Review articles

Reviewed by Alison Sheridan

• HILARY K. MURRAY, J. CHARLES MURRAY & SHANNON M. FRASER. A tale of the unknown unknowns: a Mesolithic pit alignment and a Neolithic timber hall at Warren Field, Crathes, Aberdeenshire. xii+132 pages, 51 b&w & colour illustrations, 19 tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-347-3 hardback £20.
• ANNA RITCHIE. On the fringe of Neolithic Europe: excavation of a chambered cairn on the Holm of Papa Westray, Orkney. xx+152 pages, 49 illustrations, 46 tables. 2009. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903903-47-9 hardback £25 (£20 to Fellows of the Society).
• CHRIS FENTON-THOMAS. A place by the sea: excavations at Sewerby Cottage Farm, Bridlington. xxi+341 pages, 228 illustrations, 86 tables. 2009. York: On-Site Archaeology (On-Site Archaeology Monograph 1); 978-0-9561965-0-7 paperback £25.
• LILIAN LADLE & ANN WOODWARD. Excavations at Bestwall Quarry, Wareham 1992-2005. Volume 1: the prehistoric landscape (Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society Monograph 19). xxii+402 pages, 223 b&w & colour illustrations, 124 tables. 2009. Dorchester: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society; 978-0-900341-88-5 paperback £29.
• MARTIN SMITH & MEGAN BRICKLEY. People of the long barrows: life, death and burial in the earlier Neolithic. 192 pages, 70 b&w and colour illustrations, 16 tables. 2009. Stroud: The History Press; 978-0-7524-4733-9 paperback £18.99.
• KENNY BROPHY & GORDON BARCLAY (ed.). Defining a regional Neolithic: the evidence from Britain and Ireland. viii+128 pages, 55 illustrations, 1 table. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-333-6 paperback £28.
• VICKI CUMMINGS. A view from the West: the Neolithic of the Irish Sea zone. x+219 pages, 114 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-362-6 paperback £35.

Reviewed by José Oliver

• BASIL A. REID. Myths and realities of Carribean history. xiv+154 pages, 74 illustrations. 2009. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-5534-0 paperback $28.95.
• L. ANTONIO CURET & LISA M. STRINGER (ed.). Tibes: people, power, and ritual at the center of the cosmos. xviii+329 pages, 40 illustrations, 33 tables. 2010. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-1686-0 hardback $53; 978-0-8173-5579-1 paperback $34.95; 978-0-8173-8252-0 e-book.

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Book Reviews

Reviewed by Yannis Hamilakis

• NATHAN SCHLANGER & JARL NORDBLADH (ed.). Archives, ancestors, practices: archaeology in the light of its history. xx+356 pages, 89 illustrations. 2008. New York & Oxford: Berghahn; 978-1-84545-066-3 paperback £45.

Reviewed by Joan Oates

• BENJAMIN R. FOSTER & KAREN POLINGER FOSTER. Civilizations of ancient Iraq. xii+298 pages, 25 illustrations. 2009. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press; 978-0-691-13722-3 hardback £18.95 & $26.95.

Reviewed by Torben Ballin

• 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.

Reviewed by Anthony Harding

• MARTIN BARTELHEIM & HARALD STÄUBLE (ed.) Die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen der Bronzezeit Europas / The economic foundations of the European Bronze Age (Forschungen zur Archäometrie und Altertumswissenschaft 4). ii+362 pages, 103 illustrations. 2009. Rahden: Marie Leidorf; 978-3-89646-874-1 hardback €69.80.

Reviewed by Friederike Bungenstock

• PETER MURPHY. The English coast: a history and a prospect. xiv+282 pages, 15 illustrations, 2 tables. 2009. London & New York: Continuum; 978-1-84725-143-5 hardback £60.

Reviewed by Chris Turney

• VINCENT GAFFNEY, SIMON FITCH & DAVID SMITH. Europe's lost world: the rediscovery of Doggerland (CBA Research Report 160). xii+202 pages, 119 b&w & colour illustrations, 3 tables. 2009. York: Council for British Archaeology: 978-1-902771-75-5 paperback £15.

Reviewed by David Yates

• CHRISTOPHER EVANS WITH EMMA BEADSMOORE, MATT BRUDENELL & GAVIN LUCAS. Fengate revisited: further Fen-edge excavations, Bronze Age fieldsystems & settlement and the Wyman Abbott/Leeds archives (CAU Landscape Archives, Historiography & Fieldwork 1). 2009. Cambridge; Cambridge Archaeological Unit, University of Cambridge; 978-0-9544824-8-0 paperback £30.

