Aegean and eastern Mediterranean archaeology. Christopher Mee & Josette Renard (ed.). Cooking up the past: Food and Culinary Practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean. xii+380 pages, 103 illustrations, 20 tables. 2007. Oxford: Oxbow; 9781-8242

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Americas. Christine S. Vanpool, Todd L. Vanpool & David A. Phillips Jr (ed.). Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest. xii+264 pages, 78 illustrations, 11 tables. 2006. Lanham (MD): AltaMira; 978-0-7591-0966-7 hardback; 978-0-7951-0967-4 paperback £23

Americas. David J. Meltzer Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill. xiv+374 pages, 122 illustrations, 68 tables. 2006. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press; 0-520-24644-6 hardback £35.9

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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. Drenna

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Americas. Jens Fog Jensen. The Stone Age of Qeqertarsuup Tunua (Disko Bugt): a regional analysis of the Saqqaq and Dorset cultures of Central West Greenland (Meddelelser om Grønland — Man & Society 32). 272 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustratio

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Anatolia, Levant, Middle East. Arlene Miller Rosen. Civilizing Climate: Social responses to Climate Change in the Ancient Near East, 2007. xiv+202 pages, 31 illustrations, 8 tables. Lanham, New York, Toronto & Plymouth: AltaMira; 978-0-7591-0493-8 ha

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Anatolia, Levant, Middle East. Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman. David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition. viii 344 pages, 16 figures, tables. 2006. New York: Free Press/Simon & Schust

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Archaeological achievements in Europe. Jean-Paul Demoule (ed.). L'Europe: un continent redécouvert par l'archéologie. 224 pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations. 2009. Paris: Gallimard; 978-2-070-12379-7 paperback €29. Jean-Paul Demoule & Chr

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Asia. Gautam Sengupta, Suchira Roychoudhury & Sujit Som (ed.). Past and Present: Ethnoarchaeology in India. xxviii+416 pages, 36 b& w & colour plates. 2006. New Delhi & Kolkata: Pragati/Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training Eastern India; 81

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Australia. Chris Johnson. Australia’s Mammal Extinctions: A 50 000 year history. x+278 pages. 73 b&w & colour illustrations, 5 tables. 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-68660-0 paperback £35, $55; 978-0-521-84918-0 hardback £

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Big books. Kenneth L. Feder. The past in perspective: an introduction to human prehistory. Fourth edition. xxiv+696 pages, over 300 b&w & colour illustrations. 2010. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-539430-6 paperback £50. Companion website

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Britain and Ireland. Chantal Conneller & Graeme Warren (ed.). Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: New Approaches. 224 pages, 37 illustrations. 2006. Stroud: Tempus; 0-7524-3734-8 paperback £19.99. Dale Serjeantson & David Field (ed.). Animals in the Neo

Britain and Ireland. Stephen Oppenheimer. The origins of the British: A Genetic detective Story. 2006. London: Constable & Robinson; 978-1-84529-158-7 hardback £20. Trevor Rowley. The English landscape in the twentieth century. xvi+472 pages, numero

Britain. Bryony Coles. Beavers in Britain's Past (WARP Occasional Paper 19). x+242 pages, 158 illustrations. 2006. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-2261 paperback £40. Don Benson & Alasdair Whittle (ed.). Building Memories: The Neolithic Cotswold Long bar

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Britain. Kitty Hauser. Shadow Sites: Photography, Archaeology, & the British Landscape 1927–1955. xii+314 pages, 120 illustrations. 2007. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-920632-2 hardback. Richard Muir. Be Your Own Landscape Detective: In

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British round-up. Joshua Pollard (ed.). Prehistoric Britain. xvi+368 pages, 61 illustrations, 3 tables. 2008. Malden (MA) & Oxford: Blackwell; 978-1-4051-2545-1 hardback; 978-1-4051-2546-8 paperback £19.99. Christopher A. Snyder (ed.). Early peoples

Building the past in the Aegean. Pascal Darcque, Michael Fotiadis & Olga Polychronopoulou (ed.). Mythos: La préhistoire égéenne du XIXè au XXIè siècle après J.-C. Actes de la table ronde internationale d'Athènes, 21-23 novembre 2002 (Bulletin

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Burial in late prehistoric FranceLuc Baray. Pratiques funéraires et sociétés de l’âge du Fer dans le Bassin parisien (fin du VIIè s. – troisième quart du IIè s. avant J.-C) (56th Gallia Suppl.). 454 pages, 61 figures, 65 tables, CD-ROM. 20

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Children. Mary E. Lewis The Bioarchaeology of Children: Perspectives from Biological and Forensic Anthropology. x+256 pages, 37 illustrations, 15 tables. 2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-83602-9 hardback £70 & $130. Traci Ardre

