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In Memoriam Rui Boaventura (February 10th 1971 - May 28th 2016) - Ana Catarina Sousa, Tiago Tome, Ana Maria Silva Foreword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition - Luiz Oosterbeek Introduction - Tiago Tome, Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla, Ana Maria Silva and Claudia Cunha Tomb 3 at La Pijotilla (Solana de los Barros, Badajoz, Spain): A Bioarchaeological Study of a Copper Age Collective Burial - Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla, Charlotte A. Roberts, Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan and Victor Hurtado Perez On the applicability of the assessment of dental tooth wear for the study of collective prehistoric burials - Luis Miguel Marado, Claudia Cunha, G. Richard Scott, Tiago Tome, Hugo Machado and Ana Maria Silva Cova de Can Sadurni (Begues, Barcelona). Towards the definition of a multiple funerary model inside caves during the middle Neolithic I in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula - Manuel Edo, Ferran Antolin, Pablo Martinez, Concepcio Castellana, Remei Bardera, Maria Sana, M. Merce Bergada, Josep Maria Fullola, Chus Barrio, Elicinia Fierro, Trinidad Castillo and Eva Fornell Mora Cavorso Cave: a collective underground burial in Neolithic central Italy - Mario F. Rolfo, Katia F. Achino and Letizia Silvestri Bioarchaeological approach to the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic population of Cameros megalithic group (La Rioja, Spain) - Teresa Fernandez-Crespo Anthropological and taphonomical study of human remains from the burial cave of El Espinoso (Ribadedeva, Asturias, Spain) - Borja Gonzalez Rabanal, Manuel Ramon Gonzalez Morales and Ana Belen Marin Arroyo Diet and ritual in the western Mediterranean Copper Age: human and animal stable isotopes from the collective burial at S. Caterina di Pittinuri (Sardinia, Italy) - Luca Lai, Ornella Fonzo, Elena Usai, Luca Medda, Robert Tykot, Ethan Goddard, David Hollander and Giuseppa Tanda The artificial caves of Valencina de la Concepcion (Seville) - Pedro M. Lopez Aldana and Ana Pajuelo Pando Multiple burials in pit graves from Recent Prehistory at Southwest of Iberia: The cases of Monte do Vale do Ouro 2 (Ferreira do Alentejo), Ribeira de S. Domingos 1 and Alto de Brinches 3 (Serpa) - Tania Pereira, Ana Maria Silva, Antonio Valera, Eduardo Porfirio