1General Interest & Method and Theory

New from Oxbow BooksThe Map Makers' World: A Cultural Historyof the European World MapBy Marjo NurminenRigorously researched andinformed by latest academicfindings, The Map Makers’World is beautifullyillustrated presenting some300 maps from the world’sfinest museums, librariesand private collections. Thebook gives us a revealingand captivating perspectiveon the development ofEuropean world maps fromthe Early Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century.360p col and b/w illus (Pool of London Press 2015)9781910860007 Hb £50.00

Cuisine and EmpireBy Rachel LaudanRachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the riseand fall of the world’s great cuisines - from themastery of grain cooking some twenty thousandyears ago, to the present. She shows how periodicseismic shifts in “culinary philosophy” - beliefsabout health, the economy, politics, society and thegods - prompted the construction of new cuisines,a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines ofempires, came to dominate the globe. 464p, b/w illus(University of California Press 2015) 9780520286313 Pb£19.95

The Circle of God: An Archaeological andHistorical Search for the Nature of the Sacred:A Study of ContinuityBy Brian HobleyThis study is focused on circular solar/cosmicsymbolism which has endured for seven millenniain the European and Mediterranean worlds. Thepotency of the solar/cosmic circle should not beunderstated, as this study will demonstrate, withits worldwide affiliation. For all humankind is awareof the sun’s benefits of light and warmth, and of theseasons which needed in the ancient world to besustained by heavenly harmony through ritual,sacrifice and worship. 820p, b/w illus (ArchaeopressArchaeology 2015) 9781784911379 Pb £110.00

Archaeology: The BasicsBy Clive GambleClive Gamble discusses many of the ideas, historyand practice of archaeology and how we come toform explanations for, and interpretations of, people,places and things. The third edition includes newcase studies, and new material on key growth areasincluding evolutionary approaches, landscapearchaeology, conflict archaeology and the politics ofthe past. 287p, (Routledge 3rd ed 2015) 9780415694834Pb £16.99

Children, Spaces and IdentityEdited by Margarita Sánchez Romero, EvaAlarcón García & Gonzalo Aranda JiménezHere specialists fromarchaeology, history,literature, architecture,didactics, museology andanthropology build a bodyof theoretical andmethodological approachesabout how space isarticulated and organisedaround children and howthis disposition affects thecreation and maintenance ofsocial identities. Childrenare considered as the main actors in historicdynamics of social change, from prehistory to thepresent day. Notions on space, childhood and theconstruction of both the individual and the groupidentity of children are considered as a prelude topapers that focus on analysing and identifying thespaces which contribute to the construction ofchildren’s identity during their lives: the places theylive, learn, socialize and play. A final section dealswith these same aspects, but focuses on funerarycontexts. 336p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015)9781782979357 Pb £45.00

Death Embodied: Archaeological Approachesto the Treatment of the CorpseEdited by Zoë L. Devlin & Emma-Jayne GrahamThe choices made by past communities or individuals

about how to cope with adead body in all of itsdynamic and constituentforms, and whether therewas reason to treat it in amanner that singled it out(positively or negatively) asdifferent from other humancorpses, provide the stimulusfor this volume. The ninepapers provide a series oftheoretically informed, butnot constrained, case studies

which focus predominantly on the corporeal bodyin death. The aims are to take account of the activepresence of dynamic material bodies at the heart offunerary events and to explore the questions thatmight be asked about their treatment; to exploreways of putting fleshed bodies back into ourdiscussions of burials and mortuary treatment, aswell as interpreting the meaning of these activitiesin relation to the bodies of both deceased andsurvivors; and to combine the insights that body-centred analysis can produce to contribute to a morenuanced understanding of the role of the body, livingand dead, in past cultures. 192p, b/w (Oxbow Books2015) 9781782979432 Pb £38.00

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Archaeology for the People: Joukowsky Institute PerspectivesEdited by John Cherry & Felipe Rojas SilvaIn 2014, the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World organizedan international writing competition calling for accessible and engaging essays aboutany aspect of archaeology. Nearly 150 submissions from over two dozen countrieswere received. Archaeology for the People gathers the best of those entries. Theirdiverse topics—from the destruction of historic, urban gardens in contemporaryIstanbul to the fall of the ancient Maya city— offer a taste of the global reach andrelevance of archaeology. The book also offers a series of reflections on how and whyto engage in dialogues about archaeology with people who are not specialists. 240p,(Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701078 Pb £28.00

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The Materiality of Magic: An artifactual investigation into ritual practicesand popular beliefsEdited by Ceri Houlbrook & Natalie ArmitageThe Materiality of Magic addresses the value of the material record as a resource ininvestigations into magic, ritual practices, and popular beliefs. The chronologicaland geographic focuses of the papers presented here vary from prehistory to thepresent-day, including numinous interpretations of fossils and ritual deposits inBronze Age Europe; apotropaic devices in Roman and Medieval Britain; the evolutionof superstitions and ritual customs – from the ‘voodoo doll’ of Europe and Africa toa Scottish ‘wishing-tree’; and an exploration of spatiality in West African healingpractices. 152p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700101 Pb £35.00

Creating Material Worlds: The Uses of Identity in ArchaeologyEdited by Louisa Campbell, Adrián Maldonado, Elizabeth Pierce and Anthony RussellDespite a growing literature on identity theory in the last two decades, much of its current use in archaeologyis still driven toward locating and dating static categories such as ‘Phoenician’, ‘Christian’ or ‘native’. Previousstudies have highlighted the various problems and challenges presented by identity, with the overall effect ofdeconstructing it to insignificance. This volume argues that identity is worth studying not despite its slipperynature, but because of it. Identity can be seen as an emergent property of living in a material world, anongoing process of becoming which archaeologists are particularly well suited to study. The geographic andtemporal scale of the papers included is purposefully broad to demonstrate the variety of ways in whicharchaeology is redefining identity. Research areas span from the Great Lakes to the Mediterranean, with casestudies from the Mesolithic to the contemporary world by emerging voices in the field. 192p (Oxbow Books2015) 9781785701801 Pb £36.00

Incomplete ArchaeologiesEdited by Emily Miller Bonney, Kathryn J. Franklin & James A. JohnsonIncomplete Archaeologies takes a familiar archaeological concept – assemblages – andreconsiders such groupings, collections and sets of things from the perspective of thework required to assemble them. The ultimate aim is to reassert an awareness of theincompleteness of assemblage, and thus the importance of practices of assembling(whether they seem at first creative or destructive) for understanding social life in thepast as well as the present. The individual chapters represent critical engagementswith this aim by archaeologists presenting a broad scope of case studies from Eurasiaand the Mediterranean. 176p, b/w illustrations (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701153 Pb£36.00

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Towards Skyscape Archaeologyby Fabio SilvaThe study of beliefs and practices concerning the

sky in the past and the usesto which people’sunderstanding of the sky wasput has long been of greatinterest to archaeologists andthe wider public, but alsocontroversial. TowardsSkyscape Archaeology looks atarchaeoastronomical theoryand method from the point ofview of archaeology. Ithighlights current limitationsand suggests what needs to

be addressed and overcome for archaeoastronomyto produce knowledge of value to the broaderacademic community. It argues thatarchaeoastronomy needs to come closer toarchaeology; it needs to become a skyscapearchaeology, and proposes ways to achieve this.Using case studies from Peru, Scotland, Spain, Maltaand Stonehenge, Fabio Silva challenges theorthodoxy and argues that with a differentapproach we can further our understanding of thecosmology and worldviews of the cultures andsocieties. b/w illus (Oxbow Insights in Archaeology,Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782979555 Pb £15.99

Archaeological Thinking: How to Make Senseof the Pastby Charles E. Orser Jr.In Archaeological Thinking,Charles E. Orser Jr., providesa commonsense guide toapplying critical thinking skillsto archaeological questionsand evidence. Rather thancritiquing and debunkingspecific cases of pseudo-archaeology or concentratingon archaeo-logical theory,Orser considers the basics ofscientific thinking, the use of logic and analogy, themeaning and context of facts, and the evaluation ofsource materials. He explains, concisely and accessibly,how archaeologists use these principles to createpictures of the past and teaches students to developthe skills needed to make equally reasonedinterpretations. 177p b/w illus (Rowman & Littlefield2015) 9781442226982 Pb £19.95

Debating Archaeological Empiricism: TheAmbiguity of Material EvidenceEdited by Johannes Siapkas & Charlotta HillerdalDebating Archaeological Empiricism examines the currentintellectual turn in archaeology, primarily in itsprehistoric and classical branches, characterized by areturn to the archaeological evidence. Each chapterin the book approaches the empirical from a differentangle, illuminating contemporary views and uses ofthe archaeological material in interpretations andtheory building. The inclusion of differing perspectivesin this collection mirrors the conceptual landscapethat characterizes the discipline, contributing to thetheoretical debate in archaeology and classical studies.204p, (Routledge 2015) 9780415744089 Hb £85.00

CAA 2014: 21st Century Archaeology: Concepts,methods and toolsEdited by F. Giligny, F. Djindjian, L. Costa & S.RobertThis volume brings together a selection of papers

proposed for the Proceedingsof the 42nd CAA conference.Themes include: Historio-graphy; Field and Labora-tory Data Recording;Ontologies and Standards;Internet and Archaeology;Archaeological InformationSystems; GIS and SpatialAnalysis; Mathematics andStatistics in Archaeology; 3DArchaeology and VirtualArchaeology; Multi-Agent

Systems and Complex System Modelling. 649p b/w andcol illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2015) 9781784911003Pb £75.00

A Handbook of Geoarchaeological Approachesto Settlement Sites and Landscapesby Charles FrenchGeoarchaeology is a majorbranch of archaeologicalscience at the interfacesbetween geology, geograp-hy and archaeology,involving the combinedstudy of archaeological, soiland geomorphologicalrecords and the recognitionof how natural, climaticand human-inducedprocesses alter landscapes.The formation and modification of past soils, andoccupation sequences can be examined primarilythrough the use of soil micromorphologicaltechniques and various physical and geo-chemicaltechniques. This short text aims to explain some ofthe basics of geoarchaeological approaches andresearch design used to tackle the investigation oflandscapes and settlement archaeology, and theapplication of soil micromorphology toarchaeological situations. The intention is to presenta basic handbook of good practice, with case studiesand examples, that any archaeologist or aspiringgeoarchaeologist can use. 144p (Studying ScientificArchaeology, Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700910 Pb£16.95

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New from Oxbow Books Approaching Monumentality in ArchaeologyEdited by James F. OsborneThis volume seeks to define what is meant by theterms “monument” and “monumentality”, and tounderstand the social and political significance ofmonument-building as it has been manifestedaround the world. It presents nineteen case studieswhich focus in particular on Prehistoric Europe andthe Ancient Near East. Overall they advocate arelational approach, arguing that “no definition of“monument” can ever aspire to be absolute unlessit locates a monument’s monumentality in therelationship that exists between it and the peopleexperiencing it.” 453p, b/w illus (State University of NewYork Press 2014, Pb 2015) 9781438453255 Hb £82.25,9781438453262 Pb £28.50

Miscellania: Theory, Rock Art and HeritageEdited by Luis Oosterbeek & Claudia FidalgoFour major themes are involved in this collection:cultural interactions, rock art, theory and heritage.Papers discuss intercultural issues in archaeologicaland ethnoarchaeological contexts; rock art issues,including pigments studies, landscape analysis andmethodology; the relations between NewArchaeology and modern Russian research are thefocus of discussion; and urban and modernarchaeology in the context of heritage managementof contact. 87p b/w illus (BAR 2659, Archaeopress, 2014)9781407313016 Pb £23.00

Globalized AntiquityEdited by Ute Schuren, Daniel Marc Segesser &Thomas SpathInspired by post-colonial critics of the dominantWestern canons in the fields of historiography,philology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology,this book explores the meanings and uses of“antiquity” in three cultural areas and compares thegenealogies of the representations of their remotepast. It discusses the entanglement of Europeanconceptions of antiquity and its Mesoamerican andSouth-Asian appropriations and transformations.By diachronically exploring the functions of“antiquity”, the book provides culturalanthropology and post-colonial studies withhistorical foundations and implements the postulateof the local gaze at global phenomena for worldhistory and globalization research. 352p, (DietrichReimer Verlag 2015) 9783496016007 Hb £40.00

Heritage Reinvents EuropeEdited by Dirk Callebaut, Jan Marik & JanaMarikova-KubkovaThis volume of proceedings from the 12th EAC asksto what extent cultural-historical heritage can fosterEuropean Unity, and what place archaeology mighthave in this. The essays are grouped in three sections:Europe or the power of a collective idea; The use ofheritage in economic, social and political action; andheritage identification and preservation. 223p, col illus(Archaeolingua 2013) 9789639911413 Hb £31.00

Trends in Biological Anthropology 1Edited by Karina Gerdau-Radonic & KathleenMcSweeneyThis first volume in the series Trends in BiologicalAnthropology presents 11papers. The study ofmodern baboons as proxiesto understand extincthominin species’ diet andthe interpretation of skeletaldegenerative joint diseaseon the skeletal remains ofextant primates arepresented as case studiesusing methods andstandards usually appliedto human remains. Themethodological themecontinues with an assessment of the implicationsfor interpretation of different methods used to recordLinear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH) and on the useand interpretation of three dimensional modellingto generate pictures of the content of collectivegraves. Three case studies on palaeopathology arepresented. Two papers focus on the analysisdisarticulated human remains at the Worcester RoyalInfirmary and on Thomas Henry Huxley’s earlyattempt to identify a specific individual throughanalysis of skeletal remains. 160p, b/w illustrations(Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782978367 Pb £49.95

SEAC 2011 Stars and Stones: Voyages inArchaeoastronomy and Cultural AstronomyEdited by F. Pimenta, N. Ribeiro, F. Silva, N.Campion, A. Joaquinito & L. TirapicosSince Prehistory, the sky has always been integratedas part of the cosmovision of human societies. Thesky played a fundamental role not only in theorientation of space, time organization, ritualpractices or celestial divination, but also as anelement of power. Migrations and voyages areintrinsic to humankind, they opened the routes forcultural diffusion and trade, but also for powerdominance. Following these routes is also to followcultural diversity and how human societies met orclashed. The sky and astronomical phenomenaprovided the tools for time reckoning, calendarorganization and celestial navigation thatsupported those voyages. Astronomy today givesus the capacity to reproduce the sky, opening awindow through which we can glimpse how thosesocieties perceived, integrated and manipulated thesky into their world-views and their myths and,ultimately, into their social organization. The paperspresented in this volume were submitted after the19th meeting of the European Society for Astronomyin Culture, Évora, Portugal, 19th-23rd September,2011. 340p, b/w illus (BAR 2720, Archaeopress 2015)9781407313733 Pb £53.00

