Review articles

Reviewed by Stephen Chrisomalis - Read for free online

• CORINNA ROSSI. Architecture and mathematics in ancient Egypt. xxii+280 pages, 102 illustrations, 9 tables. 2003. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-69053-9 paperback £19.99 & $39.99; 978-0-521-82954-0 hardback £65 & $110.
• ELEANOR ROBSON. Mathematics in ancient Iraq: a social history. xxx+442 pages, 75 illustrations, 63 tables. 2008. Princeton (NJ) & Oxford: Princeton University Press; 978-0-691-09182-2 hardback £20.95.

Reviewed by Simon Stoddart - Read for free online

• KIM BOWES, KAREN FRANCIS & RICHARD HODGES (ed.). Between text and territory: survey and excavations in the Terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno (British School at Rome Archaeological Monograph 16). xiv+356 pages, 195 illustrations, 35 tables. 2006. London: British School at Rome; 978-0-904152-48-0 paperback £49.50.
• ELENA ISAYEV. Inside ancient Lucania: dialogues in history & archaeology (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 90). xvii+284 pages, 40 b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London; 978-1-905670-03-1 paperback £50.
• VEDIA IZZET. The archaeology of Etruscan society: identity, surface andmaterial culture in Archaic Etruria. xii+320 pages, 42 illustrations. 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-85877-9 hardback £55 & $99.

Reviewed by David Beresford-Jones

• DENISE Y. ARNOLD & CHRISTINE A. HASTORF. Heads of state: icons, power, and politics in the ancient and modern Andes. 294 pages, 42 illustrations. 2008. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press; 978-1-59874- 170-4 hardback £35; 978-1-59874-171-1 paperback £18.99.
• WILLIAM J. CONKLIN & JEFFREY QUILTER (ed.). Chavin: art, architecture and culture (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Monograph 61). xxxii+336 pages, 195 illustrations, 3 tables. 2008. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; 978-1-931745-45-1 paperback.
• JOYCE MARCUS. 2008. Excavations at Cerro Azul, Peru: the architecture and pottery (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Monograph 62). xxiv+334 pages, 326 illustrations. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; 978-1-931745-55-0 paperback.

Reviewed by Tertia Barnett

• PAUL & BARBARA BROWN. Prehistoric rock art in the Northern Dales. 320 pages, 130 illustrations, 35 colour plates. 2008. Stroud: Tempus; 978-0-7524-4246-4 paperback £19.99.
• BRIAN A. SMITH & ALAN A. WALKER. Rock art and ritual: interpreting the prehistoric landscapes of the North York Moors. 160 pages, 37 illustrations, 24 colour plates. 2008. Stroud: Tempus; 978-0-7524- 4634-9 paperback £14.99.
• ARON MAZEL, GEORGE NASH & CLIVE WADDINGTON (ed.). Art as metaphor: the prehistoric rock-art of Britain. x+256 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-905739-16-5 paperback £19.95.

Reviewed by Emma Carver

• HEDLEY SWAIN. An introduction to museum archaeology. xxiv+368 pages, 20 illustrations, 5 tables. 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978- 0-521-86076-5 hardback £45 & $80; 978-0-521- 67796-7 paperback £16.99 & $28.99.
• NENA GALANIDOU & LIV HELGA DOMMASNES (ed.). Telling children about the past: an interdisciplinary perspective. xii+324 pages, 41 illustrations, 15 tables. 2007. Ann Arbor (MI): International Monographs in Prehistory; 978-1-879621-40-4 paperback $25.
• TIMOTHY CLACK & MARCUS BRITTAIN (ed.). Archaeology and the media. 324 pages, 45 illustrations. 2007. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press; 978- 1-59874-233-6 hardback £40; 978-1-59874-234-3 paperback £15.99.

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Book Reviews

Reviewed by Ian Ralston - Read for free online

• ANDREW JONES (ed.). Prehistoric Europe: theory and practice (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology 12). xvi+378 pages, 93 illustrations, 2 tables. 2008. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-4051-2597-0 hardback £55; 978-1-4051-2596-3 paperback £19.99.

