Archaeolofists Uri Berger and Gonen Sharon show engravings in a rock bearing images of animals from the intermediate Bronze age, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights July 13, 2020. — AFP pic
The megalithic structure is one of the thousands of so-called dolmens scattered around northern Israel and the wider region, burial tombs erected some 4,000-4,500 years ago in the Intermediate Bronze Era. About two years ago, “when one of the rangers here in the park walked her daily walk, she looked inside and saw something carved in the walls,” recalled Uri Berger, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Just north of the nature reserve, outside the northern Galilee kibbutz Shamir, Sharon was hiking with his children in 2012 on a field with some 400 dolmens spread across it. The Shamir carvings, unnoticed by generations of researchers, reinvigorated archeological study in the area. Small pieces of ceramics, metal spearheads and daggers, bits of jewellery and beads and some bones are found at the sites from time to time, Sharon said. “But it's very rare to find” anything, and such finds are very scattered.With the discovery of the art carved into the stones, “we can say something that is much more than what we knew for 200 years,” said Berger.
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