Projektnummer

N001013

Zusammenfassung

What can trash mounds, and especially the textiles discarded in them, tell us about the hitherto little known artery of the Israeli Silk Road, which was used by caravans laden with spices and precious textiles around 1,300 years ago? With the project, the scientists want to show that one (ancient) man's trash can indeed be a modern archaeologist's and historian's treasure that can tell us a lot about the trade and exchange of goods, people, and technologies along the trade routes between East and West in Antiquity.In Nahal Omer,the village that this project will investigate, in the ver...