Trac 2005: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Birmingham 2005

by Croxford, Ben; Goodchild, Helen; Lucas, Jason; Ray, Nick

• ISBN13: 9781842172193
• ISBN10: 1842172190
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

TRAC 2005 was held at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, under the auspices of The Roman Society. Of the twenty-three papers delivered there, this volume presents eight, plus three special contributions. These three papers were commissioned to mark the fifteenth year of TRAC with the intention that they should take stock of TRAC to date and look to where it may go in the future. A very clear message is conveyed: that TRAC must continue to evolve and that a continued existence in its current form, though possible, will ultimately fail to realise further success. In seeking to engage with new ideas and theories, the endeavour symbolised by the first conference, to bring theory from the margins of Roman archaeology, continues today.

Table of Contents

Late Roman frontier communities in northern Britain : a theoretical context for the 'end' of Hadrian's wall	p. 1
Romanisation in southern Epirus : a ceramic perspective	p. 12
Consumption and Roman archaeology : beyond Pompeii	p. 25
Modelling Roman demography and urban dependency in central Italy	p. 42
Discarding the destitute : ancient and modern attitudes towards burial practice and memory preservation amongst the lower classes of Rome	p. 57
An alleged Far West? : the Romanisation of the countryside in western Gaul	p. 73
Fertile imaginations : pastoralist production and a new interpretation of a Roman period relief sculpture from Bath	p. 83
Wild animals and domestic animals in the Roman sacrificial ritual : distinctions between 'human' and 'animal' animals	p. 99
15 years of TRAC : reflections on a journey	p. 111
21st century TRAC : is the Roman battery flat?	p. 116
The future of TRAC	p. 128
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