article_snippet: In one shrine, researchers found 18 pebbles. '
article_snippet: Aleuromancy  is a likely explanation for grinding implements found in another of three shrines.
article_snippet: Aleuromancy - divination through the use of flour - is a likely explanation for grinding implements found in another of the three shrines (pictured) the three shrines (pictured) were in use for a century until the area was destroyed.
article_snippet: We call them the three shrines (pictured) because of two distinctive qualities of the spaces: them were quite intimate in scale, with not much room for public spectacle,' Professor Smith Professor Smith explained. '
article_snippet: Yet them appear to have been religiously charged places, designed and built to host esoteric rituals with consecrated objects - secretive rites focused on managing risks by diagnosing present conditions and prognosticating futures.'
article_snippet: Elsewhere the archaeologists uncovered clay bowls filled with smaller ash and ceramic artefacts.
article_snippet: the three shrines (pictured) were in use for a century until the area was destroyed by conflict.
article_snippet: Elsewhere, the archaeologists uncovered clay bowls filled with smaller ash and ceramic artefacts in these shrines.
article_snippet: Archaeologists found two funnels (Figures A & B) ) that were used to burn substances at the shrine site .
article_snippet: From this Our found residues of grape, and something similar to Ephedra which is a stimulant.' these shrines were found close together at Gegharot.
highlights_snippet: Shrines were used for a century until the area was destroyed by conflict .
  
highlights_snippet: Pottery in the shrine also had traces similar to stimulant Ephedra .