Reviewed by Ian Ralston

• D.W. HARDING. The Iron Age round-house: later prehistoric building in Britain and beyond. xii+346 pages, 66 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-955857-5 hardback £70.

Reviewed by Melanie Giles

• JOHN STRICKLAND DENT. The Iron Age in East Yorkshire: an analysis of the later prehistoric monuments of the Yorkshire Wolds and the culture which marked their final phase (British Archaeological Reports British Series 508). xiv+138 pages, 113 illustrations, 10 tables. 2010. Oxford: John & Erica Hedges; 978-1-4073-0475-5 paperback £40.

Reviewed by Stephen Leach

• FRED INGLIS. History Man: the life of R.G. Collingwood. xiv+386 pages, 16 illustrations. 2009. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press; 978-0691-13014-9 hardback $39.50 & £27.95; 978-1-4008-3051-0 e-book.

Reviewed by T.O. Pryce

• AMBRA CALÒ. The distribution of bronze drums in early Southeast Asia: trade routes and cultural spheres (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1913). xiv+206 pages, 220 illustrations, 9 tables.2009. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-0396-3 paperback £51.00.

Reviewed by Ariane Burke

• MICHAEL BOLLIG & OLAF BUBENZER (ed.). African landscapes: interdisciplinary approaches (Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation 4). 2009. xxiv+516 pages, 149 b&w & colour illustrations, 18 tables. 2009. New York: Springer; 978-0-387-78681-0 hardback $119; 978-0-387-78682-7 e-book; DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-78682-7. Available at: http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/anthropology+and+archaeology/book/978-0-387-78681-0.

Reviewed by F.-X. Fauvelle-Aymar

• 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.

Reviewed by Catherine Hills

• 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.

Reviewed by Shannon Lewis-Simpson

• ANTON ENGLERT & ATHENA TRAKADAS (ed.). Wulfstan's voyage: the Baltic Sea region in the early Viking age as seen from shipboard (Maritime Culture of the North 2). 374 pages, 168 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Roskilde: Viking Ship Museum; 978-87-85180-56-8 hardback £53.

Reviewed by Kevin Crisman

• PETER MARSDEN (ed.). Mary Rose, your noblest shippe: anatomy of a Tudor warship (The Archaeology of the Mary Rose 2). xxvi+434 pages, 300 illustrations, 32 tables. 2009. Portsmouth: The Mary Rose Trust; 978-0-9544029-2-1 hardback (boxed set of 2 volumes) £45.

Reviewed by Aleksandra McClain

• ROBERTA GILCHRIST & ANDREW REYNOLDS (ed.). Reflections: 50 years of Medieval Archaeology, 1957-2007 (Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 30). xix+518 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. London: Maney; 978-1-906540-71-5 hardback £69 & $138.

Reviewed by Daniel Donoghue

• SARAH H. PARCAK. Satellite remote sensing for archaeology. xx+286 pages, 141 illustrations, 11 tables. 2009. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 978-0-415-44878-9 paperback $44.95 & £24.99. Companion website at: http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415448789.

