Overview

Essays originally presented as papers at the European Association of Archaeologists' Conference in Santiago de Compostela in 1995. Contents: On being famous through time and across space (Douglass W. Bailey); The value of tasks in the late Upper Palaeolithic (Anthony Sinclair); Consumer behaviour in early modern times (Carolina Andersson and Ann-Mari Hallans); Early Bronze Age burial as theatrical complexity (Mike Pearson); Cattle as wealth in Neolithic Europe (Nerissa Russell); Princely tombs in the central Balkan Iron Age (Aleksandar Palavestra); Wealth, status and prestige in the Iberian Iron Age (Fernando Quesada); Social, economic and symbolic values in central Europe in the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age (Andrzej Pydyn); Objectification, embodiment and the value of placesand things (John Chapman); The social life of Italian Neolithic painted pottery (Robin Skeates) .