In this article, we would like to highlight that during the Neolithisation process cultural, religious and funerary practices change. We will especially focus on a funerary practice, the modelling skulls, born during the middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8200-7500 B.C.) in the North and South Levant and continues until the late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (7500-7000 B.C.), in the same geographical area. For an unknown reason, after the late PPNB, this technique disappears from Levant but starts again in Anatolia during the Pottery Neolithic (7000-5000 B.C.). A total of eighty modeled skulls were found in the follows sites: Ain Ghazal, Jordan (middle PPNB); Beisamoun, Israel (middle PPNB); Jericho, Palestine (middle PPNB); Kfar Hahoresh, Israel (m...
This article presents arguments to date the Neolithic graveyard at Tell es-Sawwan to the “ Initial P...
This paper presents burial practices at Tel Roim West (TRW), a small Neolithic mound located on the ...
L’étude du mobilier céramique des peuples de la Préhistoire récente permet aux archéologues de disti...
In this article, we would like to highlight that during the Neolithisation process cultural, religio...
International audienceThis paper discusses the practice of skull removal in the Late Epipalaeolithic...
This paper describes three burials from Horvat Galil, a PPNB site in the Western Galilee. The human ...
‘Ain Ghazal is a Neolithic site located near Amman, Jordan. It was excavated between 1982 and 1998 b...
Early Neolithic sites in South Sinai were excavated from 1976 to 1979 as part of the investigation i...
Five plastered skulls from Pre-pottery Neolithic В Jericho, stored in Museums in Amman and Jerusalem...
Three fragmentary faces originally plastered on skulls are discussed : their excavation history, con...
International audienceThe first stages of the Neolithization process in the Near East are accompanie...
Ain Ghazal is one of the largest Early Neolithic villages in the Near East, covering some ten to ele...
Three plastered skulls, dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, were found at the site of Yiftahel, i...
Early farming communities located in the ancient Near Eastparticipated in unique mortuary practices ...
The particular paleodemographic characteristics of a recently excavated Pre-Pottery Neolithic B popu...
This article presents arguments to date the Neolithic graveyard at Tell es-Sawwan to the “ Initial P...
This paper presents burial practices at Tel Roim West (TRW), a small Neolithic mound located on the ...
L’étude du mobilier céramique des peuples de la Préhistoire récente permet aux archéologues de disti...
In this article, we would like to highlight that during the Neolithisation process cultural, religio...
International audienceThis paper discusses the practice of skull removal in the Late Epipalaeolithic...
This paper describes three burials from Horvat Galil, a PPNB site in the Western Galilee. The human ...
‘Ain Ghazal is a Neolithic site located near Amman, Jordan. It was excavated between 1982 and 1998 b...
Early Neolithic sites in South Sinai were excavated from 1976 to 1979 as part of the investigation i...
Five plastered skulls from Pre-pottery Neolithic В Jericho, stored in Museums in Amman and Jerusalem...
Three fragmentary faces originally plastered on skulls are discussed : their excavation history, con...
International audienceThe first stages of the Neolithization process in the Near East are accompanie...
Ain Ghazal is one of the largest Early Neolithic villages in the Near East, covering some ten to ele...
Three plastered skulls, dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, were found at the site of Yiftahel, i...
Early farming communities located in the ancient Near Eastparticipated in unique mortuary practices ...
The particular paleodemographic characteristics of a recently excavated Pre-Pottery Neolithic B popu...
This article presents arguments to date the Neolithic graveyard at Tell es-Sawwan to the “ Initial P...
This paper presents burial practices at Tel Roim West (TRW), a small Neolithic mound located on the ...
L’étude du mobilier céramique des peuples de la Préhistoire récente permet aux archéologues de disti...