ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the tombs of the Middle Bronze Age, tomb architecture and tomb types. The tomb types include grave, shaft and stepped alcove tomb, stepped shaft and chamber tomb, stepped shaft and bilobate chamber tomb, and stepped shaft and double chamber tomb. In many ways the five types represent a progression of size. The simple rectangular grave is enlarged to the shaft grave with stepped alcove or rudimentary chamber. The difference between the various types of tomb can be noted to be a function of more or fewer bodies. There is very little real qualitative difference in the material of a small or a large tomb; the difference seems solely to be quantitative, possibly on a per capita basis. The area of the cemetery does seem to have some significance for the different types of the tombs.