Reviewed by Madeleine Hummler in New Book Chronicle September 2010

• JEAN-PAUL DEMOULE (ed.). L'Europe: un continent redécouvert par l'archéologie. 224 pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations. 2009. Paris: Gallimard; 978-2-070-12379-7 paperback €29.
• JEAN-PAUL DEMOULE & CHRISTIAN LANDES (ed). La fabrique de l'archéologie en France. 302 pages, 24 illustrations, 4 tables. 2009. Paris: La Découverte; 978-2-7071-5882-6 paperback €22.
• MICHEL PY. Lattara, Lattes, Hérault: comptoir gaulois méditerranéen entre Etrusques, Grecs et Romains. 350 pages, numerous colour illustrations. 2009. Paris: Errance; 978-2-8777-2407-4 hardback €39.
• RUTH SHADY & CHRISTOPHER KLEIHEGE. Caral: le primera civilización de América / Caral: the first civilization in the Americas. 168 pages, 183 colour plates. 2010 (published in 2008 by Universidad de San Martin de Porres, Lima). Chicago (IL): CK Photo, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 978-9-972337-92-5 hardback $125 & £81.
• JEREMY STAFFORD-DEITSCH. Kingdoms of ruin: the art and architectural splendours of ancient Turkey. xiv+240 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2010. New York: I.B.Tauris; 978-1-84511-799-3 hardback £29.95.
• DAREJAN KACHARAVA & GURAM KVIRKVELIA with essays by ANNA CHQONIA, NINO LORDKIPANIDZE & MICHAEL VICKERS, edited by JENNIFER Y. CHI. Wine, worship, and sacrifice: the golden graves of ancient Vani. 215 pages, 126 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World; Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press; 978-0-691-13856-5 hardback £27.95.
• RODNEY HARRISON (ed.). Understanding the politics of heritage. xvi+336 pages, 92 illustrations. 2010. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press; 978-0-7190-8152-1 paperback £24.99.
• SUSIE WEST (ed.). Understanding heritage and practice. xvi+340 pages, 78 illustrations. 2010. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press; 978-0-7190-8154-5 paperback £24.99.
• TIM BENTON(ed.). Understanding heritage and memory. xvi+344 pages, 89 illustrations. 2010. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press; 978-0-7190-8153-8 paperback £24.99.
• MARY BOWMAN-KRUHM. The Leakeys: a biography. 184 pages, 5 plates. 2010. Amherst (NY): Prometheus; 978-1-59102-761-4 paperback $17.
• RUSSELL K. SKOWRONEK & KENNETH E. LEWIS (ed). Beneath the ivory tower: the archaeology of academia. xxii+342 pages, 112 illustrations, 3 tables. 2010. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3422-5 hardback $59.95.
• LAURIE A. WILKIE. The lost boys of Zeta Psi: a historical archaeology of masculinity at a University fraternity. xvi+344 pages, 42 illustrations, 19 tables. 2010. Berkeley, Los Angeles (CA) & London: University of California Press; 978-0-520-26060-3 paperback £16.95.

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Books received

The list includes all books received between 1 March and 1 June 2010. 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

• ROBIN DUNBAR, CLIVE GAMBLE & JOHN GOWLETT (ed.). Social brain, distributed mind. xxii+528 pages, 57 illustrations, 18 tables. 2010: Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press for The British Academy; 978-0-19-726452-2 hardback £60.
• APRIL NOWELL & IAIN DAVIDSON (ed.). Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition. x+236 pages, 33 illustrations, 6 tables. 2010. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-1-60732-030-2 hardback $65.
• PAUL G. BAHN (ed.). An enquiring mind: studies in honour of Alexander Marshak. xx+332 pages, 180 illustrations, 4 tables. 2009. Oxford & Oakville: Oxbow for American School of Prehistoric Research; 978-1-84217-383-1 hardback £20.
• STEPHEN CHRISOMALIS. Numerical notation: a comparative history. x+486 pages, 26 illustrations. 161 tables. 2010. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-87818-0 hardback £65 & $95.
• STEVEN E. FALCONER & CHARLES L. REDMAN (ed.). Polities and power: archaeological perspectives on the landscapes of early states. x+276 pages, 31 illustrations, 7 tables. 2009. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-2603-1 hardback $55.
• REBECCA M. DEAN (ed.). The archaeology of anthropogenic environments (Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Papers 37). xiv+408 pages, 92 illustrations, 25 tables. 2010. Carbondale (IL): Southern Illinois University; 978-0-88104-094-4 paperback $45.
• DUŠAN BORIC. Archaeology and memory. 210 pages, 78 illustrations. 2010. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-363-3 hardback £55.
• JEFFREY R. FERGUSON (ed.). Designing experimental research in archaeology: examining technology through production and use. xviii+262 pages, 31 illustrations, 5 tables. 2010. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-1-60732-038-8 hardback $65; 978-1-60732-022-7 paperback $29.95.
• ROBERT W. SINIBALDI. What fossils can tell you: vertebrate morphology, pathology, and cultural modification. xxiv+370 pages, 462 illustrations. 2010. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3425-6 hardback $ 39.95.

