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Erosion on Mt. Berenike of Tiberias: The present-day surface in front of the Late Byzantine city gate is 1 m below the ancient entrance sill of the gate (photo: H.-P. Kuhnen).
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Geoarchaeology provides methods to reconstruct past landscape settings which are of central importance to understand the function and relevance of ancient settlements. In addition, detailed information about the geographical setting of the sites is missing in many excavation reports. This paper deals with a preliminary study to investigate ‘geo-arc...
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... Further traces of intensive post-classical erosion were observed during Hirschfeld's excavations on top of Mt. Berenike in 1990/1994. The present day surface in front of the Late Byzantine city gate on top of the spur is 1 m below the entrance sill of the gate (Fig. 12) 43 . Therefore, a layer of 1 m of soil must be washed down, after the Mt. Berenike suburb had been deserted after the Crusaders' period and the gate had been no longer in ...