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Geomatics for Cultural and Natural HeritageConservation and Valorisation 2015By Agata Lo TauroThis project is one of the first systematic attempts indeveloping a Geomatic Information System (GIS) focultural landscape and heritage with the support ofseveral geomatic applications. The Etna Park hasbeen chosen for the case study but the frameworkestablished allows easy extension to other parks.116p, b/w figs (BAR 2711, Archaeopress 2015)9781407313627 Pb £29.00

Managing our past into the futureEdited by Corinne L. Hofman & Jay B. HaviserCaribbean archaeologicalheritage is threatened bynatural impacts but alsoincreasingly by economicdevelopments, oftenresulting from the touristindustry. The continuousconstruction of specificprojects for tourists,accompanied by illegalpractices such as lootingand sand mining, havemajor impacts on theregion’s archaeological heritage. This volumeprovides a background to the history ofarchaeological research in the Dutch Caribbean andcompiles a number of compliance archaeologyprojects that have been carried out under and in thespirit of the Valetta Treaty. Furthermore, this volumerepresents a unique contribution to AHM in a widerregional perspective, with its discussion of thesuccessful creation of localized community-basedarchaeological heritage associations which serve asan excellent model for all island communities in theCaribbean. 356p, (Sidestone Press 2015) 9789088903250Pb £65.00

The Conservation Movement in Norfolk: AHistoryBy Susanna Wade MartinsNorfolk has been at the forefront of the modernconservation movement. The NorfolkArchaeological Trust, still the only local trust of itskind, was founded in 1923; the Norfolk NaturalistTrust, (later the Norfolk Wildlife Trust), founded in1926, was the first county wildlife trust; whileBlickling Hall was the first property to be acceptedby the National Trust under its Country HouseScheme. In this engaging book, the author tracesthe history of the conservation movement and thepeople who were involved, including the Norfolkbotanist and founder of the Linnean Society, SirJames Smith. In particular, she shows the influenceof changing social attitudes and priorities upon themovement and ideas of heritage. 187p, (Boydell 2015)9781783270071 Pb £19.99

Ahlat 2010: Quarta Campagna di IndaginiSulle Strutture Rupestri / Fourth Campaign ofSurveys on the Underground StructuresEdited by Roberto Bixio, Andrea De Pascale &Nakis KaramagaraliThis campaign added significant new knowledgeabout the rocky habitat of this wide volcanic area.The partial removal of sediments that occluded along tunnel revealed a complex undergroundnetwork with interesting perspectives aboutdevelopment, functions and excavation techniques.The identification of a fourth underground aqueductand the probable location of the tomb of a fifteenthcentury Christian martyr in rocky peripheral areas,are added to other findings in the very heart of thearchaeological area: a shaft, many cavities used asfarm-storage, a buried building (mint), a snow-house, tombstone inscriptions, etc 288p, b/w illus(BAR 2721, Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313764 Pb£50.00

Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human HistoryBy Brian FaganAnimals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible markon human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans havebeen constantly redefining their relationship with one another, and entirecivilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond we share with our fellowfauna. Brian Fagan unfolds this fascinating story from the first wolf who wanderedinto our prehistoric ancestors' camp and found companionship, to empires builton the backs of horses, donkeys, and camels, to the industrial age when someanimals became commodities, often brutally exploited, and others became pets,nurtured and pampered, sometimes to absurd extremes. Through an in-depthanalysis of six truly transformative human-animal relationships, Fagan shows howour habits and our very way of life were considerably and irreversibly altered byour intimate bond with animals. Among other stories, Fagan explores how herdingchanged human behavior; how the humble donkey helped launch the process ofglobalization; and how the horse carried a hearty band of nomads across the worldand toppled the emperor of China. 307p b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781620405727Hb £18.99

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Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire: Society and landscape in theeighteenth centuryBy Andrew Macnair, Anne Rowe & Tom WilliamsonThis book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which waspublished in 1766 by two London map-makers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.The first section examines the context of the map’s production and its place incartographic history, and describes the creation of a new, digital version of the mapwhich can be accessed online . The second part describes various ways in whichthis electronic version can be interrogated, in order to throw important new lighton Hertfordshire’s landscape and society, both in the middle decades of the eighteenthcentury when it was produced, and in more remote periods. 240p, col and b/w illus,DVD (Windgather Press 2015) 9781909686731 Pb £35.00

Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Pre-Industrial Society: Choices,Stability and Changeedited by Fèlix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup and Althea DaviesThrough a series of case studies, this third volume in the Earth series deals withthe technological constraints and innovations that enabled societies to surviveand thrive across a range of environmental conditions. The contributions arestructured into three sections to draw out particular commonalities and contrastsin the choices made by pre-industrial communities in the construction of variedlandscapes and cultural heritage. The first deals with colonisation, including thedrivers and processes through which colonisers developed an understanding ofthe productive potential and limitations of their new lands. The second focuses onfields and field systems and their identification in the archaeological record, whilethe third focuses on the complex ‘time-space adaptations’ devised for managingcultivation and livestock production. 280p col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781842173596Hb £45.00

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Living with the Flood: Mesolithic to post-medieval archaeological remainsat Mill Lane, Sawston, Cambridgeshire – a wetland/dryland interfaceBy Samantha Paul, Kevin Colls & Henry P. ChapmanLiving with the Flood presents the results of the study of a wetland/dryland interfaceon the edge of palaeochannels of the River Cam in Cambridgeshire. Through theintegrated archaeological and palaeoenvironmental analysis of a site on the westernedge of Sawston, a detailed picture of life on the edge of the floodplain from the lateglacial to the post-medieval periods has been developed. At the heart of this is therelationship between people and their changing environment, which reveals ashifting pattern of ritual, occupation and more transitory activity as the riparianlandscape in a wooded setting became a wetland within a more openly grazedenvironment. 128p, colour and b/w illustrations (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782979661 Pb£19.95

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The Ancient Yew: A History of Taxus baccata. Third EditionBy Robert Bevan-JonesWith wonderful photographic portraits of ancient yews and a gazetteer (withlocations) of the oldest yew trees in Britain, the book brings together for the firsttime all the evidence about the dating, history, archaeology and culturalconnections of the yew. Robert Bevan-Jones discusses its history, biology, theorigins of its name, the yew berry and its toxicity, its distribution across Britain,means of dating examples, and their association with folklore, with churchyards,abbeys, springs, pre-Reformation wells and as landscape markers. This thirdedition has an updated introduction with new photographs and corrections tothe main text. 216p col illus (Windgather Press, 3rd ed 2015) 9781785700781 Pb £29.95

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Trees in Towns and Cities: A History of BritishUrban ArboricultureBy Mark JohnstonThis is the first book onthe history of trees inBritain’s towns and citiesand the people who haveplanted and cared forthem. It is a highly read-able and authoritativeaccount of the trees in oururban landscapes from theRomans to the present day,including public parks,private gardens, streets, cemeteries and many otheropen spaces. It charts how our appreciation of urbantrees and woodland has evolved into our modernunderstanding of the many environmental,economic and social benefits of our urban forests. Adescription is also given of the various threats tothese trees over the centuries, such as pollutiondamage during the Industrial Revolution and therecent ravages of Dutch elm disease. Central and localgovernment initiatives are examined together withthe contribution of civic and amenity societies.However, this historical account is not just acatalogue of significant events but gives a deeperanalysis by exploring fundamental issues such aswho owned those treed landscapes, why they werecreated and who had access to them.256p, b/w andcol illus (Windgather Press 2014) 9781909686625 Pb£39.95

Arcadian Visions: Pastoral Influences onPoetry, Painting and the Design of LandscapeBy Allan R. RuffThis book is about Arcadia and the pastoral

tradition; what it hasmeant for successivegenerations and theirvision of the landscape, aswell as the implicationsthis has had for its designand management. Itprovides an alternativelandscape history for allthose involved with thelandscape - eitherthrough its design,management, use or

enjoyment. It begins by examining the origins ofArcadia and the pastoral in the classical poetry ofTheocritus and Virgil, and the effects of, and on,Christianity before outlining its development inrenaissance Italy and subsequently in theNetherlands, America and England. It concludesby looking at how arcadian ecology is bringingabout a re-appraisal of the pastoral in the 21stcentury. 288p, b/w and colour illustrations (WindgatherPress 2015) 9781909686663 Hb £39.95

Old Times – New MethodsBy Gábor Bertók & Csilla GátiAirborne surveying methodslike aerial archaeology orAirborne Laser Scanning/LiDAR have become some ofthe main sources ofinformation for landscapearchaeology during the last 3or 4 decades. This volumepresents the work which theJanus Pannonius Museumhas carried out in recent years, drawing on thesetechniques to enhance our understanding of thelandscapes and the history around Pécs, as part of theEurope-wide ArcLand project. 172p, (Archaeolingua 2014)9789639911536 Pb £30.00

Landscape and Identity: Archaeology andHuman GeographyEdited by Kurt D. SpringsThe goal of this volume is to explore the relationshipbetween space, place and identity in a variety ofprehistoric, historic and contemporary contexts. Thepapers primarily address two questions: how canlandscape be used in understanding a group’sidentity? And how do cultural identities evolve inresponse to different stimuli? Topics include thewedge tombs of northwest Ireland, social alterityin the Upper Great Lakes, the civic architecture ofRoman Aphrodisias, Christianization in the easternAlpine/Adriatic region, the California missions, andmemory and heritage at the Gettysburg NationalPark. 113p, b/w illus (BAR 2709, Archaeopress 2015)9781407313603 Pb £29.00

Somewhere Beyond the Sea: Les iles bretonnes(France): perspectives archeologiques,geographiques et historiquesEdited by Lorena Audouard & Benjamin GehresFocusing on the Islands of Brittany, this volumepresents a multidisciplinary approach to thequestion of insularity. Essays explore aspects fromPrehistory to the present day to understand in adiachronic way the organization between islands,the relations between large and small islands, thedynamics of exploitation of resources and the degreeof dependence with respect to the continent. Frenchtext. 123p, (BAR 2705, Archaeopress 2015)9781407313566 Pb £31.00

Origin of the Dutch coastal landscape: Long-term landscape evolution of the Netherlandsduring the Holoceneby Peter VosThe topic of this book is the Origin of the Dutchcoastal landscape during the Holocene. Thelandscape evolution is vizualized in series ofpalaeogeographical maps and the drivingmechanisms behind the environmental changes arediscussed. 372p (Barkhuis 2015) 9789491431821 Hb£50.50

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No Stone Unturned: A History of Farming,Landscape and Environment in the ScottishHighlands and LowlandsBy Robert DodgshonThis is a survey of howHighland society organised itsfarming communities, expl-oited its resource base andinteracted with its envir-onment from prehistory to1914. Throughout, it drawsout what changed and whatwas carried forward from eachperiod so that we have abetter understanding of theregion’s dynamic history, as opposed to theahistorical views that inevitably flow from a stresson cultural inertia. It provides the most substantivereview of the continuity/discontinuity debate in theHighland landscape currently available. 298p, b/willus (Edinburgh UP 2015) 9781474400749 Hb £80.00

Agriculture and Settlement in IrelandEdited by Margaret Murphy & Matthew StoutThis book, published in association with the Groupfor Irish Historic Settlement and the AgriculturalHistory Society of Ireland, explores the relationshipbetween Irish settlement and agricultural practicefrom the Neolithic to the 18th century. The types offarming that took place in any particular period ofIrish history had a powerful impact on thedevelopment of settlement. Interdisciplinary studiesin this volume address key periods to illustrate thatprocess: from the spread of Neolithic pastoralism;through the medieval focus on tillage, which gaverise to manorial villages and granges; to the 18th-century agricultural revolution and the impact thathad on urban and rural landscapes. 256p (Four CourtsPress 2015) 9781846825071 Hb £45.00

Rural Landscapes Along the Vardar Valley:Two Site-Less Surveys Near Veles and SkopjeRepublic of MacedoniaBy Damjan DonevThe two small-scale and hyper-intensive surfaceartefact surveys presented in this study were the firstglimpse of the type and distribution of settlementon a parish level and in a rural context, in theregions along the Vardar Valley. Not attempting tooffer a representative coverage of the region as awhole or of certain types of micro-geographicentities, the surveys were rather concentrated on 1)reconstructing the long-term history of individualsettlements (by means of highly intensive andsystematic survey coverage and careful study of theceramic fabrics); 2) understanding the integral setof habitation practices (by adopting a site-lessapproach in the interpretation of the surface artefactscatters) and 3) exploring the type of micro-topographic elements preferred by the local farmingcommunities (the concept of settlement niche). 230p,CD-ROM (BAR 2731, Archaeopress 2015)9781407313887 Pb £40.00

The Landscape of Place-NamesBy Margaret Gelling & Ann ColeThis important book is a study of the type ofsettlement name which defines the settlement byreference to a landscape feature, as found in Britainsouth of the Forth-Clyde line. This new edition wasfirst published in 2000 and is now in its thirdprinting, with many minor corrections and anupdated bibliography. Two extraordinaryconclusions stand out: one is that the Anglo-Saxonshad very specific words to describe landscape featureswith exact precision, the other is that the same wordswere used throughout the English speaking area,from Wessex in the south to the Lothians in thenorth. 392p (Paul Watkins 2014) 9781907730382 Pb£19.95

A History of the County of Somerset XI: QueenCamel and the CadburysEdited by M. C. SirautA comprehensive account of the ten parishescomprising the southern half of the Catsash hundred,an area rich in its archaeology and history, ispresented here, in the authoritative detail which isthe hallmark of the Victoria County History. To thenorth, the Barrows, of which Queen Camel, NorthCadbury and Sparkford are the largest and mostpopulous, lying in an area rich in archaeology andhistory. To the south, prominent hills includeCadbury Hill, crowned by Cadbury Castle, an IronAge hill fort dating from 600-400 BC. 256p, 60 b/willus (Boydell 2015) 9781904356455 Hb £95.00

The Woods of Ireland: A History, 700-1800By Nigel EverettThe accepted view of Irish woodlands is that Irelandwas covered in trees until the English came andchopped them down. While admirable in its brevity,this interpretation is inadequate regarding the actualmanagement of Irish forests from the later Gaelic erato the close of the 18th century. The author focuseson the fundamentally pragmatic and commercialview of trees adopted by much of Gaelic civilization,and the attempts of the various Anglo-Irishadministrations to introduce more conservativewoodland practices. 313p (Four Courts Press 2014, Pb2015) 9781846825057 Hb £45.00, 9781846825910 Pb£24.95

