Archaeology's humanism and the materiality of the body / Julian Thomas --
Body parts : personhood and materiality in the earlier Manx neolithic / Chris Fowler --
Moralities of dress and the dress of the dead in early medieval Europe / Jos Bazelmans --
Aesthetic corpse in nineteenth-century Britain / Sarah Tarlow --
Feeling through the body : gesture in Cretan Bronze Age religion / Christine Morris and Alan Peatfield --
Past as oral history : towards an archaeology of the senses / Yannis Hamilakis --
Ways of eating/ways of being in the Later Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant / Brian Boyd --
Time and biography : osteobiography of the Italian Neolithic lifespan / John Robb --
(Un)masking gender--
gold foil (dis)embodiments in Late Iron Age Scandinavia / Ing-Marie Back Danielsson --
Re-arranging history : the contested bones of the Oseberg grave / Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh --
Art, artefact, metaphor / Mark Pluciennik --
Marking the body, marking the land : body as history, land as history : tattooing and engraving in Oceania / Paul Rainbird.

What is the archaeology of the body and how can it change the way we experience the past? This book, one of the first to appear on the subject, records and evaluates the emergence of this new direction of cross-disciplinary research, and examines the potential of incorporating some of its insights into archaeology