article_snippet: Diego Barkan, of the Israeli Antiquities Authority, said that 17 pits were found that had been used to store produce in the Early Bronze Age, from 3,500 to 3,000 BC.
article_snippet: As well as the basins, a bronze dagger and 6,000-year-old flint tools were uncovered.
article_snippet: Here, Diego Barkan holds the basin parts .
article_snippet: A total of 17 pits have revealed finds .
article_snippet: As well as the basins, which were pulled from pits in the centre of Tel Aviv (pictured left) a bronze dagger and 6,000-year-old flint tools were uncovered.
article_snippet: A flint blade is pictured right .
article_snippet: The fragments were discovered in pits on Ha-Masger Street in central Tel Aviv (marked on the map).
highlights_snippet: Fragments from ceramic basins were pulled from 17 pits in Tel Aviv, Israel .
  