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Truly Grand Egyptian Museum

Martin Odler
Vol 100 Issue 410, 529-538  |  Free to read
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Iron Age torcs and the Snettisham hoards

Barbara Armbruster
Vol 100 Issue 410, 539-545  |  Free to read
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New Book Chronicle: Ergasteria to emporia – production sites and crafts and their place in past societies

Marion Uckelmann
Vol 100 Issue 410, 567-575  |  Free to read
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Cover of Threads of contact: tracing the relationship between Egypt and the southern Levant through textile tools
Received Sep 2025

Threads of contact: tracing the relationship between Egypt and the southern Levant through textile tools

Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi
Reviewed by Danijela Stefanović
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Received Aug 2025

The future of archaeology

Gary M. Feinman & T. Douglas Price (ed.)
Reviewed by Sarah Kerr
Vol 100 Issue 410, 564-566 | Share
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Received Jul 2025

The tombs of forefathers: Neolithic long barrows in ritual landscapes

Jan Turek & Petr Krištuf
Reviewed by Richard Bradley
Vol 100 Issue 410, 549-551 | Share
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Cover of Coining values: bronze between money and scrap in late Roman an early medieval Europe
Received Jul 2025

Coining values: bronze between money and scrap in late Roman an early medieval Europe

Anna Flückinger & Jan Bemmann (ed.)
Reviewed by Robert Collins
Vol 100 Issue 410, 555-557  |  Read for free | Share
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Received Feb 2025

Buddhist landscapes: art and archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th centuries

Stephen A. Murphy
Reviewed by Jessie Pons
Vol 100 Issue 410, 561-563  |  Read for free | Share
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Received Nov 2024

The Snettisham hoards

Julia Farley & Jody Joy (ed.)
Reviewed by Barbara Armbruster
Vol 100 Issue 410, 539-545  |  Read for free | Share
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Received Sep 2024

Beyond the river: under the eye of Rome

Timothy C. Hart
Reviewed by Emily Hanscam
Vol 100 Issue 410, 558-560 | Share
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Received Feb 2023

Analysing the boundaries of the ancient Roman garden. (Re)Framing the hortus

Victoria Austen
Reviewed by Mantha Zarmakoupi
Vol 100 Issue 410, 552-554 | Share
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Books received

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Cover of Portraying the individual in the Roman East: local–imperial entanglements in sculpture, mosaics, and paintings (1st–4th centuries AD)
Received May 2026

Portraying the individual in the Roman East: local–imperial entanglements in sculpture, mosaics, and paintings (1st–4th centuries AD)

Rubina Raja (ed.)
Cover of Archaeological sondages at the ancient site of el-BālūC in the Ard el-Kerak from 1986 to 2005, final report
Received May 2026

Archaeological sondages at the ancient site of el-BālūC in the Ard el-Kerak from 1986 to 2005, final report

Udo Worschech
Cover of Cretan chronicle: an archaeological childhood
Received May 2026

Cretan chronicle: an archaeological childhood

Mary Van Dyke
Cover of Hippos (Sussita) of the Decapolis: the civic basilica and the Southern Bathhouse
Received May 2026

Hippos (Sussita) of the Decapolis: the civic basilica and the Southern Bathhouse

Arleta Kowalewska & Michael Eisenberg
Cover of Neandertal skeletal anatomy: form, function and paleobiology
Received May 2026

Neandertal skeletal anatomy: form, function and paleobiology

Libby W. Cowgill & Scott D. Maddux (ed.)
Cover of Proceedings of the second international conference on aviation archaeology and heritage – November 2024
Received May 2026

Proceedings of the second international conference on aviation archaeology and heritage – November 2024

Hunter W. Whitehead, Natasha J. Heap & Daniel J. Leahy (ed.)
Cover of Ethnic relations in the ancient Mediterranean: social life under empire
Received May 2026

Ethnic relations in the ancient Mediterranean: social life under empire

Philip A. Harland
Cover of Embodying cosmologies: the art of Nordic Bronze Age body-objects
Received May 2026

Embodying cosmologies: the art of Nordic Bronze Age body-objects

Laura Ahlqvist
Cover of Living precariously in the Roman world: a social archaeology of inequality
Received May 2026

Living precariously in the Roman world: a social archaeology of inequality

Astrid Van Oyen
Cover of Isla Cerritos: La arqueología de un puerto de Chichén Itzá
Received May 2026

Isla Cerritos: La arqueología de un puerto de Chichén Itzá

Rafael Cobos