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Without Having Seen the Queen: The 1846European Travel Journal of HeinrichSchliemann, A Transcription and AnnotatedTranslationby Christo Thanos and Wout ArentzenThis publication is a transcription and translationof Schliemann’s first travel diary: his Europeanjourney in the winter of 1846/47. From his newresidence in Moscow he travelled to London andParis and via Berlin back to St. Petersburg. He writeswith admiration and amazement about buildingsand the emerging industrialization, while indirectlyhe offers us a glimpse of the poverty and filthinessof that time. He describes his visits to amongst othersthe theatre, the British Museum, the ChampsElysées, and the Louvre. The book presents a uniqueview of his life before rising to fame as the discovererof Troy. 212pp, 14 b/w, 11 col images, 182 x 257 mm(Sidestone, 2012) 9789088900877 pb £28.00

Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldworkedited by H. L. Cobb, Oliver J.T. Harris, Cara Jonesand Philip RichardsonThis volume explores the important nature of therelationship between fieldwork, analysis, andinterpretation. It critically assesses accepted practicesin field archaeology, and provides thoughtful andinnovative analysis of these procedures. Bycombining the experiences of both academic andprofessional archaeologists, the volume highlightskey differences and key similarities in their concerns,theories, and techniques. 184p (Springer Verlag 2012)9781461423379 Hb £81.00

An Introduction to Drawing ArchaeologicalPotteryby Lesley CollettA clear and practical guideto illustrating pottery toprofessional standards foruse in archaeologicalreports. Unlike many of itspredecessors this manualincludes guidance on the useof computers and digitaltechnology. 32p, b/w and colillus (IFA 2012)9780948393211 Pb £15.00

Preserving Archaeological Remains in Situ:Proceedings of the 4th International Conferenceedited by David Gregory, Henning MatthiesenThese proceedings explore four major themes: ratesof degradation in archaeological remains and thelimits of acceptable change; the techniques andduration of monitoring on archaeological sites; therole of multinational standards when the sites andnational legislations are so variable; reviewing theeffectiveness of in situ preservation, after nearly twodecades of research. 489p (Maney 2012)9781907975875 Hb £55.00

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Interpreting Archaeological Topography:Lasers, 3D Data, Observation, Visualisationand Applicationsedited by Rachel S Opitz and Dave C Cowley

The use of laser scanningtechniques (Lidar) and3D data are revolution-ising archaeologicalinterpretations oftopography, allowing forthe construction of 3Dimages of oftenremarkable clarity andcomplimenting moretraditional approachessuch as aerialphotography. Twentypapers discuss the

methodology involved in and application of variousforms of remote sensing in archaeology as a meansof describing and interpreting landscape topography.Topics discussed include the integration of fieldexperience and computer aided analysis; thetechniques involved in the interpretation,processing, visualisation and integration of 3D dataand limitations on them and the impact of thesetechniques on the understanding and interpretationof World Heritage Sites. Case studies are presented.288p, 185 col illus (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842175163Hb £40.00Geophysical Data in Archaeology: A Guide toGood Practiceby Armin SchmidtAnyone who has tried toarchive archaeologicalgeophysics data will havewondered what might bethe most comprehensiveand practical approach. Thisquestion is addressed by thisGuide’s extensively revised2nd edition, whichsystematically exploreswhat should be included inan Archive, illustrated with relevant examples. Aconceptual framework is developed that allowsassembling data and meta–data so that they can bedeposited with an Archiving Body. This frameworkis also mapped onto typical database structures,including OASIS and the English HeritageGeophysics Database. Examples show step–by stephow an Archive can be compiled for deposition sothat readers will be able to enhance their ownarchiving practice. There is no point preserving dataif they cannot be used again; therefore this Guide isessential for anyone using geophysical data. 88p(Arts and Humanities Data Service Guides to Good Practice2001, Oxbow Books, 2nd edition 2013) 9781782971443Pb £15.00

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Interpreting Ground–Penetrating Radar forArchaeologyby Lawrence B. ConyersIn this book Lawrence Conyers shows how resultsof geophysical surveys can test ideas regardingpeople, history, and cultures, as well as be used toprospect for buried remains. Using 20 years of datafrom more than 600 GPR surveys in a wide array ofsettings, Conyers provides the consumer of GPRstudies with basic information on how the processworks. He show how the plots are generated, whatsubsurface factors influence specific profiles, how thearchaeologist can help the surveyor collect optimaldata, and how to translate the results into useablearchaeological information. 220p, col illus t/out (LeftCoast Press 2012) 9781611322163 Hb £74.95

DNA for Archaeologistsby Ann Horsburgh and Elizabeth Matisoo–SmithThe ability to use DNA evidence is revolutionizingour understanding of the past. This book introducesarchaeologists to the basics of DNA research so theycan understand the powers and pitfalls of using DNAdata in archaeological analysis and interpretation.By concentrating on the principles and applicationsof DNA specific to archaeology, the authorsdemonstrate the correct collection of DNA samplesand allow archaeologists to interpret the laboratoryresults with greater confidence. The volume is repletewith case examples of DNA work in a variety ofarchaeological contexts. 233p (Left Coast Press 2013)9781598746815 Pb £24.95

Handheld XRF for Art and Archaeologyby Aaron N. Shugar and Jennifer L. MassHandheld XRF instruments are often marketed andused as ‘point and shoot’ solutions; however, theirinexpert use can easily generate deceptive orerroneous results. This volume focuses specificallyon the applications, possibilities, and limitations ofhandheld XRF in art conservation and archaeology.The papers deal with experimental methodologies,protocols, and possibilities of handheld XRF analysisin dealing with the complexity of materialsencountered in this research. 469p b/w figs (LeuvenUP 2012) 9789058679079 Hb 60.50

Fundamentals of Tree–Ring Researchby James H. SpeerAlthough there are other scientific means of datingclimatic and environmental events,dendrochronology provides the most reliable of allpalaeorecords. This comprehensive text addresses allof the subjects that a reader who is new to the fieldwill need to know and will be a welcome referencefor practitioners at all levels. It includes a history ofthe discipline, biological and ecological background,principles of the field, basic scientific information onthe structure and growth of trees, the complete rangeof dendrochronology methods, and a full descriptionof each of the relevant subdisciplines. 333p(University of Arizona Press 2010, Pb 2012)9780816526857 Pb £35.50

Ceramic Petrography: The Interpretation ofArchaeological Pottery & Related Artefacts inThin Sectionby Patrick Sean QuinnUsing over 200 colour photomicrographs of thinsections from a diverse range of artefacts,archaeological periods and geographic regions, thisbook illustrates the spectrum of compositional andmicrostructural phenomena that occur withinancient ceramics under the microscope and providescomprehensive guidelines for their study withinarchaeology. The book is structured according tothe main steps involved in the analysis andinterpretation of archaeological ceramic thinsections, including classification, characterization,the determination of provenance and thereconstruction of manufacturing technology. 260pcol illus (Archaeopress 2013) 9781905739592 Pb £35.00

Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeologyedited by Jane Lydon and Uzma RizviThis essential handbook explores the relationshipbetween the postcolonial critique and the field ofarchaeology, a discipline that developed historicallyin conjunction with European colonialism andimperialism. In aiding the movement to decolonizethe profession, the contributors to this volumesuggest strategies to strip archaeological theory andpractice of its colonial heritage and create a disciplinesensitive to its inherent inequalities. 525p b/w illus(Left Coast Press 2010, Pb 2012) 9781598741827 Hb£104.95, 9781598741834 Pb 39.95

Forensic Anthropology: An Introductionby Maria Teresa Tersigni–Tarrant and NatalieShirleyDesigned as a complete introductory textbook, thisguide takes the reader through the various processesand methodologies which comprise forensicanthropology. After a survey of the history of thediscipline, and survey of its current state, chaptersfocus on human osteology and odontology, on therecording of remains, on determining sex and age,stature, cause of death and trauma, as well astaphonomic processes. A final section looks at ethicaland human rights issues. 423p b/w illus (CRC Press2013) 9781439816462 Hb £63.99

Human Identity and Identificationby Rebecca Gowland and Tim ThompsonIn recent years, there has been a growing interest inthe relationship between the body, environment andsociety. Reflecting upon these developments, thisbook examines the role of the body in humanidentification, in the forging of identities, and theways in which it embodies our social worlds. Withparticular reference to bioarchaeology and forensicscience, the authors focus on the construction andcategorisation of the body within scientific andpopular discourse, examining its many tissues, fromthe outermost to the innermost, from the skin toDNA. 233p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013)9780521885911 Hb £75.00, 9780521713665 Pb £29.99

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Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approaches to ArchaeologicalHypothesesedited by Frederick W. F. FouldsExperimental Archaeology is a volume which aims to bridge the gap in archaeologybetween empirical testing and humanistic approaches to understanding the materialrecord. The contributors explore a wide variety of different fields including how aphenomenological methodology can be used to increase our understanding of howa Bronze Age temple was ‘experienced’ by people in the past; how experimentationin the production of materials such as rawhide, glass and wine–making can be usedto test theories or written sources and the possibilities of studying the three–dimensional morphology of Acheulian handaxes to search for possible idiosyncraticindicators during the Lower Palaeolithic. 144 b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013)9781842177662 Pb £35.00

Ancient Textiles, Modern Scienceedited by Heather HopkinsThis book is the publication of a series of lectures and experiments that wereundertaken at the First and Second European Textile Forums in 2009 and 2010.Each had a new approach, exploring a question of textile manufacture in a scientificway, revealing answers and outcomes that were unavailable before. The FirstEuropean Textile Forum hosted an experiment that found the relationship betweenarchaeological hand–spinning finds and the yarn they produce. The SecondEuropean Textile Forum explored the practical aspects of undertakingreconstructions such as Stone Age fabrics, Roman dyeing or the clothing ofGunnister Man, including the deconstruction of the original artefact, allowing forthe unexpected and the implications of new findings. Techniques for treating rawmaterials, creating fabrics and finishing artefacts are also explored. (Oxbow Books2013) 9781842176641 Pb £35.00

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The Archaeology of Householdedited by Ivan Briz i Godino and Marco MadellaFrom the simplest hunter–gatherer society to the most powerful Empire, all societiesare built on basic daily life, developed day to day with its specific material conditions.Household archaeology looks at the detail of the living domain, exploring the mostessential elements of any social dynamic, the archaeology of the small scale. TheArchaeology of Household looks this this important aspect of archaeological studyin a variety of different ways using theoretical and social perspectives, deep thinkingabout the mathematical nature of household space, and how societies’ world viewswere reflected in domestic space. Case studies include hunter–gatherer societies inAmerica, Neolithic and Bronze age lakeside settlements in Switzerland and the Alpineregion, Bronze Age sites in Hungary and northern Europe and Archaic period Sicily.248p, 125 b/w + col illus. (Oxbow Books, 2012) 9781842175170 Hb £49.95

Counting People: A DIY Manual for Local and Family Historiansby John MooreLocal and family historians are often afraid to use numerical data (Statistics) intheir research and writing. Yet numbers are an essential part of much historicalwork, obviously in population history but also in local studies of agriculture,industry and social history. Counting People shows how amateur historians canuse computers with appropriate programs to provide numerical illustrations ofvarious historical topics as well as easing their researches. A final chapter coversresearch and publishing in local history. The Bibliography provides advice onlocal historical studies in England and Wales and a full list of sources for populationhistory in England and Wales as well as guidance on the use of computers in localstudies. 140p (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842174807 Pb £17.95

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Re–Presenting the Past: Archaeology throughText and Imageedited by Sheila Bonde and Stephen HoustonThe archaeological past exists for us throughintermediaries. Some are written works,descriptions, narratives and field notes, while othersare visual – the drawings, paintings, photographs,powerpoints or computer visualisations that allowus to re–present past forms of human existence. Thisvolume brings together nine papers, six of whichwere presented at a symposium hosted at BrownUniversity in March 2007. Two papers explore theclassical past and medieval visualisations. Three treatthe Maya and one considers the imaging by 18th–century antiquarians of British history; yet anotherranges broadly in its historical considerations.Several consider the trajectory over time ofvisualisation and self–imaging. Others engage withissues of recording by looking, for example, at theways in which 19th–century excavationphotographs can aid in the reconstruction of aninscription or by evaluating the process of mappinga site with ArcGIS and computer animationsoftware. All essays raise key questions about thefunction of re–presentations of the past in currentarchaeological practice. 215p 46 b/w figs, 12 col figs(Joukowsky Institute 2013) 9781782972310 Pb £25.00***NYP***

The Present Past: An Introduction toAnthropology for Archaeologistsby Ian HodderA reprint of Hodder’s classic 1982 work which aimedto introduce the archaeologist to ethnographical andanthropological methods and concepts, exploringthe proper use of analogy in archaeological theory.A new preface offers thoughts on the developmentof ethnoarchaeology, on new methodological andethical dimensions and on how material culture andethnoarchaeological approaches can continue toprofitably interact. 240p b/w illus (Pen & Sword BooksLtd, 2nd edition 2012) 9781781591727 Pb £12.99

Archaeology and Anthropology: Past, Presentand Futureedited by David ShanklandBringing together leadingscholars from both disciplines,the contributions to this bookset out the current state of therelationship betweenarchaeology and anthro-pology and explore ways inwhich methodologies can bepooled to mutually enrichtheir practice. Difference aswell as congruence arestressed, but throughout thebenefits of greater dialogue are explored. 256p b/willus (Berg 2012) 9781847889669 Hb £55.00

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Embodied Knowledge: Historical Perspectiveson Belief and Technologyby edited by Marie Louise Stig Sorensen andKatharina Rebay-SalisburyThe body is the mainforum for learning abouthow to do, think andbelieve and it is a startingpoint for the grantingand forming of manyforms of meaning.Fourteen papers explorethe relationship betweenknowledge and the bodythrough a series ofhistorical and archaeo-logical case studies. Thepapers share a focus on knowledge as it is implicitand expressed through the human body and bodilyaction, and as it formed through intentionalpractices. But what is this kind of knowledge? Usingspecific case studies of knowledgeable actions, thebook explores embodied knowledge through a focuson practice. It does so through two different, yetinterconnected aspects of how such knowledgeexpresses itself: belief and technology. 176p, 42 b/willus (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842175163 Hb £30.00

Mobility, Meaning and Transformations ofThings: shifting contexts of material culturethrough time and spaceedited by Hans Peter Hahn and Hadas Weis

This book investigates themobility of things fromarchaeological anda n t h r o p o l o g i c a lperspectives. Objects are inperpetual flux, leavingvisible traces of their age,usage, and previous life.While travelling throughtime, objects also circulatethrough space, and theirspatial mobility alters theirmeaning and use with

respect to new cultural horizons. As objectstransform through time and space, so does the valueattributed to them. Mapping out itineraries of valuein the realm of the material, allows us to grasp thenature of a given social formation through the shapeand meaning taken on by its valued ‘stuff’. It alsoprovides insights into the nature of materiality,through the value ascribed to objects at a givenpoint in time and space. This edited volume bringstogether studies of material culture, materiality andvalue, with regard to the mobility of objects, withthe aim of tracing the ways in which societiesconstitute their valued objects and how the realmof the material reflects upon society. 176p b/w illus(Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842175255 Pb £35.00

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Marine Archaeology: A Handbookby Virginia E. Dellino–MusgraveIn recent years there has been increased awarenessof both the potential and the fragility of the marineand maritime zones. Working in these zones presentsa range of challenges, from the practical to the legal,which this Handbook attempts to explain. The bookbegins by defining what the marine environmentis, and provides a brief history of maritimearchaeology. It also considers the challengingquestion of the differences between marinearchaeology and commercial salvage. Furtherchapters explain the organisation of marinearchaeology in the UK and the planning of marinearchaeological projects, with essential informationon areas of responsibility and sources of information.A summary of the complex legal framework for themanagement of the marine zone around the UK isfollowed by discussion of European and UNESCOconventions on marine heritage. 110p, col illus (CBA2012) 9781902771915 Pb £12.00

