The palaeolithic origins of human burial

1. Verfasser: Pettitt, Paul
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Umfang/Format: xi, 307 : ill, maps ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.