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European pre- and proto-history

• CHRISTINE DESDEMAINES-HUGON. Stepping stones: a journey through the Ice Age caves of the Dordogne. xxiv+222 pages, 39 illustrations, 8 colour plates. 2010. New Haven (CT) & London: Yale University Press; 978-0-300-15266-1 hardback £22.50.
• LAURE FONTANA, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER CHAUVIÈERE & ANNE BRIDAULT (ed.). In search of total animal exploitation — case studies from the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (Proceedings of the 15th UISPP Congress Lisbon 4-9 September 2006, Session C61) (British Archaeological Reports International Series 2040). ii+154 pages, 117 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: John & Erica Hedges; 9781-4073-0467-0 paperback £41.
• SERGE CASSEN (ed.) Autour de la Table: explorations archéologiques et discours savants sur des architectures néolithiques à Locmariaquer, Morbihan (Table des Marchands et Grand Menhir). 918 pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations & tables. 2009. Nantes: Laboratoire de recherches archéologiques, CNRS & Université de Nantes; 978-2-96939-228-1 paperback €60.
• GUNBORG O. JANZON with MATTIAS AHLBECK, TORBJÖRN AHLSTRÖM, GÖRAN SKOG, HELENE WILHELMSON, translated by ALAN CROZIER. The dolmen in Alvastra (Kungl, Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien Handlingar Antikvariska serien 47). 156 pages, 81 colour & b&w illustrations. 2009. Stockholm: Kungl, Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien; 978-91-7402-387-9 hardback SEK189.
• ÅSA C. FREDELL, KRISTIAN KRISTIANSEN & FELIPE CRIADO BOADO. Representations and communications: creating and archaeological matrix of late prehistoric rock art. xx+158 pages, 53 illustrations. 2010. Oxford & Oakville: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-397-8 paperback £25.
• MARTIN BARTELHEIM & HARALD STÄUBLE (ed.) Die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen der Bronzezeit Europas / The economic foundations of the European Bronze Age (Forschungen zur Archäometrie und Altertumswissenschaft 4). ii+362 pages, 103 illustrations. 2009. Rahden: Marie Leidorf; 978-3-89646-874-1 hardback €69.80.
• FRIEDRICH LAUX. Die Schwerter in Niedersachsen (Prähistorische Bronzefunde Abteilung IV, 17. Band). xiv+252 pages, 82 figures (+14-replacements in back). 2009. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner; 978-3-515-09389-7 hardback €98.
• RAFFAELE C. DE MARINIS, SERENA MASSA & MADDALENA PIZZO (ed.). Alle origini di Varese e del suo territorio: le collezioni del sistema archeologico provinciale. xxviii+740 pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations. 2009. Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-8265-516-7 hardback €550.
• MIRANDA ALDHOUSE-GREEN. Caesar's Druids: story of an ancient priesthood. xviii+338 pages, 80 illustrations. 2010. New Haven (CT) & London: Yale University Press; 978-0-300-12442-2 hardback £25.

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Mediterranean archaeology

• ANNA STROULIA & SUSAN BUCK SUTTON (ed.). Archaeology in situ: sites, archaeology, and communities in Greece. xviii+514 pages, 32 illustrations, 1 table. 2010. Lanham (MD): Lexington Books; 978-0-7391-3234-0 hardback £70; 978-0-7391-3235-7 paperback £29.95.
• JON MORTER (edited by JOHN ROBB). The Chora of Croton 1: the Neolithic settlement at Capo Alfiere. xxvi+290 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations, tables. 2010. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-72276-7 hardback $75.
• ANNA LUCIA D'AGATA, ALEYDIS VAN DE MOORTEL & M.B. RICHARDSON. Archaeologies of cult: essays on ritual and cult in Crete (Hesperia Supplement 42). 2009. xxx+321 pages, 145 illustrations, 9 tables. Princeton (NJ): American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 978-0-87661-542-3 paperback £45.88967
• JOHN C. MCENROE. Architecture of Minoan Crete: constructing identity in the Aegean Bronze Age. x+202 pages, 204 illustrations, 8 colour plates. 2010. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-72193-7 hardback $60.
• ANN-LOUISE SCHALLIN with PETRA PAKKANEN (ed.). Encounters with Mycenaean figures and figurines: papers presented at a seminar at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 27-29 April 2001 (Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen 8° XX). 196 pages, 101 illustrations, 23 tables. 2009. Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Athen; 978-91-7916-057-9 paperback SEK545.
• DANIEL J. PULLEN (ed.). Political economies of the Aegean Bronze Age: papers from the Langford conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 22-24 February 2007. vi+266 pages, 39 illustrations,15 tables. 2010. Oxford & Oakville: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-392-3 paperback £30.
• PAUL REYNOLDS. Hispania and the Roman Mediterranean, AD 100-700: ceramics and trade. xi+372 pages, 42 illustrations, 25 tables. 2010. London: Duckworth; 978-0-7156-3862-0 hardback.
• MARCO RENDELI (ed.). Ceramica, abitati, territorio nella bassa valle del Tevere e Latium Vetus (Collection de l'Ecole française de Rome 425). ii+328 pages, 176 illustrations, 21 tables. 2009. Rome: Ecole française de Rome; 978-2-7283-0838-5 paperback €81.
• JOHN MCK CAMP II with photographs by CRAIG MAUZY. The Athenian Agora: site guide. 192 pages, 147 b&w & colour illustrations. Fifth edition 2009. Princeton (NJ): American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 978-0-87661-657-4 paperback £14.95.
• JOHN MCK. CAMP II & CRAIG MAUZY (ed.). The Athenian Agora: new perspectives on an ancient site. 144 pages, 144 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Princeton (NJ): American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 978-3-8053-4082-3 hardback £21.95.
• JOHN W. HAYES (ed.). Roman pottery: fine-ware imports (The Athenian Agora 32). xlii+493 pages, 149 illustrations, 4 tables. 2009. Princeton (NJ): American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 978-0-87661-232-3 hardback £95.

