The Neolithic Skull Cults of the Near East - Part One

The Epipalaeolithic, Natufians, Jericho & the Agricultural Revolution, Göbekli Tepe and early Anatolia

“Besides the group of plastered skulls, a single example was encountered of the skull of an elderly man, without any of the other bones of the body, carefully set beneath the floor in the angle of a room. The earlier phase of the Pre-pottery Neolithic at Jericho also had a cult of skulls, which are found separated from the bodies and arranged in groups …