Burial urns on the Plain of Sharon,…
3069 BCE to 2926 BCE
Burial urns on the Plain of Sharon, a Mediterranean coastal strip about ten miles (sixteen kilometers) wide and fifty-five miles (ninety kilometers) long between present Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Haifa, Israel, date from the fourth millennium.
The deceased person is cremated and the ashes and bones are placed in these clay house-shaped ossuaries.
Each urn is individualistic in design and structure, which may indicate stylistic variations in the architecture of the dwellings of the period.
The significance of the "nose-like" projection is not known.