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Jul 9, 2019 · Archaeologists have found infant jar burials throughout the ancient Near East, but especially in ancient Canaan. Although the practice of burying infants in storage jars spanned millennia, the custom reached its zenith in the Middle Bronze Age (2000–1550 B.C.E.).
Younger members of the family are often buried differently than adults and in a different location, such as in jar burials under house floors. Further, the number of child burials discovered in ancient Israel is not consistent with the demographic estimates for the number of children at each site.
What did surprise us was the presence of the wooden coffins. Two distinctly different burial customs were revealed during the course of excavation—primary burial in wooden coffins, and secondary burial in limestone ossuaries; the two customs were followed at different times.
Feb 9, 2010 · The infant jar burial excavated by the ABR team during the 2009 season at Kh. el-Maqatir, although similar to other known examples, is unique in that Kh. el-Maqatir is a fortress and not an urban center. Location of the Burial. Entrance gateway and building remains of the Late Bronze I fortress at Kh. el-Maqatir.
Limestone burial urn from Cotabato, Philippines, dated approximately 600 CE. Jar burial is a human burial custom where the corpse is placed into a large earthenware container and then interred. Jar burials are a repeated pattern at a site or within an archaeological culture.
Aug 14, 2019 · Hundreds more 1,100-year-old dead babies and infants have been unearthed in Laos, which a new paper says greatly expands archaeologists understanding of how ancient cultures lived and died, on Laos. Southeastern Asia’s mysterious ‘ plain of jars’ or ‘jars of the dead’, situated near Ban Nahoung in Laos, encompasses thousands of square ...
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Most jars were laid on their sides but some were inverted, with the neck opening downward—perhaps simulating a rebirth. Jars found on and below floors, corners, thresholds or by wells, generally included children from fetus stage to ten years old.