Reviewed by Chantal Conneller

• BORIS VALENTIN. Jalons pour une paléohistoire des derniers chasseurs (XIV e -VIe millénaire avant J.-C.) (Cahiers Archéologiques de Paris 1). 326 pages, 81 illustrations. 2008. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne; 978-2-8594-4597-3 paperback €35.

Reviewed by Tuija Rankama

• H.P. BLANKHOLM. Målsnes 1: an early post-glacial coastal site in northern Norway. xii+108 pages, 76 b&w & colour illustrations, 21 tables. 2008. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-343-5 hardback £35.

Reviewed by Alison Sheridan - Read for free online

• ROGER MERCER & FRANCES HEALY. Hambledon Hill, Dorset, England: excavation and survey of a Neolithic monument complex and its surrounding landscape. 2 volumes. xxx+816 pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations & tables. 2008. Swindon: English Heritage; 978-1-905624-59-1 paperback £100 (print on demand).

Reviewed by Ulf-Dietrich Schoop - Read for free online

• JEAN GUILAINE (ed.). Le Chalcolithique et la construction des inégalités. Tome I: le continent européen. 228 pages, 113 illustrations, 2 tables. 2007. Paris: Errance; 978-2-87772-351-0 paperback €32. Tome II: Proche et Moyen-Orient, Amérique, Afrique. 136 pages, 57 illustrations, 2 tables. 2007. Paris: Errance; 978-2-87772-352-7 paperback €24.

Reviewed by Dirk Brandherm

• ALBERTO J. LORRIO. Qurénima: el Bronce Final del sureste de la Península Ibérica (Bibliotheca Archaeologica Hispana 27, Anejo a la Revista Lucentum 17). 598 pages, 281 illustrations, 64 tables. 2008. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia; 978-84-96849-41-9 paperback.

Reviewed by Vedia Izzet

• MARGARITA GLEBA. Textile production in pre-Roman Italy (Ancient Textiles Series Volume 4). xxvi+270 pages, 132 illustrations, 8 tables. 2008. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-330-5 hardback £35.

Reviewed by Robin Coningham

• ROBERTA TOMBER. Indo-Roman trade: from pots to pepper. 216 pages, 21 illustrations. 2008. London: Duckworth; 978-0-7156-3696-1 paperback £12.99

Reviewed by Søren Sindbaek

• LENA GRANDIN, EVA HJÄRTHNER-HOLDAR, PETER KRESTEN, JAN PEDER LAMM, KRISTINA LAMM, BENTE MAGNUS, OLE STILBORG, ANDERS STRINNHOLM, ANDERS SÖDERBERG & LAILA KITZLER-#197;HFELDT. Excavations at Helgö XVII - Workshop Part III. 276 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations, numerous tables. 2008. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien; 978-91-7402-370-1 paperback.

Reviewed by Joëlle Burnouf - Read for free online

• JAMES GRAHAM-CAMPBELL with MAGDALENA VALOR (ed.). The archaeology of medieval Europe, volume 1: eighth to twelfth centuries AD (Acta Jutlandica LXXXIII:1, Humanities Series 79). 479 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press; 978-87-7934-288-0 hardback £50, €75 & $90; 978-87-7934-290-3 paperback £35, €51.50 & $60.

Reviewed by Chris Dalglish

• Holyrood Archaeology Project Team. Scotland's Parliament site and the Canongate: archaeology and history. xxviii+306 pages, 125 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903-903-45-5 hardback £40 (Fellows £35).

