Resumen de Five plastered skulls from pre-pottery neolithic B Jericho. Athropological Study
Five plastered skulls from Pre-pottery Neolithic  Jericho, stored in Museums in Amman and Jerusalem, are described. The level of execution of their plaster masks lead to the conclusion, that they do not include individual features, except of some features determined by the bony framework. Most probably, the features are typized and conventional, made with a smaller or greater degree of craftmanship. The aim of plaster mask was the restoration of the decayed fleshy parts of the skull, kept most probably as monument of venerated ancestor. Demographically, all skulls belong to men, who died in the age groups maturus or adultus. Morphologically, the skulls have a definite tendency to brachymorphy with flattened lambdoid region and medium to higher faces. Some of them were deformed postmortally by the pressure of overlaying structure ;one of them bore traces of an intravital artificial deformation. Their features seem to differ from the bulk of the population of Jericho maybe except the brachymorphic group found in the tower. They are as well not identical with similarly plastered skulls from Tell Ramad and Beisamoun.
