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People of the Eurasian steppes - Vladimira G. Petrenko. Krasnoznamenskii Burialground: Early Scythian Elite Burial-mounds in the Northern Caucasus (Corpus Tumulorum Scythorum et Sarmaticorum 1). 304 pages, 11 figures, 126 plates (incl. 32 colour plates), 22 tables. 2006. Moscow, Berlin, Bordeaux: Paleograph; 5-8952-6017-9 hardback (English edition); 5-8952-6016-0 hardback (Russian edition).
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Western Asia - Getzel M. Cohen. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin and North Africa. xiv+488 pages, 9 maps. 2006. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press; 978-0-52024148-0 hardback £55. - Shaher M. Rababeh. How Petra was Built: an analysis of the construction techniques of the Nabataean freestanding buildings androck-cut monuments in Petra, Jordan (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1460). xii+238 pages, 193 illustrations. 2005. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-898-X paperback £36. - Paavo Roos. Survey of Rock-Cut Chamber-Tombs in Caria (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 72:2). 144 pages, 69 illustrations. 2006. Sävedalen: Paul Åström; 978-91-7081-216-3 paperback. - Juliette van Krieken-Pieters (ed.). Art and Archaeology of Afghanistan: Its Fall and Survival. (Handbuch der Orientalistik 8) xxii+412 pages, 64 b&w & colour plates, 1 map. 2006. Leiden & Boston: Brill; 978-90-04-15182-6 hardback €89 & $116.
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D.W. Harding. The Archaeology of Celtic Art. xvi+302 pages, 25 colour plates. 2007. Abingdon & New York (NY): Routledge; 978-0-415-35177-5 hardback £ 70; 978-0-415-42866-8 paperback £24.99; 978-0-203-69853-2 e-book.
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Cyprus - ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ФΛOYPENTZOΣ (PAULOS FLOURENTZOS) (ed.). Eπιστημoνικη Eπετηρις τoυ Tμηματoς Aρχαιoτητων Kυπρoυ/Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. viii+416 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations, tables. 2006. Nicosia: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus; ISSN 0070-2374 hardback. - Paulos Flourentzos (ed.). Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the year 2004. 152 pages, 92 illustrations. 2006. Nicosia: Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus Ministry of Communications and Works; ISSN 1010-1136 paperback.
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Frank Sear. Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study. xl+466 pages, 492 figures,144 plates, 25 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 0-19-814469-5 hardback £195.
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Journals, old and new - Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C, Volume 106, Issue 1. 416 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations, tables. 2006. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy; ISSN 0035-8991 paperback €50. Website: http://www.ria.ie/publications/journals/ProcCI/index.html; annual subscription: individuals €50, institutions €100. - Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche Volume 56. 686 pages, numerous illustrations, tables, CD-ROM. 2006. Firenze: Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria; ISSN 0035-6514 paperback €60. Website: www.iipp.it; email: rsp@iipp.it - Zeitschrift für Archäologie Aussereuropäischer Kulturen, Band 1. 320 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations, tables. 2006. Bonn & Wiesbaden: Kommission für Archäologie Aussereuropäischer Kulturen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts/Reichert; 978-3-89500-537-4 hardback €68.
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Eastern Asia - Xiangming Dai. Pottery Production, Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yuanqu basin, North-Central China (British Ar-chaeological Reports International Series 1502). viii+ 130 pages, 79 illustrations, 18 tables. 2006. Oxford; Archaeopress; 1-84171-939-0 paperback £30. - Gina L. Barnes. State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a 4th -century ruling elite. xxii+262 pages, 44 illustrations, 16 tables. 2007. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 978-0-415-31178 hardback £70; 978-0203-46287-4 ebook.
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Mario Liverani (ed.). Aghram Nadharif: The Barkat Oasis (Sha 'Abiya of Ghat, Libyan Sahara) in Garamantian Times (The Archaeology of Libyan Sahara Volume 2; Arid Zone Archaeology Monograph 5). xxxii+520 pages, 302 illustrations, 196 tables, 16 colour plates. 2005. Firenze: All'Insegna del Giglio; 88-7814-471-1 paperback.