Reviewed by Madeleine Hummler in New Book Chronicle September 2009

• PAUL BAHN & PAUL PETTITT. Britain's oldest art: the Ice Age cave art of Creswell Crags. viii+118 pages, 70 colour & b&w illustrations, 6 tables. 2009. Swindon: English Heritage; 978-1-84802-025-2 paperback £14.99.
• DAVID S. WHITLEY. Cave paintings and the human spirit: the origin of creativity and belief. 322 pages, 24 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Amherst (NY): Prometheus Books; 978-1-59102-636-5 hardback $25.98.
• RICHARD BRADLEY. Image and audience: rethinking prehistoric art. xv +260 pages, 84 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-953385-5 hardback £50.
• MARC-ANTOINE KAESER, SONIA LÉVIN, SABINE DE RIECKHOFF & NATHAN SCHLANGER (ed.). The making of European archaeology/ Poczatki archeologii Europjskiej. 62 pages, 32 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Paris: Culture Lab; 978-2-9600527-8-7 paperback (AREA exhibition catalogue in French/Spanish, English/Polish or German/Czech).
• N. DE HAAN, M. EICKHOFF & M. SCHWEGMAN (ed.). Archaeology and national identity in Italy and Europe 1800-1950 (Fragmenta 2, Journal of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome). 2008. viii+264 pages, 53 illustrations. Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-52406-1 paperback €72.
• LUCIA PATRIZIO GUNNING. The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the collection of antiquities for the British Museum. x+224 pages, 15 illustrations. 2009. Farnham: Ashgate; 978-0-7546-6023-1 hardback £60.
• CATHY GERE. Knossos & the prophets of modernism. x+278 pages, 20 illustrations. 2009. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-28953-3 hardback £19 & $27.50.
• GÖRAN BLIX. From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the cultural politics of archaeology. viii+310 pages, 16 illustrations. 2009. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; 978-0-8122-4136-5 hardback £39 & $59.95.
• PENNY JOHNSTON, JACINTA KIELY & JOHN TIERNEY. Near the bend in the river: the archaeology of the N25 Kilmacthomas realignment (NRA Scheme Monographs 3). xvi+202 pages, 58 b&w & colour illustrations, CD-ROM. 2008. Dublin: National Roads Authority; 978-0-9545955-8-6 paperback.
• TONY BROWN. The environment and aggregate-related archaeology. x+220 pages, 94 b&w & colour illustrations, 14 tables. 2009. Great Dunham: Heritage Marketing & Publications & Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-905223-02-2 paperback £35.
• SUZIE THOMAS & PETER G. STONE (ed.). Metal detecting and archaeology. x+224 pages, 75 illustrations. 2009. Woodbridge: Boydell; 978-1-84383-415-1 hardback £50.
• LAURAJANE SMITH & EMMA WATERTON. Heritage, communities and archaeology. 174 pages, 4 illustrations. 2009. London: Duckworth; 978-0-7156-3681-7.
• CORNELIUS HOLTORF & ANGELA PICCINI (ed.). Contemporary archaeologies: excavating now. 222 pages, 50 illustrations, 2 tables. 2009. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang; 978-3-631-57637-3 paperback £27.30.

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Books received

The list includes all books received between 1 March and 1 June 2009. Those featuring at the beginning of New Book Chronicle have, however, not been duplicated in this list. The listing of a book in this chronicle does not preclude its subsequent review in Antiquity.

General

• BARRY CUNLIFFE, CHRIS GOSDEN & ROSEMARY A. JOYCE (ed.). The Oxford handbook of archaeology. xviii+1162 pages, over 100 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-927101-6 hardback £85.
• STEPHEN SHENNAN (ed.). Pattern and process in cultural evolution. viii+342 pages, 110 figures, 38 tables. 2009. Berkeley & Los Angeles (CA): University of California Press; 978-0-520-25599-9 hardback £35.
• THOMAS C. PATTERSON. Karl Marx, anthropologist. xiv+222 pages. 2009. Oxford: Berg; 978-1-84520-511-9 paperback £19.99.
• JAMES CUNO (ed.). Whose culture? The promise of museums and the debate over antiquities. xii+220 pages, 38 plates. 2009. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press; 978-0-691-13333-1 hardback £14.95.
• SARAH H. PARCAK. Satellite remote sensing for archaeology. xx+286 pages, 141 illustrations, 11 tables. 2009. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-415-44878-9 paperback.
• ROBERT D. BALLARD (ed.). Archaeological oceanography. x+284 pages, 168 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Princeton (NJ) & Oxford: Princeton University Press; 978-0-691-12940-2 hardback £32.50.
• ANDREW J. SHORTLAND, IAN C. FREESTONE & THILO REHREN (ed.). From mine to microscope: advances in the study of ancient technology. xvi+230 pages, over 100 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-259-9 hardback £60.
• CYNTHIA KOSSO & ANNE SCOTT (ed.). The nature and function of water, baths, bathing and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance. viii+538 pages, over 100 illustrations. 2009. Leiden: Brill; 978-90-04-17357-6 hardback €163 & $261.

