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Renewing the Past: Unearthing the History ofthe Olympic Park Siteby Andrew B. PowellInvestigations have revealed the buried history ofthe 2012 Olympic Park site. Archaeologists haveunearthed prehistoric settlements, a medievalmillstream and a Victorian riverboat, and they tracedthe area’s industrial heritage. As the landscapechanged over time, so did the lives of the people wholived and worked here. Now it has changed again,renewing and building on the past to create a legacyfor the future. 44p, full col throughout (WessexArchaeology, 2012) 9781874350606 Pb £4.95

Digging Deeper: The Origins of Newcastle andGatesheadby David Heslop and Zoe McAuleyThis lavishly illustrated book presents some of themajor finds from excavations in Newcastle andGateshead over the last 30 years, and reconstructthe history of settlement in the area from theNeolithic, to its role as a major fort on Hadrian’sWall, and as an important fortified town andregional capital in the Middle Ages. 84p col illus t/out(Newcastle City Council 2011) 9781857951349 Pb £8.50

Hidden History Below Our Feet: TheArchaeological Story of Belfastby Ruari O BaoillMagnificently producedand generously priced,this book offers anaccessible synthesis ofarchaeological work in theBelfast area, tracinghuman activity from theMesolithic to the presentday. The most importantsites in the city andsurrounding area aredescribed, and followingan examination of the plentiful evidence forprehistoric activity four main phases of nucleatedsettlement identified, beginning with the Anglo–Norman settlement in the 13th century. One site ischosen from each chronological period for moredetailed analysis. 199p col illus t/out, fold out pls (NorthernIreland Environment Agency 2011) 9780956967107 pb£14.99

The Great Sea: A Human History of theMediterraneanby David AbulafiaThe Great Sea ranges stupendously across time andthe whole extraordinary space of the Mediterraneanfrom Gibraltar to Jaffa, Venice to Alexandria. Thefocus of the book is on places and individuals,showing the degree to which human beings haveaffected this extraordinary environment. Rather thanimposing a false unity on the sea and the teeminghuman activity it has sustained, the bookemphasises diversity - ethnic, linguistic, religiousand political. 783p col pls (Allen Lane 2011)9780713999341 Hb £30.00

The Bear: History of a Fallen Kingby Michel PastoreauIn this fascinating bookMichel Pastoreau provides ahistory of the bear in Europe,looking at relations betweenhumans and bears, and thebear as cultural and symbolicsignifier. He shows theimportance of the bear inreligion, mythology and artfrom the Palaeolithic to theClassical age, anddemonstrates that the verypicture of the bear as a figure of strength, reverenceand even worship proved to be its downfall in theChristian era, as the medieval church led the chargeto eliminate what became seen as an animalemblematic of paganism. He continues the story tothe present day, looking at the bear in folklore, andin its distinctly less terrifying modern guise as ateddy–bear. Originally published in French in 2007.343p col pls (Harvard UP 2011) 9780674047822 Hb£22.95

A History of Central European Archaeologyedited by Alexander Gramsch and Ulrike SommerIs Central European archaeology atheoretical? If so,is this because it was (and is?) influenced heavily byGerman archaeology? Is there such a thing as aCentral European archaeology at all? This volumeapproaches these questions from a number of angles.The papers assembled here reveal how universalistthought can be used for nationalist purposes, discussKossinnism in Poland and the influence ofSidelungsarchaologie, and highlight how politics haveaffected communication between Europeanarchaeologists from the very beginning andthroughout the 20th century. 219p b/w illus(Archaeolingua 2011) 9789639911239 Pb £30.00

Becoming an Archaeologist: a Guide toProfessional Pathwaysby Joe FlatmanThis is an engaginghandbook on career paths inthe area of archaeology. Itoutlines in straightforwardfashion the entire process ofgetting a job in archaeology,including the variousoptions; the training that isrequired; and how to getpositions in the academic,commercial and governmentworlds. It also includes discussion of careers inrelated heritage professions such as museums andconservation societies. The book includes a series ofinterviews with practising archaeologists, all youngprofessionals who began their careers within the lastten years. These insider guides offer essential tipson how they got their first job and progressed intheir careers. 233p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2011)9780521734691 pb £16.99

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Understanding the Archaeological Recordby Gavin LucasThis book explores the diverse understandings ofthe archaeological record in both historical andcontemporary perspective, while also serving as aguide to reassessing current views. The bookexamines three ways of understanding thearchaeological record – as historical sources, throughformation theory and as material culture – thenreveals ways to connect these three domains througha reconsideration of archaeological entities andarchaeological practice. Ultimately, Lucas calls for arethinking of the nature of the archaeological recordand the kind of history and narratives written fromit. 306p (Cambridge UP 2012) 9781107010260 Hb £65.00,9780521279697 Pb £19.99

The Archaeological Imaginationby Michael ShanksArchaeology is a way of acting and thinking aboutwhat is left of the past, about the temporality of whatremains, about material and temporal processes towhich people and their goods are subject, about theprocesses of order and entropy, of making,consuming and discarding at the heart of humanexperience. In this extended essay, renownedarchaeological theorist Michael Shanks offers hiscolleagues and students a window on thisimaginative world of past and present and thecreative role archaeology can play in uncovering it,analyzing it, and interpreting it. 166p (Left Coast Press2012) 9781598743616 Hb £65.50, 9781598743623 Pb£21.50

Entangled: An Archaeology of theRelationships Between Humans and Thingsby Ian HodderIn this book Ian Hodder explores the ways in whichmaterial things draw us in, direct and define us.Using examples drawn from the early farmingvillages of the Middle East as well as from our dailylives in the modern world, he shows how thingscan and do entrap humans and societies into themaintenance and sustaining of material worlds. Theearliest agricultural innovations, the phenomena ofpopulation increase, settlement stability,domestication of plants and animals can all be seenas elaborations of a general process by whichhumans were drawn into the lives of things. 252p(Wiley–Blackwell 2012) 9780470672112 Hb £55.00,9780470672129 Pb £19.99

Archaeological Theory Todayedited by Ian HodderIn this introductory survey of archaeological theoryIan Hodder assembles a stellar cast of contributorsto shed light on the variety of approaches andinnovations defining the discipline today. The secondedition has been completely revised and updated toprovide an authoritative guide to fundamentalconcepts, disagreements, and increasinglyconvergences, as well as to external influences whicharchaeology has been exploiting in a growing sense,and the participation of archaeology in widerdebates. 347p (Polity Press 2001, 2nd ed 2012)9780745653068 Hb £60.00, 9780745653075 Pb £18.99

Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeologyedited by Robin Skeates, Carol McDavid and JohnCarmanThis handbook seeks toreappraise the place ofarchaeology in thecontemporary world.Divided into four sectionsand drawing acrossdisciplines, it aims to evaluatethe range of researchstrategies and methods usedin archaeological heritageand museum studies, identifyand contribute to keycontemporary debates, critically explore the historyof archaeological resource management, and questionthe fundamental principles and practices throughwhich the archaeological past is understood and usedtoday. 727p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012) 9780199237821Hb £95.00

Large–Scale Excavations in Europe: FieldworkStrategies and Scientific Outcomeedited by Jorg Bofinger and Dirk KrausseThese papers consisting of case studies and broadermethodological and theoretical work offer a detailedpicture of the multitude of ways in which large–scale excavation is contributing to archaeologicalresearch including the identification of new sites,the characterization of archaeological landscapes, andthe detection of large-scale activities such as fieldpatterns and land-use, and point out futuredirections, challenges and opportunities. 6 papersin English, 3 in German, 3 in French. 208p col and b/w illus (EAC Occasional Publication No. 6, Archaeolingua2012) 9789639911291 Hb £35.00

Go Your Own Least Cost Path: SpatialTechnology and Archaeological Interpretationedited by P. Verhagen, A.G. Posluschny and A.DanielisovaSeven papers from a conference session which aimedto “take a look at what results GIS delivers forarchaeological interpretation and how the use ofspatial technologies influences research design”.They are organised in a loose thematic order, movingfrom heritage management to regional studies tointra–site research, and demonstrate the breadth ofGIS applications today. 77p b/w and col figs (BAR 2284,Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308616 pb £25.00

Archaeology of English Battlefieldsby Glenn Foard and Richard MorrisThis volume presents the results of the first nationalassessment of English battlefields. The primarywritten sources are complemented by the results ofextensive fieldwork, computer–based terrainreconstruction, and scientific analysis of artefactsrecovered from battlefields. The authors’ proposedmethodology for investigating battlefield locationsis validated by the recent identification of the preciselocation of the Battle of Bosworth, some 3km fromthe traditional site. 198p col illus (CBA 2012)9781902771885 PB £25.00

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On the Road to Reconstructing the Pastedited by Erzsebet Jerem, Ferenc Redo and VajkSzeverenyiThis collection, along with the framework in whichit was produced, offers an image of the presentrelationship between archaeology and computerscience. The volume comprises 54 papers, while theattached CD contains the full material (84contributions) presented at the 2008 CAAconference in Budapest. The studies are groupedaround four large topics: remote sensing and aerialPhotography; data acquisition and management;GIS and intrasite analysis and finally virtualreconstruction and visualisation. 427p b/w illus(Archaeolingua 2011) 9789639911307 Pb £36.00

Archaeology 2.0: New Tools ForCommunication and Collaborationby Eric C. KansaWith contributions from a range of experts inarchaeology and technology, this volume isorganized around four key topics that illuminatehow the revolution in communications technologyreverberates across the discipline: approaches toinformation retrieval and information access;practical and theoretical concerns inherent in designchoices for archaeology’s computing infrastructure;collaboration through the development of newtechnologies that connect field–based researchersand specialists within an internationalarchaeological community; and scholarlycommunications issues, with an emphasis onconcerns over sustainability and preservationimperatives. 295p (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2012)9781931745857 pb £26.00

Sculpture and Archaeologyedited by Paul Bonaventura and Andrew JonesThe essays in this volume, by art historians,archaeologists and artists, take the intersectionbetween sculpture and archaeology as the preludefor analysis, examining the metaphorical andconceptual role of archaeology as subject matter forsculptors, and the significance of sculpture as athree–dimensional medium for exploring historicalattitudes to archaeology. 221p b/w illus (Ashgate 2011)9780754658313 Hb £55.00

Bread for the People: The Archaeology of Millsand Milling. Proceedings of a Colloquium heldin the British School at Rome 4th – 7thNovember 2009edited by David Williams and David PeacockA large volume of papers presenting the latestresearch on millstones and quernstones, ancient,medieval and modern. Broad themes include: thestudy of quarries of all periods; quality, productionand trade in querns and millstones; archaeometricalstudies; ethnographic studies, including agriculture,ore processing and glass making; and protectionand evaluation of millstone quarries. 359p, b/w andcol illus (BAR 2274, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308487pb £50.00

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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

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

The use of laser scanningtechniques (Lidar) and 3Ddata are revolutionisinga r c h a e o l o g i c a linterpretations oftopography, allowing forthe construction of 3Dimages of oftenremarkable clarity andcomplimenting moretraditional approachessuch as aerialphotography. Twenty

papers discuss the methodology involved in andapplication of various forms of remote sensing inarchaeology as a means of describing and interpretinglandscape topography. Topics discussed include theintegration of field experience and computer aidedanalysis; the techniques involved in theinterpretation, processing, visualisation andintegration of 3D data and limitations on them andthe impact of these techniques on the understandingand interpretation of World Heritage Sites. Casestudies are presented. 288p, 185 col illus (Oxbow Books2012) 9781842175163 Hb £40.00

The Archaeology of Householdedited by Ivan Briz i Godino and Marco MadellaFrom the simplest hunter–gatherer society to the mostpowerful Empire, all societiesare built on basic daily life,developed day to day with itsspecific material conditions.Household archaeology looksat the detail of the livingdomain, exploring the mostessential elements of any socialdynamic, the archaeology ofthe small scale. TheArchaeology of Householdlooks this this importantaspect of archaeological study in a variety of differentways using theoretical and social perspectives, deepthinking about the mathematical nature of householdspace, and how societies’ world views were reflectedin domestic space. Case studies include hunter–gatherer societies in America, Neolithic and Bronzeage lakeside settlements in Switzerland and the Alpineregion, Bronze Age sites in Hungary and northernEurope and Archaic period Sicily. 248p, 125 b/w + colillus. (Oxbow Books, 2012) 9781842175170 Hb £49.95


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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 andarchaeological casestudies. More specifically, it considers the concept ofembodied knowledge by exploring some of theapparent diverse and yet shared forms of what maybe called embodied knowledge. The papers share afocus on knowledge as it is implicit and expressedthrough the human body and bodily action, and asit formed through intentional practices. But whatis this kind of knowledge? Using specific case studiesof knowledgeable actions, the book exploresembodied knowledge through a focus on practice.It does so through two different, yet interconnectedaspects of how such knowledge expresses itself: beliefand technology. 176p, 42 b/w illus (Oxbow Books2012) 9781842175163 Hb £30.00

Archaeology and the Social History of Shipsby Richard GouldAn excellent review of this field of research,including background history to the discipline, thearchaeology of boats, other watercraft and theirwrecks, modern maritime trade and exchange, theearly age of the sail, modern naval warfare,submerged ports and docks, treasure hunting andthe future of underwater archaeology, ships andshipwrecks. This second edition has been updatedthroughout to reflect new findings and newinterpretations of old sites. It explores advances inundersea technology in archaeology, especiallyremotely operated vehicles. 388p, b/w illus (CambridgeUP 2000, 2nd ed 2011)9780521194921 Hb £60.00,9780521125628 Pb £27.99

Experiments with Past Materialitiesedited by Dragos Gheorghiu and George Children15 papers which present practical case studies inexperimental archaeology, as well as more theoreticalwork. Topics include flour production in GravettianItaly, macro–wear analysis of lithic projectiles,Neolithic ceramic production from Calabrianevidence, late medieval storage vessels, the Iron–Agecoastal salt industry, ancient copper smelting,charcoal burning and iron smelting, Roman dying,Neolithic house building, light and dark andprehistoric monuments, ritual, and public andeducational aspects to experimental archaeology.137p b/w illus (BAR 2302, Archaeopress 2011)9781407308791 pb £28.00

La Cerámica Arqueológica en laMaterialización de la Sociedadedited by Maria Cecilia Paez Guillermo and A. DeLa FuenteThe papers in this volume seek to examine the roleof archaeological ceramics in the social processes ofpast societies, specifically with respect to theformulation and re–formulation of cultural practices.They also offer critical discussion with respect to thelimitations of various theoretical approaches to thestudy of archaeological ceramics. The case studiesfocus on various South American contexts. 140p b/w illus (BAR 2294, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308715pb £28.00

