All the reports reviewed here are significant additions to the Roman cemeteries published from Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The volumes from Krefeld-Gellep and Wederath are the latest fruit of research excavations on a heroic scale. Almost 2,500 Iron Age and Roman burials have been excavated at Wederath since the 1950s while this seventh volume brings the burials published from Krefeld-Gellep to over 5,500. By 1999 over 1,300 more had been excavated (Archdologie im Rheinland 1999, 101-2). The other cemeteries were examined in advance of development in the 1980s and 1990s, with the exception of Kempten, excavated between 1952 and 1967. The volumes from Vindonissa, Carnuntum and Avenches represent the most substantial cemeteries so far to be published from these settlements. After a site-by-site summary, this review is devoted to two general questions. First, to what extent is it possible to recover not only the burial itself but also evidence of the other stages of mortuary ritual, especially from cremation cemeteries? Second, which interpretative frameworks are brought to the analysis of burial rituals?