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European pre- and protohistory

• G.L. DUSSELDORP. A view to a kill: investigating Middle Palaeolithic subsistence using an Optimal Foraging perspective. 200 pages, 21 illustrations, 35 tables. 2009. Leiden: Sidestone; 978-90-8890-020-4 paperback.
• PHILIP G. CHASE, ANDRÉ DEBÉNATH, HAROLD L. DIBBLE & SHANNON P. MCPHERRON. The cave of Fontéchevade: recent excavations and their paleoanthropological implications. xviii+270 pages, 118 illustrations, 47 tables. 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-89844-7 hardback £50 & $95.
• CLIVE WADDINGTON & KRISTIAN PEDERSEN. Mesolithic studies in the North Sea Basin and beyond: proceedings of a conference held at Newcastle in 2003. viii+158 pages, 100 illustrations. 2007. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-224-7 hardback £48.
• TOM CARLSSON. Where the river bends - under the boughs of trees. 380 pages, 59 illustrations. 2008. Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet; 978-91-7209-502-1 hardback £18.
• KLAUS EBBESEN. Danske Jættestuer. 672 pages, 654 illustrations. 2009. København: Attika; 978-8-77-528737-6 hardback 570Kr + moms.
• ANDERS HÖGBERG. Lithics in the Scandinavian Late Bronze Age: sociotechnical change and persistence (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1932). 303 pages, 223 illustrations, 126 tables. 2009. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-0414-4 paperback.
• S. CELESTINO, N. RAFEL & X.-L. ARMADA (ed.). Contacto cultural entre el Mediterráneo y el Atlántico (siglos XII-VIII ane): la precolonización a debate. 626 pages, 328 illustrations. 2008. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; 978-84-00-08689-3 paperback.
• ARCHEOLOGICKÉ ROZHLEDY. Rocnik 60 - 2008, sešit 3 & sešit 4. Last two numbers of quarterly journal, pages 381-920, numerous b&w & colour illustrations, tables. Features research articles and Materialia, debate (Diskuse), news (Aktuality), reviews (Nové Publikaze) and index (Obsah). Artcicles in Czech and English, summaries of all articles in English and/or German. 2008. Praha: Archeologický ústav Akademie ved CR. See http://www.arup.cas.cz/cz/publicaze/rozhledy.html (website in Czech and English).

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Mediterranean archaeology

• W.G. CAVANAGH, C. GALLOU & M. GEORGIADIS (ed.). Sparta and Laconia: from prehistory to pre-modern (British School at Athens Studies 16). xxxii+424 pages, 407 b&w & colour illustrations, 6 tables. 2009. London: British School at Athens; 978-0-904887-61-7 hardback £97.
• ANNE INGVARSSON-SUNDSTRÖM with an appendix by HELENA SOOMER. Asine III: supplementary studies on the Swedish excavations 1922-1930, fascicule 2. Children lost and found: a bioarchaeological study of Middle Helladic children in Asine with a comparison to Lerna (Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet I Athen, 4°, XLV: 2, Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, Series in 4°, XLV: 2). 156 pages, 29 b&w & colour illustrations, 14 tables. 2008. Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens; 978-91-7916-056-2 paperback.
• BRITA ALROTH (ed.). Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 2008 (1). 200 pages, 175 illustrations. 2008. Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens; 978-91-977798-0-7 paperback.
• ANTOON CORNELIS MIENTJES. Paesaggi pastorali: studio etnoarcheologico sul pastoralismo in Sardegna. 258 pages, 87 illustrations. 2008. Cagliari: CUEC Editrice; 978-88-8467-478-4 hardback.

