The main types of adornments at Halula were necklaces, bracelets, pendants, headdresses, and belts. Necklaces can be made of stone, copper, or even shell, the former being the most abundant. Different combinations of raw materials in the same object are remarkable, even if the combination of red chalcedony and turquoise is most often used. Generally, bracelets combine more raw materials than necklaces. These were made of stone beads, stone and copper beads, only copper beads, and stone and shell beads as well. Pendants were made of bone or shell, while headdresses and belts were mainly made of Cypreae sp. shells.
Provenance: Tell Halula.
Currently at the National Museum of Damascus.
Age: Neolithic.
Photo: Nicholas Randall.
M. Molist, I. Montero-Ruiz, X. Clop, S. Rovira, E. Guerrero, J. Anfruns. New Metallurgic Findings from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic: Tell Halula (Euphrates Valley, Syria). Paléorient Année 2009 (pp. 33-48).
Miquel Molist, Josep Anfruns, Ferran Borrell, Xavier Clop. Ensemble des objets qui constituent le dépôt funéraire de la sépulture 206. PPNB moyen.
ʾIḍāʾāt ʿalā al-Matḥaf al-Waṭanī fī Dimašq. DGAM (Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées de Syrie). Ministère de la Culture, 2006.
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