The Native Woodlands of Scotland: Ecology,Conservation and ManagementBy Scott WilsonThis authoritative textbook provides a convenientsingle source of up-to-date information about thefascinating native woodland habitats of Scotland,putting these into their wider British, European andglobal contexts. It covers all major aspects ofrelevance to Scottish native woodland ecology,conservation and management, illustrated withexamples of the author ’s extensive record ofwoodland study within Scotland and beyond. 272p(Edinburgh UP 2015) 9780748692859 Pb £29.99

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Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World: History, Myth andArchaeologyBy Linda FarrarGardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World traces the beginning of gardening andgarden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans andMycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic andPersian gardens right up to the Middle Ages. It shows how gardens in each periodwere designed and cultivated. Evidence for garden art and horticulture is gatheredfrom surviving examples of ancient art, literature, archaeology, actual period gardensthat have survived the centuries and the wealth of garden myths associated withcertain plants. These sources bring ancient gardens and their gardeners back to life,and provide information on which plants were chosen as garden worthy, theirsetting and the design and appearance of ancient gardens. 304p, 150 col illus(Windgather Press 2015) 9781909686854 Pb £25.00

Archaeology and Land-use of south-east England to 1066Edited by Michael J. Allen & David RudlingIn this new authoritative textbook on the archaeology of South-East Englandover 30 leading authors provide a comprehensive overview of the South-East as aninformed narrative and interpretation of the prehistory and history of the region.Chronological chapters tell the story of the development of the South-East by periodfrom the Palaeolithic to the Norman Conquest. Others focus on either specific areaswithin the region, or aspects of material culture and the economy. This is the firstbook to look at the region as a whole for a generation and since the advent ofdeveloper-funded archaeology, and it will have an important place in the archaeologyof the South-East. It is offered in memory of Sussex Archaeologist Peter Drewett. b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782979623 Hb £35.00

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Local Places, Global ProcessesEdited by Peter Coates, David Moon & Paul WardeOur perceptions of change, and what kind of change might be for good or ill, areshaped by the interaction of localised experience and the wider forces oftransformation. Local Places, Global Processes examines how these relationshipshave been shaped in Britain over time in three ways. First, through essaysaddressing influential ways of understanding and debating questions of ‘the stateof nature’. These are complemented by case studies on conservation, landscapechange and management, and how perceptions of environmental change haveemerged or been discarded over time. 272p, (Windgather Press 2016) 9781909686939Pb £29.95

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Norfolk LandscapesBy Doug KennedyThis beautiful photo book captures the essence of Norfolk’s varied landscapesin sumptuous images and an informative text that gets underneath thesurface of why things look like they do. The Norfolk Broads, Breckland,The Waverley Valley, The Fens and the coastlines are explored in turn alongwith the wildlife you can encounter on the way. In addition, Norfolk’slovely churches that punctuate every view, and the distinctive traditionalbuildings that give each area its special flavour are featured. Doug Kennedyhas roamed the County on foot and by boat, seeking out what makes eachplace special and applying his photographer’s eye to capture the sceneperfectly. 112p, (Windgather Press 2015) 9781909686816 Hb £14.99

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The Gardens of the British Working ClassBy Margaret WillesThis magnificently illustrated people’s history celebrates the extraordinary featsof cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted,and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from theearliest records of the labouring classes in the country to today, Margaret Willes’sresearch unearths lush gardens nurtured outside rough workers’ cottages andhorticultural miracles performed in blackened yards, and reveals the ingenious,sometimes devious, methods employed by determined, obsessive, and eccentricworkers to make their drab surroundings bloom. She also explores the stories ofthe great philanthropic industrialists who provided gardens for their workforces,the fashionable rich stealing the gardening ideas of the poor, alehouse syndicatesand fierce rivalries between vegetable growers, flower-fanciers cultivating exoticblooms on their city windowsills, and the rich lore handed down from gardenerto gardener through generations. 413p, b/w illus, col pls (Yale UP 2015)9780300212358 Pb £12.99

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Lough Ree: Historic Lakeland SettlementEdited by Bernadette Cunningham and HarmanMurtaghCombining archaeology,historical geography, historyand literature, this bookexplores the settlementhistory of Lough Reethrough the centuries.Themes include place-names,mythology and literature, thearchitecture and context ofecclesiastical and secularbuildings on the islands andsurrounding shores,demesne landscapes, boating on the lake and modernisland living. 288p, col pls (Four Courts Press 2015)9781846825767 Hb £50.00

The Story of the ThamesBy Andrew SargentThis book looks at history from the perspective of

the Thames, investigating howthe life of the nation hasaffected the river and, in turn,how the river has been viewedby those who live along itslength. In doing so it spans500,000 years and extends fromsource to mouth. The river haschanged both physically,initially due to natural causesand latterly as a result ofhuman intervention, and inhow it is used. Andrew

Sargent explores the ritual deposit of metalwork inthe river in the Bronze Age, the working river ofthe Middle Ages and post-medieval period, thedevelopment of leisure (e.g. Three Men in a Boat),the river in wartime, and modern environmentalconservation. 222p (Amberley Publishing 2015)9781445646626 Pb £9.99

Picturing England: The PhotographicCollections of Historic EnglandBy Mike Evans, Gary Winter & Anne WoodwardThis book features over 200 striking photographsfrom the Historic England Archive, an unparalleledcollection of 8 million images on England’s buildingsand landscapes. Viewed collectively, its photographiccollections record the changing face of England fromthe beginning of photography to the present day.They form a remarkable national asset, a hugememory bank that helps us understand and interpretthe past, informs the present and assists with futuremanagement and appreciation of the historicenvironment. 344p col illus (Historic England 2015)9781848020993 Hb £45.00

Scotland’s Lost GardensBy Marilyn BrownIn Scotland’s LostGardens, author MarilynBrown rediscovers thefascinating stories of thenation’s vanished historicgardens. Starting withthe monastic gardens of StColumba on the Isle ofIona in the sixth century,and encompassing thepleasure parks of James IVand James V, the royaland noble refuges of Mary Queen of Scots, and the‘King’s Knot’, the garden masterpiecewhich liesbelow Stirling Castle, the history of lost gardens isinextricably linked to the wider history of thenation, from the spread of Christianity to theReformation and the Union of the Crowns.Providing a unique perspective on this common past,it is also a fascinating guide to Scotland’s disappearedlandscapes and sanctuaries - lost gardens laid outmany hundreds of years ago ‘for the honourabledelight of body and soul’. 376p, (RCAHMS 2015)9781902419947 Pb £20.00

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A Natural History of English GardeningBy Mark LairdRanging from climate studies to the study of abutterfly’s life cycle, this original and fascinating bookexamines the scientific quest for order in nature asan offshoot of ordering the garden and field. Lairdfollows a broad series of chronological events-fromthe Little Ice Age winter of 1683 to the droughtsummer of the volcanic 1783-to probe the nature ofgardening and husbandry, the role of amateurs inscientific disciplines, and the contribution of womenas gardener-naturalists. 448p, b/w and col illus (YaleUP 2015) 9780300196368 Hb £45.00

Recent Discoveries and Perspectives in HumanEvolutionEdited by Anek R. SankhyanThe present volume is based on research articlessubmitted as part of an international conferenceExploring Human Origins: Exciting discoveries atthe start of the 21st Century’, 5-10 August 2013 inManchester. The main focus of these papers was torecord the more recent fossil, archaeological andgenomic discoveries in the field of human originsand evolution, besides a few very significant onesmade in 1990s. 232p, (BAR 2719, Archaeopress 2015)9781407313726 Pb £42.00

Emergence and Diversity of Modern HumanBehavior in Paleolithic AsiaEdited by Yousuke Kaifu, Masami Izuho, TedGoebel, Hiroyuki Sato & Akira OnoThis volume focuses long-overdue scholarlyattention on this under-studied area of the world.It gathers the work of archaeologists from the PacificRim of Asia, Australia, and North America, toaddress the relative lack of attention given to theemergence of modern human behavior as manifestedin Asia during the worldwide dispersal from Africa.580p, (Texas A&M UP 2015) 9781623492762 Hb £58.95

How Compassion Made Us Human: TheEvolutionary Origins of Tenderness, Trust andMorailtyBy Penny SpikinsIn this volume Penny Spikinsargues that compassion liesat the heart of what makes ushuman. She takes us on ajourney from Stone Agesocieties living millions ofyears ago to those of Ice AgeEurope, using archaeologicalevidence to demonstrate thecentral role that emotionalconnections had in humanevolution. Drawing on the latest research fromprimatology, psychology, neuroscience and socialanthropology as well as that from the material recordPenny describes a new story of human origins - onewhere feelings come first, and where the smallestthings, often overlooked, played a key role in ourunique story. 278p, (Pen & Sword Books Ltd 2015)9781781593103 Hb £19.99

A Million Years of MusicBy Gary TomlinsonTomlinson draws on new archaeological evidenceand developments in the fields of cognitive science,linguistics, and evolutionary theory to construct anew narrative for the emergence of human music.Starting at a period of human prehistory long beforeHomo sapiens or music existed, he describes theincremental attainments that, changing thecommunication and society of prehuman species, laidthe foundation for musical behaviors in more recenttimes. 362p (Zone Books 2015) 9781935408659 Hb £20.95

The Invaders: How Humans and Their DogsDrove Neanderthals to ExtinctionBy Pat ShipmanThe Invaders musters compelling evidence to showthat the major factor in the Neanderthals demise wasdirect competition with newly arriving humans. Shealso reveals fascinating confirmation of humanspartnership with the first domesticated wolf-dogssoon after Neanderthals first began to disappear. Thisalliance between two predator species, shehypothesizes, made possible an unprecedented degreeof success in hunting large Ice Age mammals adistinct and ultimately decisive advantage forhumans over Neanderthals at a time when climatechange made both groups vulnerable. 266p, (HarvardUP 2015) 9780674736764 Hb £22.95

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Wild Harvest: Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human WorldsEdited by Karen Hardy & Lucy Kubiak MartensPlants are fundamental tolife; they are used by allhuman groups and mostanimals. They provide rawmaterials, vitamins andessential nutrients and wecould not survive withoutthem. Yet access to plant usebefore the Neolithic can bechallenging. The lack ofvisible evidence has led toplants being undervalued,both in terms of theircontribution to diet and as raw materials. This bookoutlines why the role of plants is required for a betterunderstanding of hominin and pre-agrarian humanlife, and it offers a variety of ways in which this canbe achieved. In section 1 each chapter focuses on aspecific feature of plant use by humans; Section 2covers different methods available to obtaininformation on plants; and the third section coversethnography, ethnohistory, or ethnoarchaeology,and how these can be used to improve ourunderstanding of the role of plants in the pre-agrarian past. 368p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books2015) 9781785701238 Pb £30.00

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The Origins of Religion in the PaleolithicBy G. J. WightmanDiving millions of years into the past, to a time whenhuman ancestors began grappling with issues ofsafety, worth, identity, loss, power, and meaning incomplex and difficult environments, Gregory J.Wightman explores the significance of goal-directedaction and the rise of material culture for the adventof religiosity and ritual. The book opens by tacklingquestions of cognitive evolution and grouppsychology, and how these ideas can integrate witharchaeological evidence such as stone tools, shellbeads, and graves. In turn, it focuses on how humanancestors engaged with their environments, howthose engagements became routine, and how,eventually, certain routines took on a recognizablyritualistic flavour. 294p, (Rowman and Littlefield 2015)9781442242890 Hb £51.95

Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric SocietiesBy Lynne KellyIn this book, Lynne Kellyexplores the role of formalknowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in bothhistoric and archaeologicalcontexts. In the first part, sheexamines knowledge systemswithin historically recordedoral cultures, showing howthe link between power andthe control of knowledge isestablished. In the secondpart Kelly turns to the archaeological record of threesites, Chaco Canyon, Poverty Point and Stonehenge,offering new insights into the purpose of themonuments and associated decorated objects. Thebook demonstrates how an understanding ofrational intellect, pragmatic knowledge andmnemonic technologies in prehistoric societies offersa new tool for analysis of monumental structuresbuilt by non-literate cultures. 276p, (Cambridge UP2015) 9781107059375 Hb £65.00

Seabed PrehistoryBy Louise Tizzard, Andrew Bicket & Dimitri DeLoeckerThe potential for MiddlePalaeolithic sites to survivebeneath the sea in northernlatitudes has beenestablished by intensiveinvestigation within Area240, 11 km off the coast ofNorfolk. The Early MiddlePalaeolithic artefacts,particularly the Levalloiselements, indicate Neander-thal activity around 200,000and 250,000 years ago apparently constrained tocold, estuarine environment of the now-submergedlower reaches of the Palaeo-Yare Valley. 152p, (WessexArchaeology 2015) 9781874350804 Hb £33.00

Digging at the GatewayBy Phil Andrews, Paul Booth, A. P. Fitzpatrick &Ken WelshA Kent County Council programme to build a newroad link in the south-east part of Thanet resultedin the largest archaeological project carried out inBritain in 2010. This volume presents the analysisof the finds, environmental remains and the extensiveradiocarbon dating programme, and includes thelargest published assemblage of unburnt andcremated human bone from Thanet. 652p, (OxfordArchaeology 2015) 9780957467224 Hb £30.00

Irish Portal Tombs: A Ritual Perspectiveby Phyllis MercerPortal tombs, of which there are approximately 180in Ireland, are the least studied of the country’s greatmegaliths. Three aspects are specifically focused onin the present study: landscape siting of the portaltombs, portal tomb morphology, and evidence forritual in the construction and use of portal tombs.208p, b/w illus, CD-ROM (BAR BS 616, Archaeopress2015) 9781407313849 Pb £49.00

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The Stonehenge LandscapeBy Mark Bowden, Sharon Soutar, David Field & Martyn BarberStonehenge sits at the heart of a landscape rich in other monuments and remainsof the Neolithic period and Bronze Age. Recent research by English Heritage’slandscape archaeologists within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site has led to theidentification of previously unknown sites and, perhaps even more importantly,the re-interpretation of known sites, including Stonehenge itself. This work hasbeen carried out alongside recent and on-going independent research initiativesconducted by a number of academic institutions, involving international co-operation. This book presents the most significant findings of the English Heritageresearch and shows how it integrates with the results of work undertaken bycolleagues in other research bodies. It traces human influence on the landscapefrom prehistoric times to the very recent past and presents an up-to-date synthesisof the results of recent fieldwork. 176p, col illus (Historic England 2015) 9781848021167Pb £30.00