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Classical and Hellenistic periods. Swedish Institute at Athens. Opuscula Atheniensia (Annual ofthe Swedish Institute at Athens) 30, 2005. 222 pages, numerous illustrations, tables. 2005. Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens & Sävedalen: Paul Åstr

Classical and Roman world. Christopher Tadgell. Antiquity: Origins, Classicism and the New Rome (Architecture in Context 1). 876 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations, 7 maps. 2007. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 978-0-415-40750-2 hardback £65

Companions. Nathan Rosenstein & Robert Morstein-Marx (ed.). A Companion to the Roman Republic. xviii+738 pages, 62 illustrations. 2006. Malden (MA), Oxford & Carlton, Victoria: Blackwell; 978-1-4051-0217-9 hardback £95, US$149.95 & AUS$281. David S.

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Cottam, Cowlam and Environs: An Anglo-Saxon Estate on The Yorkshire Wolds

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 illustr

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Early medieval and medieval. Susan Ashbrook Harvey. Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination. xviii+421pages. 2006. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press; 0-520-24147-9 hardback £29.95. Sam Turn

Early medieval and medieval. Wendy Davies, Guy Halsall & Andrew Reynolds (ed.) People and Space in the Middle Ages (Studies in the Early Middle Ages). 368 pages, 52 illustrations, 2 tables. 2006. Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-51526-7 hardback. Catheri

Early medieval, medieval and historic periods. Peter Schmid. Die Keramikfunde der Grabung Feddersen Wierde, 1. Jh.v. bis 5.Jh.n. Chr. (Probleme der Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet Band 29, Feddersen Wierde Band 5). 192 pages, 97 figures,

Early medieval, medieval and historic periods. Rosemary Cramp with contributions by C. Roger Bristow, John Higgitt, R.C. Scrivener & Bernard C. Worssam. Corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture Volume VII, South-West England. xviii+446 pages. 29 figures

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Eastern Asia. Norman Yoffee & Bradley L. Crowell (ed.). Excavating Asian History: Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology and History. viii+352 pages, 43 illustrations, 4 tables. 2006. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-2418-1 hard

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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 tabl

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Eastern and southern Asia. Hilary du Cros & Yok-shiu F. Lee (ed.). Cultural Heritage Management in China: Preserving the cities ofthe Pearl River Delta. xxii+170 pages, 12 illustrations, 7 tables. 2007. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 978-0-415-39719

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Egypt and Africa. Edna R. Russmann, Nigel Strudwick & T.G.H. James Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the British Musuem. 136 pages, 85 b&w & colour illustrations. Seattle (WA): University of Washington Press; 978-0-295-98618-0 hardbac

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Egypt and Africa. René T.J. Cappers Roman Foodprints at Berenike: Archaeobotanical Evidence of Subsistence and Trade in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Berenike Report 6). xvi+232 pages, 135 illustrations & 10 tables. 2006. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Ins

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Egypt and Africa. Zahi Hawass, photographs by Sandro Vannini. The Royal Tombs of Egypt: The Art of Thebes Revealed. 316 pages, over 300 colour illustrations. 2006. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-51322-4 hardback £39.95. Nicholas Reeves. The Comp

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Etruscan and Roman periods. Nancy Thomson de Grummond. Etruscan Myth, Sacred History and Legend. xvi+270 pages, 217 illustrations, 4 tables, CD-ROM with 226 images, 10 colour plates. 2006. Philadelphia (PA): University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archa

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 hardbac

European prehistory and protohistory. David W. Frayer The Krapina Neandertals: A Comprehensive, Centennial, Illustrated Bibliography. 220 pages, CD-ROM. 2006. Zagreb: Croatian Natural History Museum; 953-6645-30-0; hardback. Pál Patay. Kupferzeitlic

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 Palae

European prehistory. Romuald Schild (ed.). The Killing Fields ofZwoleń: A Middle Paleolithic Kill-Butchery-Site in Central Poland. 248 pages, 134 b&w & colour illustrations, 33 tables. 2006. Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Aca

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Examples from practice. Penny Johnston, Jacinta Kiely & John Tierney. Near the bend in the river: the archaeology of the N25 Kilmacthomas realignment (NRA Scheme Monographs 3). xvi+202 pages, 58 b&w & colour illustrations, CD-ROM. 2008. Dublin: Natio

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Fleming and after. Andrew Fleming. The Dartmoor Reaves: investigating prehistoric land divisions. xvi+224 pages, 96 b&w & colour illustrations. New extended edition 2008 (first published by Batsford in 1988). Oxford: Oxbow (Windgather imprint); 978-1

Food. Katheryn C. Twiss (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-

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General. Daniel M. Gross The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science. x+194 pages, 1 figure. 2006. Chicago (IL): The University of Chicago Press; 0-226-30979-7 hardback $35 & £22.50. Melinda A. Zeder, Daniel G.

