Method and Theory 1 Albania: An Archaeological Guide New from Oxbow Books By Oliver Gilkes Oliver Gilkes has considerable experience excavating Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent in Butrint and carrying out research at other Approaches to Archaeological Hypotheses Albanian sites and this book is clearly a labour of Edited by Frederick love. After providing essential background to the Foulds country’s history he selects 50 of the most interesting Experimental Archaeology sites, from Neolithic settlements and Bronze Age aims to bridge the gap in burial sites, to Classical towns and villas, medieval archaeology between churches, Venetian fortifications, and Communist empirical testing and era defence works. Plans are provided for all sites, humanistic approaches to and detailed instructions are provided to enable you understanding the material find them, particularly those that are off the beaten record. The contributors track. 332p, b/w illus, col pls (Tauris & Co Ltd 2013) explore a wide variety of 9781780760698 Hb £49.50 different fields including Time’s Anvil: England, Archaeology and the how a phenomenological Imagination methodology can be used to By Richard Morris increase our understanding of how a Bronze Age Zig-zagging between prehistoric stone tools and temple was ‘experienced’ by people in the past; how Tudor theatre, primal wildwood and mass-produced experimentation in the production of materials such cars, Time’s Anvil weaves a series of interconnecting as rawhide, glass and wine-making can be used to studies of apparently unrelated things and periods test theories or written sources and the possibilities that are normally considered in isolation. In the of studying the three-dimensional morphology of process he re-examines aspects of England’s story Acheulian handaxes to search for possible from the end of the last glacial period to the present. idiosyncratic indicators during the Lower Combining the personal with the academic and Palaeolithic. The papers reflect the continued reflecting on how and why archaeology goes about diversity of work that experimental archaeology is its business, the result is a fresh account of who we able to produce and show how experimentation can are and our relationship with Nature. 466p, b/w be integrated with theory to substantiate a variety illus (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2012) 9780297867838 Hb of hypotheses, whether validating information from £25.00, 9781780222448 Pb £9.99 written sources or testing the inferences of more Soviet Archaeology: Trends, Schools, and recent theoretical ideology. 144p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842177662 Pb £35.00 History By Leo S Klejn Re-Presenting the Past: Archaeology through Leo Klejn, an archaeologist active in Soviet Russia, Text and Image examines the peculiar phenomenon which was edited by Sheila Bonde and Stephen Houston Soviet archaeology, showing where it differs from The archaeological past exists Western archaeology and the archaeology of pre- for us through intermed- revolutionary Russia, and where it reveals iaries. Some are written similarities. He asks whether Soviet archaeology can works, descriptions, narra- be regarded as Marxist, showing that Soviet tives and field notes, while archaeology was no monolithic bloc. Rather it was others are visual: the divided into competing schools and trends and, even drawings, paintings, photo- beneath the veil of Marxist ideology, was often graphs, powerpoints or closely related to movements current in Western computer visualizations that archaeology. 411p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012) allow us to re-present past 9780199601356 Hb £85.00 forms of human existence. European Archaeology Abroad: Global Here two papers explore the classical past and medieval Settings, Comparative Perspectives visualizations. Three treat the Maya, and one Edited by S.J. van der Lindt, M. H. Van den Dries, considers the imaging by eighteenth-century Nathan Schlanger & C.G. Slappendel antiquarians of British history. Others engage with What are European archaeologists doing abroad? issues of recording by looking, for example, at the What have they been doing there for the past three ways in which nineteenth–century excavation to four centuries? Are they doing things differently photographs can aid in the reconstruction of an nowadays? To address these questions, this book inscription or by evaluating the process of mapping explores the scope, impact and ethics of European a site with ArcGIS and computer animation archaeological policies and practices in the software. All essays raise key questions about the Mediterranean area, the Near East, sub-Saharan function of re-presentations of the past in current Africa, Asia and Latin America. 422p, col and b/w ilus archaeological practice. 215p b/w illus (Oxbow Books/ (Sidestone Press 2013) 9789088901065 Pb £45.00 Joukowsky Institute 2013) 9781782972310 Pb £25.00 - only £40.00 prior to publication! ***NYP*** 2 Method and Theory New from Oxbow Books Archaeological Practice in Great Britain By John Schofield, John Carman & Paul Belford The Archaeology of Household Presented in an accessible style, with a edited by Ivan Briz i Godino and Marco Madella comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography and lists From the simplest hunter– of useful websites, this book is written specifically gatherer society to the most as a source book for budding archaeologists and powerful Empire, all societies other heritage practitioners, while providing useful are built on basic daily life, context and information for those working developed day to day with its elsewhere in the heritage sector, away from the specific material conditions. ‘coalface’. The three main authors have very different Household archaeology but complementary backgrounds, and in writing looks at the detail of the this book they have taken responsibility for the living domain, exploring the topics they know best. Other professionals with most essential elements of any particular areas of expertise contribute short sections social dynamic, the on particular (and often practical) subjects such as archaeology of the small scale. health and safety. 