The Palaeolithic origins of human burial

Description

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throughout, includes up-to-date examples from the Lower to Late Upper Palaeolithic, including information hitherto unpublished. 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