Earliest floral grave lining from 13,700-11,700-y-old natufian burials at raqefet cave, mt. carmel, Israel

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 11774-11778

  Nadel, Dani ^a   Danin, Avinoam ^b   Power, Robert C ^c   Rosen, Arlene M ^d   Bocquentin, Fanny ^e   Tsatskin, Alexander ^a   Rosenberg, Danny ^a   Yeshurun, Reuven ^a,f   Weissbrod, Lior ^a   Rebollo, Noemi R ^g   Barzilai, Omry ^g   Boaretto, Elisabetta ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^g WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Burial customs; Preburial preparation; Radiocarbon dates

Indexed keywords

FRAGRANCE;

ARTICLE; CAVE; COLOR; FLOWER; HISTORY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LAMIACEAE; PLEISTOCENE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SCROPHULARIACEAE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPRING; SYMBOLISM;

BURIAL CUSTOMS; PREBURIAL PREPARATION; RADIOCARBON DATES;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BURIAL; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; FLOWERS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; ISRAEL; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

EID: 84880354401     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302277110     Document Type: Article

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