Fragmentation in Archaeology: People, Places and Broken Objects in the Prehistory of South Eastern Europe

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Fragmentation in Archaeology revolutionises archaeological studies of material culture, by arguing that the deliberate physical fragmentation of objects, and their (often structured) deposition, lies at the core of the archaeology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age of Central and Eastern Europe. John Chapman draws on detailed evidence from the Balkans to explain such phenomena as the mass sherd deposition in pits and the wealth of artefacts found in the Varna cemetery to place the significance of fragmentation within a broad anthropological context. Cover Fragmentation in Archaeology: People, places and broken objects in the prehistory of south-eastern Europe Copyright Dedication Contents List of figures List of tables Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: clearing the ground 2. Two ways of relating: enchainment and accumulation 3. Broken and complete objects 4. Hoards and other sets 5. People, cemeteries and personal identities 6. People and places in the landscape 7. Summary and conclusions: towards an archaeology of social practices Gazetteer of time/space distributions of cultural groupings Appendix: Neolithic and Copper Age boards Notes Bibliography Index of sites Index of authors General index