(Re)Thinking the Little Ancestor: NewPerspectives on the Archaeology of Infancy andChildhoodedited by Mike Lally and Alison MooreThis volume presents updated papers from theconference which kickstarted the recent surge ininterest in the archaeology of childhood, held inCardiff in 2005. Topics range from the purelytheoretical, to case studies from the Dakhleh OasisProject, Etruscan Tarquinia and Iron Age Austria,and articles on child burial in Bronze Age Europe,early medieval Wales and Anglo–Saxon England, aswell as religious aspects of childhood andNorwegian bog burials. 161p b/w figs (BAR 2271,Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308456 pb £34.00

Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange:Exploring Relationships Among People, Placesand Thingsedited by Alexander A. Bauer and Anna S. Agbe–DaviesContributors discuss trade ona range of scales – from asolitary confinement cell totrans–oceanic networks – insettings around the world andover the past 3000 years. Theyaddress themes such asexchange as a communicativeact, the ways in whichexchange transforms therelationship between peopleand things, the significance ofagency and power in contexts of trade, and howsites of consumption and discard speak to processesof exchange. 236p (Left Coast Press 2010, Pb 2011)9781598740295 hb £52.95, 9781598740301 Pb £26.95

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Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeologyby Lewis R. BinfordIn Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology the late Lewis Binforddocuments the hunting and butchering strategiesof modern Arctic big game hunters and thearchaeological remains generated during the courseof their yearly round of activities – producing aunique description of a complete annual cycle ofsubsistence activities, viewed simultaneously fromboth a behavioural and archaeological perspective.The volume is now regarded as a classic ofarchaeological theory building. Originally publishedby Academic Press in 1978. 530p (Eliot WernerPublications 2012) 9780979773181 pb £30.00

A Companion to Forensic Anthropologyedited by Dennis C. DirkmaatIn this new companion a wide range of internationalexperts provide a comprehensive assessment of thefield of forensic anthropology. The book shows howforensic professionals construct human skeletalbiological profiles and explores important new workon skeletal trauma analysis, forensic taphonomy andstatistical validation of forensic analytical methods.The contributors explain the methods and techniquesof forensic archaeology, including the preservationof context at surface–scattered remains, buried bodiesand fatal fire scenes. 716p b/w illus (Wiley–Blackwell2012) 9781405191234 Hb £110.00

A Companion to Paleopathologyedited by Anne L. GrauerA Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensiveoverview of this growing interdisciplinary field, withnewly commissioned essays by distinguishedresearchers from the biological, medical and socialsciences. Each essay provides a snapshot of a keyarea of research, such as histology, epidemiology, dietor DNA analysis, describing its theoreticalunderpinnings, methods and controversies. 597p b/w figs (Wiley–Blackwell 2012) 9781444334258 Hb £95.00

Social Bioarchaeologyedited by Sabrina C. Agarwal and Bonnie A.GlencrossSocial Bioarchaeologyintroduces the growingbiosocial approach inarchaeology that challengesthe traditional methods ofanalysing and interpretinghuman skeletal remains. Thecontributions outline theessential components of thisresearch, focusing on thedynamic interactionsbetween humans and theirlarger social, cultural and physical environments,and how these analyses increase our understandingof human adaptation. 449p b/w figs (Wiley–Blackwell2011) 9781405191876 Hb £65.00, 9781444337679 Pb£24.99

Disease in London, 1st–19th centuries: Anillustrated guide to diagnosisby Don WalkerThis book is designed to appeal to students andpractitioners of osteology and palaeopathology,medical historians and forensic archaeologists; it canbe used as a reference guide in the field and thelaboratory. Human health affects all aspects ofeveryday life and skeletal remains represent directevidence of the experiences of people in the past. Thisvolume describes human skeletal remains fromarchaeological excavations in London, ranging fromthe Roman period to the 19th century. It includesmore than 400 photographic and radiographicimages of disease and traumatic injury, providing aunique opportunity to explore the lives of pastcommunities. 290p col illus (Museum of LondonArchaeology, 2012) 9781907586101 hb £28.00***NYP***

The Funeral Kit: Mortuary Practices in theArchaeological Recordby Jill L. BakerStudies of mortuaryarchaeology tend to focus ondifference – how theresearcher can identify age,gender, status, and ethnicityfrom the contents of a burial.Jill Baker ’s innovativeapproach begins from theopposite point: how can yourecognize the commonalitiesof a culture from the funeralkit that occurs in all burials, irrespective of statusdifferences? And what do those commonalities haveto say about the world view and religious beliefs ofthat culture? Baker begins with the Middle and LateBronze Age tombs in the southern Levant, thenexpands her scope in ever widening circles to createa general model of the funeral kit of use toarchaeologists in a wide variety of cultures andsettings. 227p b/w illus (Left Coast Press 2012)9781598746716 Hb £57.50

Social Zooarchaeology: Humans and Animalsin Prehistoryby Nerissa RussellA systematic overview of social zooarchaeology,which takes a holistic view of human–animalrelations in the past. Until recently, archaeologicalanalysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused onthe role of animals in the human diet and subsistenceeconomy. This book, however, argues that animalshave always played many more roles in humansocieties: as wealth, companions, spirit helpers,sacrificial victims, totems, centrepieces of feasts,objects of taboos, and more. These social factors areas significant as taphonomic processes in shapinganimal bone assemblages. 548p (Cambridge UP 2012)9780521767378 Hb £65.00, 9780521143110 Pb £33.00

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Investigating Animal Burials: Ritual,Mundane and Beyondby James MorrisThis book presents a study of complete or partialanimal burials from the Neolithic to late medievalperiods of southern England and Yorkshire. Notonly does it present data on over 2000 deposits, italso discusses their interpretation, arguing thatmuch previous work has been based on generalisedperiod–based assumptions. Morris instead arguesthat a biographical approach to these types of depositallows the investigation of the specific above groundactions behind their creation, moving away fromgeneralisations towards individual interpretations.238, b/w figs, CD–Rom (BAR BS 535, Archaeopress 2011)9781407308128 pb £43.00

The Ten–Thousand Year Fever: RethinkingHuman and Wild–Primate Malariaby Loretta A. CormierIn this pathbreaking bookLoretta Cormier integrates awide range of data frommolecular biology,e t h n o p r i m a t o l o g y ,epidemiology, ecology,anthropology, and other fieldsto reveal the intimaterelationships between cultureand environment that shapethe trajectory of a parasite.She argues against theentrenched distinction between human and non–human malarias, using ethnoprimatology to developa new understanding of cross–species exchange.241p (Left Coast Press 2011) 9781598744835 Pb £23.50

Taphonomie des Petits Vertebres: Referentielset Transferts aux Fossilesedited by Veronique Laroulandie, Jean–BaptisteMallye, Christiane DenysSmall vertebrate fossils are found in considerablenumbers in quaternary deposits, and are ofimportance for the reconstruction ofpalaeoenvironments, and of human subsistence.They also display considerable biodiversity with agreat number of different species; these papers offerboth theoretical perspectives and case studies intotheir taphonomy. French text. 194p b/w figs (BAR2269, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308432 pb £38.00

Archaeological Evaluation, Land Use andDevelopmentby Ruth WallerThis report aims to improve the effectiveness of FieldEvaluation as part of the English planning systemby applying theoretical insights to the decisionmaking process. The various decision points withinthe current process are identified, and quantitativedata compiled from a representative sample of casestudies to suggest possible improvements. 223p b/wfigs (BAR BS 541, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308289Pb £41.00

Heritage Sites of Astronomy andArchaeoastronomy in the context of theUNESCO World Heritage Conventionedited by Clive Ruggles and Michel CotteThis study is a joint venture between ICOMOS, theadvisory body to UNESCO on cultural sites, andthe International Astronomical Union. It presentsan overall vision on astronomical heritage, attemptsto identify what constitutes “outstanding universalsignificance to humankind” in relation toastronomy, and identifies broad issues that couldarise in the assessment of cultural properties relatingto astronomy. (Ocarina Books, 2012) 9782918086079pb £24.00

Preventive Conservation: Caring for Artefactsand Collectionsedited by Chris CapleThis book aims to bridge the gap between the basicmuseum generated literature and technical anddetailed conservation literature. It highlights thewide variety of threats, develops the concept of anholistic appreciation of these threats, and alsoappreciates the need to prioritise the appropriateforms of response. It uses a careful balance of sources,some technical, some theoretical, some practical aswell as case studies to explore threats and theirmitigation. 588p b/w figs (Routledge 2011)9780415579698 Hb £100.00, 9780415579704 Pb £32.99

Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums andthe Debate Over Antiquitiesedited by James CunoThis book gathers together curators and academicsto elaborate further on James Cuno’s arguments oncultural property, recently set out in his book WhoOwns Antiquity. The contributors take a variety ofstarting points – legal, philosophical, curatorial,historical – to defend the museum as an institutionand specifically the encycopaedic museum, whichseeks to acquire antiquities from throughout theworld. 220p b/w illus (Princeton UP 2009, Pb 2012)9780691133331 Hb £27.95, 9780691154435 Pb £12.50

Cultural Property Acquisitions: Navigating theShifting Landscapeby Aimee L. TabernerMuseum staff are often overwhelmed by thecomplexities of acquiring cultural property,particularly antiquities and archaeological material.Collecting practices now require a greater degree oftransparency and cooperation with variousstakeholders than in the past, and are under greaterscrutiny to be in line with current legal requirementsand ethical expectations. Taking a US perspective,this book provides a concise, unbiased, and practicalresource for those tasked with navigating thecomplicated and rapidly changing legal and ethicallandscape governing the acquisition of culturalproperty and archaeological material. 160p (Left CoastPress 2011) 9781611321098 Hb £65.50, 9781611321104Pb £20.95

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New from Oxbow Books

Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance ofCaves and Rockshelters in Europeedited by Knut-Andreas Bergsvik and RobinSkeatesCaves in Contextprovides the thrivinginter-disciplinary field ofcave studies with aEuropean-scale survey ofcurrent research in cavearchaeology. It is unifiedby a contemporarytheoretical emphasis onthe cultural significanceand diversity of cavesover space and time.Caves and rockshelters are found all over Europe,and have frequently been occupied by humangroups, from prehistory right up to the present day.Some appear to have only traces of shortoccupations, while others contain deep culturaldeposits, indicating longer and multiple occupations.Above all, there is great variability in their humanuse, both secular and sacred. The aim of this book isto explore the multiple significances of these naturalplaces in a range of chronological, spatial, andcultural contexts across Europe. 304p, 111 illus, 17tables (Oxbow Books, 2012) 9781842174746 Hb £45.00

Gardens in History: A Political Perspectiveby Louise WickhamOver the past 50 years, the subject of garden history

has been firmly establishedas an academic discipline.While many have exploredwhat was created in gardensthroughout history, thereasons as to why theywere created has naturallybeen more diverse.Depending on thebackground of the author,the ideas have ranged fromaesthetic values derivingfrom art, philosophical

thoughts and ideas, social and even economic forces.Occasionally some thought has been given to theinfluence of political ideology such as thedevelopment of the English landscape garden in thefirst half of the 18th century. Gardens in History: APolitical Perspective looks at the creation of gardenselsewhere through a similar political 'lens' in orderto move debate away from portraying themotivation behind 'garden-making' merely aspainting a picture with plants and buildings. Eachchapter explores in depth one particular garden thatdemonstrates the ideas put forward. 272p, 138 colillus (Windgather Press, 2012) 9781905119431 Pb £29.95

Wolves in Ireland: A Natural and CulturalHistoryby Kieran HickeyIn this book, Kieran Hickey examines a vast arrayof sources relating to wolves in Ireland. The authorconsiders archaeological remains, name evidence(place and person, both in Irish and in English) andfolklore. The book also looks at the historical recordsof wolves in Ireland including wolf attacks onlivestock (and more rarely people), and describes howthe extermination of wolves took place, with the lastwolf being killed, most likely, in 1786. 155p (FourCourts Press 2011) 9781846823060 Hb £24.95

Custom, Improvement and the Landscape inEarly Modern Britainedited by Richard W. HoyleThis volume addresses the fundamental notion ofimprovement in the development of the Britishlandscape from the sixteenth to the nineteenthcentury. Contributors present a variety of cases ofhow improvement, custom and resistance impactedon the local landscape, which includes manorialestates, enclosures, fens, forests and urban commons.317p (Ashgate 2011) 9781409400523 Hb £65.00

The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion,Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britainand Irelandby Alexandra WalshamThe Reformation of theLandscape is a richly detailedand original study of therelationship between thelandscape of Britain andIreland and the tumultuousreligious changes of thesixteenth and seventeenthcenturies. It explores how theprofound theological andliturgical transformationsthat marked the era between 1500 and 1750 bothshaped, and were in turn shaped by, the places andspaces within the physical environment in whichthey occurred. Moving beyond churches, cathedrals,and monasteries, it investigates how the Protestantand Catholic Reformations affected perceptions andpractices associated with trees, woods, springs,rocks, mountain peaks, prehistoric monuments, andother distinctive topographical features of the BritishIsles. 637p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2011, Pb 2012)9780199243556 Hb £35.00, 9780199654383 Pb £24.99

The Archaeological Landscape of Buteby George Geddes and Alex HaleDrawing on the work of a recent survey carried outby RCAHMS, this well–illustrated book describesthe archaeology and history of the Isle of Bute fromthe earliest hunter–gatherers to the nineteenthcentury, exploring the ways in which humans haveinteracted with the landscape. 53p col illus (RCAHMS2010) 9781902419749 Hb £7.50

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Ecology of Enclosure: 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



forthcoming from Windgather Press

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


Fluid Pasts: Archaeology of Flowby Matt EdgeworthFluid Pasts outlines aninnovative archaeologicalapproach to the study of riversand flowing water, challengingthe view that rivers aresomehow more natural, lesscultural than other kinds ofmaterial evidence. In bringingarchaeological perspectives toflowing water, as opposed tostatic and solid objects, thebook follows water from riversalong numerous channels to the manyarchaeological sites where running water wasutilised or built into designs and layouts, or whereother kinds of flow have left material traces. 155p b/w illus (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology 2011)9780715639825 Pb £12.99

