Body parts and bodies whole : introduction / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Marie Louise Stig Sørenson, Jessica Hughes -- Bodies in pieces in the Neolithic Near East / Karina Croucher -- Parts to a whole : manipulations of the body in prehistoric eastern Mediterranean / Kirsi O. Lorentz -- 'Deviant' burials in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of central and south eastern Europe / John Chapman -- Ageing as fragmentation and dis-integration / Joanna Appleby -- Bronze age bodiness - maps and coordinates / Marie Louise Stig Sørenson -- Cremations : fragmented bodies in the Bronze and Iron Ages / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury -- Reconfiguring anatomy : ceramics, cremation and cosmology in the Late Bronze Age in the Lower Danube / Nona Palincaş -- Porticos, pillars and severed heads : the display and curation of human remains in the southern French Iron Age / Ian Armit -- Dissecting the classical hybrid / Jessica Hughes -- Split bodies in the Late Iron Age/Viking Age of Scandinavia / Lotte Hedeager -- Heart burial in medieval and early post-medieval central Europe / Estella Weiss-Krejci -- In the pursuit of knowledge : dissection, post-mortem surgery and the retention of body parts in 18th- and 19th- century Britain / Annia Cherryson