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Surroundings:

Khorvat (Horbat) Omrit

Location:

  • Israel, Shamir
  • geo:33.161556,35.665119
  • Location uncertain

Period or year:

  • -3300 / -800

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=42781

Annotations

Surrounding the kibbutz Shamir near the Syrian border is a field of more than 400 dolmens, date to the Bronze Age IB (ca. 2350–2000 BC).

See:

  1. Gonen Sharon , Alon Barash, Davida Eisenberg-Degen, Leore Grosman, Maya Oron and Uri Berger. "Monumental megalithic burial and rock art tell a new story about the Levant Intermediate Bronze "Dark Ages"". PLOS ONE. 12 (3), 2017 - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0172969

Nearby

Tel Anafa (2 km)

Early Bronze Age through the early Roman period, till the Hellenistic period

Horbat Maahal (2 km)

Ancient tell

Tel Kalil (3 km)

Ancient site


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