WreckProtect: Decay and Protection ofArchaeological Wooden Shipwrecksedited by Charlotte Gjelstrup Björdal and DavidGregoryThis book stems from the results of the WreckProtectproject, which investigated the decay andpreservation of wooden shipwrecks under water inthe Baltic Sea.The book includes chapters on theanatomy and structure of wood and the physicaland biological decay of shipwrecks under water. TheBaltic shipwrecks are introduced, focusing upontheir state of preservation and are compared to findstypically found in the North Sea and theMediterranean. Microbial decay processes and theiridentification in both sediments and the watercolumn are also discussed and related to othernatural decay processes, as well as human impacts.Finally, a summary of available methods for the in–situ protection of wrecks is presented and a cost–benefit analysis of in–situ preservation versusconventional raising and conservation is given.162p, col illus (Archaeopress 2012) 9781905739486 Hb£19.95

London Gateway: Maritime Archaeology in theThames Estuaryby Anthony Firth, Niall Callan, Graham Scott andToby GaneOver the course of a decade, investigations by WessexArchaeology have provided a new perspective onthe historic environment of the Thames, andexplored innovative archaeological approaches andmethodologies for addressing marine developmentsof this type and scale. This volume sets out thechallenges, results and history of theseinvestigations, and the context and constraintsencountered. The results contribute to ourknowledge of maritime archaeology in the ThamesEstuary and to the wider practice of marinedevelopment–led archaeology. 88p b/w and col illus(Wessex Archaeology 2013) 9781874350613 Hb £15.00

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Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks: The Archaeologyof Animal Diseaseby László Bartosiewicz and Erika GalThe analysis of animal boneassemblages fromarchaeological sitesprovides much valuabledata concerning economicand husbandry practices inthe past, as well as insightsinto cultural and symbolicor ritual activity. Animalpalaeopathology canidentify diseases ina r c h a e o z o o l o g i c a lassemblages but littleinterest has been expressed in investigating andunderstanding the cultural aspects of the diseasesidentified. Such assemblages represent the cumulativeeffects of human attitudes, decisions and influencesregarding the keeping, care, treatment, neglect andexploitation of animals which result in a range ofconditions, non–infectious diseases and injuries thatcan be recognised on ancient skeletal material.Additionally, ever since the domestication of ahandful of animal species around 10,000 years ago,the close physical proximity has been a mutualsource of infectious disease and traumatic injury forhumans and animals alike. Shuffling Nags, LameDucks provides an invaluable guide to theinvestigation of trauma and disease inarchaeozoological assemblages. It provides a clearmethodological approach, and describes and explainsthe wide range of traumatic lesions, infections,diseases, inherited disorders and other pathologicalchanges and anomalies that can be identified. In sodoing, it explores the impact that “man–made”

Insects in the City: An ArchaeoentomologicalPerspective on London’s Pastby David SmithThrough a case study of the results from London,this book provides an introduction to, and surveyof the discipline of archaeoentomology. Alongside achronological analysis of the evidence from insectremains which has been uncovered in London,David Smith outlines the techniques and technicalissues involved, and showcases the variety of waysin which insect remains can be used to interpret thearchaeological record. A picture is built up oflandscape and landscape change as well as urbandevelopment and changes in living conditions. 120pb/w figs (BAR 561, Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309866Pb £26.00

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Archaeology, Cultural Property and theMilitaryedited by Laurie RushDrawing on major contributions from seven armedforces, amongst others, this book aims to set outthe obligations to protect cultural heritage underinternational conventions and domestic laws;provide a series of case studies of current militarypractice; develop models for academic partnershipfor military education and planning; and offerinsight into ways and means of workingproductively with the military for the benefit ofachieving shared goals. 230p b/w illus (Boydell 2010,Pb 2012) 9781843835394 Hb £50.00, 9781843837527Pb £16.99

Constantinople to Cordoba: DismantlingAncient Architecture in the East, North Africaand Islamic Spainby Michael GreenhalghA survey of the various ways in which the extensiveremains of ancient architecture were reused ordestroyed in the crescent from Greece and Turkeythrough to Islamic Spain. It examines how theancient landscape was transformed – towns, roadsand ports, fountains and waterways, tombs, palaces,villas and inscriptions. It also addresses reuse inchurches, mosques and other structures, as well ascollectors and museum–builders. 576p, b/w illus (Brill2012) 9789004212466 Hb £175.00

The Value of an Archaeological Open–AirMuseum is in its Use: UnderstandingArchaeological Open–Air Museums and theirVisitorsby Roeland PaardekooperThis study assesses the value of archaeological open–air museums, their management and their visitors,and is the first to do so in such breadth and detail.Eight archaeological open–air museums fromdifferent countries were selected as case studies. Theissue of ‘quality’ was investigated from differentperspectives. The studies conclude withrecommendations, ideas and strategies which areapplicable not just to the eight archaeological open–air museums under study, but to any such museumin general. 300p col and b/w illus (Sidestone Press 2012)9789088901034 Pb £48.00

The Archaeology of Drylands: Living at theMarginedited by Graeme Barker and D.D. GilbertsonThese papers examine the fragility or resilience ofsettlement in the world’s drylands by analysing theirabundant ancient remains and looking for commonthemes. The contributors examine climate, intensiveand subsistence agriculture, land degradation andirrigation etc in the deserts and drylands of the NearEast, Southwestern and Central Asia, Northern,eastern abd Southern Africa, North and SouthAmerica and Switzeland and the Rhône Valley. 372pb/w figs (Routledge 2000, Pb 2012) 9780415230018 Hb£100.00, 9780415642842 Pb £28.00

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Global Ancestors: Understanding the SharedHumanity of our Ancestorsedited by Rebecca Redfern, Jelena Bekvalac,Heather Bonney and Margaret CleggGlobal Ancestors is acollection of papers whichreflect on modernmuseological responses tothe often complex andemotive relationship thatpeople have with theancestors and objects whichthey created. Set out in threebroad themes, the firstcollection of papers explorehow indigenous peoples arerepresented in museums inPanama and China and how more can be gained byworking with indigenous communities to furtherour understanding of the ancestors. The secondsection examines changes in British and Americanmuseological thinking regarding the repatriation ofhuman remains and objects to indigenous peoples,focussing in particular on the impact of legislationon western institutions and the expectations ofindigenous communities and alternative religiousgroups. These issues are explored through casestudies involving material from the British Museumand Glasgow Museum. The final section exploresthe ways in which archaeologists and indigenouscommunities interact. These chapters illustrate,through case studies from South Africa, Finland andCanada, how both groups have worked togetherfor their mutual benefit or to change the majorityviewpoint. Global Ancestors represents thebeginnings of a more inclusive and sharedunderstanding between different constituencies andpoints the way forward to a time when we canconsider the ancestors truly ‘global’. 168p b/w & col.illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842175330 Pb £30.00

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Conservation of Cultural Heritage: KeyPrinciples and Approachesby Hanna SzczepanowskaThis textbook aims to provide a broad overview ofmuseum conservation and preservation, rangingacross both more traditional approaches to art andarchaeological artefacts, and more modern ethicaland philosophical concerns. Chapters guide thereader through the basics of preventative andphysical conservation, and the role of theconservator, before focusing on the specific materialsmuseum professionals are likely to encounter andassociated techniques. 317p, b/w and col illus (Routledge2011) 9780415674744 Hb £90.00

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Ecology andEnclosure: The Effect of Enclosure on Society, Farming and theEnvironment in South Cambridgeshire, 1798–1850by Shirley WitteringSouth Cambridgeshire has some of the richest arable land in England and has beencultivated for millennia. By the turn of the nineteenth century industrialisationand massive population growth had resulted in an enormous increase in the demandfor food, which in turn led to enclosure. But this desire to plough every availablepiece of land resulted in the destruction of many valuable and distinctive habitatsthat had existed for centuries. The Ecology of Enclosure breaks new ground incomparing the effect of Parliamentary Enclosure with the findings of the enthusiastic‘Botanisers’ from Cambridge; this reveals not only the effect of enclosure on theecology of the land but also on the people whose link with the land was broken.192p, 43 illustrations, 75 tables (Windgather Press 2012) 9781905119448 Pb £35.00

The Historic Landscape of Devon: A Study in Change and Continuityby Lucy RyderThis book discusses the 19th-century historic landscape of Devon though thecreation, manipulation and querying of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS)database to examine physical evidence of change and development through fieldand settlement patterns. Making use of tithe surveys, the relationship betweenfield and settlement morphologies and patterns of landholding is discussed forthree case-study areas in Devon, developing the idea of landscape pays and theidentification of regional differences in the study of the historic landscape. 256p,col illus (Windgather Press, an imprint of Oxbow Books, 2012) 9781905119387 Pb £30.00

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Somerset's Peatland Archaeology: Managing and Investigating a FragileResourceby Richard Brunning et alThe Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringeboth sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmentalhistories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discretemonuments. This substantial monograph presents the results of the MARISP project( Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands) which thoroughly assessed thecondition of the wetland monuments and the ongoing threats to their survival andaimed to answer key research questions about the sites through the use of minimallyinvasive excavation and to inform the development of future national and countywetland strategies. 352pp, b/w & colour illus (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842174883 Hb£40.00

An Atlas of Northamptonshireby Tracey Partida, David Hall, and Glenn FoardAn Atlas of Northamptonshire presents an historical atlas of the greater part ofNorthamptonshire (the first quarter having been published as An Atlas ofRockingham Forest). It presents in map form the results of fieldwork anddocumentary research undertaken since the mid–1960s to map the landscape ofthe whole of Northamptonshire prior to enclosure by Parliamentary Act. This isthe first time a whole county has been completely studied in this way, and thefirst time a whole county has had an accurate view of its medieval landscape withdetails of the medieval fields, woods, pastures and meadows which have beenmapped by ground–survey of archaeological remains confirmed where possiblefrom aerial photographs and early maps. 280p, 95 col illus. (Oxbow Books, 2012)9781842175118 Hb £35.00

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Plants and People: Choices and Diversitythrough Timeedited by Alexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova,and Leonor Peña–ChocarroAgriculture and its originshave long been lively andinnovative subjects ofresearch, involving peopleworking in a variety ofdisciplines; this volume isthe outcome of acollaborative researchprogramme combiningarchaeologists, archaeo-botanists, ethnographers,historians and agronomists,based around experimentsin archaeology and aimed at establishing newcommon ground for integrating differentapproaches, viewing agriculture from the standpointof the human actors involved. Each article providesa synthetic, interdisciplinary overview of variousaspects of the relationship between people and plantsacross wide ranging and diverse spatial and temporalmilieu, including such considerations as cropdiversity through time, the use of wild foodstuffs,social context, status and choices of food plants. Thisis the first of three volumes in the EARTH series onthe developmental history of world agriculture. 432p,235 col illus. (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842175149 Hb£50.00

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Exploring and Explaining Diversity inAgricultural Technologyedited by Annelou van Gijn, John Whittaker andPatricia C. Anderson

This is the second of threevolumes in the EARTHseries on the developmentalhistory of worldagriculture. Each chapter isa collaborative, inter-disciplinary overview of thetools and processes involvedin various stages andtechnologies involved in thepursuit of agriculture fromland clearance to cerealprocessing and cooking, and

of the skills and social context of agriculturalpractice. 304p, 285 col illus. (Oxbow Books 2012)9781842175156 Hb £40.00

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Making Sense of an Historic Landscapeby Stephen Rippon

Interpreting Landscapes: Geologies,Topographies, Identitiesby Christopher TilleyInstead of studying the prehistory of Britain in termsof periods or artefact classifications, Tilley examinesit through the lens of geology and landscapes.Granite uplands, rolling chalk downlands,sandstone moorlands, and pebbled hilltops eachcreate their own potentialities and symbolicresources for human settlement and require formsof social engagement. Taking his findings from yearsof phenomenological fieldwork experiencingdifferent landscapes with all senses and from manyangles, Tilley creates a saturated and historicallyimaginative account of the landscapes of southernEngland and the people who inhabited them. 527pb/w illus (Left Coast Press 2010, Pb 2012) 9781598743746Hb £78.50, 9781598743753 Pb £37.50

Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeologyedited by Francesco Menotti and Aidan O’SullivanThrough concise essayswritten by some of theworld’s leading scholars inthe field, this Handbookdescribes the key principles,methodologies, andrevealing results of past andpresent archaeologicalinvestigations of wetlandenvironments, exploringhuman interactions withlakes, bogs, rivers, andcoastal marshlands acrossthe world from prehistory to modern times. Sectionsinclude a geographical and chronological survey ofwetland use, an overview of the types ofarchaeological evidence encountered, excavationmethods, environmental interpretation and datingtechniques, as well as conservation, publicarchaeology and the future of the discipline. 976p b/w illus(Oxford UP 2012) 9780199573493 Hb £110.00

Local variation in the character of the countrysideprovides communities with an important sense ofplace, and this book suggests that some of thesedifferences can be traced back to prehistory. In hisdiscussion, Rippon makes use of a wide range ofsources and techniques, including archaeologicalmaterial, documentary sources, maps, field- andplace-names, and the evidence contained withinhouses that are still lived in today, to illustrate howlocal and regional variations in the 'historiclandscape' can be understood. He uses theBlackdown Hills in southern England, whichmarked an important boundary in landscapecharacter from prehistory onwards, as a specific casestudy to be applied as a model for other landscapeareas. 396p b/w illus, col pls (Oxford UP 2012)9780199533787 Hb £80.00

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Cairns, Fields, and Cultivationby Jamie Quartermaine and Roger H LeechThis volume presents the results of a programme ofdetailed archaeological survey undertaken in the LakeDistrict between 1982 and 1989, mainly on the fellsabove the west Cumbria coastal plain. It recordedsome of the most remarkable cairnfields, fieldsystems, and settlements in England, mostly of lateprehistoric date. The project was funded by EnglishHeritage, in conjunction was the Lake DistrictNational Park Authority, and was set up primarilyto provide for the management of these landscapes,and to ensure their preservation in the future. Thesurveys have demonstrated that a series of nationallyimportant archaeological landscapes survive on themarginal uplands of Cumbria, which form apalimpsest of many periods of activity, and providea remarkable opportunity to understand thedevelopment of the land and its people. 396p, colimages (Oxford Archaeology North 2012) 9781907686078Hb £25.00

Manure Matters: Historical, Archaeologicaland Ethnographic Perspectivesedited by Richard JonesThis book brings together the work of a group ofinternational scholars working on social, cultural,and economic issues relating to past manure andmanuring. Contributors use textual, linguistic,archaeological, scientific and ethnographic evidenceas the basis for their analyses. The scope of thepapers is temporally and geographically broad; theyspan the Neolithic through to the modern periodand cover studies from the Middle East, Britain andAtlantic Europe, and India. 248p b/w figs (Ashgate2012) 9780754669883 Hb £65.00

The Origin of Our Speciesby Chris StringerWhat makes us human? This is the fundamentalquestion which Chris Stringer sets out to explore inthis highly enganging survey of human evolution,aimed at the general reader. He first sets out thephysical characteristics of modern humans, andoutlines the history of investigation into humanorigins, explaining the techniques involved inmodern research. He then moves on to examinebehavioural traits, including developments such ascognition, language, and art as well as themanufacture and use of tools. Final chapters examinethe use of genetics and DNA to trace the dispersal ofhumans from Africa. 333p b/w illus (Penguin 2011, Pb2012) 9781846141409 hb £20.00, 9780141037202 PB£9.99

