商品簡介
Observations in the modern world as to how chimpanzees behave towards their dead allow us to identify 'core' areas of behaviour towards the dead that probably have very deep evolutionary antiquity. From that point, the palaeontological and archaeological records of the Pilocene and Pleistocene are surveyed. The core chapters of the book survey the mortuary activities of early hominins, archaic members of the genus Homo, early Homo sapiens, the Neanderthals, the Early and Mid Upper Palaeolithic, and the Late Upper Palaeolithic world.
The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial offers a contribution to the debate on modern human origins. It is illustrated throughout, includes up-to-date examples from the Lower to Late Upper Palaeolithic, and contains information hitherto unpublished.
作者簡介
Paul Petal is Senior Lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has degrees from the universities of Birmingham, London and Cambridge, and was Senior Archaeologist in the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow and Tutor in Archaeology and Anthropology at Keble College, Oxford. His research interests focus on the European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. He has published over 190 papers in scientific journals and edited volumes, including chapters on the Neanderthals (in the Oxford Handbook of Archaeology) and the rise of modern humans (in Scarre (ed.) The Human Past. In 2003 he co-discovered Britain's first examples of Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags, where he currently excavates.
