A Quarterly Review of Edited by Martin Carver

Research \^^ The Warrior of Tattes ~v A Neanderthal face? —-^ The Middle Palaeolithic in Arabia A social interpretation of Mesolithic dwellings China: Politics and bronze vessels in the western Zhou period The earliest burials in Micronesia

Method Ecuador: A computer simulation or coastal voyt, A microscopic understanding of On the Web hafting A ivindow on Russian archaeology; Debate Symbols of Mayan kingship; Neanderthals, fiction and narratii A Renaissance laboratory recovered; The of the Mind Mexico's human-duck imaqery

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A Neanderthal face? The proto-figurine from La Roche-Cotard, Langeais 661 (Indre-et-Loire, France) Jean-Claude Marquet & Michel Lorblanchet The Middle Palaeolithic of Arabia: Implications for modern human origins, behaviour 671 and dispersals Michael D. Petraglia & Abdullah Alsharekh Mesolithic dwelling places in south Scandinavia: their definition and social 685 interpretation Ole Gron Did Neanderthals eat inner bark? 709 Dennis M. Sandgathe & Brian Hayden Early human burials in the western Pacific: evidence for a c.3000 year old occupation 719 on Palau Scott M. Fitzpatrick Mesolithic and Neolithic cultures co-existing in the upper Rhone valley 732 Thomas Perrin Cutting a long story short? The process of neolithization in the Dutch delta 740 re-examined Daan Raemaekers Early multi-resource nomadism: Excavations at the Camel Site in the central Negev 749 Steven A. Rosen Bronzes, mortuary practice and political strategies of the Yan during the early 761 Western Zhou period Yan Sun Recent radiocarbon results and King Solomon 771 Israel Finkelstein & Eli Piasetzky

The Warrior of Lattes: an Iron Age statue discovered in Mediterranean France 780 Michael Dietler & Michel Py Method

Prehistoric trade between Ecuador and West Mexico: a computer simulation of coastal 796 voyages Richard T. Callaghan Towards an understanding of hafting: the macro- and microscopic evidence 805 Veerle Rots Debate Neanderthals as fiction in archaeological narrative 816 Abigail Hackett & Robin Dennell The British Museum at 250 828 Barry Cunliffe, Colin Renfrew, Chris Godsen & Helen Geake Reviews Among the New Books 834 N. James Review articles Palaeolithic archaeology in united Europe DIMITRA PAPAGIANNI reviewing 842 Desolate landscapes: Ice-Age settlement in eastern Europe. John F. Hoffecker. Lithic resource management during the Belgian Early Upper Paleolithic: effects of variable raw material context on lithic economy (Etudes et recherches archeologiques de l'Universite de Liege no. 91). Rebecca Miller. LAurignacien entre mer et ocean: reflexion sur I'unite des phases anciennes de lAurignacien dans le sudde la France (Societe prehistorique francaise Memoir 29). Francois Bon. Die mittelpalaolithische Freilandstation von Salzgitter-Lebenstedt: Genese der Fundstelle und Systematik der Steinarbeitung (Salzgitter-Forschungen Vol. 3). Andreas Pastoors. Recent studies in the final Palaeolithic of the European plain: proceedings of a UISPP Symposium, Stockholm, 14-17 October 1999. Berit Valentin Eriksen & Bodil Bratlund (ed.). Eastern Woodlands of North America DEAN R. SNOW reviewing 847 Windover: multidisciplinary investigations of an Early Archaic Florida cemetery. Glen H. Doran (ed.). The archaeology and history of the Native Georgia tribes. Max E. White. Catawba Valley Mississippian: ceramics, chronology, and Catawba Indians. David G. Moore. Etowah: the political history of a chiefdom capital. Adam King. Archaeology of the Everglades. John W. Griffin (ed. Jerald T. Milanich & James J. Miller). Bottle Creek: a Pensacola Culture site in south Alabama. Ian W. Brown (ed.) Classic period south-eastern Maya households PATRICIA A. MCANANY reviewing 854 Before the volcano erupted: the ancient Ceren village in Central America. Payson Sheets (ed.). Hinterland households: rural agrarian household diversity in northwest Honduras. John G. Douglass. Bronze Age and early Iron Age Crete SUSAN SHERRATT reviewing 858 Catalogue of pottery from the Bronze and Early Iron Age settlement ofVrokastro in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & and the Archaeological Museum, Herakleion, Crete (Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete Vol. 1; University Museum Monograph 113). Barbara J. Hayden. External relations of Early Iron Age Crete, 1100-600 BC (Archaeological Institute of America Monographs n.s. No. 4). Donald W. Jones. Book reviews Christina Fredengren. Crannogs: a study of peoples interaction with lakes, with particular 861 reference to Lough Gara in the north-west of Ireland. JON C. HENDERSON Mark Clinton. The souterrains of Ireland. ROGER MlKET 863 David Freke. Excavations on St Patrick's Isle, Peel, Isle of Man, 1982-88: prehistoric, 864 Viking, Medieval and later. DAVID GRIFFITHS Wayne D. Cocroft & Roger J.C. Thomas (ed. PS. Barnwell). Cold war: building for 865 nuclear confrontation 1946-1989. BARRIE TRINDER Irene S. Lemos. The Protogeometric Aegean: the archaeology of the late eleventh and 867 tenth centuries BC JAMES WHITLEY Paul Arthur. Naples from Roman town to city-state (Archaeological Monographs of the 868 British School at Rome Vol.12). ROBERT COATES-STEI>HENS Michael Pietrusewsky & Michele Toomay Douglas. The human skeletal remains: 870 Ban Chiang, a prehistoric village site in northeast Thailand (Vol. 1; University Museum Monograph 111). CHARLES HICHAM Val Attenbrow. Sydney's Aboriginal past: investigating the archaeological and historical 872 records. GARY PRESLAND Innocent Pikirayi. The Zimbabwe culture: origins and decline of southern Zambezian 874 states. PAUL LANE Stephen Shennan. Genes, memes and human history: Darwinian archaeology and 875 cultural evolution. DOUGLAS BAMFORTH E.B. Banning. Archaeological survey. PETER DREWETT 877 Obituary Robert T. Farrell 878 Niall Brady & James Schryver John Hurst 880 Philip Rahtz Index 882 On the website (http://antiquity.ac.uk) Symbols of early Maya kingship at Cival, Peten Guatemala Francisco Estrada-Belli, Jeremy Bauer, Molly Morgan and Angel Chavez Middle and late Pleistocene investigations of Myshtulgaty Lagat (Weasel Cave) North Ossetia, Russia Nazim I. Hidjrati, Larry R. Kimball, and Todd Koetje A 16th-century lab in a 21st-century lab: archaeometric study of the laboratory equipment from Oberstockstall (Kirchberg am Wagram, Austria) Marcos Martinon-Torres, Thilo Rehren & Sigrid von Osten The Archaeology in the Iwokrama Rainforest, Guyana Mark G. Plew Earliest Mesoamerican human-duck imagery from Cuauhtemoc, Chiapas, Mexico Robert M. Rosenswig Combining archaeozoology and molecular genetics: the reason behind the changes in cattle size between 150BC and 700AD in Northern Switzerland Angela Schlumbaum, Barbara Stopp, Guido Breuer, Andre Rehazek, Robert Blatter, Meral Turgay, Jorg Schibler The origins of iron-working in India: new evidence from the Central Ganga Plain and the Eastern Vindhyas Rakesh Tewari*

* Tewari's paper in the September issue of Antiquity unfortunately contained a number of errors for which we apologise to readers and refer them to the revised version in the Project Gallery on the website (http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/298.html)