI publications

rambi
Bronze age -- Eretz Israel
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Eretz Israel
Jerusalem (Israel) -- Antiquities
Refa'im River (Israel) -- Antiquities
Tombs -- Eretz Israel

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