045 – Burned bones in pit 40

 

They are thousands. This amount of bags full of those cremated bones gives a good image of the density of fragments of cremated human bones collected in five days of excavation in pit 40..

 

 

An incredible context that reveals the importance of cremation as a funerary procedure in middle 3^rd millennium BC. And there are a lot more there, to be excavated in the next few weeks.