Trac 2007 ― Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference : Which Took Place at University College, London and Birkbecxk College,

In these proceedings of the March and April 2007 conference, contributors of these 12 papers report on their findings in topics ranging from ancient identities to humor. Papers here cover the use of prehistoric ritual and funerary sites in Roman Spain in explaining tradition and memory as well as identity in Roman society, new "traditional" rituals and objects in funerary contexts of Roman Baetica in critical approaches to the concept of resistance, identity in Italian landscapes, theory and the interfacing of multiple communities, identity and conflict in the Roman conquest of Spain, Roman archeology in an epoch of neoliberalism and imperialist war, visions of identity in an Algerian past, typological studies (the tree v. the rhizome) of ancient theater architecture, the distribution of honorary statues in Roman public space, coins in Roman burial ritual, the development of the "Germani" in Roman studies, and humor in Roman archeology. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)