Earliest evidence of using flower beds for burial found in Raqefet Cave in Mt. Carmel
Thursday, July 4, 2013 - 15:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The earliest evidence of using flower beds for burial, dating back to 13,700 years ago, was discovered in Raqefet Cave in Mt. Carmel in northern Israel. In four different graves from the Natufian period, dating back to 13,700-11,700 years ago, dozens of impressions of Salvia plants and other species of sedges and mints (the Lamiaceae family), were found under human skeletons.