Bir al-Maksur or Beer el-Maksura ( ar, بئر المكسور; he, בִּיר אל-מַכְּסוּר) is an

Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

Bedouin The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (; , singular ) are nomadic Arabs, Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert ...

Gal, 1992, p
21
/ref> local council in the Northern District of Israel located north-west of Nazareth. In its population was . The villagers belong to the Arab el-Hujeirat Bedouin tribe, settled there in the 1950s.

History and archaeology

Flint Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Flint was widely used historically to make stone tools and start ...

from the

Mousterian The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia. The Mousterian largely defines the l ...

culture, made with the

Levallois technique The Levallois technique () is a name given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of stone knapping developed around 250,000 to 300,000 years ago during the Middle Palaeolithic period. It is part of the Mousterian stone tool industry, and was u ...

, in addition to remains from

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) denotes the first stage of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, in early Levantine and Anatolian Neolithic culture, dating to years ago, that is, 10,000–8,800 BCE. Archaeological remains are located in the Levantine and ...

and B have been found during excavations.

Sherd In archaeology, a sherd, or more precisely, potsherd, is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are ...

s from Iron age I, and possibly Iron age II have also been found. A burial cave, with ceramics and artefacts dating to the late

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: * Rome, the capital city of Italy * Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lett ...

period, that is, 3rd–4th centuries CE, has been unearthed. In 1881, the PEF's ''

Survey of Western Palestine The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the Survey of Eastern Palestine. The survey was carried out after the ...

'' noted at ''Kh. el Maksur'': "Heaps of stones."meaning: ''The ruin of the broken one'', according to Palmer, 1881, p
112
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Notable people

Mohammad Ghadir Mohammed Ghadir ( ar, محمد غدير, he, מוחמד גדיר; born 21 January 1991) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays for Hapoel Hadera. Club career Maccabi Haifa After progressing through the youth ranks of Maccabi Haifa, G ...

(born 1991), professional football player who plays for

Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. ( he, מועדון כדורגל בני יהודה תל אביב, ''Moadon Kaduregel Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv''), commonly referred to as Bnei Yehuda (), is an Israeli football club from the Hatikva Quarter of the city of Tel ...

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History and archaeology

Notable people

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