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Contents
Fragmented souvenirs 15
Introduction to the volume
Jan Driessen
Kate Harrell
Fragmentation in Aegean Bronze Age context
John Chapman
Situated intentions 49
Providing a framework for the destruction of objects in Aegean prehistory
Stratos Nanoglou
The rough and the smooth 61
Care and carelessness in the forgetting of buildings
Carl Knappett
Damaged Pottery, Damaged Skulls at the Tsepi, Marathon Cemetery 75
Maria Pantelidou Gofa
Evidence for ritual breakage in the Cycladic Early Bronze Age 81
The Special Deposit South at Kavos on Keros
Colin Renfrew
Des biens de prestige grecs intentionnellement fragmentés dans un contexte indi-
gène de la Méditerranée occidentale au VIIe siècle av. J.-C. 99
Mario Denti
Coincident biographies 117
Bent and broken blades in Bronze Age Cyprus
Jennifer M. Webb & David Frankel
Piece Out 143
Comparing the Intentional Destruction of Swords in the Early Iron Age and the Mycenae Shaft Graves
Kate Harrell
Destruction and other material acts of transformation in Mycenaean funerary practice 155
Michael J. Boyd
Breaking Up the Past 167
Patterns of Fragmentation in Early and Middle Bronze Age Tholos Tomb Contexts in Crete
Giorgos Vavouranakis & Chryssi Bourbou
List of Illustrations
Fragmented souvenirs
Jan Driessen
Kate Harrell
Bits and pieces
John Chapman
Fig. 3.11. Two views of a fragment of the spout of an amethyst Triton
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Situated intentions
Stratos Nanoglou
The rough and the smooth
Carl Knappett
Damaged Pottery, Damaged Skulls at the Tsepi, Marathon Cemetery
Maria Pantelidou Gofa
Evidence for ritual breakage in the Cycladic Early Bronze Age
Colin Renfrew
List of Illustrations
9
in situ
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Des biens de prestige grecs intentionnellement fragmentés dans un contexte indigène de la Méditerranée
occidentale au VIIe siècle av. J.-C.
Mario Denti
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Incoronata
Dinos
perirrhanterion
oinochoe
Incoronata
krateriskos
stamnos
askos askos
Coincident biographies
Jennifer M. Webb & David Frankel
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et alii
Piece Out
Kate Harrell
Destruction and other material acts of transformation in Mycenaean funerary practice
Michael J. Boyd
Breaking Up the Past
Giorgos Vavouranakis & Chryssi Bourbou
Situated intentions
Providing a framework for the destruction of objects in Aegean prehistory
Stratos Nanoglou
Introduction
the individual for at least the past thirty years and it makes perfect sense to probe such issues from diverse
angles bringing new perspectives on the lives of past people. This paper is an attempt to contribute to a better
understanding of the terms employed in the relevant discussions within Aegean prehistory and beyond and to do
so I will argue that it is essential to turn to the framework necessary for these notions and associated intentions
of framework was there in place and accordingly what kind of notions and intentions were possible and even
would have had to capitalise on that background during the third millennium BC.
In/completeness
the very postulated intention that lies behind the categorisation into complete or incomplete.
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kind of time and a different kind of framework that enabled and sustained different ontologies. To do that I
.
A fragment of what?
presence of the deep sharp incision and the regularity and smoothness of the break make it probable that
e.g.
imply that this is anything but the most widely attested trend in Aegean prehistory and beyond today.
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contribute to its materialisation either way.
For the moment we are bound to explore only practices of deposition and indeed very few instances
1
straightforward claim made by their users and an articulation that is sustained by all actants involved.
regimes were formed that allowed or enforced certain lines of action.
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Contexts and conditions
buildings were covered with the new. There was no tangible evidence that the building had undergone several
organisation of the settlement. The focus on action I have highlighted suggests that one needs to act to keep it that
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one that we have been accustomed to since early modernity and one that coincides with the presence of a particular
contexts I have been referring to produced objects that sustained an everlasting present as parts of an assemblage
It is within such a framework that intentions should be placed. I argue that we should situate intentionality within
ad hoc decision that would have probably seemed unintelligible.
Moving forward to the past
that the people using these artefacts were not able to invoke different levels of spatial associations at will or
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For present purposes I will focus on a couple of types found in just a few sites in northeastern and eastern Thessaly
They presuppose something past.
It is interesting that this preoccupation with the past is tied up with the use of multiple materials. I have suggested
substances
Greece and furthermore it is reproduced to appropriate the associated values. That does not mean of course that the
such an argument.
in the background. This is then a very different framework from the one in the sixth millennium BC. This is a
substances here to refer to categories of matter that include but are not limited to what we call materials. Snow or blood are certainly
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Preserving intentions
It is within this framework that the practices deployed in the third millennium BC should be placed. Several
than being constant. It is not stone per se
extends these conditions up to a certain point.
millennium BC and relates precisely to a gamut of practices that capitalise on the past as a material resource. It is
remains of and made possible a certain utilisation of that resource as a material focal point.
e.g.
e.g.
et alii
et alii
e.g.
et alii
et alii
et alii
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the other hand for their deposition on Keros. It may be worth considering that the not-intact and not-reduced-to-
framework in place allowed or even compelled people to have.
infelicitous journey. Either way this is the place where intentions should be placed. This is the framework that
someplace else.
Appendix
e.g.
et alii
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e.g.
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