The Archaeology of Human Ancestryedited by James Steele and Stephen ShennanOminously subtitled ‘Power, sex and tradition’, thiscollection of seventeen essays by archaeologists andbiological anthropologists set out methods forreconstructing the social systems and culturaltraditions of our early ancestors. 446p b/w illus.(Routledge 1996, Pb 2012) 9780415118620 Hb £95.00,9780415642941 Pb £28.00

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Norfolk Gardens & Designed Landscapes:byNorfolk Gardens is acelebration of the richhistory of gardens andparks in the county ofNorfolk. Beginning witha detailed exploration ofthe history of gardeningin the county – from thepre–18th century‘medicinals’, throughthe establishment of thegreat country housegardens and civic spacesof the 18th and 19th centuries, to the impact ofmodern ideas of ‘ecology’ and ‘minimalist’ gardening– the volume gives detailed descriptions of 330 ofthe most beautiful and significant gardens, parksand open spaces in Norfolk. It explores the impactgardeners with national reputations – such asLancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, Edwin Lutyens andGertrude Jekyll – have had on the development ofgarden, landscape design and planting, both in thecounty and on the wider national stage, andexamines the influence that these landscapes haveon our ideas of gardening today. The volume is morethan just a guide to gardens and spaces open to thepublic: whether large, well–known public spaces orsmall, private gems, all the gardens included are ofparticular importance in the history of gardening.Lavishly illustrated throughout in full colour, withan introduction by the distinguished landscape andgarden historian Tom Williamson, Norfolk Gardensis a comprehensive and detailed account of thehistory and heritage of gardening. (Windgather Press2013) 9781905119929 Hb £25.00

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The Place–Names of Buteby Gilbert MarkusFollowing a substantial historical introduction thisbook discusses every place–name on the OS Explorer(1:25000) map, as well as many other Bute place–names no longer in use. The most rigorous scholarlyprotocols are followed: for each place–name earlyforms are given, together with the contexts in whichthey appear. Each place–name is analysed formeaning, and these meanings are explored for whatthey can reveal about the island’s history. In thisway a picture of changes in the landscape can bebuilt up, as well as successive changes in thelanguages spoken on the isalnd: from British toGaelic, to Old Norse, to Gaelic again and finally toScots and English. 624p (Shaun Tyas 2012)9781907730153 Hb £24.00

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Critical Anthropology: Foundational Worksedited by Stephen NugentThis book brings together some of the mostinfluential pieces from the journal Critique ofAnthropology, collecting classic articles and spiritedrebuttals by major scholars such as Eric Wolf,Marshall Sahlins, Sidney Mintz, Andre GunderFrank, and Michael Taussig. Editor Stephen Nugentpositions these key debates with new introductionsthat detail the lasting influence of these articles onanthropology over four decades 272p (Left CoastPress 2012) 9781611321784 Pb £29.50

Inside Cultures: A New Introduction toCultural Anthropologyby William BaleeEmphasizing the interplay of complexity andsubsistence,the interaction between humans andtheir environment, the tension between humanuniversals and cultural variation, and the impactsof colonialism on traditional cultures, WilliamBalée’s new textbook shows students how culturalanthropology can help us understand the complex,globalized world around us. (Left Coast Press 2012)9781598746051 Pb £39.95

A Companion to Gender Prehistoryedited by Diane BolgerThis large and impressive volume serves both as anoverview of gender prehistory, and as a stimulatingreminder of the importance of gendered perspectivesin archaeological research and a rejoinder to thosewho would still put forward essentialist and binaryviews of gender and sexuality in the past. A wealthof chapters survey the genesis of feminist andgendered research in archaeology, review thetheoretical background and explore fruitful areas forfruitful research, as well as providing up to dateperspectives on gender and material culture, bodyand identity. The book is rounded off with a globalsurvey, region by region of the application ofgendered perspectives in archaeology. 642p b/w illus(Blackwell 2013) 9780470655368 Hb £130.00

Lithic Technology: Measures of Production,Use and Curationedited by William AndrefskyThis volume brings together essays that measurethe life history of stone tools relative to retouchvalues, raw material constraints, and evolutionaryprocesses. Collectively, they explore the associationof technological organization with facets of tool formsuch as reduction sequences, tool production effort,artifact curation processes, and retouchmeasurement. Data sets cover a broad geographicand temporal span, including examples from Franceduring the Paleolithic, the Near East during theNeolithic, and other regions such as Mongolia,Australia, and Italy. 339p (Cambridge UP 2008, Pb2012) 9780521888271 Hb £59.00, 9781107646636 Pb£23.99

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Seeing Lithics: A Middle–Range Theory forTesting for Cultural Transmission in thePleistoceneby Gilbert B. TostevinThere is substantial debateover the extent to which theMiddle to Upper Paleolithictransition and the dispersalof anatomically modernhumans from Africa intoEurasia at the end of thePleistocene were the resultof the same process, relatedprocesses, or unrelated butcoincident processes. Thecurrent debate shows a gap in archaeologicalmethod and theory for understanding how differentcultural transmission processes create patterning inthe material culture of foragers at the resolution ofPaleolithic palimpsests. This research projectattempts to bridge this gap with a middle–rangetheory connecting cultural transmission and dualinheritance theory with the archaeological study offlintknappers’ flake–by–flake choices in theproduction of lithic assemblages. The project thuscombines a new middle–range theory as well as anew approach to characterizing Paleolithicassemblages for systematic comparison of units ofanalysis appropriate to distinguishing forces ofchange in cultural evolution. 608p (American Schoolof Prehistoric Research Monograph, Oxbow Books 2013)9781842175279 Hb £25.00

From Primitives to Primates: A History ofEthnographic and Primatological Analogies inthe Study of Prehistoryby David van ReybrouckWhere do our images of early hominids come from?In this fascinating in-depth study, David VanReybrouck demonstrates how input fromethnography and primatology has deeply influencedour visions of the past from the 19th century to thisday. Victorian scholars were keen to look atcontemporary Australian and Tasmanianaboriginals to understand the enigmaticNeanderthal fossils. Likewise, today’s primatologistsdebate to what extent bonobos, baboons or chimpsmay be regarded as stand-ins for early humanancestors. Such primate models, Van Reybrouckargues, continue the highly problematic‘comparative method’ of the Victorian times. He goeson to show how the field of ethnoarchaeology hassucceeded in circumventing the major pitfalls of suchanalogical reasoning. 384p (Sidestone Press 2013)9789088900952 Pb £40.00

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Shell Energy: Prehistoric Coastal ResourceStrategiesedited by G. N. Bailey, Karen Hardy andAbdoulaye CamaraShell middens areubiquitous archaeologicalfeatures on coastlinesthroughout the worldthat have been variouslyanalysed and interpretedas mounds of food, burialplaces, or simply asconvenient receptacles forthe preservation ofstratified remains. Thisvolume brings togetherinformation about little known, or recentlydiscovered, concentrations of shell mounds in areasincluding Africa, the near East, South–east Asia andthe Americas as well as new work on mounds inthe classic areas including Denmark, the Pacific NWcoast and Japan. Discussions are presented on newapproaches to interpretation involving the use ofethnographic studies, analysis of molluscs, the useof shell as a raw material for making atefacts and inconstruction, and the variable formation processesassociated with mound formation. 320p b/w & col.illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842177655 Hb £50.00

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Bones for Tools – Tools for Bones: The InterplayBetween Objects and Objectivesedited by Krish Seetah and Brad Gravina

Exposing and exploringcontexts spanning muchof prehistory, anddrawing data from a widerange of environmentalsettings, this book coversboth sides of the complexi n t e r – r e l a t i o n s h i pbetween animals, thetechnologies used toprocure them and thosearising from them. Inrevealing the inter–

dependence of stone tools and animal bones, thevolume takes what we the editors hope will be afirst step towards a revitalized understanding of thescope of past interactions between humans and theworld around them. 164p b/w figs (McDonald Institute2013) 9781902937595 Hb £45.00

Britain Beginsby Barry CunliffeImpressive in every sense,this hugely ambitiousand assured book takes asits subject the entirehistory of the British Islesfrom the end of the lastIce Age all the way downto the Norman Conquest.Barry Cunliffe kicks offwith an examination ofthe ways in which ourancestors have conceived the distant past, frommedieval myths to the dawn of modern archaeology.The remainder of the book is roughly chronologicalin structure. Prominent themes include the ‘problemof origins’, where Cunliffe’s own research has beenof such significance (the Celtic from the westhypothesis is synthesised here with concision andflair), and the importance of communication,connectivity and cultural transmission is emphasisedthroughout, with the Channel, the Atlantic and theNorth Sea seen as highways linking Britain andIreland to the continent and building up an ongoingnarrative which is anything but narrowly insular.553p, many col illus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199609338Hb £30.00

A History of Ancient Britainby Neil OliverNeil Oliver’s popular account of Britains prehistoricand Roman past strikes a personal note,interweaving Oliver’s own voyage of discovery witha chronological survey. Featuring snippets ofinterviews with the archaeologists involved, thebook describes visits to Britain’s most importantprehistoric sites, and the results of the latest research,building up a picture of the daily lives of Britain’sinhabitants over a vast period. 373p col pls (Weidenfeld& Nicholson 2012, Pb 2013) 9780297863328 Hb £20.00,9780753828861 Pb £8.99

The Mesolithic of the Kennet Valleyby Roy FroomThis study provides both a useful synthesis of theevidence for Mesolithic activity in the Kennet Valleyand a considered analysis of the results of excavationsin the area. Drawing on his own work andexperience as well as on all other available reports,Roy Froom interleaves descriptions of individual siteswith chronological reviews, focusing on thearchaeology of the main river valley and its floodplain, before offering further reflections on the widervalley. A picture is built up predominantly ofcontinuity, with incremental changes in toolproduction, rather than noticeable discontinuities.The occupation of sites, however, shows a distinctincrease in duration and intensity across the periodfrom the Early to Late Mesolithic, and a provisionalscheme is outlined based on blade analysis. 340p, b/w illus (Roy Froom 2012) 9780957471207 Pb £40.00

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Quaternary History and PalaeolithicArchaeology in the Axe Valley at Broom, SouthWest Englandedited by R.T. Hosfield & C.P. GreenThis investigation of theLower Palaeolithic site atBroom, Devon, highlightsthe huge potential of oldsites and the importance ofthe archaeological andgeological legacyresulting from more than150 years of fieldinvestigations. The site,which has produced largenumbers of Palaeolithicartefacts, is generallyregarded as the most important open–airarchaeological site of earlier Palaeolithic age insouth–western Britain. This volume seeks to explainthe distinctive character of its Acheuleanarchaeology, the environmental conditions in whichthe hominin occupants of the Axe valley flourished,and for how long. 384p, 320 b/w + col illus. (OxbowBooks, 2012) 9781842175200 Hb £60.00

Prehistoric Materialities: Becoming Material inPrehistoric Britain and Irelandby Andrew Meirion JonesHumans occupy a material environment that is

constantly changing. Yet inthe twentieth centuryarchaeologists studyingBritish prehistory haveoverlooked this fact in theirsearch for past systems oforder and pattern. Artefactsand monuments were treatedas inert materials which werethe outcomes of social ideasand processes. As a resultmaterials were variouslycharacterized as stable entities

such as artefact categories, styles or symbols in anattempt to comprehend them. In this book Jonesargues that, on the contrary, materials are vital,mutable, and creative, and archaeologists need toattend to the changing character of materials if theyare to understand how past people and materialsintersected to produce prehistoric societies. Heanalyses the various aspects of materials, includingtheir scale, colour, fragmentation, and assembly, ina wide–ranging discussion that covers the pottery,metalwork, rock art, passage tombs, barrows,causewayed enclosures, and settlements of Neolithicand Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. 256p, b/willus, col pls (Oxford UP 2012) 9780199556427 Hb£60.00

Stonehenge: Exploring the Greatest Stone AgeMysteryby Mike Parker PearsonOur knowledge aboutStonehenge has changeddramatically as a result of theStonehenge Riverside Project(2003-2009), led by MikeParker Pearson, whichincluded not onlyStonehenge itself but also thenearby great henge enclosureof Durrington Walls. ParkerPearson and his teamunearthed evidence of the Neolithic inhabitants andbuilders which connected the settlement atDurrington Walls with the henge, andcontextualised Stonehenge within the larger sitecomplex, linked by the River Avon, as well as in termsof its relationship with the rest of the British Isles.Parker Pearson's book changes the way that wethink about Stonehenge: correcting previouslyerroneous chronology and dating; filling in gaps inour knowledge about its people and how they lived;identifying a previously unknown type of Neolithicbuilding; charting the discovery of Bluestonehenge,a circle of 25 blue stones from western Wales; andconfirming what started as a hypothesis - thatStonehenge was a place of the dead - through morethan 64 cremation burials unearthed there, whichspan the monument's use during the thirdmillennium BC. 406p col pls (Simon & Schuster 2012)9780857207302 Hb £25.00

The Story of Stonehengeby Patricia SouthernPatricia Southern ventures outside her usual Romanspecialism with this concise, intorductory guide toStonehenge and its history. Her account synthesisesexisting work on the subject rather than attemptingto put forward any new theory, although takes onlylimited account of the latest findings of ParkerPearson and Darvill and Wainwright. The bulk ofthe book is comprised of a description of the stonesthemselves and their arrangement, with discussionof how they were transported and how themonument was built. 158p b/w illus, col pls (Amberley2012) 9781445605630 Hb £16.99

Life in Copper Age Britainby Julian HeathThis book serves as a useful and informativesynthesis of recent work on the latter centuries ofthe third millennium BC, a dynamic period inBritain’s Prehistory, and one which is increasingly,although by no means universally recognised asforming a distinctive British Chalcolithic. Aftersetting out the evidence for the start of the CopperAge, and for the part played by immigration, Heathreviews in turn mining, Beakers and Grooved Ware,art, monuments and settlements and warfare.Plentiful illustrations accompany the text. 158p b/willus, col pls (Amberley 2012) 9781848687905 Pb £18.99

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From Mesolithic to Motorway: TheArchaeology of the M1 (Junction 6a–10)Widening Scheme, Hertfordshireby Dan Stansbie, Paul Booth, Andrew Simmondsand Valerie DiezExcavation in advance of engineering worksrevealed significant archaeological remains of wide–ranging date. Important evidence for late Mesolithicand early Neolithic activity, including pits, wasfound at Junction 9, while later prehistoric featureswere more widely distributed but less concentrated.Late Iron Age and Roman features were mostcommon, with significant rural settlements atJunctions 8 and 9, and further evidence for trackwaysand enclosures elsewhere. 230p b/w illus (OxfordArchaeology 2013) 9780904220650 Pb £20.00

The Neolithic and Bronze Age Enclosures atSpringfield Lyons, Essex: Excavations 1981–91by Nigel Brown and Maria MedlycottThis site now lends its name to a settlement typecharacteristic of the Late Bronze Age and earliest IronAge. Excavation revealed a substantial enclosureditch divided by causeways of undisturbed naturalgravel, and with entrances facing east and west. Theenclosure contained a number of roundhouses,including one with a large porch aligned on the eastentrance. 200p b/w illus (East Anglian Archaeology 2013)9781841940984 Pb £20.00 ***NYP***

A Road Through the Past: Archaeologicaldiscoveries on the A2 Pepperhill to Cobhamroad–scheme in Kentby Tim Allen, Michael Donnelly, Alan Hardy andKelly PowellPrehistoric discoveries include two enclosures of themiddle Bronze Age, a collection of Iron Age storagepits rich in diverse deliberate offerings, and theemergence of a nucleated hamlet in the middle IronAge. Most exciting were rich cremation burials ofthe late Iron Age and early Roman periods, probablysuccessive generations of a local family, whose riseto prominence coincides with the growth of the cultcentre at Springhead nearby. 620p, col illus and plsOxford Archaeology 2012) 9780904220681 Hb £32.00

