• List of figures and tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the argument; Part I: 2. The living and the dead; 3. The social dimensions of early Greek burial; Part II: 4. Demography and space; 5. The burying groups; 6. Exclusion and retrieval; 7. Mortuary and display; 9. Pottery and population; Part III: 10. The rise of the polis; 11. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Site index; General index.

'Burial and Ancient Society by Ian Morris is an important book … Unconvinced by the arguments for very rapid population growth and population decline in Attica … Morris argues that the evidence reflects changes in the proportion of the total population buried in archaeologically visible ways, rather than changes in the size of the population … No doubt the debate will continue, but this is a significent contribution to it.' Greece & Rome