248p, b/w illus (Springer Verlag 2012) The Archaeology of Household 9780387094526 Hb £90.00, 9781461430353 Pb £44.99 looks this this important aspect of archaeological Training and Practice for Modern Day study in a variety of different ways, using theoretical and social perspectives, deep thinking about the Archaeologists mathematical nature of household space, and how Edited by John H. Jameson & James Eogan societies’ world views were reflected in domestic This volume explores a relatively new development space. Case studies include hunter–gatherer societies in archaeology and historical preservation: new in America, Neolithic and Bronze age lakeside approaches to archaeological and heritage education settlements in Switzerland and the Alpine region, and training that accommodate globalisation and Bronze Age sites in Hungary and northern Europe the realities of the 21st century worldwide. It and Archaic period Sicily. 248p, 125 b/w + col illus. examines how the government, universities, and (Oxbow Books, 2012) 9781842175170 Hb £49.95 private sector meet, albeit not always successfully, the educational and practical needs of practicing Ancient Textiles, Modern Science archaeologists today. It gets to the heart of a number edited by Heather Hopkins of relevant issues: the international mobility of This book is the publication of a series of lectures archaeologists and heritage managers; the problems and experiments that were of sustaining employment in a volatile market; undertaken at the First and employment of archaeologists in managing the Second European Textile archaeological impact of development projects; Forums in 2009 and 2010. training partnerships; and the generation and Each had a new approach, interpretation of archaeological data and knowledge exploring a question of that results from such projects. 300p, b/w illus textile manufacture in a (Springer Verlag 2012) 9781461455288 Hb £90.00 scientific way, revealing answers and outcomes Network Analysis in Archaeology: New that were unavailable appraoches to regional interaction before. The First European Edited by Carl Knappett Textile Forum hosted an This volume provides a experiment that found the coherent framework on relationship between archaeological hand–spinning network analysis in current finds and the yarn they produce. The Second archaeological practice by European Textile Forum explored the practical pulling together its main aspects of undertaking reconstructions such as Stone themes and approaches to Age fabrics, Roman dyeing or the clothing of show how it is changing the Gunnister Man, including the deconstruction of the way archaeologists face the original artefact, allowing for the unexpected and key questions of regional the implications of new findings. Techniques for interaction. Working with the treating raw materials, creating fabrics and finishing term ‘network’ as a collection artefacts are also explored. The wider purpose and of nodes and links, as used in legacy of the European Textile Forum is as a network science and social network analysis, it foundation for the coming years. The basis for juxtaposes a range of case studies and investigates research and communication, with a market for the positives and negatives of network analysis. With exchanging tools and materials, means that each contributions by leading experts in the field, the participant can avoid individually ‘re-inventing the volume covers a broad range: from Japan to America, wheel’. The purpose of this book is to share these from the Palaeolithic to the Precolumbian. 384p, b/ findings (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842176641 Pb £35.00 w illus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199697090 Hb £75.00 Method and Theory 3

forthcoming from Oxbow Books Locating the Sacred: Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion Edited by Claudia Moser & Cecelia Feldman Understanding religious ritual requires viewing it not as a disembodied event, but as emplaced, grounded in both built and natural surroundings, and integrated with its associated material objects. Here authors examine various religious practices in the Greco-Roman world and pilgrimage routes in contemporary Israel. Other contributions focus on the East, on domestic religion in prehistoric Taiwan, and the palimpsest of ritual activity in Buddhist China. One author considers not just ritual’s built and natural setting, but also the landscape of the human mind. By way of conclusion, many of the recurring issues concerning the material and topographic matrix of ritual practice are expanded upon in a final meditation on sacred space. 144p, b/w and col. illustrations (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782976165 Pb £25.00 ***Only £20.00 until publication***

From These Bare Bones: Raw Materials and Worked Osseous Objects Edited by Sonia O’Connor & Alice Choyke The 20 papers presented here explore a wealth of information pertaining to the use of osseous materials over the long period of human craftsmanship and tool manufacture by exploring several key themes: raw material selection and curation within tool types; social aspects of raw material selection; and new methods of materials identification. It is demonstrated that the issue of raw material identification has numerous implications for conservation work, reproduction of objects, the physical characteristics of the tool or ornament, ability of raw materials, the materials chosen for procurement and the cultural reasons that lie behind the choice of raw materials from particular species and skeletal elements to produce planned tool and ornament types. 256p, col. illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782972112 Pb £45.00 ***Only £33.00 until publication***

