Ceremonial boulders were hit like 'gongs' to call the community to funerals Large stone mortars were found next to stone age grave sites in Israel Researchers believe these were pounded to summon people to ceremonies Noise from the 3 foot tall rocks would have been audible for miles around It suggests nearby communities were bound together with common beliefs
They were among the first Stone Age humans to abandon the nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle in favour of living in settled villages around 15,000 years ago. Now archaeologists have discovered the Natufian culture that lived in the Levant in modern-day Israel may also have pioneered the concept of church bells to summon the community together.
Researchers have discovered strangely shaped boulders they believe were used as ceremonial 'gongs' that were pounded during burial ceremonies.
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