DESCRIPTION:

MANUFACTURING TOOLS AND OBJECTS

Flint tools were used for many tasks such as harvesting, cutting vegetation or meat, working wood, stone, or bone, scraping fresh skins, etc. Bone object manufacture can be identified by analysing archaeological remains such as debris of worked bones, flint tools with traces of bone manufacture, end-products, awls, needles, beads, etc.

PREPARING FOOD

Unlike most modern wheat species whose grains come out “naked” and clean from the threshing, primitive cereals, so-called “hulled”, need to be dehusked before consumption.

The presence of all the bones of animal skeletons within the site argues for slaughter close to the village and it is likely that all the parts were eaten.

BURIALS

The osteological analysis of 248 skeletal remains of adults and children whose tombs were found in the village, tells us about the physical characteristics and health of the population.

The funerary rituals illustrate what was of greatest concern to the people, and may eventually indicate the social status of the deceased. The dead were buried inside the houses, therefore the space of the living was not seperated from the space of the dead.

The body was deposited in a pit dug into the floor of the house. It is sometimes accompanied by stone vessels, intentionally broken or placed upside down, worked or unworked stones, or on occation necklaces for women. The pit was then backfilled and covered with mud plaster.