Medicine, Healing, and Performance Edited by Effie Gemi-Iordanou, Stephen Gordon, Robert Matthew, Ellen McInnes & Rhiannon Pettitt Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological and anthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of the performative aspects of medicine. The papers contained in this volume, based on a session conducted at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Conference, take a multi- disciplinary approach to the topic, addressing such issues as the cultural conception of disease; the impact of gender roles on healing strategies; the possibilities afforded by syncretism; the relationship between material culture and the body; and the role played by the active agency of the sick. 176p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782971580 Pb £36.00 ***Only £28.00 until publication***

Past Bodies: Body-Centered Research in Archaeology By Dusan Boric & John Robb While material culture is the main archaeological proxy to real people in the past, the absence of past bodies has been chronic in archaeological writings. This collection of papers is a reaction to decades of the body’s invisibility. It raises the body as the central topic in the study of past societies, researching its appearance in a wide variety of regional contexts and across vast spans of archaeological time. Contributions range from the deep Epi-Palaeolithic past of the Near East, through the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, Classical Greece and Late Medieval England, to pre-Columbian Central America, post-contact North America, and the most recent conflicts in the Balkans. In all these case studies, the materiality of the body is centre stage. 160p, (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782975427 Pb £25.00 4 Method and Theory

New from Oxbow Books Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology By Marc A. Abramiuk Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks: The Archaeology Marc Abramiuk proposes a multidisciplinary basis of Animal Disease for the study of the mind in the past, arguing that By László Bartosiewicz and Erika Gal archaeology and the cognitive sciences have much The analysis of animal bone to offer one another. He explains the rationale for assemblages from using these approaches in mind-related archaeological sites provides archaeological research, reviewing the literature in much valuable data both cognitive psychology and cognitive concerning economic and anthropology on human memory, perception, and husbandry practices in the reasoning. Drawing on archaeological and genetic past, as well as insights into evidence, Abramiuk investigates the evolution of the cultural and symbolic or mind through the Upper Paleolithic era—when the ritual activity. Animal ancient mind became functionally comparable to the palaeopathology can modern human mind. Finally, Abramiuk offers a identify diseases in model for the establishment of a discipline dealing archaeozoological with the study of the mind in the past that integrates assemblages but little all the approaches discussed. 328p, (MIT Press 2012) interest has been expressed in investigating and 9780262017688 Hb £27.95 understanding the cultural aspects of the diseases Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, identified. Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks provides an Things invaluable guide to the investigation of trauma and By Christopher Watts disease in archaeozoological assem-blages. It provides Of those things that are alive, a clear methodological approach, and describes and we acknowledge that some explains the wide range of traumatic lesions, infect- have agency while others, ions, diseases, inherited disorders and other such as humans, have more pathological changes and anomalies that can be advanced qualities such as identified. In so doing, it explores the impact that consciousness, reason and “man-made” decisions have had on animals, intentionality. So deeply- including special aspects of culture that may be seated is this metaphysical reflected in the treatment of diseased or injured animals belief, along with the related often incorporating powerful symbolic or religious distinctions we draw roles, and seeks to enhance our understanding of the between subject/object, mind/ relationship between man and beast in the past. 264p body and nature/culture that many of us tacitly b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782971894 Pb £38.00 assume past groups approached and apprehended Counting People: A DIY Manual for Local and the world in a similar fashion. Relational Archaeologies Family Historians questions how such a view affects our reconstruction by John Moore of past beliefs and practices. In highlighting various Local and family historians are often afraid to use counter-Modern notions of what it means ‘to be’ numerical data (Statistics) in and how these can be teased apart using their research and writing. Yet archaeological materials, contributors provide a numbers are an essential part range of approaches from primarily theoretical/ of much historical work, historicized treatments of the topic to practical obviously in population applications or case studies from the Americas, the history but also in local UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. 