From Individual to Collective Burial in the Mesolithic of Iberia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on the Paleolithic in the Mediterranean Region" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The transition from individual to collective burial underscores implicit, but poorly understood, changes in social organization within the Mesolithic and between the Mesolithic and the Neolithic. Mosaic in character, this transition is well marked in Cantabria and Portugal, less so in other regions of Iberia. Mortuary programs on the Peninsula are described and compared with the data from western Europe in an attempt to identify the general circumstances that explain why this transition occurred when and where it did, and the implications it had for the subsequent emergence of social complexity in the Neolithic.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Recent Research on the Paleolithic in the Mediterranean Region   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37732.0