One of TRAC’s distinctive features is the regular and rapid publication of selected TRAC Proceedings from each annual conference, an accomplishment that has been achieved for all but one. Since the 1994 TRAC Conference (held at Durham), TRAC Proceedings have been published by Oxbow Books, and many volumes are available in hardcopy and ebook format through direct purchase from Oxbow.
In 2013 TRAC adopted an Open Access policy to make past TRAC Proceedings freely available in digital format from our website. The current policy allows for the Open Access release of individual papers (but not entire volumes in a single file) from each TRAC Proceedings volume after a waiting period of three years from its initial hardcopy publication. In line with this policy, all papers from the 1991 through 2010 TRAC Proceedings are now available as Open Access.
Papers from the TRAC 2011 Proceedings (published in 2012) will be released as Open Access during the TRAC 2015 conference, 27-29 March 2015, and papers from the TRAC 2012 Proceedings (published in 2013) will become available in this format during the TRAC/RAC conference in spring 2016.
TRAC Proceedings Volumes Full Contents 1991–2016
TRAC Proceedings 1991
Theoretical Roman Archaeology: First Conference Proceedings. Aldershot: Avebury (1993)
Edited by Eleanor Scott
Foreword. Bridging the divide: A Commentary on Theoretical Roman Archaeology (pp. xiii–xx)
Ian Hodder
Introduction. TRAC (Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference) 1991 (pp. 1–4)
Eleanor Scott
Writing the Roman Empire (pp. 5–22)
Eleanor Scott
Attitudes to Roman Imperialism (pp. 23–27)
Richard Hingley
Theory and Roman Archaeology (pp. 29–38)
Richard Reece
The Study of Roman Technology: Some Theoretical Constraints (pp. 29–47)
Kevin Greene
The Pre–Industrial City in Roman Britain (pp. 49–66)
Simon Clarke
When (and What) was the End of Roman Britain (pp. 67–78)
Kurt Hunter–Mann
A Theoretical Framework for the Study of Romano–British Villa Mosaics (pp. 103–114)
Sarah Scott
The Hoarding, Deposition and Use of Pewter in Roman Britain (pp. 115–132)
Rob Poulton & Eleanor Scott
Roman–Period Activity at Prehistoric Ritual Monuments in Britain and in the Armorican Peninsula (pp. 133–146)
Kenneth Rainsbury Dark
Comparative Frontier Studies (pp. 147–154)
Patricia Southern
Spaced–Out Sanctuaries: The Ritual Landscape of Roman Greece (pp. 155–165)
Susan Alcock
Roman Peasant and rural Organisation in Central Italy: An Archaeological Perspective (pp. 167–186)
Peter van Dommelen
TRAC Proceedings 1992
Theoretical Roman Archaeology: Second Conference Proceedings. Aldershot: Avebury (1995)
Edited by Peter Rush
Front Matter and Introduction (pp. i–xiii)
Gender in Question (pp. 3–21)
Carol van Driel-Murray
‘Sexing’ Small Finds (pp. 22–32)
Lindsay Allason-Jones
Roman Finds Assemblages, Towards an Integrated Approach? (pp. 33–58)
Jeremy Evans
Collapse Theory and the End of Birdoswald (pp. 59–69)
Tony Wilmott
Analysis of Social and Cultural Diversity on Rural Burial Sites in North-Eastern Raetia (pp. 70–80)
Manuela Struck
Location Models and the Study of Romano-British Small Towns (pp .81–91)
Simon Clarke
Prologue to a Study of Roman Urban Form (pp. 92–104)
Simon P. Ellis
Romans and Britons on the Northern Frontier: A Theoretical Evaluation of the Archaeology of Resistance (pp. 124–131)
Bernice Kurchin
A Shoppers’ Paradise: Consumers in Roman Britain (pp. 132–140)
Iain Ferris
Economy and Space in Roman Britain (pp. 141–147)
Pete Rush
Roman Pottery Research for the 1990s (pp. 148–157)
Jason Monaghan
Theory, Practice, and Research in an Urban Unit: A Personal Perspective (pp. 158–173)
Michael J. Jones
Women and Gender Relations in the Roman Empire (pp. 174–189)
Eleanor Scott
TRAC Proceedings 1993
Theoretical Roman Archaeology & Architecture: The Third Conference Proceedings. Glasgow: Cruithne Press (1999)
Edited by Alan Leslie
Alchemy of Suffering: Hope and Faith Beyond the Healing Art in Roman Britain (pp. 1–13)
Iain M. Ferris
Britannus/Britto: Roman Ethnographies, Native Identities, Labels, and Folk Devils (pp. 14–32)
Keith J. Matthews
Adventus, Patrocinium, and the Urban Landscape in Late Roman Britain (pp. 33–47)
Alex Woolf
Reading the Roman House: The Social Interpretation of Spatial Order (pp. 48–74)
Mark Grahame
Theories of Circulation in Roman Houses (pp. 75–98)
Simon P. Ellis
Greek Households under Roman Hegemony: The Archaeological Evidence (pp. 99–110)
Lisa Nevett
Architectural and Social Change During the Roman Period (pp. 111–121)
Simon Clarke
Slavish Nonsense or the Talking Tool (pp. 122–140)
Ross Samson
Death into Life: Population Statistics from Cemetery Data (pp. 141–161)
Keith J. Matthews
Function and Symbol: The Development of Towns in Roman Dacia (pp. 162–190)
Michael Dawson
Invisible Architecture: Inside the Roman Memory Palace (pp. 191–199)
