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Chapter 5 - Gathering of the Dead? The Early Neolithic Sanctuaries of Göbekli Tepe, Southeastern Turkey

from Part II - Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism and the Collective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

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Jens Notroff ,
Oliver Dietrich  and
Klaus Schmidt
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Colin Renfrew ,
Michael J. Boyd  and
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Colin Renfrew
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Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
'Death Shall Have No Dominion'
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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