Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (16.2004(2005))

TELL QARAMEL

SYRIA

SQUARE K-7

All the levels excavated this season
belonged to Stratum V connected with
PPNA occupation.2 They had all been
heavily disturbed by the cutting of three
deep Early Bronze Age pits (loci 31, 32,
39) in the central part of the square.
LEVEL 6
Continued excavation of the younger tower,
the only structure in this level, revealed it

to be round, c. 7 m in diameter, located in
the western part of the square (joining the
other half of the tower excavated in 2001
in square J 7.3 Two rows of flat medium-
sized pebbles and a core filling of small
stones and soil formed the substructure of
this wall, the overall thickness approach-
ing 1.50 m. The superstructure was made
of compacted red mud, which must have
been excavated somewhere near the village


Fig. 1. Square K-7 c. Stratum V, level 7
(Drawing M. Bialowarczuk, K. Januszek)

2 Cf. previous report in PAM XV, Reports 2003 (2004), 360-361.
3 Cf. PAM XIII. Reports 2001 (2002), 297.

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