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Down By The River: Archaeological, Palaeoenvironmental and Geoarchaeological Investigationsof The Suffolk River ValleysBy Benjamin Gearey, Henry Chapman & Andy HowardWhilst East Anglia has long been known as a key area for the preservation of important Palaeolithicarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental deposits, relatively little study of the Holocene record has previouslybeen carried out. This series of detailed studies presents the results of palaeoenvironmental, archaeologicaland geoarchaeological investigations focused on the Post-Glacial record preserved in the valleys of the Suffolkrivers. Five floodplain sites (Beccles, Hoxne, Hengrave, Ixworth and Brandon) were cored forpalaeoenvironmental assessment, further sampling and radiocarbon dating and the results are described.248p,b/w illustrations (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701689 Pb £25.00

Hunter, fishers and foragers in Wales: Towards a social narrative ofMesolithic lifewaysBy Malcolm LillieMalcolm Lillie presents a major new holistic appraisal of the evidence for the Mesolithicoccupation of Wales. Chapters follow a sequence from the palaeoenvironmentalbackground, through a consideration of the use of stone tools, settlement patterningand evidence for subsistence strategies and the range of available resources, as wellas the arenas of symbolism, ritual and spirituality that would have been embeddedin everyday life. The volume concludes with a discussion of the theoretical basis forthe shift away from the exploitation of wild resources towards the integration ofdomesticates into subsistence strategies, and assesses the context of the changes thatoccurred as human groups re-orientated their socio-economic, political and ritualbeliefs. 256p, colour and b/w illustrations (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782979746 Pb £40.00

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Ireland’s First Settlers: Time and the MesolithicBy Peter WoodmanIreland’s First Settlers tells the story of the archaeology and history of the firstcontinuous phase of Ireland’s human settlement. It combines centuries of searchand speculation about human antiquity in Ireland with a review of what is knowntoday about the Irish Mesolithic. The story is embedded in how the island of Ireland,its position, distinct landscape and ecology impacted on when and how Irelandwas colonised. It also explores how these first settlers evolved their technologiesand lifeways to suit the narrow range of abundant resources that were available.The volume concludes with discussions on how the landscape should be searchedfor the often ephemeral traces of these early settlers and how sites should be excavated.448p, 32 col pls, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782977780 Hb £50.00

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Huntsman’s Quarry, Kemerton: A Late Bronze Age settlement and landscapein WorcestershireBy Robin JacksonArchaeological investigations at Huntsman’s Quarry, Kemerton, southWorcestershire during 1995-6 recorded significant Late Bronze Age occupation areasand field systems spreading across more than 8 hectares. Limited evidence for UpperPalaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and Beaker activity was also recovered togetherwith an Early Bronze Age ring-ditch. Together the evidence indicates a smallsettlement within which occupation of individual areas was short-lived with thefocus of the settlement shifting on a regular basis. This managed and organisedlandscape appears to have been established for the maintenance of an economyprimarily based on relatively intensive livestock farming. 192p, b/w and col illus(Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782979944 Hb £30.00

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First Light: The Origins of NewgrangeBy Robert HenseyNewgrange in Ireland is aworld famous monumentnot only because of its vastscale and elaborate mega-lithic art, but also because ofits renowned alignment tothe sun on the wintersolstice. Across Ireland overtwo hundred similar passagetombs are found, some ofwhich are considerably olderthan Newgrange. Inevauluating the purpose of Newgrange RobertHensey proposes that the concept of an otherworldwhich could be embodied by and accessed throughpassage tombs was a central motivator in passagetomb construction from its earliest beginnings.Newgrange is at the end of a long tradition ofmonuments dedicated to the religious needs ofNeolithic communities, from small-scalemonuments built by early farming groups; to potentotherworld centres of ritual training at the edge ofsociety; eventually to temple-like monumentsstanding at the very heart of the religious andpolitical sphere in Neolithic Ireland. b/w and col illus(Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782979517 Pb £15.99

A Neolithic Ceremonial Complex in Galloway:Excavations at Dunragit and Droughduil,1999–2002By Julian ThomasA complex enclosure identified by aerial

photography at DunragitGalloway, was demonstratedby excavation to have beenof Late Neolithic date, andcomprised three concentrictimber ramped post-rings,120–300 m in diameter. Themost elaborate entrance,connected with the middlepost-ring, is composed oftwo parallel lines of features,presumably post-holes,opening toward the south,

and aligned on a large earthen mound atDroughduil, 400 m away. Excavation demonstratedthat it had been constructed with stepped sides,and that a stone cairn had been constructed on itssummit. A series of optically stimulatedluminescence dates on the accumulated sand overthe surface of the mound demonstrated that it wascertainly not medieval, and was probably Neolithicin date. 240p, colour and b/w illustrations (Oxbow Books2015) 9781782979708 Pb £20.00

Discover Prehistoric Dartmoor: A Walker'sGuide to the Moorlands Ancient MonumentsBy William G. LethbridgeSuperbly illustrated with full colour photos on everypage, this book shares the author’s enthusiasm forthe Dartmoor landscape and its Prehistoricmonuments, aiming to enable the reader to spotPrehistoric features themselves. Lethbridgeintroduces the walker to the main types ofmonument, then presents a comprehensive gazetteerof sites, several of which he first recorded himselfduring more than forty years of trekking on themoor. Each entry contains a detailed description ofwhat is to be seen, noting condition and location(including hand-drawn maps and grid references),as well as mentions by antiquarians and in localfolklore. 160p, col illus (Halsgrove 2015) 9780857042491Hb £18.99

Caithness Archaeology: Aspects of PrehistoryBy A. Heald & J. BarberThe two authors of thispersonal view of the richarchaeological heritage ofCaithness have both ledmany projects in the region.Aiming to bring thearchaeology to a wideraudience they describe sitesand excavations, as well asthe history of archaeology inCaithness and aspects ofpublic engagement with itspast. They sum up the latest research, and providenew interpretations, focusing in the main onPrehistory, but also exploring Pictish and Vikingsettlements and burials. 168p,b/w illus (WhittlesPublishing 2015) 9781849951517 Hb £20.00

Isles of the Dead?: The setting and function ofthe Bronze Age chambered cairns and cists ofthe Isles of ScillyBy Katharine SawyerThe number and density of megalithic chamberedcairns in the Isles of Scilly has been remarked uponsince the 18th century. Isles of the Dead? examinesthese sites, generally known as entrance graves, andthe associated cist graves. Their physical structureand contents, as well as their landscape setting,orientation and inter-visibility, are discussed. Theorigins and functions of the monuments and theirsignificance to the communities that built and usedthem are also considered. The findings indicate thatthe entrance graves were indeed used for burial andthat a wide range of grave goods, including prestigeitems, were placed in them. The pottery, in particular,shows the development of a specific island identity.175p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2015)9781784911133 Pb £33.00

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Hoarding and the Deposition of Metalworkfrom the Bronze Age to the 20th Century: ABritish PerspectiveEdited by John Naylor & Roger BlandThis book represents the proceedings of the PortableAntiquities Scheme conference on the subject ofhoarding and the deposition of metalwork. Thepapers investigate motivations for deposition inparticular, exploring issues of transition andcontinuity between perceived prehistoric ritualpractices, and the desire for security in Roman andlater depositions. 212p, b/w and col illus (BAR BS 615,Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313832 Pb £45.00

El Paisaje del Valle del Ason (Cantabria) aFinales del Tardiglaciar: Un Modelo Predictivode Vegetacion Arborea Mediante SigBy Alejandro Garcia MorenoIn this work, changes in the landscape of the Asónriver valley (Cantabria) during the Lateglacial areanalysed. To do this, a GIS-based predictive modelfor the potential distribution of tree vegetation wasdeveloped. The results obtained allow verifying animportant change in the spatial distribution of themain forest types during the Lateglacial and the earlyHolocene. This change in the landscape is linked tochanges observed in the subsistence strategies andthe settlement patterns of Upper Magdalenian andAzilian hunter and gatherer communities. Spanishtext. 84p, b/w illus (BAR 2730, Archaeopress 2015)9781407313870 Pb £26.00

Death as Archaeology of Transition: Thoughtsand MaterialsEdited by Leonor Rocha, Primitiva Bueno-Ramirez& Gertrudes BrancoThis volume is dedicated to reflecting upon the waysin which humans relate to death and in whichresearchers document these relationships, focusingon European Megalithic cultures. As a whole, thesecontributions point to the timelessness of funeraryplaces which have survived over many generations.The spirituality of these specific topographies musthave been part of the symbolic world and daily lifeof those who made them an expression of their placeon earth through the memory of their ancestors.380p, b/w illus (BAR , Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313597Pb £59.00

Connecting Networks: Characterising Contactby Measuring Lithic Exchange in the EuropeanNeolithicEdited by Tim Kerig & Stephen ShennanThis volume deals with the movement of rawmaterials in temperate Europe, during the periodfrom roughly 8000 BCE to 2000 BCE. The essays seekto reconstruct lithic exchange and distributionnetworks ultimately to establish contexts for thespread of ideas and population movements in theNeolithic. 177p, (Archaeopress Archaeology 2015)9781784911416 Pb £34.00

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The Development of Neolithic House Societiesin OrkneyEdited by Colin Richards & Richard JonesDrawing on the results ofan extensive programme offieldwork in the Bay of Firth,Mainland Orkney, the textexplores the idea that thephysical appearance of thehouse is a potent resourcefor materialising thedichotomous alliance anddescent principles apparentin the archaeologicalevidence for the early andlater Neolithic of Orkney. Itargues that some of the insights made by Lévi-Straussin his basic formulation of sociétés à maisons are extremelyrelevant to interpreting the archaeological evidence andproviding the parameters for a ‘social’ narrative of thematerial changes occurring in Orkney between the 4thand 2nd millennia cal BC. The major excavationsundertaken during the Cuween-Wideford LandscapeProject provided an unprecedented depth and variety ofevidence for Neolithic occupation. The results aredescribed and discussed in detail here, enabling tracingof the development and fragmentation of sociétés àmaisons over a 1500 year period of Northern Islesprehistory. 512p, col illus (Windgather Press 2015)9781909686892 Hb £35.00

Lives in Land – Mucking excavationsBy Christopher Evans, Grahame Appleby, & SamLucyLives in Land is the first of two major volumes which

bring together all theevidence from Mucking,presenting both the detail ofmany important structuresand assemblages and acomprehensive synthesis oflandscape developmentthrough the ages. It beginswith a thorough evaluationof the methods, philosophyand archival status of theMucking project against theorganisational and funding

background of its time, and discusses its fascinatingand complex history through a period offundamental change in archaeological practice,legislation, finance, research priorities and theoreticalparadigms in British Archaeology. Subsequentchapters deal with the prehistoric landscape, eachfocusing on the major themes that emerge by majorperiod from analysis and synthesis of the data. 640p,(Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701481 Hb £40.00

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The Megalithic Architectures of EuropeEdited by Luc Laporte & Christopher ScarreMegalithic Architectures provides new insight by focusing on the construction anddesign of European megalithic tombs – on the tomb as an architectural project. Itshows how much is to be learned from detailed attention to the stages and thetechniques through which tombs were built, modified and enlarged, and oftenintentionally dismantled or decommissioned. The volume brings together regionalspecialists from Scandinavia, Germany, Britain, France, Belgium and Iberia to offera series of uniquely authoritative studies. Results of recent fieldwork are fullyincorporated and much of the material is published here for the first time in English.It provides an invaluable overview of the current state of research on Europeanmegalithic tombs. 248p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700149 Hb £55.00

Decoding Neolithic Atlantic and Mediterranean Island RitualEdited by George Nash & Andrew TownsendThe 16 papers presented here explore the physicality, and levels of insularity ofindividual islands and island groups during prehistory through a series of casestudies on Neolithic island archaeology in the Atlantic and Mediterranean regions.For the eastern Atlantic (the Atlantic Archipelago) papers discuss the sacredgeographies and material culture of Neolithic Gotland, Orkney, and Anglesey andthe architecture of and ritual behaviour associated with megalithic monuments inthe Channel Islands and the Scilly Isles. The Mediterranean region is representedby a different type of Neolithic, both in terms of architecture and material culture.Papers discuss theoretical constructs and ritual deposition, cave sites, ritualisedand religious aspects of Neolithic death and burial; metaphysical journeys associatedwith the underworld in Late Neolithic Malta and the possible role of its TemplePeriod art in ritual activities; and palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Neolithicmonuments of Corsica. 304p, b/w illus(Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700507 Hb £50.00

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Flint Daggers in Prehistoric EuropeEdited by Catherine Frieman & Berit Valentin EriksenThe present volume brings together papers that address questions of the regionalvariability and socio-technical complexity of flint daggers and their production. Itfocuses on the typology, chronology, technology, functionality and meaning offlint and other lithic daggers produced primarily in Europe, but also in the EasternMediterranean and East Asia, in prehistory. The 14 papers by leading researchersprovide a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge concerning variousflint dagger corpora as well as potential avenues for the development of a researchagenda across national, regional and disciplinary boundaries. 176p, b/w illus (OxbowBooks 2015) 9781785700187 Hb £40.00

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Moving on in Neolithic studies: Understanding mobile livesEdited by Jim Leary and Thomas KadorThis latest collection of papers from the Neolithic Studies Group seminars examines the importance andcomplexities of movement and mobility, whether on land or water, in the Neolithic period. It uses movementin its widest sense, ranging from everyday mobilities – the routines and rhythms of daily life – to proscribedmobility, such as movement in and around monuments, and occasional and large-scale movements andmigrations around the continent and across seas. Papers are roughly grouped and focus on ‘mobility andthe landscape’, ‘monuments and mobility’, ‘travelling by water’, and ‘materials and mobility’. 256p, b/w andcol illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701764 Pb £38.00

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Corded Ware Coastal CommunitiesEdited by Sandra Mariët BeckermanThe Corded Ware Culture (c.2900–2300 BC) is found in alarge area, from Russia to theNetherlands and fromScandinavia to Switzerland.This study shows that in theNeolithic Dutch coastalzone, the thin-walledceramics reflect supra-regional (Corded Ware)affiliations, whereas themedium-thick-walled andthick-walled ceramics reflectpersistent regional (Vlaardingen) traditions. It isargued in this study that the Corded Ware Culturerepresents an economic alliance, a dynamic totalityas well as a network linking regional groups – eachwith a distinct economic base, material culture andideology. These communities all participated in a vastsupra-regional network that was a platform forinter-community exchanges of goods, skills, ideasand possibly people. 302p, (Sidestone Press 2015)9789088903182 Pb £45.00

