Introduction / Daniel Sosna and Lenka Brunclíková
Part 1. Value of the unwanted
Wastes and values / Joshua Reno
Purity and holy dumps of garbage : organising rubbish disposal in the Middle and Late Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin / Laura Dietrich
Nightman's muck, gong farmer's treasure : local differences in the clearing-out of cesspits in the Low Countries, 1600-1900 / Roos van Oosten
Part 2. Social practice : consumption and differentiation
Waste, very much a social practice / Anders Högberg
One man's trash : how the excavation of Copenhagen's moat is revealing valuable information about the city's 17th century population / Ed Lyne and Camilla Haarby Hansen
Cesspits and finds : archaeological study of waste management and its social significance in medieval Tartu, Estonia / Arvi Haak
Recyclable waste as a marker of everyday life routine / Lenka Brunclíková
Part 3. Positioning waste : spatial nature of waste
Waste wanted : no space without time and place / Sabine Wolfram
Neolithic settlement space : waste, deposition and identity / Petr Kvĕtina and Jaroslav Řídký
The detritus of life and death : re-evaluating perceptions of rubbish on an Irish Late Bronze Age enclosure / Clíodhna Ni Lionáin
Heterotopias behind the fence: landfills as relational emplacements / Daniel Sosna
Postscript / Claudia Theune.