Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Mortuary Behaviours and the Origins of Ritual Burial
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In: Renfrew C., Boyd M.J., Morley I. (eds). Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World. 'Death Shall Have No Dominion'. — Cambridge University Press, 2015. — pp. 27-44.The notion that burial was a cultural innovation of the Middle Palaeolithic, appearing in the archaeological record some 100,000 years ago and irrespective of human taxonomic affinities, became commonplace in the field of palaeoanthropology until the late 1980s. However, in the framework of the ‘Eve Hypothesis’ and the ‘Human Revolution’ paradigm, whose internal consistency required the removal of Neanderthals from the range of human-ness in both biology and behaviour, that notion became the object of intensive scrutiny. Although, at first, questions were raised with the Neanderthals specifically in mind, the logic of the argument made it almost inevitable that such questions eventually extended to the Middle Palaeolithic in general.
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