>The plastered skulls of the Middle/Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B from Aswad, Syria, were one of the most enigmatic means to represent individual and Neolithic corporate identities.
>The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) represents the early Neolithic in the Near East, dating to c.12,000 – c.8,500 years ago, (10000 – 6500 BCE). It succeeds the Natufian culture of the Epipalaeolithic Near East (also called Mesolithic), as the domestication of plants and animals was in its formative stages, having possibly been induced by the Younger Dryas.
They still had a Will Poulter there down in Jericho though. 1-1.