Tas-Silg, Marsaxlokk (Malta): Volume IEdited by A. Bonanno & Nicholas VellaTas-Silg, on the south-east coast of the island ofMalta, is a major multi-period site, witharchaeological remains spanning four thousandyears. In 1996, the University of Malta renewedexcavations at the site for ten seasons, uncoveringNeolithic and Late Bronze Age occupation levels, andsubstantial deposits associated with ritual offeringsof Punic date. Volume 1 provides an account of thoseexcavations, including the lithic assemblages, thefigurative representations, scarabs and amulets, theworked stone, the coins, and environmentalanalyses. 496p b/w illus (Peeters Publishers 2015)9789042930766 Hb £105.00

Tas-Silg, Marsaxlokk (Malta): Volume IIEdited by A. Bonanno & Nicholas VellaVolume 2 provides an account of the pottery and ofthe hundreds of inscribed pottery sherds that wererecovered during the excavations. 668p, b/w illus(Peeters Publishers 2015) 9789042930773 Hb £120.00

In Praise of Small Things: Death and Life at theLate Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Burial ofBolores, PortugalBy Katina T. Lillios, Anna J. Waterman, JenniferMack, Joe Alan Artz & Liv Nilsson-StutzThis volume presents the results of archaeologicalresearch conducted at the Late Neolithic-Early BronzeAge burial site of Bolores between 2007 and 2012.Bolores is a small site (5 x 3 m), yet the analysis of itsstructure and associated materials have yielded a richand nuanced picture of a small population of peoplewho lived, and died, in the third and second millenniaBC in the Portuguese Estremadura. 174p, b/w and colillus (BAR 2716, Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313696 Pb£40.00

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Prehistoric rock art in ScandinaviaBy Courtney NimuraScandinavia is home toprolific and varied rock artimages among which theship motif is prominent.Because of this, the rock artof Scandinavia has oftenbeen interpreted in terms ofsocial ritual, cosmology, andreligion associated with themaritime sphere. Thiscomprehensive review isbased on the creation of aScandinavia-wide GISdatabase for prehistoric rock art and re-examinestheoretical approaches and interpretations, inparticular with regard to the significance of the shipand its relationship to a maritime landscape. Twomain theories are developed. The first is that the seawas fundamental to the purpose and meaning ofrock art, especially in the Bronze Age and, therefore,that sea-level/shoreline changes would have inspireda renegotiation of the relationship between the rockart sites and their intended purpose. The second thatthe purpose of rock art might have been altered tohave an effect on the disappearing sea. 160p, (OxbowBooks 2015) 9781785701191 Pb £25.00

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Rock Art Through Time: Scanian rock carvingsin the Bronze Age and Earliest Iron AgeBy Peter SkoglundThe rock art surrounding the city of Simrishamnin south-east Scania constitutes a spatially well-defined tradition that covers the Bronze Age andthe earliest Iron Age, c. 1700–200 BC and, althoughthe number of sites is comparatively small, acharacteristic and unusual feature is the largerepresentation of various kinds of metal axes.Significanctly these images are tightly distributedinside the core zone of metal consumption insouthernmost Scandinavia. This beautifullyillustrated new addition to the Swedish rock Artseries presents a detailed reassessment of theSimrishamn rock art and examines the closerelationship between iconography displayed onmetals and that found in rock art. In so doing itraises some important questions of principleconcerning the current understanding of the southScandinavian rock art tradition. (Oxbow Books 2016)9781785701641 Pb £20.00

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Prehistoric Mobility and Diet in WesternEurasia 3500 to 300 CAL BCBy Claudia GerlingIn this volume, questions concerning the mobilityand potential migration as well as the diet andeconomy of the West Eurasian steppes communitiesduring the 4th to 1st Millennia BC are approachedby applying isotope analysis. Adapting acombination of different isotopic systems to a studyarea of vast spatial and chronological dimensionallowed a wide variety of questions to be answeredand establishes the beginning of a database ofbiogeochemical data for the West Eurasian steppes.Attempts to identify possible Early Bronze Agemigrations from the steppes to the steppe-like plainsin parts of Eastern Europe are made, alongside anevaluation of the applicability of isotope analysis tothis context. 402p (Walter de Gruyter 2015)9783110309249 Hb £100.00Explorations in Salt Archaeology in theCarpathian ZoneBy Anthony Harding & Valerii KavrukThis book presents research on the archaeology ofsalt in Central and Eastern Europe, based onfieldwork carried out between 2003 and 2012. Theauthors conducted a detailed examination of sitesin several countries, concentrating particularly onan area of northern Transylvania where extensivewooden remains are preserved in salt streams. Ahitherto unknown technology for salt productionis described; a long series of radiocarbon dates placesthis production predominantly in the Bronze Agewith later phases of activity in the Iron Age andearly medieval periods. 332p, b/w illus (Archaeolingua2013) 9789639911444 Hb £45.00

Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: AnExploration into Culture Society and the Studyof European Prehistory - Part 1By Tobias KienlinThis study challengescurrent modelling ofBronze Age tell commun-ities in the Carpathian Basinin terms of the evolution offunctionally-differentiated,hierarchical or ‘proto-urban’ society under theinfluence of Mediterraneanpalatial centres. First, it askshow Late Neolithic tell sitesof the Carpathian Basincompare to Bronze Age ones, and if we are entitledto assume structural difference or rather ‘progress’between both epochs. Second, it asks if aMediterranean ‘centre’ in any way can contributeto our understanding of Bronze Age tellcommunities on the ‘periphery’. 180p, b/w and colillus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2015) 9781784911478 Pb£38.00

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The end of the lake-dwellings in the Circum-Alpine regionEdited by Francesco MenottiAfter more than 3500 years of occupation in the

Neolithic and Bronze Age,the many lake-dwellings’around the Circum-Alpineregion ‘suddenly’ came toan end. Throughout thatperiod alternating phases ofoccupation and abandon-ment illustrate how resilientlacustrine populations wereagainst change: cultural/environmental factorsmight have forced them torelocate temporarily, but

they always returned to the lakes. So why were thelake-dwellings finally abandoned and what exactlyhappened towards the end of the Late Bronze Agethat made the lake-dwellers change their way of lifeso drastically? The new research presented heredraws upon the results of a four-year-long projectdedicated to shedding light on this intriguingconundrum. 208p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015)9781782978602 Pb £45.00

The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe: Mobilityand local evolution during the 3rd millenniumBCEdited by Maria Pilar Prieto Martínez & LaureSalanovaThe 17 papers presentedhere offer a range of newand different perspectiveson the Beaker pheno-menon across Europe.The focus is not on BellBeaker pottery but onsocial groups (craftspecialists, warriors,chiefs, extended ornuclear families), usingtechnological studies andphysical anthropology to understand mobilitypatterns during the 3rd millennium BC.Chronological evolution is used to reconstruct therhythm of Bell Beaker diffusion and theenvironmental background that could explain thismobility and the socio-economic changes observedduring this period of transition toward Bronze Agesocieties. The chapters are mainly organisedgeographically, covering Eastern Europe, theMediterranean shores and the Atlantic coast of theIberian Peninsula, includes some areas that aretraditionally studied and well known, such asFrance, the British Isles or Central Europe, but alsoothers that have so far been considered peripheral,such as Norway, Denmark or Galicia. 216p, b/w andcol illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782979272 Pb £38.00

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The Political Machine: Assembling Sovereignty in the Bronze Age CaucasusBy Adam T. SmithThe Political Machine investigates the essential role that material culture plays in thepractices and maintenance of political sovereignty. Through an archaeologicalexploration of the Bronze Age Caucasus, Adam Smith demonstrates that beyondassemblies of people, polities are just as importantly assemblages of things. Smithlooks at the ways that these assemblages help to forge cohesive publics, separatesovereigns from a wider social mass, and formalize governance—and he considershow these developments continue to shape politics today. Smith shows that theformation of polities is as much about the process of manufacturing assemblages as itis about disciplining subjects, and that these material objects or “machines” sustaincommunities, orders, and institutions. The sensibilities, senses, and sentimentsconnecting people to things enabled political authority during the Bronze Age andfortify political power even in the contemporary world. Smith provides a detailedaccount of the transformation of communities in the Caucasus, from small-scale earlyBronze Age villages committed to egalitarianism, to Late Bronze Age polities predicatedon radical inequality, organized violence, and a centralized apparatus of rule. 242p,(Princeton UP 2015) 9780691163239 Hb £27.95

The Late Prehistory of Malta: Essays on Borg´in-Nadur and other sitesEdited by Davide Tanasi & Nicholas C. VellaBorg´ in-Nadur is a majormulti-period site, witharchaeological remains thatspan several thousandyears. In the course of theLate Neolithic, the steep-sided ridge was occupied bya large megalithic templecomplex, and later heavilyfortified by a massive wallto protect a settlement ofhuts. Excavations werecarried out here in 1881 andagain in 1959. This volume brings together a numberof contributions that report on those excavations,providing an exhaustive account of the stratigraphy,the pottery, the lithic assemblages, the bones, andthe molluscs. Additional studies look at other sitesin Malta and in neighbouring Sicily in an era ofincreasing connectivity. 199p, b/w illus (ArchaeopressArchaeology 2015) 9781784911270 Pb £35.00

***Special Offer £28.00 until November***Pottery in the Iron Age in the Basque Country:La Ceramica de la Edad del Hierro en el PaisVascoBy Judit Lopez de Heredia Martinez de SabarteThis doctoral thesis is a study of the development ofpottery production in the communities of the SecondIron Age that settled in what is now the areaencompassing the Basque Country. A comprehensiveand integrated approach was sought to bringtogether a typological and morphological approachtowards the collections, including decorative aspectsas well as an assessment of the technological andfunctional standards of the pieces. English andSpanish text. 284p, (BAR 2722, Archaeopress 2015)9781407313771 Pb £47.00

Eight human skulls in a dung heap and more:Ritual practice in the terp region of thenorthern Netherlands 600 BC - AD 300By Annet NieuwhofThis book aims at making a contribution to thestudy of ritual practice inthe past by assembling atheoretical framework, which is tailored to the needsof archaeology, and which helps to identity andinterpret the remains of rituals in thepast. The studymakes use of the well-preserved remains of ritualsin terps, to examine the role of ritual practice in thesocieties of the pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age inthe northern Netherlands. 447p (Barkuis 2015)9789491431845 Hb £40.00

Archaeology and Celtic myth: an explorationBy John WaddellMany people are familiar withthe Irish archaeologicallandscapes of Newgrange andthe Boyne Valley, and theroyal sites of Rathcroghan inCo. Roscommon, Navan inCo. Armagh and Tara in Co.Meath. In this book, JohnWaddell focuses on aspects ofthe mythology associatedwith these places, demonstra-ting that elements of pre-Christian Celtic mythpreserved in medieval Irish literature shed light onolder traditions and beliefs, not just in Ireland butelsewhere in Europe as well. Their mythologicalassociations permit the exploration of thearchaeological implications of several mythic themes,namely sacral kingship, a sovereignty goddess, solarcosmology and the perception of an Otherworld.204p, b/w illus, col pls (Four Courts Press 2014, Pb 2015)9781846824944 Hb £40.00, 9781846825903 Pb £20.00

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In Search of the Eastern CeltsBy Alexander FalileyevThis book surveys linguistically Celtic geographicalnames of Eastern Europe which are known fromancient and early medieval written sources andepigraphy. Before going East, some general andmethodological comments on Celtic toponymy areoffered, and the geographical names of Celtic orpresumably Celtic linguistic origin of Central Europeare discussed. The analysis of enclaves of Celticgeographical names is arranged by moderncountries, and the data is observed from linguisticand philological standpoints. 176p (Archaeolingua2014) 9789639911567 Pb £22.00

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Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area:The History, Origin, and Development ofIrrigated Agricultureby B.V. Adrianov edited by Simone MantelliniAncient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area, is

the English translation ofBoris Vasilevich Andrianov’swork, Drevnie orositelnyesistemy priaralya ,concerning the study ofancient irrigation systemsand the settlement pattern inthe historical region ofKhorezm, south of the AralSea (Uzbekistan). This workholds a special place withinthe Soviet archaeologicalschool because of the results

obtained through a multidisciplinary approachcombining aerial survey and fieldwork, surveys, andexcavations. This translation has been enriched bythe addition of introductions written by severaleminent scholars from the region regarding theimportance of the Khorezm Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition and the figure of Boris V.Andrianov and his landmark study almost 50 yearsafter the original publication. 300p (Oxbow Books2015) 9781842173848 Hb £20.00

Gaulish InscriptionsBy Wolfgang MeidA survey of Gaulish inscriptions from a content-orientated point of view, starting from simple oneword inscriptions and progressing to longer andmore complex texts. Thus funeral and votiveinscriptions, texts of private, intimate character,invocations and magical texts are reviewed; theirstructure, content and pertinent vocabulary emergemore clearly by means of this comparative approach.74p b/w illus (Archaeolingua, 3rd edition revised andenglarged 2014) 9789639911611 Pb £18.00

The Hunter, the Stag and the Mother ofAnimals: Image, Monument and Landscape inAncient North AsiaBy Esther Jacobson-TepferThis study offers an in-depth exploration of thechanging traditions of belief in pre-Bronze andBronze Age North Asia. Esther Jacobson-Tepfercenters her argument on a female deity and herevolution. Through the art historical andarchaeological evidence of the symbolic systems leftbehind, she traces the progression of the deity froman originating animal mother through herincarnation as the mother of animals, her lateembodiment as the guardian of the road to the landof the dead, the transformation of her essentialliminality into the structures of predation and, inthe form of a predated stag, her subsequentdestruction. She details how her fate was directlyrelated to the sociological evolution at the onset ofthe Iron age. 414p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015)9780190202361 Hb £55.00

Life Along the Silk RoadBy Susan WhitfieldIn the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants,missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military mentraveled the vast network of Central Asian tracksthat became known as the Silk Road. Whitfieldrecounts the lives of twelve individuals who livedat different times during this period, including twocharacters new to this edition: an African shipmasterand a Persian traveler and writer during the Arabcaliphate. 283p, b/w illus, col pls (University of CaliforniaPress 2nd ed 2015) 9780520280595 Pb £19.95

The Roots of Asian WeavingBy Eric Boudot & Chris BuckleyThis ground-breakingbook documents theweaving traditions andtextiles of one of Asia’s mostethnically diverse areas,placing them in a regionalcontext. Based on morethan a decade of first-handstudy in the field, theauthors record the trad-itions of Miao, Yao, Buyi,Dong, Zhuang, Maonan,Dai and Li weavers fromGuizhou to Hainan Island. They describe the loomsand techniques of these groups, including diagrams,descriptions and photographs of the weavingprocesses and woven structures. The authors presenta novel analysis of loom technology across the Asianmainland, using techniques derived from linguisticsand biology. They use these to chart theevolutionary history of looms in Asia,demonstrating that all the major traditions arerelated in spite of their apparent diversity. 480p, colills (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701443 Hardback£60.00

