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

by John Charles Chapman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415642698
• ISBN13: 9780415642699
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"