Tag: excavation
Late Roman glass kilns discovered at the foot of Mount Carmel
During the excavation, carried out as part of the Jezreel Valley Railway Project between Ha-‘Emekim Junction and Yagur Junction, remains of the oldest kilns in Israel were discovered where commercial quantities of raw glass were produced.
Neolithic tomb reveals community stayed together, even in death
A Neolithic Spanish burial site contains remains of a closely-related local community from 6000 years ago, according to a study published January 20th, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Kurt W. Alt from Danube Private University, Austria, and colleagues.
Archaeologists investigate Dartmoor prehistoric burial
The excavation of a prehistoric burial cist, situated high up on Whitehorse Hill on northern Dartmoor, has commenced. The cist was discovered 10 years ago when its end stone fell out of the peat hag which had been concealing it.