Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-302) and index.

Death and the Palaeolithic ; Primate roots for early hominid morbidity and mortuary activity ; From morbidity to mortuary activity : developments from the australopithecines to Homo heidelbergensis ; From funerary caching to the earliest burials of early Homo sapiens ; The Neanderthals ; The first Homo sapiens populations in Europe : early and mid Upper Palaeolithic funerary activities ~35,000-21,000 bp ; From fragmentation to collectivity : human relics, burials, and the origins of cemeteries in the late Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic ; The dead as symbols : the evolution of human mortuary activity.