- Object Title: Plastered Human Skull
- Object Name: Skull
- Object Number: 955.165.1
- Description: Human skull, plaster filled and painted
- Dimensions: 13.3 x 18.5 x 13.5 cm
- Material: Human skull, plaster filled and painted
- Geography: Excavated at Tell al-Sultan (Jericho), Palestine
- Period: Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Period
- Date: c. 8000 BCE
- Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
- Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
- 1953 Archaeological Context: Square DI
- Excavation Number: 533
- Cross References:
Kenyon, Kathleen. Digging up Jericho. London: Ernest Benn, 1957: 60f. - Published References:
• Kenyon, Kathleen M. Excavations at Jericho, Volume Three. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1981: pp 77, 437, Plates 50b, 55.
• Bonogofsky, Michelle. "Complexity in context: Plain, painted and modeled skulls from the Neolithic Middle East." In Skull Collection, Modification and Decoration. Edited by M. Bonogofsky. BAR International Series 1539. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2006: 15-28.
• Bonogofsky, Michelle. "Reassessing “dental evulsion” in Neolithic plastered skulls from the Levant through the use of computed tomography, direct observation, and photographs." Journal of Archaeological Science 29, no. 9 (2002): 959-964.
• Tushingham, A. D. “Recent Palestinian Accessions.” Royal Ontario Museum Bulletin of the Division of Art & Archaeology 26 (Dec. 1957): Plate 8b. [image]
• Queen’s Journal 82, no. 11 (Oct. 29, 1954) p. 1 [image]