So far the team has found 16 chambers, and Stager believes that there may be dozens more. Each was connected to the surface by a shaft. That could take several months. Then they'd place the bones in recesses and corners. Over time those families would have had quite a few ancestors buried here.
Baby gives the team a new piece of information about Canaanite culture.
It was buried with Egyptian scarabs, or magical charms, around its neck, indicating that children were given full status in Canaanite culture. In subsequent finds, children even younger were similarly buried. Later that day I see Baby again. Netta Lev-Tov, a physical anthropology student, is cleaning and measuring the bones under a sunshade near the hotel where the team stays. Besides Baby, Lev-Tov is working with the remains of three adult males that the team has whimsically named Franky, Johnny, and Mr. Man.