30/06/2024
Ancient Burial-Women and Puppy : It is difficult to look away from this image. In a 14,000-year-old burial pit, the skeleton of a woman lies in a fetal position, with her hand cradling the head of a puppy in a gesture of affection. At a time when humans made simple stone tools and lived in semi-permanent dugout homes with stone walls and thatched roofs, this woman was demonstrating that the domesticated canine was already part of our history. The human skeleton was laid out on its right side in a tight fetal position. The left wrist is partially under the forehead, and the right hand is on the remains of a puppy, laid curled up near the head of the human skeleton. The puppy’s milk teeth were fully grown and its bones long; the forearm and the bone joints were not joined together. The puppy’s age at the time of death was determined to be between 3 and 5 months old. Period:Proto-Neolithic 15,000 - 11,500 B C
Natufian culture
