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Editorial

Editorial.......1125

Research articles

K. Douka, C. Perlès, H. Valladas, M. Vanhaeren and R.E.M. Hedges

Franchthi Cave revisited: the age of the Aurignacian in south-eastern Europe.......1131

Lawrence Guy Straus, Manuel R. González Morales and Jose Miguel Carretero

Lower Magdalenian secondary human burial in El Mirón Cave, Cantabria, Spain.......1151

Genevieve von Petzinger and April Nowell

A question of style: reconsidering the stylistic approach to dating Palaeolithic parietal art in France.......1165

Dirk Huyge, Dimitri A.G. Vandenberghe, Morgan De Dapper, Florias Mees, Wouter Claes and John C. Darnell

First evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa: securing the age of the Qurta petroglyphs (Egypt) through OSL dating.......1184

Daniela Osorio, Donald Jackson, Paula C. Ugalde, Claudio Latorre, Ricardo De Pol‑Holz and Calogero M. Santoro

Hakenasa Cave and its relevance for the peopling of the southern Andean Altiplano.......1194

Catherine Namono

Pongo symbolism in the geometric rock art of Uganda.......1209

Peter Mitchell, Ina Plug, Geoff Bailey, Ruth Charles, Amanda Esterhuysen, Julia Lee Thorp, Adrian Parker and Stephan Woodborne

Beyond the drip-line: a high-resolution open-air Holocene hunter-gatherer sequence from highland Lesotho.......1225

Penny Bickle, Daniela Hofmann, R. Alexander Bentley, Robert Hedges, Julie Hamilton, Fernando Laiginhas, Geoff Nowell, D. Graham Pearson, Gisela Grupe and Alasdair Whittle

Roots of diversity in a Linearbandkeramik community: isotope evidence at Aiterhofen (Bavaria, Germany).......1243

Jörg Schibler, Elisabeth Breitenlechner, Sabine Deschler‑Erb, Gert Goldenberg, Klaus Hanke, Gerald Hiebel, Heidemarie Hüster Plogmann, Kurt Nicolussi, Elisabeth Marti‑Grädel, Sandra Pichler, Alexandra Schmidl, Stefan Schwarz, Barbara Stopp and Klaus Oeggl

Miners and mining in the Late Bronze Age: a multidisciplinary study from Austria.......1259

Roderick B. Campbell, Zhipeng Li, Yuling He and Yuan Jing

Consumption, exchange and production at the Great Settlement Shang: bone-working at Tiesanlu, Anyang.......1279

Viktoria Fischer

The deposition of bronzes at Swiss lakeshore settlements: new investigations.......1298

Jack Carlson

A symbol — but of what? Iron Age daggers, Alessi corkscrews and anthropoid embellishment reconsidered.......1312

Mark A. Hall and Katherine Forsyth

Roman rules? The introduction of board games to Britain and Ireland.......1325

Lucy J.E. Cramp, Richard P. Evershed and Hella Eckardt

What was a mortarium used for? Organic residues and cultural change in Iron Age and Roman Britain.......1339

Sam Nixon, Thilo Rehren and Maria Filomena Guerra

New light on the early Islamic West African gold trade: coin moulds from Tadmekka, Mali.......1353

Christopher Evans and Richard Newman

An ‘Imperial Philosophical Machine’: the archaeology of the Cambridge Observatory and early modern science.......1369

Paul Graves‑Brown and John Schofield

The filth and the fury: 6 Denmark Street (London) and the Sex Pistols.......1385

Method

Christopher Loveluck and Yossi Salmon

Exploring an early medieval harbour and settlement dynamics at Stavnsager, Denmark: a geo-archaeological dialogue.......1402

Caroline Solazzo, Susan Heald, Mary W. Ballard, David A. Ashford, Paula T. DePriest, Robert J. Koestler and Matthew J. Collins

Proteomics and Coast Salish blankets: a tale of shaggy dogs?.......1418

Debate

Marlize Lombard and Isabelle Parsons

What happened to the human mind after the Howiesons Poort?.......1433

William Carruthers

The rise and fall of ancient Egypt? Egyptology's never-ending story.......1444

Martin Gojda

Archaeology in current society. A Central European perspective.......1448

Alice Stevenson

“Yours (unusually) cheerfully, Gordon”: Vere Gordon Childe's letters to R.B.K. Stevenson.......1454

N. James

Maya: the quality of ‘cultural diplomacy’.......1463

Review articles

Anthony Harding

Penetrating Bronze Age weaponry.......1468

Joann Fletcher

Mummies, coffins and a forgotten pharaoh.......1471

Robert Witcher

Double Dutch: two perspectives on the landscapes of first millennium BC Italy.......1476

Martin Carver

Lost, found, repossessed or argued away – the case of the Picts.......1479

Book Reviews

Marcel Otte

Book reviews.......1484

Artisanats et territoires des chasseurs moustériens de Champ Grand

Brad Gravina

Book reviews.......1484

Becoming Neanderthals: the Earlier British Middle Palaeolithic

Marlize Lombard

Book reviews.......1485

Prehension and hafting traces on flint tools: a methodology

Romain Pigeaud

Book reviews.......1487

An enquiring mind: studies in honour of Alexander Marshack

Guillaume Robin

Book reviews.......1488

El arte parietal en monumentos megalíticos del Noroeste Ibérico: valoración, diagnóstico, conservación

Ernst Pernicka

Book reviews.......1490

Traditions and transformations: approaches to Eneolithic (Copper Age) and Bronze Age metalworking and society in Eastern Central Europe and the Carpathian Basin

Norman Hammond

Book reviews.......1491

The beginnings of Mesoamerican civilization: inter-regional interaction and the Olmec

César Astuhuamán

Book reviews.......1493

The life and writings of Julio C. Tello: America's first indigenous archaeologist

Carlos Machado

Book reviews.......1494

The Aurelian Wall and the refashioning of Imperial Rome AD 271–855

Michel E. Fuchs

Book reviews.......1495

Roman mosaics of Britain. Volume IV: Western Britain

Rosemary Cramp

Book reviews.......1496

Bobbio in the Early Middle Ages: the abiding legacy of Columbanus

John Coles

Book reviews.......1498

Great excavations: shaping the archaeological profession

Wietske Prummel

Book reviews.......1499

Extinctions & invasions: a social history of British fauna

Andrew Reynolds

Book reviews.......1500

The archaeology of Mendip: 500,000 years of continuity and change

Andrew Fleming

Book reviews.......1501

Winds of change: the living landscapes of Hirta, St Kilda

Barbara Wills

Book reviews.......1503

Leather tanneries: the archaeological evidence

Peter Sherlock

Book reviews.......1504

Ritual, belief and the dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

New Book Chronicle

Madeleine Hummler

New Book Chronicle.......1506