Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age IA Settlement Remains at Kafr Kanna, Lower Galilee (original) (raw)
2022, 'Atiqot 108
Four strata were distinguished at the site: Stratum 4, dating to the Late Chalcolithic period; Strata 3 and 2, to EB IA; and Stratum 1, sub-recent. The Late Chalcolithic remains consisted of a stone surface and an underlying fill, and the EB IA remains included wall segments of three structures: two buildings (Stratum 3) and a wall of a large double-apsed structure (Stratum 2). The technological analysis of the pottery from the site testifies to a transmission from the Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age populations in the way of making utilitarian ceramics, indicating continuity of the same population. The findings at Kafr Kanna thus contribute to the archaeological record concerning the transition from the Late Chalcolithic to the early EB IA in central Lower Galilee.
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