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The Classical world

• VERA SLEHOFEROVA. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Schweiz: Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Schweiz Faszikel 8, Basel Faszikel 4). 138 pages, 55 figures, 56 plates. 2009. Basel: Schwabe & Union Académique Internationale; 9783-7965-2636-7 hardback €94.50.
• SIMON PRICE & PETER THONEMANN. The birth of Classical Europe: a history from Troy to Augustine. xviii+398 pages, 96 illustrations. 2010. London: Allen Lane; 978-0-713-99242-7 hardback £30.
• GEORGE HINGE & JENS A. KRASILNIKOFF (ed.). Alexandria: a cultural and religious melting pot (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity 9). 176 pages, 19 illustrations. 2009. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press; 978-87-7934-491-4 hardback £28.95.
• BRIAN MCGING. Polybius' histories (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature). xvi+272 pages, 2 illustrations. 2010. New York: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-531032-0 hardback £45; 978-0-19-531033-7 paperback £11.99.

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The Roman world

• ALFRED MICHAEL HIRT. Imperial mines and quarries in the Roman world: organizational aspects 27 BC-AD 235. xiv+552 pages, 23 illustrations. 2010. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-957287-8 hardback £80.
• KIM BOWES. Houses and society in the later Roman Empire. 120 pages, 23 illustrations. 2010. London: Duckworth; 978-0-7156-3882-8 paperback.
• KATHLEEN WREN CHRISTIAN. Empire without end: antiquities collections in Renaissance Rome, c. 1350-1527. xiv+440 pages, 263 b&w & colour illustrations. 2010. New Haven (CT) & London: Yale University Press; 978-0-300-15421-4 hardback £40.
• MICHAËL MARTIN. Sois maudit! Malédictions et envoûtements dans l'Antiquité. 192 pages, numerous illustrations. 2010. Paris: Errance; 978-2-87772-414-2 paperback €29.
• JULIA HAIG GAISSER. Catullus. x+243 pages, 5 illustrations. 2009. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-4051-1889-7 hardback £60.
• ELAINE FANTHAM (trans.). Seneca: selected letters (a new translation by Elaine Fantham). xlii+314 pages. 2010. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-953321-3 paperback £9.99.

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Anatolia, Levant, Middle East