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New from Oxbow BooksArchaeology of East Asia: The Rise ofCivilization in China, Korea and JapanBy Gina L. BarnesArchaeology of East Asiaconstitutes an introductionto social and politicaldevelopment from thePalaeolithic to 8th-centuryearly historic times. It takesa regional view acrossChina, Korea, Japan andtheir peripheries that isunbounded by modernstate lines. This viewpointemphasizes how the regiondrew on indigenous developments and exteriorstimuli to produce agricultural technologies, craftproduction, political systems, religious outlooks andphilosophies that characterize the civilization ofhistoric and even modern East Asia.This book is a complete rewrite and update of TheRise of Civilization in East Asia, first published in1993. It incorporates the many theoretical, technicaland factual advances of the last two decades,including DNA, gender, and isotope studies, AMSradiocarbon dating and extensive excavation results.432p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700705 Hb£39.95

The History of Central Asia, Volume Two: TheAge of the Silk RoadsBy Christoph BaumerThe foundation by the Han dynasty of an extensivenetwork of interlinking trade routes, collectivelyknown as the Silk Road, led to an explosion ofcultural and commercial transactions across CentralAsia that had a profound impact on civilization. Inthis second volume of his authoritative history ofthe region, Christoph Baumer explores the uniqueflow of goods, peoples and ideas that broughtEuropean and Mediterranean orbits into contactwith Asia 352p col illus (I.B. Tauris 2014)9781780768328 Hb £30.00

The Archaeology of Early China: FromPrehistory to the Han DynastyBy Gideon Shelach-LaviThis volume aims to satisfy a pressing need for anupdated account of Chinese archaeology. It coversan extended time period from the earliest peoplingof China to the unification of the Chinese Empiresome two thousand years ago. Among the topicscovered are the emergence of agriculturalcommunities; the establishment of a sedentary wayof life; the development of sociopolitical complexity;advances in lithic technology, ceramics, andmetallurgy; and the appearance of writing, large-scale public works, cities, and states. 392p b/w illus(Cambridge UP 2015) 9780521196895 Hb £65.00,9780521145251 Pb £24.99

Han Material CultureBy Sophie-Karin PsarrasHan Material Culture is an analysis of Han dynasty(206 BC–AD 220) Chinese archaeology based on acomparison of the forms of vessels found in positivelydated tombs. The resultant chronological frameworkallows for the cross dating of tombs across China,of which approximately one thousand aredocumented here. In the context of this body of data,the development of not only vessel types but alsotomb structure and decor is reevaluated, togetherwith the pervasive intercultural exchange visible inall areas of this material. 338p (Cambridge UP 2015)9781107069220 Hb £70.00

Life and Death in the Korean Bronze Age (c1500-400 BC): An Analysis of Settlements andMonuments in the mid-Korean PeninsulaBy Sunwoo KimThis research focuses on the Bronze Age in selectedareas of Korea; Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggiprovince. Two forms of evidence - settlements andmonuments - are taken into account to identify theirrelationship with landscape and the social changesoccurring between ca. 1500 to 400 cal BC. It arguesthat Bronze Age people chose the places for the livingand the dead with a holistic perspective and ametaphysical approach that placed humaninteraction with the natural world at the centre oftheir decision-making processes. 182p, (BAR 2700,Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313511 Pb £39.00

The Survival of Easter Island: DwindlingResources and Cultural ResilienceBy Jan J. BoersemaIn this book, Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the

ecological and cultural historyof Easter Island and critiquesthe hitherto accepted theory ofthe collapse of its civilization.The collapse theory, advancedmost recently by JaredDiamond and Clive Ponting,is based on the documentedoverexploitation of naturalresources, particularlywoodlands, on which EasterIsland culture depended.Deforestation is said to have

led to erosion, followed by hunger, conflict, andeconomic and cultural collapse. Drawing onscientific data and historical sources, including theshipping journals of the Dutch merchant who wasthe first European to visit the island in 1722,Boersema shows that deforestation did not in factjeopardize food production and lead to starvationand violence. On the basis of historical and scientificevidence, Boersema demonstrates how Easter Islandsociety responded to cultural and environmentalchange as it evolved and managed to survive. 296p,(Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107027701 Hb £70.00

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Rice Bowls and Dinner PlatesBy Virginia EspositoThis volume details the results of the first intra-siteexamination of Chinese gold miners’ camps inAustralia and the compositional analyses of Chinese-made ceramic vessels found there. Ceramic collectionsfrom five southeastern New South Wales goldfields,dating from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentiethcentury, were examined.The analyses enabledconclusions to be drawn about the active role ofvessels in everyday life, not only within the domesticsphere but also in communal aspects of food andfeasting. 200p, (BAR 2674, Archaeopress 2014)9781407313160 Pb £35.00

Archaeological Investigations BetweenCayenne Island and the Maroni River: ACultural Sequence of Western Coastal FrenchGuiana from 5000 BP to PresentBy Martijn M. Van denBelThis study contains theresults of six archaeo-logical investigations. Itnot only presents us withfresh archaeological dataon the (Late) Archaic andEarly Ceramic Age, ahiatus that is nowpartially filled up, but alsosheds new light on theLate Ceramic Age of thisspecific region concerning funerary rites, ceramicseries and subsistence economy. 752p b/w illus(Sidestone 2015) 9789088903304 Pb £120.00 ***NYP***

A Study of Prehistoric Soapstone Vessels of theMiddle Atlantic Region of the United StatesBy Gary D. ShafferThis study began with an intensive search to identifyall prehistoric sites with soapstone artifacts inMaryland and the District of Columbia. It showsthat soapstone use increased during the Late Archaicand remained high through the Woodland periods.Through consideration of the distribution of thesoapstone sites the book also explores the means bywhich Native Americans in the study area obtainedsoapstone artifacts. 161p, b/w illus (BAR 2712,Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313634 Pb £35.00

Chichen Itza Yucatan Mexico: Sylvanus G.Morley 1946Edited by John M. Weeks & Nuria MatarredonaDescantesAlthough the history of archaeological study of theChichen Itza extends back over a century, the mostsignificant and productive effort was that directedbetween 1924 and 1940 by Sylvanus G. Morley. Hisguide remains the only synthesis of the site, and ispublished here for the first time; sections that havebeen corrected by more recent research are amendedand included as notes. 116p, b/w illus (BAR 2718,Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313719 Pb £30.00

The Salt of the Earth: Ethnoarchaeology of SaltProduction in Michoacan Western MexicoBy Eduardo WilliamsThe present study offers new information on saltproduction in Michoacán, broadening ourperspectives on its role in the cultural developmentof the pre-Hispanic Tarascan state. The researchfocused on the cultural and technological processesand the material culture associated with salt-making,especially the artefacts and techniques used by thesalt-makers, and their archaeological visibility. 160pb/w illus (BAR 2725, Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313801Pb £34.00

Mobility and Transitions in the HoloceneEdited by Luis Oosterbeek & Claudia FidalgoThese essays explore transition mechanism(technological, social, economic, and their climaticand environmental contexts). Topics include thespecific role of straits; human adaptations in differentcontexts in Brazil; First farming societies in SouthernAmerica and in Europe; and the transition into morecomplex societies, with metallurgical knowledge.184p, (BAR 2658, Archaeopress 2014) 9781407313009Pb £23.00

Population and Ceramic Traditions: Revisitingthe Tana Ware of Coastal Kenya (7th-14thCentury A.D.)By Freda Nkirote M’MbogoriThis research is a departure from traditionalarchaeological pottery analysis in Kenya, whereemphasis has been on decorations and forms. It usesa technological approach to establish the socialboundaries for makers of Tana ware; an Iron Agepottery attributed by some to Bantu speakers, whilstothers attribute it to Cushitic speakers. 154p, b/w illus(BAR 2717, Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313702 Pb£34.00

Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, 1:From Antiquity to 1881By Jason ThompsonThe discovery of ancient Egyptand the development ofEgyptology are momentousevents in intellectual andcultural history. This, the firstof a three-volume survey ofthe history of Egyptology,follows the fascination withancient Egypt from antiquityuntil 1881, tracing therecovery of ancient Egypt andits impact on the human imagination in a saga filledwith intriguing mysteries, great discoveries, andscholarly creativity. Wonderful Things affirms thatthe history of ancient Egypt has proved continuallyfascinating, but it also demonstrates that the historyof Egyptology is no less so. 359p, (American Universityin Cairo Press 2015) 9789774165993 Hb £24.95

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Antiquity Imagined: The Remarkable Legacy of Egypt and the Ancient NearEastBy Robin DerricourtOutsiders have long attributed to the Middle East, and especially to ancient Egypt,meanings that go way beyond the rational and observable. The region has beenseen as the source of civilization, religion, the sciences and the arts; but also ofmystical knowledge and outlandish theories, whether about the Lost City of Atlantisor visits by alien beings. In his exploration of how its past has been creativelyinterpreted by later ages, Derricourt surveys the various claims that have been madefor Egypt – particularly the idea that it harbours an esoteric wisdom vital to theworld’s survival. He looks at ‘alternative’ interpretations of the pyramids, fromtheories that they are maps of space and time to landing markers for UFOs; at imagesof the Egyptian mummy and at the popular mythology of the ‘pharaoh’s curse’; andat imperialist ideas of racial superiority that credited Egypt with spreadinginnovations and inventions as far as the Americas, Australia and China. His book isthe first to show in depth how ancient Egypt and the surrounding lands have socontinuously and seductively tantalised the Western imagination. 288p, (I.B. Tauris2015) 9781784532758 Hb £25.00

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Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and theSecrets of AntiquityBy Daniel StolzenbergIn 1655, after more than two decades of toil,Athanasius Kircher published his solution to theEgyptian hieroglyphs, Oedipus Aegyptiacus. Thespectacular flaws of his scholarship have fosteredan image of Kircher as an eccentric anachronism, athrowback to the Renaissance hermetic tradition.Stolzenberg argues against this view, showing howKircher embodied essential tensions of a pivotalphase in European intellectual history, when pre-Enlightenment scholars pioneered modern empiricalmethods of studying the past while still workingwithin traditional frameworks, such as biblicalhistory and beliefs about magic and esoteric wisdom.307p, (University of Chicago Press 2013, 2015)9780226924144 Hb £38.00, 9780226273273 Pb £21.00

Lord and Pharaoh: Carnarvon and the Searchfor TutankhamunBy Brian M. FaganThough they lived over 3000years apart, the lives ofEgyptian KingTutankhamun and the fifthLord Carnarvon share manyparallels, not the least ofwhich was Carnarvon’ssponsorship of the team thatfound the pharaoh’s tomb inthe Valley of the Kings. BrianFagan’s narrative expertlyweaves these two lives together, showingsimilarities and differences between these twopowerful men. Both figures are placed in theirhistorical context, showing the political and socialmachinations of 18th Dynasty Egypt and 20thcentury archaeological exploration in Egypt. 183pb/w illus (Left Coast Press 2015) 9781629581514 Pb£16.50

Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies,Museums and the Struggle for Identities fromWorld War I to NasserBy Donald Malcolm ReidThe sensational discovery in1922 of Tutankhamun’s tomb,close on the heels of Britain’sdeclaration of Egyptianindependence, accelerated thegrowth in Egypt of bothEgyptology as a formaldiscipline and of ‘pharaonism’- popular interest in ancientEgypt-as an inspiration in thestruggle for full inde-pendence. Emphasizing the three decades from 1922until Nasser’s revolution in 1952, this study looksat the ways in which Egypt developed its ownarchaeologies-Islamic, Coptic, and Greco-Roman, aswell as the more dominant ancient Egyptian. Reiddraws attention not only to the contests betweenwesterners and Egyptians over the control ofantiquities, but also to passionate debates amongEgyptians themselves over pharaonism in relationto Islam and Arabism during a critical period ofnascent nationalism. 452p, (The American Universityin Cairo Press 2015) 9789774166891 Hb £35.00

The Management of Egypt’s Cultural Heritage;Volume 2Edited by Fekri A. Hassan, G. J. Tassie, Aloisa DeTrafford, Lawrence Owens, & Joris Van WeteringThe papers in this volume cover many areas ofcultural heritage management, from the theoreticalto the practical, tangible to intangible heritage, fromcutting edge technology to simple conservationmeasures. The aftermath of the Egyptian Revolutionof 25th January 2011 is a recurrent theme runningthrough many of the papers. 237p, (Golden HousePublications 2015) 9781906137403 Pb £30.00

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A Year in the Life of Ancient EgyptBy A. Rosalie DavidIn this book Rosalie David takes us through a wholecalendar year of life in Ancient Egypt.The bookbegins with an overview of the many dynasties andkingdoms of ancient Egypt before telling the storyof the lives of one family, based on Rosalie David’sresearch on the mummies in the ManchesterMuseum. Described against the background of thethree seasons of inundation, planting andharvesting, the book uses the context of a fictitousfamily to explore various aspects of Ancient Egyptiansociety, including everyday life, religious beliefs andburial customs, as well as the roles of royalty, nobles,officials, craftsmen and peasants. 263p, (Pen & SwordBooks Ltd 2015) 9781473822399 Hb £25.00

Graeco-Roman Archives from the FayumBy W. Clarysse, K. Vandorpe & H. VerrethThis volume presents 145 reconstructed archivesoriginating from the Fayum, including private,professional, official and temple archives both inGreek and in native Demotic. 496p, (Peeters Publishers2015) 9789042931626 Hb £115.00

Bookrolls and Scribes in OxyrhynchusBy William A. JohnsonThis volume presents ameticulous study of alarge number of bookrollscontaining literary texts,all of which have beenpublished in volumes ofThe Oxyrhynchus Papyri.Johnson’s focus is on thephysical structure of therolls, the scribes and theirscript, uniformity andvariation in columnwidth and papyri length. He also considers whatthe rolls reveal about Greco-Roman book productionand book circulation. 371p, 16 col pls (University ofToronto Press 2004, Pb 2015) 9781442626416 Pb £41.99

Death and Burial in Ancient Egyptby Salima IkramThis well-illustrated book explores all aspects of

death in ancient Egypt,including beliefs of theafterlife, mummification, theprotection of the body, tombsand their construction anddecoration, funerary goods,and the funeral itself. It alsoaddresses the relationshipbetween the living and thedead, and the magico-religiousinteraction of these two inancient Egyptian culture.Salima Ikram's own experience

with experimental mummification and funeraryarchaeology lends the book many original andprovocative insights. 241p b/w illus (AmericanUniversity in Cairo Press 2004, Pb 2015) Pb £14.99

