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paleolithic burial  

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  • The limited nature of the evidence from the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age, a period beginning over 2.5 million years ago, poses a challenge to archaeologists. Funerary deposits seem to have been limited to cave sites; however, this may indicate more about how artifacts and ancient deposits survive than it does about the limits of cultural practice. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Burial, Paleolithic]

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