Iain M. Ferris
The Interpretation of Roman Coins – Practice and Theory (pp. 200–212)
Peter Guest
TRAC Proceedings 1994
TRAC 94: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Durham 1994. Oxford: Oxbow Books (1994)
Edited by Sally Cottam, David Dungworth, Sarah Scott & Jeremy Taylor
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–iv)
The Just War: Graeco-Roman Texts as Colonial Discourse (pp. 1–10)
Jane Webster
Britannia, Origin Myths and the British Empire (pp. 11–23)
Richard Hingley
Insignificant Others: Images of Barbarians on Military Art from Roman Britain (pp. 24–31)
Iain Ferris
Patterns of Worship in Roman Britain: Double-Named Deities in Context (pp. 33–44)
Amy Zoll
An Archaeology of Brief Time: Monuments and Seasonality in Roman Britain (pp. 45–56)
Raphael Isserlin
Ritual and Archaeology in Early Latium (pp. 57–64)
Christopher Smith
Lighting in Late Roman Houses (pp. 65–71)
Simon Ellis
A Quantitative Analysis of the Finds from the Roman Fort of Newstead – Some Preliminary Findings (pp. 72–82)
Simon Clarke
Use of Space and Variability of Ground Plans: A Study of Legionary Centurions’ Quarters (pp. 83–89)
Birgitta Hoffmann
Reading the Tea Leaves, Signalling as a Means of Prophesy on Roman Frontiers (pp. 90–98)
D. J. Woolliscroft
Treasure: Interpreting Roman Hoards (pp. 99–106)
Martin Millett
Romano-British Precious Metal Hoards: Some Comments on Martin Millett’s Paper (pp. 107–117)
Catherine Johns
An Archaeology of Homosexuality? Perspectives from the Classical World (pp. 118–132)
Keith Matthews
You Are What You Eat: Diet, Identity and Romanisation (pp. 133–140)
Karen I. Meadows
Roman Imports into Late Iron Age British Societies: Towards a Critique of Existing Models (pp. 141–150)
Steven Willis
TRAC 96: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Sheffield 1996. Oxford: Oxbow Books (1997)
Edited by Karen Meadows, Chris Lemke & Jo Heron
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–iv)
Theorising Roman Archaeology (pp. 1–7)
J. C. Barrett
‘Romanization – Imperialism’ – What are We Talking About? (pp. 8–14)
P. Freeman
Beyond ‘Romanization’: Technologies of Power in Roman Britain (pp. 15–21)
C. Forcey
Post Processual Economics: The Role of African Red Slip Ware Vessel Volume in Mediterranean Demography (pp. 29–37)
J. W. J. Hawthorne
Samian: Beyond Dating (pp. 38–54)
S. Willis
Symbols, Pottery and Trade (pp. 55–64)
P. Rush
NATIVE or ROMAN? Ironwork Hoards in Northern Britain (pp. 65–72)
A. R. J. Hutcheson
Abandonment, Rubbish Disposal and ‘Special’ Deposits at Newstead (pp. 73–81)
S. Clarke
Economy and Ritual: The Use of Animal bone in the Interpretation of the Iron Age to Roman Cultural Transition (pp. 82–90)
J. E. Richardson
Thinking the Unthinkable: Human Sacrifice in Roman Britain? (pp. 91–100)
R. M. J. Isserlin
Elite Settlements in the Roman and Sub-Roman Period (pp. 101–112)
D. Petts
Negotiating Nuraghi: Settlement and the Construction of Ethnicity in Roman Sardinia (pp. 113–119)
E. Blake
Immaterial Culture: Invisible Peasants and Consumer Subcultures in North-West Britannia (pp. 120–132)
K. J. Matthews
Aspects of Romanization in the Wroxeter Hinterland (pp. 133–143)
R. H. White & P. M. van Leusen
Pooling Resources – The Use of Water for Social Control in the Roman Empire (pp. 144–150)
S. Ellis
Towards a Theory of Roman Urbanism: Beyond Economics and Ideal-Types (pp. 151–162)
M. Grahame
‘Roman’ Urban Form and Culture Difference (pp. 163–172)
S. Clarke & D. J. Robinson
TRAC 97: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Nottingham 1997. Oxford: Oxbow Books (1998)
Edited by Colin Forcey, John Hawthorne & Robert Witcher
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–iv)
Redefining Romanization: Material Culture and the Question of Social Continuity in Roman Britain (pp. 1–10)
Mark Grahame
Motivation and Ideologies of Romanization (pp. 11–19)
Ralph Häussler
The Romanization of Italy: Global Acculturation or Cultural Bricolage? (pp. 20–27)
Nicola Terrenato
Social Change and Architectural Diversity in Roman Period Britain (pp. 28–41)
Simon Clarke
Ritual, Space and Politics. Reflections in the Archaeological Record of Social Developments in Lepcis Magna, Tripolitania (pp. 42–52)
Frances Condron
Theoretical Influences on Two Reports of Romano-British Land Division (pp. 53–59)
John W. M. Peterson
Roman Roads: Phenomenological Perspectives on Roads in the Landscape (pp. 60–70)
Robert Witcher
The Ancient Monument in Romano-British Ritual Practices (pp. 71–86)
Howard M. R. Williams
Whatever Happened to the Heroes? Ancestral Cults and the Enigma of Romano-Celtic Temples (pp. 87–98)
Colin Forcey
From Death to Deposition: The Sequence of Ritual in Cremation Burials of the Roman Period (pp. 99–111)
John Pearce
Burial and Gender in Late- and Sub-Roman Britain (pp. 112–124)
