The skull cache was found in one of the top layers ... It's unclear what the Neolithic people were doing with their ancestors' bones. It may have been a sort of display, Thompson said, "even ...

The placement of the skull, along with the intact connections ... While records of decapitations exist in other European Neolithic sites, these often involve mutilations or less careful ...

“Crania plastering was common in the PPNB period in the 3rd millennium BC; the first plastered skull was discovered ... in the Holocene era, and the Neolithic period is considered to have ...