Landscape and Prehistory of the East LondonWetlands: Investigations along the A13 DBFORoadscheme, 2000–2003by Elizabeth Stafford with Damian Goodburn andMartin BateRegionally important evidence of Neolithic activityincluded artefact assemblages of pottery and workedflint. The greatest concentration of activity, however,dates to the 2nd Millenium BC and includes severalwaterlogged wooden structures and trackways,burnt mounds and other evidence associated withwetland edge occupation. Extensivegeoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmentalsampling provides an important record of landscapeevolution and periods of major change can bedetected, both natural and anthropogenicallyinduced. 313p, col & b/w (Oxford Archaeology 2012)9780904220704 pb £25.00

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A Forged Glamour: Landscape, Identity andMaterial Culture in the Iron Ageby Melanie GilesA Forged Glamour is anexploration of the lives anddeaths of ironworkingcommunities renowned fortheir spectacular materialculture, who lived inmodern-day East andNorth Yorkshire, betweenthe 4th and 1st centuriesBC. It evaluates settlementand funerary evidence,analyses farming andcraftwork, and explores what some of their ideasand beliefs might have been. It situates this regionalmaterial within the broader context of Iron AgeBritain, Ireland and the near Continent, andconsiders what manner of society this was. In orderto do this it makes use of theoretical ideas onpersonhood, and relationships with material cultureand landscape, arguing that the making of identityalways takes work. It is the character, scale andextent of this work (revealed through objects as smallas a glass bead, or as big as a cemetery; as local as anearthenware pot or as exotic as coral-decoration)which enables archaeologists to investigate the webof relations which made up their lives, and explorethe means of power which distinguished theirleaders. 224p, b/w and col illus (Windgather Press 2013)9781905119462 Pb £30.00

Longbridge Deverill Cow Down: An Early IronAge Settlement in West Wiltshireby Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, with Christopher FC Hawkes, edited by Lisa BrownThe early Iron Age settlement at Longbridge DeverillCow Down, Wiltshire is justly regarded as one ofthe type sites of the British Iron Age. During fourbrief seasons of excavation between 1956 and 1960Sonia Chadwick Hawkes investigated threeenclosures and revealed the well–preserved remainsof four impressive timber roundhouses. TheLongbridge settlement lay within a landscape ofcontemporary Iron Age communities on thenorthern periphery of Salisbury Plain, and itsparticular role and place in this complex ofsettlements, field systems, routeways and middensremains tantalisingly obscure. A remarkablecollection of pottery associated with the fierydestruction of the roundhouses, perhaps immolationin the true sense, offers a wealth of new material toconsider in the light of other important collectionsfrom the region. The release of Hawkes’archaeological data marks a major contribution tothe pursuit of insight into this intriguing phase ofBritish prehistory. 301p, b/w illus, (OUSA Mono No.76, Oxford University School of Archaeology 2012)9781905905256 HB £25.00

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The Iron Age and Roman Landscape ofMarston Vale, Bedfordshire : Investigationsalong the A421 Improvementsby Andrew Simmonds and Ken WelshInvestigations comprised nine areas of excavationsupplemented by watching briefs and earthworksurveys of three historic boundaries, as well asgeophysical survey and field evaluation at a site thatwas not ultimately excavated. The majority of theremains uncovered dated from between the middleIron Age and the late Roman period, and wereconsistently rural in character, consisting of a seriesof small farming settlements. 330p, 204 illus, 57 tables(Oxford Archaeology 2013) 9780904220728 Pb £20.00***NYP***

Iron Age Hillforts in Britain and Beyondby Dennis William HardingHillforts are central to anunderstanding of laterprehistoric communities inBritain and Europe from thelater Bronze Age. While theyare conventionally viewed asdefence settlements orregional centres controlled bya social elite, this role has beenchallenged in recent years,and instead hillforts are beingconsidered primarily asexpressions of social identity with strong ritual andcosmological associations. Critically reviewing theevidence of hillforts in Britain, in the wider contextof Ireland and continental Europe, this volumefocuses on their structural features, chronology,landscape context, and their social, economic andsymbolic functions, and is well illustratedthroughout with site plans, reconstructiondrawings, and photographs. Harding reviews thechanging perceptions of hillforts and the futureprospects for hillfort research, highlighting aspectsof contemporary investigation and interpretation.334p (Oxford UP 2012) 9780199695249 Hb £75.00

The Complex Roundhouses of the Scottish IronAgeby Tanja RomankiewiczThis study investigates the architectural complexitiesof the roundhouses of the Scottish Iron Age. Basedon field inspections, survey drawings by theRCAHMS and surprisingly few modern excavationreports, complex Atlantic Roundhouses (cARs) areselected as a case study to identify objectives in spatialarrangements and structural design. The findingsare compiled in a catalogue and visualised inreconstructions that do not propose standardsolutions, but explore alternatives, primarily forbuilding parts that do not survive: upper floors androofs. The results suggest that cARs werearchitecturally highly developed buildings, aproduct of experience and experiment, with noevidence for strict standardisation. 2 vols, 833p, b/willus (BAR BS 550, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308883Pb £102.00

Painted Caves: Palaeolithic Rock Art inWestern Europeby Andrew J. LawsonOffering an up–to–date overview of the sites foundin southern France and the Iberian Peninsula, andexamples known in Britain, Italy, Romania, andRussia, Lawson’s expert study is not restricted tothe art in caves, but places this art alongside theengravings and sculptures found both on portableobjects and on rock faces in the open air. Writtenfrom an archaeological perspective, the volumestresses how the individual images cannot beconsidered in isolation, but should rather be relatedto their location and other evidence that mightprovide clues to their significance. 480p, b/w illus,col pls (Oxford UP 2012) 9780199698226 Hb £90.00

Fragmentation in Archaeologyby John ChapmanIn challenging the perception that archaeology isabout digging up what people in the past havethrown away, John Chapman argues that manyacts of deposition may have had a more intentional,more deliberate meaning. Drawing on evidence fromthe Mesolithic, Neolithic and Chalcolithic periodsof the Balkans, he traces the complex relationshipsbetween people, places and objects, identifying casesof ‘deliberate fragmentation’. Furthermore,Chapman argues that human body parts were notdivorced from this social practice and were subjectto the same processes of fragmentation and specialdepositional practices, as objects. 296p b/w figs(Routledge 2000, Pb 2012) 9780415158039 Hb £85.00,9780415642699 Pb £28.00

The Idea of Order: The Circular Archetype inPrehistoric Europeby Richard BradleyRichard Bradley investigatesthe idea of circular buildings– whether houses or publicarchitecture – which, thoughunfamiliar in the modernWest, were a feature of manyparts of prehistoric Europe.Although their distinctivecharacter has engaged theinterest of alternativearchaeologists, thesignificance of circular structures has rarely beendiscussed in a rigorous manner. The Idea of Orderuses archaeological evidence, combined with insightsfrom anthropology, to investigate the creation, use,and ultimate demise of circular architecture inprehistoric Europe. It places emphasis on the WesternMediterranean and the Atlantic coastline, wherecircular dwellings were particularly important, anddiscusses the significance of prehistoric enclosures,fortifications, and burial mounds in regions wherelonghouse structures were dominant. 264p b/w illus(Oxford UP 2012) 9780199608096 Hb £60.00

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New from Oxbow BooksSticks, Stones and Broken Bones: NeolithicViolence in a European Perspectiveedited by Rick Schulting and Linda FibigerViolence has long been recognised as a factor inNeolithic society; what is far less clear is itssignificance. Focusing on evidence of violent injuriesin human skeletons, this study draws togetherevidence from across Europe. The case studiesexamine such evidence in the context of totalpopulations to give an idea of scale. As well asexamining regional variation, the contributions offerperspectives on the relationship between violentdeath and mortuary practice, on variations in violentinjuries across age and sex, on chronologicaldevelopments and on the nature of injuries and thechances of recovery. 432p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012)9780199573066 Hb £80.00

Background to Beakers: Inquiries into theRegional Cultural Background to the BellBeaker Complexedited by Harry Fokkens and Franco NicolisThese papers explore the background to the Bellbeaker complex in different regions, departing fromthe idea that migration is not the comprehensivesolution to the adoption of bell Beakers. Drawingtogether researchers from Scandinavia, the LowCountries, Poland, Switzerland, France and Moroccoit sets the emergence of the beaker complex withinexisting cultural contexts, emphasising regionalperspectives. 200p b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2013)9789088900846 Pb £30.00 ***NYP***

Bodies in the Bog and the ArchaeologicalImaginationby Karin SandersAn exploration of the Iron Age bog bodies ofnorthern Europe as cultural artefacts, objects offascination to archaeologists and antiquaries, butalso to artists, poets, philosophers and psychologists.Karin Sanders contends that it is the unique statusof the bodies both as human beings andarchaeological artefacts, somehow transformed bytheir remarkable preservation, that has producedsuch a profound and multifaceted response. 317p b/w illus (University of Chicago Press 2009, Pb 2012)9780226734040 Hb £25.00, 9780226734057 Pb £15.50

Beyond Barrows: Current research on thestructuration and perception of the PrehistoricLandscape through Monumentsedited by David R Fontijn et al.These papers discuss the role of the ubiquitousbarrow monuments in prehistoric landscapes acrossEurope. The focus is on the prehistory ofScandinavia and the Low Countries, but alsoincludes an excursion to huge prehistoric moundsin the southeast of North America. As well asanalysing specific cases of spatial ordering,contributions explore continuities in the rituallandscape, as well as the place of barrows in widerlandscape management. 280p, col and b/w illus(Sidestone Press 2013) 9789088901089 Pb £42.00***NYP***

Visualising the Neolithicedited by Andrew Cochrane and Andrew MeirionJonesPrehistoric imagery isenigmatic and has beenlargely overlooked byarchaeologists; it is only inthe last two decades that ithas garnered seriousacademic attention. Thisvolume addresses thislacuna and discusses visualexpression across NeolithicEurope. The papers in thisvolume result from ameeting of the NeolithicStudies Group intended to assess new studies of rockart from across Britain and Ireland, and comparethese with studies of Neolithic visuality fromcontinental Europe. It is organised so that the rockart and passage tomb art traditions of the Neolithicin Britain and Ireland are compared for the first timeto the rock art traditions of Northern and SouthernEurope, with the mortuary costumes and figurinesof South-eastern Europe. 304p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books2012) 9781842174777 Pb £35.00

Exchange Networks and Local Transformationedited by Maria Emanuela Alberti and SerenaSabatiniThroughout the local Bronze and Iron Age,

European andMediterranean societiesappear to have beeninvolved in complexsystems of exchangenetworks whichinvariably affected localcustoms and historicaldevelopments. Examplesof cultural openness andt r a n s c u l t u r a lhybridisation seem to bemore of a norm than an

exception. The articles in this volume explore thedynamic relationship between regionallycontextualised transformations and inter-regionalexchange networks. Particular effort has been putin approaching the issue in a multi-disciplinaryperspective. Continental Europe and theMediterranean may be characterised by specificdevelopment and patterns of relations, but theauthors draw attention to how those worlds werenot alien to each other and illustrate how commoninterpretative tools can be successfully applied anda comprehensive approach including both zonesadopted. 160p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2012)9781842174852 Pb £35.00

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The First Farmers of Central Europe: Diversityin LBK Lifewaysedited by Penny Bickle and Alasdair WhittleFrom about 5500 cal BC tosoon after 5000 cal BC, thelifeways of the first farmersof central Europe, the LBKculture (Linearband-keramik), are seen indistinctive practices oflonghouse use, settlementforms, landscape choice,subsistence, materialculture and mortuary rites.Although showing manyfeatures in common acrossits very broad distribution, however, the LBKphenomenon was not everywhere the same, andthere is a complicated mixture of uniformity anddiversity. This major study takes a strikingly largeregional sample, from northern Hungary westwardsalong the Danube to Alsace in the upper Rhine valley,and addresses the question of the extent of diversityin the lifeways of developed and late LBKcommunities, through a wide–ranging study of diet,lifetime mobility, health and physical condition, thepresentation of the bodies of the deceased inmortuary ritual. It uses an innovative combinationof isotopic (principally carbon, nitrogen andstrontium, with some oxygen), osteological andarchaeological analysis to address difference andchange across the LBK, and to reflect on culturalchange in general. 608p b/w illus (Cardiff Studies inArchaeology, Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842175309 Hb£55.00

Monuments on the Horizon: The Formation ofthe Barrow landscape Throughout the 3rd and2nd millennium BCby Quentin BourgeoisThis study reconstructs the chronologicaldevelopment of barrow landscapes, revealing shiftingattitudes to the monuments. By creating newmonuments in a specific place and in a particularfashion, prehistoric communities purposefullytransformed the form and shape of the barrowlandscape. Using several GIS–techniques such as askyline–analysis, this research was able todemonstrate how each barrow then took up aspecific (and different) position within such a sociallandscape. While the majority of the barrows wereonly visible from relatively close by, specificmonuments took up a dominating position. It isargued that these burial mounds continued toattract attention, and by their visibility ensured toendure in the collective memory of the communitiesshaping themselves around these monuments. 252pcol and b/w illus (Sidestone Press 2012) 9789088901041Pb £45.00

Transformation through Destruction: AMonumental and Extraordinary Early Iron AgeHallstatt C Barrow from the Ritual Landscapeof Oss–Zevenbergenedited by David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart andRichard JansenBased on the meticulous excavation and a range ofspecialist and comprehensive studies of finds, thisreport is able to reconstruct this Iron Age burial inexceptional detail. It demonstrates how lavishlydecorated items were dismantled and taken apart tobe connected with the body of the deceased, all to bedestroyed by fire. In what appears to be a meaningfulpars pro toto ritual, the remains of his body, thepyre, and the objects were searched through andmoved about, with various elements beingmanipulated, intentionally broken, and interred orremoved. 348p col and b/w illus (Sidestone Press 2013)9789088901027 Pb £55.00 ***NYP***

Lake Dwellings after Robert Munroedited by Magdalena S. Midgley and Jeff SandersDr Robert Munro (1835–1920) made a significantcontribution to the study of the lake–dwellingsettlements of his native Scotland, known ascrannogs, as well as those then being discoveredacross Europe. Marking the hundredth aniversaryof the trust he set up to fund lectures in PrehistoricArchaeology these collected papers explore thehistorical context of Munro’s work, as well asintroducing current research from across Europe.190p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2012)9789088900921 Pb £37.00

Archaeological, Cultural and LinguisticHeritage: Festschrift for Elisabeth Jerem inHonour of her 70th Birthdayedited by Peter Anreiter, Eszter Banffy, LászlóBartosiewicz and Wolfgang MeidMore than 50 authors have contributed to thisimpressive volume. Its main focus is on thearchaeology of Hungary and adjacent regions, withparticular stress on Iron Age cultural elements whichmight be labelled Celtic. Many of the contributionstake linguistic, philological or epigraphic approachesto deal, in an interdisciplinary way, with problemsconcerning Celtic Studies as a whole or in detail.639p b/w illus (Archaeolingua 2012) 9789639911284 Hb£80.00

Late Iron Age Gold Hoards from the LowCountries and the Caesarian Conquest ofNorthern Gaulby N. Roymans, G. Creemers and S. ScheersThis volume presents eight new Iron Age goldhoards from the southern Netherlands and Belgium,consisting of gold coinages and in several cases alsogold ornaments. All these hoards seem to have beenburied in the 50s BC, thus making a directassociation with the historical context of Caesar’swar campaigns in Northern Gaul very plausible.239p col illus (Amsterdam UP 2012) 9789089643490 HB£45.00

