Plastered human skulls
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plastered-human-skulls-231-4499049
title:
Plastered human skulls
text:
Plastered human skulls are human skulls covered in layers of plaster and typically found in the ancient Levant, most notably around the modern Palestinian city of Jericho, between 8,000 and 6,000 BC, in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period. They represent some of the oldest forms of art in the Middle East and demonstrate that the prehistoric population took great care in burying their ancestors below their homes. The skulls denote some of the earliest sculptural examples of portraiture in the hist
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encyclopedia
description:
Neolithic burial practice in the Levant
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastered_human_skulls
date created:
2012-11-20T18:09:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T20:29:44Z
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