Citation

Bocquentin F, Bar-Yosef O. J. Hum. Evol. 2004; 47(1-2): 19-23.

Affiliation

UMR 5199--PACEA, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Populations du Passé, Université Bordeaux 1, Avenue des Facultés, F-33405 Talence, France. f.bocquentin@anthropologie.u-bordeaux1.fr

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Academic Press)

DOI

10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.05.003

PMID

15288522

Abstract

Prior to the establishment of farming communities direct physical evidence for human conflict was rarely reported from archaeological contexts. Here we present a case of an Early Natufian (14,500-13,000 cal B.P.) projectile, classified as Helwan lunate, embedded inside the seventh or eighth thoracic vertebra sequence of a mature middle age adult male. Due to calcareous concretion four vertebras were still in anatomical connection when uncovered by F. Turville-Petre, during his excavations at Kebara cave (Mt. Carmel) in 1931.

Language: en