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Celtic from the West 2: Rethinking the Bronze Ageand the Arrival of Indo-European in Atlantic Europeedited by John T. Kochand Barry CunliffeEurope’s Atlantic façadehas long been treated asmarginal to the formationof the European BronzeAge and the puzzle of theorigin and early spread ofthe Indo-Europeanlanguages. Until recentlythe idea that AtlanticEurope was a wholly pre-Indo-European worldthroughout the Bronze Age remained plausible.Rapidly expanding evidence for the later prehistoryand the pre-Roman languages of the Westincreasingly exclude that possibility. It is thereforetime to refocus on a narrowing list of ‘suspects’ aspossible archaeological proxies for the arrival of thisgreat language family and emergence of its Celticbranch. This reconsideration inevitably throwspenetrating new light on the formation of laterprehistoric Atlantic Europe and the implications ofnew evidence for inter-regional connections. 237p(Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842175293 Hb £40.00

Technologies of Enchantment? Exploring CelticArt, 400 BC – AD 100by Duncan Garrow and Christopher GosdenThis study attempts to connect Celtic art to its

archaeological context, lookingat how it was made, used, anddeposited. Based on the firstcomprehensive database ofCeltic art, it brings togethercurrent theories concerningthe links between people andartefacts found in many areasof the social sciences. Theauthors argue that Celtic artwas deliberately complex andambiguous so that it could beused to negotiate social

position and relations in an inherently unstable IronAge world, especially in developing new forms ofidentity with the coming of the Romans. Placing thedecorated metalwork of the later Iron Age in a long–term perspective of metal objects from the BronzeAge onwards, the volume pays special attention tothe nature of deposition and focuses on settlements,hoards, and burials – including Celtic art objects’links with other artefact classes, such as iron objectsand coins. 376p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012)9780199548064 Hb £80.00

Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasiaedited by Peter JordanThis volume examines the life–ways and beliefs ofthe indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia; chapterscontribute ethnographic, ethnohistoric andarchaeological case–studies stretching fromFennoscandia, through Siberia, and into Chukotkaand the Russian Far East. 358p b/w illus (Left CoastPress 2011, Pb 2012) 9781598742442 Hb £75.95,9781611327809 Pb £33.95

Hongshan Jade Treasures: The Art,Iconography and Authentication of Carvingsfrom China’s Finest Neolithic Cultureby David C. AndersonWritten from the perspective of a collector, thisexceptionally well illustrated book presents some 340jade carvings from the Hongshan culture ofNeolithic China. As well as examining theiconography of Hongshan art, and celebrating theworkmanship, David Anderson also considersquestions of authentication in detail (proposing arevised view of the differing effects of weathering),and in particular discusses the nature of theantiquities trade and illegal excavation in China. Hecomes down firmly in favour of the private collector,condemning both the UNESCO and UNIDROITconventions and western archaeologists as ineffectiveand unrealistic. 156p col illus t/out (Tau editrice 2012)9788862442152 Hb £35.00

Memory Contested, Locality Transformed:Representing Japanese Colonial Heritage inTaiwanby Min–Chin ChiangMin–Chin Chiang presents the extreme complexityof sharing the Japanese colonial past in postcolonialTaiwanese society. In this book she examinespossibilities of decolonization through community–based heritage activities. She argues thatdecolonization does not necessarily mean ‘removingcolonial material traces’. Preserving colonial sitesthrough recognising their contested nature, activelyexploring and engaging controversial voices,insisting on exploring the historical depth of everymemory version attached to the site, andtransforming structural inequality with persistentlocality building would better contribute to triggera decolonizing process. 174p b/w and col illus (ASLU26, Leiden UP 2012) 9789087281724 pb £36.95

Collecting Kamoro: Objects, Encounters andRepresentation on the Southwest Coast ofPapuaby Karen JacobsThe story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross–cultural encounters. This book focuses on collectingencounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from theearliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploringthe links between representation and collecting, theauthor focuses on the creative and pragmatic agencyof Kamoro people in these collecting encounters. 280pcol and b/w illus (Sidestone Press 2012) 9789088900884pb £30.00

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Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area:The History, Origin, and Development ofIrrigated Agricultureby B. V. Adrianov, edited by Simone MantelliniAncient Irrigation Systemsin the Aral Sea Area, is theEnglish translation of BorisVasilevich Andrianov’swork concerning the studyof ancient irrigationsystems and the settlementpattern in the historicalregion of Khorezm, south ofthe Aral Sea (Uzbekistan).This work holds a specialplace within the Sovietarchaeological schoolbecause of the results obtained through amultidisciplinary approach combining aerial surveyand fieldwork, surveys, and excavations. Thistranslation has been enriched by the addition ofintroductions written by several eminent scholarsfrom the region regarding the importance of theKhorezm Archaeological–Ethnographic Expeditionand the figure of Boris V. Andrianov and hislandmark study almost 50 years after the originalpublication. 300p (American School of PrehistoricResearch monograph, Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842173848Hb £20.00

The Social Lives of Figurines:Recontextualizing the Third Millennium BCTerracotta Figurines from Harappa (Pakistan)by Sharri R. ClarkAfter more than 80 years of research, the Indus

Civilization (ca. 2600–1900BC) remains largelyenigmatic. In thisgeographically extensivecivilization, which still hasno known monumentalart and undecipheredtexts, the largest corpus ofrepresentational art atmany Indus sites isterracotta figurines. Thisresearch examines thefigurines from the urban

site of Harappa (ca. 3300–1700 BC) as reflections ofsome of the underlying structures of Indus societyand cultural change, focusing particularly onfigurines from securely dated archaeological contexts.512p, b/w illus, CD containing appendices with 928 pagesof col and b/w images (American School of PrehistoryMonograph, Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842174555 Hb£20.00

Melanesia: Art and Encounteredited by Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek,Julie Adams, Lissant Bolton and Ben BurtThe British Museum’s uniquely importantMelanesian collection is pre–eminent among earlycollections, and the 20,000 items it comprises are coreto understanding the cultures of the western Pacific.The extraordinary art styles represented, fromgroups such as New Guinea, New Ireland and theSolomon Islands and relating to ancestors, familyand clan, houses, feasting and festivals, are of interestnot only in themselves but also for how they haveinfluenced European artists since the nineteenthcentury. With contributions from a wide range ofinternational scholars, anthropologists, indigenouspeoples and artists, and illustrated with over 300colour images, the book surveys and responds tothe collection from the point of view ofanthropologists and the people responsible for itscreation. 384p, 306 col illus (British Museum Press 2013)9780714125961 Hb £75.00 ***NYP***

Amotopoan Trails: A recent archaeology of Triomovementsby Jimmy MansIn this book the concept of mobility is explored forthe archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbeanregion. Viewing archaeological mobility as the sumof movements of both people and objects, theempirical part of Amotopoan Trails focuses onAmotopo, a small contemporary Trio village in theinterior of Suriname. The movements of theAmotopoans are tracked and positioned in a centuryof Trio dynamics, ultimately yielding a recentarchaeology of Surinamese–Trio movements for theSipaliwini River basin (1907–2008). 330p, 43 b/w &71 col illus (Sidestone Press 2012) 9789088900983 pb£33.00

A History of Ancient Egypt: From The FirstFarmers to the Great Pyramidby John RomerIn this engaging andambitious work, JohnRomer aims to refocus thegaze of the non–specialistaway from the Pharaonicperiod (about which thereare any number of popularhistories) onto the Neolithic,and the growth of acentralised Egyptian state.He traces fifteen hundredyears of development, fromthe emergence of farming communities along theroute of the Nile to the creation of the sophisticatedadministrative, transport and supply systems whichallowed the construction of the Great Pyramid. Hisapproach is avowedly archaeological, aiming to getaway from the priviledging of textual court–focusedhistory, and stressing the role and lives of theordinary peoples of Egypt. 512p col pls (Penguin 2012,Pb 2013) 9781846143779 Hb £25.00, 9780141399713Pb £10.99

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Amenhotep III: Egypt’s Radiant Pharaohby Arielle KozloffAmenhotep III ruled for thirty–eight years, fromca.1391–1353 BC, at the apex of Egypt’s internationaland artistic power. Arielle Kozloff situatesAmenhotep in his time, chronicling not only hislife but also the key political and military events thatoccurred during his reign, as well as the evolutionof religious rituals and the cult of the pharaoh. Shefurther examines the art and culture of the court,including its palaces, villas, furnishings andfashions. 351p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2012)9781107011960 Hb £60.00, 9781107638549 Pb £19.99

Ramesses III: The Life and Times of Egypt’s LastHeroby Eric H Clinen the tumultuous and vividhistory of New KingdomEgypt, Ramesses III’s reignwas prosperous and culturallyrich. He fended off attacks bythe “Sea Peoples” and otherswho threatened the state, hebuilt the great temple ofMedinet Habu, and he leftwonderfully completedocuments describingcontemporary social structure and the economy.This edited collection presents a detailed andinformative look at the life, career, and world of oneof Egypt’s most important pharaohs, providinginsight both on his reign and its aftermath and onthe study of the political and cultural history ofancient Egypt. 542p (University of Michigan Press 2012)9780472117604 Hb £81.95

In Hathor’s Image I: the Wives and Mothers ofEgyptian Kings from Dynasties I–VIby Vivienne Gae CallenderThis study of individual Egyptian queens is basedon an earlier study, The Wives of the Egyptian Kings,Dynasties I–XVII, which was a doctoral dissertationby this author presented at Macquaire Universityin 1992. This book differs from the first in many waysbecause we now understand much more about theseroyal women. xviii,405p, 122 b/w illus (Czech Instituteof Egyptology, 2012) 9788073083816 hb £84.00

The Bulletin of the Australian Centre forEgyptology: Vol 22 (2011)edited by Susanne BinderThis volume contains papers on the 2011 FieldSeason at Deir Abu Metta, Dakhleh Oasis; PyramidTexts and Tomb Decoration at the Tomb of Mehu atSaqqara; Statuary from the Galarza Tomb in Giza;A Case of Sibling Scribes in Coptic Thebes; AncientEgyptian Metaphors of Domination; Narrative inOld Kingdom Wall Scenes; Upper Egyptian Vesselsat Tell el–Ghaba; Dating an Oil Lamp ofMulticultural Design; Siege Scenes of the OldKingdom. 157p, b/w illus (Australian Centre forEgyptology 2012 Pb £18.95

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Stories from Ancient Egyptby Joyce Tyldesleyillustrated by Julian HeathSome of the mostinteresting and entertainingmyths and legends fromAncient Egypt are heregiven a lively re–telling byJoyce Tyldesley. Theseinclude stories about thegods, such as The Creationof the World, Hathor andthe Red Beer, and the mythsabout Osiris, Isis andHorus. Fairy stories and incredible adventures arerepresented by The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor,The Adventures of Sinuhe and The Prince, the Dog,the Snake and the Crocodile, while good and badbehaviour are to be found in Three Magical Storiesand The Story of Truth and Falsehood. KingRamesses II himself tells us about The Battle ofKadesh.

Stories from Ancient Egypt is aimed at children betweenthe ages of 7–11, but this book is an entertainingand informative introduction to the literature ofAncient Egypt for all ages. It is a new edition of atitle previously published by Rutherford Press. 112p,b/w illus, (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842175057 pb £8.95

The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies,305–30 BCby J.G. ManningThis new history of Hellenistic Egypt does not, likemany others provide a political narrative, but insteada detailed analysis of Ptolemaic institutions, lookingat the nature and development of the state and theexercise of power, as well as the functioning of theeconomy. Manning shows that Ptolemaic Egyptbecame a hybrid state, drawing on Greek fiscal ideas,but retaining much of Egyptian social structure,including of course the institution of pharoah. Heargues that in this way the Ptolemies ruled throughEgyptian society rather than over it. 264 b/w illus(Princeton UP 2010, Pb 2012) 9780691142623 Hb £37.95,9780691156385 Pb £19.95

Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptby Nigel StrudwickMasterpieces of Ancient Egypt features over 180 of themost stunning and important Egyptian andSudanese artefacts in the Museum, including notonly internationally famous items such as the RosettaStone, but also a wealth of lesser–known but equallysignificant or beautiful pieces. The objects arearranged in chronological order, beginning with theearliest predynastic pots and figurines, andcontinuing through the three thousand year ruleof the Pharaohs, right up to Roman Egypt and theCoptic Christian period. 352p, 200 col illus (BritishMuseum Press 2006, Pb 2012) 9780714119779 Pb 14.99

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Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nileedited by Marjorie Fisher, Peter Lacovara, SalimaIkram and Sue H. D’AuriaGloriously illustrated andimpressive in scope, thisbook represents acomprehensive overview ofancient Nubia. It openswith a thematic surveywith contributorsaddressing topics such asthe rediscovery of ancientNubia, its physicalgeography, and historicaloutline. There followchronological reviews of Nubia’s art andarchitecture, chapters on cultural aspects such asreligion, burial practices, texts, daily life, costumeand pottery. The second half of the book consists ofa gazetteer of sites, following the course of the Nilefrom North to South: descriptions of the archaeologyare accompanied by plentiful plans and photos aswell as notes on the history of their excavation. 432pcol illus t/out (American University in Cairo Press 2012)9789774164781 Hb £35.50

Behind the Scenes: Daily Life in Old KingdomEgyptedited by A. McFarlane, A. L. MouradWritten by a number of specialists with years ofresearch, this monograph deals with various aspectsof life in ancient Egypt, presented in an accessiblemanner to the scholar and lay–person alike. Richlyillustrated with an excellent selection of photographsand drawings, the book aims to bring the reader asclose as possible to the Egyptian sources, allowingthem to delve into the world behind the scenes. 196p,59 col pls, b/w illus (Australian Centre for Egyptology2013) 9780856688607 Pb £50.00 ***NYP***

The Management of Estates and their Resourcesin the Egyptian Old Kingdomby Joyce SwintonThe high officials of the Old Kingdom weredependent on the exploitation of rural estates as theireconomic basis. This study examines the funeraryimages and inscriptions of this elite official class toexplore how these resources were portrayed andvalued. The data is also analysed for evidence ofchanges in agricultural strategies during the OldKingdom period. 168p b/w figs (BAR 2392, Archaeopress2012) 9781407309842 Pb £39.00

Offerings to the Gods in Egyptian Templesby S. CauvilleThis splendidly illustrated book serves as adictionary of the many different types of offeringsto the gods depicted in Egyptian funerary reliefs, aswell as their ritual context and symbolic meaning.Over 200 offerings are divided into broad categories:purification, beverages, foods, produce from thefields, fabrics, ointments, jewellery, rituals forgoddesses and gods, symbolic, cosmic, funerary anddefensive rituals and royal cult rituals. 296p col illus(Peeters Press 2012) 9789042926189 Pb £30.00

Maat: The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt. AStudy in Classical African Ethicsby Maulana KarengaMaat is the moral ideal of ancient Egypt whose textscontain information on Egypt’s moral standards, itsconcepts of right from wrong, codes of behaviourand obligations. Focusing on the Maatian idealrather than moral practices, Karenga discusses whatMaat is and its place within the genre ofphilosophical ethics and morality, asking what it cancontribute to modern African culture and values.Extracts are transcribed and translated into English.458p (Routledge 2004, Pb 2012) 9780415947534 Hb£95.00, 9780415649803 Pb £28.00

Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egyptby Philippa LangExamining all forms of healing within the specificsocioeconomic and environmental constraints of thePtolemies’ Egypt, this book explores how linguistic,cultural and ethnic affiliations and interactions wereexpressed in the medical domain. Topics include theenvironmental and demographic background,perceptions of Greek and Egyptian medicine, theintersection between religion and healing,interactions on the theoretical and textual plane,diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutics in practice,and the range of medical practitioners. 318p (Brill2012) 9789004218581 Hb £105.00

