At WF16 in Jordan, burials often went beneath house floors or were cut into the walls of older buildings. The dead were laid on their side with a hand under the head, and some graves show selected bones added or removed. Others involved bones painted, bundled and sealed in plaster 🦴
WF16 burials under floors show bundled, plaster-wrapped bone offerings
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Key facts
- Human burials at WF16 were often placed beneath the floors of structures or cut into the walls of earlier structures
- Bodies were laid on their side with a hand under the head in a sleeping position
- Some burials show selective bones being added or removed
- Collections of bones were painted, bundled and wrapped in plaster
- These practices indicate complex mortuary behavior before and after burial
Sources
Lost for words: an extraordinary structure at the early ...nature.com
by S Mithen · 2020 · Cited by 15 — My case study for doing so concerns a large structure from an early Neolithic settlement in southern Jordan, Structure O75 from the site of WF16 ...
The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Burials at WF16, Wadi Faynan ...researchgate.net
Most of the burials were primary burials and the deceased were buried intact in a variety of body positions (Gawrońska et al. 2012; Mithen et al. 2016) . The ...
WF16: The Excavation of an Early Neolithic Settlement in ...ancientworldonline.blogspot.com
WF16: The Excavation of an Early Neolithic Settlement in Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Stratigraphy, Chronology, Architecture and Burials.
New excavations at WF16, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site in ...antiquity.ac.uk
Burials were closely associated with structures, either cut through the walls or under the floors. Burial B32 (Figure 5A) was the first excavated and contained ...
Published: WF16 Excavations at an Early Neolithic Settlement ...cbrl.ac.uk
WF16 is located in the spectacular Wadi Faynan area of Southern Jordan. Evaluation of the site was undertaken between 1997 and 2006 with a monograph detailing ...
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