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A Very Rare 9,000-year-old Neolithic Stone Mask Unveiled

A rare stone mask from the Neolithic period has been unveiled for the first time by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

The mask was recovered by the Anti-Robbery Unit at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), and transferred to the Archaeology Department of the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria for further study.

The mask was discovered near Pnei Hever, an Israeli settlement east of Hebron in the West Bank. Ronit Lupu, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said that a man had been walking through a field when he picked up the mask from the ground and eventually turned it over to the IAA's Antiquities Theft Prevention Unit.

"This was an innocent find, and the person who found it was the person who showed us where he found it," Lupu said.

Lupu and her colleagues think the mask probably was brought to the surface by agricultural activities that disturbed the soil. The field is full of Neolithic artifacts, indicating that there is an archaeological site underground, which the researchers hope to excavate eventually, Lupu said.

According to a press statement by the IAA, the mask is made of yellow-rose limestone and was crafted during the Neolithic period around 9,000-years-ago.

Ronit Lupo from the IAA, said: “The design of the mask has facial features that are perfect and symmetrical, even shaped cheekbones, an impressive nose, and a mouth showing the teeth”.

Only 16 stone masks from this period have been unearthed, many of which were discovered in the southern area of the Mount Hebron-Jehuda Desert. They all share similar traits and characteristics in their production, suggesting that they belong to the same Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) culture group.

People living during this period saw the onset of the Agricultural Revolution and relied heavily upon domesticated animals to supplement their earlier agrarian and hunter-gatherer diet.

PPNB sites found in the Levant feature human skulls covered in layers of plaster or buried beneath the floors of ancient dwellings. According to experts, this type of activity represents an early form of ancestor worship. “These stone masks are somewhat similar to human faces, and so they tend to be linked to this worship,” added Lupo.

The PPNB culture disappeared during the 8.2 kiloyear event, a term that climatologists have adopted for a sudden decrease in global temperatures that occurred approximately 8,200-years-ago and lasted for up to two centuries.

A representative of the IAA explained: “The discovery of the mask confirms our assumption that the southern area of Mount Hebron was a centre for the production of stone masks, and apparently also for religious activity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.”

By Mark Milligan and Megan Gannon.

[20th-century-railroading]

One last Espee at Mount Hebron by Greg Brown Via Flickr: For railfans, 1999 was the last decent year for Southern Pacific imagery on the Shasta Route. While the hotshot Z trains were mostly an all-Union Pacific show, the lumber drags were still pulled by SP units.

In September 1999, this westbound drag is winding up for the climb to Grass Lake at Mount Hebron. In Espee days, the 8100-series GE units were somewhat rare. The following year they would go out in a blaze of glory, operating in four and five unit sets on certain I-5 corridor intermodals.

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US 29 (2003)

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Unplanned pause by Greg Brown Via Flickr: The very hot LABRF (Los Angeles - Brooklyn/Portland Forwarder) is stuck at Mount Hebron because an opposing freight ahead has made an emergency stop. The conductor has taken advantage of the delay to walk to the small grocery store for some snacks, since dinner after tie-up in Klamath Falls has been delayed.

During summer 1988, Southern Pacific leased some ex-Southern SD45s with high short hoods from VMV. This combo of three locomotives in three different paint schemes would be repeated often that year. Thankfully, nature provided some colorful clouds for a backdrop.

July 13, 1988

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As a part of this lynching situation, an Arab terrorist was injured and the "Palestinian" ambulance service was trying to take him away but the IDF stopped them as he needed to be arrested. See how they abuse their ambulance services to get terrorists out of a place so they don't get arrested.

The guy filming this is working for the ambulance service. They have no reason or right to film the soldiers, only the press are allowed to.

Uri Gobey

[girlactionfigure]

Today in Mount Hebron, 30 Arabs lynched this Jewish man. They beat him badly and hit him in the head with a hoe.

Please pray for the refuah shleima of Itamar ben Ila.

Uri Gobey

[johnjhalseth]

Mt Hebron Cemetery and Gate House.

http://www.mthebroncemetery.org/history.html