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The Palaeolithic origins of human burial / Paul Pettitt.

By: Pettitt, Paul
Publisher: Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: xi, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780415354899; 0415354897; 9780415354905 (pbk.); 0415354900 (pbk.)Subject(s): Paleolithic period | Burial -- History | Human remains (Archaeology)
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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Book Book British Museum Britain Europe and Prehistory Orsman PAL 7.3 P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 10020132
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Includes bibliography: p. 274-302 and index.

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.