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Albania: An Archaeological GuideBy Oliver GilkesOliver Gilkes has considerable experience excavatingin Butrint and carrying out research at otherAlbanian sites and this book is clearly a labour oflove. After providing essential background to thecountry’s history he selects 50 of the most interestingsites, from Neolithic settlements and Bronze Ageburial sites, to Classical towns and villas, medievalchurches, Venetian fortifications, and Communistera defence works. Plans are provided for all sites,and detailed instructions are provided to enable youfind them, particularly those that are off the beatentrack. 332p, b/w illus, col pls (Tauris & Co Ltd 2013)9781780760698 Hb £49.50

Time’s Anvil: England, Archaeology and theImaginationBy Richard MorrisZig-zagging between prehistoric stone tools andTudor theatre, primal wildwood and mass-producedcars, Time’s Anvil weaves a series of interconnectingstudies of apparently unrelated things and periodsthat are normally considered in isolation. In theprocess he re-examines aspects of England’s storyfrom the end of the last glacial period to the present.Combining the personal with the academic andreflecting on how and why archaeology goes aboutits business, the result is a fresh account of who weare and our relationship with Nature. 466p, b/willus (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2012) 9780297867838 Hb£25.00, 9781780222448 Pb £9.99

Soviet Archaeology: Trends, Schools, andHistoryBy Leo S KlejnLeo Klejn, an archaeologist active in Soviet Russia,examines the peculiar phenomenon which wasSoviet archaeology, showing where it differs fromWestern archaeology and the archaeology of pre-revolutionary Russia, and where it revealssimilarities. He asks whether Soviet archaeology canbe regarded as Marxist, showing that Sovietarchaeology was no monolithic bloc. Rather it wasdivided into competing schools and trends and, evenbeneath the veil of Marxist ideology, was oftenclosely related to movements current in Westernarchaeology. 411p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012)9780199601356 Hb £85.00

European Archaeology Abroad: GlobalSettings, Comparative PerspectivesEdited by S.J. van der Lindt, M. H. Van den Dries,Nathan Schlanger & C.G. SlappendelWhat are European archaeologists doing abroad?What have they been doing there for the past threeto four centuries? Are they doing things differentlynowadays? To address these questions, this bookexplores the scope, impact and ethics of Europeanarchaeological policies and practices in theMediterranean area, the Near East, sub-SaharanAfrica, Asia and Latin America. 422p, col and b/w ilus(Sidestone Press 2013) 9789088901065 Pb £45.00 - only £40.00 prior to publication! ***NYP***

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Experimental Archaeology and Theory: RecentApproaches to Archaeological HypothesesEdited by FrederickFouldsExperimental Archaeologyaims to bridge the gap inarchaeology betweenempirical testing andhumanistic approaches tounderstanding the materialrecord. The contributorsexplore a wide variety ofdifferent fields includinghow a phenomenologicalmethodology can be used toincrease our understanding of how a Bronze Agetemple was ‘experienced’ by people in the past; howexperimentation in the production of materials suchas rawhide, glass and wine-making can be used totest theories or written sources and the possibilitiesof studying the three-dimensional morphology ofAcheulian handaxes to search for possibleidiosyncratic indicators during the LowerPalaeolithic. The papers reflect the continueddiversity of work that experimental archaeology isable to produce and show how experimentation canbe integrated with theory to substantiate a varietyof hypotheses, whether validating information fromwritten sources or testing the inferences of morerecent theoretical ideology. 144p b/w illus (Oxbow Books2013) 9781842177662 Pb £35.00

Re-Presenting the Past: Archaeology throughText and Imageedited by Sheila Bonde and Stephen Houston

The archaeological past existsfor us through intermed-iaries. Some are writtenworks, descriptions, narra-tives and field notes, whileothers are visual: thedrawings, paintings, photo-graphs, powerpoints orcomputer visualizations thatallow us to re-present pastforms of human existence.Here two papers explore theclassical past and medieval

visualizations. Three treat the Maya, and oneconsiders the imaging by eighteenth-centuryantiquarians of British history. Others engage withissues of recording by looking, for example, at theways in which nineteenth–century excavationphotographs can aid in the reconstruction of aninscription or by evaluating the process of mappinga site with ArcGIS and computer animationsoftware. All essays raise key questions about thefunction of re-presentations of the past in currentarchaeological practice. 215p b/w illus (Oxbow Books/Joukowsky Institute 2013) 9781782972310 Pb £25.00

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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 archaeologylooks at the detail of theliving domain, exploring themost essential elements of anysocial dynamic, thearchaeology of the small scale.The Archaeology of Householdlooks this this important aspect of archaeologicalstudy in a variety of different ways, using theoreticaland social perspectives, deep thinking about themathematical nature of household space, and howsocieties’ world views were reflected in domesticspace. Case studies include hunter–gatherer societiesin America, Neolithic and Bronze age lakesidesettlements in Switzerland and the Alpine region,Bronze Age sites in Hungary and northern Europeand Archaic period Sicily. 248p, 125 b/w + col illus.(Oxbow Books, 2012) 9781842175170 Hb £49.95

Ancient Textiles, Modern Scienceedited by Heather HopkinsThis book is the publication of a series of lectures

and experiments that wereundertaken at the First andSecond European TextileForums in 2009 and 2010.Each had a new approach,exploring a question oftextile manufacture in ascientific way, revealinganswers and outcomesthat were unavailablebefore. The First EuropeanTextile Forum hosted anexperiment that found the

relationship between archaeological hand–spinningfinds and the yarn they produce. The SecondEuropean Textile Forum explored the practicalaspects of undertaking reconstructions such as StoneAge fabrics, Roman dyeing or the clothing ofGunnister Man, including the deconstruction of theoriginal artefact, allowing for the unexpected andthe implications of new findings. Techniques fortreating raw materials, creating fabrics and finishingartefacts are also explored. The wider purpose andlegacy of the European Textile Forum is as afoundation for the coming years. The basis forresearch and communication, with a market forexchanging tools and materials, means that eachparticipant can avoid individually ‘re-inventing thewheel’. The purpose of this book is to share thesefindings (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842176641 Pb £35.00

Archaeological Practice in Great BritainBy John Schofield, John Carman & Paul BelfordPresented in an accessible style, with acomprehensive and up-to-date bibliography and listsof useful websites, this book is written specificallyas a source book for budding archaeologists andother heritage practitioners, while providing usefulcontext and information for those workingelsewhere in the heritage sector, away from the‘coalface’. The three main authors have very differentbut complementary backgrounds, and in writingthis book they have taken responsibility for thetopics they know best. Other professionals withparticular areas of expertise contribute short sectionson particular (and often practical) subjects such ashealth and safety. 248p, b/w illus (Springer Verlag 2012)9780387094526 Hb £90.00, 9781461430353 Pb £44.99

Training and Practice for Modern DayArchaeologistsEdited by John H. Jameson & James EoganThis volume explores a relatively new developmentin archaeology and historical preservation: newapproaches to archaeological and heritage educationand training that accommodate globalisation andthe realities of the 21st century worldwide. Itexamines how the government, universities, andprivate sector meet, albeit not always successfully,the educational and practical needs of practicingarchaeologists today. It gets to the heart of a numberof relevant issues: the international mobility ofarchaeologists and heritage managers; the problemsof sustaining employment in a volatile market;employment of archaeologists in managing thearchaeological impact of development projects;training partnerships; and the generation andinterpretation of archaeological data and knowledgethat results from such projects. 300p, b/w illus(Springer Verlag 2012) 9781461455288 Hb £90.00

Network Analysis in Archaeology: Newappraoches to regional interactionEdited by Carl KnappettThis volume provides acoherent framework onnetwork analysis in currentarchaeological practice bypulling together its mainthemes and approaches toshow how it is changing theway archaeologists face thekey questions of regionalinteraction. Working with theterm ‘network’ as a collectionof nodes and links, as used innetwork science and social network analysis, itjuxtaposes a range of case studies and investigatesthe positives and negatives of network analysis. Withcontributions by leading experts in the field, thevolume covers a broad range: from Japan to America,from the Palaeolithic to the Precolumbian. 384p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199697090 Hb £75.00

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Locating the Sacred: Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of ReligionEdited by Claudia Moser & Cecelia FeldmanUnderstanding religious ritual requires viewing it not as a disembodied event, but asemplaced, grounded in both built and natural surroundings, and integrated with itsassociated material objects. Here authors examine various religious practices in theGreco-Roman world and pilgrimage routes in contemporary Israel. Othercontributions focus on the East, on domestic religion in prehistoric Taiwan, and thepalimpsest of ritual activity in Buddhist China. One author considers not just ritual’sbuilt and natural setting, but also the landscape of the human mind. By way ofconclusion, many of the recurring issues concerning the material and topographicmatrix of ritual practice are expanded upon in a final meditation on sacred space.144p, b/w and col. illustrations (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782976165 Pb £25.00

From These Bare Bones: Raw Materials and Worked Osseous ObjectsEdited by Sonia O’Connor & Alice ChoykeThe 20 papers presented here explore a wealth of information pertaining to the useof osseous materials over the long period of human craftsmanship and toolmanufacture by exploring several key themes: raw material selection and curationwithin tool types; social aspects of raw material selection; and new methods ofmaterials identification. It is demonstrated that the issue of raw materialidentification has numerous implications for conservation work, reproduction ofobjects, the physical characteristics of the tool or ornament, ability of raw materials,the materials chosen for procurement and the cultural reasons that lie behind thechoice of raw materials from particular species and skeletal elements to produceplanned tool and ornament types. 256p, col. illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782972112Pb £45.00

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Medicine, Healing, and PerformanceEdited by Effie Gemi-Iordanou, Stephen Gordon, Robert Matthew, Ellen McInnes& Rhiannon PettittWhether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, humanagency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological andanthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of theperformative aspects of medicine. The papers contained in this volume, based on asession conducted at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Conference, take a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, addressing such issues as the cultural conceptionof disease; the impact of gender roles on healing strategies; the possibilities affordedby syncretism; the relationship between material culture and the body; and the roleplayed by the active agency of the sick. 176p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782971580Pb £36.00

Past Bodies: Body-Centered Research in ArchaeologyBy Dusan Boric & John RobbWhile material culture is the main archaeological proxy to real people in the past,the absence of past bodies has been chronic in archaeological writings. Thiscollection of papers is a reaction to decades of the body’s invisibility. It raises thebody as the central topic in the study of past societies, researching its appearancein a wide variety of regional contexts and across vast spans of archaeological time.Contributions range from the deep Epi-Palaeolithic past of the Near East, throughthe European Neolithic and Bronze Age, Classical Greece and Late MedievalEngland, to pre-Columbian Central America, post-contact North America, andthe most recent conflicts in the Balkans. In all these case studies, the materiality ofthe body is centre stage. 160p, (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782975427 Pb £25.00

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Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks: The Archaeologyof Animal DiseaseBy László Bartosiewicz and Erika GalThe analysis of animal boneassemblages fromarchaeological sites providesmuch valuable dataconcerning economic andhusbandry practices in thepast, as well as insights intocultural and symbolic orritual activity. Animalpalaeopathology canidentify diseases ina r c h a e o z o o l o g i c a lassemblages but littleinterest has been expressed in investigating andunderstanding the cultural aspects of the diseasesidentified. Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks provides aninvaluable guide to the investigation of trauma anddisease in archaeozoological assem-blages. It providesa clear methodological approach, and describes andexplains the wide range of traumatic lesions, infect-ions, diseases, inherited disorders and otherpathological changes and anomalies that can beidentified. In so doing, it explores the impact that“man-made” decisions have had on animals,including special aspects of culture that may bereflected in the treatment of diseased or injured animalsoften incorporating powerful symbolic or religiousroles, and seeks to enhance our understanding of therelationship between man and beast in the past. 264pb/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782971894 Pb £38.00

Counting People: A DIY Manual for Local andFamily Historiansby John MooreLocal and family historians are often afraid to use

numerical data (Statistics) intheir research and writing. Yetnumbers are an essential partof much historical work,obviously in populationhistory but also in localstudies of agriculture,industry and social history.Counting People shows howamateur historians can usecomputers with appropriateprograms to providenumerical illustrations of

various historical topics as well as easing theirresearches. A final chapter covers research andpublishing in local history. The Bibliographyprovides advice on local historical studies in Englandand Wales and a full list of sources for populationhistory in England and Wales as well as guidanceon the use of computers in local studies. 140p (OxbowBooks 2013) 9781842174807 Pb £17.95

Foundations of Cognitive ArchaeologyBy Marc A. AbramiukMarc Abramiuk proposes a multidisciplinary basisfor the study of the mind in the past, arguing thatarchaeology and the cognitive sciences have muchto offer one another. He explains the rationale forusing these approaches in mind-relatedarchaeological research, reviewing the literature inboth cognitive psychology and cognitiveanthropology on human memory, perception, andreasoning. Drawing on archaeological and geneticevidence, Abramiuk investigates the evolution of themind through the Upper Paleolithic era—when theancient mind became functionally comparable to themodern human mind. Finally, Abramiuk offers amodel for the establishment of a discipline dealingwith the study of the mind in the past that integratesall the approaches discussed. 328p, (MIT Press 2012)9780262017688 Hb £27.95

Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals,ThingsBy Christopher WattsOf those things that are alive,we acknowledge that somehave agency while others,such as humans, have moreadvanced qualities such asconsciousness, reason andintentionality. So deeply-seated is this metaphysicalbelief, along with the relateddistinctions we drawbetween subject/object, mind/body and nature/culture that many of us tacitlyassume past groups approached and apprehendedthe world in a similar fashion. Relational Archaeologiesquestions how such a view affects our reconstructionof past beliefs and practices. In highlighting variouscounter-Modern notions of what it means ‘to be’and how these can be teased apart usingarchaeological materials, contributors provide arange of approaches from primarily theoretical/historicized treatments of the topic to practicalapplications or case studies from the Americas, theUK, Europe, Asia and Australia. 272p, (Routledge Ltd2013) 9780415525329 Pb £24.99

Rethinking Cultural Transfer andTransmission: Reflections and NewPerspectivesEdited by Petra Broomans, Sandra van Voorst &Karina SmitsThis volume formulates new directions within thestudy of cultural transfer and transmission,including gender aspects of cultural transfer, theimportance of cultural transfer for minorityliteratures and approaches to writing a culturaltransfer and transmission history. New theories arescrutinised and new insights gained fromrediscovered material. 169p (Barkhuis 2012)9789491431197 Pb £20.00

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology ofDeath and BurialEdited by S. Tarlow & Liv Nilsson StutzThis handbook reviews the current state of mortuaryarchaeology and its practice, highlighting its oftencontentious place in the modern socio-politics ofarchaeology. It contains forty-four chapters whichfocus on the history of the discipline and its currentscientific techniques and methods. It derives itsexamples and case studies from a wide range of timeperiods from the middle palaeolithic to the twentiethcentury, and geographical areas which includeEurope, North and South America, Africa, and Asia.872p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199569069 Hb£115.00

Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis:Community-Sensitive Methods for IdentifyingGroup Affiliation in Historical CemeteriesBy Michael P HeilenThis volume presents a sophisticated set of archival,forensic, and excavation methods to identify bothindividuals and group affiliations—cultural,religious, and organisational—in a multiethnichistorical cemetery. Based on an extensive excavationproject of more than 1,000 nineteenth-centuryburials in downtown Tucson, Arizona, it presentsan effective methodology for use at other historical-period sites. The book also sensitises archaeologiststo the concerns of community and cultural groupsaround mortuary excavation and outlinesprocedures for proper consultation with thedescendants of the cemetery’s inhabitants. 264p, b/willus (Left Coast Press 2013) 9781611321845 Pb £31.95

Ancient Glass: An InterdisciplinaryExplorationBy Julian HendersonThis book is an interdisciplinary exploration ofarchaeological glass in which technological,historical, geological, chemical, and cultural aspectsare combined. Henderson presents three case studies:Late Bronze Age glass, late Hellenistic-early Romanglass, and Islamic glass in the Middle East. Heconsiders in detail the provenances of the glass usingscientific techniques and discusses a range of vesselsand their uses in ancient societies. 450p, b/w illus(Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107006737 Hb £70.00

Pottery in ArchaeologyBy Clive Orton & Michael HughesDivided into three parts (history and potential; aguide to pottery processing and recording; themesin ceramic studies) this book details the routine tasksof handling pottery, and examines the most recentresearch into the quantitative study and comparisonof ceramic assemblages. The second edition is fullyupdated with coverage of the vastly expanded rangeof scientific techniques now able to archaeologistsin pottery analysis, and also contains entirely newchapters on experimental archaeology and oncontexts of production and standardisation. 340p,b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2nd ed 2013) 9781107008748Hb £65.00, 9781107401303 Pb £25.00

Humans and the Environment : New archaeo-logical perspectives for the twenty-first centuryEdited by Matthew P. Davies & Freda NkiroteM’MbogoriDrawing on data from acrossthe globe at a variety oftemporal and spatial scales,this volume resituates theway in which archaeologistsuse and apply the concept ofthe environment. Eachchapter critically explores thepotential for archaeologicaldata and practice tocontribute to modernenvironmental issues,including problems of climatechange and environmental degradation. Overall thevolume covers four basic themes: archaeologicalapproaches to the way in which both scientists andlocals conceive of the relationship between humansand their environment, applied environmentalarchaeology, the archaeology of disaster, and newinterdisciplinary directions. 348p, b/w illus (OxfordUP 2013) 9780199590292 Hb £75.00

