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Notes on some Decorated Skeletons from the Mesolithic of Palestine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

D. A. E. Garrod
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During the joint excavations carried on from 1929 to 1934 by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and the American School of Prehistoric Research in the caves of the Wady el-Mughara in Mount Carmel, many burials were found in the Natufian (Mesolithic) deposit of the big cave known as the Mugharet el-Wad. In addition to scattered human fragments, there were forty-four skeletons in varying stages of preservation, of which thirteen were found inside the cave, and the rest in the terracedeposit in front of the cave-mouth. Of these burials thirty-four belong to the Lower Natufian stage, three to the Upper Natufian, and the rest, although undoubtedly Natufian, cannot, owing to the condition of the deposit, be assigned with certainty to one stage or the other.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 37 , November 1937 , pp. 123 - 127
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1937

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References

page 123 note 1 Garrod, D. A. E. and Bate, D. M. A., The Stone Age of Mount Carmel. Oxford 1937.Google Scholar

page 123 note 2 The skeletons are numbered in the order of their discovery.

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page 126 note 3 K. Absolon, ‘“Modernist” Moravian Art 30,000 Years Ago.’ Illustrated London News, March 25, 1939.

page 127 note 1 In addition to those described, only one other group burial was found, that is only one which contained no decorated body. This was in the Lower Natufian deposit inside the cave (H. Group 1–10).