Remedy for an 8500 year-old plastered human skull from Kfar Hahoresh, Israel

I. Hershkovitz; I. Zohar; I. Segal; M. S. Speirs; O. Meirav; U. Sherter; H. Feldman; N. Goring-Morris

doi:10.1016/0305-4403(95)90007-1

Remedy for an 8500 year-old plastered human skull from Kfar Hahoresh, Israel

I. Hershkovitz^*, I. Zohar, I. Segal, M. S. Speirs, O. Meirav, U. Sherter, H. Feldman, N. Goring-Morris

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Institute of Archaeology

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Abstract

An 8500 year-old plastered human skull from an early Neolithic (PPNB) site in the Lower Galilee was imaged using the complementary techniques of computer tomography and micro-focus radiography. These approaches facilitated the anthropometric study of previously inaccessible anatomical structures and revealed unexpected heterogeneity in the plaster matrix. Two- and three-dimensional imaging analyses, in combination with archaeometric studies, have enabled a tentative reconstruction of the manufacturing process which produced the complex and well-preserved Kfar Hahoresh specimen.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	779-788
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Archaeological Science
Volume	22
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-4403(95)90007-1
State	Published - Nov 1995

Keywords

FTIR
ICP-aes
computerized tomography
levant
micromorphology
neolithic
petrography
plastered skull

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Remedy for an 8500 year-old plastered human skull from Kfar Hahoresh, Israel

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