Diversity, lifestyles and rites: new biological and archaeological evidence from British Earlier Neolithic mortuary assemblages

A potentially very important and comparatively neglected source of information in debates about the nature of the early neolithic period in northwest Europe is human skeletal material. A new project is concerned with the issues of population diversity, lifestyles and ancestral rites.

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