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The Classical and Hellenistic world

• G.W. BOWERSOCK. From Gibbon to Auden: essays on the Classical tradition. xiv+240 pages. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-537667-8 hardback £23.99.
• STEPHEN V. TRACY. Pericles: a sourcebook and reader. xxiv+220 pages, 13 illustrations. 2009. Berkeley & Los Angeles (CA): University of California Press; 978-0-520-25604-0 paperback £10.95.
• WALDEMAR HECKEL & LAWRENCE A. TRITLE (ed.). Alexander the Great: a new history. xxii+366 pages, 20 illustrations. 2009. London: John Wiley & Sons; 978-1-4051-3082-0 paperback £19.99.

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The Roman world

• DAVID S. NEAL & STEPHEN R. COSH. Roman mosaics of Britain. Volume III: South-east Britain (in 2 parts). xx+288 pages, 531 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. London: Society of Antiquaries of London; 978-0-85431-289-4 hardback £200.
• GREGORY S. ALDRETE. Daily life in the Roman city: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. xvi+278 pages, 87 illustrations. 2009. Norman (OK): University of Oklahoma Press; 978-0-8061-4027-8 paperback $19.95.
• MARKUS ASAL. Insula 36: die Entwicklung einer Häuserfront in Augusta Raurica (Forschungen in Augst 38). 334 pages, 201 illustrations, 35 tables. 2007. Augst: Augusta Raurica; 978-3-7151-0038-8 hardback.
• ALEKSANDR SIMONENKO, IVAN I. MARCENKO & NATAL'JA JU. LIMBERIS. Römische Importe in sarmatischen und maiotischen Gräbern (Archäologie in Eurasien 25). x+626 pages, 461 illustrations. 2008. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern; 978-3-8053-3954-4 hardback.
• ELLEN SWIFT. Style and function in Roman decoration: living with objects and interiors. xxxii+232 pages, 88 b&w & colour illustrations, 2 tables. 2009. Farnham: Ashgate; 978-0-7546-6563-2 hardback £55.
• JONATHAN PRAG & IAN REPATH (ed.). Petronius: a handbook. xiv+256 pages, 16 illustrations. 2009. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons; 978-1-4051-5687-5 hardback £50.
• NEIL COFFEE. The commerce of war: exchange and social order in Latin epic. xii+326 pages. 2009. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-11187-2 hardback £34.50 & $50.
• PHILIP ROUSSEAU (ed.). A companion to late antiquity. xxiv+710 pages, 24 illustrations. 2009. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons; 978-1-4051-1980-1 hardback £95.

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The Black Sea region

• PIA GULDAGER BILDE & JANE HJARL PETERSEN (ed.). Meetings of cultures in the Black Sea region: between conflicts and coexistence (Black Sea Studies 8). 422 pages, 145 illustrations. 2009. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press; 978-87-7934-419-8 hardback €50.95, £44.95 & $63.95.
• JAKOB MUNK HØJTE (ed.). Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom (Black Sea Studies 9). 346 pages, 146 illustrations. 2009. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press; 978-87-7934-443-3 hardback £36, $51 & €41.
• JENS NIELING. Die Einführung der Eisentechnologie in Südkaukasien und Ostanatolien während der Spätbronze- und Früheisenzeit (Black Sea Studies 10). 368 pages, 196 b&w & colour illustrations, 11 tables. 2009. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press; 978-87-7934-444-0 hardback £36, $51 & €41.

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Anatolia, Levant & the Middle East

• ANTONIO SAGONA & PAUL ZIRMANSKY. Ancient Turkey. xii+420 pages, 168 illustrations, tables. 2009. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0415-28916-0 hardback £80 & $130; 978-0-415-48123-6 paperback £24.99 & $44.95; 978-0-203-88046-0 ebook.
• JEFFREY SZUCHMAN (ed.). Nomads, tribes, and the state in the ancient Near East: cross-disciplinary perspectives (Oriental Institute Seminars 5). xvi+288 pages, 70 illustrations, 7 tables. 2009. Chicago (IL): Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; 978-1-885923-61-5 paperback £20.
• EMMANUELLE VILA, LIONEL GOURICHON, ALICE M. CHOYKE & HIJLKE BUITENHUIS (ed.). Archaeozoology of the Near East VIII: proceedings of the eighth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas. Two volumes, 645 pages, 282 illustrations. 2008. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée; 978-2-35668-005-1 paperback €30 (per volume).

