The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented DeathFrom the author of The Prehistory of Sex a coruscating, insightful history of the human soul. 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,