General. Graeme Barker. The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did foragers become farmers? xvi+598 pages, 138 illustrations, 15 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-9281091 hardback £80. Roy Ellen (ed.). Ethnobiology and

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»: Perfor

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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 (e

Glossy books. Thomas Harrison (ed.). The great empires of the ancient world. 288 pages, 300 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-051603 hardback £24.95. Charles Freeman. Sites of antiquity from ancient Egypt to the fa

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Historic periods. Briony Hudson (ed.). English Delfware: Drug Jars. 274 pages, 353 b&w & colour plates & 2 tables. 2006. London & Chicago: Pharmaceutical Press; 0-85369-643-8 hardback £95. Wayne D. Cocroft, Danielle Devlin, John Schofield & Roger J.

Histories of archaeology. Marc-Antoine Kaeser, Sonia Lévin, Sabine de Rieckhoff & Nathan Schlanger (ed.) The making of European archaeology/Początki archeologii Europjskiej. 62 pages, 32 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Paris: Culture Lab; 978-2-9

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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/publi

Les Enceintes fortifiees du Limousin: les habitats protohistoriques de la France non-mediterraneenne

Listing. Peter A.C. Schut (ed.). Listing archaeological sites, protecting the historical landscape (EAC Occasional Paper 3). 170 pages, 123 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Brussels: Europae Archaeologiae Consilium; 978-90-579-9144-8 hardback

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Making sense of archaeology. Cornelius Holtorf, illustrated by Quentin Drew. Archaeology is a brand!: the meaning of archaeology in contemporary popular culture. x+184 pages, numerous illustrations. 2007. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-905739-06-6 paper

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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 p

Mediterranen archaeology. OLIVER Dickinson. The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and change between the twelfth and eighth centuries BC. xvi+298 pages, 57 illustrations, 2 tables. 2006. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-415-13589-4 hardback; 9

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Megaliths and other stones. Roger Joussaume, Luc Laporte & Chris Scarre (ed). Origine et développement du mégalithisme de l’ouest de l’Europe/Origin and development of the megalithic monuments of western Europe. Colloque international/Internati

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Oceania. Robert G. Bednarik Australian Apocalypse:The story of Australia’s greatest cultural monument. iv+64 pages, 143 illustrations. 2006. Melbourne: Australian Rock Art Research Association; 0-9586802-2-1 paperback AUS$20

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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. Boulde

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Other. Bryan Sentance. Basketry: A World Guide to Traditional Techniques. 216 pages, 833 b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-28670-8 paperback £16.95. Alan Axelrod. Profiles in Audacity: Great Decisions and How They

Other. V.A. Richardson The Moneylender’s Daughter (novel set in 1637). 386 pages, 33 plates. 2006. London: Bloomsbury; 0-7475-7017-5 hardback £12.99

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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 plate

Photography and splendour. Ruth Shady & Christopher Kleihege. Caral: le primera civilización de América / Caral: the first civilization in the Americas. 168 pages, 183 colour plates. 2010 (published in 2008 by Universidad de San Martin de Porres, L

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Pictland. George Henderson & Isabel Henderson. The Art of the Picts: Sculpture and Metalwork in Early Medieval Scotland. 256 pages, 332 figures. 2004. London: Thames & Hudson; 0-500-23807-3 hardback. Sally M. Foster & Morag Cross (ed.). Able Minds an

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Pompeii and Pompeiana. Mary Beard. Pompeii: the life of a Roman town. viii+360 pages, 114 illustrations, 23 colour plates. 2008. London: Profile Books; 978-1-861975-516-4 hardback £25. Penelope M. Allison. The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii, Volu

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Prehistoric art. Paul Bahn & Paul Pettitt. Britain's oldest art: the Ice Age cave art of Creswell Crags. viii+118 pages, 70 colour & b&w illustrations, 6 tables. 2009. Swindon: English Heritage; 978-1-84802-025-2 paperback £14.99. David S. Whitley.

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Prehistoric collected papers. Maxence Bailly & Hugues Plisson (ed). La valeur fonctionnelle des objets sépulcraux: actes de la table ronde d'Aix-en-Provence 25-27 octobre 2006 (Préhistoire et Anthropologie Méditerranéennes 14). 230 pages, 92 b&w

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Prehistory in the Netherlands. Pieter van de Velde (ed.). Excavations at Geleen-Janskamperveld 1990/1991 (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 39). ii+278 pages, 164 illustrations, 103 tables. 2007 [2008]. Leiden: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden Universit

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Renaissance. Brian Curran. The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy. xiv+432 pages, 119 b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Chicago (IL): The University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-12893-1 hardback £28.50 & $45. P