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Other Asia

• ROBIN DENNELL. The Palaeolithic settlement of Asia. xxiv+548 pages, 172 illustrations, 47 tables. 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-61310-1 paperback £55 & $95.
• GAUTAM SENGUPTA & KAUSHIK GANGOPADHYAY (ed.). Archaeology in India: individuals, ideas and institutions. xx+396 pages, 34 illustrations. 2009. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal in association with Centre for Archaeological Studies & Training, Eastern India; 978-81-251-1202-2 hardback.
• J. EDWARD KIDDER, JR. Himiko and Japan's elusive chiefdom of Yamatai: archaeology, history, and mythology. xiv+402 pages, 40 illustrations, 16 tables. 2007. Honolulu (HI): University of Hawai'i Press; 978-0-8248-3035-9 $67.

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Africa and Egypt

• RENATE HECKENDORF. 'Bubalin' und 'Bovidien' in Südmarokk: Kontext, Klassifikation und Chronologie der Felsbilder im mittleren Draa-Tal (Forschungen zur Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen 6). 332 pages, 107 illustrations, CD-ROM. 2008. Wiesbaden: Reichert; 978-3-89500-646-3 hardback €69.
• PHILIP KENDRICK. Libya archaeological guides: Tripolitania. vii+224 pages, 113 illustrations. 2009. London: Silphium; 978-1-900971-08-9 paperback.
• DAVID W. PHILLIPSON. Ancient churches of Ethiopia. xiv+230 pages, 282 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. London: Yale University Press; 978-0-300-14156-6 hardback £40.
• R.B. PARKINSON. Reading ancient Egyptian poetry among other histories. xxiv+392 pages, 69 illustrations. 2009. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons; 978-1-4051-2547-5 hardback £50.

