Paul Pettitt

The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial offers an engaging contribution to the debate on modern human origins. It is illustrated throughout, includes up-to-date examples from the Lower to Late Upper Palaeolithic, including information hitherto unpublished.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136699108
• Artikelnr.: 39294901

Autorenporträt

Pettitt, Paul

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: death and the Palaeolithic 2. Primate roots for early
hominid morbidity and mortuary activity 3. From morbidity to mortuary
activity: developments from the australopithecines to Homo heidelbergensis
4. From funerary caching to the earliest burials of early Homo sapiens 5.
The Neanderthals 6. The first Homo sapiens populations in Europe: Early and
Mid Upper Palaeolithic funerary activities ~ 35,000 - 21,000 BP 7. From
fragmentation to collectivity: human relics, burials and the origins of
cemeteries in the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic 8. The dead
as symbols: the evolution of human mortuary activity