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The Chalcolithic burial cave in Ma'avarot,Israel, and its palaeoanthropological implications
Authors:Anagnostis P. Agelarakis  Samuel Paley  Yosef Porath  Jennifer Winick
Abstract:This paper reports on bioarchaeological and palaeopathological investigations of the Chalcolithic Ma'avarot burial cave in the Hefer valley (Sharon central coastal plain), Israel. The objective of this project was to retrieve enough data from the anthropological material which, in conjunction with the rest of the archaeological record, would help to better elucidate aspects of the archaeological questions concerning the Chalcolithic in the Levant. The integrated analysis of the archaeological record included studies of burial customs and practices, the associated material culture, skeletal biology, pathology and bone archaeometry. Correlations are made with the current and contradictory arguments about the migration of peoples and cultural diffusion and the explanatory hypothesis supporting autochthonous cultural developmental processes at this chronological juncture in the Levant. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords:Levant  Chalcolithic  palaeopathology  epigenetic variation  archaeometry
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