The Neolithic Skull Cults of the Near East - Part Two

Plastered Skulls, Çatalhöyük, Stone Masks, Statues and Conclusions

“In the later phase of this period, Miss Kenyon has described the remarkable 'Skull Cult' characterized by the modelling of a life-like head in plaster over an actual skull, sometimes with but usually without its lower jaw. Beneath the floor of the house from which these modelled heads were recovered, an assemblage of about thirty skeletons was excavate…