Preface Colin Renfrew, Michael J. Boyd and Iain Morley 1. 'The unanswered question': investigating early conceptualisations of death Colin Renfrew Part I. Intimations of Mortality: 2. Non-human animal responses towards the dead and death: a comparative approach to understanding the evolution of human mortuary practices Alex Piel and Fiona Stewart 3. Lower and Middle Palaeolithic mortuary behaviours and the origins of ritual burial Joao Zilhao 4. Upper Palaeolithic mortuary practices: reflection of ethnic affiliation, social complexity and cultural turn-over Francesco d'Errico and Marian Vanhaeren Part II. Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism and the Collective: 5. Gathering of the dead? The Early Neolithic sanctuaries of Goebekli Tepe, Southeastern Turkey Jens Notroff, Oliver Dietrich and Klaus Schmidt 6. Death and architecture: the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A burials at WF16, Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan Steven Mithen, Bill Finlayson, Darko Maricevic, Sam Smith, Emma Jenkins and Mohammad Najjar 7. Corporealities of death in the central Andes (c.9000-2000 BC) Peter Kaulicke 8. Mediating the dominion of death in Prehistoric Malta Simon Stoddart 9. House societies and founding ancestors in Early Neolithic Britain Julian Thomas Part III. Constructing the Ancestors: 10. Constructing ancestors in Sub-Saharan Africa Timothy Insoll 11. Different kinds of dead: presencing Andean expired beings George F. Lau 12. Putting death in its place: the idea of the cemetery Anthony Snodgrass 13. Becoming Mycenaean? The living, the dead and the ancestors in the transformation of society in second millennium BC southern Greece Michael J. Boyd Part IV. Death, Hierarchy and the Social Order: 14. Life and death in late-prehistoric to early historic Mesopotamia Karina Croucher 15. The big sleep: early Maya mortuary ritual Norman Hammond 16. De-paradoxisation of paradoxes by referring to death as an ultimate paradox: the case of the state-formation phase of Japan Koji Mizoguchi 17. Death and mortuary rituals in mainland southeast Asia: from hunter-gatherers to the god kings of Angkor Charles F. W. Higham Part V. Materiality and Memory: 18. How did the Mycenaeans remember? Death, matter and memory in the early Mycenaean world Lambros Malafouris 19. Eternal glory: the origins of eastern jade burial and its far-reaching influence Li Shuicheng 20. Eventful deaths - eventful lives? Bronze age mortuary practices in the late prehistoric Eurasian steppes of central Russia (2100-1500 BC) Bryan Hanks, Roger Doonan, Derek Pitman, Elena Kupriyanova and Dmitri Zdanovich Part VI. Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing Other Worlds: 21. Northern Iroquoian deathways and the re-imagination of community John L. Creese 22. Locating a sense of immortality in early Egyptian cemeteries Alice Stevenson 23. Buddhist mortuary traditions in ancient India: stupas, relics and the Buddhist landscape Julia Shaw 24. Killing mummies: on Inka epistemology and imperial power Terence N. D'Altroy Part VII. Responses and Reactions: Concluding Thoughts: 25. Death shall have no dominion: a response Timothy Jenkins 26. Comments: death shall have no dominion Paul Wason 27. The muse of archaeology Ben Okri.