Historians, art historians, students of performance and religion, and other scholars--as well as archaeologists, of course--were asked to ponder what archaeology might be able to reveal about ritual, and how. They shared their thoughts at a January 2004 seminary in Los Angeles. One of the goals of the endeavor was to narrow the definition of ritual to make it a more useful concept. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)