EVIDENCE FOR A SEPARATE BURIAL GROUND AT THE SUBMERGED POTTERY NEOLITHIC SITE OF NEVE-YAM, ISRAEL
E. GALILI, V. ESHED, B. ROSEN, M. E. KISLEV, O. SIMCHONI, I. HERSHKOVITZ and A. GOPHER
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Paléorient, vol. 35.1, p. 31-46 © CNRS ÉDITIONS 2009 Manuscrit reçu le 24 novembre 2008, accepté le 5 juin 2009 Formal cemeteries, on or off-site, are not found in the Late Prehistory of the Southern Levant before the Chalcolithic Ghassulian. 1 No such Neolithic cemeteries were unearthed although recently it was suggested that some PPNB sites were
1. LEVY, 1986 and 1995. 2. e. g., GORING-MORRIS, 2005. 3. See GARFINKEL, 2006.
mainly devoted to burial activities and may thus be seen as burial centers, 2 but this still needs to be confi rmed. 3
In this paper we present burial data from the Late Pottery-Neolithic (PN) Wadi Rabah site of Neve-Yam that may shed
