It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial by Paul Pettitt
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Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Ice Age. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial takes a novel approach to the long-term development of human mortuary activity – the various ways we deal with the dead and with dead bodies. It is the first comprehensive survey of Palaeolithic mortuary activity in the English language. Observations in the modern world as to how chimpanzees behave towards their dead allow us to identify ‘core’ areas of...
The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial by Paul Pettitt is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
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