Table des matières
Kate Harrell
The Social Life of ΘραύσματαJohn Chapman
Bits and piecesFragmentation in Aegean Bronze Age context
- Our fragmented past
- Documenting the fragmentation premise
- Terminological (in)exactitudes as regards process
- Forms of enchainment
- Terminology for curation processes
- Amber necklaces
- Human bone curation in the tombs of the Mesara
- The Phylakopi figurine re-fits
- Relics at the Atsipades peak sanctuary
- The fragmentation of rhyta-bull’s head rhyta and Triton shell rhyta
- The defacement of faience goddesses
- General conclusions
- Acknowledgements
Stratos Nanoglou
Situated intentionsProviding a framework for the destruction of objects in Aegean prehistory
Maria Pantelidou Gofa
Damaged Pottery, Damaged Skulls at the Tsepi, Marathon CemeteryColin Renfrew
Evidence for ritual breakage in the Cycladic Early Bronze AgeThe Special Deposit South at Kavos on Keros
- Introduction
- General considerations of ‘damage’
- Etic approaches to transformation
- Emic approaches to transformation
- Damage at Keros
- Early work at Kavos on Keros
- The Special Deposit South at Kavos
- The cascade of contexts
- Context of Discovery
- Context of Deposition
- Context of Transportation
- Contexts of Breakage
- Contexts of Use
- Contexts of Production
- Ritual and fragmentation
- Ritual and Cult
Jennifer M. Webb et David Frankel
Coincident biographiesBent and broken blades in Bronze Age Cyprus
Kate Harrell
Piece OutComparing the Intentional Destruction of Swords in the Early Iron Age and the Mycenae Shaft Graves
Michael J. Boyd
Destruction and other material acts of transformation in Mycenaean funerary practiceGiorgos Vavouranakis et Chryssi Bourbou
Breaking Up the PastPatterns of Fragmentation in Early and Middle Bronze Age Tholos Tomb Contexts in Crete
- On fragments of artefacts and of bones
- The archaeological research process as fractionation
- The temporal dimension of archaeological fragments
- Fragments as actants in the past
- Methodological considerations for the interpretation of fragmentation in Minoan tholos tombs
- Funerary fragmentation
- Semi-intentional fragmentation
- Taphonomic fragmentation
- Is the re-excavated material of any use?
- Interpreting fragmentation in Early and Middle Minoan tholos tombs
- The early Prepalatial period (EM I-II)
- Intense pottery fragmentation and discard in the early Prepalatial tholoi
- The re-arrangement of human skeletal remains in early Prepalatial tholoi
- Early Prepalatial pottery and human body fragmentation patterns
- The late Prepalatial period (EM III-MM IA)
- Late Prepalatial patterns of pottery accumulation and taphonomic fragmentation
- Late Prepalatial accretion and manipulation of human skeletal remains
- Late Prepalatial pottery sherds and human remains: between taphonomy and funerary process
- The Protopalatial period (MM IB-IIB)
- Protopalatial intervention and accumulation tendencies: the evidence of the pottery
- The Protopalatial manipulation of human skeletal remains
- The Protopalatial attitude towards pottery vessels and dead bodies
- Funerary fragmentation and the wider Early-Middle Minoan social and historical context
- Early Prepalatial fragmentation and corporate identity re-negotiation
- Individuals, assemblages and time during the late Prepalatial
- The objectification of the funerary context and its Protopalatial manipulation
- Afterword
