Acknowledgements.- Content warning.- Chapter 1. Introduction - Funerary Textiles in situ. Archaeological Perspectives from Europe and the Nile Valley (Elsa Yvanez and Magdalena M. Wozniak).- Part I: Aspects of theory and methods.- Chapter 2.
Theoretical Approaches to the Functions of Textiles in Graves. Case Studies from 1000 BCE-1000 CE in Central Europe (Karina Grömer).- Chapter 3. Fabrics and Funerals: An Ethnographic Enquiry (Estella Weiss-Krejci).- Part II: Case studies in Europe and the Nile Valley.- Chapter 4. Silk Textiles in Funerary Liturgical Garments in Poland (17th-19th Centuries) (Dawid Grupa).- Chapter 5.
Research on Post-Medieval Funerary Attire: Ethics, Challenges, and Successful Methods in Studying Coffin Textiles Found Below Finnish Church Floors (Sana Lipkin).- Chapter 6. Textiles and Bones on Site: A First-Hand Experience from the Cemeteries at Naqlun (Egypt) and Crypts at Old Dongola (Sudan) (Barbara Czaja and Robert Mahler).- Chapter 7. Grave Concerns: The Complexity of Recovery, Documentation, and the Study of Funerary Textiles from Ancient Egyptian Inhumations at Saqqara (Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin).- Chapter 8. Wrapping Practices in Medieval Sudan. Case Studies from Gebel Adda (Magdalena Wozniak).
- Chapter 9. Conservation Approaches for Pyre-Burial Textiles Excavated in Greece (Christina Margariti, Stella Spantidaki, Maria Kinti, and Tina Chanialaki).- Chapter 10. The Stronghold Has Become a Grave -- Preliminary Analysis of Fabrics from Early Medieval Trzcianka, Janów Commune, Poland (Malgorzata Grupa and Tomasz Kozlowski).- Chapter 11. Two Mycenaean Textile Imprints from Tomb XXI at Deiras, Argos (Greece) (Malgorzata Siennicka).- Chapter 12. Naked Graves? Thoughts on the Recording and Reconstruction of Funerary Attire in the Early Iron Age of Southwestern Iberia (Francisco Gomes).
- Part III: Tools for the in situ analysis of funerary textiles.- Chapter 13. Protocol for the Study and Analysis of Funerary Textiles in situ (Elsa Yvanez, Valentina Turina, and editorial committee).- Index.