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Each carved limestone mask weights one or two kg and would likely have been painted – but only one has the remnants of colour, the Times of Israel reported.
! S* g, d! o& SThe people who carved the masks were among the first humans to abandon nomadic life and set up home in permanent settlements, but because they predate writing by some 3,500 years, no one can be exactly sure what they were used for.
7 D2 s" m7 b2 m( s/ R/ iBased on similarities to other skulls used in reliies for ancestors found in other villages from the same period, it is thought the masks were used in magical rites.0 C6 c, @1 V% p7 j$ V
By recreating human images for cultic purposes, the early agricultural societies of Neolithic times may have been expressing their increasing mastery of the natural world and reflecting their growing understanding of the nature of existence, experts explained./ e, f5 B, ^3 {9 }, g, |$ f
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