Plastered Face of a Human Skull from Ain Ghazal

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
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This plastered face was modeled on a human skull and was buried with a group of similar plastered faces. This mode of skull decoration was probably related to some sort of ancestor cult. From modern-day Ain Ghazal, outskirts of Amman, Jordan Hashemite Kingdom. Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, circa 6500 BCE. (The Jordan Archaeological Museum, Amman, Jordan).

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Amin, O. S. M. (2018, April 05). Plastered Face of a Human Skull from Ain Ghazal. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8530/plastered-face-of-a-human-skull-from-ain-ghazal/

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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Plastered Face of a Human Skull from Ain Ghazal." World History Encyclopedia, April 05, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8530/plastered-face-of-a-human-skull-from-ain-ghazal/.

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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Plastered Face of a Human Skull from Ain Ghazal." World History Encyclopedia, 05 Apr 2018, https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8530/plastered-face-of-a-human-skull-from-ain-ghazal/.

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