Early Child deliberate burials. Bioarchaeological insights from the near Eastern Mediterranean

The Near East provides an excellent opportunity to approach from published interpretations the origins of funerary practises applied to infants and non-adults during the Middle Palaeolithic in Eurasia. These practises were shared by morphologically different human groups that have alternated use of the Mediterranean Levant between 110 and 50 Kyrs BP and were associated with distinct Mousterian assemblages.Ce sont les documents issus du Proche-Orient qui permettent d'aborder la question de l'origine des gestes funéraires concernant les enfants de moins d'un an et les sujets immatures au Paléolithique Moyen en Eurasie. Ces pratiques ont été le fait de différents groupes humains identifiés successivement au Levant Méditerranéen entre 100.000 et 50.000 ans BP dans des niveaux moustériens de facture distincte