The cult of the dead during the Paleolithic periodCase study: Natufian culture

Abstract

This research deals with the worship of the dead during the Paleolithic era. The study area

is limited to the ancient Arab East, specifically the Levant region, due to the emergence of

the first and oldest evidence in that region. This research derives its originality from the fact

that it sheds light on all the sites from which discoveries came that indicated the worship of

the dead during the Paleolithic era, within one integrated work. This research follows the

descriptive approach in an analytical manner, and begins with describing the discovered

burials on which rituals of worshiping the dead were practiced in each site separately in

terms of the type of rituals, the parts they included from the discovered skeletons, as well as

the gender and age group of these samples, in addition to their date and burial places, and

from Then it moves to the analysis of the aforementioned data in order to answer thequestions raised.