The Tiny and the Fragmented demands a reconsideration of the social and contextual nature of miniaturization, fragmentation, and incompleteness, making the case that it was because of, rather than in spite of, their small or partial state that these objects were valued parts of the personal and social worlds they inhabited.
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The Tiny and the Fragmented presents the best of new directions in interdisciplinarity in ancient studies - bringing anthropology and art history, classics and archaeology in conversation around important theoretical questions of scale, miniaturization and the unfinished, and considering how these questions can contribute to a better understanding of the archaeological record.