Fragments of Antiquity: An Archaeology of Social Life in Britain, 2900-1200 BC Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Processions of the Living ...	9
	The Archaeological Visitor	9
	Understanding Avebury	13
	The Structuring of an Architectural Tradition	20
	The Organization of Labour	24
	Making an Elite: Silbury Hill	29
	The Question of Objectivity	32
2	... And of the Dead	40
	The Communal and the Individual	40
	Mortuary Rituals	47
	Monuments and the Ancestral Presence	52
	The Avebury Region	55
	Conclusion: Images of the Community and the Individual	65
3	The Archaeology of Ritual	70
	Introduction	70
	'Fields of Discourse' - the Regionalized Nature of Social Practices	72
	Ritual	77
	Ritual Discourse in the Late Neolithic	81
4	The Beaker Complex: An Archaeological Text	86
	The Beaker Network	88
	Questions of Scale: (1) Physical Distribution	90
	Questions of Scale: (2) Human Agency	94
	The Beaker Problem	97
5	An End to Remembrance	109
	The Construction of Memory	109
	Burial and the Mapping of Genealogy	112
	Categories of Death	113
	Placing the Dead	123
6	Time and Place: The Formation of the Agricultural Landscape	132
	Introduction	132
	On Becoming	136
	On Being	146
7	Making History	155
	Processual Archaeology	157
	Post-processual Archaeology	164
	Bibliography	173
	Index	184