ABSTRACT
The occasional discovery of gravestones and burials dated to the Frankish period indicate that Christian cemeteries were equally likely to be situated in cities and around churches as they were outside of city walls, as in Jerusalem, Caesarea, and Acre. Although there are occasional discoveries of graves archaeological data on the cemeteries are rare and they have never been subject of a synthetic analysis. The study of cemeteries in the medieval West were also confronted with same absence of archaeological data, this is because there was a greater interest in the often lavish burials and cemeteries of the early Middle Ages. But, the development the methods of archaeothanatology provided new data on the use of the Western medieval cemeteries. Isotopic and paleogenetic studies could be used for analysing the origin of the dead buried in the cemeteries of the Latin East, and at 'Atlit give new data on the use of funerary spaces and the cultural identity of the dead.
