Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World: Death Shall Have No Dominion
- ISBN-10
- 1107082730
- ISBN-13
- 9781107082731
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 460
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-10-31
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Colin Renfrew, Michael J. Boyd, Iain Morley
Description
This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.
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