Wetland Archaeology and Beyond: Theory andPracticeby Francesco MenottiWetland Archaeology and Beyond takes the readerthrough the fascinating biography of wetlandarchaeology, from the dawn of the discipline to itsremarkable achievements. Through a discussion ofa large variety of worldwide wetland archaeologicalsites and their material culture, Menotti offers anappreciative study of the people who occupied thesesites and who created the archaeological artefacts.The volume also includes a comprehensiveexplanation of the procedures and research processesinvolved in archaeological practice and theory. 544pb/w illus (Oxford UP 2012) 9780199571017 Hb £95.00

Ten Thousand Years Along the Middle Danube:Life and Early Communities from Prehistoryto Historyedited by Gyongyi Kovacs and Gabriella KulcsarThese studies, produced as part of the DanubiusProject conducted by the Hungarian Academy ofScience, cover the role of the Danube in linkingpeoples and regions, in promoting the interactionbetween them, or conversely, in acting as a naturalbarrier, during the vast period from Prehistory tothe Middle Ages. Papers on the Slovakian section ofthe river in German; on the Hungarian section inEnglish. 352p b/w illus (Varia Archaeologica HungaricaXXVI, Archaeolingua 2011) 9789639911260 Hb £58.00

Siedlungs– und Kustenforschung imSudlichen Nordseegebietedited by Felix Bittmann et al.Concentrating on the southern North Sea zone,these papers investigate the importance of rivers ascommunication and trade routes, focusing in themain on the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. Furtherthemes include the identification and role of riverinesettlements and landing places and the archaeologyof ships and shipping. Essays mostly in German.393p b/w illus (Verlag Marie Leidorf 2011) 9783867578523hb £65.00

Exploring and Explaining Diversity inAgricultural Technologyedited by Annelou van Gijn, John Whittaker andPatricia C. AndersonThis is the second of three volumes in the EARTH

series on the developmentalhistory of world agriculture.Each chapter is a collaborative,interdisciplinary overview ofthe tools and processes involvedin various stages andtechnologies involved in thepursuit of agriculture fromland clearance to cerealprocessing and cooking, and ofthe skills and social context ofagricultural practice. 304p, 285col illus. (Oxbow Books 2012)

9781842175156 Hb £40.00


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Highways, Byways and Road Systems in thePre–modern Worldedited by Susan E. Alcock, John Bodel and RichardJ.A. TalbertThis volume presents a comparative analysis ofseveral sophisticated systems of overland transportand communication networks across premoderncultures. Featuring contributions from aninternational team of scholars, these readings delvedeeply into the societal, cultural, and religiousimplications of various transportation networksaround the globe. 289p b/w illus (Wiley–Blackwell 2012)9780470674253 Hb £85.00

Lough Swilly: A Living Landscapeedited by Andrew CooperNestled between Fanad and Inishowen peninsulason Irelands most northern coast, is Lough Swilly,one of the largest of Irelands sea loughs. This bookexplores Lough Swilly from the evolution of thepresent landscape during the geological pastthrough to contemporary human uses of the Lough.Far from the remote landscape that it is now widelyregarded to be, it was once a major oceanic hub fortrans–Atlantic maritime trade. Its importance in thatregard is evidenced in its fortifications andshipwrecks and the fact that for a time theheadquarters of the British Grand Fleet was atBuncrana. 208p col illus t/out (Four Courts 2011)9781846823077 Hb £29.95

The English Coast: A History and a Prospectby Peter MurphyThis book examines the interaction between peopleand the coast of England. It spans from 700,000 yearsago, and the earliest evidence of humans in thisremote corner of north–west Europe, to the end ofthe 20th century. The coastline has witnessedinteresting and significant events throughouthistory and looks set to do so in the future. PeterMurphy analyses the coast as evidence for pasthuman adaptation to environmental changes andas a cultural contact zone in terms of trade, industry,immigration, and conflict. 282p (Continuum 2009, Pb2011) 9781847251435 Hb £60.00, 9781441183125 Pb£27.99

North Sea Archaeologies: A MaritimeBiography, 10,000 BC – AD 1500by Robert van de NoortThis innovative study offers an up–to–date analysisof the archaeology of the North Sea. Robert Van deNoort traces the way people engaged with the NorthSea from the end of the last ice age, around 10,000BC, to the close of the Middle Ages, about AD 1500.He addresses topics which include the firstinteractions of people with the emerging North Sea,the origin and development of fishing, the creationof coastal landscapes, the importance of islands andarchipelagos, the development of seafaring ships andtheir use by early seafarers and pirates, and thetreatments of boats and ships at the end of theiruseful lives. 282p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2011, Pb 2012)9780199566204 Hb £63.00, 9780199657087 Pb £22.50

Missing Links: In Search of Human Originsby John ReaderThis is a fully updated andsubstantially expanded andrewritten new edition ofJohn Reader’s classic 1981book of the same name. Init he describes thediscoveries andbreakthroughs which haveadvanced ourunderstanding of humanevolution, and thepersonalities andcontroversies who have framed the debate. The bookthus forms both a useful introduction to humanorigins research, and to the fossil record, as well asa lively history of palaeoanthropology as it developedas a discipline. 538p col illus (Oxford UP 2012)9780199276851 Hb £25.00

How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate SocialEvolution and the Formation of HumanSocietiesby Dwight W. ReadWhat separates modern humans from our primatecousins – are we a mere blink in the march ofevolution, or does human culture represent thedefinitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read exploresthe dilemma, taking readers through an evolutionaryodyssey from our primate beginnings through thedevelopment of culture and social organization. Heassesses the two major trends in this field: one thatsees us as a logical culmination of primate evolution,arguing that the rudiments of culture exist inprimates and even magpies, and another that viewsthe human transition as so radical that the primatemodel provides no foundation for understandinghuman dynamics. 236p b/w figs (Left Coast Press 2012)9781598745887 Hb £67.95, 9781598745894 Pb £20.95

The Fossil Chronicles: How Two ControversialDiscoveries Changed Our View of HumanEvolutionby Dean FalkThe two discoveries to which the title here refers arethat of the Tuang child in 1924, and that of Homo

floresiensis, referred to as theHobbit. Dean Falk, an experton brain evolution, tells theenthralling story of thecontroversy, scientific,political and religious, whichsurrounded each of them,drawing on her ownexperience in working on theHobbit. In comparing the twoand in particular their brains,she aims to show that theHobbit is indeed a new species

of human, and one which has major implicationsfor our understanding of human evolution. 259p b/w illus (University of California Press 2011)9780520266704 Hb £24.95

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Landscape of the Mind: Human Evolution andthe Archaeology of Thoughtby John T. HoffeckerIn Landscape of the Mind, John F. Hoffecker exploresthe origin and growth of the human mind, drawingon archaeology, history, and the fossil record. Hesuggests that, as an indirect result of bipedallocomotion, early humans developed a feedbackrelationship among their hands, brains, and toolsthat evolved into the capacity to externalizethoughts in the form of shaped stone objects. Whenanatomically modern humans evolved a parallelcapacity to externalize thoughts as symboliclanguage, individual brains within social groupsbecame integrated into a “neocortical Internet,” orsuper–brain, giving birth to the mind. 259p b/w illus(Columbia UP 2011) 9780231147040 hb £34.50

Simulating Human Origins and Evolutionby Ken WessenIn this book, computer simulation is used to modelmigration, extinction, fossilisation, interbreeding,selection and non–hereditary effects in the contextof human populations and the observed distributionof fossil and current hominoid species. Thesimulations described enable the visualisation andstudy of lineages, genetic diversity in populations,character diversity across species and the accuracyof reconstructions, allowing insights into humanevolution and the origins of humankind. 257p(Cambridge UP 2005, Pb 2011) 9780521397995 pb £29.99

Religion in Human Evolution: From thePaleolithic to the Axial Ageby Robert N. BellahThis hugely ambitious book searches for the originsof religion in terms of both biological and culturalevolution. Robert Bellah identifies a range of culturalcapacities, such as communal dancing, storytelling,and theorizing, whose emergence made this religiousdevelopment possible. Deploying the latest findingsin biology, cognitive science, and evolutionarypsychology, he traces the expansion of these culturalcapacities from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age(roughly, the first millennium BCE), whenindividuals and groups in the Old World challengedthe norms and beliefs of class societies ruled by kingsand aristocracies. 746p (Harvard UP 2011)9780674061439 Hb £25.00

How to Think Like a Neandertalby Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. CoolidgeArchaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologistFrederick L. Coolidge team up to provide a vividaccount of the mental life of Neandertals, drawingon the most recent fossil and archaeological remains.They show that Neandertals relied on complextechnical procedures and spent most of their lives insmall family groups, as well as having the ability totalk and a possibly sizable vocabulary, and speculateabout Neandertal personalities and capacity forsymbolic thought. 210p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012)9780199742820 Hb £15.99


Rock Art Studies: News of the World IVedited by Paul Bahn, Natalie Franklin and MatthiasStreckerThis is the fourth in the five-yearly series of surveys ofwhat is happening in rockart studies around theworld. The aims are topresent a synthesis of thestatus of rock art researchin different regions of theworld, provide informationabout recent projects,publications, prevailingresearch objectives andmethods, and enable rock art researchers to relatetheir findings in a specific region to mainstreamresearch results. As always, the texts reflectsomething of the great differences in approach andemphasis that exist in different regions, presentingexamples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the NewWorld. Papers consider the distribution of sites,chronology, interpretation, new surveys andpublications, management and site conservation.Rock art studies are going through a period ofscientific and technological development which willhave an enormous impact on the quality of recordingand dissemination. At the same time, many authorsare concerned by problems of preservation andvandalism, and underline the crucial importance ofeducating local people, and the young, about theimportance of this fragile and finite heritage. b/willustrations (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842174821 Hb£85.00


Deep History: The Architecture of Past andPresentby Andrew Shyrick and Daniel Lord SmailAiming to reintegrate the vast span of humanprehistory with our conception of the framework

of history, it maps events,cultures, and eras acrossmillions of years to present anew scale for understandingthe human body, energy andecosystems, language, food,kinship, migration, and more.Combining cutting–edgesocial and evolutionarytheory with the latestdiscoveries about humangenes, brains, and materialculture, “Deep History”

invites scholars and general readers alike to explorethe dynamic of connectedness that spans all of humanhistory. 342p b/w figs (University of California Press 2011)9780520270282 Hb £20.95

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The Construction of Value in the Ancient Worldedited by John Papadopoulos and Gary UrtonBased on the basic premise that the concept of valueis a social construct that is defined by the culturalcontext in which it is situated, this volume exploresfour overarching but closely interrelated themes:place value, body value, object value, and what theeditors have termed as number value. The questionsraised and addressed throughout the volume are ofcentral importance to archaeologists studyingancient civilizations: How can we understand thevalue that might have been accorded to materials,objects, people, places, and patterns of action bythose who produced or used the things that composethe human material record? Taken as a whole, thecontributions to this volume demonstrate how theconcept of value lies at the intersection of individualand collective tastes, desires, sentiments, andattitudes that inform the ways people select, or givepriority to, one thing over another. 568p (CotsenInstitute of Archaeology 2012) 9781931745901 hb £58.00,9781931745918 PB £28.00 ***NYP***

Sustainable Lifeways: Cultural Persistence inan Ever–Changing Environmentedited by Noami F. Miller, Katherine M. Mooreand Kathleen RyanSustainable Lifeways addresses forces ofconservatism and innovation in societies dependenton the exploitation of aquatic and other wildresources, agriculture, and specialized pastoralism.It gathers specialists working in four areas of theworld with significant archaeological andpaleoenvironmental databases: West Asia, theAmerican Southwest, East Africa, and Andean SouthAmerica, and contributing to research in three broadtime scales: long term (spanning millennia), mediumterm (archaeological time, spanning centuries or afew thousand years), and recent (ethnohistoric orethnographic, spanning years or decades). 329p b/willus (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeologyand Anthropology 2011) 9781934536193 Hb £42.50

Pushing the Envelope: Experimental Directionsin the Archaeology of Stone Toolsedited by Grant S. McCallThis book presents a series of research projectsdesigned to ‘push the envelope’ in terms of the limitsof our methodological knowledge concerning stonetools. It comprises experimental studies designed toapproach the analysis of stone tools, theconstruction of inferences about the human past,and the building of novel theory to explain it. 179pb/w figs (Nova Science 2011) 9781617610073 Hb £81.99

Keeping your Edge: Recent Approaches to theOrganisation of Stone Artefact Technologyedited by Ben Marwick and Alex MackayThe aim of this volume is to present papers applyingrecent insights from the organization of technologyto the interpretation of stone artefact assemblagesfrom a range of archaeological contexts. Specificattention is paid to the techniques by which peopleacquired and maintained cutting edge technology,and the situational variables which encouraged themto employ those techniques. Case studies examineflaked stone assemblages from across the globe, andacross a wide range of Prehistoric chronologicalcontexts. 134p b/w illus (BAR 2273, Archaeopress 2011)9781407308470 pb £32.00

Ancestral Appetites: Food in Prehistoryby Kristen J. GremillionThis book explores the relationship betweenprehistoric people and their food – what they ate, whythey ate it and how researchers have pieced togetherthe story of past foodways from material traces.Gremillion demonstrates how evolutionary processeshave shaped the diversification of human diet overseveral million years of prehistory. She draws onevidence extracted from the material remains thatprovide the only direct evidence of how peopleprocured, prepared, presented and consumed food inprehistoric times. 182p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2011)9780521727075 pb £16.99

Neanderthals Among Mammoths: Excavations at Lynford Quarry, Norfolkedited by William A. Boismier, Clive Gamble and Fiona CowardIn spring 2002 mammoth bones and associated Mousterian stone tools were foundin situ at Lynford Quarry, near Munford village, Norfolk, UK. A detailedarchaeological excavation was undertaken which recovered exceptionally well–preserved Palaeolithic and palaeoenvironmental information. More than 1000mammoth cones representing at least 11 individuals were excavated along withother fauna and more the 2500 stone artefacts. The association of woolly mammothbones with Middle Palaeolithic bifaces, including distinctive bout coupe handaxes,and the wealth of palaeoecological data – mammal remains, beetles, pollen andmollusca – make Lynford the most important British site for studying when andhow Neanderthals occupied the cold, open environments of what 60,000 years agowas a peninsula of north–west Europe. These data provide a unique opportunityto investigate questions of Neanderthal hunting strategies and patterns of landuse and to draw wider conclusions about their social structure in a demandingregion of Ice Age Europe. 529p (English Heritage 2012) 9781848020634 Hb £100.00

