Living floor the level within an archaeological site upon which a group of people lived.
Living floor archaeology.
When a family in jerusalem s ein kerem neighborhood began renovating their living room they found more than they had bargained for.
Testing the reality of a living floor with archaeological data.
It includes any surface that indicates use as a house or camp area as evidenced by signs of cooking sleeping or working.
Oriya looks down at the ladder from her living room leading to an ancient jewish ritual bath mikveh dating from the second temple period and believed to be over 2 000 years old.
The answer for one jerusalem family is pretty incredible.
The israel antiquities authority recently announced the discovery.
What s underneath your living room floor.
A layer of human occupation.
A 2 000 year old mikveh jewish ritual bath.
In the absence of specially prepared ground surfaces living floors may only be defined on the basis of the depths of artifacts pertaining to that component and the degree of compaction of the floor due to people walking on it.
This generic and imprecise term is applied to an assumed level of occupation within an archaeological site.