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Primate thanatology and hominoid mortuary archeology

Pettitt, Paul; Anderson, James R.

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Authors

Paul Pettitt

James R. Anderson



Abstract

In recent years, a thanatology of primates has become a respectable research topic, and although still sparse, observations among several taxa have shown how complex responses to the dead can be. In human evolutionary archeology, re-analysis of old ‘burial’ sites is slowly revising our view on the development of specifically human responses to the dead. We propose here the means of integrating information from the two disciplines of primatology and archeology, in support of the field of primate thanatology. We propose a terminology and a shared set of research questions, from which we generate a number of observations that can be utilized in the field, in order to establish a working dialogue and foster greater collaboration across the two disciplines.

Citation

Pettitt, P., & Anderson, J. R. (2020). Primate thanatology and hominoid mortuary archeology. Primates, 61(1), 9-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00769-2

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 8, 2019
Online Publication Date Oct 23, 2019
Publication Date Oct 23, 2020
Deposit Date Oct 29, 2019
Publicly Available Date Oct 29, 2019
Journal Primates
Print ISSN 0032-8332
Electronic ISSN 1610-7365
Publisher Springer
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 61
Issue 1
Pages 9-19
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00769-2

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