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Mike Parker Pearson

Researcher at University College London

Publications -  145
Citations -  4990

Mike Parker Pearson is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bronze Age & Beaker. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 138 publications receiving 4317 citations. Previous affiliations of Mike Parker Pearson include UCL Institute of Archaeology & University of Sheffield.

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The Archaeology of Death and Burial

TL;DR: The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies as mentioned in this paper and through the remains of funerary rituals we learn not only about prehistoric people's attitudes toward death and the afterlife but also about their culture, social system, and world view.
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The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

Iñigo Olalde, +169 more
- 08 Mar 2018 - 
TL;DR: Genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans is presented, finding limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and excludes migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions.
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Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space

TL;DR: Architecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering, and classifying the world; meaning may be created and reworked by defining symbolic boundaries, analogues and metaphors.
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The Powerful Dead: Archaeological Relationships between the Living and the Dead

TL;DR: In this article, a contextual analysis of the Danish Iron Age uses studies of landscape and topography, and contrasts in material culture to situate the changing placement of the dead in society.