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Caring for Digital Data in Archaeology: AGuide to Good PracticeThis guide providesinformation on the bestway to create, manage, anddocument digital data filesproduced during the courseof an archaeological projectand aims to improve thepractice of depositing andpreserving digitalinformation safely withinan archive for future use. Itis structured in three mainparts: Digital Archiving -looks at the fundamentals of digital preservation andcovers general preservation themes within thecontext of archaeological investigations, research,and resource management, with an overview ofdigital archiving practice and guidance; The ProjectLifecycle - looks at common project lifecycle elementssuch as file naming, metadata creation, andcopyright and covers general, broad themes thatshould be considered at the outset of a project; BasicComponents - looks at selected technique and filetype-specific issues together with archive structuringand deposit. This section covers common file typesthat are frequently present in archaeologicalarchives, irrespective of a project’s primary techniqueor focus. 122p (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782972495 Pb£15.00

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Environmental ArchaeologyBy Elizabeth J. Reitz & Myra ShackleyFully updated and substantially rewritten, thisvolume replaces Myra Shackley’s 1981 volume of thesame name. It surveys the complex and technicalfield of environmental archaeology for researchersinterested in the causes, consequences, and potentialfuture impact of environmental change andarchaeology. Introductory chapters explain theprocesses involved in the formation of sites, introduceresearch designs and field methods, and walk thereader through biological classifications beforefocusing on the various levels of biotic and abioticmaterials found at sites. 350p, b/w illus (Springer Verlag2012) 9781461433378 Hb £117.00

Barely Surviving or More than Enough?: Theenvironmental archaeology of subsistence,specialisation and surplus food productionEdited by Maaike Groot, Daphne Lentjes & JørnZeilerThe papers in this volume offer studies on subsistenceand surplus production with a wide geographicalperspective, ranging from the American Mid-Southto Turkey. The temporal range is just as wide, fromc. 7000 BC to the 16th century AD. Topics coveredinclude foraging strategies, the combination ofdomestic and wild food resources in the Neolithic,water supply, crop specialisation, the effect of theRoman occupation on animal husbandry, town-country relationships and the monastic economy.298p b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2013)9789088901997 Pb £45.00 - special prepublication priceonly £40.00! ***NYP***

A Bouquet of Archaeozoological Studies:Essays in honour of Wietske PrummelEdited by D. C. M. Raemaekers, E. Esser, Roel C.G. M. Lauwerier & J. T. ZeilerThe contributions to this festschrift cover a widerange of topics from all realms of archaeozoology,such as animal husbandry and mobility, birdexploitation and fishery. 214p col illus (Barkhuis 2012)9789491431159 Pb £24.00

Digital Atlas of Economic Plants inArchaeologyBy R. Neef, RTJ Cappers & RM BekkerThe third part of the Digital Plant Atlas presentsillustrations of subfossil remains of plants witheconomic value. These plant remains mainly derivefrom excavations in the Old World (Europe, WesternAsia and North Africa) that the DeutschesArchäologisches Institut (DAI, Berlin) and theGroningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA) haveconducted or participated in. Most of theeconomically valuable plants illustrated here havebeen carbonized or desiccated. The book include notonly illustrations of seeds and fruits, but also of otherplant parts. Purchase of the book includes access toa linked website which includes morphometricmeasurements of the subfossil seeds and fruits.760p, (Barkhuis 2012) 9789491431029 Hb £175.00

Handbook of Plant PalaeoecologyBy R. T. J. Cappers & R. NeefThis book deals with the study of subfossil plantmaterial retrieved from archaeological excavationsand cores dated to the Late Glacial and Holocene.One of its main objectives is to describe the processesthat underlie the formation of the archaeobotanicalarchive and the ultimate composition of thearchaeobotanical records. It summarizes the basicecological principles that relate to the reconstructionof former vegetations and of agricultural practicesin particular. 475p, (Barkhuis 2012) 9789491431074Hb £45.00

The Thames Holocene: A geoarchaeologicalapproach to the investigation of the riverfloodplain for High Speed 1, 1994–2003By Martin Bates & Elizabeth StaffordThe archaeological investigation of the route of HighSpeed 1 through the Thames Marshes required aninnovative approach to mitigation in order to findand reach the deeply buried, but highly significant,palaeoenvironmental and geoarchaeologicalsequences. The project proved highly successful inpredicting the location of buried archaeologicalremains in a number of locations. Key amongst theseare extensive remains excavated in the EbbsfleetValley, Mesolithic flint scatters at Tank Hill Road,Aveley, and Late Upper Palaeolithic and Neolithicscatters on Swanscombe Marsh. Other sites describedhere include an in situ Early Neolithic flint scatterand evidence of seasonal Roman and medievalactivity on Rainham and Wennington Marshes. Asimportant, in addition to the archaeological results,this work also presents the methodological approachthat was adopted for the investigation ofapproximately 18km (17%) of the HS1 route acrossan area of thick alluvium. 280p b/w and col illus, colpls (Wessex Archaeology 2013) 9780954597092 Hb£15.00, NYP

Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved ItsHeritageBy Simon ThurleyBetween 1900 and 1950 theBritish state amassed a hugecollection of over 800 historicbuildings, monuments andhistoric sites and openedthem to the public. This bookexplains why theextraordinary collectingfrenzy took place, setting allthis activity in its political,economic and culturalcontexts, painting a pictureof a country traumatized by war, fearful of losingwhat was left of its history, and a government thatactively set out to protect them. In the last chapterit brings the story up to date. 224p, b/w illus (YaleUP 2013) 9780300195729 Hb £18.99

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Many Voices, One Vision: The Early Years ofthe World Heritage ConventionBy Christina Cameron & Mechthild RosslerIn 1972, UNESCO put in place the World HeritageConvention, a highly successful international treatythat influences heritage activity in virtually everycountry in the world. This innovative book projectseeks out the voices of the pioneers - some 40 keyplayers who participated in the creation and earlyimplementation of the Convention - and combinesthese insightful interviews with original researchdrawn from a broad range of both published andarchival sources. The World Heritage Conventionhas been significantly influenced by 40 years ofhistory. Although the text of the Conventionremains unchanged, the way it has beenimplemented reflects global trends as well asevolving perceptions of the nature of heritage itselfand approaches to conservation. Some are soundingthe alarm, claiming that the system is implodingunder its own weight. Others believe that theConvention is being compromised by geopoliticalconsiderations and rivalries. This book stimulatesreflection on the meaning of the Convention in thetwenty-first century. 310p, b/w illus (Ashgate 2013)9781409437659 Hb £65.00

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Global Ancestors: Understanding the SharedHumanity of our Ancestorsedited by Rebecca Redfern, Jelena Bekvalac,Heather Bonney and Margaret CleggGlobal Ancestors is acollection of papers whichreflect on modernmuseological responses tothe often complex andemotive relationship thatpeople have with theancestors and objects whichthey created. Set out in threebroad themes, the firstcollection of papers explorehow indigenous peoples arerepresented in museums inPanama and China and how more can be gained byworking with indigenous communities to furtherour understanding of the ancestors. The secondsection examines changes in British and Americanmuseological thinking regarding the repatriation ofhuman remains and objects to indigenous peoples,focussing in particular on the impact of legislationon western institutions and the expectations ofindigenous communities and alternative religiousgroups. The final section explores the ways in whicharchaeologists and indigenous communities interact.These chapters illustrate, through case studies fromSouth Africa, Finland and Canada, how both groupshave worked together for their mutual benefit or tochange the majority viewpoint. 168p b/w & col. illus(Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842175330 Pb £30.00

Faith in Heritage: Displacement, Developmentand Religious Tourism in Contemporary ChinaBy Robert ShepherdUsing the example of China’s Wutai Shan—recentlydesignated both a UNESCO World Heritage site anda national park—Robert J. Shepherd analyzesChinese applications of western notions of heritagemanagement within a non-western framework.What does the concept of world heritage mean for asite practically unheard of outside of China, visitedalmost exclusively by Buddhist religious pilgrims?What does heritage preservation mean for a sitewhose intrinsic value isn’t in its historic buildingsor cultural significance, but for its sacredness withinthe Buddhist faith? How does a society navigate theseissues, particularly one where open religiousexpression has only recently become acceptable?These questions and more are explored in this book,perfect for students and practitioners of heritagemanagement looking for a new perspective. 192p, b/w illus (Left Coast Press 2013) 9781611320749 Pb £27.95

From the Deer to the Fox: The HuntingTransition and the Landscape, 1600-1850By Mandy de BelinThe traditional explanationof the transition from thehunting of deer to foxes hasaligned it with change in thelandscape: disappearingwoodland and increasedenclosure led to decline ofthe deer population.Attention turned to the foxout of necessity. This bookquestions the traditionalaccount by looking at thelandscape of Northamptonshire. It argues that themany changes that hunting underwent in thisperiod were directly related to the transformation ofthe hunting horse. The near-thoroughbred horsebecame the mount of choice for those who huntedin the shires. The fast horse, the fast hound, andthe fast prey came together with the ability ofextensive rolling pasture. It was, quite literally, thethrill of the chase that drove the hunting transition.176p, b/w illus (University of Hertfordshire Press 2013)9781909291041 Pb £14.99

Savernake Forest: Continuity and Change in aWooded LandscapeBy Ben LennonThe objective of this study is to seek to betterunderstand the processes involved in landscapechange that have resulted in the highly distinctivecharacter types found in the British Isles. A singleheavily wooded landscape has been chosen for study,that of Savernake Forest (Wiltshire, southernEngland). The study aims to show that heavilywooded landscapes, even those that we regard asrich in ancient woodland, are no less dynamic thantheir more open counterparts. 238p, b/w illus (BARBS 555, Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309460 Pb £32.00

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Art, Faith and Place in East Anglia FromPrehistory to the PresentBy T. A. Heslop, Elizabeth Mellings & MargitThofnerThe relationship between religious or spiritual

artworks and the localitywhere such objects are madeand used is the central questionthis volume addresses. Whileit is a well-known fact thatreligious artworks, objects andbuildings can have a power oragency of their own, thesources of this power are lesswell understood. It is thisproblem which the book seeksto begin to remedy, using EastAnglia as its prism. Case-

studies are taken from prehistory right up to thetwenty-first century, and from a variety of media,including wall-paintings, church architecture, andstained glass; famous sites examined includeSeahenge and Sutton Hoo. Overall, the book showshow profoundly religious artworks are embeddedin local communities, belief systems, histories andlandscapes. 352p, b/w illus (Boydell 2012)9781843837442 Hb £45.00

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Plants and People: Choices and Diversitythrough Timeedited by Alexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova,and Leonor Peña–ChocarroThis first monograph in theEARTH series Thedynamics of non-industrialagriculture: 8,000 years ofresilience and innovation ,approaches the great varietyof agricultural practices inhuman terms. It focuses onthe relationship betweenplants and people, thecomplexity of agriculturalprocesses and theirorganisation withinparticular communities and societies. CollaborativeEuropean research among archaeologists,archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians andagronomists using a broad analytical scale ofinvestigation seeks to establish new common groundfor integrating different approaches. By means ofinterdisciplinary examples, this book showcases therelationship between people and plants across wideranging and diverse spatial and temporal milieus,including crop diversity, the use of wild foodstuffs,social context, status and choices of food plants.432p, 235 col illus. (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842175149Hb £50.00

An Archaeology of Land OwnershipEdited by Maria Relaki & Despina CatapotiWithin archaeological studies, land tenure has beenmainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership.However all too often the links between land andpeople are taken as a given and not as somethingthat needs to be conceptually defined and empiricallysubstantiated. This study demonstrates that therelationship between people and land in the past isfirst and foremost an analytical issue, and one thatcalls for clarification not only at the level of definition,but also methodological applicability. Bringingtogether an international roster of specialists, theessays in this volume call attention to the processesby which links to land are established, the variousforms that such links take and how they can changethrough time, as well as their importance in helpingto forge or dilute an understanding of communityat various circumstances. 324p, b/w illus (Routledge2013) 9780415886185 Hb £80.00

Hertfordshire: A landscape historyBy Anne Rowe & Tom WilliamsonMore than three decadesafter the publication ofLionel Munby’s seminalwork The HertfordshireLandscape, Anne Rowe andTom Williamson haveproduced an authoritativenew study, based on theirown extensive fieldwork anddocumentary investigtions,as well as on the wealth ofnew research carried outover recent decades byothers - both into Hertfordshire specifically, and intolandscape history and archaeology more generally.The authors examine in detail the historical processesthat created the county’s modern physicalenvironment, discussing such things as the form andlocation of settlements; the character of fields, woodsand commons; and the distinctive local forms ofchurches, vernacular houses, and great mansions,along with their associated parks and gardens. 335p,col illus (University of Hertfordshire Press 2013)9781909291003 Pb £18.99

One Island, Many Voices: Bute Archaeologyand the Discover Bute Landscape PartnershipSchemeBy Paul R J DuffyThis book is a synthesis of new research and reviewsarising from a major project to study Bute’slandscape.It brings the current state of knowledgeabout the island’s archaeology up to date and formsthe basis of the new Archaeological ResearchFramework for Bute. Contributions from over 30archaeology professionals and local enthusiastsreview our current understandings of Bute’s heritagefrom the earliest Brandanes to the 20th centurytourists. 174p, col, b/w illus (Paul Watkins 2013)9781907730238 Hb £24.00

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Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Pre-Industrial Society: Choices,Stability and ChangeEdited by Fèlix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup & Althea DaviesThrough a series of case studies, this third volume in the Earth series deals with thetechnological constraints and innovations that enabled societies to survive and thriveacross a range of environmental conditions. The contributions are structured intothree sections: Landnam, from the Old Norse for ‘taking of land’, deals withcolonisation, including the drivers and processes through which colonisers developedan understanding of the productive potential and limitations of their new lands;Fields and field systems explores the challenges presented by field-walls in the study ofpre-industrial field systems. Agro-pastoralism focuses on the complex ‘time-spaceadaptations’ devised for managing cultivation and livestock production, particularlythe need to prevent stock incursions into arable fields during the growing seasonwhilst making effective use of seasonal grazing resources. 280p col illus t/out (OxbowBooks 2014) 9781842173596 Hb £40.00

Modelling Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments in Wetlands: The HiddenLandscape Archaeology of Hatfield and Thorne Moors, Eastern EnglandBy Henry P. Chapman & Benjamin R. GeareyModelling Hidden Landscapes utilizes a range of quantitative and qualitativemethodologies and GIS modelling to investigate spatial and temporal patterns ofHolocene landscape change for two raised mires in south Yorkshire: Hatfield andThorne Moors. Whilst concerned with specific aspects of landscape evolution, suchas peat growth and spread, the volume aims to illustrate the synergy which isgenerated through integrating spatial models with chronological modelling andstratigraphic, cartographic, topographical, environmental and archaeologicalinformation in order to better understand past landscapes, human activity andthe archaeological record. 216p, b/w and col. illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782971740Hb £30.00

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Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape InhabitationEdited by Adrian M. Chadwick & Catriona D. GibsonWithin archaeology, there has been increasing interest in the role of the past in thepast. To date, however, there has been little specific discussion of how long-termpersistence of place and practice was possible; and why this was the case. Thesixteen papers in this volume use detailed contextual evidence to address thesequestions. In many instances, contributors discuss less visible examples where‘memory work’ can be identified from non-monumental, ‘everyday’ landscapes.The case studies focus on British archaeology from the Neolithic to the earlymedieval period, but other contributions deal with Neolithic Central Europe, ancientEtruscan and Egyptian landscapes, and historic Native American practices. 336p,166 b/w and col. illustrations (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782973935 Hb £38.00

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Exploring and Explaining Diversity in Agricultural Technologyedited by Annelou van Gijn, John Whittaker and Patricia C. AndersonThis volume is the outcome of collaborative European research among archaeologists,archaeo-botanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists, and frequently usesexperiments in archaeology. It aims to establish new common ground for integratingdifferent approaches and for viewing agriculture from the standpoint of the humanactors involved. Each chapter provides an interdisciplinary overview of the skillsused and the social context of the pursuit of agriculture, highlighting examples oftools, technologies and processes from land clearance to cereal processing and foodpreparation. 304p, 285 col illus. (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842175156 Hb £40.00

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Norfolk Gardens & Designed Landscapes:by Patsy Dallas, Roger Last and Tom WilliamsonNorfolk Gardens is acelebration of the richhistory of gardens andparks in the county ofNorfolk. Beginning witha detailed exploration ofthe history of gardeningin the county – from thepre–18th century‘medicinals’, through theestablishment of thegreat country housegardens and civic spacesof the 18th and 19th centuries, to the impact ofmodern ideas of ‘ecology’ and ‘minimalist’ gardening– the volume gives detailed descriptions of 330 ofthe most beautiful and significant gardens, parksand open spaces in Norfolk. It explores the impactgardeners with national reputations – such asLancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, Edwin Lutyens andGertrude Jekyll – have had on the development ofgarden, landscape design and planting, both in thecounty and on the wider national stage, andexamines the influence that these landscapes haveon our ideas of gardening today. Lavishly illustratedthroughout in full colour, with an introduction bythe distinguished landscape and garden historianTom Williamson, Norfolk Gardens is acomprehensive and detailed account of the historyand heritage of gardening. (Windgather Press 2013)9781905119929 Hb £25.00

Cipières: Landscape and Community in inAlpes-Maritimes, FranceBy David Austin, Rosamond Faith, AndrewFleming & David Siddle

Cipières: Community andLandscape in the Alpes-Maritimes is a uniqueexploration which bringstogether a wealth ofdocumentary sourcesretained in the village withmaterial evidence in thelandscape to produce aninterdisciplinary andholistic account of thedevelopment of onecommunity and its lands.

