Amud 7, a baby no older than 10 months, was excavated from a cave near the Dead Sea in the 1990s. Exactly like the Mezmaiskaya infant, it lay on bedrock on its right side, and despite some crushing by sediment, even fingers and toes were in the correct position. What marks Amud 7 out is that nestled right against its hip bone was a large red deer jaw. That species is common in the cave, but complete bones are rare. There is no intervening sediment, indicating that the heavy, perhaps still-fleshed jaw was placed directly on the corpse before it decayed.
