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Introduction Introduction
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Recognizing Intentional Burials Recognizing Intentional Burials
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Other Mortuary Practices Other Mortuary Practices
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Acknowledgements Acknowledgements
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Suggestions for Further Reading Suggestions for Further Reading
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35 Insights into Early Mortuary Practices of Homo
Get accessErella Hovers is an associate professor at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her research focuses on the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic and the Middle Stone Age in the Horn of Africa, the emergence and evolution of symbolic culture as a material manifestation of cognitive and demographic changes She is involved in interdisciplinary multinational field projects in Israel (Amud Cave) and in Ethiopia, where she studies Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Oldowan sites in the Hadar site and MSA caves in eastern Ethiopia.
Anna Belfer-Cohen is a full professor at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her main interest lies in the domain of exploring prehistoric beginnings. She has researched extensively the Levantine Upper Palaeolithic which represents the flourishing and spread of modern humans on the one hand and the change-over from extractive to productive economies during the later part of that period (the Epipalaeolithic) on the other hand. She has participated in multidisciplinary and multinational excavation projects such as the excavations of Kebara and Hayonim caves in Israel and the Dzudzuana cave and Kotias Klde rockshelter in the Republic of Georgia.
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Published:01 August 2013
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Abstract
Among modern humans, mortuary behaviours conform to established conventions of the particular society enacting them, yet they are present in all societies, thus providing a basis for analogies between the present and the past. The caveats for the use of such analogies are reviewed in the context of understanding early prehistoric mortuary practices. Taking these into consideration, the chapter speculates on the origins and diversification of mortuary practices as social phenomena, in relation to hominin taxonomy, on geographic and temporal scales. The chapter suggests that mortuary behaviours differ between Eurasia and Africa and are not necessarily a single-origin phenomenon. Exhibiting material simplicity, burials, and other mortuary practices in the Middle Palaeolithic are best understood within the emotional realm and symbolic context.
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