Beginning with a history of the Project, the volumeexamines the village’s morphology and archaeology,including a landscape survey and investigation ofthe agrarian systems of the Plâteau de Calern, beforemoving on to examine settlement patterns,population, politics, social structure and the localeconomy from the fifth century through to themodern day region. 432p, b/w and col. illus (WindgatherPress 2013) 9781905119998 Pb £38.00

La alta montaña pirenaica: génesis yconfiguración holocena de un paisaje culturalBy Ana Ejarque MontolioCombined palaeoenvironmental and archaeologicalstudies of European high mountains are still rare.This integrated research aims to understand thelong-term landscape shaping of the Madriu-Perafita-Claror valley (Andorra, Eastern Pyrenees). A palaeo-environmental study combining pollen, non-pollenpalynomorphs, and macrocharcoal was carried outin natural basins and results were integrated witharchaeological on-site data. Distinct phases of locallandscape variability are detected and related to thespatial organization of land-uses from the Neolithicto the Modern Era. 192p, b/w illus (BAR 2507,Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311258 Pb £33.00

Scotland’s LandscapesBy James CrawfordFrom Orkney’s immaculately preserved Neolithicvillages to Highland glens stripped of nineteenthcentury settlements, from a Skye peninsulaconverted to an ingenious Viking shipyard, to aHebridean clifftop used as the site of a spectacularlighthouse, Scotland’s history is written into the landin vivid detail. Scotland’s Landscapes tells the enduringstory of this interaction between man and hisenvironment. The third book in a series showcasingScotland’s National Collection of Aerial Photography,stunning new imagery builds up a picture of adramatic terrain forged by thousands of years ofincredible change. 224p, col illus t/out (RCAHMS 2012)9781902419824 Hb £25.00

The Place-Names of Fife: Discussion, Glossaries,TextsBy Simon TaylorThis is the fifth of a five volume survey of the place-names of Fife which sets new standards in countyplace-name research. The first four volumes surveyedthe whole of Fife parish by parish, each volumecovering a different geographical area, with a fullanalysis of a total of around 3200 head-names. Thisvolume takes stock of some of the rich historical andlinguistic material contained in those volumes, aswell as providing a historical framework, especiallyof the medieval period, when the bulk of Fife’s moreimportant place-names were coined. 710p, (ShaunTyas 2013) 9781907730085 Hb £24.00

The Cotswold Way: An Archaeological WalkingGuideBy Tim CopelandThe Cotswold Way crosses some of the most denselypopulated and varied landscapes from the each periodof the past. The route also has some nationallyimportant archaeological sites along, behind and infront of it. This book introduces the serious trailwalker or the local ‘single-stretch’ day rambler tothe types of archaeological monuments along theroute. It then follows each of the six sections of theroute describing the individual sites and theirbackground along the trail. 160p, b/w illus, col pls(The History Press 2013) 9780752467283 Pb £14.99

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People and the Sea: A Maritime ArchaeologicalResearch Agenda for EnglandEdited by Fraser Sturt, Jesse Ransley, Justin Dix &Lucy BluePeople and the Sea considers all aspects of our maritimeheritage, from the submerged landscapes created bychanges in sea- level over the last million years, tothe physical development of the modern coastline,through to ports, their hinterlands and associatedmaritime communities. It investigates the nature ofseafaring, its associated material culture as well aspeoples changing perceptions and interactions withthe sea. Chronological chapters, from thePalaeolithic to the 20th century, all consider anumber of key themes, exploring both the currentstate of knowledge and priorities for future research.272p b/w and col illus (CBA 2013) 9781902771939 Pb£30.00

Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communitiesand Persistent LandscapesBy Andrew Bevan & James ConollyMediterranean landscape ecology, island cultures andlong-term human history have all emerged as majorresearch agendas over the past half-century. Thisbook brings these traditions together in consideringAntikythera, a tiny island perched on the edge ofthe Aegean and Ionian seas, over the full course ofits human history from the Neolithic through thepresent day. Antikythera is a rare case of an islandthat has been investigated in its entirety from severalsystematic fieldwork and disciplinary perspectives,not least of which is an intensive archaeologicalsurvey. The authors use the resulting evidence tooffer a unique vantage on settlement and land usehistories. 327p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2013)9781107033450 Hb £65.00

Landscape and Garden Design: Lessons fromHistoryBy Gordon HaynesThis book presents a chronological review of gardendesign, gathering ideas and their implementationover the last 500 years. Essential examples from eachdesign period or style are included, based upon theircontribution to the progress of design, andillustrated with photographs, diagrams and plans.224p (Whittles Publishing 2013) 9781849950824 Pb£35.00

The Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth CastleEdited by Anna Keay & John WatkinsThe garden created by Robert Dudley, Earl ofLeicester, at Kenilworth Castle in the early 1570s wasone of the wonders of Elizabethan England. It isalso the best documented of all the great gardens ofits age, providing the starting point for EnglishHeritages ambitious re-creation in 2009. Thisbeautifully illustrated book presents the extensiveresearch that informed the scheme and describes theprocess by which the new garden was designed.192p, 163 illus (English Heritage 2013) 9781848020344Pb £40.00

The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rometo Ornamental GnomeBy Gordon CampbellTracing its distant origins to the villa of the Romanemperor Hadrian, the eccentric phenomenon of theornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in theEngland of the eighteenth century. It was at thistime that it became highly fashionable for ownersof country estates to commission architectural folliesfor their landscape gardens. These follies oftenincluded hermitages peopled either with imaginaryhermits or with people employed as real hermits.Although the fashion for them had fizzled out bythe end of the eighteenth century, they had left theirindelible mark on both the literature as well as thegardens of the period, and live on in the figure ofthe modern-day garden gnome. This engaging andgenerously illustrated book takes the reader on ajourney that is at once illuminating and whimsical,both through the history of the ornamental hermitand also around the sites of many of the survivinghermitages themselves. 272p, b/w illus (Oxford UP2013) 9780199696994 Hb £16.99

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Violence and Civilization: Studies of SocialViolence in History and PrehistoryEdited by Roderick CampbellThis collection of essaysbegins with the premise thatviolence, in its relationship toorder, is a central element ofhistory. Taking a broaddefinition of violence,including structural andsymbolic violence, thecontributions move beyondthe problematic ofcivilization’s mitigating orfoundational role, insteadseeing violence as inherentlysocial, and, perhaps, socially inherent (if variable).Beginning with a theoretical introduction, thisinterdisciplinary volume includes seven papersrepresenting cultural anthropology, history,archaeology and international relations. The papersrange from China to the Americas and from the 2ndmillennium BCE to the 21st century CE. Some dealwith long-term developments while others focus ona single time and place. Many treat the issue of thevisibility/invisibility of violence, while all in one wayor another deal with the role of violence in the re-production of community. Together, the volume aimsto paint, with a few strokes, the outlines of a deephistorical anthropology of social violence. 160p, b/wand col. illustrations (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782976202Pb £25.00

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Origins of the World’s MythologiesBy E. J. Michael WitzelFocusing on the oldest able texts, buttressed by datafrom archeology, comparative linguistics and humanpopulation genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs asingle original African source for our collectivemyths, dating back some 100,000 years. Identifyingfeatures shared by this “Out of Africa” mythologyand its northern Eurasian offshoots, Witzel suggeststhat these common myths—recounted by thecommunities of the “African Eve”—are the earliestevidence of ancient spirituality. Moreover thesecommon features, Witzel argues, survive today inall major religions. 720p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013)9780195367461 Hb £86.00, 9780199812851 Pb £30.00

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum:A CharacterizationEdited by Dan Hicks & Alice StevensonWorld Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: acharacterization introduces the range, history andsignificance of the archaeological collections of thePitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. In 29 newly-commissioned essays written by a specialist team,the volume explores more than 136,000 artefacts from145 countries, from the Stone Age to the modernperiod, and from England to Easter Island. 572p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2013) 9781905739585 Pb£39.50

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

The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: TheForaging SpectrumBy Robert L. KellyIn this volume Robert L. Kelly reviews theanthropological literature for variation among livingforagers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, landtenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations,division of labour, marriage, descent, and politicalorganisation. Using the paradigm of humanbehavioural ecology, he analyses the diversity inthese areas and seeks to explain rather than explainaway variability, and argues for an approach toprehistory that uses archaeological data to test theoryrather than one that uses ethnographic analogy toreconstruct the past. 375p (Cambridge UP 2013)9781107607613 Pb £21.99

The Human Past: World Prehistory and theDevelopment of Human SocietiesBy Christopher ScarreThe scope of this book isimmense, as is itscontribution to the studyof archaeology. Withinnineteen broadgeographical sections,numerous specialistssurvey the span of humanprehistory, examiningkey social developments,new and emergingtechnologies, and tracingthe movement of human populations across theglobe and the development of human experience.Each discussion includes a review of keycontroversies that have interested experts in that areafor decades. The third edition is comprehensivelyupdated to take account of new discoveries, theoriesand interpretations, including sites such asTianluoshan in China, techniques, such as DNAanalysis and research areas such as the demographyof the pre-Colombian Americas. 784p, 753 illus, 211in col (Thames & Hudson 3rd ed 2013) 9780500290644Pb £35.00

Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the PreliterateImaginationBy Christopher CollinsPalaeopoetics maps the selective processes thatoriginally shaped the human genus millions of yearsago and prepared the human brain to play, imagine,empathize, and engage in fictive thought as mediatedby language. Drawing on a wide range of evidence,Collins builds an evolutionary bridge betweenhumans’ development of sensorimotor skills andtheir achievement of linguistic cognition, bringingcurrent scientific perspective to such issues as thestructure of narrative, the distinction betweenmetaphor and metonymy, the relation of rhetoric topoetics, the relevance of performance theory toreading, the difference between orality and writing,and the nature of play and imagination. 272p, b/willus (Columbia UP 2013) 9780231160926 Hb £24.00

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Evolution of Mind, Brain and CultureBy Gary Hatfield & Holly PittmanThis book brings together thework of archaeologists,cultural and physicalanthropologists, psycholo-gists, philosophers, geneti-cists, a neuroscientist, and anenvironmental scientist toexplore the evolution of thehuman mind, the brain, andthe human capacity forculture. The volumerepresents and criticallyengages with major theor-etical approaches, including Donald’s stage theory,Mithen’s cathedral model, Tomasello’s jointintentionality, and Boyd and Richerson’s modelingof the evolution of culture in relation to climatechange. The essays range in topic from themacroscopic (the evolution of social cooperation) tothe microscopic (examining genetic data to inferevolutions in brain structure and function). 476p(Pennsylvania UP 2013) 9781934536490 Hb £45.50

The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution MadeHumans UniqueBy Kim SterelnyOver the last three million years or so, our lineagehas diverged sharply from those of our great aperelatives. Morphology, life history, social life, sexualbehavior, and foraging patterns have all shiftedsharply away from other great apes. In The EvolvedApprentice, Kim Sterelny argues that the divergencestems from the fact that humans gradually came toenrich the learning environment of the nextgeneration. Humans came to co-operate in sharinginformation, and to cooperate ecologically andreproductively as well, and these changes initiatedpositive feedback loops that drove us further fromother great apes. 264p (MIT Press 2012)9780262016797 Hb £24.95

Britain BeginsBy Barry CunliffeImpressive in every sense, this hugely ambitious andassured book takes as its subject the entire historyof the British Isles from the end of the last Ice Ageand their physical emergence as islands all the waydown to the Norman Conquest. Cunliffe kicks offwith an examination of the ways in which ourancestors have conceived the distant past, frommedieval myths to the dawn of modern archaeology.The remainder of the book is roughly chronologicalin structure. Prominent themes include the ‘problemof origins’, where Cunliffe’s own research has beenof such significance, and the importance ofcommunication, connectivity and culturaltransmission is emphasised throughout, with theChannel, the Atlantic and the North Sea seen ashighways linking Britain and Ireland to thecontinent and building up an ongoing narrativewhich is anything but narrowly insular. 553p, manycol illus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199679454 Pb £20.00

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. The setting of the Palaeolithicarchaeology within the unusual terrace depositsof the River Axe is explored and the local and globalfactors affecting it, including bedrock geology,tectonic uplift, climatic conditions and changingbase-level, examined. 384p, 320 b/w + col illus. (OxbowBooks 2013) 9781842175200 Hb £60.00

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

in honour of RichardBradley discuss key themesin prehistoric archaeologythat have defined hiscareer, 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. 366p, 60 illustrations (Oxbow Books 2013)9781782973928 Pb £30.00

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The Ebbsfleet Elephant: Excavations atSouthfleet Road, Swanscombe in advance ofHigh Speed 1, 2003-4Edited by Francis Wenban-SmithThis volume provides the full account of thediscovery, excavation and subsequent analysis of richand deeply buried archaeological horizons associatedwith the Hoxnian interglacial between about 425,000and 375,000 years ago.The highlight of this workwas recovery of the remains of an extinct straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquussurrounded by the undisturbed scatter of flint toolsused for its butchery, made and abandoned at thespot. 595p, 279 col illus (Oxford Archaeology 2013)9780904220735 Hb £25.00 ***NYP***

The Origins of the IrishBy J. P. MalloryIn this new study Mallory emphasizes that the Irishdid not have a single origin, but are a product ofmultiple influences that can only be tracked byemploying the disciplines of archaeology, genetics,geology, linguistics, and mythology. After describingthe collision that fused the two halves of Irelandtogether, the origins of its first farmers and theirmonumental impact on the island is followed by anexploration of how metallurgists in copper, bronze,and iron brought Ireland into increasingly widerorbits of European culture. Assessments oftraditional explanations of Irish origins arecombined with the latest genetic research. 320p, b/willus (Thames and Hudson 2013) 9780500051757 Hb£19.95

Star Carr: Life in Britain after the Ice AgeBy Nicky Milner, Barry Taylor, Chantal Conneller& Tim Schadla-HallStar Carr is one of the most famous and importantprehistoric sites in Europe. Dating from the earlyMesolithic period, over 10,000 years ago, the site hasproduced a unique range of artefacts and settlementevidence. This book tells the story of the discoveryof Star Carr, and brings it up-to-date with details ofthe current excavations. It also discusses otherimportant Mesolithic sites in Britain and Europe andhow these are transforming our view of life afterthe Ice Age. 124p, 53 figs full color (Council for BritishArchaeology 2013) 9781902771991 Pb £13.00

The Boyne Currach: From Beneath theShadows of NewgrangeBy Claidhbh O GibneThis book tells the fascinating story of a much-usedvessel with prehistoric origins: the currach. Anoverview of the history of the Boyne currach andrelated skin boats is followed by a how-to guide withinstructions on how to build your own currach,including the materials needed, where to sourcethem, and how to master the age-old techniques ofweaving and binding. The final section of the bookdetails a unique attempt by the author to recreatethe currach used by the builders of the Newgrangepassage tombs. 168p, b/w and col illus (Four Courts Press2013) 9781846823794 Pb £15.00

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The Quaternary of the TrentEdited by David R. Bridgland, Andy J. Howard,Mark J. White & Tom S. WhiteThis volume is an integratedoverview and synthesis ofthe available data relating tothe Quaternary evolution ofthe River Trent. It providesdetailed descriptions of thePleistocene sedimentaryrecords from the Trent, itstributaries and relateddrainage systems and thebiostratigraphical andarchaeological materialpreserved therein. Signi-ficant new data are presented from recentlydiscovered sites of geological and archaeologicalimportance, including previously unrecognisedfluvial deposits, as well as novel analyses, such asmathematical modelling of fluvial incision asrecorded by the river terrace deposits. 416p, 16p colourDVD (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781842174616 Hb £30.00

Gristhorpe Man: A Life and Death in theBronze AgeEdited by Nigel D. Melton, Christopher Knusel& Janet MontgomeryIn July 1834 excavation of a barrow at Gristhorpenear Scarborough recovered an intact, waterlogged,

oak coffin containing aperfectly preserved BronzeAge skeleton that had beenwrapped in an animal skinand buried with workedflints, a bronze dagger witha whalebone pommel, and abark vessel apparentlycontaining food residue.2004 saw the opportunityfor a scientific re-examination of the burialand grave goods. Analysis

of the skeleton included an examination of itsskeletal morphology and palaeopathologicalconditions combined with isotopic analyses of thebones and teeth in order to investigate mobility, diet,and status. These analyses, combined withexamination of the surviving coffin lid, the gravegoods, and radiocarbon and dendrochronologicaldating, reveal fascinating insights into the socialposition, inter-regional contacts and the burial riteassociated with this enigmatic mature man whoprobably saw active combat and who suffered froma benign brain tumour. 256p, b/w and col. illustrations(Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782972075 £50.00

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New from Windgather PressStonehenge Explained: Exploring the GreatestStone Age MysteryBy Michael Parker PearsonThis book dicusses the results of the StonehengeRiverside Project (2003-2009), led by Mike ParkerPearson: correcting previously erroneouschronology and dating; filling in gaps in ourknowledge about its people and how they lived;identifying a previously unknown type of Neolithicbuilding; charting the discovery of Bluestonehenge,a circle of 25 blue stones from western Wales; andconfirming what started as a hypothesis - thatStonehenge was a place of the dead - through morethan 64 cremation burials unearthed there, whichspan the monument’s use during the thirdmillennium BC. 406p, col pls (Simon & Schuster Ltd2013) 9780857207326 Pb £9.99

