Chalcolithic Period (4500 – 3300 BCE)
Tomb from Palmahim (Southern Coastal Plain) Chalcolithic Period (4500 – 3300 BCE) The tomb was transferred to "Derech Hadorot" from a cemetery unearthed north-east of Kibbutz Palmahim. The cemetery included tens of tombs, rectangular or round in shape, built of sandstone.
The tombs' openings, facing north, were all sealed by sandstone slabs. Stelae made of flat stones were discovered in some of the tombs
The burial practices varied and included burial inside a pit dug in the tomb floor, burial inside jars and secondary burial in stone ossuaries (chests).