272p, (Routledge Ltd studies of agriculture, 2013) 9780415525329 Pb £24.99 industry and social history. Rethinking Cultural Transfer and Counting People shows how Transmission: Reflections and New amateur historians can use Perspectives computers with appropriate programs to provide Edited by Petra Broomans, Sandra van Voorst & numerical illustrations of Karina Smits various historical topics as well as easing their This volume formulates new directions within the researches. A final chapter covers research and study of cultural transfer and transmission, publishing in local history. The Bibliography including gender aspects of cultural transfer, the provides advice on local historical studies in England importance of cultural transfer for minority and Wales and a full list of sources for population literatures and approaches to writing a cultural history in England and Wales as well as guidance transfer and transmission history. New theories are on the use of computers in local studies. 140p (Oxbow scrutinised and new insights gained from Books 2013) 9781842174807 Pb £17.95 rediscovered material. 169p (Barkhuis 2012) 9789491431197 Pb £20.00 Method and Theory 5

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of New from Oxbow Books Death and Burial Edited by S. Tarlow & Liv Nilsson Stutz Caring for Digital Data in Archaeology: A This handbook reviews the current state of mortuary Guide to Good Practice archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often This guide provides contentious place in the modern socio-politics of information on the best archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which way to create, manage, and focus on the history of the discipline and its current document digital data files scientific techniques and methods. It derives its produced during the course examples and case studies from a wide range of time of an archaeological project periods from the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth and aims to improve the century, and geographical areas which include practice of depositing and Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. preserving digital 872p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199569069 Hb information safely within £115.00 an archive for future use. It Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis: is structured in three main Community-Sensitive Methods for Identifying parts: Digital Archiving - Group Affiliation in Historical Cemeteries looks at the fundamentals of digital preservation and covers general preservation themes within the By Michael P Heilen context of archaeological investigations, research, This volume presents a sophisticated set of archival, and resource management, with an overview of forensic, and excavation methods to identify both digital archiving practice and guidance; The Project individuals and group affiliations—cultural, Lifecycle - looks at common project lifecycle elements religious, and organisational—in a multiethnic such as file naming, metadata creation, and historical cemetery. Based on an extensive excavation copyright and covers general, broad themes that project of more than 1,000 nineteenth-century should be considered at the outset of a project; Basic burials in downtown Tucson, Arizona, it presents Components - looks at selected technique and file an effective methodology for use at other historical- type-specific issues together with archive structuring period sites. The book also sensitises archaeologists and deposit. This section covers common file types to the concerns of community and cultural groups that are frequently present in archaeological around mortuary excavation and outlines archives, irrespective of a project’s primary technique procedures for proper consultation with the or focus. 122p (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782972495 Pb descendants of the cemetery’s inhabitants. 264p, b/w £15.00 illus (Left Coast Press 2013) 9781611321845 Pb £31.95 Ancient Glass: An Interdisciplinary Exploration Humans and the Environment : New archaeo- By Julian Henderson logical perspectives for the twenty-first century This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of Edited by Matthew P. Davies & Freda Nkirote archaeological glass in which technological, M’Mbogori historical, geological, chemical, and cultural aspects Drawing on data from across are combined. Henderson presents three case studies: the globe at a variety of Late Bronze Age glass, late Hellenistic-early Roman temporal and spatial scales, glass, and Islamic glass in the Middle East. He this volume resituates the considers in detail the provenances of the glass using way in which archaeologists scientific techniques and discusses a range of vessels use and apply the concept of and their uses in ancient societies. 450p, b/w illus the environment. Each (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107006737 Hb £70.00 chapter critically explores the Pottery in Archaeology potential for archaeological By Clive Orton & Michael Hughes data and practice to Divided into three parts (history and potential; a contribute to modern guide to pottery processing and recording; themes environmental issues, in ceramic studies) this book details the routine tasks including problems of climate of handling pottery, and examines the most recent change and environmental degradation. Overall the research into the quantitative study and comparison volume covers four basic themes: archaeological of ceramic assemblages. The second edition is fully approaches to the way in which both scientists and updated with coverage of the vastly expanded range locals conceive of the relationship between humans of scientific techniques now able to archaeologists and their environment, applied environmental in pottery analysis, and also contains entirely new archaeology, the archaeology of disaster, and new chapters on experimental archaeology and on interdisciplinary directions. 348p, b/w illus (Oxford contexts of production and standardisation. 340p, UP 2013) 9780199590292 Hb £75.00 b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2nd ed 2013) 9781107008748 Hb £65.00, 9781107401303 Pb £25.00 6 Environmental Archaeology & Heritage

