Reconstruction of 12,000 year old funeral feast brings ancient burial rituals to life
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - 10:32
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The woman was laid on a bed of specially selected materials, including gazelle horn cores, fragments of chalk, fresh clay, limestone blocks and sediment. Tortoise shells were placed under and around her body, 86 in total. Sea shells, an eagle’s wing, a leopard’s pelvis, a forearm of a wild boar and even a human foot […]