• BILL FINLAYSON & GRAEME WARREN (ed.) Landscape in transition (Levant Supplementary Series 8). x+230 pages, 67 illustrations, 14 tables. 2010. Oxford & Oakville: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-416-6 paperback £35.
• DIANE BOLGER & LOUISE C. MAGUIRE (ed.). The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East: studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg (Themes from the Ancient Near East, BANEA Publication Series 2). x+224 pages, 82 illustrations, 18 tables. 2010. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-407-4 hardback £38.
• ADAM T. SMITH, RUBEN S. BADALYAN & PAVEL AVETISYAN with ALAN GREENE & LEAH MINC. The foundations of research and regional survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia (The Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies 1; Oriental Institute Publications 134). xlvi+494 pages, 154 b&w & colour illustrations, 7 tables. 2009. Chicago (IL): Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; 978-1-885923-62-2 hardback £72.
• AHARON SASSON. Animal husbandry in ancient Israel: a zooarchaeological perspective on livestock exploitation, herd management and economic strategies. xiv+156 pages, 34 illustrations, 31 tables. 2010. London & Oakville (CT): Equinox; 978-1-845531-79-9 hardback £95 & $165.
• JONATHAN M. GOLDEN. Dawn of the metal age: technology and society during the Levantine Chalcolithic. xvi+238 pages, 47 illustrations, 12 tables. 2010. London & Oakville (CT): Equinox; 978-1-904768-99-9 hardback £70 & $100.
• NILS ANFINSET. Metal, nomads and culture contact: the Middle East and North Africa. xii+241 pages, 76 illustrations. 2010. London: Equinox; 978-1-8455-3253-6 hardback £60.
• J.E. CURTIS, H. MCCALL, D. COLLON & L. AL-GAILANI WERR (ed.). New light on Nimrud: proceedings of the Nimrud conference 11th-13th March 2002. xviii+306 pages, 296 illustrations. 2008. London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq with The British Museum; 978-0-903472-24-1 hardback £40.
• SUSAN POLLOCK, REINHARD BERNBECK & KAMYAR ABDI (ed.). The 2003 excavations at Tol-e Baši, Iran: social life in a Neolithic village (Archäologie in Iran und Turan 10). x+328 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations & tables. 2010. Mainz: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung; 978-3-8053-4261-2 hardback.
• AUGUSTA MCMAHON with CARLO COLANTONI, JULIA FRANCE & ARKADIUSZ SOLTYSLAK. Once there was a place: settlement archaeology at Chagar Bazar 1999-2002. 427 pages, 155 illustrations. 2010. London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq; 978-0-903472-27-2 paperback £25.
• ADA COHEN & STEVEN E. KANGAS (ed.) Assyrian reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasipal II: a cultural biography. xx+268 pages, 154 colour & b&w illustrations. 2010. Hanover (NH) & London: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College & University Press of New England; 978-1-58465-817-7 paperback $40.

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Other Asia

• IRFAN HABIB. Man and environment: the ecological history of India (A People's History of India 36). xii+161 pages, 28 illustrations, 10 tables. 2010. New Delhi: Tulika Books; 978-81-89487-66-9 hardback.
• QINGHUA GUO. The mingqui pottery buildings of Han Dynasty China 206 BC-AD 220: architectural representations and represented architecture. x+206 pages, 356 illustrations. 2010. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press; 978-1-8451-9321-8 hardback £55.
• AMBRA CALÒ. The distribution of bronze drums in early Southeast Asia: trade routes and cultural spheres (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1913). xiv+206 pages, 220 illustrations, 9 tables.2009. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-0396-3 paperback £51.00.

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Australia

• GEOFFREY CLARK & ATHOLL ANDERSON (ed). The early prehistory of Fiji (terra austrralis 31). vi+438 pages, 175 illustrations, 91 tables. 2009. Canberra: Australian National University E Press; 978-1-9215-3685- 5 paperback $55; 978-1-9216-6607-0 (online).

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Africa and Egypt

• MANUEL DOMÍNGUEZ-RODRIGO, LUIS ALCALÁ & LUIS LUQUE (ed.). Peninj: a research project on human origins (1995-2005). xx+284 pages, 199 illustrations, 7 colour plates, 53 tables. 2009. Oxford & Oakville: Oxbow for American School of Prehistoric Research; 978-1-84217-382-4 hardback £20.
• PHILP VAN PEER, PIERRE M. VERMEERSCH & ETIENNE PAULISSEN. Chert quarrying, lithic technology and a modern human burial at the Palaeolithic site of Taramsa 1, Upper Egypt (Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 5). 312 pages, 214 b&w & colour illustrations, 68 tables. 2010. Leuven: Leuven University Press; 978-90-5867-786-0 paperback €69.50.
• DAVID A. ASTON & BARBARA G. ASTON. Late period pottery from the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqâra (Egypt Exploration Society Excavation Memoir 92). xiv+266 pages, 48 figures, 60 plates. 2010: London & Leiden: Egypt Exploration Society & National Museum of Antiquities Leiden; 978-0-85698-189-0 paperback.
• SALIMA IKRAM. Ancient Egypt: an introduction. xxvi+330 pages, 150 illustrations. 2010. New York: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-5216-7598-7 paperback £16.99; 978-0-5218-5907-3 hardback £45.
• ANDREAS SCHWEIZER (edited by DAVID LORTON, foreword by ERIK HORNUNG). The Sungod's journey through the Netherworld: reading the ancient Egyptian Ambuat (first published 1994 as Seelenführer durch den verborgenen Raum by Kösel-Verlag). xiv+232 pages, 33 illustrations, 9 colour plates. 2010. Ithaca (NY)& London: Cornell University Press; 978-0-8014-4875-1 hardback $ 35 & £21.95.
• DUANE W. ROLLER. Cleopatra: a biography. xiv+252 pages, 14 illustrations. 2010. New York: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-536553-5 hardback £14.99.
• HEIKO RIEMER, FRANK FÖRSTER, MICHAEL HERB & NADJA PÖLLATH (ed.). Desert animals in the eastern Sahara: status, economic significance, and cultural reflection in antiquity (Proceedings of an interdisciplinary ACACIA workshop held at the University of Cologne December 14-15 2007) (Colloquium Africanum 4). 372 pages, numerous illustrations & tables, 1 colour map. 2009. Cologne: Heinrich Barth Institut; 978-3-927688-36-0 paperback €25.
• WILLIAM Y. ADAMS with NETTIE K. ADAMS. Qasr Ibrim: the earlier medieval period (Egypt Exploration Society Excavation Memoir 89). xiv+322 pages, 67 figures, 53 b&w & colour plates, 11 tables. 2010: London: Egypt Exploration Society; 978-0-85698-191-3 paperback.

