The Palaeolithic Origins Of Human Burial Paul Pettitt by Paul Pettitt 9780203001554, 9780203813300, 0203001559, 0203813308 instant download after payment.

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throughout, includes up-to-date examples from the Lower to Late Upper Palaeolithic, including information hitherto unpublished.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