Biological Characteristics of Jewish Burial in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods

Abstract

The present report describes the study of human skeletal remains from eight Jewish burial caves in the northern Shephelah (Shoham and Tel Hadid) and the Samaria (Bir a-Dawali and Gif ne) regions (fig. 1). Human bones in these caves were found buried in rooms, niches and ossuaries. The caves were in context to a rural settlement site. These sites and the caves themselves were dated to the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The populations that used these caves were Jewish, as is evident from the history of these regions, the Jewish characteristics of the nearby sites (such as the presence of a miqweh in the

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