The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death.
Taylor, Timothy F.
Taylor, Timothy F.
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Cannibals, burials, vampires, human sacrifice, bog people ¿ throughout history our ancestors have responded to death in numerous ways. The past has left us numerous relics of these encounters between the dead and those they leave behind: accounts of sacrifices in early histories, rituals that have stood the test of time, bodies discovered in caves and bogs, remains revealed by archaeological digs.
Through these insights into the past, Tim Taylor pieces together evidence of how our ancestors created their universe and asks how we have dealt with the idea of the end and slowly come to create not only a sense of the afterlife but also the soul.
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Taylor, T. (2008). The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death. Hammersmith: 4th Estate. ISBN-13: 978-0007291472. 368p.
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