Environmental Archaeology Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology By Elizabeth J. Reitz & Myra Shackley By R. T. J. Cappers & R. Neef Fully updated and substantially rewritten, this This book deals with the study of subfossil plant volume replaces Myra Shackley’s 1981 volume of the material retrieved from archaeological excavations same name. It surveys the complex and technical and cores dated to the Late Glacial and Holocene. field of environmental archaeology for researchers One of its main objectives is to describe the processes interested in the causes, consequences, and potential that underlie the formation of the archaeobotanical future impact of environmental change and archive and the ultimate composition of the archaeology. Introductory chapters explain the archaeobotanical records. It summarizes the basic processes involved in the formation of sites, introduce ecological principles that relate to the reconstruction research designs and field methods, and walk the of former vegetations and of agricultural practices reader through biological classifications before in particular. 475p, (Barkhuis 2012) 9789491431074 focusing on the various levels of biotic and abiotic Hb £45.00 materials found at sites. 350p, b/w illus (Springer Verlag The Thames Holocene: A geoarchaeological 2012) 9781461433378 Hb £117.00 approach to the investigation of the river Barely Surviving or More than Enough?: The floodplain for High Speed 1, 1994–2003 environmental archaeology of subsistence, By Martin Bates & Elizabeth Stafford specialisation and surplus food production The archaeological investigation of the route of High Edited by Maaike Groot, Daphne Lentjes & Jørn Speed 1 through the Thames Marshes required an Zeiler innovative approach to mitigation in order to find The papers in this volume offer studies on subsistence and reach the deeply buried, but highly significant, and surplus production with a wide geographical palaeoenvironmental and geoarchaeological perspective, ranging from the American Mid-South sequences. The project proved highly successful in to Turkey. The temporal range is just as wide, from predicting the location of buried archaeological c. 7000 BC to the 16th century AD. Topics covered remains in a number of locations. Key amongst these include foraging strategies, the combination of are extensive remains excavated in the Ebbsfleet domestic and wild food resources in the Neolithic, Valley, Mesolithic flint scatters at Tank Hill Road, water supply, crop specialisation, the effect of the Aveley, and Late Upper Palaeolithic and Neolithic Roman occupation on animal husbandry, town- scatters on Swanscombe Marsh. Other sites described country relationships and the monastic economy. here include an in situ Early Neolithic flint scatter 298p b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2013) and evidence of seasonal Roman and medieval 9789088901997 Pb £45.00 - special prepublication price activity on Rainham and Wennington Marshes. As only £40.00! ***NYP*** important, in addition to the archaeological results, A Bouquet of Archaeozoological Studies: this work also presents the methodological approach that was adopted for the investigation of Essays in honour of Wietske Prummel approximately 18km (17%) of the HS1 route across Edited by D. C. M. Raemaekers, E. Esser, Roel C. an area of thick alluvium. 280p b/w and col illus, col G. M. Lauwerier & J. T. Zeiler pls (Wessex Archaeology 2013) 9780954597092 Hb The contributions to this festschrift cover a wide £15.00, NYP range of topics from all realms of archaeozoology, such as animal husbandry and mobility, bird Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved Its exploitation and fishery. 214p col illus (Barkhuis 2012) Heritage 9789491431159 Pb £24.00 By Simon Thurley Between 1900 and 1950 the Digital Atlas of Economic Plants in British state amassed a huge Archaeology collection of over 800 historic By R. Neef, RTJ Cappers & RM Bekker buildings, monuments and The third part of the Digital Plant Atlas presents historic sites and opened illustrations of subfossil remains of plants with them to the public. This book economic value. These plant remains mainly derive explains why the from excavations in the Old World (Europe, Western extraordinary collecting Asia and North Africa) that the Deutsches frenzy took place, setting all Archäologisches Institut (DAI, Berlin) and the this activity in its political, Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA) have economic and cultural conducted or participated in. Most of the contexts, painting a picture economically valuable plants illustrated here have of a country traumatized by war, fearful of losing been carbonized or desiccated. The book include not what was left of its history, and a government that only illustrations of seeds and fruits, but also of other actively set out to protect them. In the last chapter plant parts. Purchase of the book includes access to it brings the story up to date. 224p, b/w illus (Yale a linked website which includes morphometric UP 2013) 9780300195729 Hb £18.99 measurements of the subfossil seeds and fruits. 760p, (Barkhuis 2012) 9789491431029 Hb £175.00 Heritage & Landscape Archaeology 7

