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

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
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia 2016
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
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