Plastered skulls were less common and have been found at only one other Neolithic site in Turkey ... But his research was cut short in 1965, after Turkish authorities withdrew his excavation ...

Discover how Neolithic and Bronze Age people in Turkey ... From examination of two of the skulls here, this village gives us evidence of the earliest-known brain surgery and first autopsy to ...

The removal and modification of skulls in the Levant was documented ... for another 500-3,000 years into the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period, a Jordanian scholar recently said.