David Petts
Brooches and Identities in First Century AD Britain: More Than Meets The Eye? (pp. 125–137)
S. Jundi & J. D. Hill
Tales from a Romanist: A Personal View of Archaeology and ;Equal Oppertunities’ (pp. 138–147)
Eleanor Scott
Mystifying Roman Nails: Clavus Annalis, Defixiones and Minkisi (pp. 148–159)
David Dungworth
Pottery and Paradigm in the Early Western Empire (pp. 160–172)
John W. J. Hawthorne
TRAC 98: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Leicester 1998. Oxford: Oxbow Books (1999)
Edited by Patricia Baker, Colin Forcey, Sophia Jundi & Robert Witcher
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–iv)
Architecture, Performance and Ritual: The Role of State Architecture in the Roman Empire (pp. 1–13)
Ralph Häussler
The Community of Soldiers: A Major Identity and Centre of Power in the Roman Empire (pp. 14–25)
Simon James
Monumental Architecture & Becoming Roman in the First Centuries BC and AD (pp. 26–35)
Kenneth Aitchison
Contact, Architectural Symbolism and the Negotiation of Cultural Identity in the Military Zone (pp. 36–45)
Simon Clarke
Poverty or Power? The Native Responce to Roman Rule in the Fenland? (pp. 46–51)
Garrick Fincham
Constructing Romanitas: Roman Public Architecture and the Archaeology of Practice (pp. 52–58)
Louise Revell
Usurping the Urban Image: The Experience of Ritual Topography in Late Antique Cities of the Near East (pp. 59–71)
Richard Bayliss
A Pilgrimage Experience at Sacred Sites in Late Antique Anatolia (pp. 72–85)
Mark Jackson
Christianity and the End of Roman Britain (pp. 86–95)
David Petts
Identities and Cemeteries in Roman and Early Medieval Britain (pp. 96–107)
Howard Williams
Quoit Brooches and the Roman-Medieval Transition (pp. 108–120)
Geoff Harrison
Change or No Change? Revised Perceptions of Urban Transformation in Late Antiquity (pp. 121–130)
Anna Leone
And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time… Feet and Shoes as a Material Projection of the Self (pp. 131–140)
Carol van Driel-Murray
Soranus and the Pompeii Speculum: The Sociology of Gynaecology and Roman Perceptions of the Female Body (pp. 141–150)
Patricia Baker
The Dispersed Dead: Preliminary Observations on Burial and Settlement in Rural Roman Britain (pp. 151–162)
John Pearce
Ideological Biases in the Urban Archaeology of Rome: A Quantitative Approach (pp. 163–171)
Giovanni Ricci & Nicola Terrenato
TRAC 99: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Durham 1999. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2000)
Edited by Garrick Fincham, Geoff Harrison, René Rogers Holland & Louise Revell
Front Matter and Editors’ Introduction (pp. i–x)
The Creation of Multiple Identities in Roman Italica (pp. 1–7)
Louise Revell
Illuminating Roman Britain (pp. 8–21)
Hella Eckardt
In Search of a Different Roman Period: The Finds Assemblage at the Newstead Military Complex (pp. 22–29)
Simon Clarke
Romanisation, Status and the Landscape: Extracting a Discrepant Perspective from Survey Data (pp. 30–36)
Garrick Fincham
Social Organisations within the Roman Army (pp. 37–43)
Andrew Pegler
Taberna Economics (pp. 44–52)
Ardle Mac Mahon
Roman Maritime Activities Around Britain: What is the Evidence and How Might it be Enhanced? (pp. 53–63)
Michael Walsh
Cattle, Culture, Status and Soldiers in Northern England (pp. 64–73)
Sue Stallibrass
Food, Ritual and Rubbish in the Making on Pompeii (pp. 74–82)
Mrina Ciaraldi & Jane Richardson
Wood, Masonry and the Construction of Identity: Comparing Southern Britain and Gaul, 4th to 7th Centuries (pp. 83–89)
Dominic Janes
From Periphery to Core in Late Antique Mauretania (pp. 90–103)
Alan Rushworth
The Application of GIS to the Study of Settlement Patterns: Silchester, a Case Study (pp. 104–117)
Devon Tully
TRAC 2000: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, London 2000. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2001)
Edited by Gwyn Davies, Andrew Gardner & Kris Lockyear
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–vi)
Representing the Romans in the Museum of Scotland (pp. 1–11)
David Clarke & Fraser Hunter
Representing Londinium: The Influence of Colonial and Post-Colonial Discourses (pp. 12–24)
Francis Grew
Writing Colonial Conflict, Acknowledging Colonial Weakness (pp. 25–34)
Garrick Fincham
Identities in the Late Roman Army: Material and Textual Perspectives (pp. 35–47)
Andrew Gardner
Medicine, Culture and Military Identity (pp. 48–68)
Patricia A. Barker
Siege Works, Psychology and Symbolism (pp. 69–79)
Gwyn Davies
Animal Iconographies: Metaphor, Meaning and Identity (or Why Chinese Dragons Don’t Have Wings (pp. 80–93)
Miranda J. Aldhouse Green
An Archaeology of Food: A Case Study From Roman Britain (pp. 94–103)
Gillian Hawkes
Small Finds: Problems and Possibilities (pp. 104–111)
Kelly Spradley