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A Corridor Through Time: the archaeology of the A55 Anglesey Road Schemeby Richard Cuttler, Andrew Davidson and Gwilym HughesThis volume describes the results of a series of archaeological excavations undertakenin advance of the construction of a new dual carriageway, some 32 km long, acrossAnglesey. Five main sites and a series of prehistoric burnt mounds are discussed.The route encountered remains of Neolithic pit groups and a possible Late Neolithicring-ditch; Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement features and a Bronze Age cremationcemetery; Romano-British settlements and a farmstead; an early medieval inhumationcemetery, medieval agricultural features and a corn-drying kiln. 304p, col & b/w illus(Oxbow Books, 2011) 9781842174234 Hb £35.00

Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland: Till–Tweed StudiesVolume 2David G. Passmore and Clive Waddington, with contributions by Tim Gatesand Peter MarshallEventful, important and absorbing, the early history of Northumberland is afascinating story that has rarely been brought together under one cover. In thisauthoritative historical account, the authors bring to bear a huge quantity of oldand new data and craft it into an in–depth synthesis. The authors deliver thishistory in chronological order from a perspective that places human activity andenvironment at its core. The narrative extends from the Palaeolithic through to,and including, the Anglo–Saxon period. This enormous sweep of history is supportedby a robust radiocarbon chronology, with all available dates for the region broughttogether and calibrated against the most recent calibration curves for the first time.368p, 130 b/w & 78 col illus (Oxbow Books, 2011) 9781842174470 Hb £40.00


Iron Age Ritual, a Hillfort and Evidence for a Minster at Aylesbury,Buckinghamshireby Michael Farley and Gillian JonesThe excavation of an area within the grounds of the Prebendal, Aylesbury, showedthat the town is sited within a univallate Iron Age hillfort. Early-Middle Iron Ageactivity included the creation of a notable ritual area, contaning the burials of fourchildren and a young woman. Within the first half of the 4th century BC, a univallatehillfort was constructed, whilst early in the Middle Saxon period a palisade trenchwas dug into the hillfort's ditch, replaced by a ditch in the 8th century. Both palisadeand ditch were almost certainly the boundaries of an early minster church and it isvery likely that the former existence of the hillfort influenced its siting here. Furtherdescriptions are given of the extensive minster cemetery and later Saxon developmentof the town and a significant Saxo-Norman grain deposit, radiocarbon dated to the11th-12th centuries. 184p, b/w & col illus (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842174845 HB £30.00

A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mound 1,Bornais, South Uistedited by Niall SharplesIt is likely that the settlement activity at Mound 1 at Bornais on South Uist startedin the Middle Iron Age, if not earlier. The principal contribution of theMound 1deposits comprises the large quantities of mammal, fish and bird bones, carbonisedplant remains and pottery, which can be accurately dated to a fairly precise andnarrow period in the 1st millennium AD. These are augmented by a substantialcollection of small finds which included distinctive bone artefacts. The contextualsignificance of the site is based on the survival of floor deposits and a burnt–downroof which provide an unparalleled opportunity to examine the timbersuperstructure of the building and the layout of the material used by the inhabitants.280p, 111 col & b/w illus (Oxbow Books, 2012) 9781842174692 hb £35.00

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Is There a British Chalcolithic? People, Placeand Polity in the later Third Millenniumedited by Michael. J. Allen, Julie Gardiner andAlison SheridanThe Chalcolithic is not aterm generally used byBritish prehistorians andwhether there is even adefinable phase is debated.Is there a British Chalcolithic?brings together manyleading authorities in 20papers that address thisquestion. Papers aregrouped under severalheadings. Definitions,Issues and Debate considers whether appropriatecriteria apply that define a distinctive period (c. 2450– 2150 cal BC) in cultural, social, and temporal termswith particular emphasis on the role and status ofmetal artefacts and Beaker pottery. ContinentalPerspectives addresses various aspects of comparativeregions of Europe where a Chalcolithic has beendefined. Around Britain and Ireland presents a series oflarge–scale regional case studies where authors arguefor and against the adoption of the term. The finalsection Economy, Landscapes and Monuments, looks ataspects of economy, land–use and burial traditionand provides a detailed consideration of theStonehenge and Avebury landscapes during theperiod in question. 336p, (Prehistoric Society ResearchPapers Volume 4, Oxbow Books 2012)9781842174968 Hb£39.95, 9781842174968 Hb £29.95

Image, Memory & Monumentality:Archaeological Engagements with the MaterialWorldedited by Andrew Meirion Jones, Joshua Pollard,Julie Gardiner and Michael AllenLeading scholars in these 29 commissioned papers

in honour of RichardBradley discuss keythemes in prehistoricarchaeology that havedefined his career, such asmonumentality, memory,rock art, landscape,material worlds and fieldpractice. The scope isbroad, covering bothBritain and Europe, andwhile the focus is verymuch on the archaeology

of later prehistory, papers also address theinterconnection between prehistory and historic andcontemporary archaeology. The result is a rich andvaried tribute to Richard's energy and intellectualinspiration. 256p, 60 illustrations (Prehistoric SocietyResearch Paper 5, Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842174951Hb £35.00

Beyond the Ice: Creswell Crags and its Placein a Wider European Contextby Matthew BeresfordSince the discovery of Britain’s first Ice Age cave artin 2003, the site of Creswell Crags has gainedinternational recognition as one of Britain’s leadingPalaeolithic sites. This accessible volume explores thehistory of research on the site and draws togetherand interprets the findings, paying particularattention to the cave art. It challenges the termCreswellian, which paints a picture of an isolatedBritish culture that occupied the fringe lands ofwestern Europe, and instead offers hard evidencefor viewing Creswell Crags and its inhabitants asbeing part of a vast Ice Age world. 113p b/w illus(Archaeopress 2012) 9781905739509 Pb £14.95

Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moorsby Paul M. Brown and Graeme ChappellThis book, revised and updated in its second editionis the culmination of over two decades of researchand fieldwork by two dedicated rock art researchersand presents a comprehensive account of the littleknown prehistoric rock carvings in the North YorkMoors, providing a full account of the geographicaland landscape settings of all sites. Details of allknown rock art sites in the region are included withparticular reference to the diversity and variety ofmotifs, together with information on the associatedarchaeology of the surrounding landscape. 288p, b/w and col pls, tabs (Tempus 2005, 2nd ed 2012)9780752468778 Pb £19.99

Excavations at Little Paxton Quarry,Cambridgeshire, 1992–1998: Prehistoric andRomano–British Settlement and Agriculture inthe River Great Ouse Valleyedited by Alex JonesThis volume presents the results of fieldwork andexcavation in advance of quarrying at this site tothe north of St Neots in Cambridgeshire. Theinvestigations recorded flint scatters of Mesolithic–Bronze Age date, pits containing Neolithic–BronzeAge pottery, extensive ditched field boundaries andditched enclosures of Iron Age and Romano–Britishdate, including livestock enclosures and associateddroveways. 322p b/w and col figs (BAR BS 545,Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308548 pb £50.00

Overhowden and Airhouse, Scottish Borders:Characterization and Interpretation of twoSpectacular Lithic assemblagesby Torben Bjarke BallinThis book presents an investigation of two of theNational Museum of Scotland’s older lithiccollections, the assemblages from Airhouse andOverhowden in the Scottish Borders. It comprises atypological characterization of the assemblages, andcomparative analysis in the context of other LateNeolithic assemblages from the British Isles todetermine the function, status and wider links ofthe Overhowden and Airhouse sites. 74p b/w illus(BAR BS 539, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308265 pb£28.00

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Bacton to King’s Lynn Gas Pipeline, Volume 1:Prehistoric, Roman and Medieval Archaeologyby Tom Wilson, Derek Cater, Chris Clay andRichard MooreArchaeological excavations were carried out in 2003along the route of a pipeline crossing Norfolk fromeast to west. Evidence of Neolithic settlement wasfound at East Walton above the Nar Valley, andpossibly at Weasenham Clumps. There was alsoactivity at both sites in the Bronze Age. A roundbarrow at Tittleshall and a small cremation cemeteryat Antingham provided evidence of Bronze Agefunerary practice. The earlier Iron Age period wasrepresented by a group of pits at Oulton. Iron slagwas also recovered from a late Iron Age or earlyRoman site at Colby. The remains of an Iron Ageroundhouse were found at Foulsham, along with acruciform drying oven dated to the second or thirdcentury AD. Medieval remains imply substantialreordering of the landscape in the late medievalperiod. 250p (East Anglian Archaeology 2012)9780957228801 PB £25.00

Excavations at Flixton Park Quarry Volume 1by Stuart Boulter and Penelope Walton RogersThis volume is the first in a series that will cover theextensive and significant archaeological depositsrecorded at this quarry on the south side of theWaveney Valley. It includes evidence of prehistoric,late Iron Age/early Roman and early Anglo–Saxondate, including three prehistoric monumentalstructures, and two Anglo-Saxon burial grounds.300p (East Anglian Archaeology 2012) 9780956874726PB £30.00

The LBA/EIA Transition in the Vale of Pewsey,Wiltshireby Paul C. TubbThrough surveying, non–intrusive fieldwork andthe use of existing data, this study assesses theevidence for the Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Agetransition in the Vale of Pewsey. A number of well–preserved sites, many of them black–earth sites, wereidentified and surveyed for the first time andfragments of the Prehistoric landscape defined anddiscussed. The nature of subsistence systems in thisarea and period is discussed, as well as the formationand meaning of the black–earth sites. 288p (BAR BS543, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308418 pb £49.00

‘Tribal Territories’ from the Humber to the Tyneby Catherine Rosemary RossThis study re–examines the evidence for indigenoussociety in the north of England in the Late Iron Ageand early post–Conquest period. Catherine Ross firstsurveys modern work on the region, and on theBrigantes in particular, before appraising in turnRoman epigraphy and literary sources, place–nameevidence, material culture and settlement patterns.She concludes that there is no evidence for oneoverarching tribal identity, and instead tentativelyidentifies six distinct regional groupings. 211p b/willus (BAR BS 540, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308272pb £40.00

Forthcoming from Oxbow


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


A Forged Glamour: Landscape, Identity andMaterial Culture in the Iron Ageby Melanie GilesA Forged Glamour is an exploration of the lives anddeaths of ironworking communities renowned for

their spectacular materialculture, who lived inmodern–day East andNorth Yorkshire, betweenthe 4th and 1st centuriesBC. It evaluates settlementand funerary evidence,analyses farming andcraftwork, and exploreswhat some of their ideasand beliefs might havebeen. It situates thisregional material within

the broader context of Iron Age Britain, Ireland andthe near Continent, and considers what manner ofsociety this was. In order to do this it makes use oftheoretical ideas on personhood, and relationshipswith material culture and landscape, arguing thatthe making of identity always takes work. It is thecharacter, scale and extent of this work whichenables archaeologists to investigate the web ofrelations which made up their lives, and explore themeans of power which distinguished their leaders.224p, 50 b/w + col illus. (Windgather Press 2012)9781905119462 Pb £30.00

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The Iron Age in Northern East Anglia: NewWork in the Land of the Iceniedited by John A. DaviesThe studies contained in this volume present thelatest research on the Iron Age of the part of EastAnglia occupied by the Iceni, and include workcentred on both material culture and on thelandscape. Topics include pottery, coinage, aerialarchaeology, a reinterpretation of Snettisham andthe representation of animals in material culture.Together they add to a growing appreciation of whatmarks out a specifically Iceni regional culture. 105pb/w illus (BAR BS 549, Archaeopress 2011)9781407308852 pb £24.00

Neanderthals in Context: a report of the 1995–98 excavations at Gorham’s and VanguardCaves, Gibraltaredited by R. N. E. Barton and C. B. StringerExcavations at the adjacent sites of Gorham’s Caveand Vanguard Cave have yielded a rich combinationof archaeological and palaeoenvironmental findscovering a timespan of over 100,000 years. Thisvolume deals with the primary results of the 1995–1998 excavations at both caves. The 24 chapters byleading specialists cover a range of topics frominformation concerning the nature and sequence ofMiddle Palaeolithic Neanderthal occupations to thereconstruction of the environmental context of theseactivities, based on proxy indicators such assediments, charcoal, amphibians, reptiles, avifaunalremains, and small and large mammals. (OUSA 2012)9781905905249 hb £38.00

To the West of Spanish Cantabria: ThePalaeolithic Settlement of Galiciaedited by A. de Lombera Hermida and R. FabragasValcarceThis book showcases the latest research on theQuaternary of eastern Galicia. It provides synthesisesof palaeontological, zooarchaeological andgeomorphic data to build up a picture ofenvironmental conditions and climatic fluctuations.The second part of the book comprises reports fromcurrent research on Palaeolithic sites in the region.143p b/w illus (BAR 2283, Archaeopress 2011)9781407308609 pb £29.00

Organisation techno–economique desindustries du Paleolithique moyen recent dansle nord–est aquitainby Jean–Philippe FaivreThis study concerns lithic technical systems duringthe Middle Palaeolithic in the north–east Aquitainebasin. The analytical approach is based on aparadigm which shows the complexity of productionschemes through technical and economicalperspectives (branched chaîne opératoire). Theresults of this study show self–sufficientorganizations of lithic production systems: each,with its own technical specifics, shows techno–economical adaptations in relation to differing eco–functional objectives achieved in differentenvironments. French text. 240p b/w illus (BAR 2280,Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308579 pb £38.00

Estudios Recientes de Arqueologia Gaditanaedited by J.J. Diaz, A.M. Saez, E. Vijande and J.LagostenaThis volume presents the latest results and discussionof archaeological work in the Cadiz region. Themesinclude theoretical approaches to archaeologicalwork and organisation, the history of archaeologyin the region, and reports and analyses of researchstretching chronologically from the Mesolithic to theVisigothic period. Spanish text. 304p b/w illus (BAR2276, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308500 pb £49.00

The Levantine Question: Post–Palaeolithic RockArt in the Iberian Peninsulaedited by Jose Julio Garcia Arranz, HipolitoCollado Giraldo and George NashThis volume gathers many ofthe world’s leading experts toreassess the enigmaticassemblage of SpanishLevantine rock art. Issuesaddressed include thecontroversial matter ofchronology, how the rock artmay have been integrated intothe landscape, and questionsrelating to the type of panelor application techniquesused. Parallel English andSpanish text. 425p b/w and col illus (Archaeolingua 2012)9789639911314 Hb £74.00

