The Palaeolithic origins of human burial / Paul Pettitt

Author: Pettitt, Paul
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011 [i.e. 2010]
Copyright Date: ©2011
Physical Description: xi, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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Contents

Death and the Palaeolithic -- Primate roots for early hominid morbidity and mortuary activity -- From morbidity to mortuary activity : developments from the australopithecines to Homo heidelbergensis -- From funerary caching to the earliest burials of early Homo sapiens -- The Neanderthals -- The first Homo sapiens populations in Europe : early and mid Upper Palaeolithic funerary activities ~35,000-21,000 bp -- From fragmentation to collectivity : human relics, burials, and the origins of cemeteries in the late Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic -- The dead as symbols : the evolution of human mortuary activity.

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9780415354899 (hardback)
0415354897 (hardback)
9780415354905 (pbk.)
0415354900 (pbk.)
9780203001554 (e-book)
0203001559 (e-book)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-302) and index.

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