‘Romanisation’ and the Body (pp. 112–124)
Gilly Carr
Infants, Cemeteries and Communities in the Roman Provinces (pp. 125–142)
John Pearce
Unpicking a Myth: The Infanticide of Female and Disabled Infants in Antiquity (pp. 143–151)
Eleanor Scott
Playing Dead: Implications of Mortuary Evidence for the Social Construction of Childhood in Roman Britain (pp. 152–168)
Rebecca Gowland
TRAC 2001: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Glasgow 2001. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2002)
Edited by Martin Carruthers, Carol van Driel-Murray, Andrew Gardner, Jason Lucas, Louise Revell & Ellen Swift
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–iv)
Considering Continuity of Deposition on Votive Sites in Northeastern France from 200 BC to AD 100 (pp. 1–12)
Imogen Wellington
Pots for Cash? A Critique of the Role of the ‘Free Market’ in the Late Roman Economy (pp. 13–23)
James Gerrard
A Topography of Death: The Buildings of the Emperor Maxentius on the Via Appia, Rome (pp. 24–33)
Lorraine Kerr
A Consumer Theory and Roman North Africa: A Post-Colonial Approach to the Ancient Economy (pp. 34–44)
Garrick Fincham
Wolves’ Nipples and Otters’ Noses? Rural Foodways in Roman Britain (pp. 45–50)
Gillian Hawkes
Material Culture Patterns and Cultural Change in South-West Britain (pp. 51–72)
Jason Lucas
Acculturation and the Temporal Features of Ritual Action (pp. 73–82)
Jake Weekes
Celts, Romans and the Coligny Calendar (pp. 83–95)
Cathy Swift
Regarding the Stars (pp. 96–103)
Carol van Driel-Murray
Measuring Time and Inventing History in the Early Empire: Roman and Germanic Perspectives (pp. 104–112)
Maureen Carroll
The Metamorphic Moment: Mythological and Heroic Narratives on Roman Sarcophagi (pp. 113–124)
Inge Lyse Hansen
TRAC 2002: Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Canterbury 2002. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2003)
Edited by Gillian Carr, Ellen Swift & Jake Weekes
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–v)
Seeking a Material Turn: The Artefactuality of the Roman Empire (pp. 1–13)
Andrew Gardner
An Empire in Pieces. Roman Archaeology and the Fragment (pp. 14–28)
Iain Ferris
Restoring Ontological Security: Roman and Native Objects in Early Roman Gallaecia (NW Iberia) (pp. 29–47)
Alfredo González-Ruibal
Transformation in Meaning: Amber and Glass Beads Across the Roman Frontier (pp. 48–57)
Ellen Swift
The Realms of Janus: Doorways in the Roman World (pp. 58–73)
Ardle Mac Mahon
Deconstructing the Frampton Pavements: Gnostic Dialectic in Roman Britain (pp. 74–83)
Dominic Perring
Becoming Consumers: Looking Beyond Wealth as an Explanation for Villa Variability (pp. 84–99)
Chris Martins
Late Roman Economic Systems: Their Implication in the Interpretation of Social Organization (pp. 100–112)
Paul Johnson
Creolisation, Pidginisation and the Interpretation of Unique Artefacts in Early Roman Britain (pp. 113–125)
Gillian Carr
Breaking Ground or Treading Water? Roman Archaeology and Constructive Implications of the Critique of Meta Narratives (pp. 126–139)
Stephanie Koerner
A Brief Comment on the TRAC Session Dedicated to the Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Roman Women (pp. 140–146)
Patricia A. Baker
Sex and the City: A Biocultural Investigation into Female Health in Roman Britain (pp. 147–170)
Rebecca Redfern
TRAC 2003: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Leicester 2003. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2004)Edited by Ben Croxford, Hella Eckardt, Judy Meade & Jake Weekes
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–iv)
Samian and Consumer Choice in Roman London (pp. 1–15)
Gwladys Monteil
“I Drink, Therefore I am?” Pottery Consumption and Identity at Elms Farm, Heybridge, Essex (pp. 16–27)
Martin Pitts
Some Notes on Spoons and Mortaria (pp. 28–35)
H. E. M. Cool
Remembering and Forgetting in the Roman Provinces (pp. 36–50)
Hella Eckardt
Ephemeral Monuments and Social Memory in Early Roman Britain (pp. 51–61)
Howard Williams
Tomb Robbing and the Transformation of Social Memory in Roman Knossos (pp. 62–77)
Dimitris Grigoropulous
“Heavier Burdens for Willing Shoulders”? Writing Different Histories, Humanities and Social Practices for the Romano-British Countryside (pp. 90–110)
Adrian M. Chadwick
Experienced Landscapes Through Intentional Sources (pp. 111–122)
Alessandro Launaro
Did Curse Tablets Work? (pp. 123–134)
Philip Kiernan
The Social Identity of Health in Late Roman Britain (pp. 135–146)
Rebecca Gowland
“The Camden Connection”: Revisiting the Origins of Romano-British Archaeology and its Historiography (pp. 147–156)
Leslie W. Hepple
TRAC 2004: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Durham 2004. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2005)
Edited by James Bruhn, Ben Croxford & Dimitris Grigoropoulos
