Early Neolithic Ceremonies in Turkey Found to Include Facial Piercings
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https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Neolithic-piercings.jpg?itok=Lku_sy-H" width="610" height="361" alt="Over 100 objects have so far been recovered from the Neolithic cemetery which were apparently used for piercings. Source: Ergül Koda?, Emma L Baysal & Kaz?m Özkan." /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>Something unexpected from the early Neolithic has been found in Turkey. During excavations in an ancient cemetery, a team of archaeologists from several institutions unearthed more than 100 small ornaments that were apparently used to fill piercings of the ear and lip.</p>
<p>At the early Neolithic site of? <a href="
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/mini-g-bekli-tepe-0012801" target="_blank">Boncuklu Tarla[/url], a lost settlement discovered during excavations in Turkey’s southeastern territory that began in 2008, researchers found the miniature jewelry pieces in the graves of adult men and women who may have lived and died as long as 11,000 years ago. The researchers believe the jewelry would have been awarded to young adults going through coming-of-age ceremonies, with their piercings representing a sign that they’d reached full maturity.</p>
<p>“The combination of contextual and physical anthropological evidence at Boncuklu Tarla confirms, for the first time, that personal ornamentation using body perforation was practiced early in the Neolithic period,” the Turkish archaeologists wrote in a new article just published in? <a href="
https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.28" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
Antiquity[/url].? “Typological comparison of ornaments between sites shows that these practices were widespread as early as the PPNA.”</p>
<p>The PPNA referenced here refers to the? <a href="
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/neolithic-shrine-0016458" target="_blank">Pre-Pottery Neolithic A[/url], a stage of the early Neolithic period that lasted in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) from 10,000 to 8,800 BC.</p>
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