13,700 Year Old Holy Land Grave Yields Earliest Evidence Of Using Flower Beds For Burial
Earliest Evidence Of Using Flower Beds For Burial Found In Holy Land Cave In Mt. Carmel, 13,700 Year Old Grave
The Natufians, who lived some 15,000-11,500 years ago, were of the first in the world to abandon nomadic life and settle in permanent settlements, setting up structures with stone foundations. They were also among the first to establish cemeteries – confined areas in which they buried their community members for generations. The cemeteries were usually located at the first chambers of caves or on terraces located below the caves. In contrast, earlier cultures used to bury their dead (if at all) randomly. Mt. Carmel was one of the most important and densely populated areas in the Natufian settlement system. Its sites have been explored by University of Haifa archeologists for dozens of years.
A Natufian cemetery containing 29 skeletons of babies, children and adults was discovered at Raqefet cave. Most of the burials were single interments, although some were double, in which two bodies were interred together in the same pit. In fours graves, researchers found plant impressions on a thin layer of mud veneer which was presumably spread like plaster inside the grave. Before burying the bodies, the Natufians spread a bed of blooming green plants inside the graves. The impressions are mostly of plants with square stems, common among the mint family. In one incident, flowering stems of Judean Sage were found, one of three Sage species currently growing in the vicinity of the cave. This led the researchers to suggest that the burials were conducted in springtime, using colorful and aromatic flowers.
The researchers even found evidence of Natufian bedrock chiseling in the graveyard, demonstrating grave preparation to fit their needs. The Natufians also chiseled a variety of mortars and cupmarks in close vicinity to the graves and on rock exposures on the terrace below the cave. The graves were directly radiocarbon dated. Samples from three different human skeletons were dated to 13,700-11,700 years ago.
“The Natufians lived at a time of many changes – a time when population density was rising and the struggle for land, food and resources was increasing. The establishment of grave yards and unique burial rituals reflects the complexity of the Natufian society. Communal burial sites and elaborate rituals such as funeral ceremonies must have strengthened the sense of solidarity among the community members, and their feeling of unity in the face of other groups”, concluded Prof. Nadel.
The project was led by researchers from the Zinman Institute of Archaelogy at the University of Haifa, with expert partners from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Weizmann Institute, the Max Planck Institute (Germany), The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris) and the Anthropology Department at the University of Texas at Austin (USA). The research results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (United States) journal. The research project in Raqefet cave has been ongoing since 2004, and is largely sponsored by a National Geographic research grant (Committee for Research and Exploration). Additional funds were provided by the Wenner-Gren and CARE Foundations. Raqefet cave is located in a national park (the Israel Nature and Parks Authority). The excavation was conducted under license from the Israel Antiquities Authority. University of Haifa students from the Department of Archeology also participated in the excavations and lab research that followed.
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This article is speculation based on opinions rather than science. There is absolutely no hard evidence indicating that the species Homo sapiens, in its present form, has dwelt on earth for more than 6,000 years.
Archeology must correlate with Scriptural revelation. Furthermore, it has been proved without doubt, from data encoded in the Holy Shroud of Turin, that a Jewish man in his mid-thirties was crucified but exited his burial cloth before the onset of corruption. It has also been proved that this man was anatomically perfect, which is impossible, since anatomical perfection does not exist in the realm of human physiology.
Unless these data are taken into account, then all archeological discoveries that seem to indicate otherwise cannot be granted full credence.
“There is absolutely no hard evidence indicating that the species Homo sapiens, in its present form, has dwelt on earth for more than 6,000 years.”
That is a ridiculously ignorant claim, the Chinese and Indus Valley people have a written history older than 6’000 years. The oldest human remains are c190’000 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomically_modern_humans
“Archeology must correlate with Scriptural revelation.”
Why? Because you’ve been brainwashed by a bunch of fraudulent liars earning a living off the back of your belief, that it represents reality?
There is not so much as a single element in your religion that is unique or original to it. Christianity is pagan Mithraism, wearing a new name.
” Shroud of Turin,”
Was dated to the Medieval period, the fabric was examined for it’s trapped pollen content, and discovered to have never been anywhere near the middle east. It has no middle eastern pollen.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Everything you said about the Shroud is just the opposite of true. You sound deranged. Most lesbians are.
