A Comparison of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Burials of North Africa and Western Europe. Grim Investigations: Reaping the Dead

This study reexamines the ideas of Saxe and Goldstein on territoriality amongst hunter-gatherers. Detailed case studies from North Africa and Scandinavia are used to explore the idea that cemeteries could, through funerary rituals, be used to legitimise territorial claims to resources.