Editing Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (section)

==Burial practices==

PPNA cultures are unique for their burial practices, and Kenyon (who excavated the PPNA level of Jericho) characterized them as "living with their dead". Kenyon found no fewer than 279 burials, below floors, under household foundations, and in between walls.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mithen |first=Steven |title=After the ice : a global human history, 20,000–5,000 BC |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-674-01999-7 |edition=1st |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |pages=60}}</ref> In the PPNB period, skulls were often dug up and reburied, or mottled with clay and (presumably) displayed.