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General - Mark Patton. Science, Politics and Business in the Work of Sir John Lubbock: A Man of Universal Mind. xiv+270 pages, 11 illustrations. 2007. Aldershot: Ashgate; 978-0-7546-5321-9 hardback £55. - Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan & Peter Stone (ed.). A future for Archaeology. xviii+252 pages, 24 illustrations. 2006. London: UCL Press; 978-184472-126-9 hardback. - David R. Montgomery Dirt. The Erosion of Civilizations. x+286 pages, 26 illustrations. 2007. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press; 978-0-520-24870-0 hardback £15.95. - Philip Verhagen. Case studies in archaeological predictivemodelling (Archaeological Studies ofLeiden University 14). 224 pages, 31 figures, 57 tables., 2007. Leiden: Leiden University Press; 978-90-8728-007-9 paperback. - Martin Rundkvist (ed.). Scholarly Journals between the Past and the Future: The Fornvännen Centenary Round-Table Seminar, Stockhom, 21 April 2006 (Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien Konferenser 65). 110 pages, 12 illustrations, 1 table. 2007. Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities; 978-917402-368-8 paperback. - Dorota Cyngot, Stanislaw Tabaczynski & Anna Zalewska (ed.). Archaeologia Polona 44, Special theme: Archaeology — anthropology — history, parallel tracks and divergences. 416 pages, 29 illustrations, 7 tables. 2006. Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences; PL ISSN 0066-5924, paperback. - Barbara Ann Kipfer. The Archaeologist’s Fieldwork Companion. xvi+468 pages, numerous illustrations & tables. 2007. Malden( MA), Oxford & Victoria: Blackwell; 978-1-4051-1885-9 hardback; 978-14051-1886-6 paperback £19.99. - Mark Pollard, Catherine Batt, Ben Stern & Suzanne M.M. Young Analytical Chemistry in Archaeology. xiv+404 pages, 93 figures, 13 tables. 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 9780-521-65209-4 hardback £55 & $95; 978-0-52165572-9 paperback £24.99 & $45.
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Egypt and Africa - Joyce Tyldesley. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt from Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra. 224 pages, 273 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-05145-0 hardback £19.95. - Charlotte Booth. People of Ancient Egypt. 290 pages, 75 illustrations, 25 colour plates. 2006.Stroud: Tempus; 0-7524-3927-8 hardback £20. - Stephanie Moser. Wondrous curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum. xvi+328 pages, 89 illustrations, 13 colour plates. 2006. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press; 978-226¬54209-6 hardback. - Jean-Luc Chappaz (ed.) with Nora Ferrero, Sandra Deglon, Delphine Petro & Marie Vandenbeusch. Kerma et archéologie nubienne.60 pages, 69 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. Geneva: Musée d’artet d’histoiredeGenève/Infolio; 978-2¬8306-0234-0 & 978-2-88474-128-6 paperback. - Graham Connah. Forgotten Africa: an introduction to its archaeology. xiv+194 pages, 67 illustrations. 2004. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 0-415-30590-X hardback £60; 0-415-30591-8 paperback £18.99. - Saul Dubow. A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000. xii+296 pages, 11 illustrations. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-929663-7 hardback £60.
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General - Lisa Breglia. Monumental Ambivalence: The Politics of Heritage. xiv+242 pages, 15 illustrations. 2006. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-71480-9 paperback; 978-0-292-71427-4 hardback £34. - Mike Pearson. «In Comes I»: Performance, Memory and Landscape. xiv+242 pages, 43 illustrations. 2007. Exeter: University of Exeter Press; 978-0-85989-787-7 hardback $89.95 & £50; 978-0-85989-788-4 paperback $34.95 & £17.99. - Timothy Insoll (ed.). The Archaeology of Identities: A Reader. xiv+336 pages, 37 illustrations, 8 tables. 2007. Abingdon & NewYork: Routledge; 978-0-415-41501-9 hardback; 9780-415-41502-6 paperback £19.99 & $35.95; 978-0-203-96598-6 ebook. - Katheryn C. Twyss (ed.). The Archaeology of Food and Identity (Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper 34). 2007. xii+340 pages, 67 figures, 16 tables. Carbondale (IL): Southern Illinois University Carbondale; 978-0-88104-091-6 paperback $42. - Joseph Maran, Carsten Juwig, Herrmann Schwengel & Ulrich Thaler (ed.). Constructing Power – Architecture, Ideology and Social Practice/ Konstruktion der Macht – Architektur, Ideologie und soziales Handeln (Geschichte, Forschung und Wissenschaft 19). 384 pages, 61 illustrations, 48 plates. 2006. Hamburg: LIT; 978-3-82258-9314-9 hardback €34.90. - Barry Blesser & Linda-Ruth Salter. Spaces speak, are you listening? Experiencing aural architecture. xiv+438 pages, 21 illustrations. 2007. Cambridge (MA): Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 978-0-262-02605-5 hardback £25.95. - Robert W. Preucel. Archaeological Semiotics. xx+332 pages, 45 figures, 11 tables. 2006. Malden (MA), Oxford & Victoria: Blackwell; 978-1-55786-657-8 hardback £55, $89.95 & AUS$165. - Alf Hornborg & Carole Crumley (ed.). The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic. xii+396 pages, 75 figures, 12 tables. 2007. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press; 978-1-59874-100-1 hardback $75; 978-1-59874-101-8 paperback $34.95. - Sing C. Chew. The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation. xviii+296 pages, 127 figures, 10 tables. 2007. Lanham (MD): AltaMira; 978-0-7591-0451-8 hardback; 978-0-7591-0452-5 paperback £22.99.
