In the oldest layers are shaft graves of pre-Phoenician Canaanites.

Excavated during 1994-95, the shaft shaped grave may have contained a total of 240 individuals, at least ten of them children.

These are shaft graves, dug into the local sediment, used for individual burials and never reopened.

A shaft tomb or shaft grave is a type of burial structure formed from a deep and narrow shaft sunk into natural rock.

Burial in tholoi is seen as replacing burial in shaft graves.

Greek presence on the mainland, however, dates to 1600 BCE as shown in the latest shaft graves.

They are known as shaft graves and were dug into the ground at an angle.

Higher up in the fill of the shaft grave were interred an adult and an infant, both in a crouched position.

Chamber tombs are given up in favour of shaft graves.

The shaft grave contained two bronze rod tripod stands, the remains of a shield and a golden sceptre as well.