Pettitt, P. B. (2002). The Neanderthal dead:. Before Farming 2002 (1). Vol 2002(1), pp. 0-0. https://doi.org/10.3828/bfarm.2002.1.4.
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The Neanderthal dead: | |||||||||||||||
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exploring mortuary variability in Middle Palaeolithic Eurasia | |||||||||||||||
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Before Farming 2002 (1) | |||||||||||||||
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Before Farming | |||||||||||||||
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2002 (1) | |||||||||||||||
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It is thought that recent discussions about Neanderthal mortuary behaviour have tended to polarise around opinions that they did, or did not, bury their dead and assumed that most scholars agree that at least some Neanderthals, at some times, treated the dead body. This article seeks to demonstrate that Neanderthal mortuary activity was a real phenomenon that requires exploration and interpretation. The nature and extent of variability in mortuary behaviour is examined. It is thought that in the later Middle Pleistocene Neanderthals may have been caching the dead in unmodified natural surroundings. After 70,000 BP some Neanderthal groups buried infants, or parts of them, in pits, infants and adults in shallow grave cuttings and indulged in primary corpse modification and subsequent burial. It may have been on occasion too that certain enclosed sites served as mortuary centres, and that their function as such was perpetuated in the memory of Neanderthal groups either through physical grave markers or social tradition. It is thought that at least in some Neanderthal groups the dead body was explored and treated in socially meaningful ways. | |||||||||||||||
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29 Aug 2002 |