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Americas

• BRUCE A. BRADLEY, MICHAEL B. COLLINS & ANDREW HEMMINGS with MARILYN SHOBERG & JON C. LOHSE. Clovis technology (International Monographs in Prehistory Archaeological Series 17). xiv+220 pages, 137 illustrations, 9 colour plates, 20 tables. 2010. Ann Arbor (MI): International Monographs in Prehistory; 978-1-879621-42-8 hardback $75; 978-1-879621-41-1 paperback $47.50.
• MARTIN BYERS & DEEANNE WYMER (ed.). Hopewell settlement patterns, subsistence, and symbolic landscapes. xiv+406 pages, 58 illustrations, 7 tables. 2010. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3455-3 hardback $75.
• ELIZABETH J. REITZ, BARNET PAVAO-ZUCKERMAN, DANIEL C. WEINAND & GWYNETH A. DUNCAN. Mission and Pueblo of Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia: a comparative zooarchaeological analysis (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 91). 276 pages, 55 b&w & colour illustrations, 86 tables. 2010. New York: American Museum of Natural History; ISSN 0065-9452 paperback $30.
• CHRISTOPHER M. STOJANOWSKI. Bioarchaeology of ethnogenesis in the colonial Southeast. xiv+248 pages, 27 illustrations, 15 tables. 2010. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3464-5 hardback $69.95.
• BARBARA J. ROTH (ed.). Engendering households in the prehistoric Southwest. x+336 pages, 44 illustrations, 21 tables. 2010. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-2816-5 hardback $59.95.
• PATRICIA A. MCANANY. Ancestral Maya economies in archaeological perspective. xviii+374 pages, 58 illustrations. 2010. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-89518-7 hardback $90 & £55.
• GABRIELLE VAIL & CHRISTINE HERNANDEZ (ed.). Astronomers, scribes and priests: intellectual interchange between the northern Maya lowlands and highland Mexico in the late Postclassic period. xii+436 pages, 159 illustrations, 3 colour plates, 16 tables. 2010. Washington (DC): Dumbarton Oaks; 978-0-88402-346-3 hardback £36.95, €45 & $49.95.
• ARTHUR A. JOYCE. Mixtecs, Zapotecs and Chatinos: ancient peoples of southern Mexico. xvi+352 pages, 59 illustrations. 2010. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-0-6312-0977-5 hardback; 978-0-6312-0978-2 paperback £23.99.
• JEFFREY QUILTER & LUIS JAIME CASTILLO B. (ed.). New perspectives on Moche political organization. xvi+388 pages, 191 illustrations, 11 tables.2 010. Washington (DC): Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; 978-0-88402-362-3 hardback £33.95, $45 & €45.