Approaches to Healing in Roman Egyptby Jane DraycottThe purpose of this study is to examine the healingstrategies employed by the inhabitants of Egyptduring the Roman period, from the late first centuryBC to the fourth century AD, in order to explorehow Egyptian, Greek and Roman customs andtraditions interacted within the province. It refinesthe study of healing within Roman provincialculture, identifies diagnostic features of healing inmaterial culture and offers a more contextualisedreading of ancient medical literary and documentarypapyri and archaeological evidence. This study differsfrom previous attempts to examine healing in RomanEgypt in that it tries, as far as possible, to encompassthe full spectrum of healing strategies available tothe inhabitants of the province. 108p (BAR 2416,Archaeopress 2012) 9781407310145 Pb £25.00

Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S.Bagnalledited by Rodney Ast, Hélène Cuvigny, ToddHickey and Julia LougovayaPapyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnallcontains 70 new or substantially revised editions ofdocumentary and non–documentary papyri andostraca from Egypt edited by an international teamof specialists. Texts span the 7th century B.C.E. tothe 9th century C.E. They are written mainly inGreek but also in Latin, Egyptian, and Arabic. Eachtext is accompanied by a translation, line–by–linecommentary, and photo. 392p b/w illus (AmericanSociety of Papyrologists 2013) 9780979975868 Hb £40.00

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Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of AncientEgyptedited by A. J. Shortland and C. Bronk RamseyThis volume presents thefindings of a majorinternational project on theapplication of radiocarbondating to the Egyptianhistorical chronology.Researchers from theUniversities of Oxford andCranfield in the UK, alongwith a team from France,Austria and Israel,radiocarbon dated morethan 200 Egyptian objectsmade from plant material from museum collectionsfrom all over the world. The results comprise anaccurate scientifically based chronology of the kingsof ancient Egypt, documenting the various rulersof Egypt’s Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. Theradiocarbon dates nail down a chronology that isbroadly in line with previous estimates. However,they do rule out some chronologies that have beenput forward particularly in the Old Kingdom, whichis shown to be older than some scholars thought.192p, 80 b/w + col illus. (Oxbow Books, 2012)9781842175224 pb £48.00

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Meroitic Language and Writing Systemby Claude Rilly and Alex de Voogt This book provides anintroduction to the Meroiticlanguage and writing system,which was used between circa300 BC and 400 AD in thekingdom of Meroe, located inwhat is now Sudan andEgyptian Nubia.In addition toproviding a full history of thescript and an analysis of thephonology, grammar andlinguistic affiliation of thelanguage, it features linguisticanalyses for those working on Nilo–Saharancomparative linguistics, paleographic tables usefulto archaeologists for dating purposes and anoverview of texts that can be translated orunderstood by way of analogy for those workingon Nubian religion, history and archaeology. 262p,b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2012) 9781107008663 Hb £65.00

Egyptian Stelae in the British Museum from the13th – 17th Dynasties: Volume I, Fascicule I:Descriptionsby M. Marée and D. FrankeThe British Museum holds the largest collection ofMiddle Kingdom stelae outside Egypt. This is thefirst full publication of the collection: the scenes andinscriptions of each of the 42 stelae are described indetail, with textual notes and explanatory diagrams.This is an outstanding work of scholarship byunrivalled authorities in the field. 288p 48 b/w pls, 6col pls (British Museum Press 2013) 9780714119878 Hb£65.00 ***NYP***

Ramesside Inscriptions VI: Translationsedited and translated by Kenneth A. KitchenThe books in this series present a modern Englishtranslation of the vast majority of historical sourcesfor this important epoch of Egyptian history, a periodof political and economic decline in Egypt until thedeath of the final king of the Twentieth Dynasty(c.1155–1078 BC). Coverage includes the rise of thepower in priesthood and the decline in the power ofkings, from political corruption, drought, famine,and economic upheaval. 640p (Blackwell 2012)9780631184324 Hb £250.00

Topographical Bibliography of AncientEgyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefsand Paintings: VIII Objects of Provenance NotKnown, part 4: (Dynasty XVIII to the RomanPeriod)by Jaromir MalekThis volume presents accessible references forunprovenanced stelae dating from Dynasty XVIII tothe end of the Roman Period. The coverage includesmonuments in museums and private collections, aswell as those which have surfaced in sales andauctions only to disappear from sight once again.(Griffith Institute Publications 2012) 9780900416903 hb£85.00

Qasr Ibrim: The Textiles from the CathedralCemeteryby Elisabeth CrowfootThe dry height of the site of Qasr Ibrim above the

Nile river has resulted insuperb preservation oforganic material. The textilecollections from theexcavations have alreadybecome one of the largestfrom any site in the middleNile valley. They are uniqueas an unmatched sequence,dating from the Twenty–Fifth Dynasty to the LateOttoman Period (750 BC –AD 656) and ranging from

the domestic remains of town life and tiny exoticimports of the site’s great years to the cast offgarments and furnishings, pitifully mended and re–mended, from ages of disaster and decline. Theimportant textiles from the Cathedral Cemetery atQasr Ibrim, including those from the burial ofBishop Timotheus, are published here with detaileddescriptions and a photographic record of the mostsignificant pieces. 56p, col and b/w illus (EgyptExploration Society 2011) 9780856981999 Pb £35.00

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Handbook of Pottery of the Egyptian MiddleKingdomby Robert SchiestlThe Handbook of Pottery of the Egyptian MiddleKingdom is a comprehensive typological study ofEgyptian pottery produced in the period of theMiddle Kingdom (mid 11th to mid 13th Dynasty,appr. 2000–1700 BC) found in Egypt, Nubia andthe Levant. The Handbook is arranged in twovolumes: Volume I, the Corpus Volume, is atypological study based on pottery shapes. VolumeII, the Regional Volume, discusses pottery in its sitespecific contexts, drawing together analysis ofpottery from current and recent excavations, andanalysing issues of contexts, quantities and regionaldevelopments in pottery prodcution. 1539p(Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2012)9783700166078 Pb £275.00

Caesar in the City of Amun: Egyptian TempleConstructionby David KlotzThis book surveys epigraphic and archaeologicalevidence for temple construction and renovationthroughout the Theban nome during the RomanPeriod, studying the newly added, althoughdeliberately archaizing, inscriptions within theirritual and theological contexts. It also contains thefirst comprehensive treatment of the greater ThebanPantheon during the Graeco–Roman era,cataloguing over fifty local divinities andestablishing their roles in various cosmogonies andmythological traditions. The concluding chapterreconstructs the religious life of the district, trackingannual festival processions which united themultiple temples and their communities. 494p(Brepols 2012) 9782503545158 Pb £95.00

The Shabti Collections 4: Stockport Museumsby Glenn JanesThis catalogue presents the 22 shabtis in thecollections of the Stockport Museum. After a briefsummary of the collection’s development, Janesprovides a full description of each shabti,transcriptions, transliterations and translations ofany inscription and detail of known parallels inother collections. All the shabtis are illustrated infull colour at actual size. 31p col illus throughout (OlicarHouse 2012) 9780956627131 Pb £20.00

Shabti Collections Volume 5: A Selection fromthe Manchester Museumby Glenn JanesThe Manchester Museum holds over 1000 completeand fragmentary shabtis; this substantial volumepublishes 522 of the finest, arranged chronologically.They are beautifully photographed in full colourand at actual size, together with full descriptions,inscriptions transcrobed, transliterated andtranslated, and with references to parallel examplesin other collections. 500p col illus throughout (OlicarHouse Publications, 41274) 9780956627155 Pb £95.00

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Living with the Dead: Ancestor Worship andMortuary Ritual in Ancient Egyptby Nicola HarringtonLiving with the Dead presentsa detailed analysis ofancestor worship in Egypt,using a diverse range ofmaterial, both archaeologicaland anthropological, toexamine the relationshipbetween the living and thedead. A range of evidence ispresented for mortuary cultsthat were in operationthroughout Egyptianhistory and for the various places, such as the house,shrines, chapels and tomb doorways, where the livingcould interact with the dead. The private statue cult,where images of individuals were venerated asintermediaries between people and the Gods is alsodiscussed. Collective gatherings and ritual feastingaccompanied the burial rites with separate, mortuarybanquets serving to maintain ongoing ritual practicesfocusing on the deceased. Something of acontradiction in attitudes is expressed in the evidencefor tomb robbery, the reuse of tombs and funeraryequipment and the ways in which communities dealtwith the death and burial of children and others onthe fringe of society. This significant study furthersour understanding of the complex relationship theancient Egyptians had with death and with theirancestors; both recently departed and those in thedistant past. 208p col & b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013)9781842174937 Pb £38.00

Current Research in Egyptology XIII, 2012edited by Luke McGarrity et al.The thirteenth Current Research in Egyptologyconference was held from the 27th – 30th March 2012

at the University ofBirmingham and once againprovided a platform forpostgraduates and earlycareer Egyptologists, as wellas independent researchers,to present their research.These proceedings representthe wide-range of themes thatwere offered by delegatesduring the conference, andcover all periods of Egyptianhistory; from Predynastic

skeletal analysis through to Egyptology during theIslamic Middle Ages. These twelve papers includegender studies, analysis of Egyptian festivals,revisiting of chronological models, archaeologicalreanalysis of ancient landscapes, as well as social,historical and linguistic studies allowing a newappraisal of many aspects of Egyptian culture andhistory. (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782971566 Pb £38.00

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Tomb of Iniuia in the New KingdomNecropolis of Memphis at Saqqaraby Hans D. SchneiderThis volume publishesthe results of the 1993excavation of the tomb ofIniuia, Overseer of theCattle of Amun and HighSteward of Memphis. Thesuperstructure consists ofa courtyard with twochapels decorated withwall paintings and reliefswhich show Iniuiaofficiating before the godsof the afterlife, but also together with his wife andchildren. In other scenes Iniuia is representedperforming various activities in his capacity of a highofficial of the king. There are also chapters dealingwith the objects found in the excavation, the pottery(by Barbara Greene Aston) and the skeletal remains(by Eugen Strouhal). 238p b/w illus, col pls (Brepols2012) 9782503541495 Pb £75.00

Journey to the West: The world of the OldKingdom tombsby Miroslav BartaThis book is divided into nine chapters covering,step by step, the development of the Egyptian tomband society from the Predynastic Period to the endof the first six Egyptian dynasties, a lengthy periodof time which covers the Early Dynastic and theOld Kingdom periods. Three additional chapterscover religious aspects of the Old Kingdom society,its economy and environment. 342p (Czech Instituteof Egyptology 2013) 9788073083830 pb £21.00 ***NYP***

Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010edited by Miroslav Bárta, Filip Coppens andJaromír KrejcíThis two volume work, containing 51 contributionsin total, is the result of the third “Abusir andSaqqara” conference. The focus of the majority ofthe articles is on the cemeteries of the Memphiteregion at the time of the Old Kingdom, but no periodis left untouched. A number of articles also moveoutside the core region, studying material anddevelopments elsewhere in Egypt, but alwaysagainst the background of the Memphite necropolis.2 vols, 904p, 45 col pls (Czech Institute of Egyptology2013) 9788073083847 hb £93.00 ***NYP***

Deir El–Grabawi Volume III. The SouthernCliff: The Tomb of Djau/Shemai and Djauby Naguib KanawatiA new complete record of the architecture, scenesand inscriptions in the important tomb of Djau withdescription and translations. The volume includesstudies by M. Schultz and R. Walker of the recentlydiscovered human remains of Djau and a study ofmummification techniques by S. Ikram. 84p 52 col.plates, b/w illus (Australian Centre for Egyptology 2012)9780856688553 Pb £75.00

Abusir XXV: The Shaft Tomb ofMenekhibnekau, Vol. I: Archaeologyby Ladislav Bares and Kveta SmolarikovaThe tomb published in this volume is the third largeLate Period shaft tomb that has been excavated inthe south–western part of the Abusir cemetery. Itbelongs to Menekhibnekau, who held a number ofimportant titles under Ahmose II and may have liveduntil the beginning of Dynasty 27. Although histomb had been robbed, a number of important andinteresting pieces from his burial equipment,including a seal of the necropolis and a faience menitwith the name of Ahmose II, have been found in hisburial chamber. In a separate shaft, large embalmer’scache has been found that contained more than threehundred large storage vessels and a number ofsmaller receptacles of different kind. 360p, 39 colouredplates and 230 figures (Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2012)9788073083809 hb £84.00

The Old Kingdom Tombs at Tehna Vol. I: TheTombs of Nikaiankh I, Nikaiankh II and Kaihepby Elizabeth M. ThompsonThe early Old Kingdom tombs at Tehna are cut intothe eastern escarpment bordering the Nile, some12kms north of Minya in Upper Egypt. The cemeteryconsists of more than 15 rock–cut tombs, 3 of whichare illustrated and described in this first volume ofthe site. Complete with detailed colour illustrationsand line drawings, the book records the wall scenes,sculpture, architecture, finds and a translation ofinscriptions including a rare legal document in thetomb of Nikaiankh I. 102p, 48 col. pls, 18 b/w pls(Australian Centre for Egyptology 2013) 9780856688652Pb 75.00 ***NYP***

Seals and Sealing Practice in the Near East:Developments in Administration and Magicfrom Prehistory to the Islamic Periodedited by I. Regulski, K. Duistermaat, and P.VerkinderenPapers which explore the long history of seals inthe Near East from their Neolithic origins to theircontinued use (and even supplanting of signatures)in the Islamic age. Topics include the genesis of sealuse and sealing practices, the seal as administrativeobject, as symbol of status and authority, and theuse of seals as magical objects. A particular focus ison Egypt, but essays range throughout the NearEast, noting the striking continuity of seal usegeographically and chronologically. 218p (PeetersPress 2012) 9789042926684 Hb £75.00 ***NYP***

Warships of the Ancient World, 3000–500 BCby Adrian K. WoodCovering a vast sweep, this well–illustrated bookprovides a concise exploration of pre–Classical navalwarfare in the Mediterranean. Adrian Woodexamines the vessels, naval techniques and strategy,and prominent engagements fought by theEgyptians, Minoans, Hittites, Phoenicians andGreeks. 48p, col and b/w illus (Osprey 2013)9781849089784 Pb £9.99

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Death and Dying in the Neolithic Near Eastby Karina CroucherGoing beyond traditional concerns such as wealth,status, and social hierarchy, Karina Croucher hereexplores a variety of new approaches to the mortuaryarchaeology of the Neolithic Near East. Case studiesreinterpret the remarkable plastered skulls, as wellas plaster statuary, headless burials, relationshipsbetween human and animal remains, foodconsumption and cannibalism. Topics such ashuman interaction with the environment, identity,personhood and gender are stressed, providing awindow on a more complex, more “humanised”Near Eastern Neolithic. 372p b/w illus (Oxford UP2012) 9780199693955 Hb £80.00

Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of NearEastern Civilizations: Weaving TogetherSocietyby Anne PorterIn this book, Anne Porter explores the idea thatmobile and sedentary members of the ancient worldwere integral parts of the same social and politicalgroups in greater Mesopotamia during the period4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range ofarchaeological and cuneiform sources to show hownetworks of social structure, political and religiousideology, and everyday as well as ritual practiceworked to maintain the integrity of those groupswhen the pursuit of different subsistence activitiesdispersed them over space. 400p b/w illus (CambridgeUP 2012) 9780521764438 Hb £65.00

Heaven on Earth:Temples, Ritual, and CosmicSymbolism in the Ancient Worldedited by Deena RagavanThese papers explore the interconnections betweentemples, ritual, and cosmology from a variety ofregional specializations and theoretical perspectives.They revisit a classic topic: the cosmic symbolism ofsacred architecture. Archaeologists, art historians,and philologists working not only in the ancientNear East, but also Mesoamerica, Greece, South Asia,and China, here re-evaluate the significance of thistopic across the ancient world. 460p, b/w illus (OrientalInstitute of the University of Chicago 2013) 9781885923967Pb £18.00 ***NYP***