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Revised and second editions, paperbacks and reprints. Aubrey Burl. A brief history of Stonehenge: a complete history and archaeology of the world’s most enigmatic stone circle. 2007 (first paperback edition, first published in hardback by Constable

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Rewriting deep France. Jean-Paul Demoule (ed.). La révolution néolithique en France. 180 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Paris: La Découverte; 978-2-7071-5138-4 paperback €22. Laurent Carozza & Cyril Marcigny. L'âge du Bronze

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Rome and the Roman empire. Simon Keay, Martin Millett, Lidia Paroli & Kristian Strutt. Portus: An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome (Archaeological Monograph 15). xviii+360 pages, 235 illustrations. 2005. London: The British School a

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Scandinavia. Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson & Lena Holmquist Olausson. The oriental mounts from Birkas garrison: an expression of warrior rank and status (Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien Antikvarist arkiv 81). 102 pages, numerous

Scandinavia. Dagfinn Skre (ed.). Kaupang in Skiringssal (Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series, Volume 1, Norske Oldfunn XXII). 502 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Aarhus: Aarhus UniversityPress; 978-87-7934-259-0 hardback ?

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Second and paperback additions. Bryan Ward-Perkins. The Fall of Rome and the end of civilization. xii+243 pages, 54 illustrations. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 0-19-280728-5 paperback £8.99

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Second and paperback editions, reprints. Graham Ley. A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater. Revised edition (first published 1991). xiv+126 pages, 14 illustrations. 2006. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-47762-6 ha

Second and paperback editions, translations. Bruce G. Trigger. A History of Archaeological Thought. Second edition. xx+710 pages, 50 illustrations. 2006 (first edition 1990). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 9787-0-521-84076-7 hardback £50 & $

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Small books. Tinaig Clodoré-Tissot. Dictionary of archaeological terms English–French/French–English. 148 pages. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-905739-27-1 paperback £12.99 Susan J. Crockford. A practical guide to in situ dog remains for the field

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The Classical and Roman world. John Julius Norwich. The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean. xviii+668 pages, 89 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. London: Chatto & Windus; 9780-701-17608-2 hardback £25 & Can$45. Jonathan M. Hall. A History of

The Classical world. Martin M. Winkler (ed.). Troy: From Homer’s Iliad to Hollywood Epic. xi+236 pages, 20 plates. 2007. Oxford, Malden (MA) & Victoria: Blackwell; 1-4051-3182-9 hardback £55 & $74.95 & AUS$165; 1-4051-3183-7 paperback £19.99 & $2

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The Mediterranean, Greece, Crete, Cyprus. A.M. Snodgrass Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece. x+486 pages, 54 illustrations. 2006. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; 0-7486-2333-7 hardback £60. François Briois, Catherine Petit-Aupert & Pier

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The secret life of objects. Nathan Schlanger (ed.). Marcel Mauss: Techniques, Technology and Civilisation. xiv+178 pages, 10 illustrations. 2006. New York & Oxford: Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books; 1-57181-662-3 hardback. Chris Caple. Objects: Reluctan

Understanding the heritage. Rodney Harrison (ed.). Understanding the politics of heritage. xvi+336 pages, 92 illustrations. 2010. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press; 978-0-7190-8152-1 paperback £24.99. Susie West (ed.). Understanding

Western Asia. Elizabeth C. Stone (ed.). Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams. xxii+490 pages, 105 illustrations, 12 tables. 2007. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA; 978-1-931745-33-8 hardback $70;

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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. H

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review of Egypt and Africa. Joyce Tyldesley. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt from Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra

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… and in fιction. Margaret Elphinstone. The Gathering Night. x+374 pages. 2009. Edinburgh: Canongate; 978-1-84767-288-9 paperback £12.99

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… in Africa. Baouba Ould Mohamed Naffé, Raymond Lanfranchi & Nathan Schlanger (ed.). L'archéologie préventive en Afrique: enjeux et perspectives (Actes du colloque de Nouakchott 1er–3 février 2007). 254 pages, 26 illustrations, 40 colour plat

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… in south-eastern Asia. William Meacham. The archaeology of Hong Kong. xiv+204 pages, 180 illustrations. 2009. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press; 978-962-209-924-1 hardback; 978-962-209-925-8 paperback. Nancy Tingley. Arts of ancient Viet Nam:

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… in the Americas. Hester A Davis. with contributions by Brian Fagan & Eric Polingyouma. Remembering Awatovi: the story of an archaeological expedition in northern Arizona 1935–1939. xxiv+216 pages, 165 illustrations. 2009. London: Harvard Univer

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… in western and central Asia. Thomas E. Levy. Journey to the Copper Age: archaeology in the Holy Land. 112 pages, over 100 colour illustrations. 2007. San Diego (CA): San Diego Museum of Man; 978-0-9378-0883-2 paperback. Gajus Schelthema. Megalith

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