Living Floor Archaeology

A 2 000 year old mikveh jewish ritual bath.

Living floor archaeology. The israel antiquities authority recently announced the discovery. What s underneath your living room floor. It includes any surface that indicates use as a house or camp area as evidenced by signs of cooking sleeping or working. Living floor the level within an archaeological site upon which a group of people lived.

Jerusalem israel during renovations of their home in the neighborhood of ein kerem a family discovered a ritual bath or mikveh under the living room floor reports haaretz carved out of. The discovery in ein kerem neighborhood in jerusalem archeologists said sheds new light on the area s ancient jewish and early christian communities. A layer of human occupation. Living floor synonyms or related terms.

When a family in jerusalem s ein kerem neighborhood began renovating their living room they found more than they had bargained for. Oriya looks down at the ladder from her living room leading to an ancient jewish ritual bath mikveh dating from the second temple period and believed to be over 2 000 years old. This generic and imprecise term is applied to an assumed level of occupation within an archaeological site.