On Death in the Mesolithic: Or the Mortuary Practices of the Last Hunter-Gatherers of the South-Western Iberian Peninsula, 7th–6th Millennium BCE

The history of death is entangled with the history of changing social values, meaning that a shift in attitudes to death will be consistent with changes in a society’s world view. Late Mesolithic shell middens in the Tagus and Sado valleys, Portugal, constitute some of the largest and earliest buria...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peyroteo-Stjerna, Rita (author)
Format: book
Language:eng
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Death
Late Mesolithic
Hunter-gatherers
Social memory
Place
Burial practices
Mortuary ritual
Historical process
South-western Iberian Peninsula
Archaeothanatology
Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis
Stable isotopes (carbon and nitrogen)
Shell middens
Museum collections
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/30962
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/30962

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