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 Hållans) ; 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) .