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The actual extent of the area built on in neolithic times is difficult to establish with certainty since the terrain has been subjected to severe over-kan since the Geometric period. Thus-the excavated area and east of it has been used as a necropolis in the Early Iron Age and its tombs lie exceptionally close together. Practically speaking one can say that everywhere where the consistency of the rock has permitted the hewing of a tomb, this has been done. That there has been a shortage of tomb space, is shown inter alia by two circumstances: 1st. Within the excavated area has three tombs been found although the rock there is of soft clay-mixed character, a priori by no means suited to rock-cut chamber tombs (see the tomb description) 2nd. Groups of tombs are "enclosed" by means of ditches hewn in the rock, … continues
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