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Americas

• DAVID J. MELTZER. First peoples in a new world: colonizing Ice Age America. xviii+446 pages, 64 illustrations. 2009. Berkeley (CA): University of California Press; 978-0-520-25052-9 hardback £17.95.
• KELLY J. KNUDSON & CHRISTOPHER M. STOJANOWSKI (ed.). Bioarchaeology and identity in the Americas. xiv+248 pages, 37 illustrations. 2009. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3348-8 hardback $75.
• FREDERICK H. SMITH. The archaeology of alcohol and drinking. xviii+196 pages, 30 illustrations. 2008. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3290-0 paperback $24.95.
• APRIL M. BEISAW & JAMES G. GIBB (ed.). The archaeology of institutional life. xiv+250 pages, 28 illustrations. 2009. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-5516-6 paperback $28.95.
• COLIN MCEWAN. Ancient American art in detail. 144 pages, 150 colour illustrations. 2009. London: British Museum Press; 978-0-7141-2582-4 hardback £14.99.
• D. TROY CASE & CHRISTOPHER CARR. The Scioto Hopewell and their neighbors: bioarchaeological documentation and cultural understanding. xviii+775 pages, 82 illustrations, 58 tables, CD-ROM. 2008. New York: Springer; 978-0-387-77386-5 hardback $139 & £73.50.
• LAURA L. SCHEIBER & BONNIE J. CLARK (ed.). Archaeological landscapes on the High Plains. xvi+296 pages, 58 illustrations, 7 tables. 2008. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-931-5 hardback £45.99.
• CATHERINE M. CAMERON. Chaco and after in the northern San Juan: excavations at the Bluff Great House. xxii+342 pages, 133 illustrations, 45 tables, CD-ROM. 2009. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-2681-9 hardback $75.
• ELLIOT H. BLAIR, LORANN S.A. PENDLETON & PETER FRANCIS JR. The beads of St. Catherines Island (American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Paper 89). xii+300 pages, 35 colour & b&w illustrations, 12 colour plates, numerous tables.. 2009. New York: American Museum of Natural History; 0065-9452 paperback $40.
• JOSÉ R. OLIVER. Caciques and Cemí idols: the web spun by Taíno rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. xx+306 pages, 35 illustrations. 2009. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-5515-9 paperback $34.95; 978-0-8173-1636-5 hardback $59.
• MATTHEW G. LOOPER. To be like gods: dance in ancient Maya civilization. x+276 pages, 218 b&w & colour illustrations. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-70988-1 hardback £46 & $60.
• JAMES L. FITZSIMMONS. Death and the Classic Maya kings. xix +281 pages, 72 illustrations. 2009. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-71294-2 hardback £46.
• JOHN M. WEEKS (ed.) with foreword by MARILYN MASSON. The Carnegie Maya II: the Carnegie Institution of Washington current reports, 1952-1957. xxviii+672 pages, 206 illustrations, 2 tables, CD-ROM. 2009. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-958-2 hardback & CD-ROM $225; 978-0-87081-959-9 CD-ROM only $150.
• JOHN M. WEEKS, FRAUKE SACHSE & CHRISTIAN PRAGER. Maya daykeeping: three calendars from Highland Guatemala. xii+221 pages, 7 illustrations, 17 tables. 2009. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-933-9 hardback $55.
• CATHERINE R. DICESARE. Sweeping the way: divine transformation in the Aztec festival of Ochpaniztli. xviii+230 pages, 39 illustrations. 2009. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-943-8 hardback $55.
• STEPHEN A. KOWALEWSKI, ANDREW K. BALKANSKY, LAURA R. STIVER WALSH, THOMAS J. PLUCKHAHAN, JOHN F. CHAMBLEE, VERÓNICA PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, VERENICE Y. HEREDIA ESPINOZA & CHARLOTTE A. SMITH. Origins of the Ñuu: archaeology in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico. xxviii+516 pages, 261 illustrations, 122 tables. 2009. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-929-2 hardback £54.50.
• MICHAEL E. WHALEN & PAUL E. MINNIS. The neighbours of Casas Grandes: excavating Medio period communities of northwest Chihuahua, Mexico. xx+296 pages, 120 illustrations, 100 tables. 2009. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-2760-1 hardback $60.
• GUY STRESSER-PÉAN with foreword by ALFREDO LÓPEZ AUSTIN. The sun-god and the saviour: the Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico. xxxii+628 pages, 232 b&w & colour illustrations, DVD. 2009. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-932-2 hardback $75.
• PRUDENCE M. RICE & DON S. RICE (ed.). The Kowoj: identity, migration, and geopolitics in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala. xxii+458 pages, 96 illustrations, 43 tables. 2009. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-930-8 hardback £54.50.
• TERENCE GRIEDER with JAMES D. FARMER, DAVID V. HILL, PETER W. STAHL & DOUGLAS H. UBELAKER. Art and archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador. x+224 pages, 132 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-71892-0 hardback $75.
• RICHARD L. BURGER (ed.). The life and writings of Julio C. Tello: America's first indigenous archaeologist. x+364 pages, 148 illustrations. 2009. Iowa City (IA): University of Iowa Press; 978-1-58729-783-0 paperback $39.95.
• WILLIAM J. CONKLIN & JEFFREY QUILTER (ed.). Chavín: art, architecture and culture (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Monograph 61). xxxii+336 pages, 195 b&w & colour illustrations, 3 tables. 2008. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California; 978-1-931745-45-1 paperback $50, 978-1-931745-46-8 hardback $80.
• KEVIN J. VAUGHN. The ancient Andean village: Marcaya in Prehispanic Nasca. xiv+210 pages, 28 illustrations, 11 tables. 2009. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-2706-9 hardback $50.
• HELAINE SILVERMAN & WILLIAM H. ISBELL (ed.). Handbook of South American archaeology. xxvi+1192 pages, 430 illustrations, 14 tables. 2008. Heidelberg: Springer; 978-0-387-74906-8 hardback £110.50, $179 & €139.95.

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Britain and Ireland

• JODY JOY. Lindow Man. 56 pages, 27 colour illustrations. 2009. London: British Museum Press; 978-0-7141-2817-7 paperback £5.
• RONALD HUTTON. Blood and mistletoe: the history of the Druids in Britain. xvi+492 pages, 37 illustrations. 2009. New Haven (CT) & London: Yale University Press; 978-0-300-14485-7 hardback £30.