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–vi)
The Economy of Roman Britain: Representation and Historiography (pp. 1–15)
Kevin Greene
Reconstructing Syntheses in Romano-British Cremation (pp. 16–26)
Jake Weekes
Metalworking and Late Roman Power: A Study of Towns in Late Roman Britain (pp. 27–38)
Adam Rogers
Not at Random. Evidence for a Regionalised Coin Suply? (pp. 39–49)
Fleur Kemmers
Regional Identities and the Social Use of Ceramics (pp. 50–64)
Martin Pitts
Social and Economic Aspects of Glass Recycling (pp. 65–78)
Daniel Keller
Interaction and Exchange in Food Production in the Nijmegen Frontier Area During the Early Roman Period (pp. 79–96)
Annemiek Robeerst
Beyond the Temple: Blurring the Boundaries of ‘Sacred Space’ (pp. 109–118)
Eleanor Ghey
Houses, GIS and the Micro-Topology of Pompeian Space (pp. 144–156)
Michael Anderson
Unifying Aspects of Roman Forts (pp. 157–162)
Mark Driessen
TRAC 2005: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Birmingham 2005. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2006)
Edited by Ben Croxford, Helen Goodchild, Jason Lucas & Nick Ray
Romanization in Southern Epirus: A Ceramic Perspective (pp. 12–24)
Melissa Moore Morison
Consumption and Roman Archaeology: Beyond Pompeii (pp. 25–41)
Nick Ray
Modelling Roman Demography and Urban Dependency in Central Italy (pp. 42–56)
Helen Goodchild
An Alleged Far West? The Romanisation of the Countryside in Western Gaul (pp. 73–82)
Cécilia Courbot-Dewerdt
Fertile Imaginations: Pastoralist Production and a New Interpretation of a Roman Period Relief Sculpture from Bath (pp. 83–98)
D. Martin Goldberg
Wild Animals and Domestic Animals in the Roman Sacrificial Ritual: Distinctions Between ‘Human’ and ‘Animal’ Animals? (pp. 99–110)
Günther Schörner
15 years of TRAC – Reflections on a Journey (pp. 111–115)
Eleanor Scott
21st Century TRAC: Is the Roman Battery Flat? (pp. 116–127)
Ray Laurence
The Future of TRAC (pp. 128–138)
Andrew Gardner
TRAC 2006: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Cambridge 2006. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2007)
Edited by Ben Croxford, Nick Ray, Roman Roth & Natalie White
Craft and Social Identity of Metalworkers in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (pp. 1–16)
Mark Eccleston
The Bizarre Bazaar: Early Excavation in the Roman East and Problems of Nomenclature (pp. 34–42)
J. A. Baird
The Use of Amphorae for Interpreting Patterns of Consumption (pp. 43–58)
Mariana Egri
Chop and Change: Specialist Cattle Carcass Processing in Roman Britain (pp. 59–76)
Mark Maltby
A Local Barrow for Local People? The Ferry Fryston Cattle in Context (pp. 77–91)
David Orton
New Images for Old Rituals: Stelae of Saturn and Personal Cult in Roman North Africa (pp. 92–102)
Günther Schörner (translated by Roman Roth)
The Appearance of Health: The Symbolic Construction of the Healthy Body through Urban Cemetery Evidence from Late Iron Age and Early Roman Britain (pp. 103–114)
Angela Turner-Wilson
Catering for the Cultural Identities of the Deceased in Roman Britain: Interpretative Potential and Problems (pp. 115–132)
Natalie C. C. White
Amphora Burials and Burials with Amphorae: On the Reuse of Amphorae in the Northern Necropolis of Potentia (Porto Recanati, Marche) (pp. 133–149)
Patrick Monsieur
Subculture and Small Group Identity in Iron Age and Roman Baldock (pp. 150–171)
Keith J. Fitzpatrick-Matthews
Identities in Life and Death in Roman Britain: The Case of Baldock (pp. 172–182)
Judith Rosten
TRAC 2007: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, London 2007. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2008)
Edited by C. Fenwick, M. Wiggins & D. Wythe
The Use of Prehistoric Ritual and Funerary Sites in Roman Spain: Discussing Tradition, Memory and Identity in Roman Society (pp. 1–13)
Leonardo García Sanjuán, Pablo Garrido González & Fernando Lozano Gómez
Searching for identity in Italian Landscapes (pp. 31–43)
Martin Sterry
Identity in the Frontier: Theory and Multiple Community Interfacing (pp. 45–52)
Rob Collins
Ethnicity and Conflict in the Roman Conquest of Spain (pp. 53–61)
Lyra D. Monteiro
Roman archaeology in an epoch of neoliberalism and imperialist war (pp. 63–73)
Neil Faulkner
Archaeology and the search for authenticity: Colonialist, Nationalist, and Berberist visions of an Algerian past (pp. 75–88)
Corisande Fenwick
Power, Architecture and Community in the Distribution of Honorary Statues in Roman Public Space (pp. 109–120)
Francesco Trifiló
Charon’s Obols? A case study in the role of coins in Roman Burial Ritual (pp. 121–130)
Lisa Brown
Developing the ‘Germani’ in Roman Studies (pp. 131–150)
Cheryl Louise Clay
Humour In Roman Archaeology (pp. 151–162)
Ben Croxford
TRAC 2008: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Amsterdam 2008. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2009)
