TRAC 2006: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Which Took Place at the University of Cambridge 24-25 March 2006

by Croxford, Ben; Ray, Nick; Roth, Roman; White, Natalie

• ISBN13: 9781842172643
• ISBN10: 1842172646
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

The sixteenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference was held in Cambridge in March 2006. Sixty papers were given during the two-day conference and covered the breadth and length of the Roman world. The issues of identity, its expression and recognition, were at the forefront of consideration. Sessions also looked at public and private religion, 'Romanisation' from a zooarchaeological perspective, how theoretical archaeology works in the field and the ways in which all of this (and more) is presented to the public. This volume contains a selection of the papers from all of the sessions that ran during the course of the conference.

Table of Contents

Craft and social identity of metalworkers in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt	p. 1
Geographic distribution and architectural characteristics of the ancient theatres in modern Spain : a structuralist interpretation	p. 17
The bizarre bazaar : early excavations in the Roman East and problems of nomenclature	p. 34
The use of amphorae for interpreting patterns of consumption	p. 43
Chop and change : specialist cattle carcass processing in Roman Britain	p. 59
A local barrow for local people? : the Ferry Fryston cattle in context	p. 77
New images for old rituals : Stelae of Saturn and personal cult in Roman North Africa	p. 92
The appearance of health : the symbolic construction of the healthy body through urban cemetery evidence from Late Iron Age and Early Roman Britain	p. 103
Catering for the cultural identities of the deceased in Roman Britain : interpretative potential and problems	p. 115
Amphora burials and burials with amphorae : on the reuse of amphorae in the northern necropolis of Potentia (Porto Recanati, Marche)	p. 133
Subculture and small group identity in Iron Age and Roman Baldock	p. 150
Identities in life and death in Roman Britain : the case of Baldock	p. 172
A specific problem? : the detection, protection and exploration of Romano-British cremation cemeteries through competitive tendering	p. 183
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