• Foreword



• 1: Melanie Giles and Howard Williams: Introduction: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society



• Part 1: Investigating The Dead



• 2: Sian Anthony: Questions Raised in Excavating the Recent Dead



• 3: John McClelland and Jessica Cerezo-Román: Personhood and Re-Embodiment in Osteological Practice



• 4: Ulla Rajala: Separating the Emotions: Archaeological Mentalities in Central Italian Funerary Archaeology



• 5: Andrew Pearson and Ben Jeffs: Slave Trade Archaeology and the Public: The Excavation of a 'Liberated African' Graveyard on St Helena



• 6: Martin Brown: Habeas Corpus: Contested Ownership of Casualties of The Great War



• 7: Faye Sayer and Duncan Sayer: Bones Without Barriers: The Social Impact of Digging the Dead



• Part 2: Displaying the Dead



• 8: Hedley Swain: Museum Practice and the Display of Human Remains



• 9: Sarah Tatham: Displaying the Dead: The English Heritage Experience



• 10: Nina Nordström: The Immortals: Prehistoric Individuals as Ideological and Therapeutic Tools in our Time



• 11: Karen Exell: Covering the Mummies at the Manchester Museum: A Discussion of Authority, Authorship and Agendas in the Human Remains Debate



• 12: Tiffany Jenkins: Making an Exhibition of Ourselves: Using the Dead to Fight the Battles of the Living



• 13: Liv Nilsson Stutz: To Gaze Upon The Dead: The Exhibition of Human Remains as Cultural Practice and Political Process In Scandinavia and the United States



• 14: Howard Williams: Firing the Imagination: Cremation in the Museum



• Part 3: Public Mortuary Archaeology



• 15: William Rathouse: Contemporary Pagans and the Study of the Ancestors



• 16: Estella Weiss-Krejci: 'Tomb to Give Away': The Significance of Graves and Dead Bodies in Present-Day Austria



• 17: Duncan Sayer and Tony Walter: Digging The Dead in a Digital Media Age



• 18: Trevor Kirk: Writing About Death, Mourning and Emotion: Archaeology and Creativity



• 19: Melanie Giles: Reconstructing Death: The Chariot Burials of Iron Age East Yorkshire



• 20: Lynn Goldstein: Reflections on Intersections of Mortuary Archaeology and Contemporary Society