The impact of the Neolithisation process on the funerary practices and health status of the Levant populations: from North to South

Bérénice Chamel (1) , Françoise Le Mort (1)

1 Archéorient - ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien

Numerous archaeological excavations were conducted in the Levant producing large quantities of human skeletal remains recovered from Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites. In the last few decades, research in biological anthropology gradually intensified in the region and recently developed approaches have led to new results. Analysis of the documentation provided evidence of the increased diversity of funerary practices and of the prevalence of both infectious diseases and stress indicators related to new life-ways, from the hunter-gatherers to the first farmers. Thanks to the new set of available data, it is now possible to analyze the impact of the Neolithization process on the funerary practices as well as on the health status of the populations in the northern Levant as well as in the southern Levant and to perform comparisons between the two regions.

Domaines: Anthropologie biologique; Archéologie et Préhistoire

Bérénice Chamel, Françoise Le Mort. The impact of the Neolithisation process on the funerary practices and health status of the Levant populations: from North to South. North-South Connections and Disconnections in the Prehistory and Proto-history of the Levant, Session du XVIIème Congrès de l’Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques, Sep 2014, Burgos, Spain. ⟨hal-01819288⟩