theoddmentemporium:

This skull, from 7,000 BC Jericho - one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on the planet - embodies (or enheads) everything great about the mystery and macabre of early civilisation. This particular example was discovered in 1953, after which others have been found as far flung as the Ukraine. Were they the world’s first portraits - they were originally plastered and painted? The morbidity of its cowrie shell-inlaid eyes certainly hum with the dark fascination early cultures had for turning death into art.