Learning Technology: Cultural Inheritance andNeolithic Pottery Production in the Alcoi Basin,Alicante, Spainby Sarah B. McClureThe dynamic relationship between technology,technological practice, and society is the focus of thisbook, based on the analysis of Neolithic potteryproduction in Valencia, eastern Spain. Two mainquestions frame this study: what are the changes intechnological practices in the manufacture of potteryduring the Neolithic, and how do these changesarticulate with shifts in other realms of society? 159pb/w figs (BAR 2300, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308777pb £30.00

Plant Use and Crop Husbandry in an EarlyNeolithic Village: Vaihingen an der Enz,Baden–Wurttembergby Amy BogaardLarge–scale excavation and sampling of the well–preserved early Neolithic site of Vahingen an der Enzprovided a unique opportunity to investigate acomplete settlement of the later 6th millenium calBC using archaeological methods. While previouswork has established the typical range of crops andwild plants used by early Neolithic people, thismonograph seeks to recast these elements as activesocial phenomena: food, materials and routinesbound up with the identities of households,neighbourhoods, the local community and widerregional networks. 391p b/w and col figs (Dr RudolfHabelt 2012) 9783774937314 Hb £90.00

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New from Oxbow

Rock Art and Seascapes in Upplandby Johan LingRock Art and Seascapes inUppland presents a freshapproach to the detailedstudy of a selection of over80 rock art panels locatedclose to the presentcoastline of Uppland,Sweden, which includesome 2000 ship depictionsamong the variedfigurative art. Using GPSmeasurement combinedwith detailed study of the terrain, topography andrelative sea level data in order to present accuratemaps of the panels, the location and significance ofthe original positioning of rock art images in relationto their contemporaneous coastline is demonstratedand modelled. The implications in terms ofchronology, typology, landscape, social practice andiconography are discussed and new interpretationsfor the relationship between Bronze Age rock art,shore displacement, settlement and burial sitespresented. 124p, 75 col illus (Oxbow Books 2012)9781842175132 Pb £20.00

The Tripolye Culture giant-settlements inUkraine: Formation, Development and Declineedited by Francesco Menotti and Aleksey G.Korvin-PiotrovskiyThis book attempts to bring together in English a

variety of researchtraditions of Eastern andWestern Europe,traditionally published invarious languages and notreadily accessible to allscholars, in theexamination of theUkrainian archaeologicalrecord. The volume hasbeen organised so as to givethe reader a clear image ofthe Tripolye culture in the

Ukraine, with a special emphasis placed upon thedevelopment of the so-called ‘giant-settlements’.Chapters discuss the geographical andchronological context, highlighting the differentfacets of the culture that resulted in the formationof the giant-settlements; relative and absolutechronology of the many sub-groups identified;migration; aspects of material culture; architecture;experimental work on the construction anddestruction of houses and controversial use of fire;and the ultimate disappearance of this accomplishedand very long-lived cultural group. 174p b/w illus(Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842174838 Pb £40.00

Local Societies, Identities and Responsesedited by Nils Anfinset and Melanie WrigglesworthThe contributions to this study form part of agrowing trend which places the Bronze Age societiesof northern Europe into a more global context,emphasising new types of society and new modes oftrade and exchange. They reveal considerable localvariation and diversity, and argue that these societieswere less isolated than previously thought, with clearevidence of communication, travel and contact notonly with Central Europe and the Near East butalso towards the Far East. 260p b/w illus (Equinox 2012)9781845537425 Hb £70.00

Bell Beaker Copper Use in Central Europe: ADistinctive Tradition?by Matthias B. MerklBased on a dataset of trace element compositions ofcopper finds from central Europe dating between4500 and 2000 BC, this research aims to indicatewhether the metallurgy of the Eastern Bell Beakergroup indicates a specific knowledge thatdistinguishes the metal work of this community fromother archaeological groups. It also aims to explainthe motivation underlying the use of chronologicallyand chorologically varying types of copper duringthis period, asking whether the selection of coppertypes was based on a knowledge of their specificmaterial. 229p, b/w figs, CD-Rom (BAR 2267,Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308388 Pb £50.00

When Beakers Met Bell Beakers: An Analysisof Dental Remainsby Jocelyne DesideriThis study investigates the underlying factors behindthe spread of the Bell Beaker culture in 3rdmillennium BC Europe, testing the hypothesis thatit arrived as a result of invasion, and a newpopulation. It does so by analysing non–metricdental traits from a large sample taken from fiveregions across the Bell Beaker area – Bohemia,Hungary, southern France, northern Spain andSwitzerland – totalling more than 2,000 individuals,530 traits and 255,000 observations. The results showvarying local influence in the emergence of the BellBeaker culture, and a model is proposed for itsdiffusion. 205 (BAR 2292, Archaeopress 2011)9781407308692 pb £36.00

Collapse or Continuity? Environment andDevelopment of Bronze Age HumanLandscapesedited by Jutta Kneisel, Wiebke Kirleis, Marta DalCorso, Nicole Taylor and Verena TiedtkeThe papers gathered in this volume explore the waysin which Bronze Age societies dealt with andovercame collapse, and how community wasmaintained. Contributions are arrangedgeographically, with coverage extended across thewhole of Europe and the Near East. As well asexamining different resilience strategies, they alsodiscuss problems surrounding the identification ofcollapse and continuity in the archaeological record.279p, col and b/w figs (Rudolf Habelt 2012)9783774937635 hb £75.00

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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 Neolithic Studies Group intended toassess new studies of rock art from across Britainand Ireland, and compare these with studies ofNeolithic visuality from continental Europe. It isorganised so that the rock art and passage tomb arttraditions of the Neolithic in Britain and Ireland arecompared for the first time to the rock art traditionsof Northern and Southern Europe, with themortuary costumes and figurines of South-easternEurope. 304p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2012)9781842174777 Pb £35.00



Exchange Networks and Local Transformationedited by Maria Emanuela Alberti and SerenaSabatiniThroughout the local Bronze and Iron Age,European and Mediterranean societies appear to have

been involved in complexsystems of exchangenetworks whichinvariably affected localcustoms and historicaldevelopments. The articlesin the volume explore thedynamic relationshipbetween regionallyc o n t e x t u a l i s e dtransformations and inter-regional exchangenetworks. Particular effort

has been put in approaching the issue in a multi-disciplinary perspective. 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


Technology & Tradition in the Eastern Arctic,2500 BC – AD 1200by Mikkel SorensenIn this study Mikkel Sensenintroduces a new dynamictechnological methodologyto Arctic Archaeology. Bymeans of an investigation ofthe lithic chaînes opératoiresand lithic concepts ofproduction, he offers insightinto Palaeo–Eskimo toolmanufacturing andprocesses, including adefinition of the functional tool types in five Palaeo–Eskimo cultures in the easternmost Arctic in theperiod 2500 BC–AD 1200. 418p b/w illus (MuseumTusculanum 2012) 9788763531672 Hb £73.99

Kurgan Studies: an environmental andarchaeological multiproxy study of burialmounds in the Eurasian steppe zoneedited by Akos Peto and Attila BarcziThe Kurgans of the Eurasian steppe zone preservepalaeosoils and represent a fantastic resource forinvestigating Holocene environmental changes. Thestudies presented in this volume principally focuson the Lyukas–halom and Csípo–halom kurgans inHungary and the Skvortsovsky and Labazovskykurgans in Russia, though there are also severalpapers that explore the wider world of the Kurgans.The majority focus on environmental themes. 350pb/w figs (BAR 2238, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308029pb £57.00

Die Bildsteine Gotlands derVolkerwanderungs– und Vendelseit als SpiegelFruhgeschichtlicher Lebensweltenby Sonja GuberThis book presents a detailed study of theiconography of the famous Gotland picture stones.Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the motifsof the corpus of 102 stones is carried out, which areorganised into a typology. The symbolism inparticular of disc and ship motifs is investigatedfurther. Includes a complete catalogue of the picturestones. German text. 161p b/w illus (BAR 2257,Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308241 pb £34.00

Fenicios en Tartesos: nuevas perspectivasedited by Manuel Alvarez Marti–AguilarThis publication offers new perspectives on thePhoenician presence in the Iberian Peninsula. Topicsinclude: the diversity of origins and identities of thePhoenician communities; their diversity; theirevolution in the colonial and post–coloniallandscapes; the making of new political and ethnicidentities; the ways in which the Greeks and Romanperceived and recorded them; the criteria for theidentification of indigenous and colonial in thearchaeological record; and the role of religion amongthe Phoenicians in terms of unity and diversity.Spanish text. 248p b/w illus (BAR 2245, Archaeopress2011) 9781407308098 pb £44.00

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Die räumliche Organisation derlinearbandkeramischen Rinderhaltung:naturwissenschaftliche und archaologischeUnterschungenby Corina KnipperThe main focus of this work is the oxygen andstrontium isotope analysis of cattle teeth from threeLBK settlements and human teeth from a cemeteryall in southwest Germany. The combination of thetwo different isotope systems from the enamel of thesame tooth allows for a differentiation betweenseasonal mobility and a more sedentary pattern ofanimal husbandry, and a determination of the timeof year and pasture locations used. Discussionfocuses on the spatial organisation of animalhusbandry in the LBK. 485p b/w and col figs (BAR2305, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308821 pb £75.00

Archaeological Investigations in County Bekes,1986–1992by Andrea H. Vaday, Denes Jankovich B. andLaszlo KovacsThis volume forms part of a large–scale project ofinvestigations into an archaeologically rich regionof eastern Hungary, formed of two distinctenvironmental zones. In this mighty book, one sitefrom each is singled out for a programme ofexcavation; the sites are linked by the large quantitiesof Sarmatian era finds which each produced. 640p b/w illus (Archaeolingua 2012) 9789639911215 Hb £62.00

An Archaeology of Images: Iconology andCosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europeby Miranda Aldhouse–GreenIn dismissing rather passive approaches to materialobjects that view them as ‘special items’ to be lookedat or worshipped, Miranda Aldhouse–Green regardsthem as ‘active ideological or social tools’ thatinteracted with and had meaning for their creatorsand users. In choosing an eclectic set of objects tosupport her arguments, she opens up a betterunderstanding of the images of people and animalsused in the Iron Age and Roman periods, 600 BC toAD 400. 281p, b/w illus (Routledge 2004, Pb 2012)9780415252539 Hb £80.00, 9780415518468 Pb £24.99

The Lady of the Spiked Throne: The Power of aLost Ritualby Massimo VidaleThis volume describes andanalyses an extraordinary,unprovenanced, artefact – aceramic model of a boat in theshape of a cow transportinga dozen figurines. Whilstbearing obvious similaritiesto Egyptian model boats,this piece is attributed to theearly Indus civilization of the3rd Millennium BC. As wellas discussion of the social and religious significanceof the boat, the report also presents the results ofthermoluminescence analysis. Parallel English andItalian text. 71p, many col illus (Trieste 2011) pb £25.00

Catalogue of Sikh Coins in the British Museumby Paramdip Kaur KheraThis catalogue details every Sikh coin in themuseum’s collection and includes a history of thecollection with insights into the history of the Sikhempire and the practise of Sikhism, as well asinformation on denominations, mints, coininscriptions and dating. 90p, 555 col illus (BritishMuseum Press 2012) 9780861591909 pb £20.00

The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor:Volume V: the Excavation of Ban Non Wat: theBronze Ageedited by Charles Highamand Ampham KijngamBan Non Wat is a large,moated prehistoricsettlement in NakhonRatchasima Province,Northeast Thailand. Thisreport describes the BronzeAge occupation of this site.The five phases of BronzeAge burials began with thetransition from the lateNeolithic in the late 11th century BC, and reveal therapid rise of social elites seen in the princely gravesof the second and third phases. These were followedby a sharp decline in mortuary wealth, leadingdirectly into the early Iron Age in about 420 BC.598p (Fine Arts Department of Thailand 2012)9789744176271 HB £100.00

Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of ChineseBronze Mirrorsedited by Lothar von FalkenhausenThe first of these two volumes presents a detailedcatalogue of the extensive Cotsen Collection throughhigh–quality images and illustrations of the mirrorsin their approximate chronological sequence. VolumeII, a set of eleven scholarly essays, goes further toinvestigate these mirrors, with coverage rangingfrom a discussion of Han mirror inscriptions asmodular texts to an analysis of mirrors inlaid withmother of pearl. 2 vols (Cotsen Occasional Press (at theCotsen Foundation for Academic Research) and the CotsenInstitute of Archaeology Press 2011) 9780974516882 hb£285.00

Archaeology of the Southwestby Linda S Cordell and Maxine E. McBrinnThe long awaited third edition of this well–knowntextbook continues to be the go–to text and referencefor anyone interested in the archaeology of theAmerican southwest. It provides the anticipatedcomprehensive summary of the major themes andtopics central to modern interpretation and practice.More concise, accessible, and student–friendly, theThird Edition still offers readers the latest in currentresearch, debates, and topical syntheses as well asincreased coverage of Paleoindian and Archaicperiods and the Casas Grandes phenomenon. 367p,ills (Left Coast Press 3rd ed 2012) 9781598746754 pb£33.95

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Contemporary Issues in CaliforniaArchaeologyedited by Terry L. Jones and Jennifer E. PerryThis volume offers an in–depth look at the most recenttheoretical and empiricaldevelopments in Americanarchaeology including keycontroversies relevant to theGolden State: coastalcolonization, impacts ofcomets and drought cycles,systems of power, Polynesiancontacts, and the role ofindigenous peoples in theresearch process, amongothers. 396p b/w illus (Left Coast Press 2012)9781611320916 Hb £71.95, 9781611320923 Pb £30.95Kulubnarti I: the Architectural Remainsby William Y. AdamsThis book reprints the first volume on the Universityof Kentucky’s excavations at Kulubnarti in Sudan,which remains the only detailed study of a latemedieval and post–medieval landscape in the Sudan.Structures include housing, animal pens andterracing, walled compounds, a castle, churches andkourfas. Wall–paintings inscriptions and rock–artare also published and discussed. 216p, b/w illus (BAR2241, Archaeopress reprint 2011) 9781407308050 pb£43.00

Ippolito Rosellini and the Dawn of Egyptologyedited by Marilina BetroOne of the pioneers ofmodern Egyptology, andamong the first to benefitfrom the deciphering of thehieroglyphic language,Ippolito Rosellini iscelebrated in this volume.It accompanies anexhibition of 50 of his mostsignificant drawings,manuscripts and letters,drawn from the collections of Pisa UniversityLibrary. Essays provide further context, exploringhis career and influence, as well as the formationand significance of the collections associated withhim in Pisa and Florence. 229p, col illus t/out (PisaUniversity 2010) 9781906137267 £60.00