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Britain and Ireland

• RICHARD TIPPING. Bowmont: an environmental history of the Bowmont Valley and the northern Cheviot Hills, 10 000 BC-AD 2000. xx+236 pages, 96 illustrations, 40 tables. 2010. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903903-49-3 hardback £30.
• TERTIA BARNETT & KATE SHARPE (ed.). Carving a future for British rock art: new directions for research, management and presentation. xvi+168 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations, 12 colour plates. 2010. Oxford & Oakville: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-364-0 hardback £65.
• NIALL SHARPLES. Social relations in later prehistory: Wessex in the first millennium BC. xiv+380 pages, 86 illustrations, 5 tables. 2010. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-957771-2 hardback £80.
• JOHN STRICKLAND DENT. The Iron Age in East Yorkshire: an analysis of the later prehistoric monuments of the Yorkshire Wolds and the culture which marked their final phase (British Archaeological Reports British Series 508). xiv+138 pages, 113 illustrations, 10 tables. 2010. Oxford: John & Erica Hedges; 978-1-4073-0475-5 paperback £40.
• ROB COLLINS & LINDSAY ALLASON-JONES (ed.). Finds from the frontier: material culture in the 4th-5th centuries (CBA Research Report 162). xvi+162 pages, 68 illustrations, 8 colour plates, 8 tables. 2010. York: Council for British Archaeology; 978-1-902771-81-6 paperback £35.

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Early medieval and medieval

• SVEN KALMRING. Der Hafen von Haithabu (Die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu 14. Band). 668 pages, 325 b&w & colour illustrations in text, 207 b&w & colour illustrations & 83 tables in appendices. 2010. Neumünster: Wachholtz; 978-3-529-01414-7 hardback €120.
• GAVIN LUCAS (ed.) with numerous contributors. Hofstadir: excavations of a Viking Age feasting hall in north-eastern Iceland (Institute of Archaeology Reykjavik Monograph 1). xxiv+440 pages, 226 illustrations, 150 tables. 2009. Reykjavik: Fornleifastofnun Íslands (Institute of Archaeology, Iceland); 978-9979-9946-0-2 paperback ISK5990, £30, $48, €35 + p&p.

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Later historic periods

• ELEANOR CONLIN CASELLA & SARAH K. CROUCHER. The Alderley Sandhills Project: an archaeology of community life in (post)-industrial England. xviii+232 pages, 50 illustrations, 8 colour plates. 2010. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press; 978-0-7190-8198-9 paperback £14.99.

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Maritime archaeology

• GREG STEMM & SEAN KINGSLEY (ed.). Oceans odyssey: deep-sea shipwrecks in the English Channel, Straits of Gibraltar & Atlantic Ocean. xii+288 pages, 336 b&w & colour illustrations. 2010. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-415-9 hardback £25.
• OLE CRUMLIN-PEDERSEN. Archaeology and the sea in Scandinavia and Britain: a personal account (Maritime Culture of the North 3). 184 pages, 297 b&w & colour illustrations. 2010. Roskilde: Viking Ship Museum; 978-87-85180-05-6 hardback £45.
• JOHN M. BINGEMAN. The first HMS Invincible (1747-58): her excavations (1980-1991). 198 pages, 373 illustrations. 2010. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-393-0 hardback £40.

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Journals

• Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm. JONAS, Journal of Nordic Archaeological Science 17. 92 pages, 38 illustrations, 14 tables. 2010. Stockholm: Archaeological Research Laboratory; ISSN 1650-1519, paperback. Available at http://www.archaeology.su.se/arklab/jonas.
• Seminario de Arqueología de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla. ROMULA 8. 320 pages, numerous illustrations. 2008. Sevilla: Universidad Pablo de Olavide; ISSN 1695-4076, paperback.

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Paperback, second and subsequent editions, translations

• SIMON MAYS. The archaeology of human bones. Second edition (first published 1998). xviii+406 pages, 185 illustrations, 29 tables. 2010. Abingdon & New York (NY): Routledge; 978-0-415-48090-1 hardback £80 & $145; 978-0-415-48091-8 paperback £27.99 & $49.95; 978-0-203-85177-7 e-book.
• MARY BEARD. The Parthenon. Paperback edition (first published in 2002). iv+230 pages, 27 illustrations. 2010. London: Profile Books; 978-1-84668-349-7 paperback £8.99.
• CRAIG W. KALLENDORF (ed.). A companion to the Classical tradition (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). xvi+494 pages, 32 illustrations. Paperback edition 2010 (first published 2007 in hardback). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-4051-2294-8 hardback £105; 978-1-4443-3416-6 paperback £29.99.
• GEOFFREY HORROCKS. Greek: a history of the language and its speakers. Second edition (first published 1997 by Longman). xx+506 pages. 2010. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-4051-3415-6 hardback £110.
• BRIAN GROVE. The treasure hunter's handbook: Britain's buried treasure and how to find it. 284 pages. Paperback edition 2010 (first published 2005). London: Piatkus; 978-0-7499-4136-9 paperback £8.99.