[...] “species Homo sapiens, in its present form” – or closest equvelent can be found in Africa
There are also the species of Homo-Sapiens Sapiens and Homo Sapiens sapiens sapiensis [three times wise] – Sapiens refers to intelligence
Also – “in its present form” –
A fully human female skeleton, minus head and feet found in 1812 Guadeloupe believed to date from this time. An 1873 letter to Nature reported the discovery in Miocene strata of a fragment of bone probably belonging to a dinotherium and engraved with a picture of a horned quadruped and traces of several other figures. This discovery implies the existence of an intelligent creature capable of artwork some 25 million years ago.
23mya. Large group of primitive apes appear in Africa, splitting into many genera and species.
Mastadon leg bone found with an embedded arrow point.
13mya. 40,000 stone tablets detailing advanced science in the Peruvian desert of Ocucaje. These were called the Ica Stones of Peru. The tablets detail such complex ideas as astronomy, surgery (heart and kidney transplants), C section, acupuncture, genetic disorders, and more. There were descriptions of vehicles, which flew through spaces without consuming fuel, descriptions of the lines drawn at Nazca. They described the evacuation of large-headed small-stature race to a planet which would now be in the Pleiades star cluster. Continental shapes indicated on the rocks are indeed accurate for the planet Earth, as it was, about 13,000,000ya.
10mya. Kenyapithecus and Ramapithecus roaming Africa.
10mya. Possible date for family of anatomically modern human beings deposited in coral bed in Italy after they drown.
In South Africa, a giant woman’s footprint measuring over 4 feet long has been carbon dated at approximately 9 million years old. Proportionally the two-legged being would need to be some 30 feet tall! The local African people commonly refer to this as a highly revered and sacred site.
5mya. Youngest age of tool marked sling stone found in England.
4mya. Modern human skulls and bones found in Casteneddo Italy believed to date from this period.
1.2mya. Modern human skull deposited in Buenos Aries found in 1896
1mya. Santa Mar¡a Canyon holds evidence pointing toward the existence of a culture of intelligent beings that raised cattle, built weapons, and practiced funeral rites—one million years ago.
Russia; Ostrich, camel and hyena bones deposited at Odessa cut with perfectly circular holes and regular grooves, apparently with metal tools then polished.
900,000. Humans settle in Europe and Asia from Africa (Homo Erectus), fires and stored foods, clothing and shelter. Pithecanthropus erectus [Java Man]. Homo erectus reaches the island of Flores; By crossing at least 12 miles of water, probably on bamboo rafts, the evidence suggests that Homo erectus had better mental, technological, and linguistic abilities than previously realized.
300,000. Fireplace inside the “Wolf Cave” outside the city of Kristinestad on the northwest coast of Finland, is more than 300,000 years old [Further information: http://www.nba.fi/en/tutkimusprojeng (choose English text and archaeological research)]
300,000 Geologist Virginia Stein-Macintyre using three different methods, dates Mexico stone tools and weapons to 250,000 to 300,000 years ago
Michael Cremo says other investigations tend to confirm these original dates
300,000 Erectus seems to give way to his successor, Homo sapiens. Homo Sapiens appears relatively suddenly and possibly mysteriously, many millions of years too early to be accounted for by evolution.
300,000 Anatomic Hypoglossal Canal develops, allowing for Words.
300,000 Swanscombe pit fossils show more Neanderthal appearance.
300,000 Prehistoric tool kit found in Agadir, Morocco: Some 500 double edged axes, weighing 17 ½ pounds, the 300,000 year old set of tools was designed to be used by someone with hands corresponding to those of a 16-foot tall giant.
250,000. –
Lower Palaeolithic; until 100,000.
Early Homo sapiens multiply and spreads (Swandcombe and Stuttgart). The first humans appear W. France in the Middle Palaeolithic Age (at the beginning of the next to last Ice Age known as the Riss Ice Age). 26 genetic differences between Neanderthal and average modern European more or less as predicted for a species that last shared a common ancestor with homo sapiens at this time. [Keith and McCown have demonstrated, beyond serious doubt, that the Skhul skeletons are intermediate between Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens, and that Neanderthal must therefore be included among the ancestors of modern races.] – [African’s have no Neanderthal DNA]
It’s not the oldest grave with flowers, there is a Neanderthal burial interred with flowers. c50’000 years old.
@ Anonymous “You have no idea what you are talking about. Everything you said about the Shroud is just the opposite of true. You sound deranged. Most lesbians are.”
Well for a start I’m a happily married bloke, so a bit of girl on girl sounds just dandy to me.
I do know what I’m talking about, gained from the wiki, because I check every single detail you people claim, because 99.99% of the time you are lying. I’ll be generous… Not necessarily knowingly though, most of the times its from pure ignorance and wishful thinking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin
So I come on here to brighten up every ones day with evidence based truth.