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DigsSite Name: Ahihud Ancient Settlement
Country: Israel
NOTE: This site is 4.175 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Karmiel  Nearest Village: Ahihud
Latitude: 32.911870N  Longitude: 35.166640E
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Ahihud Ancient Settlement
Ahihud Ancient Settlement submitted by coldrum : The phallic figurine found by the excavation. Photograph: Dr. Ya'akov Vardi, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority Site in Israel (Vote or comment on this photo)
A site dating to the Stone Age was exposed in large scale archaeological excavations carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority prior to the construction of a new railway line to Karmiel.

In the excavations, which are spread over 1,800 square meters, remains of two main periods were discovered: the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period and the Early Chalcolithic period (seventh millennium BCE – fifth millennium BCE).

According to Dr. Yitzhak Paz and Dr. Yaʽakov Vardi, excavation directors on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “For the first time in the country, entire buildings and extensive habitation levels were exposed from these early periods, in which the rich material culture of the local residents was discovered”. The ancient settlement remains ascribed to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period were discovered on top of the bedrock in which the ancient inhabitants hew different installations, and even built plaster floors in several spots.

“We found a large number of flint and obsidian arrowheads, polished miniature stone axes, blades and other flint and stone tools. The large amount of tools made of obsidian, a material that is not indigenous to Israel, is indicative of the trade relations that already existed with Turkey, Georgia and other regions during this period”.

According to the archaeologists, “Another unique find that can be attributed to this period is the thousands of charred broad bean seeds that were discovered together inside a pit. The Neolithic and Chalcolithic societies were agrarian societies that resided in villages, and it was during these periods that the agricultural revolution took place, when plants and animals were domesticated. This is one of the earliest examples of the proper cultivation of legumes in the Middle East”.

The remains of the Early Chalcolithic period (fifth millennium BCE) that were revealed at the Ahihud site include a village where there were a number of buildings with rectilinear rooms. Inside the buildings’ walls, which were very thick, were discovered installations that were built of stone and clay, some of which were covered with plaster. Remains of the Wadi Rabah culture were revealed inside the buildings and in the open areas between them. These include a large number of pottery vessels indicative of a highly developed pottery industry, flint tools, stone objects, as well as a number of unique artistic artifacts, among them a phallic figurine and a palette on which female genitals are schematically etched – these symbols also represented the fertility of the earth.

A preliminary analysis of the animal bones discovered at the site shows that pigs were a principal staple in the diet of the inhabitants. According to Shay Baras, director-general of National Roads Company of Israel, “We welcome the opportunity to be partners in a discovery of international scientific value. The salvage excavations were carried out within the framework of diverting Route 85, as part of the construction of the Karmiel railroad track.

The request by the Israel Antiquities Authority to continue its work at the site, as a result of the important discovery, will cause a two month postponement in the schedule for building the railway line. The project managers accepted the challenge and have therefore adapted the subsequent steps in the project’s implementation in order to reduce the impact of the delays on the schedule”.

Source: Israel Antiquities Authority

Note: Phallic figurine and female genital carving found, along with detailed evidence of habitation and bean cultivation
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Ahihud Ancient Settlement
Ahihud Ancient Settlement submitted by coldrum : The excavation area. Photograph: Dr. Ya'akov Vardi, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority Site in Israel (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Survey of the area around the ancient city of Akko by motist on Monday, 25 November 2013
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Intoxicating discovery: 3,600-year-old wine cellar found in Galilee



At Middle Bronze Age site, archaeologists find evidence of merrymaking on a grand scale • The largest wine cellar of the ancient east contained the equivalent of 3,000 bottles of wine • Residents of a palace wined and dined over 500 guests at a time.
Archaeologists from the University of Haifa and two American universities have uncovered an ancient wine cellar at Tel Kabri in the Western Galilee.


"This is a very important discovery," said Professor Eric Cline of George Washington University. "As far as we know, this is the largest and most ancient wine cellar in the ancient east."


Forty jugs were found with a total volume of 2,000 liters. This would be the equivalent of a contemporary wine cellar with 3,000 bottles.


The present season of excavations at Tel Kabri, led by Dr. Assaf Yasur-Landau, senior researcher at the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa, together with Professor Eric Cline of George Washington University and Dr. Andrew Koh from Brandeis University, has focused on the palace of the city's rulers, which was built about 3,850 years ago, in the Middle Bronze Age. The palace stood for at least 300 years and at one point covered an area of 6,000 square meters (1.5 acres) and was at least two stories high.


In previous seasons, said Dr. Yasur-Landau, the excavators discovered a massive banquet hall with residue from feasts of meat for over 500 people. Each guest enjoyed cuts of meat that weighed more than 500 grams (1.1 pounds). Now, it appears, he and his colleagues have found the massive wine collection that allowed banqueters to wash down all that meat.


Archaeologists found a storage room about of 15 square meters (160 square feet) next to the banquet hall. At first, they uncovered a single jug that was about a meter high. The more they dug, they more jugs they found until they discovered that the room had contained no less than 40 jugs with a total volume of 2,000 liters (530 gallons).


At first, it was not at all clear that the jugs had contained wine. Dr. Koh, an expert in archaeological chemistry and classical studies, analyzed the organic materials covering the front of the jugs. He found traces of tartaric acid and syringic acid -- the basic components of wine. He also found traces of compounds inside the jugs that were popular wine ingredients at the time: resin from the terebinth tree, honey, mint and juniper berries. The ingredients are very similar to those used in an Egyptian medicinal wine for 2,000 years.


"This was not wine made at home by amateurs," said Dr. Koh. "Every single jug contained wine made precisely according to the same recipe in the exact same proportions."


The archaeologists say their next step is to try to reconstruct the recipe and replicate the 3,600-year-old wine.

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