Tails of animism: A joint burial of humans and foxes in Pre-Pottery Neolithic Motza, Israel

Hagar Reshef; Marie Anton; Fanny Bocquentin; Jacob Vardi; Hamoudi Khalaily; Lauren Davis; Guy Bar-Oz; Nimrod Marom

doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.165

Tails of animism: A joint burial of humans and foxes in Pre-Pottery Neolithic Motza, Israel

Hagar Reshef
, Marie Anton
, Fanny Bocquentin
, Jacob Vardi
, Hamoudi Khalaily
, Lauren Davis
, Guy Bar-Oz
, Nimrod Marom

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Abstract

The recent discovery of a Late/Final Pre-Pottery Neolithic B burial of an adult and two children associated with fox bones at the site of Motza, Israel, demonstrates the broader socio-cultural perspective, and possibly continued animistic world views, of Neolithic foragers at the onset of the agricultural revolution.

Original language	English
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	93
Issue number	371
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.165
State	Published - 1 Oct 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Israel
Neolithisation
animism
burial
fox
small carnivores

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Archaeology
General Arts and Humanities

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