Broken Bodies, Places and Objects

Chapter 1 - Fragmentation in Archaeological Context - Studying the Incomplete; Part I - Fragmentation and Funerary Practices; Chapter 2 - Marking Boundaries, Making Connections: Fragmenting the Body in Bronze Age Britain; Chapter 3 - Breaking and Making the Ancestors. Fragmentation as a Key Funerary Practice in the Creation of Urnfield Graves; Chapter 4 - Bonded by Pieces: Fragments as Means of Affirming Kinship in Iron Age Finland; Chapter 5 - Revisiting, Selecting, Breaking and Removing: Incomplete and Fragmented Merovingian Reopened Graves in Western Europe; Chapter 6 - Parted Pairs: Viking Age Oval Brooches in Britain, Ireland, and Iceland; Part II - Fragmentation and Archaeological Methods; Chapter 7 - There is Method in the Madness - or how to Approach Fragmentation in Archaeology; Chapter 8 - Four Problems for Archaeological Refitting Studies; Chapter 9 - Describing Identity: The Individual and the Collective in Zooarchaeology; Chapter 10 - Fragmented Reindeer of Stallo Foundations; Chapter 11 - House to House - Fragmentation and Deceptive Memory-Making at an Early Modern Swedish Country House; Part III - Fragmentation and the Manipulation of Objects; Chapter 12 - Multiple Objects: Fragmentation and Process in the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland; Chapter 13 - Breaking, Making, Dismantling and Reassembling: Fragmentation in Iron Age Britain; Chapter 14 - Fusing Fragments: Repaired Objects, Refitted Parts and Upcycled Pieces in the Late Bronze Age Metalwork of Southern Scandinavia; Chapter 15 - Selective Fragmentation: Exploring the Treatment of Metalwork across Time and Space in Bronze Age Britain; Chapter 16 - Pieces of the Past, Fragments for the Future - Broken Metalwork in Nordic Late Bronze Age Hoards as Memorabilia?; Chapter 17 - A Man-of-War in Pieces. Fragmenting the Rikswasa of 1599; Concluding Essay; Chapter 18 - Fragmentation Research and the Fetichization of Independence.