Edited by Mark Driessen, Stijn Heeren, Joep Hendriks, Fleur Kemmers & Ronald Visser
Forced Labour, Mines, and Space: Exploring the Control of Mining Communities (pp. 1–11)
Hannah Friedman
Feeling Like Home: Romanised Rural Landscape from a Gallo-Roman Point of View (pp. 13–24)
Cécilia Courbot Dewerdt
Centrality in its Place: Defining Urban Space in the City of Rome (pp. 25–38)
David J. Newsome
Finding Your Way in the Subura (pp. 39–51)
Simon Malmberg
Meat Consumption in Roman Britain: The Evidence from Stable Isotopes (pp. 73–83)
Colleen Cummings
Barley and Horses: Surplus and Demand in the Civitas Batavorum (pp. 85–100)
Ivo Vossen & Maaike Groot
The Way to a Roman Soldier’s Heart: A Post-Medieval Model for Cattle Droving to the Hadrian’s Wall Area (pp. 101–112)
Sue Stallibrass
Creating a Community: The Symbolic Role of Tumuli in the Villa Landscape of the Civitas Tungrorum (pp. 113–126)
Laura Crowley
“Montani Atque Agrestes” or Women of Substance? Dichotomies of Gender and Role in Ancient Samnium (pp. 127–141)
Amy Richardson
Native Service: ‘Batavian’ Pottery in ‘Roman’ Military Context (pp. 143–155)
Eef Stoffels
The Natural Will: Community in Roman Archaeology (pp. 157–172)
Robert Wanner
The Social World of Roman Fullonicae (pp. 173–185)
Miko Flohr
The Dichotomy in Romano-Celtic Syncretism: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Vernacular Religion (pp. 187–202)
D. Martin Goldberg
TRAC 2009: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Michigan and Southampton 2009. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2010)
Edited by Alison Moore, Geoff Taylor, Emily Harris, Peter Girdwood & Lucy Shipley
Romanization: A Feminist Critique (pp. 1–10)
Louise Revell
Growing and Felling? Theory and Evidence Related to the Application of Silvicultural Systems in the Roman Period (pp. 11–22)
Ronald M. Visser
No Place Like Stone? Assessing Social and Material Networks of Place at Quarries in Roman Anatolia (pp. 23–30)
Bradley M. Sekedat
The Herculaneum Amazon: Sculptural Polyschromy, Digital Simulation and Context (pp. 31–40)
Gareth Beale & Graeme Earle
GIS and Artefact Deposition: A Case Study on Regional Cooking Wares in Northern Gaul (pp. 41–52)
Annick Lepot
The Advantages and Limitations of Coring Survey: An Initial Assessment of the Poggio Colla Coring Project (pp. 53–65)
Ivo van der Graaff, Robert Vander Poppen & Thijs Nales
Peformativity of Place: Movement and Water in Second Century AD Ephesus (pp. 66–74)
Cecelia Feldman Weiss
Did Cadastres Exist in the Roman Northwest? (pp. 91–104)
Rick Bonnie
Age and Identity in Funerary Contexts: The Elderly in Southern Roman Britain (pp. 105–119)
Alison Moore
Beyond the Warlike Samnites: Rethinking Grave Goods, Gender Relations and Social Practice in Ancient Samnium (Italy) (pp. 120–131)
Rafael Scopacasa
Collapse, Change or Continuity? Exploring the Three C’s in Sub-Roman Britain (pp. 132–148)
Keith J. Fitzpatrick-Matthews
TRAC 2010: Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Oxford 2010. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2011)
Edited by Dragana Mladenović & Ben Russell
Interpreting a Ceramiscene Landscape – The Roman Pottery from the Nepi Survey Project (pp. 1–17)
Philip Mills & Ulla Rajala
In excelsissimo loco – An Approach to Poliadic Deities in Roman Colonies (pp. 18–31)
Marion Boos
Globalisation, Consumerism and the Ancient Roman Economy: A Preliminary Look at Bronze and Iron Production and Consumption (pp. 32–46)
Melissa L. Ratliff
Meaningful Insula: Bridging the Gap between Large and Small Scale Studies of Urban Living Conditions (pp. 47–58)
Heini Ynnilä
Doors in Domestic Space at Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Preliminary Study (pp. 59–75)
M. Taylor Lauritsen
Approaching Architectural Recycling in Roman and Late Roman Villas (pp. 76–88)
Beth Munro
Nineteenth-Century Labour Figures for Demolition: A Theoretical Approach to Understanding the Economics of Re-use (pp. 89–101)
Simon J. Barker
Cloth and Clothing from Cemeteries in Noricum (pp. 102–114)
Karina Grömer & Eva Hölbling-Steigberger
British Emigrants in the Roman Empire: Complexities and Symbols of Ethnic Identities (pp. 132–154)
Tatiana Ivleva
TRAC 2011: Proceedings of the Twenty First Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Newcastle 2011. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2012)
Edited by Maria Duggan, Frances McIntosh & Darrell J. Rohl
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–viii)
Introduction: The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Turns 21 (pp. 1–3)
Eleanor Scott
She Said ‘Emic’ (pp. 4–9)
Lindsay Allason-Jones
R. G. Collingwood – An Early Archaeological Theorist? (pp. 10–18)
Stephen Leach
