The Ceremonial Sounds that Accompanied Our Ancestors' Funerals, 15,000 Years Ago
Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 08:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Natufian culture, which flourished 15,000 years ago, is well known for its complex burial customs. A new study by Dr. Danny Rosenberg and Prof. Dani Nadel of the University of Haifa has discovered that these ceremonies included the use of giant boulder mortars whose pounding sound informed the community that a ceremony was being held