Researchers find earliest use of flowers in burial rite
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - 09:32
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org) —An international team of researchers working at Mount Carmel, Israel has found evidence of the use of flowers by ancient people in burial rites. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes impressions made by flowers they discovered in mud layers beneath bodies laid to rest after death by people of the Natufian culture.