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A study of six 1st-millenium BC pottery producing sites in the north-central Andes concentrating on production, exchange and interregional relationships.

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.

Pilgrims in Stone presents a study of the stone pilgrim-imagery from the Gallo-Roman shrine to Sequanae, goddess of the river Seine at its spring-source, Fontes Sequanae near Dijon in Burgundy. The work results from a longstanding programme of research into Gallo-Roman healing sanctuaries and the rituals associated with such sites, and from an especial concern with the manner in which the worshippers at these curative spring-shrines presented themselves iconographically. The images of the supplicants to these sanctuaries, or of models of body-parts depicting specific maladies, express the desire, on the part of worshippers, to communicate with the supernatural forces who were the perceived recipients of veneration . The study comprises an in-depth investigation into the religious and social significance of the cult of Sequana at Fontes Sequanae, as expressed by the iconography presented as offerings by her devotees.

This volume was brought about by the editor's dual interests in Roman frontier studies, and the historical archaeology of North America, after identifying differences in the treatment of how colonialism is treated by researchers in these two fields. He seeks to introduce a new discipline of comparative colonial archaeology, which specifically highlights the benefits of the comparative approach. Papers were invited from a variety of scholars working on the subject of western colonialism, with an emphasis on the post-medieval period. Synthetic chapters are presented on the historical archaeology of Scandinavia, Labrador, the Caribbean, Australia, various regions in the US, and on the theory behind comparative historical archaeology.