The social construction of identity and memory can be expressed through public ritual. The
organization of mortuary practices, the repetitive use of imagery and figurines, and the long-
term reuse of human skulls in the Near Eastern Neolithic illustrate how household ritual
linked the living to the dead. Secondary mortuary practices and the plastering and painting
of human skulls as ritual heirlooms served as a form of memorialization and erasure of
identity within communities. The deliberate focus on the face in both construction and …

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