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European pre- and protohistory - Paul Pettitt, Paul Bahn & Sergio Ripoll (ed.). Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context. xvi+292 pages, 124 illustrations, 16 tables. 2007. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19¬929917-1 hardback £60. - Sophie A. De Beaune (ed.). Chasseurs-cueilleurs: Comment vivaient nos ancêtres du Paléolithique superieur. viii+294 pages, 41 illustrations, 3 tables. 2007. Paris: CNRS; 978-2-271-06509-4 paperback €23. - Karl-Göran Sjögren (ed.). Ecology and Economy in Stone Age and Bronze Age Scania. 218 pages, 50 illustrations. 2006. Lund: Riksantikvarieambetet; 978-91-7209-445-1 hardback. - F.J. Gonzalez Garcia (ed.). Lospueblos de la Galicia ceéltica. 622 pages, 132 illustrations, 6 tables. 2007. Madrid: Akal; 978-84-460-2260-2 paperback. - Colin Haselgrove & Rachel Pope (ed.). The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the near Continent. vi+430 pages, 145 illustrations, 24 tables. 2007. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-253-0 hardback £75. - Colin Haselgrove & Tom Moore (ed.). The Later Iron Age in Britain and beyond. vi+530 pages, 193 illustrations, 27 tables. 2007. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-252-0 hardback £90. - Jorn Schuster. Die Buntmetallfunde der Grabung Feddersen Wierde: Chronologie — Chorologie — Technologie (Probleme der Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet Band 30, Feddersen Wierde Band 6). 278 pages, 69 illustrations, 24 tables, 31 plates. 2006. Oldenburg: Isensee; 978-3-89995-391-6 hardback €45.
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Oceania - William R. Dickinson. Temper Sands in Prehistoric Oceanian Pottery: Geotectonics, Sedimentology, Petrography, Provenance (Geological Society of America Special Paper 406). viii+164 pages, 40 figures, 30 colour plates, 30 tables. 2006. Boulder (CO): Geological Society of America; 978-0-8137-2406-5 paperback $65.
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Howard Williams. Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain. xiv+260 pages, 73 illustrations. 2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-84019-8 hardback £55 & $100.
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Mediterranean - Robert B. Koehl Aegean Bronze Age Rhtya (Prehistory Monographs 19). xviii+576 pages, 125 illustrations, 26 tables. 2006. Philadelphia (PA): INSTAP Academic Press; 1-931534-16-0 hardback £75. - Cathy Gere. The Tomb of Agamemnon. vi+202 pages, 26 illustrations. 2007. London: Profile Books; 978-1-86197-667-3 paperback £8.99. - Elena Isayev. Inside Ancient Lucania: Dialogues in History & Archaeology (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 90). xvii+284 pages, 40 b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London; 978-1-905670-03-1 paperback £50. - Florence Mocci & Nuria Nin (ed.). Carte Archeologique de la Gaule 13/4: Aix-en-Provence, Pays d’Aix, ValdeDurance. 784 pages, 1000 b&w & colour illustrations, 1 fold-out map in back. 2006. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; 978-2-87754-098-8 paperback.
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Clare McCutcheon. Medieval Pottery from Wood Quay, Dublin: the 1974-6 Waterfront Excavations (National Museum of Ireland Medieval Dublin Excavations 1962-81, Ser. B, vol. 7). 2006. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy; 1-904890-12-1 hardback €35.