The Experience of Ancient Egyptby Rosalie DavidA comprehensive study of current knowledge ofancient Egypt, from its classical roots, through thedecipherment of hieroglyphics, to the most up–to–date archaeological and scientific techniques appliedto the study of Egyptology. 232p, 25 b/w pls, 14 figs(Routledge 2000, Pb 2011) 9780415032636 HB £50.00,9780415518581 Pb £23.50

Aegyptiaca et Coptica: Studi in onore di SergioPernigottiedited by P. Buzi, D. Picchi and M. ZecchiA collection of 29 papers on a wide range ofEgyptological and Coptic subjects. Aspects ofepigraphy, art history, architecture, artefactualstudies, philology, and the history of Egyptologyand Coptic studies are among the many topicsdiscussed. Papers predominantly in Italian , with afew in French and one in English. 370p b/w illus (BAR2264, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308357 pb £57.00

Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History,Imperialism, Ideology and Literatureedited by S. Bar, D. Kahn and J.J. ShirleyThe contributions to this volume include the latestdiscussions about the political, military, cultural,economic, ideological, literary and administrativerelations between Egypt, Canaan and Israel duringthe Second and First Millennia BC incorporatingtexts, art, and archaeology. A diverse range ofscholars discuss subjects as wide–ranging as theEgyptian–Canaanite relations in the SecondIntermediate Period, the ideology of boundary stelae,military strategy, diplomacy and officials of the NewKingdom and Late Period, the excavations of Beth–Shean and investigations into the Aruna Pass, andparallels between Biblical, Egyptian and AncientNear Eastern texts. 370p (Brill 2011) 9789004194939Hb £125.00


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

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Forthcoming from OxbowKulturhandbuch Ägyptens: Wortschatz derPharaonen in Sachgruppenby Rainer Hannig and Petra VombergHannig and Vomberg’s new and attractivelypresented dictionary of Egyptian hieroglyphs(translated into German) presents the vocabularyaccording to themes associated with the culture ofancient Egypt. Amongst the many classificationsare: personal names, flora and fauna, the weather,materials, cities and the countryside, anatomy,emotions, trade, virtues and vices, music, sexuality,sports, religion, art and architecture, mathematics,medicine, warfare and writing. The dictionary ispreceded by an introductory section on grammar.1029p (Von Zabern 1999, reprinted 2012) 9783805344739hb £65.00

Studies in Egyptian Syntaxby Battiscombe Gunn, edited by R. S. SimpsonBattiscombe Gunn’s Studies in Egyptian Syntax (1924)is one of the fundamental works in Egyptianlinguistics. Among Gunn’s papers, now in theGriffith Institute, Oxford, are further studies, somethat he had made ready for publication and othersnearly complete, that extend his approach andcoverage. R. S. Simpson has edited all Gunn’s studiesthat had reached publishable form, adding half asmuch again to the material. The present book is anunaltered reprint of Studies in Egyptian Syntax,followed by the hitherto unpublished chapters. Thebook is essential for understanding developmentsin the interpretation of Classical and Late Egyptian,as well as presenting much that is new and highlytopical. 303p (Griffith Institute, 2012) 9780900416910hb £60.00

Beobachtungen zur Entstehung desAltagyptischen Staatesby Erika EndesfelderA reassessment of state formation in Ancient Egyptwhich argues for a gradual process of changes inagricultural production, the distribution ofsurpluses, and the relationship between ruler andsubjects as key factors, rather than externalpressures. German text. 284p b/w illus (Golden HousePublications 2011) 9781906137250 pb £30.00

The Ancient Egyptian Family: Kinship andSocial Structureby Troy D. AllenScholars in Egyptology have often debated whetherancient Egyptian society was organized alongpatrilineal or matrilineal lines. Allen argues that thematrilineal nature of the ancient Egyptian family andsocial organization provides us with the key tounderstanding why and how ancient Egyptianwomen were able to rise to power, study medicine,and enjoy basic freedoms that did not emerge inWestern Civilization until the twentieth century.113p (Routledge 2009, Pb 2012) 9780415961561 Hb£80.00, 9780415542296 Pb £26.00

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

Living with the Dead: Ancestor Worship andMortuary Ritual in Ancient Egyptby Nicola HarringtonLiving with the Dead presents a detailed analysis ofancestor worship in Egypt, using a diverse range of

material, botharchaeological andanthropological, to examinethe relationship between theliving and the dead. A rangeof evidence is presented formortuary cults that were inoperation throughoutEgyptian history and for thevarious places, such as thehouse, shrines, chapels andtomb doorways, where theliving could interact with

the dead. The private statue cult, where images ofindividuals were venerated as intermediaries betweenpeople and the Gods is also discussed. Something ofa contradiction in attitudes is expressed in theevidence for tomb robbery, the reuse of tombs andfunerary equipment and the ways in whichcommunities dealt with the death and burial ofchildren and others on the fringe of society. 208p, col& b/w illus, (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842174937 Pb£38.00



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Ancient Egyptian Demonologyedited by P. KousoulisTen essays which give an account of many aspectsof ancient Egyptian demonology. Topics include themultiple persona of the demonic or name vs. identityin the Egyptian formation of the demonic,nightmares and underworld demons, dream ritualsand magic, categories of demonic entities and thevague distinction between the divine and thedemonic in Egyptian cosmology and ritual, thetheological and demonic aspects of Egyptian magic,and demons as reflections of human society. 198p(Peeters 2011) 9789042920408 Hb £90.00

Investigation into Dynamics of AncientEgyptian Pharmacologyby Shingo FukagawaThis study presents a statistical analysis of theEgyptian medical text Papyrus Ebers, with the aimof identifying and analysing patterns inprescriptions. In this way the author is able to pointto some of the principles and systems at work inEgyptian medicine, transcending the empirical–rational / magico–religious dichotomy. 109p, CD–Rom (BAR 2272, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308463pb £31.00

Die Agypten–Sammlung des Museum AugustKestner und Ihre (Kriegs–)Verlusteby Christian E. LoebenThe Egyptian collection of the August Kestnermuseum in Hanover was at the time one of thefinest in Germany, but suffered the loss of some 740finds from places of “safe” storage during WWII.This is a catalogue of those pieces, the vast majorityphotographed and with good documentation. Italso tells the history of the museum’s Egyptianantiquities. German text. 320p b/w illus t/out (VerlagMarie Leidorf 2011) 9783867574549 pb £35.00

A Catalogue of Egyptian Cosmetic Palettes inthe Manchester University MuseumCollectionby Julie Patenaude and Garry J. ShawFollowing an introductionon Egypt’s PredynasticPeriod, cosmetic palettes ingeneral, methodology, andthe origins of the ManchesterEgyptian collection, thisvolume brings togetherevery Predynastic cosmeticpalette in the museum,providing details on type,dimensions, provenance,date and context, along witha description andbibliography. This data is then analysed accordingto provenance, type, date, acquisition source andcontext, followed by illustrations of specific gravesand a full bibliography. Photographs of the palettesare then provided. 119p b/w illus (Golden HousePublications 2011) 9781906137205 pb £30.00

Egyptian Watercraft Models from thePredynastic to Third Intermediate Periodsby Ann MerrimanThis study presents a completely new classificationsystem for Egyptian watercraft models based on theirnautical construction attributes. It is based on a fullanalysis and catalogue of all 586 known examples.The main conclusion is the comprehensive rejectionof the idea that most models represent crafts with areligious function (whether funerary boats or sun–barques), but instead represent working boats. 484pb/w illus (BAR 2263, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308340pb £60.00

Ancient Egyptian Tombs: The Culture of Lifeand Deathby Steven SnapeAncient Egyptian tombs were not designed as placeswhere the dead were buried and forgotten, but wherecarefully preserved bodies might be securely storedfor eternity. Using all the relevant available data,including architecture, artefacts and texts this bookexplores the development of the tomb as a culturalphenomenon in Ancient Egypt. The author discussestombs within the context of everyday life, particularlyongoing social and economic relationships, whilestressing the importance of the tomb as an eternalexpression of the self. 289p b/w illus (Wiley–Blackwell2011) 9781405120890 Hb £70.00

TT176: The Tomb Chapel of Userhatby Bram CalcoenThis book presents the painted decoration of theTheban tomb chapel TT176, belonging to the ‘servantof Amun’ Userhat. Userhat dates to the mid 18thDynasty and was a lower official at the Amun’s templeat Thebes. His chapel belongs to the smallest examplesof its kind still decorated with paintings, some of themof the highest quality. The decoration has sufferedconsiderable damage, but the publication includesolder photographic images and drawings by Schottand Davies from a survey of the tomb in the earlytwentieth century. 33p, 19 b/w plates, 4 color plates(Golden House Publications 2012) 9781906137274 pb£35.00

Sais 1: The Ramesside–Third IntermediatePeriod at Kom Rebwaby Penelope WilsonThis volume is the final excavation report for workcarried out in the Northern Enclosure area of thesite at Kom Rebwa. Excavations between 2000 and2004 uncovered levels dating between the 20thDynasty and the Third Intermediate Period. The bestpreserved levels consisted of part of a house, whoseroof had collapsed and an earlier kiln, used for firingfaience beads as well as pottery. Lower, buried layersalso included Old Kingdom material, hinting at theearlier history of the area. The report containsinvaluable information about everyday rural life inthe Delta, with anlayses of the different layers, thepottery and the small finds, as well as plant remainsand animal bones. 291p, 97 b/w pls (Egypt ExplorationSociety 2011) 9780856982026 Pb £65.00

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Texts from the Baboon and Falcon Galleries:Demotic Hieroglyphic and Greek Inscriptionsfrom the Sacred Animal Necropolis, NorthSaqqaraby J.D. RayThis volume features all the graffiti from the Baboonand Falcon galleries at the Sacred Animal Necropolis,North Saqqara, by Bryan Emery between 1966 and1971. The graffiti include dedications to the godImhotep with an important historical content, andmasons’ marks which show some of theconstruction history of the galleries. There is also aGreek graffito listing the contents of dreams orvisions, and a series of dedications on bronze templefurniture which mention a hitherto unknown god.374p b/w illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2011)9780856982057 Pb £90.00

Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara:The Mother of Apis Inscriptionsby H.S. Smith, C.A.R. Andrews and Sue DaviesThe Mother of Apisinscriptions (534–41 BC)comprise the stelae andgraffiti of the masons whoconstructed the catacomband of the priests whooversaw the work andconducted the burial andother rituals for the cows.The texts includegenealogies of the masonsand some accounts of theirwork and rations. Thisstudy includes transliterations, translations andexplanatory notes on all the texts found, togetherwith commentaries and indexes. 312p, 88 b/w pls(Egypt Exploration Society 2011) 9780856982002 Pb£90.00

The Archaeology of a Nubian Frontier: Surveyon the Nile Third Cataract, Sudanby Ali Osman and David N. EdwardsThis volume reports on the results of several seasonsof field survey, presenting the basic data relating tomore than 690 registered sites or other features, manyof considerable archaeological interest, and someunique within Nubia. The results are synthesisedhere as period–based discussions ranging from theearly Holocene to the early 20th century. 439p b/wand col illus (Mauhaus Publishing 2012) 9780957178007Pb £20.00

Memphis Under the Ptolemiesby Dorothy J. ThompsonA study of the economic life and character of themultiracial society of Memphis between Alexanderand Augustus. It brings together the documentaryevidence (both Greek and Demotic) and the resultsof recent archaeology synthesizing material that hasnot been pulled together before. Fifteen years on thebook has been thoroughly revised and updated totake account of new work. 338p (Princeton UP 1988,2nd ed 2012) 9780691035932 Hb £35.50, 9780691140339Pb £24.95


Crown of Arsinoë II: The Creation of an Imageof Authorityby Maria NilssonThe Crown of Arsinoë IIis a detailed study of aunique crown that wascreated for the PtolemaicEgyptian Queen ArsinoëII which has importantconclusions for ancientEgyptian history. Basedon detailed examinationof reliefs, the aim is toidentify and understandthe symbolism that is embedded in each pictorial detailthat together form the crown, as well as allcontextual aspects of the relief scenes, and how thisreflects the wearers socio–political and religiouspositions. The results of this study suggest that thecrown of Arsinoë was created for the living queenand reflected three main cultural positions: her royalposition as King of Lower Egypt, her cultic role ashigh priestess, and her religious aspect as theaPhiladelphos. It indicates that she was proclaimedfemale pharaoh during her lifetime and should beincluded in the official pharaonic king list as PtolemyIIs co–regent: her royal authority should beconsidered equivalent to Hatshepsut, Tawosret andAmenirdis II, as one of the most important royalwomen in Egyptian history. Arsinoë’s complexpersona were embedded in a very unique attributeher crown and that this remained a symbol ofauthority throughout the last centuries of theancient Egyptian period. 272p, b/w & colour illus(Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842174920 Hb £55.00

From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political andEconomic Change in Egyptby Andrew MonsonThis book gives a structured account of Egypt’s

transition from Ptolemaic toRoman rule by identifyingkey relationships betweenecology, land tenure,taxation, administration andpolitics. Patterns of landownership are linked topopulation density and areseen as one aspect ofcontinuity between thePtolemaic and Roman period.Fiscal reform, by contrast,emerges as a significant

mechanism of change not only in the agrarianeconomy but also in the administrative system andthe whole social structure. 343p (Cambridge UP 2012)9781107014411 Hb £60.00

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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Alexandria’sEconomic Past: The Lake Mareotis ResearchProjectby Lucy Blue and Emad KhaliThis volume presents the results of a large scalesystematic survey of the shores of the western armof Lake Mareotis, Alexandria, and develops a moredetailed picture of its role in the city’s ancienteconomy. Specialist reports cover the importantceramic assemblage, and the geomorphology andenvironmental evidence, whilst the central sectionof the book consists of a catalogue of the 73 sitesidentified by the survey. 313p b/w illus (BAR 2285,Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308623 pb £40.00

Alexandria and the Moonby Chris BennettA comprehensive study of the Macedonian lunarcalendar of Ptolemaic Egypt. The mechanics of thecalendar are examined in detail, and a new approachfor reconstructing the sequence of intercalarymonths and years is proposed which, for the firsttime, permits a consistent interpretation of thepapyrological data of the middle Ptolemaic period.312p (Peeters 2011) 9789042925052 Hb £75.00