The Amesbury Archer and the BoscombeBowmen: Excavations at Boscombe Down,Volume 1By A. P. FitzpatrickFound a few kilometres from Stonehenge, the gravesof the Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmendate to the 24th century BC and are two of theearliest Bell Beaker graves in Britain. This excavationreport contains a series of wide-ranging studies andscientific analyses by an array of experts and adiscussion of the graves within their British andcontinental European contexts. 240p, 77 col & b/willus (Wessex Archaeology 2011, Pb 2013) 9781874350620Pb £25.00

A Gazetteer of Prehistoric Standing Stones inGreat BritainBy Olaf SwarbrickThis gazetteer sets out to list the prehistoric siteswith standing stones in Great Britain between theScilly Isles and Shetlands. The entries are in the mainbased on personal observation, and the author doesnot claim comprehensiveness, but this is nonethelessan impressive undertaking. The gazetteer containsgrid references, notes on the composition of the sitesand details of the physical size and appearance ofthe stones. Many of the stones are illustrated incolour sketches and black and white photos. 101p,(BAR BS 558, Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309606 Pb£25.00

Prehistoric Communities at Colne Fen, Earith:Bronze Age Fieldsystems, Ring-DitchCemeteries and Iron Age SettlementBy Christopher Evans, Matt Brudenell, RickyPatten & Roddy ReganThis volume forms the first in a series of bookscharting a decade of intensive fieldwork along a 2kmstretch of the Colne Fen. Apart from relating theproject’s palaeoenvironmental researches, it outlinesthe excavation of two ring-ditch monuments (withaccompanying cremation cemeteries), major MiddleBronze Age fieldsystems and their accompanyingoccupation clusters, and seven Iron Age settlements.288p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge Archaeological Unit2013) 9780954482497 Hb £30.00

Building the Great Stone Circles of the Northedited by Colin RichardsOf all prehistoric monu-ments, few are moreemotive than the greatstone circles that werebuilt throughout Britainand Ireland. From the tall,elegant, pointed mono-liths of the Stones ofStenness to the grandeurof Stonehenge and thesarsen blocks at Avebury,circles of stone exert amagnetic fascination tothose who venture into their sphere. In Britaintoday, more people visit these structures than anyother form of prehistoric monument and visitorsstand in awe at their scale and question how andwhy they were erected. Building the Great StoneCircles of the North looks at the enigmatic stonestructures of Scotland and investigates thebackground of their construction and their culturalsignificance. Beginning with a consideration of howthe stone structures of Western Scotland can beinterpreted, the volume looks in detail at the contextof the circles and cairns from Orkney and the OuterHebrides – from quarrying the raw material to theirsymbolic role within the landscape – before wideningout into a consideration of the societies who builtand used them and the myth and folklore that isnow embedded within these megaliths. 320p b/w andcol illus (Windgather Press 2013) 9781909686120 Pb£39.95

Imperial College Sports Grounds and RMCLand, Harlington: The development ofprehistoric and later communities in the ColneValley and on the Heathrow TerracesBy Andrew B. Powell, Alistair Barclay, LorraineMepham & Chris J. StevensThese excavations revealed parts of an archaeologicallandscape with a rich history of development frombefore 4000 BC to the post-medieval period. Earlyto Middle Neolithic occupation was represented bya rectangular ditched mortuary enclosure and a largespread of pits. A possible dispersed monumentcomplex of three hengiform enclosures wasassociated with the rare remains of cremation burialsradiocarbon dated to the Middle Neolithic. LimitedLate Neolithic and Early Bronze Age activity wasidentified, which is in stark contrast to the Middleto Late Bronze Age when a formalised landscape ofextensive rectangular fields, enclosures, wells andpits was established. A small, Iron Age and Romano-British nucleated settlement was constructed, withassociated enclosures flanking a trackway. 250p, 110b&w and col illus (Wessex Archaeology 2013)9781874350743 Hb £30.00 ***NYP***

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The Dover Bronze Age Boat in Context: Societyand Water Transport in Prehistoric Europeby Peter ClarkThe discovery of the wellpreserved remains of aBronze Age boat in Doverin 1992 was one of themost important post-warfinds in Britain. The boatwas of a stitched oakplank structure, and hasbeen dated to 1550 BC. Tomark the tenthanniversary of the boat’sdiscovery, a conferencewas held in Dover in 2002. This publication bringsto a wider audience sixteen of the papers presentedthere, allowing all those interested in this fascinatingrelic to share in the findings of experts from all overEurope. Subjects include: evidence of the boat’smarine environment; the reconstruction of the boat;boats as Bronze Age artefacts; British prehistoricshipbuilding; the use of model ships inarchaeological research; north-west European boatsbefore AD 400; the sewn-plank boats of the Humber;the prehistoric harbours of Kent; the environmentalcontext of the Dover boat; sea-faring voyages androck art ships; social and religious perceptions ofthe ship in Bronze Age northern Europe; the heritagemanagement of boats; the social role of the ship andthe sea in Bronze Age Norway. 152p b/w illus (OxbowBooks 2004, reprint 2014) 9781842171394 Pb £30.00

Horton Kingsmead Quarry Volume 1By Gareth Chaffey, Alistair Barclay & Ruth PellingExcavations at Kingsmead Quarry, Berkshire, haveprovided an opportunity to investigate a large multi-period site with occupation dating back over 12,000years. This is the first of three volumes and coversthe results from 2003–2009. A range of structuralevidence, augmented by considerable quantities ofartefactual and environmental information, showHorton to have been a suitable and significant placefor episodic settlement from the start of the Neolithic.A detailed account of the site is given in this volume,whilst its position in the wider archaeologicallandscape of the Middle Thames Valley is discussed.300p, b/w and col illus, 30 col plates (Wessex Archaeology2013) 9781874350668 Hb £40.00, ***NYP***

Prehistoric Settlement in the Lower KennetValley: Excavations at Green Park (ReadingBusiness Park)Phase 3 and Moores Farm,Burghfield, BerkshireBy Adam Brossler, Fraser Brown, Erika Guttman& Leo WebleyThe Green Park excavationsuncovered a field systemand occupation featuresdating to the middle to lateBronze Age. Fivewaterholes or wells weredistributed across the fieldsystem, the waterlogged fillsof which preserved woodenrevetment structures andvaluable environmentalevidence, as well as pottery.The Moores Farm excavations revealed occupationfrom the Mesolithic, Neolithic, middle Bronze Ageand early Iron Age. The middle Bronze Agesettlement included pits, ovens and possible poststructures, and was again situated within acontemporaneous field system dotted withwaterholes. 150p, 75 illustrations and 38 tables (OxfordArchaeology 2013) 9781905905294 Pb £20.00

Cliffs End Farm Isle of Thanet, Kent: AMortuary and Ritual site of the Bronze Age,Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Period withEvidence for Long-distance Maritime MobilityBy Jacqueline I. McKinley, Matt Leivers, JörnSchuster, Peter Marshall, Alistair Barclay & NickStoodleyExcavations undertaken in 2004/5 uncovered a densearea of archaeological remains including Bronze Agebarrows and enclosures, and a large prehistoricmortuary feature, as well as a small early 6th to late7th century Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery.English Heritage funded an extensive programmeof radiocarbon and isotope analyses, which haveproduced some surprising results that shed newlight on long distance contacts, mobility andmortuary rites during later prehistory. 288p, b/w andcol illus, 48 col plates (Wessex Archaeology 2013)9781874350705 Hb £35.00 ***NYP***

Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay,and other marine finds of the Bronze AgeBy Stuart P. Needham, Dave Parham & CatherineFriemanA haul of 361 bronzes from Langdon Bay, Kent,

represents one of the largestdeposits from Bronze AgeEurope. Dating to thethirteenth century BC, thecollection is diverse incharacter and originates invarious parts of westernEurope and the British Isles.The assemblage fromSalcombe, Devon is ofsimilar date with a uniquecombination of types andmaterials. For the first time,

maritime archaeologists, period specialists, scientistsand coastal geomorphologists, bring togetherresearch on these two exceptional sites: history ofdiscovery, evaluation of context and character,detailed scientific analyses and a fully illustratedcatalogue. 240p, 95 figs incl colour (CBA 2013)9781902771953 Pb £25.00

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The Iron Age on the Northumberland CoastalPlain: Excavations in advance of development2002-2010By N. Hodgson, Jonathan McKelvey & WarrenMuncasterThis book reports on three Iron Age earthwork-enclosure complexes (at Blagdon Park 2, EastBrunton and West Brunton), excavated in 2002-8.As well as these three settlements several lesser andunenclosed sites and pit alignments are described,giving the most complete sample so far of the IronAge landscape in this area. Radiocarbon dates suggestthat the earthwork-enclosures were formed around200 BC as the latest phases on roundhousesettlements continuously occupied since the lateBronze Age, whilst all of the sites reported here wereabandoned by the second-century AD, and probablynot long after the construction of Hadrian’s Wall.231p, b/w illus (Tyne and Wear Museums 2013)9780905974903 Pb £19.95

Salt Production, Distribution and Use in theBritish Iron AgeBy Janice KinoryThe study of salt during British prehistory hasexperienced an awakening during the past 40 years.In this work the author explores the evidence forthe production of salt in the coastal regions of Essex,along the south coast and at the Droitwich saltsprings. Models for, and implications of, saltdistribution networks are considered andinformation is presented on how salt may have beenused in the Iron Age and the social and ritual uses ofsalt are also discussed. 171p, b/w illus (BAR BS 559,Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309729 Pb £31.00

A Sacred Island: Iron Age, Roman and SaxonTemples and Ritual on Hayling IslandBy Anthony King & Grahame SoffeExcavations from 1976-81, as well as continuingwork into the new Millennium, have revealed theimportance of Hayling Island as a major Iron Ageand Roman religious site, with two successive IronAge timber shrines discovered beneath a Romantemple. This booklet synthesises the results of theexcavations for a general audience. 44p, col illus(Hayling Island Excavation Project 2013) 9781906113148Pb £5.00

Harvesting the Stars: A Pagan Temple atLismullin, Co. MeathBy Aidan O’ConnellAimed at the informed general reader this well-produced book details the discovery, excavation andinterpretation of an Iron Age post-enclosure atLismullin. The author interprets the post-enclosureas an open-air pagan temple, exploring questionssuch as: Why was it built? Who built it? How was itused? Was it a venue for spectacular nocturnal ritualsimploring the Gods for a bountiful harvest? 206p,col illus, CD-Rom (Wordwell Ltd 2013) 9780957438002Pb £25.00

Europe Before Rome: A Site-by-Site Tour of theStone, Bronze and Iron AgesBy T. Douglas PricePrice takes the reader on aguided tour throughdozens of the mostimportant prehistoric siteson the continent, fromvery recent discoveries tosome of the most well-known, like Chauvet,Stonehenge, and Knossos.He focuses on more than60 sites, organizedchronologically accordingto their archaeological time period and accompaniedby numerous colour photographs, maps, anddrawings. Introductory prologues to each chapterprovide context for wider changes in humanbehavior and society in the time period, while theauthor’s concluding remarks offer expert reflectionson the enduring significance of these places. 464p,col illus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199914708 Hb £30.00

Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern MindBy Jill CookThe accompanying title to the British Museumexhibition, this book explores the masterpieces ofsculpture, drawing and decoration of the last Ice Age.Over 100 objects are featured, including small butexquisite sculptures made from mammoth ivory,engraved drawings, ceramic models, decoratedobjects and jewellery from the age of the greatpainted caves. The author examines them in a newlight, as works of aesthetic – not solely archaeological– interest, and as such forming part of an unbrokencontinuum of human creativity. 288p col illus (BritishMuseum Press 2013) 9780714123332 Hb £30.00

Dissent with Modification: Human Origins,Palaeolithic Archaeology and EvolutionaryAnthropology in Britain 1859-1901By John McNabbThis book explores the development of humanorigins as a scientific debate in the years after 1859,drawing on archaeology, anthropology and humanpalaeontology, it sets the emerging discipline ofPalaeolithic studies in its broader social andintellectual context, and shows how in its first fortyyears the understanding of the Palaeolithic adaptedto profound changes in the scientific knowledge ofthe origin of our species 377p, color & b/w illus(Archaeopress 2012) 9781905739523 Pb £29.95

A Mind Set on FlintBy M.L.J. Niekus, R.N.E. Barton, ThomasTerberger & Martin StreetA festschrift for Dick Stapert. The contributions covernearly 300,000 years of Human History, with topicsinclude the making and use of fire, children in theStone Age, spatial analysis, and other themes relatedto the study of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic andbeyond. 539p, col illus (Barkhuis 2012) 9789491431135Hb £85.00

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From Hand to Handle: The First IndustrialRevolutionBy Lawrence BarhamOur utter dependency on technology began with

the first stone tools made morethan 2.6 million years ago, butit was only with the inventionof hafting, some 500,000 yearsago, that technology took itsmodern form. For the firsttime, tools were made frommultiple parts combined intoa working whole, requiringconsiderable planning basedon an expert understanding ofthe properties of the rawmaterials involved. Yet it was

the ability to imagine the final, integrated form ofthe tool which would have profound implicationsfor the human species. This volume brings togetherevidence for the cognitive, social and technologicalfoundations that were necessary for this firstindustrial revolution. 384p, b/w illus (Oxford UP2013) 9780199604715 Hb £75.00

Unconformist Archaeology: Papers in Honourof Paolo BiagiBy Elisabetta StarniniThe twelve papers in this volume cover the fields ofPaolo Biagi’s scientific activity, extending from theprehistory from northern Italy, the Adriatic and theAegean, to the Indus Valley. The topics coveredinclude the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, theNeolithization of the Mediterranean Basin, andarchaeometric approaches to prehistoric archaeology.Other contributions are look at matters philosophicaland theoretical, and offer an original view of thehuman past. 144p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2528,Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311463 Pb £32.00

The Origins and Spread of Domestic Animalsin Southwest Asia and EuropeEdited by Sue Colledge, James Conolly, K. M.Dobney, K. Manning & Stephen ShennanThis volume tackles the fundamental and broad-scalequestions concerning the spread of early animalherding from its origins in the Near East intoEurope beginning in the mid-10th millennium BC,drawing together work by more than 30international researchers. The zooarchaeologicalrecord and discussions of the evolution anddevelopment of Neolithic stock-keeping take centerstage in the debate over the profound effects of theNeolithic revolution on both our biological andcultural evolution. 354p, (Left Coast Press 2013)9781611323221 Hb £79.50

Tecnotipologia y Distribucion Espacial delMaterial Macrolitico del Cerrode la Virgen de Orce (Granada) Campañas1963-1970 : Una aproximación paleoeconómicaBy Selina Delgado-RaackCerro de la Virgen is a classic site on the Iberianpeninsula for the Copper-Bronze Age transition.Excavations in the 1960s and 1970s unearthed crucialstratigraphic sequences used for all later Copper/Bronze Age studies of the Iberian peninsula. Thisbook examines all the stone tools from the sitethrough which a new insight into the Los Millaresculture is given. Spanish text. 257p, (BAR 2518,Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311364 Pb £42.00

Counterpoint: Essays in Archaeology andHeritageEdited by Serena SabatiniThis substantial festschrift celebrates ProfessorKristian Kristiansens’s life and achievements with88 papers by colleagues and friends from all overthe world; they are divided into following sections:Beyond Academia; Landscape, Demography andSubsistence Economy; Rituals, Hoards andWetlands; Rock Art; Graves and Burial Monuments;Materiality and Social Concerns; Technology andCraftsmanship; Travel and Transmission;Problemizing the Past; Practices of Archaeology andHeritage Studies. 769p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2508,Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311265 Pb £90.00

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The First Farmers of Central Europe: Diversityin LBK Lifewaysedited by Penny Bickle and Alasdair WhittleFrom about 5500 cal BC tosoon after 5000 cal BC, thelifeways of the first farmersof central Europe, the LBKculture, are seen indistinctive practices oflonghouse use, settlementforms, landscape choice,subsistence, materialculture and mortuary rites.Although showing manyfeatures in common acrossits very broad distribution,however, the LBK phenomenon was not everywherethe same, and there is a complicated mixture ofuniformity and diversity. This major study takes astrikingly large regional sample, from northernHungary westwards along the Danube to Alsace inthe upper Rhine valley, and addresses the questionof the extent of diversity in the lifeways of developedand late LBK communities, through a wide–rangingstudy of diet, lifetime mobility, health and physicalcondition, the presentation of the bodies of thedeceased in mortuary ritual. It uses an innovativecombination of isotopic (principally carbon, nitrogenand strontium, with some oxygen), osteological andarchaeological analysis to address difference andchange across the LBK, and to reflect on culturalchange in general. 608p b/w illus (Cardiff Studies inArchaeology, Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842175309 Hb£55.00

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Exploring Prehistoric Identity in North-West EuropeEdited by Victoria Ginn, Rebecca Enlander & Rebecca CrozierIdentity is relational and a construct, and is expressed in a myriad of ways. For example,material culture and its pluralist meanings have been readily manipulated by humansin a prehistoric context in order to construct personal and group identities. Artefactswere often from or reminiscent of far-flung places and were used to demonstratemembership of an (imagined) regional, or European community. Earthworksfrequently archive maximum visual impact through elaborate ramparts and entrances,while variations in domestic architectural style also demonstrate the malleability ofidentity, and the prolonged, intermittent use of particular places for specific functionsindicates that the identity of place is just as important in our archaeologicalunderstanding as the identity of people. By using a wide range of case studies, bothtemporally and spatially, these thought processes may be explored further anddiachronic and geographic patterns in expressions of identity investigated. 176p, b/wand col. illus (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781842178133 Pb £35.00

