Funerals and feasts during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Near East

Antiquity

Volumn 81, Issue 314, 2007, Pages 902-919

  Goring Morris, Nigel ^a   Horwitz, Liora Kolska ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aurochs; Feasting; Israel; Levant; Mortuary behaviour; Neolithic; PPNB

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; NEOLITHIC;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST;

BOS; BOS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 37449026994     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00095995     Document Type: Article

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