Ritual · c. 7000 BCE

Plastered skulls of Jericho

Jericho, West Bank

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Early farmers removed the skulls of their dead, modelled faces over them in plaster and set shells in the eye sockets. It is one of the earliest signs of ancestor veneration.

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