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Dolmen in the Golan Heights and in the Jordan Valley
Scholars have been looking at these things since the beginning of the 19th century. It's hard to figure out because they've been there for, you know, some of them for as long as 5,000 years. Some scholars say no; others believe that they were used for sky burials. You put the dead relative on top of a dolmen until the birds picked it clean and then you bury the bones in an ossaware or shaft tomb somewhere else.