Often radical changes, such as destruction layers , mark a stratum at its beginning and end. Generally buildings such as houses and temples, granaries, city walls, patterns of features such as postholes indicating a larger structure. The minimum resources, e.g., food, shelter, water, necessary to support human life. The point in time that the upper limb of the sun disappears below the horizon. Arbitrary units of meaning that can stand for different concrete or abstract phenomena .
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A synagogue, in the sense of a meeting house, referred to the place of assembly where the local Jewish community would meet or convene meetings. Jews and Judeo-Christians met in synagogues as gathering places. The sense was a place of assembly not a place of worship. Over the centuries the synagogue became places of worship as a result of the rise of Pharisaic Judaism. More Information .