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Prehistoric storage pits

Granaries from an Iron Age Israelite fortress in the Negev, reconstructed at Derech Hadorot, Hecht Museum, Haifa

Storage pits are underground cists that were used historically to protect the seeds for the following year's crops, and to stop surplus food from being eaten by insects and rodents. These underground pits were sometimes lined and covered, for example with slabs of stone and bark and tightly sealed with adobe.[1]

  1. ^ Man in the San Juan Valley. Aztec Ruins National Monument, National Park Service. January 13, 2001. Retrieved 10-18-2011.

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حفر تخزين ما قبل التاريخ Arabic Forrådsgrube Danish Vorratsgrube German Verem (föld alatti tárolóhely) Hungarian 土坑 Japanese Poços de armazenamento pré-históricos Portuguese

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