Communicating with the World of Beings: The World Heritage rock artsite in Alta, Arctic NorwayBy Knut HelskogThe rock art found in the Alta area, Norway, comprises thousands of imagesincluding vast panels depicting many animals including reindeer and elk as wellas fish, birds, boats, humans and geometric patterns. They provide muchinformation about the people who lived in this northern area from about 5000 BCup until the birth of Christ; about their social organisation, hunting and trapping,beliefs, rituals, stories, legends, myths and culture, changes, continuity and history.In this beautifully illustrated book Knut Helskog provides a lyrical and personalinterpretation of the chronology, patterning and possible meanings behind thisextraordinary landscape of prehistoric rock art. 192p, col illus t/out (Oxbow Books2014) 9781782974116 Hb £35.00

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Animal Secondary Products: Archaeological perspectives on domestic animal exploitation in theNeolithic and Bronze AgeEdited by Haskel J. GreenfieldAnimal Secondary Products investigates animal exploitation and the animal economy from the end of theNeolithic to the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Near East and Europe. Incorporating currentzooarchaeologial theory and cutting-edge methodological developments, it critically assesses Andrew Sherratt’shighly influential concept of a Secondary Products Revolution. The model presented here argues for a genuineshift in development with a combination of both primary (meat hide, bone) and secondary (milk, wool,traction) products. It conceptualises changes between the Neolithic and Bronze Age that dramaticallytransformed the nature of animal exploitation strategies, cultivation practices, land management strategies,nature of settlement, and political and economic organisation in Europe. 256p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2014)9781782974017 Hb £65.00

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Paths Towards a New Worldby Mats Larson and Geoffrey LemdahlCovering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the Late Mesolithicto the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes the reader on a journeythrough the development of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against thebackdrop of climatic and landscape change. Using examples selected from a wealthof archaeological sites, artefacts and palaeo-environmental studies he explores aseries of chronological themes: such as how the relationship between land andwater influenced people’s lives in many ways and the development of often long-distance cultural and exchange networks, as reflected in the occurrence of ‘foreign’stone axes, flint, copper and pottery. 144p, b/w and col illus. (Oxbow Books 2014)9781782972570 Pb £35.00

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Ancestral Heaths: Reconstructing the BarrowLandscape in the Central and SouthernNetherlandsBy Marieke DoorenboschIn this book a detailed vegetation history of thelandscape around burial mounds is presented. Newlyobtained and extant data derived from palynologicalanalyses taken from barrow sites are (re-)analysed.It is argued that barrows were built on existingheaths, which had been, and continued to bemaintained for many thousands of years. Thebarrow landscape was part of the economic zone offarming communities, while the heath areas wereused as grazing grounds. In fact, it is argued thatthese ancestral heaths were the most importantfactor in structuring the barrow landscape. 280p colillus (Sidestone Press 2013) 9789088901928 Pb £48.00 -only £42.00 until publication! ***NYP***

The Stone of Life: The Archaeology of QuernMills and Flour Production in Europe up toc.500 ADby David PeacockThis book is about the archaeology of querns andmills, simple stone instruments which are vital tosurvival in a society which adopts bread as its staple.It might be expected that as querns and mills arecommonplace in archaeology, they would be keyartefacts, studied exhaustively. Alas, this is far fromthe case, although in the last decade there has beenburgeoning interest throughout much of Europeand because of this, it is timely to survey the subject,adopting a broad viewpoint. A study on this scalehas not been attempted since the late nineteenthcentury. 220p b/w and col illus (The Highfield Press 2014)9780992633608 Hb £40.00 - special offer - only £36.00until the end of 2013!

Bronze Age Warfare: Manufacture and use ofWeaponryedited by Marion Uckelmann & MarianneModlingerThe articles in this volume cover aspects relating toarchaeometallurgy, functional analyses, experimentalwork and use-wear analysis to investigate the useand manufacture of European Bronze Age weaponry.This includes but is by no means limited to swords,halberds, bows and arrows, as well as defensiveobjects like shields and helmets. 219p, b/w illus (BAR2255, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308227 Pb £41.00

Tumuli Graves: Status Symbol of the Dead inBronze and Iron Ages in EuropeEdited by Valeriu Sirbu & Christian SchusterThese essays range across the Bronze and Iron Agesand across Europe to present a broad investigationof the phenomenon of Tumuli graves. Topicsaddressed include the monuments and their internalfittings; grave goods and social status, gender andage; figurative representations and the symbolismof colour in burial chambers; military equipment;clothing and jewelry; animal (and human?) sacrifice;post-burial ritual. 92p b/w illus (BAR 2396,Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309897 Pb £23.00

The Oxford Handbook of the European BronzeAgeEdited by Anthony Harding & Harry FokkensA wide-ranging survey of acrucial period in prehistoryduring which many social,economic, and technolo-gical changes took place.After an introduction anda discussion of chronology,successive chapters dealwith settlement studies,burial analysis, hoards andhoarding, monumentality,rock art, cosmology, gender,and trade, as well as a seriesof articles on specific technologies and crafts (suchas transport, metals, glass, salt, textiles, andweighing). The second half of the book covers eachcountry in turn. From Ireland to Russia,Scandinavia to Sicily, every area is considered, andup to date information on important recent finds isdiscussed in detail. 979p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013)9780199572861 Hb £120.00

Prehistory of Iberia: Debating Early SocialStratificationEdited by Maria Cruz Berrocal, Leonardo GarciaSanjuan & Antonio GilmanThe study of social stratification and state formationhas played a large part in recent Spanisharchaeological research; in this volume a group ofSpanish scholars reassess the origins of theseprocesses, and make their findings more widely ableto the English speaking world. After three chaptersproviding broader theoretical overviews, a range ofcase studies are presented. The authors, writinglargely from historical-materialist perspectives, butdrawing on a wide range of contemporarytheoretical approaches, emphasise the complexity anddiversity of processes involved in early socialstratification and the importance of regional andhistorical factors. A further focus is the place ofresistance to institutionalised exploitation as a factorin the dynamics of state formation. 423p (Routledge2013) 9780415885928 Hb £80.00

Tollund Man: Gift to the GodsBy Christian FischerOn 6th may 1950 villagers from Tollund in southernDenmark discovered a corpse so fresh that theybelieved they had discovered a recent murder victim.The police were baffled by the body and, in an attemptto identify the time of death, brought in archaeologyprofessor, P. V. Glob. Upon initial examination Globsuggested that the body was over two thousandyears old and most likely the victim of a sacrifice.This book, written by the director of the museum atwhich Tollund man has resided since his discovery,presents the investigations into this enigmatic figureand tells the story of his life and death based uponthe evidence of the archaeological record. 192p, b/wand col illus (The History Press 2012) 9780752486352Pb £17.99

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Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age EuropeBy Ian ArmitEvidence for the removal,curation and display of headsin Iron Age Europe rangesfrom classical literaryreferences to iconographyand skeletal remains.Traditionally, this materialhas been associated with aEurope-wide ‘head-cult’, andused to support the idea of aunified Celtic culture inprehistory. This bookdemonstrates instead how headhunting and head-veneration were practised across a range of diverseand fragmented Iron Age societies. Using case studiesfrom France, Britain and elsewhere, it explores thecomplex and subtle relationships between power,religion, warfare and violence in Iron Age Europe.272p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2012) 9780521877565Hb £60.00

Warfare and Violence in the Iron Age ofSouthern FranceBy Mags McCartneyThis study aims to identify patterns of warfare inthe southern French Iron Age through examinationof the documentary, settlement, iconographic andosteological evidence. The best known aspects of thearchaeological material and literary sources suggesta society in which warfare was an overridingpreoccupation. This case study, however, offers amore nuanced and contextual interpretation anddemonstrates how, if treated as a form of socialinteraction, rather than a breakdown in socialnorms, warfare might be integrated into widerarchaeological interpretations of social and politicalchange. 156p, b/w illus (BAR 2403, Archaeopress 2012)9781407309989 Pb £29.00

Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean:Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in theIron Age and Roman PeriodsBy Alex MullenThe Celtic-speaking communities of Southern Gaulinteracted with the ancient Mediterranean worldduring a period of constantly evolving culturalconfigurations. Using sociolinguistics andarchaeology, this book investigates evidence formultilingualism and multiple identities from thefoundation of Greek Marseille in 600 BC to the finalphases of Roman Imperial power. 473p, b/w illus(Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107020597 Hb £65.00

Connections and Complexity: NewApproaches to the Archaeology of South AsiaBy Shinu Abraham, Praveena Gullapalli, Teresa P.Raczek & Uzma RizviContributions focus on four major themes:reinterpreting material culture; identifying domainsand regional boundaries; articulating complexity;and modelling interregional interaction. 352p, b/willus (Left Coast Press 2013) 9781598746860 Hb £70.50

Silk Roads of the Northern Tibetan Plateauduring the Early Middle Ages: (from the Hanto Tang Dynasty)By Tao TongThis work analyses the history and archaeologicalevidence reflecting the Han Chinese, Tuyuhun andTibetan domination of the northern Tibetan Plateau,on which the Qinghai Silk Road features. It focuseson the Tuyuhun-Tubo elite cemeteries and artefacts,including silks, gold and silver objects, coffinpaintings and other significant findings made duringthe past decades. The result gives fresh insights intothe complicated cultural dimensions and interactionsalong the Silk Road, which contributed greatly tothe shaping of the Tibetan culture. 195p b/w illus (BAR2521, Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311395 Pb £34.00

Chariots in Early China : Origins, culturalinteraction, and identityBy Hsiao-yun WuThis book concerns the adaption of a steppeinnovation, the horse-drawn chariot, in Chinesesociety during the 12th – 3rd century BCE. Theimportance of the steppe driving skill in warfare,and political and ritual ceremonies in Chinese societynot only brought a number of steppe people to servein Chinese states, but also largely transformedChinese social, political, and burial practices, andvalue systems. 135p, (BAR 2457, Archaeopress 2013)9781407310657 Pb £28.00

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Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Textsand Traditions: Contributions to CurrentResearch in Indology Volume Iedited by Nina Mirnig, Peter-Daniel Szanto andMichael WilliamsIn September 2009 youngresearchers and graduatestudents in this field cametogether to present theircutting-edge work at thefirst International IndologyGraduate ResearchSymposium, which washeld at Oxford University.This volume, the first in anew series which willpublish the proceedings ofthe Symposium, will make important contributionsto the study of the classical civilisation of the Indiansub-continent. The series, edited by Nina Mirnig,Péter-Dániel Szántó and Michael Williams, will striveto cover a wide range of subjects reaching fromliterature, religion, philosophy, ritual and grammarto social history, with the aim that the researchpublished will not only enrich the field of classicalIndology but eventually also contribute to thestudies of history and anthropology of India andIndianised Central and South-East Asia. 486p b/willus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842173855 Pb £38.00

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Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area: The History, Origin, andDevelopment of Irrigated Agricultureby B. V. Adrianov, edited by Simone MantelliniAncient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area, is the English translation of BorisVasilevich Andrianov’s work concerning the study of ancient irrigation systems andthe settlement pattern in the historical region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea(Uzbekistan). This work holds a special place within the Soviet archaeological schoolbecause of the results obtained through a multidisciplinary approach combiningaerial survey and fieldwork, surveys, and excavations. This translation has beenenriched by the addition of introductions written by several eminent scholars fromthe region regarding the importance of the Khorezm Archaeological–EthnographicExpedition and the figure of Boris V. Andrianov and his landmark study almost 50years after the original publication. 300p (American School of Prehistoric Researchmonograph, Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842173848 Hb £20.00

The Social Lives of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third MillenniumBC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa (Pakistan)by Sharri R. ClarkAfter more than 80 years of research, the Indus Civilization (ca. 2600–1900 BC)remains largely enigmatic. In this geographically extensive civilization, which stillhas no known monumental art and undeciphered texts, the largest corpus ofrepresentational art at many Indus sites is terracotta figurines. This researchexamines the figurines from the urban site of Harappa (ca. 3300–1700 BC) asreflections of some of the underlying structures of Indus society and cultural change,focusing particularly on figurines from securely dated archaeological contexts.512p, b/w illus, CD containing appendices with 928 pages of col and b/w images (AmericanSchool of Prehistory Monograph, Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842174555 Hb £20.00

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Prehistory of the Western Sahara: A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009By Jo Clarke & Nick BrooksDuring the last ten years, the Western Sahara Project has undertaken large scale archaeological andenvironmental research that has begun to address the gaps in our knowledge of the archaeology andpalaeoenvironments of Western Sahara, and to develop narratives of prehistoric cultural adaptation andchange from the end of the Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. A detailed discussion of past environmentalchange and a presentation of the environmental results are provided. A typology of built stone features –monuments and funerary architecture is presented, focusing on stone features, but also including discussionof ceramics and rock art and the analysis of lithic assemblages. Chapters focusing on intensive survey workin key study areas consider the landscape contexts of monuments and the results of excavation of burialcairns and artefact scatters. 328p, b/w illus with 32pp colour plates (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782971726 Pb £55.00

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Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions:Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume 2Edited by Giovanni Ciotti, Alastair Gornall & Paolo VisigalliPuspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate ResearchSymposium and presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asian cultures with papers covering a variety of topics related to theintellectual traditions of the region. Focusing on textual sources in the languagesin which they were composed, different disciplinary perceptions are offered onintellectual history, linguistics, philosophy, literary criticism and religious studies.224p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782974154 Pb £28.00

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The Oxford Handbook of African ArchaeologyEdited by Peter Mitchell & Paul LaneThis Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, coveringthe entirety of the continent’s past from thebeginnings of human evolution to thearchaeological legacy of European colonialism. Aswell as covering almost all periods and regions ofthe continent, it includes a mixture of keymethodological and theoretical issues and debates,and situates the subject’s contemporary practicewithin the discipline’s history and the infrastructuralchallenges now facing its practitioners. 1052p, B/Willus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199569885 Hb £120.00

The Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol. 4: Excavationsat Old Jarma (Ancient Garama)edited by David J. MattinglyThis volume presents the results of excavations andsurvey work at the site of Old Jarma, identifiablewith the Garamantian capital, Garama, that alsohad a long after-life in Medieval and Early Moderntimes. The Fazzan Project revealed an extraordinaryurban story, spanning 10 major construction phasesthat extended from c.400 BC to the AD 1930s. Thedetailed publication of the complex stratigraphicevidence and the accompanying finds assemblagesopens a fascinating window on the cultural heritageand lifeways of a central Saharan oasis. 700p b/willus, CD-Rom (Society for Libyan Studies 2013) Hb£95.00

Ancient Egypt Investigated: 101 ImportantQuestions and Intriguing AnswersBy Thomas Schneider

Here Thomas Schneider asks‘What are the 101 single mostimportant questions aboutancient Egypt’ The questionshe has chosen - and theanswers he provides - rangefrom the surprising ‘Why didupper class Egyptians neverwear a beard?’ to the profound‘Was ancient Egypt a cultureof death?’ and the provocative‘What do we not know aboutancient Egypt?’. 282p, b/w illus

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Diachronic Trends in Ancient EgyptianHistory: Studies dedicated to the memory of EvaPardeyEdited by Miroslav Bárta & Hella KüllmerThe book includes contributions from the followingauthors: Hartwig Altenmüller, Ladislav Bareš,Miroslav Bárta, Andreas Effland, Martin Fitzenreiter,Hans Goedicke, Peter Jánosi, Dieter Kurth, ChristianLoeben, Juan Carlos Moreno García, JanaMynár˜ová, Anthony Spalinger, Miroslav Verner,Hana Vymazalová, Wolfgang Waitkus. 221p (CzechInstitute of Egyptology 2013) 9788073084448 £29.00***NYP***

Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: BeyondPharaohsBy Douglas J. BrewerEgyptologists, art historians,philologists, andanthropological archaeo-logists have long worked sideby side in Egypt, but theyoften fail to understand oneanother ’s approaches. Thisbook aims to introducestudents to the archaeologicalside of the study of ancientEgypt and to bridge the gapbetween disciplines by explaining howarchaeologists tackle a variety of problems. DouglasJ. Brewer introduces the theoretical reasoning foreach approach, as well as the methods andtechniques applied to support it. 210p, b/w illus(Cambridge UP 2012) 9780521880916 Hb £60.00,9780521707343 Pb £18.99

Tausret: Forgotten Queen and Pharaoh of EgyptEdited by Richard WilkinsonTausret ruled Egypt as successively Queen, regentand Pharaoh in her own right in the years around1200 BCE, and is now becoming the focus of thekind of concerted study that has long been accordedbetter-known female Pharaohs such as Cleopatra andHatsheptsut. This volume collects together thatwork, with leading scholars contributing chaptersreviewing the role of royal women in Egypt, the reignof Tausret herself, her representation in hermonuments, and exploring in depth her tomb andher temple in the Valley of the Kings. 145p, b/w illus,col pls (Oxford UP 2012) 9780199740116 Hb £22.50

Ancient Egyptian AdministrationEdited by Juan Carlos Moreno GarciaAncient Egyptian Administration provides the firstcomprehensive overview of the structure,organization and evolution of the pharaonicadministration from its origins to the end of the LatePeriod. The book not only focuses on bureaucracy,departments, and official practices but also on moreinformal issues like patronage, the limits in the actualexercise of authority, and the competing interestsbetween institutions and factions within the rulingelite. Furthermore, general chapters devoted to thebest-documented periods in Egyptian history aresupplemented by more detailed ones dealing withspecific archives, regions, and administrativeproblems. 1100p (Brill 2013) 9789004249523 Hb £245.00