The Sumerian Worldedited by Harriet CrawfordThis new companion to the Sumerian civilizationof the third millennium BC is a mine of information,with 32 chapters exploring a vast array of topics.After an initial section exploring physical andlinguistic contexts, and the origins of Sumerianculture, successive sections explore the materialworld, government and administration, everydaylife, the wider Near Eastern context and the ends ofthe Sumerian world. Chapters attempt to providean up–to–date synthesis of current research andrange from overarching perspectives on subjects asbroad as agriculture to more in–depth discussion oftopics such as fashion and calendars and counting.688p (Routledge 2013) 9780415569675 Hb £150.00

Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient NearEastby Trevor BryceFrom the 17th to 12th century BC the Near Eastwas governed by five main kingdoms, the Hatti ofcentral Anatolia, the Mitanni of Upper Mesopotamiaand Northern Syria, the Assyrians of NorthenMesopotamia, the Kassite kingdom of Babylonia andEgypt. In this study, Trevor Bryce examines thecorrespondence between these kingdoms, one of theearliest examples of complex diplomacy in the ancientworld.Combining extracts from letters withcommentary and discussion, he examines thelogistics of communication, the role of diplomats,envoys and messengers, the hazards of travel byland and sea, the protocols, customs and valuesrequired. 253p (Routledge 2003, Pb 2012)9780415258579 Hb £80.00, 9780415642347 Pb £28.00

The World of the Neo–Hittite Kingdoms: APolitical and Military Historyby Trevor Bryce In the early 12th century, theLate Bronze Age Hittiteempire collapsed during aseries of upheavals whichswept the Greek and NearEastern worlds. In thesubsequent Iron Age,numerous cities and statesemerged in south–easternAnatolia and northern Syria,which are generally knowntoday as the ‘Neo–Hittitekingdoms’. Bryce’s volume gives an account of themilitary and political history of these kingdoms,moving beyond the Neo–Hittites themselves to thebroader Near Eastern world and the states whichdominated it during the Iron Age. 384p (Oxford UP2012) 9780199218721 Hb £75.00

Ivories from Rooms SW11/12 and T10 FortShalmaneserby Georgina Hermann, Stuart LaidlawFifty years have passed since the British School ofArchaeology in Iraq raised the last ivory from thesoil of Fort Shalmaneser. Literally thousands werefound, many of which have already been publishedin Ivories from Nimrud I-V, while VI recorded theoutstanding pieces from the North West Palace.Ivories from Nimrud VII, Ivories from Rooms SW11/12 and T10 completes the publication of theassemblages in the Fort, as far as records permit.The ivories of Room SW11/12 are similar in characterto those of Room SW37 and probably representanother consignment of booty, while those of T10in the Throne Room block include pieces from allfour traditions, as well as some entirely new ones.(British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2013)9780903472296 Hb £75.00 ***NYP***

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An Examination of Late Assyrian Metalworkby John CurtisThis volume makes available for the first time a vast amount of previously unpublishedmetalwork, much of it from the Assyrian capital city of Nimrud. It emerges thatAssyria had a thriving metalworking industry probably superior to anycontemporary state in the region, and was producing large quantities of sophisticatedbronze and ironwork, of high technical quality and sometimes elaborately decorated.It is the publication of a PhD thesis that was successfully submitted in 1979. It ispublished here in its original form in order to make the large amount of primarydata that it contains available to a wider circle of scholars. 330p, 100 b/w illus (OxbowBooks, 2012) 9781842175071 Hb £48.00

Nishapur Revisited: The Qohandez PotteryRocco Rante and Annabelle CollinetNishapur in eastern Iran was an important Silk Road city, its position providinglinks to central Asia and China, Afghanistan and India, the Persian Gulf and thewest. The Irano–French archaeological mission at Nishapur focused on the Qohandez,or citadel, the oldest part of Nishapur; this book presents the stratigraphy and thepottery of the site. Chemical and petrographic analysis, thermoluminescence (TL)dating and archaeomagnetism analysis as support to the TL results were carried out.The combination of the data from the stratigraphical and laboratory analyses givesan accurate and completely new chronology of the site. Moreover, the study alsobrought to light a new typological sequence of the ceramics, as well as new dataabout the pottery production at Nishapur. 144p, 105 col illus. (Oxbow Books co–publishedwith the Louvre Museum, 2012) 9781842174944 Hb £40.00

Persia’s Imperial Power in Late Antiquity: The Great Wall of Gorgan and theFrontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iranby Eberhard W. Sauer et al.The Gorgan Wall stretches for over 200km through northern Iran. Scientific datinghas now established that this massive monument was created in the 5th/6th centuryAD and belongs to one of the largest and most long–lasting empires of antiquity,that of Sasanian Persia. In the hinterland of the wall there were massive squarefortifications, of some 40 ha size each, one of which has yielded traces of denseoccupation, probably neat rows of army tents. The Late Sasanian era also saw thefoundation of a city, more than twice the size of Roman London at its prime,demonstrating that the area was prosperous enough to sustain a sizeable urbanpopulation. The Gorgan Wall project has shed light on what made one of antiquity’slargest empires and earlier civilisations succeed. 780p col illus (Oxbow Books 2012)9781842175194 Hb £85.00

Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near Eastedited by Marie-Louise Nosch, Henriette Koefoed and Eva Andersson StrandTextile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near Eaststands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both interms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products.The thirteen intriguing chapters in Textile Production and Consumption in the AncientNear East describe the developments and changes which took place in the region,from household-based to standardised, industrialised and centralised production.They discuss the economic, social and cultural impact of textiles on ancient societythrough the application of textile tool studies, experimental testing, context studiesand epigraphical as well as iconographical sources. Geographically the contributionscover Anatolia, the Levant, Syria, the Assyrian heartland, Sumer, and Egypt. 200pcol and b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842174890 Hb £30.00

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The Neolithisation of Iranedited by Roger Matthews, Hassan Fazeli Nashli and Yaghoub MohammadifarThe significant role of Iran in the early stages of the transition to sedentism wasrecognised more than half a century ago but has not been to the fore of academicconsciousness in recent decades. In the meantime, investigations into Neolithictransformation have proceeded apace in all other regions of the Fertile Crescent andbeyond. Here, 18 studies attempt to redress that balance in re–assessing the role ofIran in the early neolithisation of human societies. These studies, many of them byIranian scholars, consider patterns of change and/or continuity across a variety oftopographical landscapes; investigate Neolithic settlement patterns, the use of caves,animal exploitation and environmental indicators and present new insights intosome well–known and some newly investigated sites. 272p (BANEA, Oxbow Books2013) 9781782971900 Pb £38.00

Rough Cilicia: New Historical and Archaeological Approachesedited by Michael C. Hoff and Rhys F. TownsendThe region of Rough Cilicia (modern area the south–western coastal area of Turkey),known in antiquity as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the western part of the larger areaof Cilicia. The twenty–two papers presented here give a useful overview on currentresearch on Rough Cilicia, from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period. The firsttwo articles deal with the Bronze and Iron Ages, and refer to the questions ofcolonization, influences, and relations. The following four articles concern the piratesof Cilicia and Isauria. Six papers publish work on Roman architecture: architecturaldecoration, council houses, Roman temples, bath architecture, cenotaph, and publicbuildings. Ceramics are not neglected whilst six papers cover the Early Christian andByzantine periods and cover rural habitat, trade, the Kilise Tepe settlement, late Romanchurches, Seleucia, and the miracles of Thekla. 320p, 260 col illus. (Oxbow Books, 2012)9781842175187 hb £60.00

The Later Prehistory of the Badia: Excavation and Surveys in Eastern Jordan,Volume 2by A. V. G. Betts, with D. Cropper, L. Martin and C. McCartneyThe Jordanian badia is an arid region that has been largely protected from moderndevelopment by its extreme climate and has preserved a remarkably rich record of itsprehistoric past. This is the second of two volumes to document extensive surveysand excavations in the region from Al-Azraq to the Iraqi border over the period 1979-1996. Broadly, it covers the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the eastern badia, whichwitnessed a spread of campsites and short-term occupation, as well as the firstappearance of sheep and goat as one element of the steppic economy alongside traditionalpractices of hunting and foraging. 240p (Oxbow Books in association with the Council forBritish Research in the Levant, 2012) 9781842174739 Hb £48.00

Souvenirs and New Ideasedited by Diane FortenberryDuring the 18th and 19th centuries, many travellers aimed to record their travelsthrough Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and Turkey by collecting souvenirs andmementos of places they had visited. Souvenirs and New Ideas explores the humandesire to retain the memory of a journey by ‘collecting objects’ with a series of essaysexamining the motivation of a variety of different travellers ranging from intrepidfemale solo travellers to European royalty. The acquisitions of these individuals rangedfrom tales of folklore and academic knowledge to the wholesale looting of Egyptianantiquities. Although the habit of ‘collecting antiquities’ is deplored and condemnedtoday, this volume sheds light on the attitudes behind the practice and seeks tostrengthen our current beliefs about the value of cultural patrimony. 200p (OxbowBooks 2013) 9781842178157 Pb £25.00

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Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlementat Pella in Jordanedited by Phillip C. EdwardsThis is a detailed report on one of the most importantNatufian sites to have emerged in the past thirtyyears and an integrated analysis and interpretationof subsistence strategies, settlement patterns andritual life in one of the world’s earliest villagecommunities. The 14,000–year–old settlement is oneof the most spectacular sites of its kind, featuringthe largest, most complex pre–Neolithic architecturalcomplex yet discovered in the Middle East, anunparalleled series of artefact caches and activityareas, and a rich corpus of late Ice Age art pieces.436p (Brill 2012) 9789004236097 Hb £155.00

Early Megiddo on the East Slope (The “MegiddoStages”)by Eliot Braun, Sariel Shalev, David Ilan and OferMarderThis report completes prior publications on theearliest utilization and occupation of the slope at thesoutheast base of the high mound of Megiddo (Tellel-Mutesellim). That area, labeled by the excavatorsthe East Slope, was excavated by the OrientalInstitute from 1925-33. While the primary focus ofthis report is on Square U16 (an area of 25 × 25 m),where most of the early remains (i.e., of the EarlyBronze Age and earlier) excluding tombs wereencountered, it also deals with the later remainswithin that same, limited precinct. 156p, 120 pls(Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 2013)9781885923981 Hb £55.00 ***NYP***

Land and Economy in Ancient Palestineby Jack PastorThis book charts the landownership of the Jews inPalestine throughout the Persian, Hellenistic, andRoman periods (to the revolt of Bar Kokhba), andexamines issues and crises related to the theme.Aspects covered include debt, famine, taxation,unemployment, and the structure of the Jewisharistocracy. Using a variety of sources, including NewTestament and classical authors, Pastor looks at themany ramifications of landownership in a specificsetting. 281p (Routledge 1997, Pb 2012) 9780415159609Hb £80.00, 9780415642873 Pb £28.00

The Archaeology of the Holy Land: From theDestruction of Solomon’s Temple to the MuslimConquestby J. MagnessThis book provides an introduction to thearchaeology and history of ancient Palestine. Specialattention is paid to the archaeology of Jerusalem andthe Second Temple period. For each period, the bookoffers a historical background for the Mediterraneanworld and the ancient Near East, as well as the eventsin Palestine. Major sites such as Masada, CaesareaMaritima and Petra are examined in archaeologicaland historical detail, along with the material culture– coins, pottery, glass and stone vessels – of eachperiod. 385p b/w illus t/out (Cambridge UP 2012)9780521195355 Hb £60.00, 9780521124133 Pb £19.99

Sea of Pearls: Seven Thousand Years of theIndustry that Shaped the Gulfby Robert A CarterSince Antiquity thenatural pearls of the Gulfhave been famed as thefinest, most lustrous andmost plentiful that theworld can offer. From thebeginnings of trade untilthe 1930s, these pearls werea major product of theGulf ’s coastal peoples.Despite its formative role,there has until now beenno book taking the entire history of pearling as itssubject. Dr Carter’s ground–breaking work tracesits evolution on both the Arabian and the Persiansides of the Gulf, and explores the role it played inshaping the political, social and urban configurationthat we see in the region today. It shows the extentto which the Gulf economy became dependent on asingle commodity, and how, in that respect, pearlingresembled the oil industry that would replace it.Lavishly illustrated, this book covers inunprecedented detail the history, development,conduct, florescence and catastrophic collapse of theindustry in the early 20th century. 364p col illus t/out(Arabian Publishing 2012) 9780957106000 Hb £95.00

Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iranby M. Rahim ShayeganAspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran focuseson the content of one of the most importantinscriptions of the Ancient Near East: the Bisotuninscription of the Achaemenid king Darius I, whichin essence reports on a suspicious fratricide andsubsequent coup d’état. The study shows how theinscription’s narrative would decisively influence theIranian epic, epigraphic, and historiographicaltraditions well into the Sasanian and early Islamicperiods, and looks at its transmission through theworks of Hellanicus of Lesbos, Herodotus, Ctesias,and other Greek authors. 240p b/w illus (Harvard UP2012) 9780674065888 Pb £18.95

Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of anEmpireby Touraj DaryaeeThe Sasanians were the last of the ancient Persiandynasties, and the largest empire to espouseZoroastrianism, before the encounter with theArabs swept away the pre–Islamic institutions. Inthis clear and comprehensive book, Touraj Daryaeeprovides an unrivalled account of Sasanian Persia.Using new sources, he provides a portrait of theempire’s often neglected social history. He alsoexplores the development of political andadministrative institutions from foundation byArdashir I to the last king, Yasdegerd III, defeatedby the Arabs, and the attempts of his descendantsto re–establish a second state for almost a centuryafter. 240p b/w illus (Tauris 2008, Pb 2013)9781850438984 Hb £37.00, 9781780763781 Pb 15.99

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Egyptian–type Pottery in the Late Bronze AgeSouthern Levantby Martin MarioThis volume presents agroup of Late Bronze Age(ca. 1500–1130 BCE; 18th–20th Egyptian Dynasties)ceramics in the southernLevant that can be linkedto the Egyptian potterytradition (imported andlocally produced). Thevolume is divided intofour main parts: Part Iprovides the reader with a typology of the relevantEgyptian forms. Part II explores the technologicaltraits of the material under review, including fabricanalyses, as well as formation techniques. Part III isa site by site presentation of the Egyptianassemblages to offer a broad canvas of thephenomenon under review, whilst part IV presentsa concluding discussion. Among other issues itcollates a combined chronological framework, ananalysis of the repertoire and function of theEgyptian assemblages and a reflection on the role of(locally–made) Egyptian–style pottery as ethnicmarker. 400p b/w illus (Austrian Academy of Sciences2011) 9783700171362 Pb £120.00

Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mt.Gerizim and Samaria Between Antiochus IIIand Antiochus IV Epiphanesby Jan DusekThe theme of this book stands on the intersection ofepigraphy and historical research: the Aramaic andHebrew inscriptions discovered in the vicinity of theYahwistic sanctuary on Mt. Gerizim and theirhistorical background. The study addresses theevidence from three perspectives: the paleographyand dating of the inscriptions; the identity of thecommunity who carved them and its institutions;and, finally, the larger historical and political contextin which the inscriptions were produced. 200p (Brill2012) 9789004183858 Hb £95.00

