Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (14.2002(2003))

TELL QARAMEL

SYRIA

K-6. The walls were made of cobbles,
pebbles and limestone slabs, varying in
thickness from c. 0.6 m (W22, W24, W28
and W30) to c. 1 m (W26 and W29). The

construction was the same in all cases: wall
faces made of single rows of bigger stones
and slabs, the core filled with small
pebbles and cobbles.

SQUARE K-6 B/L-6 A

Only the uppermost layers were cleared this
season. The pottery from the topsoil dates to
the Iron Age, while the few remnants of
SQUARE
The three occupational levels (layers XI-
XIII) investigated this season correspond
to the early phases of PPNA on the site.
The younger settlement level (layer XI) is
connected with the oval house (loci 19-22)
discovered last season.2) Further explo-
rations inside this structure revealed the

stone structures, corresponding to the
features unearthed in square K-7, are of the
Bronze Age.
K-6 A,C
floor made of small stones and covered
with tamped mud {Fig. 6). Outside the
house there was a pit with burned stones
and stone hearths.
This house had been built on top of an
older structure (loc. 23), which represented
a lower occupational level (layer XII). It was


Fig. 6. Square K-6 a,c, bottom of layer XL Lower part of the oval house (loci 19-22), after
pulling down a later mud wall. View from the north (Photo R.F. Mazurowski)

2) For last year's work in the oval house, cf. R.F. Mazurowski, PAM XIII, Reports 2001 (2002), 299 and Fig. 3 especially.

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