The Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World

Session Date: 
Mar 3, 2017
Speakers: 

Deliberate burials appear in the archaeological with archaic Homo sapiens, c.1000,000 BP, cemeteries prior to the advent of agriculture (before 10,000 BP). Belief in immortality is difficult to document before the emergence of state societies and the construction of deities, although the attention accorded to some special materials (jade, gold) may suggest earlier notions of immortality.

AttachmentSize
File 2017_03_03_08_Renfrew-Web.mp4109.11 MB