Titles and Bureaux of Egypt 1850-1700 BCBy Stephen QuirkeA thematic dictionary of the most important titles ofthe Late Middle Kingdom, with a short descriptionand short bibliography for each title. 154p, b/w ilustwith contents (Golden House Publications 2013)9780954721800 Pb £25.00

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

Ancient Egyptian Technology and InnovationBy Ian ShawThis book draws not only ontraditional archaeologicaland textual sources but alsoon the results of scientificanalyses of ancient materialsand on experimental ande t h n o - a r c h a e o l o g i c a linformation. Although theprincipal aim is to bringtogether evidence for differentaspects of Egyptian technolo-gical development, it alsoexamines wider cognitive and social contexts, suchas the ancient Egyptian propensity for mentalcreativity and innovation. Shaw considers thoseaspects of Egyptian society that made it predisposed(or not) to certain types of innovation, e.g.techniques of metalworking, transportation andconstruction. 160p (Duckworth 2013) 9780715631188Pb £19.99

Representations of the Family in the EgyptianOld Kingdom: Women and MarriageBy Kim McCorquodaleIn their tomb chapels, officials recorded scenes ofritual and daily life which often include close familymembers. This study examines this material andother data relating to the female relatives of theseofficials to establish the place of wives and otherfemales in the tomb owner’s family and to arrive atan understanding of the institute of marriage in theOld Kingdom. A particular focus is the incidence ofpolygamy in this official class. 131p (BAR 2513,Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311319 Pb £44.00

The Ancient Egyptian Language: An HistoricalStudyBy James P. AllenThis book examines how the phonology andgrammar of the ancient Egyptian language changedfrom the first appearance of written documents, tothe Coptic dialects of the second century AD. Itdiscusses phonology, working backward from thevowels and consonants of Coptic to those that canbe deduced for earlier stages of the language, as wellas grammar, including both basic components suchas nouns and the complex history of the verbalsystem. 254p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013)9781107032460 Hb £55.00, 9781107664678 Pb £19.99

Aspects of Demotic OrthographyEdited by S. P. VleemingAlthough we feel confident that, at least in theory,we thoroughly understand these scripts, practicaldifficulties in reading the cursive variants of hieraticand demotic remain. In their variety, the studiespresented in these papers bear witness to the richtexture of demotic script by investigating severalparameters by which it may be measured, includingthe reading of individual signs and grammaticalcategories such as verbal morphology. 184p, (PeetersPress 2013) 9789042929012 Pb £80.00

Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and GreeceBy Veronique DasenThis volume brings together for the first time a whole

range of mostlyunpublished or little-known iconographic,epigraphic, literary, andanthropological evidencefor dwarfs in the ancientworld. Dasen covers suchareas as the history ofcaricature and the portrait;medical history and thedevelopment of theperception of congenitaldisorders; social history;

ethnography; and history of religion, withquestions on the magical and ritual efficiency of themalformed in sacred and theatrical contexts. 354p,80 b/w pls, many figs (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199680863Pb £40.00

Nefer: the Aesthetic Ideal in Classical EgyptBy Willie Cannon-BrownThis book provides an original treatment of theconcept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeksto examine the dimensions of ‘nefer’, the term usedto describe the good and the beautiful, within thecontext of ordinary life. 116p (Routledge 2006, Pb 2013)9781135862305, Hb £90.00, 9780415650380 Pb £26.00

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City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna andits PeopleBy Barry J. KempAmarna holds a dualfascination as both theonly complete AncientEgyptian city to beexcavated, and as thenewly founded capital cityof Akhenaten, whosereign saw such radicaldepartures in religiousideology and in theportrayal of the pharaohhimself. Barry Kemp has excavated at Amarna forover thirty years and is the ideal guide to the city. Inthe superbly illustrated and beautifully writtensurvey he describes its planning and construction,its temples and royal buildings, and above all whatit can tell us about the daily lives of its people. In sodoing he also explores Akhenaten’s motivations andthe way that his vision was played out in this urbansetting. He shows how urban space was conceivedas comprising a series of interlinked “urban villages”and how the city’s economy was geared to servingthe state, but was at the same time dependent onbenefactions in terms of food. 320p, b/w and col illus(Thames and Hudson 2012) 9780500051733 Hb £29.95

Akhenaten’s Workers: The Amarna StoneVillage Survey, 2005-9. Volume I. The Survey,Excavations and ArchitectureBy A. StevensFrom 2005 to 2009 a survey and excavation projectwas undertaken at the Stone Village, a smallsettlement on the eastern desert plain of Amarna. Thiswas the first concerted effort to record this site, andintroduce it into the story of Amarna. The fieldworkrevealed a community of labourers likely engaged intomb-cutting and related tasks, including at theRoyal Tombs, but of lesser social standing than theoccupants of the Workmen’s Village. 467p, b/w illus(Egypt Exploration Society 2012) 9780856982088 Pb£65.00

Akhenaten’s Workers: The Amarna StoneVillage Survey, 2005-9. Volume II. The Faunaland Botanical Remains, and ObjectsBy A. Stevens398p, b/w illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2012)9780856982095 Pb £65.00

The Chapel of Kahai and His FamilyBy Miral LashienThis publication offers magnificently rich colourplates and line drawings showing all the intricatedetails of the scenes and inscriptions of this richlydecorated Old Kingdom tomb. Contrary to the beliefthat Nefer prepared the joint tomb for himself andhis father Kahai, the author shows that we have herea rare case of a son dying before his father with thelatter adding an alcove dedicated for his son in hischapel. 56p, 76 col pls, 11 b&w pls (Australian Centre forEgyptology 2013) 9780856688362 Pb £75.00

Going out in Daylight – prt m hrw: The AncientEgyptian Book of the Dead - translation,sources, meaningsBy Stephen QuirkeThis translation with Egyptian transliteration,presents all the compositions on prt m hrw Book ofthe Dead papyri from the New Kingdom to PtolemaicPeriod. The volume gives and illustrates at least oneversion of every written composition. Writings atthe margins or outside the prt m hrw corpus,including all ascribed Book of the Dead numbers inEgyptological publications, are included in the finalsection. The translations are supported by a thematicand historical introduction and closing glossary.641p (Golden House Publications 2013) 9781906137311Pb £70.00

Architecture, Astronomy and Sacred Landscapein Ancient EgyptBy Giulio MagliThis book examines the interplay betweenastronomy and dynastic power in the course ofancient Egyptian history, focusing on thefundamental role of astronomy in the creation ofthe pyramids and the monumental temple and burialcomplexes. Using a variety of data retrieved fromstudy of the sky and measurements of the buildings,Magli establishes an intimate relationship amongcelestial cycles, topography, and architecture. He alsoshows how they were deployed in the ideology ofthe pharaoh’s power in the course of Egyptianhistory. 272p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013)9781107032088 Hb £60.00

Bahriya Oasis: Recent Research into the Pastof an Egyptian OasisEdited by Marek Dospìl & Lenka SukováThis book presents the outcomes of the recentexploration of Bahriya, an Egyptian oasis located inthe Western Desert about 350 km south-west ofCairo. Part I of the volume is devoted to the southernpart of the Oasis (also known as El-Hayz) and theexploration carried out there by the team led by theCzech Institute of Egyptology. Part II concentrateson the northern part of the same oasis publishingthe results of scholarly research by the French teamled by Université de Strasbourg. A final chapter dealswith water-management in the Western Desert as awhole. 314p col pls (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2013)9788073084561 Hb £73.00 ***NYP***

Kom Firin II: The Urban Fabric and Landscapeby Neal SpencerThe second and final publication of the BritishMuseum's fieldwork at Kom Firin, presenting keyfindings from the western Nile Delta, a little-exploredyet strategically important area of Egypt. Focusingon two principal areas of the excavations, inside thenorth-eastern corner of the New Kingdom enclosureand an area of Saite occupation, the book offers adetailed discussion of artefact assemblages, faunalremains, the ancient landscape and a chapter onmodern Kom Firin. 304p, b/w illus (British MuseumPress 2013) 9780861591923 Pb £45.00 ***NYP***

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Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in LegalInterpretationBy Ari Z. BryenOver a hundred papyruspetitions, submitted to localand imperial officials, inwhich individuals from theEgyptian countryside soughtredress for acts of violencecommitted against them,survive. By assembling theselong-neglected materials (alsotranslated as an appendix tothe book) and putting themin conversation with contempo-rary perspectivesfrom legal anthropology and social theory, Bryenshows how legal stories were used to work outrelations of deference within local communities.Rather than a simple force of imperial power, an openlegal system allowed petitioners to define theirrelationships with their local adversaries whilecontributing to the body of rules and expectationsby which they would live in the future. 363p(University of Pennsylvania Press 2013) 9780812245080Hb £49.00

L’Architecture et les pratiques funéraires dansl’Égypte romaine.: Volume I: Synthese. VolumeII CatalogueBy Gael CartronThanks to extensive excavations carried out sincethe 1980s, our knowledge of necropoles used duringthe Roman period in Egypt has been considerablyenriched. This study includes a catalogue of 325 suchfunerary sites, 214 of which are well documented,and helps to clarify our understanding of the variedarchitectural forms, including pit graves with raisedsurface structures (pyramids, columns and chapels),hypogea with steps or sloping access, rock-cuttombs, sarcophagi placed in the open, sepulchreswith surface loculi, and tombs shaped as houses ortemples French text. 630p b/w illus (BAR 2398,Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309934 Pb £80.00

The Cambridge History of Religions in theAncient WorldBy Michele Renee SalzmanThe essays in these volumeshave a broad reach, coveringthe ancient Near East andMediterranean, and extendingfrom the Bronze Age into thelate Roman period. Thecontributors incorporate awide spectrum of textual andmaterial evidence into theiranalyses of their fields. Theregional and historicalorientations of the essays will enable readers to seehow a religious tradition or movement assumed adistinctive local identity, as well as to understandhow each tradition developed within its broaderregional context. 1002p, 2 vols, b/w illus (CambridgeUP 2013) 9781107019997 Hb £135.00

The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies inWaterborne PowerEdited by Kostas BuraselisWith its emphasis on the dynasty’s concern forcontrol of the sea - both the Mediterranean and theRed Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new andoriginal perspective on Ptolemaic power in a keyperiod of Hellenistic history. Within the developingAegean empire of the Ptolemies, the role of the navyis examined together with that of its admirals.Egypt’s close relationship to Rhodes is subjected toscrutiny, as is the constant threat of piracy to thetransport of goods on the Nile and by sea. 294p, b/willus (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107033351 Hb £60.00

Loi et coutume dans l’Égypte grecque etromaine: Les facteurs de formation du droit enÉgypte d’Alexandre le Grand à la conquêtearabeBy Joseph Mélèze ModrzejewskiThe book is devoted to the study of legal sources inEgypt during the millennium from the rule ofAlexander the Great to the Arab conquest. They areknown through documents, mostly Greek, but alsoin Egyptian and Latin, written on papyri. The studyof legal sources introduces the reader to the varietyof problems steming from the papyrologicaldocuments. French text. (Journal of Juristic Papyrology2014) Hb £68.00 ***NYP***

The Oxford Handbook of Roman EgyptBy Christina RiggsRoman Egypt is a criticalarea of interdisciplinaryresearch, which has steadilyexpanded since the 1970s andcontinues to grow. Thishandbook draws togethermany different strands ofresearch on Roman Egypt,in order to suggest both thestate of knowledge in thefield and to explore possibleareas of future research. Its45 essays are arranged in seven thematic sections:land and state; city, town and chora; people; religion;texts and language; images and objects; and borders,trade and tourism. 816p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012)9780199571451 Hb £95.00

Family in Roman EgyptBy Sabine HubnerThis study captures the dynamics of the everydayfamily life of the common people in Roman Egypt.The book discusses such things as family compositionand household size and the differences betweenurban and rural families, exploring what can beascribed to cultural patterns, economicconsiderations and/or individual preferences bysetting the family in Roman Egypt into context withother pre-modern societies where families adoptedsuch strategies to deal with similar exigencies of theirdaily lives. 272p, (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107011137Hb £60.00

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

Rough Cilicia: New Historical and Archaeological Approachesedited by Michael C. Hoff and Rhys F. TownsendThe region of Rough Cilicia (modern area the south–western coastal area of Turkey),known in antiquity as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the western part of the largerarea of Cilicia. The twenty–two papers presented here give a useful overview oncurrent research on Rough Cilicia, from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.The first two articles deal with the Bronze and Iron Ages, and refer to the questionsof colonization, influences, and relations. The following four articles concern thepirates of Cilicia and Isauria. Six papers publish work on Roman architecture:architectural decoration, council houses, Roman temples, bath architecture, cenotaph,and public buildings. Ceramics are not neglected whilst six papers cover the EarlyChristian and Byzantine periods and cover rural habitat, trade, the Kilise Tepesettlement, late Roman churches, Seleucia, and the miracles of Thekla. 320p, 260 colillus. (Oxbow Books, 2012) 9781842175187 hb £60.00

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

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

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The Oxford Handbook of the State in theAncient Near East and MediterraneanEdited by Peter F. Bang & W. ScheidelThis Handbook offers a comprehensive survey of

ancient state formation inwestern Eurasia and NorthAfrica. Eighteen expertsintroduce readers to a widevariety of systems spanning4,000 years, from the earliestknown states in worldhistory to the Roman Empireand its successors. It seeks tounderstand the innerworkings of these states byfocusing on key issues:political and military power,

mechanisms of co-operation, coercion, andexploitation, the impact of ideologies, and the riseand demise of individual polities. A detailedintroductory review of contemporary approaches tothe study of the state puts the rich historical casestudies in context. 560p (Oxford UP 2013)9780195188318 Hb £95.00

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Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Late Palaeolithic andNeolithic Communities of the Jordanian Steppe.The Azraq Basin Project Volume 1: ProjectBackground and the Late Palaeolithic (GeologicalContext and Technology)by Andrew N. Garrard and Brian ByrdBeyond the Fertile Crescent isthe first volume of the AzraqProject, a large-scalearchaeological and palaeo-environmental survey andexcavation project under-taken between 1982 and 1989in the ecologically diversesub-region of the Azraq Basinin north-central Jordan: anarea rich in Palaeolithic andNeolithic archaeology.Beginning with an overview to the Project aims, adetailed analysis of past and present environments andland use and the history of excavation in the Basin,Beyond the Fertile Crescent explores the geology,stratigraphy and dating of the Late Palaeolithic sitesand provides a detailed description of the technologyand typology of the lithic assemblages from the sites.These are then compared with those from the widerLevant, in order to explore possible links betweentechnological traditions and social groups in order tounderstand the evidence for settlement strategies acrossthe region. 448p (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2013)9781842178331 Hb £45.00

Cultures in Contact: From Mesopotamia to theMediterraneanBy Joan Aruz, Sarah Graff & Yelena RakicThese essays explore interconnections among therich and complex Bronze Age civilizations extendingfrom Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean, rangingfrom reports of new archaeological discoveries andinterpretations of material culture, to innovativeinvestigations of literary, historical, and politicalaspects of interactions among these great powers.320p, col illus (Yale UP 2013) 9780300185034 Pb £35.00

Cities and the Shaping of Memory in theAncient Near EastBy Omur HarmansahDuring the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200–850 BCE),Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highlyperformative official discourse that revolved aroundconstructing cities, cultivating landscapes, buildingwatercourses, erecting monuments, and initiatingpublic festivals. This volume combs througharchaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural, andenvironmental evidence to tell the story of a regionfrom the perspective of its spatial practices, landscapehistory, and architectural technologies. It argues thatthe cultural processes of the making of urban spacesshape collective memory and identity as well as sitesof political performance and state spectacle. 372p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107027947 Hb £65.00

Hellenistic Settlements in the East fromArmenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and IndiaBy Getzel M. CohenIn this book, Cohen provides historical narratives,detailed references, citations, and commentaries onall the Graeco-Macedonian settlements founded (orrefounded) in the East. Organized geographically,Cohen pulls together discoveries and debates fromdozens of widely scattered archaeological andepigraphic projects, making a distinct contributionto ongoing questions and opening new avenues ofinquiry. 440p, (University of California Press 2013)9780520273825 Hb £59.00

Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeologyof the Early Dynastic TempleBy Jean M. EvansThis book examines the sculptures created duringthe Early Dynastic period (2900-2350 BC) of Sumer,a region corresponding to present-day southernIraq. Featured almost exclusively in templecomplexes, some 550 Early Dynastic stone statuesof human figures carved in an abstract style havesurvived. Chronicling the intellectual history ofancient Near Eastern art history and archaeologyat the intersection of sculpture and aesthetics, thisbook argues that the early modern reception ofSumer still influences ideas about these sculptures.Also engaging with the archaeology of the EarlyDynastic temple, the book ultimately considers whata stone statue of a human figure has signified, bothin modern times and in antiquity. 278p, b/w illus(Cambridge UP 2012) 9781107017399 Hb £60.00

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The Earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-E Abad and Janiedited by Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews and Yaghoub MohammadifarOver a period of several millennia, from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene (c.13,000-7000 BC), communities in south-west Asia developed from hunter-foragers tovillager-farmers, bringing fundamental changes in all aspects of life.Two vital andconsistent aspects of change were a shift from mobile to sedentary lifestyles andincreasingly intensive human management of animal and plant resources. Buildingon earlier campaigns of archaeological investigation, the current phase of the CentralZagros Archaeological Project is designed to explore these issues in one key region.Two Early Neolithic mounds were excavated: Sheikh-e Abad in the high Zagros andJani, in the foothills of the Mesopotamian plains, each comprising up to 10 m depthof deposits indicating occupation spanning over 2000 years, and providing greatscope for diachronic and spatial analyses. 224p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2014)9781782972235 Pb £40.00