New from Oxbow Books Faith in Heritage: Displacement, Development and Religious Tourism in Contemporary China Global Ancestors: Understanding the Shared By Robert Shepherd Humanity of our Ancestors Using the example of China’s Wutai Shan—recently edited by Rebecca Redfern, Jelena Bekvalac, designated both a UNESCO World Heritage site and Heather Bonney and Margaret Clegg a national park—Robert J. Shepherd analyzes Global Ancestors is a Chinese applications of western notions of heritage collection of papers which management within a non-western framework. reflect on modern What does the concept of world heritage mean for a museological responses to site practically unheard of outside of China, visited the often complex and almost exclusively by Buddhist religious pilgrims? emotive relationship that What does heritage preservation mean for a site people have with the whose intrinsic value isn’t in its historic buildings ancestors and objects which or cultural significance, but for its sacredness within they created. Set out in three the Buddhist faith? How does a society navigate these broad themes, the first issues, particularly one where open religious collection of papers explore expression has only recently become acceptable? how indigenous peoples are These questions and more are explored in this book, represented in museums in perfect for students and practitioners of heritage Panama and China and how more can be gained by management looking for a new perspective. 192p, b/ working with indigenous communities to further w illus (Left Coast Press 2013) 9781611320749 Pb £27.95 our understanding of the ancestors. The second From the Deer to the Fox: The Hunting section examines changes in British and American Transition and the Landscape, 1600-1850 museological thinking regarding the repatriation of By Mandy de Belin human remains and objects to indigenous peoples, The traditional explanation focussing in particular on the impact of legislation of the transition from the on western institutions and the expectations of hunting of deer to foxes has indigenous communities and alternative religious aligned it with change in the groups. The final section explores the ways in which landscape: disappearing archaeologists and indigenous communities interact. woodland and increased These chapters illustrate, through case studies from enclosure led to decline of South Africa, Finland and Canada, how both groups the deer population. have worked together for their mutual benefit or to Attention turned to the fox change the majority viewpoint. 168p b/w & col. illus out of necessity. This book (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842175330 Pb £30.00 questions the traditional account by looking at the Many Voices, One Vision: The Early Years of landscape of Northamptonshire. It argues that the the World Heritage Convention many changes that hunting underwent in this By Christina Cameron & Mechthild Rossler period were directly related to the transformation of In 1972, UNESCO put in place the World Heritage the hunting horse. The near-thoroughbred horse Convention, a highly successful international treaty became the mount of choice for those who hunted that influences heritage activity in virtually every in the shires. The fast horse, the fast hound, and country in the world. This innovative book project the fast prey came together with the ability of seeks out the voices of the pioneers - some 40 key extensive rolling pasture. It was, quite literally, the players who participated in the creation and early thrill of the chase that drove the hunting transition. implementation of the Convention - and combines 176p, b/w illus (University of Hertfordshire Press 2013) these insightful interviews with original research 9781909291041 Pb £14.99 drawn from a broad range of both published and Savernake Forest: Continuity and Change in a archival sources. The World Heritage Convention Wooded Landscape has been significantly influenced by 40 years of By Ben Lennon history. Although the text of the Convention The objective of this study is to seek to better remains unchanged, the way it has been understand the processes involved in landscape implemented reflects global trends as well as change that have resulted in the highly distinctive evolving perceptions of the nature of heritage itself character types found in the British Isles. A single and approaches to conservation. Some are sounding heavily wooded landscape has been chosen for study, the alarm, claiming that the system is imploding that of Savernake Forest (Wiltshire, southern under its own weight. Others believe that the England). The study aims to show that heavily Convention is being compromised by geopolitical wooded landscapes, even those that we regard as considerations and rivalries. This book stimulates rich in ancient woodland, are no less dynamic than reflection on the meaning of the Convention in the their more open counterparts. 238p, b/w illus (BAR twenty-first century. 310p, b/w illus (Ashgate 2013) BS 555, Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309460 Pb £32.00 9781409437659 Hb £65.00 8 Landscape Archaeology

New from Oxbow Books An Archaeology of Land Ownership Edited by Maria Relaki & Despina Catapoti Plants and People: Choices and Diversity Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been through Time mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. edited by Alexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova, However all too often the links between land and and Leonor Peña–Chocarro people are taken as a given and not as something This first monograph in the that needs to be conceptually defined and empirically EARTH series The substantiated. This study demonstrates that the dynamics of non-industrial relationship between people and land in the past is agriculture: 8,000 years of first and foremost an analytical issue, and one that resilience and innovation , calls for clarification not only at the level of definition, approaches the great variety but also methodological applicability. Bringing of agricultural practices in together an international roster of specialists, the human terms. It focuses on essays in this volume call attention to the processes the relationship between by which links to land are established, the various plants and people, the forms that such links take and how they can change complexity of agricultural through time, as well as their importance in helping processes and their to forge or dilute an understanding of community organisation within at various circumstances. 