Cultural Memory and Early Civilization:Writing, Remembrance and PoliticalImaginationby Jan AssmannDr Assmann defines two theoretical concepts ofcultural memory, differentiating between the long–term memory of societies, which can span up to 3,000years, and communicative memory, which istypically restricted to 80 to 100 years. He applies thistheoretical framework to case studies of four specificcultures, illustrating the function contexts andspecific achievements, including the state,international law, religion and science. Ultimately,his research demonstrates that memory is not simplya means of retaining information, but rather a forcethat can shape cultural identity and allow culturesto respond creatively to both daily challenges andcatastrophic changes. 319p (Cambridge UP 2011)9780521763813 Hb £60.00, 9780521188029 Pb £17.99

Lapis Lazuli from the Kiln: Glass andGlassmaking in the Late Bronze Ageby Andrew ShortlandAn examination of the history of the first glass, fromits early sporadic occurrence, through the height ofits production in the late second millennium BC, toits disappearance at the end of that millennium. Thearea covered includes the heart of glassmaking anduse in Egypt and the Near East, as well as thoseareas were glass might have been traded. The bookdetails the use of scientific analysis to provideinformation for the reconstruction of the history ofthis glass and highlights the importance of analysisin validating or challenging archaeological andtextual interpretations. 260p, col pls (Leuven UP 2012)9789058676917 Hb £60.50

A Companion to the Archaeology of the AncientNear Eastedited by D.T. PottsThis comprehensive and authoritative work drawstogether 58 new essays from an internationalcommunity of ancient Near East scholars. Ithighlights the enormous variation in culturaldevelopments across roughly 11,000 years of humanendeavour. In addition to chapters devoted to specificregions and particular periods, as well as particularcivilisations and empires, many contributorsconcentrate on individual industries and majorthemes in ancient Near Eastern archaeology, rangingfrom metallurgy and agriculture to irrigation andfishing. 2 vols, 1445p, b/w illus (Wiley–Blackwell 2012)9781405189880 Hb £199.95

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth ofCivilizationby Paul KriwaczekA lively introduction to Mesopotamian history fromthe dawn of civilization to the conquests of Cyrusthe Great. Paul Kriwaczek is a journalist and anenthusiast for Ancient Near Eastern history, and hisenjoyment of the subject is conveyed well. Hisapproach is broadly chronological, but is alwaysready to take in anecdotes and digressions, lookingat ancient texts and technologies, the educationsystem, beliefs, trade, episodes from the history ofthe country’s archaeology, and so on. 310p b/w pls(Atlantic Books 2010, Pb 2012) 9781848871564 Hb£19.99, 9781848871571 Pb £9.99

An Introduction to Ancient MesopotamianReligionby Tammi J. SchneiderOffers readers a compact guideto the religion of the peoplesliving in the region of theTigris and Euphrates riversfrom the beginning of theBronze Age to the time ofAlexander the Great andDarius III. Drawing on extanttexts, artefacts, andarchitecture, Schneideruncovers both an intriguingpantheon of deities, and the complex, fluid, andhighly ritualized religious experience of the peoplewho spent their lives serving and appeasing them.146p (Eerdmans 2011) 9780802829597 Pb £11.99

Sons and Descendants: A Social History of KinGroups and Family Names in the Early Neo–Babylonian Period, 747–626 BCby John P. NielsenDrawing primarily on evidence from legaldocuments from the early Neo–Babylonian period,this book examines the presence of large, named kingroups at the major Babylonian cities, consideringtheir origins and the important roles their membersplayed as local elites in city governance and templeadministration. 331p (Brill 2011) 9789004189638 Hb£120.00

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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

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

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





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Bismaya: Recovering the Lost City of Adabby Karen Wilson with Jacob Lauinger, MonicaLouise Phillips, Benjamin Studevent–Hickman,and Aage WestenholzAn expedition from the University of Chicagoexcavated the site of Bismaya (ancient Adab) fromDecember 24, 1903, until late June 1905.The resultsof the Bismaya excavations were never properlypublished, and most of the material was neverpublished at all. This monograph presents this largeand significant corpus of unpublished material andincludes analyses of stratigraphy, architecture,sculpture, cylinder seals, metalwork, and pottery,and discussions of chronology, the succession of thefirst kings of Adab, and administrative practicesduring the third millennium B.C. 194p b/w illus(Oriental Institute of Chicago 2012) 9781885923639 pb£50.00 ***NYP***

Neo–Babylonian Letters and Contracts fromthe Eanna Archiveby Eckart Frahm and Michael JursaThis new volume presents facsimile copies of overtwo hundred previously unpublished Babylonianletters and documents written in cuneiform script.The texts, dating from the sixth century B.C., mainlyoriginate from the archives of the Eanna temple inUruk in southern Mesopotamia, and they contributeimportant information relating to the political, social,and economic history of this period. In a detailedintroduction the authors discuss the significance ofthese texts and explore their historical andsocioeconomic implications. 83p, 125 b/w pls (Yale UP2011) 9780300169591 Hb £85.00

The Oxus Treasureby John CurtisThe Oxus treasure is a rich and impressive collectionof gold and silver objects dating back to the fifthand fourth centuries BC. Consisting of around 170objects, including vessels, a gold scabbard, armlets,coins and much more, the collection is an exampleof ancient goldsmithing at its very best. Withexciting and descriptive insight placing the treasureinto historical and cultural context, this book takesa closer look at the individual wonders that makeup one of the British Museums most celebrated andcherished collections. 63p col illus (British Museum2012) 9780714150796 Pb £5.00

Tombes D’Epoque Parthe: Chantiers de La VilleDes Artisansby Remy Boucharlat and Ernie HaerinckAmong the hundred or so tombs excavated byRoman Ghirshman between 1947 and 1952 on themound of the Ville des Artisans at Susa, six areremarkable for their construction and burialcontents. Based on his notes, the authors haveengaged to publish these tombs, together with theoriginal plans, drawings and photographs of theburial goods.A synthesis of the evolution in tombarchitecture and typology, as well as burial practices,for the whole site of Susa is also presented. Frenchtext. 91p, 35 b/w pls (Brill 2011) 9789004211346 £99.00


Living the Lunar Calendaredited by Jonathan Ben–Dov, Wayne Horowitz,John M. SteeleLunar calendars suffer froman inherent uncertainty inthe length of each monthand the number of monthsin the year. Variableatmospheric conditions,weather and the acuity ofthe eye of an observer meanthat the first sighting of thenew moon crescent cannever be known in advance.The papers in this volumeaddress the question of how ancient and medievalsocieties lived with the uncertainties of a lunarcalendar. How did lack of foreknowledge of thebeginning of the month impact uponadministration, the planning of festivals, andhistorical record keeping? Did societies replace theobservation of the new moon crescent withschematic calendars or calendars based uponastronomical calculations and what were theideological and practical consequences of such achange? The contributors to this volume addressthese topics from the perspectives of a variety ofAncient Near Eastern, Jewish, Ancient and MedievalEuropean, Asian and American cultures. 350p(Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842174814 Pb £30.00

Forces of Transformation: The End of theBronze Age in the Mediterraneanedited by Christoph Bachhuber and R GarethRobertsThis volume presents new interpretive approachesto the problems of the Bronze Age to Iron Age

transformation, as well asre–assessments of a widerange of high profile sitesand evidence ranging fromthe Ugaritic archives,Hazor, the Medinet Habureliefs, Tiryns and Troy.Implications for achanging climate are alsoexplored in the volume. Itsscope is great, but notoverwhelming, as thepapers are organized

coherently into themes considering climate,exchange and interregional dynamics, iconographyand perception, the built environment – cemeteries,citadels, and landscapes, and social implications forthe production and consumption of pottery. 236p,149 illus (BANEA monograph 1, Oxbow Books 2009, Pb2012) 9781842175033 Pb £38.00

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The Later Prehistory of the Badia: Excavationand Surveys in Eastern Jordan, Volume 2by A. V. G. Betts, with D. Cropper, L. Martin andC. McCartneyThe Jordanian badia is an arid region that has been

largely protected frommodern development by itsextreme climate and haspreserved a remarkably richrecord of its prehistoric past.This is the second of twovolumes to documentextensive surveys andexcavations in the regionfrom Al-Azraq to the Iraqiborder over the period 1979-1996. Broadly, it covers theLate Neolithic and

Chalcolithic of the eastern badia, which witnessed aspread of campsites and short-term occupation, aswell as the first appearance of sheep and goat as oneelement of the steppic economy alongside traditionalpractices of hunting and foraging. 240p (OxbowBooks in association with the Council for British Research inthe Levant, 2012) 9781842174739 Hb £48.00

Textile Production and Consumption in theAncient Near East: archaeology, epigraphy,iconographyedited by Marie-Louise Nosch and HenrietteKoefoedThe thirteen intriguingchapters in TextileProduction and Consumptionin the Ancient Near Eastdescribe thedevelopments andchanges from householdto standardised,industria-lised andcentralised productionswhich take place in theregion. They discuss theeconomic, social and cultural impact of textiles onancient society through the application of textiletool studies, experimental testing, context studiesand epigraphical as well as iconographical sources.Together they demonstrate that the textileindustries, production, technology, consumptionand innovations are crucial to, and thereforeprovide an in-depth view of ancient societiesduring this period. Geographically thecontributions cover Anatolia, the Levant, Syria,the Assyrian heartland, Sumer, and Egypt. 200p, 8colour & 82 b/w illus (Oxbow 2012) 9781842174890Hb £30.00

Peoples and Crafts in Period IVB at Hasanlu,Iranedited by Maude de SchauenseeThis volume describes a group of ongoing researchprojects, most of which provide new informationon Iron Age technology. The book begins with adescription of the wooden furniture fragments alongwith fittings and decorative elements for furnitureLater chapters assess the significance of Hasanlu inthe history of glassmaking, describe thearchaeometallurgy of the Hasanlu IVB bronzes, andpresent a catalogue of the bladed weapons. 214p, b/w illus, DVD (University of Pennsylvania Museum Press2011) 9781934536179 Hb £45.50

Bactrian Documents from NorthernAfghanistan III: Platesby Nicholas Sims–WilliamsDuring the last twenty years, more than 150documents in Bactrian, the language of pre–IslamicAfghanistan, have come to light. These documentsprovide unique information on the history ofAfghanistan and neighbouring lands in the 4th to8th centuries C.E., as well as revealing a MiddleIranian language which was hardly known before.270p, 230 b/w illus (Azimuth Editions, 2012)9781874780915 hb £35.00

Before the Revolution: EpipaleolithicSubsistence in the Western Taurus Mountains,Turkeyby Levent AticiThis monograph investigates changes in localhunter–gatherer adaptations during the TerminalPleistocene in the Western Taurus Mountains. Acomprehensive zooarchaeological analysis ofarchaeofaunas from two cave sites in theMediterranean Region of Turkey provides insightsinto the social and economic transformations of thesocieties living in the region before the emergenceof agricultural economies. 238p b/w illus (BAR 2251,Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308180 pb £43.00

The Balboura Survey and Settlement inHighland Southwest Anatoliaby J.J. CoultonThe Balboura Survey, conducted between 1985 and1994, investigated the settlement history of a smalldistrict in the ancient region of Kabalia in themountains of southwestern Turkey. Although thesurvey’s focus was on the Hellenistic–EarlyByzantine city of Balboura and its western territory,the fieldwork revealed significant prehistoricoccupation, and the project included research intoOttoman and recent settlement. The survey ispresented in two volumes, the first of whichanalyses settlement in the survey area from theChalcolithic to the 20th century, placing it in thecontext of the adjoining districts. The secondcontains detailed discussions of the pottery, whichprovides a chronological framework for theinterpretation of the survey, and a major study ofHellenistic and Roman inscriptions. 2 vols, 744p,b/w illus (British Institute at Ankara 2012)9781898249221 hb £80.00

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Economic Centralisation in Formative States:The Archaeological Reconstruction of theEconomic System in 4th Millennium Arslantepeedited by Marcella FrangipaneThis study provides a comprehensive reappraisal ofall of the available evidence for economic activity atArslantepe during the crucial period of stateformation. The discussion ranges across differentsectors of the economy from production centres tothe distribution, circulation and consumption ofgoods. Prominent themes include the physicallocations of economic activity, and related issues ofpublic and private, religious and secular spheres andtheir interaction, as well as social aspects ofredistribution. 330p b/w illus (Sapienza Universita diRoma 2010) 9788890424014 pb £110.00

The Elements of Hittiteby Theo Van Den HoutThis new course offers in ten lessons acomprehensive introduction to the grammar of theHittite language with ample exercises both intransliteration and in cuneiform. It includes aseparate section of paradigms, a grammatical index,as well as a list of every cuneiform sign used in thebook. A full glossary can be found at the back. Thebook has been designed so that the cuneiform is notessential and can be left out of any course if sodesired. 204p (Cambridge UP 2011) 9780521115643 Hb£60.00, 9780521133005 Pb £24.99

Ahlat 2007: Indagini preliminari sulle strutturerupestriedited by Roberto Bixio and Andrea De PascaleThis is an interim report from the ongoingexcavations at Ahlat in eastern Turkey, and presentsa premlinary survey of the extensive undergroundIslamic era settlements. Overall more than 700natural and artificial cavities were identified andeight independent settlements. Parallel Italian andEnglish text. 155p b/w illus (BAR 2293, Archaeopress2011) 9781407308708 pb £35.00

The Madaba Plains Project: Forty Years ofArchaeological Research into Jordan’s Pastedited by Douglas R. Clark, Larry G. Herr, OysteinS. LaBianca and Randall W. YounkerThis volume celebratesforty years of the Madabaplains project, describingthe genesis, developmentand achievements of thislong–running programmeof excavation and survey,as well as exploring itswider implications.Chapters provide synthesisand analysis, focusing onparticular sites orchronological periods, aswell as in depth studies of topics such as religion,and of issues of methodology which have beenhighlighted as a result of the work of the project.306p b/w illus (Equinox 2011) 9781845535148 Hb £70.00

Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates, Volume Three: ThePotteryby Heather Jackson and John TidmarshThis volume is dedicated to the ceramics from theHellenistic settlement of Jebel Khalid. Its analysisfocuses on more than 11 tonnes of local pottery fromthe Housing Insula, as well as examples of fine waresfrom throughout the site. The results provide avaluable reference for pottery in the north Syrianregion between c.275-70 BC. 554p, b/w illus, 36 b/wpls (Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement 7, 2011)9780958026536 Hb £190.00