The Coins of Herod: A Modern Analysis andDie Classificationby Donald T. Ariel and Jean–Philippe FontanilleIn this volume, Herod’s coinage benefits from acomprehensive reappraisal. The coins and dies havebeen thoroughly examined, resulting in innovativeiconographic and technological interpretations.Study of the coins presence in hoards, theirarchaeological contexts and geographicaldistribution, together with other typological,epigraphic and numismatic observations, have aidedin establishing that all of the types were minted inJerusalem. A new relative chronology of Herod’sdated and undated coins is the most important by–product of this study. Finally, an attempt is made topeg this seriation to known events within the king’sreign. 204p, 96 b/w pls (Brill 2012) 9789004208018 Hb£125.00

Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrollsedited by T.H. Lim and John J. CollinsIn 1947 the first of the DeadSea Scroll discoveries wasmade near the site ofQumran, at the northernend of the Dead Sea. Livelydebate continues over thearchaeology and history ofthe site, the nature andidentity of the sect, and itsrelation to the broader worldof Second Temple Judaismand to later Jewish andChristian tradition. Thecontributors here reflect diverse opinions andviewpoints, highlight the points of disagreement,and point to promising directions for futureresearch. 785p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2010, Pb 2012)9780199207237 Hb £95.00, 9780199663088 Pb £30.00

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Tools, Textiles & Context: Textile Productionin the Aegean and Eastern MediterraneanBronze Ageedited by Eva Andersson Strand and Marie-LouiseNoschTextile production is oneof the most importantcrafts in Aegean andEastern MediterraneanBronze Age societies andrecent interdisciplinaryand collaborative workoffers crucial newperspectives into this field.The new and updatedcatalogue of archaeo-logical textile findspresented here clearly demonstrates, even from thefew extant finds, that knowledge of the use of fibresand of elaborate textile techniques that were usedto produce textiles of different qualities was welldeveloped. The combination of experimentalarchaeology, analyses of textile tools and findcontexts allows for a discussion of the nature oftextile production at different sites, regions and timeperiods. A collaboration between archaeologistsspecialised in their site and textile tool specialistshas produced data sets of a large number of textiletools from several Bronze Age settlements, includingKhania, Malia, Midea, Tiryns, Troia and Tel Kabri.The results of these analyses provide unique insightsinto both the production processes and,significantly, into the range of types of textiles thatcould have been produced at specific sites. Theseresults illustrate the central, social and economicimpact of textile production in the Aegean andEastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies. 484pb/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842174722 Hb £48.00

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Kosmos: Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles inthe Bronze Age Aegeanedited by Marie–Louise Nosch and RobertLaffineurContaining the completeproceedings of the 13thInternational AegeanConference, this is almostcertainly the biggest bookon Bronze Age clothing andjewellery that you are everlikely to see. Nearly 100papers address a vast arrayof topics including textileproduction, costumes, dyesand pigments, colours,jewellery, aesthetics, body adornment, luxury andexotic items, gender and femininity/masculinity, aswell as their social, religious, ideological, economic,technological, administrative and philologicalconnections. 810 b/w and col illus (Peeters 2012)9789042926653 Hb £150.00

Aphrodite’s Kephali: An Early Minoan IDefensive Site in Eastern Creteby Philip P. BetancourtThe small site of Aphrodite’s Kephali took advantageof the valley topography in the Isthmus of Ierapetrain eastern Crete by establishing itself along thenearby hills, resulting in easy access to the naturaltrade route between the Aegean and the Libyan Seas.A discussion of the architecture, artifacts, and ecofactsare presented from the excavation of this EarlyMinoan I watchtower. The conclusions challengesome of the commonly held views about Crete in thethird millennium B.C. It is suggested that ratherthan being a precursor to a socially complex statethat would arise later, early polities involving severalcommunities probably already existed in the isthmusduring the EM I period. Social and economicdifferentiation existed on a regional, not just a locallevel, and decisions for mutual defense could involvecollaboration by groups of workers, including thebuilding of the watchtower that is the focus of thisvolume. 272p b/w illus (INSTAP Academic Press 2013)9781931534710 Hb £46.00 ***NYP***

Intermezzo: Intermediacy and Regeneration inMiddle Minoan III Palatial Creteedited by Colin F. Macdonald and Carl KnappettWith numerous innovations in art, architecture andmaterial culture — notably an entirely new palace atGalatas — the changes in the Middle Minoan IIIperiod on Crete are striking, and appear to herald anew political organisation of the island, centred onKnossos. These papers cover most key sites whereMiddle Minoan III occupation has been identified.The aim has been to rehabilitate Middle Minoan IIIas a dynamic period in Crete and also on Thera, inorder to provide a better understanding of socio–political change across the island and beyond in thelatter part of the Middle Bronze Age. 227p b/w illus(British School at Athens 2013) 9780904887679 Hb £79.00

Images of Woman and Child from the BronzeAge: Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity andGender in the Ancient Worldby Stephanie Lynn BudinThis book is a study of the woman–and–child motif– known as the kourotrophos – as it appeared inthe Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean. StephanieLynn Budin argues that, contrary to many currentbeliefs, the image was not a universal symbol ofmaternity or a depiction of a mother goddess. Inmost of the ancient world, kourotrophiciconography was relatively rare in comparison toother images of women and served a number ofdifferent symbolic functions, ranging fromhonouring the king of Egypt to adding strength tomagical spells to depicting scenes of daily life. Thiswork provides an in–depth examination of ancientkourotrophoi and engages with a variety of debatesthat they have spawned, including their role in therise of patriarchy and what they say about ancientconstructions of gender. 390p b/w illus (Cambridge UP2011) 9780521193047 Hb £63.00

Painting Practices in White Painted and WhiteSlip Waresby Louise C. MaguireThis volume presents the results of a detailedanalysis of Middle–Late Cypriot white slip ware,taking the new approach of determining andanalysing patterns of brush stroke behaviour. Thisis used to build up a picture of regional communitiesof pottery production based on painting practicesrather than common design elements, and also tofurnish new insights into the spread of differentpottery practices. 124p b/w illus (Austrian Academy ofSciences 2012) 9783700169963 Pb £50.00

Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Creteand Cyprusedited by Gerald Cadogan, Maria Iacovou,Katerina Kopaka and James WhitleyHow do the cultures of Crete and Cyprus, the twogreat islands of the eastern Mediterranean, comparein their history and development from the 3rdmillennium to the 1st millennium BC? What wassimilar and what was different in their social andpolitical, economic and technological, and religiousand mortuary practices and behaviours, and in thenatural settings and choices of places for settlements?Why, and how, did convergences and divergencescome about? Why for instance did monumentalbuildings appear in Cyprus several centuries afterthey had emerged in Crete? And what was the impacton Cypriot society of the island’s rich copperresources, while Crete as a rule had to import themetal? How and why did Cyprus manage anapparently much more peaceful transition from theBronze Age to the Iron Age than Crete? These areamong the important questions that are addressedin this important collection of papers, the first tobring together the study of the two islands in thisway. 407p, b/w illus (British School at Athens 2012)9780904887662 Hb £98.00

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Well Built Mycenae Fascicule 34.1: TechnicalReports. The Results of Neutron ActivationAnalysis of Mycenaean Potteryby E.B. French and J.E. TomlinsonSince 1890 when SirFlinders Petrie first realisedthe importance of theAegean pottery he hadfound in Egypt furtherdiscoveries of these wareshave been noted with morethan superficial interest.Early studies, however,right up to the mid 20thcentury, had to be based onstylistic, and thus oftensubjective, criteria. It isonly more recently with the development of a rangeof scientific techniques that it has become possibleto make serious attempts to ascertain the exactsources of this imported pottery. A key factor in thiswork has been the establishment of data banks bywhich to define the various possible sites of origin.Samples from Mycenae, as one of the key nodes ofLate Bronze Age trade, were taken both as part ofthe initial programme of research by the ResearchLaboratory at Oxford and then in the wider projectscarried out in the Laboratory of the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, by Professors Frank Asaro andIsadore Perlman and by the Department of NuclearChemistry of the University of Manchester. Thoughthe results of these studies have been made publicand widely used, the full details pertaining to thecore area of the Argo-Corinthia have never beenpublished. This fascicule of the Well Built Mycenaeseries presents for the first time the raw data as wellas the statistical analyses based on it and assessesthe impact of the various methods on thearchaeological value of the research. Includes a DVDwith accompanying material for 34.1 and allprevious fascicules. (Oxbow Books 2012)9781842175286 Pb £25.00

Palaikastro Block M The Proto– andNeopalatial Townby Carl Knappett, Tim CunninghamBlock M is a substantial architectural complexcomprising three large buildings at the heart of theMinoan town of Palaikastro. With traces of activitystretching back to the Prepalatial period, andoccupation in the Protopalatial period, Block M seesits most intensive use in the Neopalatial period, inthe 17th century BC. This period sees widespreadconstruction, followed by two severe destructionhorizons: the first seismic, the second associated withthe Theran eruption, by which time the Block mayalready have been in ruins. Its subsequent historyis very different from that usually encounteredelsewhere in the town – it became an open area usedonly for the dumping of refuse in two abandonedwells, without widespread reoccupation in the LMII–III periods. This volume presents the results ofexcavations conducted by the British School atAthens, which uncovered these extensive remainsin the late 1980s, 1990s and 2003. 338p b/w illus andpls (British School at Athens 2012) 9780904887655 Hb£115.00

Kavousi IIB: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlementat Vronda. The Buildings on the Peripheryby Leslie Preston Day, Kevin T. GlowackiThis is the second of three planned volumes in thefinal report on the cleaning and excavations at theLate Bronze Age site of Vronda near Kavousi ineastern Crete. It describes the excavation,stratigraphy, and architecture of the buildings onthe slopes of the Vronda ridge: Building ComplexesE, I–O–N, and L–M, Building F, and the pottery kiln,as well as areas excavated on the periphery that didnot belong to any of these buildings. It also presentslists, catalogs, and images of artifacts and ecofactsthat were uncovered at the site. 444p, b/w pls andillus (INSTAP Academic Press 2013) 9781931534697Hb £53.00 ***NYP***

The Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula,Euboeaby Tracey Cullen et al.The results of two related fieldwork projects arepresented: a brief salvage excavation at Plakari (aFinal Neolithic site near the modern town ofKarystos) and a survey of prehistoric sites on thePaximadi peninsula (the western arm of the Karystosbay), both located in southern Euboea. These projectshave found that, contrary to what archaeologistsonce believed, southern Euboea was hardly anuninhabited and isolated region in prehistory. Theinhabitants actively participated in the expandedmaritime and social landscape that characterized thelater Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the Aegean,taking part in exchange networks of stone, ceramics,marble figurines and vessels, and possiblyagricultural goods and metalwork. 280p, b/w illus,47 b/w pls (INSTAP Academic Press 2013)9781931534703 Hb £46.00 ***NYP***

Islands in Time: Island Sociogeography andMediterranean Prehistoryby Mark PattonIslands have always held a particular fascination,providing an enticingly delineated playground forarchaeologists and anthropologists. Using islandstudies as a way of addressing relationships betweenculture and environment, Patton considers theprehistory of the Mediterranean and offers anexplanation of the effects of isolation on thedevelopment of human communities. Evidence isdrawn from a broad range of Mediterranean islandsincluding Cyprus, Crete and the Cyclades, Malta,Lipari, Corsica and Sardinia. 224p (Routledge 1996,Pb 2012) 9780415642927 Pb £28.00

31Mediterranean Prehistory and the Classical World

Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerceand the Formation of Identityby Bryan E. BurnsBryan E. Burns here offers a new understanding ofthe effects of Mediterranean trade on MycenaeanGreece by considering the possibilities representedby the traded objects themselves in their Mycenaeancontexts. A range of imported artefacts weredistinguished by their precious material, uncommonstyle, and foreign writing, signalling their status astangible evidence of connections beyond the Aegean.The consumption of these exotic symbols spreadbeyond the highest levels of society and functionedas symbols of external power sources. Burns arguesthat the consumption of exotic items thus enabledthe formation of alternate identities symbolisingresistance to palatial power. 246p, b/w illus (CambridgeUP 2010, Pb 2012) 9780521119542 Hb £61.00,9781107697416 Pb 24.99

Cultural Landscapes, Social networks andHistorical Trajectories: A Data–Rich Synthesisof Early Bronze Age Networks (c. 2200–1700BC) in Abruzzo and Lazio (Central Italy)by Erik van RossenbergThis study foregrounds the Central Italian BronzeAge, combining landscape and network approachesin archaeology. Approaching landscapes as networksof places, this study advocates a data–rich form ofsynthesis of Bronze Age trajectories, taking intoaccount all facets which make up cultural landscapesand social networks, including metalworkdeposition, burial, cave use and settlement patterns.Tracing changing relationships between these nodes,network changes are charted and substantiated fromthe Copper Age to the Middle Bronze Age. 350p(Sidestone Press 2012) 9789088900990 Pb £55.00

Divining the Etruscan World: The BrontoscopicCalendarby Jean MacIntosh TurfaThe Etruscan BrontoscopicCalendar is a rare documentof omens foretold bythunder. It long lay hidden,embedded in a Greektranslation within aByzantine treatise from theage of Justinian. The firstcomplete English trans-lation of the BrontoscopicCalendar, this bookprovides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Agesociety as revealed through the ancient text,especially the Etruscans’ concerns regarding theenvironment, food, health and disease. JeanMacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient NearEastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects ofits predictions, thereby creating a picture of thecomplexity of Etruscan society reaching back beforethe advent of writing and the recording of thecalendar. 432p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2012)9781107009073 Hb £65.00

Monumentality in Etruscan and Early RomanArchitecture: Ideology and Innovationedited by Michael L. ThomasThese essays explore the emergence of scale andmonumentality as key factors in pre–Imperial Romanand Etruscan building and the social and politicalstrategies which they reflect. They address questionsboth of technical developments and an evolvinglanguage of power and commemoration. Topicsinclude the use of more durable building materials,the evolving use of architectural terracottas, and thedevelopment of an architectural paradigm ofmonumentality in the Capitoline temple, and theinterplay between performance, ritual andmonumentality. 236p b/w illus (University of Texas Press2013) 9780292738881 Hb £43.00

Cambridge Economic History of the Greco–Roman Worldedited by Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris and RichardSallerIn this, the first comprehensive one–volume surveyof the economies of classical antiquity, twenty–eightchapters summarise the current state of scholarshipin their specialised fields and sketch new directionsfor research. The approach taken is both thematic,with chapters on the underlying determinants ofeconomic performance, and chronological, withcoverage of the whole of the Greek and Romanworlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age toLate Antiquity. The contributors move beyond thesubstantivist–formalist debates that dominatedtwentieth–century scholarship and display a newinterest in economic growth in antiquity. Newmethods for measuring economic development aredeveloped, often combining textual andarchaeological data that have previously been treatedseparately. 942p figs, maps (Cambridge UP 2007, Pb2012) 9780521780537 Hb £146.00, 9781107673076 Pb£40.00

Trade, Traders and the Ancient Cityedited by Helen Parkins and Christopher SmithA collection of eleven papers exploring the nature ofancient trade and its interrelationship with cities,from the Bronze Age Near East to late Romannorthern Italy. 268p (Routledge 1998, Pb 2012)9780415165174 Hb £80.00, 9780415518925 Pb £28.00

Ancient Graffiti in Contextby Jennifer Baird, Claire TaylorThe essays in this volume form a collective attemptto question current conceptions and definitions ofancient graffiti. Ancient graffiti range from texts andimages written or drawn both inside and outsidebuildings, in public and private places, to those onmonuments in the city and on mountains in thecountryside; what unites them conceptually is thatthey can be seen as actively engaging with theirenvironment in a variety of ways. This book exploresthese engagements and demonstrates how differencesof scale and spatial dynamics can be negotiated. 243pb/w illus (Routledge 2011, Pb 2012) 9780415878890 Hb£90.00, 9780415653527 Pb £28.00