1. Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior : a view from Shanidar Cave
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Emily Tilby, Ariane Burke, Tim Reynolds, Paul Bennett, Paul Goldberg, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Curtis W. Marean, Robert Foley, Evan Hill, Paul Pettitt, Lucy Farr, Bruno Maureille, Emma Pomeroy, Eleni Asouti, Chris Hunt, Andreas Nymark, Christopher E. Miller, Kaify Ali Mustafa, Marjolein Bosch, Nohemi Sala, Giuseppina Mutri, Amos Frumkin, Ceren Kabukcu, Ross Lane, Dennis Sandgathe, Chris Stringer, Graeme Barker, Charles French, Dlshad Abdulmutalb, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Université de Montréal (UdeM), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ), Department of Archaeology, Boston University [Boston] (BU), Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), Groupe de recherche sur la surdité et la LSQ, Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM), Simon Fraser University (SFU.ca), The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Pomeroy, Emma [0000-0001-6251-2165], Foley, Robert [0000-0003-0479-3039], French, Charles [0000-0001-7967-3248], Mirazon Lahr, Marta [0000-0001-5752-5770], Tilby, Emily [0000-0002-9735-7510], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Geologic Sediments ,010506 paleontology ,History ,Neanderthal ,Taphonomy ,Burial ,[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory ,01 natural sciences ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences ,Fractures, Bone ,Cave ,biology.animal ,Animals ,0601 history and archaeology ,History, Ancient ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Neanderthals ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,geography ,060101 anthropology ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,biology ,Fossils ,taphonomy ,Paleontology ,funerary activity ,06 humanities and the arts ,General Medicine ,Limiting ,CC ,sediment micromorphology ,Archaeology ,Caves ,GN ,Anthropology ,Iraq ,mortuary activity - Abstract
Mortuary behavior (activities concerning dead conspecifics) is one of many traits that were previously widely considered to have been uniquely human, but on which perspectives have changed markedly in recent years. Theoretical approaches to hominin mortuary activity and its evolution have undergone major revision, and advances in diverse archeological and paleoanthropological methods have brought new ways of identifying behaviors such as intentional burial. Despite these advances, debates concerning the nature of hominin mortuary activity, particularly among the Neanderthals, rely heavily on the rereading of old excavations as new finds are relatively rare, limiting the extent to which such debates can benefit from advances in the field. The recent discovery of in situ articulated Neanderthal remains at Shanidar Cave offers a rare opportunity to take full advantage of these methodological and theoretical developments to understand Neanderthal mortuary activity, making a review of these advances relevant and timely. publishedVersion
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- 2020
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