Chorography: History, Theory and Potential for Archaeological Research (pp. 19–32)
Darrell J. Rohl
Knowledge Systems in the Production of Terra Sigilata. Moving Beyond the Local/Global Paradox (pp. 48–59)
Astrid van Oyen
On Cultural Selection: Examining the Process of Cultural Evolution through Funerary Evidence (pp. 76–90)
Edward Biddulph
Boundaries and Change: The Examination of the Late Iron Age-Roman Transition (pp. 91–104)
Nicky Garland
Sulpicia Lepidina and Elizabeth Custer: A Cross-Cultural Analogy for the Social Role of Women on a Military Frontier (pp. 105–114)
Elizabeth M. Greene
Batavians on the Move: Emigrants, Immigrants and Returnees (pp. 115–122)
Carol van Driel-Murray
The Establishment of Urban Movement Networks: Devotional Pathways in Late Antique and Early Medieval Rome (pp. 123–134)
Michael Mulryan
TRAC 2012: Proceedings of the Twenty Second Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Frankfurt 2012. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2013)
Edited by Annabel Bokern, Marion Bolder-Boos, Stefan Krmnicek, Dominik Maschek & Sven Page
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–vi)
TRAC 2012 Programme (pp. vii–xi)
Marks of Imitation or Signs of Originality? An Approach to Structural Supports in Roman Marble Statuary (pp. 1–20)
Anna Anguissola
Equites and Senators as Agents of Change: Urban Culture and Elite Self-Representation in Thamugadi and Lepcis Magna (Second-third Centuries A.D.) (pp. 21–36)
Lennart Gilhaus
Sacra Volsiniensia. Civic Religion in Volsinii after the Roman Conquest (pp. 37–48)
Annalisa Calapà
The Internal Frontier: An African Model for Culture Change in South Central Italy (Fourth-third Centuries B.C.) (pp. 49–60)
Roman Roth
Street Activity, Dwellings and Wall Inscriptions in Ancient Pompeii: A Holistic Study of Neighbourhood Relations (pp. 61–80)
Eeva-Maria Viitanen, Laura Nissinen and Kalle Korhonen
Understanding Neighbourhood Relations through Shared Structures: Reappraising the Value of Insula-Based Studies (pp. 81–90)
Heini Ynnilä
Secondary Doors in Entranceways at Pompeii: Reconsidering Access and the ‘View from the Street’ (pp. 91–116)
Evan Proudfoot
The Perception of Egypt in Networks of Being and Becoming: A Thing Theory Approach to Egyptianising Objects in Roman Domestic Contexts (pp. 117–132)
Eva M. Mol
Hybrid Bridges: An Exploration into how Traditionally ‘Romanised’ Elements of the Town Interacted with Meaning-Laden Pre-Historic Waterscapes (pp. 133–150)
Jay Ingate
Romanisation in Gaul: New Methodological Approaches for the Study of Gaulish Fine Wares (200 B.C.–A.D. 50) (pp. 151–168)
Sylvie Barrier
Transgendered Archaeology: The Galli and the Catterick Transvestite (pp. 169–183)
Renato Pinto and Luciano C. G. Pinto
Ritual Landscapes of Pre-Roman Britain: The Margins of Practice on the Margins of the Empire (pp. 183–198)
Nicky Garland
List of Contributors (pp. 199–200)
TRAC 2013: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, King’s College, London 2013. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2014)
Edited by Hannah Platts, John Pearce, Caroline Barron, Jason Lundock & Justin Yoo
Front Matter (pp. i–iii)
Introduction: TRAC Past, Present and Future: Where to go from here? (pp. 1–9)
Hannah Platts, John Pearce, Caroline Barron, Jason Lundock, Justin Yoo
A Historiography of the Study of the Roman Economy: Economic Growth, Development, and Neoliberalism (pp. 11–26)
Matthew S. Hobson
Why Modern Economic Theory Applies, Even to the Distant Roman Past (pp. 27–36)
Willem M. Jongman
Dalmatian Silvanus: A Cognitive Approach to Reinterpretation of the Reliefs Representing Silvanus from Roman Dalmatia (pp. 37–51)
Josipa Lulic
Votive Objects and Ritual Practice at the King’s Spring at Bath (pp. 52–64)
Eleri H. Cousins
Resurrecting Refuse at Pompeii: The Use-Value of Urban Refuse and its Implications for Interpreting Archaeological Assemblages (pp. 65–78)
Kevin Dicus
Decline, Migration and Revival: Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit, a History of a Forgotten City (pp. 79–89)
Giorgia Marchiori
Small Finds and Roman Battlefields: The Process and Impact of Post-Battle Looting (pp. 90–104)
Joanne Ball
Methods and Difficulties in Quantifying Archaeological Vessel Glass Assemblages (pp. 105–121)
Jonathan D. Prior
Pompeian Red Ware in Roman London: Insights on Pottery Consumption in Colonial Environments (pp. 122–139)
Cristina Podavitte
Roman Sexuality or Roman Sexualities? Looking at Sexual Imagery on Roman Terracotta Mould-made Lamps (pp. 140–158)
Sanja Vucetic
The Material Culture of Small Rural Settlements in the Batavian Area: a Case Study on Discrepant Experience, Creolisation, Romanisation or Globalisation? (pp. 159–173)
Stijn Heeren
TRAC 2014: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Reading 2014. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2015)