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Every Traveller Needs a Compass: Travel andCollecting in Egypt and the Near EastEdited by Neil Cooke & Vanessa DaubneyA varied and charmingcollection of 17 papers thatbring something new aboutthe people from manycountries and backgroundswho travelled to, from andwithin Egypt and the NearEast, either singly or as agroup, and explored,observed and recorded, orstayed for a short period oftime to improve their healthor simply to enjoy theexperience. While some travellers kept a diary orjournal that has survived until today, others did not.Their travels have to be extracted from the wide rangeof manuscript sources that are thankfully retainedin libraries and archives, or which still remain withtheir descendants. These minor characters and theirtravails often bring a new perspective to well-knownplaces and events. 272p, (Oxbow Books 2015)9781785700996 Pb £28.00

The Dakhleh Oasis and the Western Desert inEgypt under the PtolemiesBy James C. R. GillThrough an analysis of recently discovered

Ptolemaic pottery fromMut al-Kharab, as well asa re-examination of potterycollected by the DakhlehOasis Project during thesurvey of the oasis from1978–1987, this bookchallenges the commonperception that DakhlehOasis experienced a suddenincrease in agriculturalexploitation and adramatic rise in population

during the Roman Period. It argues that suchchanges had already begun to take place during thePtolemaic Period, likely as the result of a deliberatestrategy directed toward this region by the Ptolemies.This book focuses on the ceramic remains in orderto determine the extent of Ptolemaic settlement inthe oases and to offer new insights into the natureof this settlement. It presents a corpus of Ptolemaicpottery and a catalogue of Ptolemaic sites fromDakhleh Oasis. It also presents a survey of Ptolemaicevidence from the oases of Kharga, Farafra, Bahariyaand Siwa. It thus represents the first major synthesisof Ptolemaic Period activity in the Egyptian WesternDesert. 504p, (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701351 Hb£75.00

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From the Delta to the Cataract: StudiesDedicated to Mohamed el-BialyEdited by Alejandro Jiminez Serrano & Corneliusvon PilgrimThese articles deal with a wide range of topics andcover a time span from prehistory to the ByzantineEra. Unpublished objects and texts as well as resultsof most recent field research are presented by leadingscholars in archaeology, Egyptology, architecturalhistory and religious studies. A particular focus ison the regions of Aswan and Ancient Thebes. 294p(Brill 2015) 9789004293441 Hb £95.00

Egyptology in the Present: Experiential andExperimental Methods in ArchaeologyEdited by Carolyn Graves-BrownThis volume is the result of an innovative conferenceheld at Swansea University in 2010, which broughttogether leading craftspeople and academics to explorethe all-too-often opposed practices of experimentaland experiential archaeology. The introductorychapter examines the development of thesetraditionally-assumed differences, giving for the firsttime a critical and careful definition of the experientialin relation to the experimental. The two are seen aspoints on a continuum with much common ground.This claim is borne out by succeeding chapters,which cover such topics as textiles, woodworkingand stoneworking. 280p (Classical Press of Wales 2015)9781910589021 Hb £58.00

Prepared for Eternity: A study of humanembalming techniques in ancient Egypt usingcomputerised tomography scans of mummiesBy Robert LoynesThis publication brings together personal analysesof sixty CT scans of ancient Egyptian humanmummies collected from many museumsthroughout the UK and continental Europe. Theeffect is that of performing ‘virtual autopsies’(‘virtopsies’) allowing techniques of mummificationto be examined. Several new observations are maderegarding the preparation of mummies andconfirmation of previously described themes istempered by the observation of variations probablyindicating individual workshop practices. 249p, b/willus, col pls (Archaeopress Archaeology 2015)9781784911102 Pb £43.00

The Tomb of Ptahhotep IBy AnnaLatifa MouradThe publication presents detailed recordings of theOld Kingdom tomb of Ptahhotep I. Unlike earlierpublications, the monograph includes 150 colouredand detailed photographs, as well as high resolutionline drawings. Also included is a discussion on thetomb owner and a detailed analysis of the scenes,with some previously unknown erasures andmodifications attesting to their intentional alterationby the ancient Egyptians. 42p col illus (AustralianCentre for Egyptology 2015) 9780856688515 Hb £75.00

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The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos: Volume1, Wall ScenesBy Sameh Iskander & Ogden GoeletOf all the enormous monuments throughout Egyptand Nubia that Ramesses II left behind, his templeat Abydos, built early in his reign, stands as one ofhis most elegant monuments, with its simplearchitectural layout and dramatic and gracefulpainted relief scenes. This lavish volume, publishedin two parts, is the first of two documenting theirresults, presenting more than two hundred detailedline drawings—accurately rendered according tomodern epigraphical standards—of the temple’scarved relief scenes, placed alongside theircorresponding full-colour photographs. 2 vols, 504p,col illus (Lockwood Press 2015) 9781937040369 Hb£315.00

Jewels of Ancient NubiaBy Yvonne J. Markowitz & Denise M. DoxeyThis book features over 100adornments and personalaccessories from theMuseum of Fine Arts,Boston, which houses thefinest collection of Nubianjewelry outside Khartoum.The first comprehensiveintroduction to thesophisticated jewels of thisgreat empire, it reveals howNubian artisans employedtechniques that would notbe reinvented in Europe for another thousand years,and how the original owners valued suchpossessions not only for their inherent beauty, butalso because they were imbued with magicalmeanings. 188p, col illus (Museum of Fine Arts Boston2014) 9780878468072 Hb £29.95

A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BCBy Marc Van de MieroopBeginning c.3000 BC with the advent of the first

writing system, Van DeMieroop traces the emergenceand development of some ofthe greatest states andpowers, stunning cities andmajor empires. New for thethird edition is a chapteraddressing governance andcontinuity in the regionduring the Persian Empire.Other updates include acomprehensive timeline ofevents, 30 new illustrations

and expanded coverage of the myriad political events,military campaigns and social and culturaldevelopments that emerged throughout the NearEast over the course of more than three millennia.400p, b/w illus (Wiley-Blackwell 2015) 9781118718162Pb £24.99

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Associated Regional Chronologies for theAncient Near East and the EasternMediterranean, Volume III: History andPhilologyEdited by Walther Sallaberger & Ingo SchrakampThis volume presents an up-to-date presentation ofthe data and problems connected to the chronologyof the third millennium BC of Mesopotamia andadjacent regions. As an introduction, WaltherSallaberger and Ingo Schrakamp provide anoverview of the pertinent cuneiform sources anddiscuss the reconstruction of a historical chronology.Furthermore the book includes articles onchronological problems and a regional history fromthe Fara period to the end of the millennium. 445p(Brepols 2015) 9782503534947 Pb £110.00

Preludes to UrbanismEdited by Augusta McMahon & Harriet CrawfordThis volume explores early complex society andnascent urbanism, based in studies of Mesopotamiaduring the fifth–fourth millennia BC. The authorsuse multiscalar approaches, including materialculturebased studies, settlement archaeology andregional surveys, to achieve an understanding ofthe dynamics of early urbanism across this keyregion. The book reveals the variety of social,economic and political relationships that are implicitwithin an urban centre and an urbanized society.196p, (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research2015) 9781902937656 Hb £30.00

Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient NearEastEdited by A. ArchiThis volume publishes the proceedings of the 2011Recontre Assyriologique conference. The paperscovered every period of Mesopotamian history, fromthe third millennium through the end of the firstmillennium B.C.E. Papers cover archaeological,textual, and linguistic topics, while a particular focusis on “Parents and Children”. 606p, (Eisenbrauns 2015)9781575063133 Hb £130.00

The Standard of UrBy Sarah CollinsThe Standard of Ur is oneof the most famous objectsto be discovered fromancient Mesopotamia. Itwas given its name becauseit lay in a tomb near theshoulder of a man as if ithad been carried like abattle standard. However,its real function andpurpose within the tomb isstill unknown. The two main, rectangular sidessometimes referred to as ‘war’ and ‘peace’, showscenes of a battle and of a banquet. This beautifullyillustrated short introduction tells the story ofdiscovery and significance of this splendid object.64p col illus (British Museum Press 2015) 9780714151137Pb £5.00

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Archaeozoology of the Near East 9Edited by Marjan Mashkour & Mark BeechThis two part volumebrings together over 60specialists to present 31papers on the latest researchinto archaeozoology of theNear East. The papers arewide-ranging in terms ofperiod and geographicalcoverage: from Palaeolithicrock shelter assemblages inSyria to Byzantine remainsin Palestine and from theCaucasus to Cyprus. Papersare grouped into thematic sections examiningpatterns of Palaeolithic and Neolithic subsistencein northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Iranianplateau; Palaeolithic to Neolithic faunal remainsfrom Armenia; animal exploitation in Bronze Ageurban sites; new evidence concerning pastoralism,nomadism and mobility; aspects of domesticationand animal exploitation in the Arabian peninsula;several case studies on ritual animal deposits; andspecific analyses of patterns of animal exploitationat urban sites in Turkey, Palestine and Jordan. Thisimportant collection of significant new work buildson the well-established foundation of previousICAZ publications to present the very latest resultsof archaeozoological research in the prehistory ofthis formative region in the development of animalexploitation. 464p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015)9781782978442 Hb £38.00

Bones and Identity: ZooarchaeologicalApproaches to Reconstructing Social andCultural Landscapes in Southwest AsiaEdited by Nimrod Marom, Reuven Yeshuran, LiorWeissbrod & Guy Bar-OzSeventeen papers demonstrate how zoo-archaeologists engage with questions of identitythrough culinary references, livestock husbandrypractices and land use. Contributions combinehitherto unpublished zooarchaeological data fromregions straddling a wide geographic expansebetween Greece in the West and India in the Eastand spanning a time range from the latest part ofthe Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. Among thethemes explored are shifting identities of late hunter-gatherers through interactions with settled agrariansocieties; the management of camp sites by earlycomplex hunter-gatherers; processes of assimilationof Roman culinary practices among Egyptian elites;and the propagation of medieval pilgrim identitythrough the use of seashell insignia. 352p b/w illus(Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701726 Pb £38.00

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New from Oxbow BooksAncient Assyria: A Very Short IntroductionBy Karen RadnerKaren Radner sketches the history of Assyria fromcity state to empire, from the early 2nd millenniumBC to the end of the 7th century BC. Usingarchaeological records, Radner provides insights intothe lives of the inhabitants of the kingdom,highlighting the diversity of human experiences.152p (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198715900 Pb £7.99

Cities and the Shaping of Memory in theAncient Near EastBy Ömür HarmansahDuring the Early Iron AgeAssyrian and Syro-Hittiterulers developed a highlyperformative officialdiscourse that revolvedaround constructing cities,cultivating landscapes,building watercourses,erecting monuments, andinitiating public 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. 352p,(Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2015) 9781107027947 Hb£69.99, 9781107533745 Pb £23.99

Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Influences onAncient Greek and Roman LawBy Raymond WestbrookThroughout the twelve essays that appear in ExOriente Lex, Raymond Westbrook convincinglyargues that the influence of Mesopotamian legaltraditions and thought did not stop at the shores ofthe Mediterranean, but rather had a profound impacton the early laws and legal developments of Greeceand Rome as well. A preface by editors DeborahLyons and Kurt Raaflaub details the importance ofWestbrook’s work for the field of classics, whileSophie Demare-Lafont’s incisive introduction placesWestbrook’s ideas within the wider context ofancient law. 288p (Johns Hopkins UP 2015)9781421414676 Hb £38.50

Following the Man of YamhadBy Jacob LauingerLegal texts recording the purchase or exchange ofentire settlements are among the most importantcuneiform tablets discovered at Old Babylonian/Middle Bronze Age (Level VII) Alalah. Following theMan of Yamhad is the first book-length study of theselegal texts and the socio-economic practice that theydocument. The author explores the nature of thealienated settlements, the rights enjoyed by theirowners, the underlying system of land tenure, andthe larger political context in which the transactionsoccurred. 447p, (Brill 2015) 9789004290938 Hb £135.00

Tell Jerablus Tahtani, Syria, IBy Edgar PeltenburgJerablus Tahtani, a multi-period tell site besideCarchemish, was excavatedby a team from theUniversity of Edinburghfrom 1992 to 2004. Resultsshed new light on theUruk expansion in the 4thmillennium BC, extra-ordinary Euphrates floodepisodes in the 3rdmillennium BC, the ‘secondurban revolution’ in Early Bronze Age Syria andprehistoric developments at neighbouringCarchemish. This volume, the first major report onthe site, deals with stratified mortuary evidencefound at a Bronze Age fort that was built over thedestroyed remains of an early 3rd millenniumvillage. Most of the 70 graves belong to the timewhen Ebla claimed supremacy of the area. They areconsidered in terms of the role of burials in siteabandonment processes. Special attention is givento a monumental tomb incongruously located atthe entrance to this small fort.Its creation and lifehistory are evaluated in the context of other highlyconspicuous mortuary facilities in the region -monuments that served as places of social memoryand vehicles for structuring a distinctive regionalpolitical trajectory. 392p (Oxbow Books/Council forBritish Research in the Levant 2015) 9781785701436 Hb£48.00

Cypriot Cultural Details: Proceedings of the10th Annual Meeting of Young Researchers inCypriot ArchaeologyEdited by Iosif Hadjikyriako & Mia Gaia TrentinThe papers presented here have been selected from

30 given at the 10th AnnualMeeting of youngresearchers in Cypriotarchaeology (POCA 10),held in Venice where itcelebrated two importantevents: the 500thanniversary of the death ofCaterina Cornaro (1454–1510) and the twinning ofthe cities of Venice andLarnaca. Papers cover a widerange of subjects reflecting

the many centuries of trade in products (especiallytextiles) and the cultural exchange in ideas, religiouspractices and people between the island and City atvarious times from prehistory to the Ottomanperiod. Archaeological and historical data arebrought together to showcase recent research. 234p,b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700668 Pb £38.00

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Xerxes: A Persian LifeBy Richard StonemanXerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 B.C., has gone down inhistory as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure ofXerxes’ expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year reign. In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stonemanshows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greekwriters Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greekwriters and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on thelatest research in Achaemenid studies and archaeology to present the ruler fromthe Persian perspective. This illuminating volume does not whitewash Xerxes’failings but sets against them such triumphs as the architectural splendor ofPersepolis and a consideration of Xerxes’ religious commitments. What emerges isa nuanced portrait of a man who ruled a vast and multicultural empire which theGreek communities of the West saw as the antithesis of their own values. 276p,(Yale UP 2015) 9780300180077 Hb £25.00

