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    Plastered human skulls are human skulls covered in layers of plaster and typically found in the ancient Levant, most notably around the modern Palestinian...
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    training mannequin, introduced in 1960, was modeled after the mask. Plastered human skulls Portrait Sculpture Wallechinsky, Irving; Wallace, Irving (1978)...
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    excavation of Jericho by Kathleen Kenyon, evidence of the use of plastered human skulls as cult objects was uncovered, lending credence to the rabbinical...
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    represented as a profile (from aside) and 3/4. Plastered human skulls were reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 9000...
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  • Anthony JP Meyer, Oceanic Art, Könemann, 1995, p.382 Skull Papua New Guinean art Plastered human skulls Alain Nicolas, Art papou, Nouvelles Éditions Scala...
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    important archaeological site for the Neolithic period, with two plastered human skulls, cremation signs and house floors found there. It stood in close...
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    widespread Neolithic skull cult. Special preparation of human crania in the form of plastered human skulls is known from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period at...
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    between c. 10,700 and c. 8,000 BP or 8,700–6,000 BC. Plastered human skulls were reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 9000...
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    ʿAin Ghazal statues, which are among oldest statues ever made, and plastered human skulls from Jericho. The museum also includes a coin collection. The museum...
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    dominant culture. Artifacts dating from this period include ten plastered human skulls, painted so as to reconstitute the individuals' features. These...
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    that are featured at the Wirth Gallery of the Middle East include plastered human skulls made in the Levant c. 8000 BC. Another notable piece in the gallery...
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    Headhunting (category Human trophy collecting)
    Decapitation Skull cup Human sacrifice Human trophy collecting Macheteros de Jara Laulasi Island Beheading in Islam Headless Horseman Plastered human skulls Crypteia...
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    Hundreds of Human Skulls". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2021-12-07. Wade, Lizzie. "Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice...
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    skull cache contained seven human skulls. The jaws were removed and the faces covered with plaster; cowries were used as eyes. A total of ten skulls were...
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    earliest individual moulded skulls in Anatolia, along with those from Çatalhöyük. The practice of plastered human skulls is widespread in the Pre-Pottery...
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    Publications Ltd, 1978. Archaeology of Israel Kursi, Sea of Galilee Plastered human skulls Pre-Pottery Neolithic A "Dame Kathleen Kenyon". Britannica.com....
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    Wayne, Indiana, USA, designed by Alvin M. Strauss, 1930 Oscilla Plastered human skulls Marcel D. Popa et al., Dicționar enciclopedic, Editura Enciclopedică...
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    Levant, also practiced the making of plastered human skulls. In this case, the body received primary burial while the skull subsequently received secondary...
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    skull from the Pleistocene. The skull was roughly cleaned, hardened and plastered so it would arrive safe and sound in the Museum of Natural History. The...
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    include: Nimrud: Nineveh: Other Mesopotamian sites Wider collection: Plastered human skull from Jericho, a very early form of portraiture, Palestine, (7000–6000...
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    Harry Smith, The Guardian, 13 July 2002, Retrieved 11 October 2016 Plastered human skull Pro-Jerusalem Society - Garstang was a member of its leading Council...
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    Israel on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, Nimrud, c. 827 BC Room 10 – Human Headed Winged Bulls from Khorsabad, companion pieces in the Musée du Louvre...
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    spinning whorls were recovered and in a man's grave, stone axes. Some skulls were plastered and painted with ochre to recreate faces, a custom more characteristic...
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    findings suggest an ancestor cult where people preserved skulls of the dead, which were plastered with mud to make facial features. The rest of the corpse...
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  • Animation The Pique Poquette of Paris United States Traditional Animation Plastered in Paris United States Traditional Animation Polar Fright United States...
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    as Maa Charchika Devi. She is seated on a prostrate human body and wearing a garland of human skulls. She displays khadga, shula, katari and varadamudra...
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    treatment of the heads of these statues and the disarticulated and buried plastered skulls. The burial of the statues is also similar to the manner in which the...
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    both the corners lead to the roof. The outer and inner surface has been plastered in the usual way and decorated with fresco paintings. An octagonal pavilion...
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    himself in a strange and unusual way; for he shut himself up in a newly plastered house, and caused a fire to be kindled, by the smoke of which, and the...
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  • protests in Iran, and their pictures appeared on posters, that were secretly plastered on the walls in Iranian cities. Nika Shakarami was born on 2 October 2005...
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