Edited by Tom Brindle, Martyn Allen, Emma Durham & Alex Smith
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–vi)
Place Theory, Genealogy, and the Cultural Biography of Roman Monuments (pp. 1–16)
Darrell J. Rohl
An Integrated Cognitive and Epigraphic Approach to Social Networks within the Community of a Roman Military Base (pp. 17–30)
Anna H. Walas
Cognitive Theory and Religious Integration: The Case of the Poetovian Mithraea (pp. 31–40)
Blanka Misic
Residual or Ritual? Pottery from the Backfills of Graves and Other Features in Roman Cemeteries (pp. 41–53)
Edward Biddulph
Identifying Ritual Deposition of Plant Remains: A Case Study of Stone Pine Cones in Roman Britain (pp. 54–69)
Lisa Lodwick
Caesar in Gaul: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Mass Violence (pp. 70–80)
Nico Roymans and Manuel Fernández-Götz
Re-defining the Roman ‘suburbium’ from Republic to Empire: A Theoretical Approach (pp. 81–99)
Matthew J. Mandich
Riparia Concept: Roman Intervention in the Lacustrine Environment of Fuente De Piedra (Málaga, Spain) (pp. 100–113)
Lázaro Lagóstena, María-del-Mar Castro, and Ángel Bastos
Silchester: The Town Life Project 1997–2014: Reflections on a Long Term Research Excavation (pp. 114–121)
Michael Fulford
TRAC 2015: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Leicester 2015. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2016)
Edited by Matthew J. Mandich, Thomas J. Derrick, Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez, Giacomo Savani & Elenora Zampieri
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. i–vii)
Debating Roman Imperialism: Critique, Construct, Repeat? (pp. 1–14)
Andrew Gardner
Distraught, Drained, Devoured, or Damned? The Importance of Individual Creativity in Roman Cursing (pp. 15-27)
Stuart McKie
Fear of the Dead? ‘Deviant’ Burials in Roman Northern Italy (pp. 28-42)
Alessandro Quercia and Melania Cazzulo
‘Landscapes of Life’ and ‘Landscapes of Death’: The Contribution of Funerary Evidence to the Understanding of the Perception and Organisation of Roman Rural Landscapes in Northern Italy (pp. 43-56)
Chiara Botturi
Lieux de Mémoire, Central Places, and the Sanctuary of Ribemont-sur-Ancre: A Preliminary Look (pp. 57-75)
David S. Rose
Agency, Structure, and Place: Finds in the Landscape in the Late Iron Age / Early Roman Transition
(pp. 76-91)
Nicky Garland
A Context for Roman Priestly Regalia: Depositional Practices and Spatial Distribution of Assemblages from Roman Britain (pp. 92-110)
Alessandra Eposito
From Treasured Items to Trash? The Use of Brooches in Roman Cornwall in the Creation of Identity and Social Memory (pp. 111-124)
Siân Thomas
Public and Private Bathing in Late Antique North Africa. Changing Habits in a Changing Society? (pp. 125-140)
Sadi Maréchal
Understanding the Status of the Cult of Mithras in the Tetrarchic Period: A Socio-Archaeological Approach (pp. 141-153)
David Walsh
Adventus: Conceptualising Boundary Space in the Art and Text of Early Imperial to Late Antique Rome (pp. 153-163)
Maria Kneafsey
On Gender and Spatial Experience in Public: The Case of Ancient Rome (pp. 164-176)
Amy Russell
Imperial Statues and Public Spaces in Late Antiquity: Conceptualising ‘Constantine’ at York as an Ancient Public Commission (pp. 177-187)
Brittany Thomas
Urban Scaling and the Growth of Rome (pp. 188-203)
Matthew J. Mandich
TRAC 2016: Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Rome 2016. Edizioni Quasar (2017)
Edited by Roberta Cascino, Francesco De Stefano, Antonella Lepone & Chiara Maria Marchetti
Front Matter and Editors’ Preface (pp. 1-15)
Interpreting Funerary Portrait Reliefs from Palmyra as a Means of Communication (pp. 17-35)
Łukasz Sokołowski
Disturbed, Damaged and Disarticulated: Grave Reuse in Roman Italy (pp. 37-50)
Liana Brent
Venus in Pompeian Domestic Space: Decoration and Context (pp. 51-66)
Carla Brain
Private Inscriptions in Public Places? The Ambiguous Nature of Graffiti from Pompeian Houses (pp. 67-84)
Polly Lohmann
Co–producing ‘Place’ and ‘Identity’ in the Upper Durius Valley (pp. 85-98)
Henry Clarke
Were There Large Villages in the Balkan Provinces Under the High Empire? (pp. 99-114)
Damjan Donev
Studying Evolving Landscapes: Geomorphology as a Research Tool for Landscape Archaeology (pp. 115-132)
Kevin Ferrari
Welcome-back Marx! Marxist Perspectives for Roman Archaeology at the End of the Post-Modern Era (pp. 133-149)
Edoardo Vanni
Method Matters. Some Comments on the Influence on Theory and Methodologies in Survey Based Research in Italy
Jesús García Sánchez (pp. 151-164)
Crisis, Marxism and Reconstruction of Time (pp. 165-178)
Paul Pasieka
The Domus of Apuleius at Ostia Antica: a Private Space in a Central Point of Public Life (pp. 179-193)
Antonella Pansini
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