...This chapter begins by considering the history of interpretation of multi-stage burial practices in the Neolithic. These interpretations have contrasted secondary burials involving exposure and bone circulation with successive inhumation of bodies in a single location. Chronologies...

... successive inhumation shell middens neotaphonomic research palaeotaphonomic research Three Holes Cave Heaning Wood Bone Cave Spurge Hole secondary burial Hazelton North chambered tomb intermediary period pastoralism multi stage burial Abri des Autours Höhlenstein Stadel L’Abri du Pas Estret...

...This chapter examines the diversity of Neolithic cave burial practices after around 3800 BC. In this period there is evidence of a secondary burial rite which is focussed on the cranium. There is also one possible example of mummification or the curation of body parts as part of extended funerary...