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This is a highly original work that attempts to take fragmentation studies further towards integrating archaeology, social anthropology and material culture, and concerns the relationship between whole objects and broken ones. The authors construct a new fragmentation premise and examine its implications for the Balkans in the Neolithic, using case studies taken from the Balkans and Greece. Key issues covered include a biographical method of considering objects and their relation to the creation of personhood; methodological issues of site formation; a questioning of the assumption that excavated data is a more or less accurate reflection of the operation of past social practices; and a discussion of what happened to pieces missing from an assemblage. It concludes by seeking to put Balkan prehistory back together again by looking at variations in social practices and the construction of personhood at different socio-spatial levels.

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John Chapman is the Emeritus Professor of European Prehistory at Durham University, UK. After completion of a Balkan Neolithic PhD from London, he devoted all of his career to that field. He has co-directed major fieldwork projects in Croatia, Hungary and Ukraine and helped to pioneer the sub-field of fragmentation research.

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