TRAC 2001

A selection of eleven papers from the eleventh annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference; these papers are representative of the broad range of Roman archaeology today, and share a commitment to a theoretically informed approach to the subject. Contents: Considering Continuity of Deposition on Votive Sites in Northeastern France from 200 BC to AD 100 (Imogen Wellington); Pots for Cash? A Critique of the Role of the 'Free Market' in the Late Roman Economy (James Gerrard); A Topography of Death: The Buildings of the Emperor Maxentius on the Via Appia, Rome (Lorraine Kerr); Consumer Theory and Roman North Africa: A Post-colonial Approach to the Ancient Economy (Garrick Fincham); Wolves' Nipples and Otters' Noses? Rural Foodways in Roman Britain (Gillian Hawkes); Material Culture Patterns and Cultural Change in South-West Britain (Jason Lucas); Acculturation and the Temporal Features of Ritual Action (Jan Weeks); Celts, Romans and the Coligny Calendar (Cathy Swift); Regarding the Stars (Carol van Driel-Murray); Measuring Time and Inventing Histories in the Early Empire: Roman and Germanic Perspectives (Maureen Carroll); The Metaphoric Movement: Mythological and Heroic Narratives on Roman Sarcophagi (Inge Lyse Hansen) .