324p, b/w illus (Routledge particular communities and societies. Collaborative 2013) 9780415886185 Hb £80.00 European research among archaeologists, Hertfordshire: A landscape history archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians and By Anne Rowe & Tom Williamson agronomists using a broad analytical scale of More than three decades investigation seeks to establish new common ground after the publication of for integrating different approaches. By means of Lionel Munby’s seminal interdisciplinary examples, this book showcases the work The Hertfordshire relationship between people and plants across wide Landscape, Anne Rowe and ranging and diverse spatial and temporal milieus, Tom Williamson have including crop diversity, the use of wild foodstuffs, produced an authoritative social context, status and choices of food plants. new study, based on their 432p, 235 col illus. (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842175149 own extensive fieldwork and Hb £50.00 documentary investigtions, as well as on the wealth of Art, Faith and Place in East Anglia From new research carried out Prehistory to the Present over recent decades by By T. A. Heslop, Elizabeth Mellings & Margit others - both into Hertfordshire specifically, and into landscape history and archaeology more generally. Thofner The authors examine in detail the historical processes The relationship between religious or spiritual that created the county’s modern physical artworks and the locality environment, discussing such things as the form and where such objects are made location of settlements; the character of fields, woods and used is the central question and commons; and the distinctive local forms of this volume addresses. While churches, vernacular houses, and great mansions, it is a well-known fact that along with their associated parks and gardens. 335p, religious artworks, objects and col illus (University of Hertfordshire Press 2013) buildings can have a power or 9781909291003 Pb £18.99 agency of their own, the sources of this power are less One Island, Many Voices: Bute Archaeology well understood. It is this and the Discover Bute Landscape Partnership problem which the book seeks Scheme to begin to remedy, using East By Paul R J Duffy Anglia as its prism. Case- This book is a synthesis of new research and reviews studies are taken from prehistory right up to the arising from a major project to study Bute’s twenty-first century, and from a variety of media, landscape.It brings the current state of knowledge including wall-paintings, church architecture, and about the island’s archaeology up to date and forms stained glass; famous sites examined include the basis of the new Archaeological Research Seahenge and Sutton Hoo. Overall, the book shows Framework for Bute. Contributions from over 30 how profoundly religious artworks are embedded archaeology professionals and local enthusiasts in local communities, belief systems, histories and review our current understandings of Bute’s heritage landscapes. 352p, b/w illus (Boydell 2012) from the earliest Brandanes to the 20th century 9781843837442 Hb £45.00 tourists. 174p, col, b/w illus (Paul Watkins 2013) 9781907730238 Hb £24.00 Landscape Archaeology 9

forthcoming from Oxbow Books Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Pre-Industrial Society: Choices, Stability and Change Edited by Fèlix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup & Althea Davies Through a series of case studies, this third volume in the Earth series deals with the technological constraints and innovations that enabled societies to survive and thrive across a range of environmental conditions. The contributions are structured into three sections: Landnam, from the Old Norse for ‘taking of land’, deals with colonisation, including the drivers and processes through which colonisers developed an understanding of the productive potential and limitations of their new lands; Fields and field systems explores the challenges presented by field-walls in the study of pre-industrial field systems. Agro-pastoralism focuses on the complex ‘time-space adaptations’ devised for managing cultivation and livestock production, particularly the need to prevent stock incursions into arable fields during the growing season whilst making effective use of seasonal grazing resources. 280p col illus t/out (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781842173596 Hb £40.00 ***Only £30.00 until publication*** Modelling Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments in Wetlands: The Hidden Landscape Archaeology of Hatfield and Thorne Moors, Eastern England By Henry P. Chapman & Benjamin R. Gearey Modelling Hidden Landscapes utilizes a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies and GIS modelling to investigate spatial and temporal patterns of Holocene landscape change for two raised mires in south Yorkshire: Hatfield and Thorne Moors. Whilst concerned with specific aspects of landscape evolution, such as peat growth and spread, the volume aims to illustrate the synergy which is generated through integrating spatial models with chronological modelling and stratigraphic, cartographic, topographical, environmental and archaeological information in order to better understand past landscapes, human activity and the archaeological record. 216p, b/w and col. illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782971740 Hb £30.00 ***Only £24.00 until publication***

