« Somebody is in the wall »: the relation of the dead with the architecture in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Dja’de el-Mughara (Syria, 9,310-8,290 cal. BCE) - HAL-SHS - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société Accéder directement au contenu
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« Somebody is in the wall »: the relation of the dead with the architecture in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Dja’de el-Mughara (Syria, 9,310-8,290 cal. BCE)

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The integration of the dead into the space of the living has existed since the Palaeolithic, but in the Pre‑Pottery Neolithic, the establishment of villages and the resulting promiscuity of space may have initiated new relationships between the living and the dead. The case presented here, the village of Dja’de el-Mughara, occupied during the Late PPNA and the Early PPNB, offers several illustrations of this relationship. Dated to between 9,310 and 8,290 cal BC, the site has yielded 116 individuals distributed in 34 deposits. More than half of these deposits are related to architecture: in buildings, integrated into surface preparation of the soil, walls, under fireplaces, or along exterior walls. Some may have served as foundation deposits, or as ritual closures for a building, while certain deposits also suggest a kind of staging. The presence of a “House of the Dead” in the third phase of the site indicates the existence of a place dedicated to death, which is found also in other contemporaneous sites.
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Bérénice Chamel. « Somebody is in the wall »: the relation of the dead with the architecture in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Dja’de el-Mughara (Syria, 9,310-8,290 cal. BCE). 2022. ⟨halshs-04487994⟩
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