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Intangible Spirits and Graven ImagesBy Michael ShenkarIn Intangible Spirits and Graven Images, MichaelShenkar investigates the perception of ancientIranian deities and their representation in theIranian cults. This ground-breaking study tracesthe evolution of the images of these deities, analysesthe origin of their iconography, and evaluates theirsignificance. Shenkar also explores the perceptionof anthropomorphism and aniconism in ancientIranian religious imagery, with reference to thematerial evidence and the written sources, andreassesses the value of the Avestan and MiddlePersian texts that are traditionally employed toilluminate Iranian religious imagery. In doing so,this book provides important new insights into thereligion and culture of ancient Iran prior to theIslamic conquest. 392p, b/w and col pls (Brill 2014)9789004281486 Hb £135.00

Threads of Continuityby Ashdeen Z. Lilaowala with Shernaz CamaKusti weaving andSudreh making are partof a living Zoroastrianheriage, which links craftand art to religioustraditions. This beau-tifully illustrated bookpresents a thoroughunderstanding of theweaving process, thelooms and tools usedduring weaving, theirevolution and on-goingdevelopments. In explaining the symbolicsignificance of the Sudreh and Kusti, it provides aninvaluable account of Zoroastrian ceremonies andrituals. 152p, col and b/w illus (Parzor Foundation 2013)9788191095715 Hb £22.00

Assembling ÇatalhöyükEdited by Ian Hodder and Arkadiusz MarciniakAssembling Çatalhöyük, likearchaeological remains, canbe read in a number ofways. At one level thevolume reports on theexciting new discoveries andadvances that are beingmade in the understandingof the 9000 year-oldNeolithic site of Çatal-höyük. These ad-vancesconcern use of theenvironment, climatechange, subsistence practices, social and economicorganization, the role of religion, ritual andsymbolism. At another level, the volume reports onmethodological advances that have been made by teammembers, including the development of reflexivemethods, paperless recording on site, the integrateduse of 3D visualization, and interactive archives.(Maney Publishing 2015) 9781910526002 Hb £55.00

Early Farming in Central Anatolia: AnArchaeobotanical Study of Crop Husbandry,Animal Diet and Land Use at NeolithicCatalhoyukBy Dragana FilipovicIn this book, new archaeobotanical evidence fromthe early-mid Neolithic sequence of Çatalhöyük (c.7400- 6500 cal BC) is presented and used as a basisfor investigations into the nature and scale of cropcultivation at the site. The results shed light on theeconomic and social role of agricultural productionat a large long-lived Neolithic village, and itsimplications for issues such as settlement location,residents’ mobility, crop cultivation productivity andlong-term sustainability. 167p, (BAR 2667,Archaeopress 2014) 9781407313092 Pb £31.00

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Du Mont Liban Aux Sierras Despagne: Sols,Eau et Societes en Montagne - Autour du ProjetFranco-Libanais Cedre Nahr IbrahimEdited by Romana Harfouche & Pierre PoupetThis volume presents theresults of an multi-disciplinary project on theLebanese mountaincentered around the NahrIbrahim valley (the famousAdonis valley in Antiquity),in the hinterland of theancient city of Byblos. Thehistory of settlementpatterns and the cultivationof agricultural mountain-ous landscapes since theEarly Bronze Age is examined with comparisonsfrom other regions surrounding the MediterraneanBasin, with particular reference to soil and watermanagement. French text. 286p, b/w illus (ArchaeopressArchaeology 2015) 9781784911355 Pb £44.00

The 1927–1938 Italian ArchaeologicalExpedition to Transjordan in RenatoBartoccini’s ArchivesBy Stefano Anastasio & Lucia BotarelliThis volume presents theresults of the Italianexcavations and surveyscarried out in Transjordanbetween 1927 and 1938.The retrieved photos,excavation journals, letters,and administrativedocuments make it possibleto understand, after almosta century, how the Citadelof Amman appeared at thetime of its first excavation.242p b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2015)9781784911188 Pb £40.00

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Aegean Mercenaries in Light of the Bible: Clashof cultures in the story of David and GoliathBy Simona RodanThe story of the duel of David and Goliath, thePhilistine champion, is narrated in the Bible inseveral versions. In modern research, the storyarouses many disputes. There is controversy aboutthe degree of realism and fantasy in it and there isalso no agreement as to the time it was composed.This study employs a textual analysis (literary andphilological) of the story together with itscomparison to Greek, Egyptian and Mesopotamianliterary sources, historical analysis, and also acomparative analysis with archaeological findings.It examines sources which until now have not beenincluded in research and suggests a new date, placeand motive for the compilation of the duel story.112p b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2015)9781784911065 Pb £25.00

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Plain Pottery Traditions of the EasternMediterranean and Near East: Production, Useand Social SignificanceEdited by Claudia GlatzThe evolution and proliferation of plain andpredominantly wheel-made pottery presents acharacteristic feature of the societies of the Near Eastand Eastern Mediterranean since the fourthmillennium B.C. This volume reevaluates the roleand significance of plain pottery traditions from bothhistorically specific perspectives and from acomparative point of view, examines the uses andfunctions of this pottery in relation to socialnegotiation and group identity formation, and helpsscholars understand cross-regional similarities indevelopment and use. 258p (Left Coast Press 2015)9781629580906 Hb £63.95

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Carchemish in ContextBy Tony J. Wilkinson, Edgar Peltenburg & EleanorBarbanes WilkinsonThe city of Carchemish inthe valley of the Euphratesriver can be regarded asone of the iconic sites in theMiddle East, a moundcomplex known both forits own intrinsic qualitiesas the seat of later Hittitepower and Neo-Hittitekings, but also because itshistory of excavationsincluded well knownhistorical figures such as Leonard Woolley and T.E. Lawrence. Carchemish in Context summarises theresults of regional investigations conducted withinthe Land of Carchemish Project in Syria, as well asother archaeological surveys in the region, in orderto provide a regional, historical and archaeologicalcontext for the development of the city. A synthesisof the history of Carchemish is presented and aregional overview of the Land of Carchemish as it isdefined by archaeological features and key historicalreferences through to the early Iron Age. Insightfulsnapshots of the dynamics of an ancient state arerevealed which can now be seen to have fluctuateddramatically in size throughout 700-800 years, inpart depending upon the power of the king ofCarchemish or the aggressions of external powers.288p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015)9781785701115 Hb £45.00

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Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Mediterranean,c.1400 BC - 1000 BCBy Raffaele D’Amato & Andrea SalimbetiResearch into the origins of the so-called Shardana,Shekelesh, Danuna, Lukka, Peleset and other peoplesis a detective ‘work in progress’. However, it isknown that they both provided the Egyptianpharaohs with mercenaries, and were listed amongEgypt’s enemies and invaders. Drawing on carvedinscriptions and papyrus documents - mainly fromEgypt - dating from the 15th-11th centuries BC, aswell as carved reliefs of the Medinet Habu, this titlereconstructs the formidable appearance and even thetactics of the famous ‘Sea Peoples’. 64p col illus (Osprey2015) 9781472806819 Pb £11.99

Donum Mycenologicum: Mycenaean StudiesinHonour of Francisco Aura JorroEdited by Alberto Bernabe & E.R. LujanThis volume, published in honour of F. Aura Jorro,the author of the standard Mycenaean dictionary,covers a wide range of subjects dealing with LinearB tablets, Mycenaean culture, and related fields. Thepapers collected provide new insights into a numberof various subjects: Linear B script and texts,Mycenaean grammar, lexicon and religion. 286p,(Peeters 2014) 9789042929098 Hb £55.00

Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of theEleusinian MysteriesBy Michael B. CosmpoulosDespite the tremendous popularity of the EleusinianMysteries, their origins are unknown. Because theyare lost in an era without written records, they canonly be reconstructed with the help of archaeology.This book provides a much needed synthesis of thearchaeology of Eleusis during the Bronze Age andreconstructs the formation and early developmentof the Eleusinian Mysteries. The discussion iscomplemented with discussions of the theology ofDemeter and an update on the state of research inthe archaeology of Eleusis from the Bronze Age tothe end of antiquity. 230p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP2015) 9781107010994 Hb £64.99

Implantation Territoriale des Terramares:Analyses Geomorphologiques et Spatiales.Italie Provinces de Parme et Plaisance XVIIe -XIIe SieclesBy Julie BoudryThis study uses geomorphological and spatialevidence to examine site locational strategies in theTerramare culture. This research shows, throughreconstruction of the Bronze Age drainage network,close links between terramares and watercourses,notably including diversion of streams into theditches surrounding the sites. Some hypotheses arethen put forward about social organization,shedding light on certain ritual and votive practices,in a context where this kind of data is quite rare.Lastly, the sudden appearance and decline of thisculture are put into perspective. French text. 183p,b/w and col figs (BAR 2713, Archaeopress 2015)9781407313641 Pb £49.00

Tools, Textiles and Contexts: Textile Productionin the Aegean and Eastern MediterraneanBronze Ageedited by Eva Andersson Strand and Marie-LouiseNoschThe new and updatedcatalogue of archaeologicaltextile finds presented hereclearly demonstrates thatknowledge of the use offibres and of elaboratetextile techniques that wereused to produce textiles ofdifferent qualities was welldeveloped in the BronzeAegean and EasternMediterranean. The comb-ination of experimental archaeology, analyses of textiletools and find contexts allows for a discussion of thenature of textile production at different sites, regionsand time periods. Collaboration betweenarchaeologists specialised in their site and textile toolspecialists has produced data sets of a large numberof textile tools from several Bronze Age settlements.,including Khania, Malia, Midea, Tiryns, Troia andTel Kabri. The results of these analyses provide uniqueinsights into both the production processes and,significantly, into the range of types of textiles thatcould have been produced at specific sites. 484p, b/willus (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781842174722 Hb £48.00

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Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: TheArchaeology and Science of Kitchen Pottery inthe Ancient Mediterranean WorldEdited by Alexandra Villing & Michela SpataroThe 23 papers presented here are the product of the

interdisciplinary exchangeof ideas and approaches tothe study of kitchenpottery betweenarchaeologists, materialscientists, historians andethnoarchaeologists. Theyaim to set a vital but long-neglected category ofevidence in its wider social,political and economiccontexts. Structuredaround main themes

concerning technical aspects of pottery production;cooking as socio-economic practice; and changingtastes, culinary identities and cross-culturalencounters, a range of social economic andtechnological models are discussed on the basis ofinsights gained from the study of kitchen potteryproduction, use and evolution. 304p, b/w (OxbowBooks 2015) 9781782979470 Hb £50.00

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Excavations at Francavilla Marittima 1991-2004: Matt-Painted Pottery from the TimponeDella Motta: The Fringe Style Volume 3By Marianne KleibrinkThis is the third volume on ceramics from theTimpone della Motta, Francavilla Marittima(Calabria). This volume, on the ‘Fringe Style’,contains a fully illustrated catalogue of the materialaccompanied by a valuable discussion about materialfrom this site, as well as relating it to Matt-paintedpottery production at other sites, and discusses thechronological information. It therefore provides avaluable detailed account of an assemblage from pre-Roman Italy, a comparatively neglected period. 194p,b/w illus (BAR 2733, Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313900Pb £38.00

Excavations at Francavilla Marittima 1991-2004: Matt-Painted Pottery from the TimponeDella Motta: The Minature Style Volume 4By Marianne KleibrinkVolume 4, on the 'Miniature Style' discusses in detailinformation relevant to the position of this style inthe wider context of Matt-painted potteryproduction, and discusses the chronologicalinformation. 194p, b/w illus (BAR 2733, Archaeopress2015) 9781407313917 Pb £33.00

Italo-Mycenaean PotteryBy Richard Jones, Sara T. Levi Marco Bettelli &Lucia VagnettiThis volume presents the fruits of research that beganin the 1980s concerning a class of pottery that hasassumed increasing importance in Italian lateprehistory, namely pottery of Mycenaean type orstyle, usually decorated, dating from the 17th to 11thcentury BC, and found throughout peninsular Italy,Sicily and Sardinia. Its significance lies in the waythis pottery reflects Italy’s growing connections withthe outside world at this time, mainly with theAegean but also further afield to the east.Establishing that much of this pottery was madewithin Italy has led to its labelling ‘Italo-Mycenaean’. 600p, 12 col pls (Istituto de Studi sulMediterraneo Antico 2014) 9788887345209 Pb £80.00

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Woven Threads: Patterned Textiles of theAegean Bronze AgeEdited by Maria C. Shaw & Anne. P. ChapinThis volume investigatesevidence for patternedtextiles (that is, textileswoven with elaboratedesigns) that were producedby two early Mediterraneancivilisations: the Minoans ofCrete and the Mycenaeansof mainland Greece, thatprospered during theAegean Bronze Age, c. 3000–1200 BC. Only a few smallscraps of textiles survive butevidence for their production is abundant and frescoessupply detailed information about a wide variety ofnow-lost textile goods from luxurious costumes andbeautifully patterned wall hangings and carpets, tomore utilitarian decorated fabrics. A review ofsurviving artistic and archaeological evidenceindicates that textiles played essential practical andsocial roles in both Minoan and Mycenaean societies.264p, colour illustrations (Oxbow Books 2015)9781785700583 Hb £38.00

Burial and Social Change in First MillenniumBC ItalyEdited by Elisa Perego and Rafael ScopacasaThe chief aim of this collection of 14 papers is toharness innovative approaches to the exceptionallyrich mortuary evidence of first millennium BC Italy,in order to investigate the roles and identities of socialactors who either struggled for power and socialrecognition, or were manipulated and exploited bysuperior authorities in a phase of tumultuous socio-political change throughout the entireMediterranean basin. Contributors provide a diverserange of approaches in order to examijne how poweroperated in society, how it was exercised and resisted,and how this can be studied through mortuaryevidence. Section 1 addresses the construction ofidentity by focusing mainly on the manipulation ofage, ethnic and gender categories in society inregions and sites that reached notable power andsplendour in first millennium BC Italy. These includeEtruria, Latium, Campania and the rich settlementof Verucchio, in Emilia Romagna. Each paper inSection 2 offers a counterpoint to a contribution inSection 1 with an overall emphasis on scholarlymultivocality, and the multiplicity of the theoreticalapproaches that can be used to read thearchaeological evidence. 336p b/w illus (Oxbow Books2015) 9781785701849 Pb £40.00

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Ancient Samnium: Settlement, Culture andIdentity Between History and ArchaeologyBy Rafael ScopacasaThis volume presents new ways of looking at ancientItalian communities that did not leave writtenaccounts about themselves but played a key role inthe early development of Rome, first as staunchopponents and later as key allies. It combines writtenand archaeological evidence to form a newunderstanding of the ancient inhabitants ofSamnium during the last six centuries BC, how theyidentified themselves, how they developed uniqueforms of social and political organisation, and howthey became entangled with Rome’s expanding powerand the impact that this had on their daily lives.368p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198713760 Hb£75.00