The Proto-Elamite Settlement and Its Neighbors: Tepe Yaya Period IVCBy Benjamin Mutin & C. C. Lamberg-KarlovskyThe site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran is famous, among other importantaspects, for the Proto-Elamite complex dated to around 3000 BC (Period IVC). Inaddition to a synthesis of the Proto-Elamite period and the material assemblage atTepe Yahya, This study provides an updated review and comprehensive discussionof the Proto-Elamite sphere, its relations to Mesopotamia, and its eastern MiddleAsian neighbors. It illustrates that the “multi-cultural” situation at Tepe YahyaPeriod IVC was present across many sites in Middle Asia and that, in addition tothe Proto-Elamite sphere and the cities of Mesopotamia, Middle Asia around 3000BC was incorporated within an interactive “multi-players” network of polities.(Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782974192 Hb £25.00

Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours: Local Developments and Long-rangeInteractions in the 4th Millennium BCEdited by Cameron A. PetrieThe fourth millennium BC was a critical period of socio-economic and politicaltransformation in the Iranian Plateau and its surrounding zones. This periodwitnessed the appearance of the world’s earliest urban centres, hierarchicaladministrative structures, and writing systems. These developments are indicative ofsignificant changes in socio-political structures that have been interpreted as evidencefor the rise of early states and the development of inter-regional trade, embedded inlonger-term processes that began in the later fifth millennium BC. The 20 paperspresented here illustrate forcefully how the re-evaluation of old excavation results,combined with much new research, has dramatically expanded our knowledge andunderstanding of local developments on the Iranian Plateau and of long-rangeinteractions during the critical period of the fourth millennium BC. 400p, b/w and col.illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782972273 Hb £65.00

Archaeology in the 'Land of Tells and Ruins': A History of Excavations in the Holy Land Inspiredby the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boeredited by Bart WagemakersRecently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, who in 1953-4 visitedmany archaeological sites in the Holy Land. These documents inspired 20 internationally-renowned scholars– many of whom excavated at the sites they describe – to report on what we know today of nine of these sitesJerusalem, Khirbet et-Tell, Samaria & Sebaste, Tell Balata (Shechem), Tell es-Sultan (Jericho), Khirbet Qumran,Caesarea, Megiddo, and Bet She’an. They explore questions such as: Who excavated these sites over theyears? What were the specific aims of their campaigns? What techniques and methods did they use? How didthey interpret these excavations? What finds were most noteworthy? And finally, what are the majormisconceptions held by the former excavators? 208p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782972457 Hb£49.95

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Barda Balkaby Bruce HoweThe Paleolithic site ofBarda Balka (“standingstone,” “stone to leanupon” in local Kurdish) issituated about 3kilometers northeast ofChemchemal in KirkukProvince, Iraq. Untilrecent years, the site wasmarked by a naturalmonolith of limestoneconglomerate 3.5 meters high on a rather barrenslope partly littered with Acheulean-type bifaces,pebble tools, cores, and flake artifacts. The site wasdiscovered in 1949. In 1951, during a field season ofthe Oriental Institute of the University of Chicagounder the direction of Robert J. Braidwood BardaBalka was visited and further studied by Herbert E.Wright Jr. and Bruce Howe. Wright and Howereturned shortly thereafter to conduct a four-daysounding campaign of trenching and localizedgeological investigations. This volume is Howe’s finalreport of these investigations. 32p b/w illus (OrientalInstitute Press 2013) 9781614910008 Pb £19.50 ***NYP***

House of Prisoners: Slavery and State in UrukBy Andrea SeriThis book deals with the house of prisoners (bit asiri)at the city of Uruk during the revolt against kingSamsu-iluna of Babylon, Hammurabi’s son. Theanalysis comprises some 410 documents dated orattributable to king Rim-Anum, one of theinsurgents who attained relative independence asthe ruler of Uruk. The study of this corpus revealsdetails about diplomatic dealings between the centralpower and rebel rulers, about the functioning of thehouse of prisoners of war, and about the individualswho participated in different echelons of the localadministration. This monograph investigates whatkind of organization “the house of prisoners” was,how it worked, how it interacted with otherinstitutions, the composition of its labor force, andstate management of captive and enslavedindividuals. 464p (Walter de Gruyter 2013)9781614511090 Hb £125.00

The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, Kingof Assyria (704-681 BC0, Part 1: RoyalInscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 3/1By Kirk Grayson & Jamie NovotnyThis volume provides reliable, up-to-date editionsof thirty-eight historical inscriptions of Sennacherib.They record numerous construction projects atNineveh, including the city’s walls and the “PalaceWithout a Rival.” Each text (with its Englishtranslation) is supplied with a brief introductioncontaining general information, a cataloguecontaining basic information about all exemplars anda commentary containing further technicalinformation. 267p (Eisenbrauns 2012) 9781575062419Hb £95.00

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Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near Eastand Mediterranean from the Third to the FirstMillennnia BCEdited by Marie-Louise Nosch & C. MichelWritten sources from theancient Near East andeastern Mediterranean,from the third to the firstmillennia BC, provide awealth of terms fortextiles. The twenty-twochapters in the presentvolume offer the firstcomprehensive survey ofthis important material,with special attention toevidence for significantinterconnections in textile terminology amonglanguages and cultures, across space and time. Forexample, the Greek word for a long shirt, khiton ,ki-to in Linear B, derives from a Semitic root, ktn. But the same root in Akkadian means linen, inOld Assyrian a garment made of wool, and perhapscotton, in many modern languages. These andnumerous other instances underscore the need fordetailed studies of both individual cases and thecommon threads that link them. This exampleillustrates on the one hand how connected sometextiles terms are across time and space, but it alsoshows how very carefully we must conduct theetymological and terminological enquiry withconstantly changing semantics as the commonthread. 326p (Oxbow Books 2010, Pb 2013)9781782973911 Pb £30.00

Commerce and Colonialization in the AncientNear EastBy Maria Eugenia AubetIn this analysis of the first colonialisms in history,

the eastern roots of thePhoenician colonial system inthe first millennium BC aretraced and the metropolis ofTyre is established as the finallink in a long chain of colonialexperiences in the ancient NearEast. The author reviews someof the theories and debatesabout trade and the colonialphenomenon, scrutinises thecolonial situations that arosein the East in a context of long-

distance interregional trade, and analyses theexamples where a metropolis with a mercantiletradition intervenes and acts as intermediary indifferent interregional exchange circuits. 420p, b/willus (Cambridge UP 2013) 9780521514170 Hb £65.00

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Çatalhöyük Excavations: the 2000-2008 SeasonsThe Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960swhen excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, aswell as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses.Çatalhöyük Excavations presents the results of the excavations that took place atthe site from 2000 to 2008 when the main aim was to understand the social geographyof the settlement, its layout and social organization. Excavation, recording andsampling methodologies are discussed as well as dating, ‘levels’, and the groupingof buildings into social sectors. The excavations in three areas of the East Mound atÇatalhöyük are described: the South Area, the 4040 Area in the northern part ofthe site, and the IST Area excavated by a team from Istanbul University. Thedescription of excavated units, features and buildings incorporates results from theanalyses of animal bone, chipped stone, groundstone, shell, ceramics, phytoliths,micromorphology. 300p, 300 figures and 50 tables (British Institute of Archaeology atAnkara 2013) 9781898249290 Hb £60.00 ***NYP***

Humans and Landscapes of Çatalhöyük: Reportd from the 2000-2008SeasonsEdited by Ian HodderThe present volume presents new data on the ways in which the Çatalhöyüksettlement and environment were dwelled in. A first section explores how houses,open areas and middens in the settlement were enmeshed in the daily lives of theinhabitants, integrating a wide range of different types of data at different scales.A second section examines subsistence practices of the site’s inhabitants and buildsup a picture of how the overall landscape was exploited and lived within. A thirdsection examines the evidence from the skeletons of those buried within the housesat Çatalhöyük in order to examine health, diet, lifestyle and activity within thesettlement and across the landscape. This final section also reports on the burialpractices and associations in order to build hypotheses about the socialorganization of those inhabiting the settlement. 320p, 250 figures and 50 tables(BIAA 2013) 9781898249306 Hb £60.00 ***NYP***

Substantive technologies at Çatalhöyük: reports from the 2000-2008 seasonsedited by Ian HodderThe present volume presents new data on the ways in which humans becameincreasingly engaged in their material environment such that ‘things’ came to playan active force in their lives. In the absence of large local stone, humans becameincreasingly involved in the extraction and manipulation of clay for a wide rangeof purposes – from bricks to ovens, pots and figurines. This heavy use of clays ledto changes in the local environment that interacted with human activity, as indicatedin the first section of the volume. In the second section, other examples of materialtechnologies are considered all of which in various ways engage humans in specificdependencies and relationships. For example, large-scale studies of obsidian tradehave drawn a complex picture of changing interactions between humans overtime. The volume concludes with an integrated account of the uses of materials atÇatalhöyük based on the analysis of heavy residue samples from all contexts at thesite. 300p b/w illus (BIAA 2013) 9781898249313 Hb £60.00 ***NYP***

Integrating Çatalhöyük: themes from the 2000-2008 seasonsedited by Ian HodderThe present volume discusses general themes that have emerged in the analysisand interpretation of the results of excavations in 2000-2008. It synthesizes theresults of research described in other volumes in the same series. It commenceswith accounts of the recent work on community collaboration at the site It thensynthesizes the work on landscape use and mobility, integrating the work ofsubsistence analysis and the analysis of human remains. The storage and sharingof food is a related topic. The ways in which houses were constructed, lived inand abandoned leads to a broad discussion of settlement and social organizationat Çatalhöyük and of their change through time.The social uses of materials andtechnologies are explored and the roles of materials in personal adornment. 300pb/w illus (BIAA 2014) 9781898249320 Hb £45.00 ***NYP***

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Cities and Citadels in TurkeyEdited by Scott Redford & Nina ErginFor millennia, walled citadels have served both asresidences for rulers and military forces and as sacredcenters embodying the power of the elite. The essaysin this volume examine the phenomenon of citadelsin a comparative perspective in Anatolia andneighboring regions. Archaeology, art history, andhistory are brought to bear on the phenomenon ofthe citadel in its urban context. 346p (Peeters Press2013) 9789042927124 Hb £100.00

Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute ofthe University of Chicago, Volume Š, fascicle 3edited by H.G. Guterbock, Harry A. Hoffner andT.P.J. van den Hout176p (Oriental Institute 2013) 9781885923950 Pb £18.50

Across the Border: Late Bronze-Iron AgeRelations Between Syria and AnatoliaEdited by K. Ashhan YenerOne of the most intriguing issues facingarchaeologists working in the second millenniumBC is the collapse of Late Bronze Age palaceeconomies and the rise of smaller principalities calledIron Age kingdoms. Theories about this politicaltransition have varied from environmental causes,internal dynastic squabbles in Hattusha, tomarauding bands of mythical “Sea Peoples”. Thisbook compares archaeological data from new as wellas established excavations dating to the Late Bronzeand Iron Ages. Special attention is given tosignificant new understandings of chronology thatwill contextualize the structural collapses at the endof the Late Bronze Age and will illuminate the riseof new Iron Age kingdoms and their imperialambitions. 542p, (Peeters Press 2013) 9789042927155Hb £130.00

Horsemen of Israel: horses and chariotry inMonarchic IsraelBy D. CantrellNotwithstanding thesubstantial textual andarchaeological evidence ofthe horse’s historic presence,recent scholars seem to be ledby a general belief that therewere very few horses in IronAge Israel and that Israel’schariotry was insignificant.The reason for this currentsentiment is tied primarilyto the academic controversy of the past 50 years overwhether the 17 tripartite-pillared buildings excavatedat Megiddo in the early 20th century were, in fact,stables, or an alternative such as storehouses,marketplaces, or barracks. Cantrell’s bookemphasises the importance of the horse in Israel’sarmies, drawing on her own practical experience ofworking with horses as well as archaeological andtextual sources. 160p, b/w illus (Eisenbrauns 2011)9781575062044 Hb £55.00

Temples and Sanctuaries from the early IronAge Levant: Recovery after CollapseBy William E. MierseThe sanctuaries presented inthis book reveal the excitingdevelopments in archi-tecture that occurred overthe five-century span from1200-700 BCE and showthat the architectsresponsible for creatingthem were designingbuildings to meet the newneeds of the societies thattook shape in the wake ofthe downfall of the Late Bronze Age. The analysis islargely based on comparative studies, a formalistapproach that permits the isolation of lines ofcontinuity and the detection of discontinuity. Mierseaugments this traditional approach withconsiderations of the social and political forces thatwere influencing design choices and introduces thearchaeological investigation of cult as it hasdeveloped in the postprocessual school ofarchaeology. 480p (Eisenbrauns 2012) 9781575062464Hb £65.00

Later Village Period Settlement Development inthe Karun River Basin, upper Khuzestan Plain,Greater Susiana, IranBy Abbas MoghaddamThis study re-evaluates the previous understandingof the Later Village Period in Greater Susiana(southwestern Iran) by focusing mostly onsettlement and landscape. By providing a picture ofthe previously unknown prehistoric humanoccupations in the Eastern plain through anexamination and assessment of recent survey andexcavation results and contextualizing thisinformation with the results of previous research, itcontributes to our understanding of humanoccupation and settlement pattern between ca. 5000and 3500 B.C. in southwestern Iran. 290p, b/w illus(BAR 2347, Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309323 Pb£43.00

Ancient Settlement Patterns and Cultures inthe Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iranby Abbas Alizadeh, Loghman Ahmadzadeh andMehdi OmidfarIn 1948 Donald McCown recorded 118 sites in theRam Hormuz and Ahvaz areas and eventually chosefor excavation the large prehistoric mound complexTall-e Geser. Apart from short articles, the site wasnever fully published. In Part 1 of this two-partvolume, Abbas Alizadeh and colleagues haveundertaken a final publication of the site. Part 2presents the results of regional surveys conductedin the Ram Hormuz plain from 2005 to 2008,undertaken with the goal of understanding the semi-nomadic, mobile component of lowland Susiana andits hinterlands through time. 158p b/w illus (OrientalInstitute 2013) 9781885923974 Hb £55.00 ***NYP***

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Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers: The Conceptof Evil in Early IranBy S. K. Mendoza ForrestEarly Iranians believed evil had to have a sourceoutside of God, which led to the concept of an entityas powerful and utterly evil as God is potent andgood. These two forces, good and evil, which havealways vied for superiority, needed helpers in thisstruggle. According to the Zoroastrians, every entityhad to take sides, from the cosmic level to themicrocosmic self. One of the results of this battle wasthat certain humans were thought to side with evil.This first comprehensive study of the concept of evilin early Iran uncovers details of the Iranian struggleagainst witchcraft, sorcery, and other “evils,”beginning with their earliest texts. 245p, (Universityof Texas Press 2013) 9780292747678 Pb £16.99

The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A NewBeginning for the Middle EastBy John Curtis, Neil MacGregor & Irving FinkelThe Cyrus Cylinder is oneof the most famous objectsto have survived from theancient world. It is oftenreferred to as the first billof human rights as itappears to permit freedomof worship throughoutthe Persian Empire and toallow deported people toreturn to their homelands.This catalogue is beingpublished in conjunctionwith the first ever tour of the object to the UnitedStates, along with sixteen other objects from theBritish Museum’s collection. The book discusseshow these objects demonstrate the innovationsinitiated by Persian rule in the Ancient Near East.144p, col illus (British Museum Press 2013)9780714111872 Hb £25.00

King and Court in Ancient Persia, 559 to 331BCEBy Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesImmortalized in Greek literature as despotic tyrants,a new vision of Persian monarchy is emergingwhich shows the Kings in a very different light.Inscriptions present an image of Persian rulers asliberators, peace-makers, valiant warriors, righteousgod-fearing judges, and law-makers. Around themthe Kings established lavish and sophisticated courts,the centres of political decision-making and culturalachievements in which the image of monarchy wasendorsed and advanced by an almost theatricaldisplay of grandeur and power. This book exploresthe representation of Persian monarchy and thecourt of the Achaemenid Great Kings from the pointof view of the ancient Iranians themselves andthrough the sometimes distorted prism of Classicalauthors and Biblical sources. 224p, b/w illus(Edinburgh UP 2013) 9780748641260 Hb £80.00,9780748641253 Pb £24.99

The Palace of Darius at Susa: The Great RoyalResidence of Achaemenid PersiaEdited by Jean PerrotThe royal palace of Dariusthe Great at Susa finallygets the book it deserves inthe form of this massive,comprehensive andbeautifully producedsurvey. Jean Perrot, whodirected the excavations atthe palace from 1969-79assembles a stellar cast ofFrench scholars to describeand analyse theexcavations themselves, the structures found andthe architectural and iconographic developmentsthey represent, and to place the whole in the contextof Achaemenid rule, and what they reveal about theachievements and kingship of Darius in particular.506p, col illus t/out (Tauris & Co Ltd 2013) 9781848856219Hb £60.00

Empire, Authority and Autonomy inAchaemenid AnatoliaBy Elspeth DusinberreThrough a wide array of textual, visual, andarchaeological material, Elspeth Dusinberre showshow the rulers of the Achaemenid empireconstructed a system flexible enough to provide forthe needs of different peoples within the confines ofa single imperial authority and highlights thevariability in response. She examines the dynamictensions between authority and autonomy acrossthe empire, providing a valuable new way ofconsidering imperial structure and development.397p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107018266Hb £65.00