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European prehistory - Nicholas J. Conard (ed.). When Neanderthals and Modern Humans Met (Tübingen Publications in Prehistory). vi+502 pages, 133 illustrations, 34 tables. 2006. Tübingen: Kerns; 3-935751-03-6 hardback €49.95. - Laura Niven. The Palaeolithic Occupation of Vogelherd Cave: Implications for the Subsistence Behavior of Late Neanderthals and early Modern Humans (Tübingen Publications in Prehistory). vi+314 pages, 84 illustrations, 61 tables. 2006. Tübingen: Kerns; 3-935751-04-4 hardback €39.95. - Per Karsten & Bjorn Nilsson (ed.). In the Wake of a Woman: Stone Age Pioneering of North-eastern Scania, Sweden, 10 000-5000 BC, The Årup Settlements (Riksantikvarieämbetet Skrifter 63). 200 pages, 138 b&w & colour illustrations. n.d. Lund: Riksantikvarieämbetet; 978-91-7209-412-3 hardback. - Antoine Chancerel, Cyril Marcigny & Emmanuel Ghesquière (ed). Le plateau de Mondeville (Calvados) du néolithique a l'âge du bronze (Documents d'archéologie française 99). 205 pages, 133 illustrations, 35 tables. 2006. Paris: Maison des sciences de l'homme; 978-2-7351-1117-6 paperback €36. - Felix Müller & Geneviève Lüscher. Die Kelten in der Schweiz. 200 pages, 272 b&w & colour illustrations, 1 table. 2004. Stuttgart: Theiss; 978-3-8062-1759-9 hardback €39.90 & CHF69. - Gustavo García Jiménez. Entre Iberos y Celtas: Las Espadas de Tipo La Tène del Morreste de la Península Ibérica (Anejos de Gladius 10). 328 pages, 138 illustrations, tables. 2006. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas/Polifemo; 978-84-86547-97-4 paperback €40.
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Americas - Donald A. Proulx. A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography: Readinga Culture through its Art. xiv+236 pages, 335 figures, 40 colour plates. 2006. Iowa City (IA): University of Iowa Press; 978-0-87745-979-8 hardback $59.95. - Robert D. Drennan. Prehispanic Chiefdoms in the Valle de la Plata, Volume 5: Regional Settlement Patterns/Cacicazgos Prehispanicos del Valle de la Plata, Tomo 5: Patrones de Asentamiento Regionales (University ofPittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology 16). xxvi+236 pages, 119 illustrations, 23 tables. 2006. Pittsburgh & Bogotá: University of Pittsburgh Department of Anthropology & Universidad de Los Andes Departamento de Antropología; 978-1-877812-82-8 paperback $36. - Steve Bourget. Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture. xiv+258 pages, 260 illustrations, 25 colour plates, 4 tables. 2006. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-71279-9 hardback £38. - Jessica Joyce Christie & Patricia Joan Sarro (ed). Palaces and Power in the Americas: From Peru to the Northwest Coast. xiv+414 pages, 126 illustrations, 4 tables. 2006. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-70984-3 hardback £29. - Helaine Silverman (ed.). Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America. xviii+302 pages, 92 illustrations, 1 table. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3001-2 hardback $65. - Stephen Houston, David Stuart & Karl Taube. The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya. viii+324 pages, 265 illustrations. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 0-292-71294-4 hardback £35. - Traci Ardren & Scott R. Hutson (ed.). The SocialExperience ofChildhoodin AncientMesoamerica. xxii+310 pages, 73 illustrations, 11 tables. 2006. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 9780-87081-827-1 hardback $45. - Jon M. Weeks & Jane A. Hill (ed.). The Carnegie Maya: The Carnegie Institution ofWashington Maya Research Program, 1913–1957. 784 pages, 25 illustrations, 44 tables. 2006. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-833-2 hardback with CD-ROM $275; 978-0-87081-8349 CD-ROM only $200. - Vera Tiesler & Andrea Cucina (ed.). Janaab’Pakal of Palenque: Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler. xiv+220 pages, 47 illustrations, 13 tables. 2006. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 9780-8165-2510-2 hardback $50. - A. Martin Byers. Cahokia: A World Renewal Cult Heterarchy. xiv+600 pages, 53 illustrations, 25 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-2958-0 hardback $69.95. - RONALD J. Mason. Inconstant Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions. xii+298 pages, 2006. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-1533-7 hardback $50. - Jordan E. Kerber (ed.). Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Native Peoples and Archaeology in the Northeastern United States. xxxii+378 pages, 27 illustrations. 2006. Lincoln (NE): University of Nebraska Press; 978-0-8032-7817-2 paperback; 9780-8032-2765-1 hardback £40. - Clarence R. Geier, David G. Orr & Matthew B. Reeves (ed.). Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampment during the American Civil War. xviii+280 pages, 82 illustrations, 3 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-2941-2 hardback $65. - David Erroll & John Erroll, photographs by Anne Day. American Genius: Nineteenth-Century Banklocks and Time Locks. 368 pages, 400 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. New York: Quantuck Lane Press; 978-1-59372-016-2 hardback £35, $95 & CAN$125.
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