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The Shanidar IV ‘Flower Burial’: a Re-evaluation of Neanderthal Burial Ritual

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2009

Jeffrey D. Sommer
Jeffrey D. Sommer
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Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , April 1999 , pp. 127 - 129
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1999

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