Animals, Gods and Men from East to WestEdited by Alessandra Peruzzetto, Francesca DornaMetzger & Lucinda DirvenThe 21 articles collected in this volume centre onanimals in relation to men and gods. Many articlesdeal with iconographical issues, but epigraphy,ceramics and animal bones are subject of research aswell. The focus is on Near Eastern Archaeology, inparticular with respect to the Hellenistic, Parthianand Sasanian periods. 206p b/w illus (BAR 2013)9781407311340 Pb £35.00

Alexander Romance in Persia and the EastEdited by Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson & IanRichard NettonThe Alexander Romance was translated into Syriacin the sixth century and may have become currentin Persia as early as the third century AD. Fromthese beginnings it reached into the Persian nationalepic, the Shahnameh, into Jewish traditions, andinto the Quran and subsequent Arab romance. Thepapers in this volume all have the aim of deepeningour understanding of this complex development.416p, (Barkhuis 2012) 9789491431043 Hb £77.00

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Landscape and Interaction: Troodos Survey Vol 1:Methodology, Analysis and Interpretationby Michael Given, A. Bernard Knapp, Jay Noller,Luke Sollars and Vasiliki KassianidouThe Troodos Mountain rangein central Cyprus is a regionof great physical and culturaldiversity. The landscapesrange from fertile, cultivatedplains to narrow, dry valleysand forested mountainregions and this physicaltopography is overlain by arich human culturallandscape of farming, mining,industry, settlement, burialand ritual behaviour. Over sixfield seasons, a team of specialists and fieldwalkersfrom the Troodos Archaeological and EnvironmentalSurvey Project (TAESP) investigated the northernedge of this region and explored the complex anddynamic relationship between landscape and peopleover 12,000 years. Beginning with a consideredoverview of the context, research aims andmethodology of the project, Volume 1 providesdetailed accounts of the archaeology, materialculture, geography and environmental record of theentire survey area. This wealth of information is thenbought together to produce a series of chronologicaland thematic analyses of the interaction betweenpeople and landscape in this region of Cyprus fromthe Prehistoric through to the Modern period. 400pb/w and col illus (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2013)9781782971870 Hb £48.00

Landscape and Interaction, Troodos Survey Vol2: The TAESP Landscapeby Michael Given, A. Bernard Knapp, Jay Noller,Luke Sollars and Vasiliki KassianidouCovering four regions of the survey area (The Plains,

Karkotis Valley, UpperLagoudhera Valley and TheMountains) this volumefocuses on explicit researchquestions appropriate to eachregion. Each region isinvestigated from theNeolithic to the present dayand, through ‘IntensiveSurvey Zones’ – selected togive a representative range ofthe physical and culturalterrain – many notable new

discoveries are made. These include the pattern ofBronze Age Settlement in the Plains, Archaic ruralsanctuaries and cemeteries, the scope of Late Romancopper-mining and isolated Medieval mountainsettlements. 296p b/w and col illus (CBRL/Oxbow Books2013) 9781782971887 Hb £38.00

Archaeology of Cyprus: From EarliestPrehistory Through the Bronze AgeBy A. Bernard KnappThis book treats the archaeology of Cyprus fromthe first-known human presence during the LateEpipalaeolithic through the end of the Bronze Age.A. Bernard Knapp examines the archaeological anddocumentary records of prehistoric Cyprus withintheir regional context. Focusing on key themes suchas identity, insularity and connectivity, and society,community and polity throughout, this bookprovides a remarkably up-to-date and integratedsynthesis of human activity on the Mediterranean’sthird-largest island. 660p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP2013) 9780521723473 Pb £19.99

The Transport Amphorae and Trade of CyprusEdited by Mark L. Lawall & John LundThis publication seeks to throw new light onimportant aspects of the economy of Cyprusbetween c. 700 BC and AD 700 through a concertedstudy of the transport amphorae found in andaround the island. Such vessels are a prime sourceof information about the island’s exports and importsof agricultural products, and ultimately about thefluctuations in the economy of Cyprus, contributingboth to our undestanding of the changingintensities of Cypriot connections with other centresaround the Mediterranean and to the documentationof regional patterning within the island itself. 244p,b/w and col illus (Aarhus UP 2013) 9788771242133 Hb£25.00

AMILLA: The Quest for Excellence. StudiesPresented to Guenter Kopcke in Celebration ofHis 75th Birthdayedited by Robert B. Koehl34 Articles pertain to various topics on the ancientart, architecture, and archaeology of the greaterEastern Mediterranean region: from Pre-DynasticEgypt to the Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia,Cyprus and the Near East, and Etruscan Italy. 444pb/w illus (INSTAP 2013) 9781931534734 Hb £55.00***NYP***

Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity:Exploring their limitsEdited by Franco De AngelisThese essays investigate in fresh ways how regionaland global phenomena in the ancient Mediterranean,Near East and Eurasia shaped local life. Still todaytwo models tend to guide explanations ofintercultural and interregional contact andinteraction: diffusionism from cores (or centres) toperipheries, and Mediterraneanism, the set ofdistinctive environmental, cultural and historicalimages that create a unified and unchanging viewof the Mediterranean. These essays, however areborn of a greater historical appreciation of thephenomenon of globalisation, including therecognition that the world has witnessed periods ofglobalisation since the end of the Ice Age. 362p,(Peeters Press 2013) 9789042926691 Hb £95.00

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Tools, Textiles and Contexts: Textile Productionin the Aegean and Eastern MediterraneanBronze Ageedited by Eva Andersson Strand and Marie-LouiseNoschTextile production is one ofthe most important craftsin Aegean and EasternMediterranean Bronze Agesocieties and recentinterdisciplinary andcollaborative work offerscrucial new perspectivesinto this field. The newand updated catalogue ofarchaeological textile findsis presented here.Collaboration between archaeologists specialised intheir site and textile tool specialists has produceddata sets of a large number of textile tools fromseveral Bronze Age settlements. Analysis of thesetools, combined with experimental archaeologyprovides unique insights into both the productionprocesses and, significantly, into the range of typesof textiles that could have been produced at specificsites. 484p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2014)9781842174722 Hb £48.00

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A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and theChronology and History of the Aegean and EastMediterranean in the mid Second MillenniumBCBy Sturt ManningThe eruption of the Thera (Santorini) volcano inthe Aegean Sea in the mid-second millennium BCimpacted on all the major cultures of the region.Thedate of the eruption has long been a subject ofimportance and controversy since accurate datingwould offer a unique linchpin for the study andsynchronisation of the history and cultures of theregion. A Test of Time, first published in 1999, soughtto resolve the issue through a critical review of thearchaeological and scientific data, including thepresentation of radiocarbon dates, which togethersuggested a new ‘early’ chronology for the Aegeanc. 1700–1400 BC. This edition comprises the original,unrevised text, together with an appended essaywhich critically reviews the continuing debatebetween 1999 and 2012 and presents a raft of newscientific data, including the Bayesian modelling ofradiocarbon dates relating to a range of relevantarchaeological sequences from Egypt and the easternMediterranean. 672p (Oxbow Books 1999, 2nd ed. 2014)9781782972198 Pb £45.00

Early Aegean Warrior, 3000-1450 BCBy Raffaele D’AmatoA concise, well illustrated overview of warfare inthe Aegean Bronze Age. The author shows howarchaeology and ancient depictions can help us toreconstruct the arms and armour of this period, aswell as fortifications, ships, and religious andmilitary cultures. 64p col illus (Osprey 2013)9781780968582 Pb £11.99

Materiality and Consumption in the BronzeAge MediterraneanBy Louise SteelThe importance of cultural contacts in the EastMediterranean has long been recognized and is thefocus of ongoing international research. Fieldworkin the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levantcontinues to add to our understanding of the natureof this contact and its social and economicsignificance, particularly to the cultures of theAegean. This book integrates anthropologicaldiscourse on contact, examining exchange systems,the gift, notions of geographical distance and power,colonization, and hybridization. 282p, b/w illus(Routledge Ltd 2013) 9780415537346 Hb £80.00

Pylai Aidao: Un Percorso Iconografico eLetterario Sulla Diffusione del Tema delle Portedell’ ade da Oriente a Occidente: Un percorsoiconografico e letterario sulla diffusione deltema delle Porte dell’Ade da Oriente a OccidenteBy Annalisa TassoThis work focuses on the persistence of the ‘Gatesof Hades’ iconographic theme among the peoples ofthe ancient Mediterranean. The analysis considersboth the written tradition and the iconographicevidence surviving in funerary contexts, showinghow the idea of the nether world among the easterncivilizations constituted a background for Greek andEtruscan imaginary. Italian text. (BAR 2524,Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311425 Pb £24.00

The Neolithic Settlement of Knossos in Crete:New Evidence for the Early Occupation ofCrete and the Aegean Islandsedited by Nikos Efstratiou, Alexandra Karetsouand Maria NtinouAfter the systematic excavation of the deep Neolithicoccupation levels by J.D. Evans in the late 1950s andlater and more limited investigations of thePrepalatial deposits undertaken primarily duringrestoration work, no thorough exploration of theearliest occupation of the site of Knossos has beenattempted. This monograph fills the gap, detailingthe recent studies of the stratigraphy, architecture,ceramics, sedimentology, economy, and ecology thatwere a result of the opening of a new excavationtrench in 1997. Together, these studies by 13 differentcontributors to the volume re-evaluate theimportance of Neolithic Knossos and place it withinthe wider geographic context of the early islandprehistory of the eastern Mediterranean. 218p b/willus (INSTAP 2013) 9781931534727 Hb £55.00***NYP***

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Knossos Monastiriako Tomb and ‘Deposit’Edited by Laura PrestonThe archaeological sites onthe Monastiriako Kephalihill analysed in this volumeinclude the earliest knownmortuary activity at the keyMinoan centre of Knossoson the island of Crete. TwoBronze Age sites arepresented, known as the‘Tomb’ and the ‘Deposit’,originally excavated in the1930s but until now neverpublished in detail. The stone artefacts, humanremains, faunal remains, glyptic material andceramics are described and discussed, and the sitesare placed within the broader framework of Minoanmortuary practices at Knossos during the secondmillennium BC. 125p, 73 figs, 11 tables (British Schoolat Athens 2013) 9780904887686 Hb £56.00

What are these Queer Stones? Baetyls:Epistemology of a Minoan FetishBy Sam CrooksThis monograph examines the aniconic cult stones,or baetyls, of the Aegean Bronze Age. Minoanbaetyls are commonly understood by reference tothe interpretive vocabularies of ancient Near Easterntraditions developed by comparative ethnographiespopular in the early 20th century. This studypresents and interrogates the Aegean evidence forbaetyl cult, providing a catalogue of archaeologicalevidence attesting to this cultic practice. Contextualanalysis provides the basis for interpreting and(re)constructing aspects of the cult. It is argued thatthe ambiguity inherent in these aniconic stonesrenders them uniquely flexible in serving multiplecultic, ritual and ideological functions acrossdifferent contexts. 79p, b/w illus (BAR 2511,Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311296 Pb £22.00

The Settlement at DhaskalioEdited by Colin Renfrew, Olga Philaniotou, NeilBrodie, Giorgos Gavalas & Michael BoydThis volume presents the findings from the well-stratified settlement of Dhaskalio, today an islet nearthe Cycladic island of Keros, Greece. A series ofradiocarbon dates situates the duration of thesettlement from around 2750 to 2300 BC. The volumebegins with a discussion of the geological setting ofKeros and of sea-level change. The excavation andfinds (excluding the pottery, discussed in latervolumes) are fully documented, with considerationof stratigraphy, geomorphology, organic remains,and the evidence for metallurgy. It is concluded thatthere was a small permanent population of around20, increased periodically by up to 400 visitors whowould have participated in the rituals of depositionoccurring at the Sanctuary at Kavos. 832p, b/w illus(McDonald Institute 2013) 9781902937649 Hb £80.00,***NYP***

Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean WorldBy Thomas F. TartaronIn this book, Thomas F.Tartaron presents a new andoriginal reassessment of themaritime world of theMycenaeans. By all accountsa seafaring people, theyenjoyed maritimeconnections with peoples asdistant as Egypt and Sicily.These long-distance relationshave been celebrated andmuch studied, Tartaron,however, argues that local maritime networks, inthe form of “coastscapes” and “small worlds,” arefar more representative of the true fabric ofMycenaean life. He offers a complete template ofconceptual and methodological tools for recoveringsmall worlds and the communities that inhabitedthem. Combining archaeological, geoarchaeological,and anthropological approaches with ancient textsand network theory, he demonstrates the applicationof this scheme in several case studies. 353p, b/w illus(Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107002982 Hb £65.00

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Materiality and Social Practice: TransformativeCapacities of Intercultural Encountersedited by Joseph Maran and Philipp W.StockhammerMateriality and SocialPractice investigates thetransformative potentialarising from the interplaybetween material forms,social practices andintercultural relations.Such a focus necessitatesan approach that takes atranscultural perspectiveas a fundamentalmethodology and, then abroader understanding of the inter-relationshipbetween humans and objects. Adopting atranscultural approach forces us to changearchaeology's approach towards items coming fromthe outside. By using them mostly for reconstructingsystems of exchange or for chronology, archaeologyhas for a long time reduced them to their propertiesas objects and as being foreign. This volume exploresthe notion that the significance of such items doesnot derive from the transfer from one place to anotheras such but, rather, from the ways in which theywere used and contextualised. The main question ishow, through their integration into discourses andpractices, new frameworks of meaning were createdconforming neither with what had existed in thereceiving society nor in the area of origin of theobjects. 224p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013)9781782975410 Pb £28.00 ***NYP***

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Medicine and Healing in the AncientMediterraneanedited by D. MichaelidesThere are many recoverable aspects and indicationsconcerning medicine and healing in the ancient past– from the archaeological evidence of skeletalremains, grave-goods comprising medical and/orsurgical equipment and visual representations intombs and other monuments thorough toepigraphic and literary sources. The 42 paperspresented here cover many aspects medicine in theMediterranean world during Antiquity and earlyByzantine times, bringing together bothinternationally established specialists on the historyof medicine and researchers in the early stages oftheir career. The contributions are grouped under aseries of headings: medicine and archaeology; media(online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean;medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery;medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; newresearch in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; andByzantine, Arab and medieval sources. These subjectareas are addressed through a combination of wideranging archaeological and osteological data and theexamination and interpretation of philosophical,literary and historiographical texts to provide acomprehensive suite of studies into early practicesin this fundamental field of human experience. 446p(Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782972358 Hb £55.00

Etruscan WorldBy Jean MacIntosh TurfaIn the past fifteen yearsstriking advances have beenmade in scholarship andresearch techniques forEtruscan Studies.Archaeological and scientificdiscoveries have changedour picture of the Etruscansand furnished us with new,specialized information.Thanks to the work ofdozens of international scholars, it is now possibleto discuss topics of interest that could never beforebe researched, such as Etruscan mining andmetallurgy, textile production, foods and agriculture.In this volume, over 60 experts provide insights intoall these aspects of Etruscan culture, and more, aswell as highlighting profitable directions for futureresearch. 1167p, b/w illus (Routledge 2013)9780415673082 Hb £150.00

Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum ofArtBy Richard De PumaThis informative and engaging book on theMuseum’s outstanding collection of Etruscan art alsoprovides an introduction to the fascinating anddiverse culture of ancient Etruria, which thrived incentral Italy from about 900 to 100 BC. Masterpiecesof the collection include seventh-century BC objectsfrom the Monteleone di Spoleto tomb group(including the famous, remarkably well-preserved,bronze chariot), intricate gold jewellery, carved gems,and wonderful ambers. 336p, col illus t/out (Yale UP2013) 9780300179538 Hb £45.00

Lampes antiques de Méditerranée : La collectionRivelBy Jean Bussiere & Jean-Claude RivelA detailed illustrated catalogue of 406(Mediterranean, Africa and Near East) ceramiclamps, dated from the Bronze Age to Late Romanera, from the Rivel Collection. 380p b/w illus (BAR2428, Archaeopress 2012) 9781407310275 Pb £53.00

Prosopographia Ponti Evxini ExternaBy A. AvramAlthough there are specialist studies on the mobilityof the inhabitants of the cities and regions of theBlack Sea, we lack a comprehensive prosopographyof those of them active abroad. This work,containing 3358 entries, is a first attempt, castinglight on the mobility of different social andprofessional groups, not only mercenaries andmerchants but also itinerant philosophers and artists.Chronologically, the work starts with the earliestattestations and finishes with the end of the 6thcentury AD. 462p (Peeters Press 2013) 9789042927193Hb £105.00

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Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Collectionof the Princeton Art MuseumBy Anastassios AntonarasFor the first time, thisimportant volume featuresnearly all of the ancientglass objects in thecollection of the PrincetonUniversity Art Museum.Taken together, the 509ancient glass vessels andplaques provide a timelineof archaeological andcultural history from themiddle of the secondmillennium B.C. to the rise of Islam in the 7thcentury. An introductory essay by award-winningscholar Anastassios Antonaras summarizes thehistory of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine glass, witha special emphasis on people—workers, artisans,owners, and vendors—and on the processes theyused to create and decorate these artifacts.Conveniently arranged according to productiontechnique, each entry in Fire and Sand features acolor photograph, ink drawing, and detaileddescription. 408p, col illus t/out (Yale UP 2013)9780300179811 Hb £45.00