ABSTRACT
The appearance in the levant at the start of the second millennium bc of a burial type known as the ‘stone-lined’ or ‘stone-built’ grave is well known, and has been well documented. In its most basic form, the grave takes the form of a rectangular or sub-rectangular trench, lined with boulders on all four sides, and covered with large flat slabs or capstones. The grave may then be covered by a cairn of smaller stones, or may be left uncovered (depending on location, it is possible that some of the graves that originally had such cairns, have subsequently lost them through ploughing, erosion or robbing).