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Early medieval and medieval

• ANDREW REYNOLDS. Anglo-Saxon deviant burial customs. xiv+324 pages, 70 illustrations, 28 tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-954455-4 hardback £65.
• ALEX WOOLF (ed.). Scandinavian Scotland - twenty years after: the proceedings of a day conference held on 19 February 2007 (St John's House Papers 12). 168 pages, 20 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. St Andrews: Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St Andrews; 978-0-9512573-7-1 paperback £12 + £2 p&p.
• EVA SVENSSON. The medieval countryside 2: the medieval household. Daily life in castles and farmsteads: Scandinavian examples in their European context. xvi+381 pages, 90 illustrations. 2008. Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-52590-7 hardback €55.
• HANS ANDERSSON, GITTE HANSEN & INGVILD ØYE (ed.). De første 200 årene - nytt blikk på 27 skandinaviske middelalderbyer. 420 pages, 133 illustrations. 2008. Bergen: University of Bergen; 978-82-90273-85-4 hardback 300 Nkr.
• JAMES L. BOONE. Lost civilization: the contested Islamic past in Spain and Portugal. 176 pages, 25 illustrations. 2009. London: Duckworth; 978-0-7156-3568-1 paperback.
• DENYS PRINGLE. The churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, a corpus. Volume IV: the cities of Acre and Tyre with addenda and corrigenda to Volumes I-III. xviii+322 pages, 175 illustrations. 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-85148-0 hardback £110 & $195.

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Later historical periods

• AUDREY HORNING & MARILYN PALMER (ed.). Crossing paths or sharing tracks? Future directions in the archaeological study of post-1550 Britain and Ireland (Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 5). xviii+416 pages, over 100 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Woodbridge: Boydell; 978-1-84383-434-2 hardback £50 & $95.
• ANNA WHITELOCK. Mary Tudor: England's first queen. xii+368 pages, 19 colour plates. 2009. London: Bloomsbury; 978-0-7475-9018 hardback £20.
• CINZIA MARIA SICCA (ed.). John Talman: an early-eighteenth-century connoisseur (Studies in British Art 19). xiv+330 pages, 109 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. London: Yale University Press; 978-0-300-12335-7 hardback £45.

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Paperback, second and subsequent editions, translations

• RICHARD G. KLEIN. The human career: human biological and cultural origins. xxx+990 pages, 272 figures, 49 tables. Third edition 2009 (first published in 1989, 2nd edition in 1999). Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-43965-5 hardback £51.50 & $75.
• CHARLOTTE A. ROBERTS & JANE E. BUIKSTRA. The bioarchaeology of tuberculosis: a global view on a reemerging disease. xxiv+344 pages, 90 illustrations, 50 tables. Paperback edition 2008 (first published in 2003). Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3269-6 paperback $29.95.
• FRIEDEMANN SCHRENK & STEPHANIE MÜLLER translatyed by PHYLLIS G. JESTICE. The Neanderthals. x+118 pages, 23 illustrations. English translation 2009 (originally published in 2005b by Beck, München, as Neanderthaler). Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-415-42520-9 paperback £18.99.
• GUY G. STROUMSA translated by SUSAN EMANUEL. The end of sacrifice: religious transformations in late antiquity. xviii+136 pages. 2009 (originally published in 2005 by Odile Jacob as La fin du sacrifice: les mutations religieuses de l'Antiquité tardive). Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-77738-2 hardback $32 & £22.
• A. MARTIN BYERS. Cahokia: a world renewal cult heterarchy. xiv+600 pages, 53 illustrations, 25 tables. Paperback edition 2009 (first published in hardback in 2006). Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3386-0 paperback $34.95.
• SUSAN TOBY EVANS & JOANNE PILLSBURY (ed.). Palaces of the ancient New World. viii+416 pages, 191 illustrations. Paperback edition 2008 (first published in hardback in 2004). London: Harvard University Press; 978-0-88402-341-8 paperback £14.95, $19.95 & €18.