Paul Pettitt

The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial

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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throughout, includes up-to-date examples from the Lower to Late Upper Palaeolithic, including information hitherto unpublished.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 Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780415354899
• ISBN-10: 0415354897
• Artikelnr.: 32097885

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

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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

Rezensionen

'This volume by Pettitt, which represents the first comprehensive survey of Palaeolithic mortuary activity in the English language..., is a long overdue, and very welcome, addition to the large corpus of literature on the subject... [it] forms a useful scholarly text; both for the Palaeolithic student and researcher, and on discussion with colleagues, those interested in burial archaeology as a whole. While the title suggests a clear focus on Palaeolithic human burial, this actually undersells the scope of the volume, whose striking feature is the consideration of the full range of past hominin mortuary activity.' - Archaeological Review from Cambridge

'This volume by Pettitt, which represents the first comprehensive survey of Palaeolithic mortuary activity in the English language..., is a long overdue, and very welcome, addition to the large corpus of literature on the subject... [it] forms a useful scholarly text; both for the Palaeolithic student and researcher, and on discussion with colleagues, those interested in burial archaeology as a whole. While the title suggests a clear focus on Palaeolithic human burial, this actually undersells the scope of the volume, whose striking feature is the consideration of the full range of past hominin mortuary activity.' - Archaeological Review from Cambridge