Talk:Paleolithic burial

Main article?
I think there should be a main article for Paleolithic burials if that's not already the case (apparently not). I'm actually researching Paleolithic burials for my archaeology classes and would happily contribute. Once I'm done with my "essay" due in a week or so, I think I will start this article.Munin75 (talk) 18:22, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * If there have been studies specifically relating to Paleolithic burials, then it would be fine to create an article. However, the Paleolithic is simply an arbitrary period based on stone tool technology that spans 2.5 million years. Wapondaponda (talk) 18:36, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes there have been studies concerning Paleolithic burials, I have access to an extensive bibliography on the subject. Indeed the Paleolithic spans a few million years regrouping different cultures more or less arbitrarily, but tombs appear during the Mousterian culture, that would be in the middle Paleolithic, and are still present, of course, with the Homo Sapien in the late Paleolithic period. These tombs are generally called "Paleolithic burials or tombs" (that's the term used in all the books I have read on the subject) even though we haven't found any tombs from the longer early Paleolithic (yet). For the sake of a coherent study, Paleolithic tombs are separated from Neolithic tombs for example, because societies were of course very different, hence the use of "Paleolithic" is pertinent. Yet we could even separate "middle Paleolithic burials" and "late Paleolithic burials" (some researches are specialized in one of these subjects) but I guess I'll just keep it to the Paleolithic burials in general when I start this article... for now...Munin75 (talk) 21:33, 22 November 2008 (UTC)