Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World 'Death Shall Have No Dominion'
Book contents
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Frontispiece
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘The Unanswered Question’: Investigating Early Conceptualisations of Death
- Part I Intimations of Mortality
- Chapter 2 Non-Human Animal Responses towards the Dead and Death: A Comparative Approach to Understanding the Evolution of Human Mortuary Practices
- Chapter 3 Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Mortuary Behaviours and the Origins of Ritual Burial
- Chapter 4 Upper Palaeolithic Mortuary Practices: Reflection of Ethnic Affiliation, Social Complexity, and Cultural Turnover
- Part II Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism and the Collective
- Part III Constructing the Ancestors
- Part IV Death, Hierarchy, and the Social Order
- Part V Materiality and Memory
- Part VI Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing Other Worlds
- Part VII Responses and Reactions: Concluding Thoughts
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - Non-Human Animal Responses towards the Dead and Death: A Comparative Approach to Understanding the Evolution of Human Mortuary Practices
from Part I - Intimations of Mortality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Frontispiece
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘The Unanswered Question’: Investigating Early Conceptualisations of Death
- Part I Intimations of Mortality
- Chapter 2 Non-Human Animal Responses towards the Dead and Death: A Comparative Approach to Understanding the Evolution of Human Mortuary Practices
- Chapter 3 Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Mortuary Behaviours and the Origins of Ritual Burial
- Chapter 4 Upper Palaeolithic Mortuary Practices: Reflection of Ethnic Affiliation, Social Complexity, and Cultural Turnover
- Part II Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism and the Collective
- Part III Constructing the Ancestors
- Part IV Death, Hierarchy, and the Social Order
- Part V Materiality and Memory
- Part VI Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing Other Worlds
- Part VII Responses and Reactions: Concluding Thoughts
- Index
- References
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