Tells: Social and Environmental Spaceedited by Robert Hofmann, Fevzi-Kemal Moetzand Johannes MullerTells form an important part of the landscape ofsettlement in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and BronzeAge landscapes of southeast Europe and the MiddleEast. This volume analyses the social andenvironmental factors which determined tellformation and discontinuation, combiningindividual case studies with broader surveys, andexploring factors such as climate and vegetation,sedentarism and social complexity. 233p b/w and colfigs (Rudolf Habelt Verlag 2012) 9783774937659 Hb£60.00

Pesher Nahum: Texts and Studies in JewishHistory and Literature from Antiquitythrough the Middle AgesPresented to Norman(Nahum) Golbedited by Joel L. Kraemerand M.G. WechslerContained herein are 25articles (20 in English, 5 inHebrew) that, like theacademic oeuvre of volume’shonoree, span a broad arrayof topics within the fields ofHebraica, Judaica, andBiblica. 360p (Oriental InstitutePublication 2012) 9781885923875 PB £25.00

Early Bronze Age Goods Echange in the SouthernLevant: A Marxist Perspectiveby Ianir MilevskiThis study of local exchange networks in the EarlyBronze Age of the southern Levant takes a explicitlyMarxist approach. Milevski provides a synthesis ofknown data, defining groups of commodities, andplotting their distribution geographically andchronologically, to offer a picture of socio-economicrelations and exchange patterns within the region.Methods of transport and exchange are alsoexamined to build up a picture of the social groupsinvolved. He finds that there is no evidence forunified networks or media of exchange, and thatdifferent branches of production developed their ownnetworks of distribution. 294p b/w figs (Equinox 2011)9781845533786 Hb £75.00

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Ashkelon 3: The Seventh Century BCby Lawrence E. Stager, Daniel M. Master and J.David SchloenA study of the city ofAshkelon in the seventhcentury BC, whenAshkelon’s markets linkedland routes from thesoutheast to a web ofinternational Mediterraneanmerchants, this volumedescribes the Iron Agebazaar where shopkeeperssold the goods of Egypt,Greece, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Judah. It illustratesthe range of imported and local artefacts recoveredby more than ten years of excavation. The twenty–eight chapters, by more than two dozencontributors, combine to describe Ashkelon’s pivotalrole in the economy and politics of the late seventhcentury B.C. 817p col illus t/out (Eisenbrauns 2011)9781575069395 Hb £80.00

The Dead Sea Scrolls and ContemporaryCultureedited by Adolfo Roitman, Lawrence H.Schiffman and Shani TzorefThe aim of this weighty volume is to move beyondthe strict confines of conventional scholarship andto explore new avenues of research, including theexamination of the place of the findings from theJudean Desert in their contemporary context. Thebook is divided into five main sections: the Identityand History of the Community; the Qumran Library:Origins, Use, and Nature; Christianity in Light ofthe Dead Sea Scrolls; Gender at Qumran; and NewPerspectives. 769p (Brill 2011) 9789004185937 Hb£195.00

Festive Meals in Ancient Israelby Peter AltmannThis study investigates the festive meals inDeuteronomy’s laws in comparison to depictions ofmeals in other biblical texts, as well as ancient NearEastern texts and iconography. It includes discussionof the archaeology of meals in the ancient Levantand recent anthropological findings on meals inorder to emphasise the centrality of meals for identityformation as well as for political and religiousrhetoric in the texts of Deuteronomy. 300p (De Gruyter2011) 9783110255362 Hb £110.00

Cultural Change: Jewish, Christian andIslamic Coins of the Holy Landby David HendinA full colour catalogue of the coins featured in theANS acclaimed temporary exhibit of the same name.All coins are illustrated in full colour, withexplanatory text, illustrations of related material,maps and family–trees. The volume serves as the idealintroduction to the coinage of the Holy Land, aswell as providing a history of the region from the4th century BC to Crusader times.128p (AmericanNumismatic Society 2012) 9780897223195 pb £26.00***NYP***


Cyprus: an island culture. Society and SocialRelations from the Bronze Age to the VenetianPeriodedited by Artemis GeorgiouThis volume, introduced by Edgar Peltenburg,

presents the results of latestresearch by young scholarsworking on aspects ofCypriot archaeology fromthe Bronze Age to theVenetian period. It presentsa diversity excavation,material culture,iconographic and linguisticevidence to explore thethemes of ancient landscape,settlement and society;religion, cult and

iconography; and Ancient Cyprus and theMediterranean. 256p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books, 2011)9781842174401 hb £40.00

Cypro–Minoan Inscriptions, Volume 1:Analysisby Silvia FerraraThis volume offers the firstcomprehensive examinationof an ancient writing systemfrom Cyprus and Syriaknown as Cypro–Minoan,which remainsundeciphered. With a newmethodology concentratingon a ground–breakingcontextual approach,Ferrara presents the firstlarge–scale study of Cypro–Minoan with an analysisof all the inscriptions through a multidisciplinaryperspective that embraces aspects of archaeology,epigraphy, and palaeography. Volume two willcontain a comprehensive catalogue of theinscriptions and their archaeological settings. 326pb/w figs (Oxford UP 2012) 9780199607570 Hb £75.00

Intercultural Contacts in the AncientMediterraneanedited by Kim Duistermaat and Ilona RegulskiThirty–five contributions deal with interculturalcontacts all over the Mediterranean from the Levantto Spain and from Egypt to Greece, from prehistoryup to the Hellenistic period. They are presented insix sections: Theory and methodology, Identifyingforeigners and immigrants, Material evidence forcontact, Maritime trade and sea ports, Influences iniconography, ideology and religion, andAdministration and economy. 597p b/w illus (Peeters2011) 9789042924512 Hb £105.00

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The Mediterranean Context of Early GreekHistoryby Nancy H. DemandThis study reveals the role that the complexinteraction of Mediterranean cultures and maritimenetworks had in shaping and developingurbanisation. It shows how Greek city–states didnot simply emerge in isolation in remote countryvillages, but rather sprang up along the shores ofthe Mediterranean in an intimate maritime networkof Greeks and non–Greeks alike. It also looks furtherback, highlighting the role that seafaring andconnectivity played in the development of societiesfrom the Mesolithic onwards. 353p b/w illus (Wiley–Blackwell 2011) 9781405155519 Hb £74.99

Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks ThroughTechnology: A Diachronic Perspective on theAegeanedited by Ann BrysbaertThe essays in this study all use technology in itsbroadest sense as a means to study social networksand communication across the Aegean during theNeolithic and Bronze Ages. The contributors all takea consistent theoretical approach which combiningconcepts of Chaine opertoire and cross–craft interaction,but employ a variety of disciplines includinggeoarchaeology, archaeometry, archaeologycombined with textual evidence, statistics,iconography and anthropology. 210p b/w figs(Routledge 2011) 9780415896160 Hb £80.00

Ethnicity in Mediterranean Protohistoryby Wim M.J. van Binsbergen and Fred C.WoudhuizenThis book focuses in the main on the question ofthe ethnicity of the Sea Peoples of the central andeastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. It is divided intofour parts. The first and third are by WimBinsbergen, setting out his theoretical approach andoffering a detailed appraisal of the Homeric catalogueof ships and the Biblical table of nations, whilst inthe matter of the Sea Peoples, focusing on long termprocesses and cultural features. Part 2 is by FredWoudhuizen, and takes a more historically focusedapproach, offering an in depth review of the availablewritten material and linguistic data. In theconcluding section they provide a synthesis of theirdiffering but mutually complementary views. 519pb/w illus (BAR 2256, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308234pb £70.00

The Black Sea, Greece, Anatolia and Europe inthe First Millennium BCedited by Gocha R. TsetskhladzeThis volume honours Jan Bouzek, and its contentsrepresent his wide–ranging interests with topicsincluding Thrace, the Getae, the Persians in Europe,the impact of the Etruscans on ancient Europe, BlackSea archaeology, Hallstatt Europe, the Celts, theScythians, the Iron Age in Central Anatolia, andancient jewellery. 448p b/w illus (Peeters 2011)9789042923249 Hb £105.00

LM IB Pottery: Relative Chronology andRegional Differencesedited by Thomas M. Bogan and Erik HallagerThis large two volumework publishes theproceedings of a 2007workshop at the DanishInstitute at Athens, andcontains articles on LM IBpottery with coverage fromalmost every LM IB site inCrete, as well as materialfrom further afield. As wellas addressing methodo-logical problems relating tothe incomplete publicationof the huge LM I assemblages, prominent themesinclude regional trends in ceramic production, andrelative chronology and the possibility of identifyinglocal sub–phases of LM IB. 656p, 2 vols, b/w illus(Aarhus UP 2011) 9788779345737 Hb £60.00

The Minoan Double Axe: An ExperimentalStudy of Production and Useby Maria Lowe FriThis study investigates the symbolically chargeddouble axe as a tool in Crete during the Minoanperiod. Twenty three double axes are examined fortraces of manufacturing methods and different use–wear in conjunction with experimental work toestablish possible usage. Three principal kinds ofactivity are identified (carpentry, stonemasonry andbutchering) and means of distinguishing theseactivities through use–wear analysis suggested. 140pb/w and col illus (BAR 2304, Archaeopress 2011)9781407308814 pb £31.00

PHILISTOR: Studies in Honor of CostisDavarasedited by Eleni Mantzourani and Philip BetancourtContributions by 37 scholars in honour of the longand fruitful career of Costis Davaras. Articles pertainto Bronze Age Crete and include mortuary studies,experimental archaeology, numerous artifactualstudies, and discussions on the greater Minoancivilization. lv + 282p, 5 tables in text, 187 figs. in text(INSTAP Academic Press 2012) 9781931534659 hb£53.00***NYP***

Archaeological Survey of the GourniaLandscapeby L. Vance Watrous, Donald Haggis, KrzysztofNowicki, Natalia Vogeikoff–Brogan, andMaryanne SchultzThis volume, covering the hinterland of the BronzeAge palace of Gournia, completes the publication ofan archaeological survey of the entire Mirabello Bayregion. It goes beyond the survey data to consider,at some length, the evidence from local excavations,so as to provide an in–depth and integrated pictureof the regional socio–economic development. 412 totalpp., 15 tables, 49 maps, 64 figures, 59 plates (INSTAPAcademic Press, 2012) 9781931534673 hb £53.00***NYP***

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A Companion to Linear B: Mycenean GreekTexts and Their World, Volume 2edited by Yves Duhoux and Anna MorpurgoDaviesThe second volume of this acclaimed companion toLinear B contains six chapters: Interpreting theLinear B records: some guidelines (Duhoux); Scribes,scribal hands and palaeography (Bennet);Mycenaean religion and cult (Hiller); Mycenaeanonomastics (Garcia Ramon); Mycenaean andHomeric language (Ruijh). 343p (Peeters 2011)9789042924031 Pb £70.00

Kos in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age: TheHalasarna Finds and the Aegean SettlementPatternby Mercourios GeorgiadisThis volume is based on material from an intensiveand systematic field survey of Halasarna, located ona coastal plain in the southern part of theDodecanesian island of Kos, and a study ofsettlement patterns across the Aegean. It provides anew corpus of data on the Neolithic and Early BronzeAge periods, presents a material sequence based onstylistic analysis, and develops a diachronicunderstanding of settlement dynamics within awider regional context. 288p, 5 tables, 9 maps, 25figures, 18 plates (INSTAP Academic Press, 2012)9781931534680 hb £46.00***NYP***


Eastern Mediterranean Metallurgy in theSecond Millennium BCedited by Vasiliki Kassianidou and GeorgePapasavvasThese essays on Cyprusand the surroundingregions compare andcontrast the materialculture associated withmetallurgical workshopsand to discusstechnological issues andtheir cultural andarchaeological contexts.Some papers are devotedto the metallurgy andmetalwork of Cyprus, presenting material fromvarious sites and discussing the production and useof copper in the eastern Mediterranean. Others arededicated to the Minoan and Aegean metal industryand the connections between Sardinia and Cyprus.Moving eastwards, from Anatolia through the Syro-palestinian coast and Jordan and south to Egypt,papers are presented that discuss Late Bronze Agemetallurgy in Alalakh, Ugarit, Faynan, Timna andQantir. The volume also includes papers on tin andiron. 304p, 154 b/w illus, 24 tables (Oxbow Books 2012)9781842174531 Hb 60.00

Dams and Water Management Systems ofMinoan Pseiraby Philip P. BetancourtAgriculture was one of the cornerstones of theBronze Age Cretan economy, and it is no surprisethat the ancient inhabitants of the island went togreat lengths to control water runoff and make itavailable for human use. The use of a differentialGlobal Positioning System (dGPS) unit provided theopportunity to take a fresh look at the evidence forwater management on the island of Pseira. Theresults of this study contribute substantial amountsof new information on the little known subject ofMinoan water conservation and control. xvi + 92pp., 39 figs. in text (INSTAP Academic Press)9781931534666 pb £13.00 ***NYP***

The Man Who Deciphered Linear B. The Storyof Michael Ventrisby Andrew RobinsonNot a complete biography, but a fascinating storyof the life, background, research and discoveries ofMichael Ventris, the man who in 1952 decipheredthe ancient Linear B script. In particular, Robinsontracks the problems that Ventris encountered incracking the code, the moments of breakthrough andhow he eventually revealed the meaning of the script.168p, b/w illus (Thames and Hudson 2002, Pb 2012)9780500289983 Pb £8.95

La Fine del Mesolitico in Italia: IdentitaCulturale e Distribuzione Territoriale degliUltimi cacciatori–raccoglitoriby Carlo FrancoThis work aims to provide an up to date synthesisof the late Mesolithic across the entire Italianpeninsula and an analysis of the Neolithic transition.It gathers all available information, published andunpublished, on Late Mesolithic finds, reviews thegeneral and specific characteristics of the period inthe Italian peninsula, and analyses the distributionof sites in their environmental context, to create achronological and geographic framework. Italiantext. 278p b/w illus (Trieste 2011) pb £40.00

L’Eta del Ferro a Capua: Aspetti distintivi delContesto Culturale e suo Inquadramento nelleDinamiche di Sviluppo dell’Italia Protostoricaby Gianluca MelandriIn this extensive study, the author aims at acomprehensive analysis of funerary archaeologicalevidence in Early Iron Age Capua. He re–evaluatesthe relative and absolute chronology proposed byW. Johannowksy based on new data and provides asynthesis of the last 50 years of archaeologicalresearch in Capua. The material culture and funeraryritual are examined in depth alongside thedevelopment of Iron Age community in Capua, andthemes of social identity, gender and cultural contactsdrawn out. Italian text. 477p, b/w illus, CD–Rom (BAR2265, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308364 pb £75.00