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DigsSite Name: Ein el-JarbaCountry: Israel
NOTE: This site is 3.847 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Umm al-Fahm Nearest Village: Hazorea
Latitude: 32.633000N Longitude: 35.129000E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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A 1966 excavation at Ein el-Jarba yielded four phases of Chalcolithic occupation (4000 BCE) with architectural remains (courtyard houses) as well as burials. Ein el-Jarba is located in the Jezreel valley, Israel
It is today just south of the Kibbutz Hazorea.
After mechanical excavation of a drainage channel uncovered archaeological remains, among those, the famous holemouth jar with anthropomorph or zoomorph applied decoration. Kaplan conducted in 1966 one season of excavation work at Ein al-Jarba (Kaplan 1969).
In 1979, a second drainage channel was mechanically excavated ca 75m west of the Kaplan excavation, uncovering again archaeological remains.
Meyerhof (1982) conducted the salvage excavation in 1980, recording substantial architectural remains. Several other sites were uncovered in close proximity, like Tell Qiri (Baruch 1987), Hazorea (Anati 1971; Anati et al. 1973; Meyerhof 1988-89), Tell Zeriq (Oshri 2000) and Abu Zureiq (Garfinkel and Matskevich 2002), Mishmar HaEmek stratum V (Getzov and Barzilai 2011).
The ca. 65 m² large excavation area at Ein el-Jarba excavated by Kaplan in 1966 yielded four phases of Chalcolithic occupation with architectural remains (courtyard houses) as well as burials (Arensburg 1970). The target of this excavation project is to expand Kaplan’s excavation.
A surface collection survey by Anati (1973:29-40) yielded a considerable amount of Palaelithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Age remains.
From the Ein el-Jarba Excavation Project website.
Note: New excavations explore 6,000-Year-Old Settlement in Israel
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