Exploring and Explaining Diversity in Agricultural Technology edited by Annelou van Gijn, John Whittaker and Patricia C. Anderson This volume is the outcome of collaborative European research among archaeologists, archaeo-botanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists, and frequently uses experiments in archaeology. It aims to establish new common ground for integrating different approaches and for viewing agriculture from the standpoint of the human actors involved. Each chapter provides an interdisciplinary overview of the skills used and the social context of the pursuit of agriculture, highlighting examples of tools, technologies and processes from land clearance to cereal processing and food preparation. 304p, 285 col illus. (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842175156 Hb £40.00

***Only £30.00 until publication*** Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation Edited by Adrian M. Chadwick & Catriona D. Gibson Within archaeology, there has been increasing interest in the role of the past in the past. To date, however, there has been little specific discussion of how long-term persistence of place and practice was possible; and why this was the case. The sixteen papers in this volume use detailed contextual evidence to address these questions. In many instances, contributors discuss less visible examples where ‘memory work’ can be identified from non-monumental, ‘everyday’ landscapes. The case studies focus on British archaeology from the Neolithic to the early medieval period, but other contributions deal with Neolithic Central Europe, ancient Etruscan and Egyptian landscapes, and historic Native American practices. 336p, 166 b/w and col. illustrations (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782973935 Hb £38.00 ***Only £28.50 until publication*** 10 Landscape Archaeology New from Windgather Press La alta montaña pirenaica: génesis y configuración holocena de un paisaje cultural Norfolk Gardens & Designed Landscapes: By Ana Ejarque Montolio by Patsy Dallas, Roger Last and Tom Williamson Combined palaeoenvironmental and archaeological Norfolk Gardens is a studies of European high mountains are still rare. celebration of the rich This integrated research aims to understand the history of gardens and long-term landscape shaping of the Madriu-Perafita- parks in the county of Claror valley (Andorra, Eastern Pyrenees). A palaeo- Norfolk. Beginning with environmental study combining pollen, non-pollen a detailed exploration of palynomorphs, and macrocharcoal was carried out the history of gardening in natural basins and results were integrated with in the county – from the archaeological on-site data. Distinct phases of local pre–18th century landscape variability are detected and related to the ‘medicinals’, through the spatial organization of land-uses from the Neolithic establishment of the to the Modern Era. 192p, b/w illus (BAR 2507, great country house Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311258 Pb £33.00 gardens and civic spaces Scotland’s Landscapes of the 18th and 19th centuries, to the impact of modern ideas of ‘ecology’ and ‘minimalist’ gardening By James Crawford – the volume gives detailed descriptions of 330 of From Orkney’s immaculately preserved Neolithic the most beautiful and significant gardens, parks villages to Highland glens stripped of nineteenth and open spaces in Norfolk. It explores the impact century settlements, from a Skye peninsula gardeners with national reputations – such as converted to an ingenious Viking shipyard, to a Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, Edwin Lutyens and Hebridean clifftop used as the site of a spectacular Gertrude Jekyll – have had on the development of lighthouse, Scotland’s history is written into the land garden, landscape design and planting, both in the in vivid detail. Scotland’s Landscapes tells the enduring county and on the wider national stage, and story of this interaction between man and his examines the influence that these landscapes have environment. The third book in a series showcasing on our ideas of gardening today. Lavishly illustrated Scotland’s National Collection of Aerial Photography, throughout in full colour, with an introduction by stunning new imagery builds up a picture of a the distinguished landscape and garden historian dramatic terrain forged by thousands of years of Tom Williamson, Norfolk Gardens is a incredible change. 224p, col illus t/out (RCAHMS 2012) comprehensive and detailed account of the history 9781902419824 Hb £25.00 and heritage of gardening. (Windgather Press 2013) The Place-Names of Fife: Discussion, Glossaries, 9781905119929 Hb £25.00 Texts Cipières: Landscape and Community in in By Simon Taylor Alpes-Maritimes, France This is the fifth of a five volume survey of the place- By David Austin, Rosamond Faith, Andrew names of Fife which sets new standards in county Fleming & David Siddle place-name research. The first four volumes surveyed the whole of Fife parish by parish, each volume Cipières: Community and covering a different geographical area, with a full Landscape in the Alpes- analysis of a total of around 3200 head-names. This Maritimes is a unique volume takes stock of some of the rich historical and exploration which brings linguistic material contained in those volumes, as together a wealth of well as providing a historical framework, especially documentary sources of the medieval period, when the bulk of Fife’s more retained in the village with important place-names were coined. 710p, (Shaun material evidence in the Tyas 2013) 9781907730085 Hb £24.00 landscape to produce an interdisciplinary and The Cotswold Way: An Archaeological Walking holistic account of the Guide development of one By Tim Copeland community and its lands. The Cotswold Way crosses some of the most densely Beginning with a history of the Project, the volume populated and varied landscapes from the each period examines the village’s morphology and archaeology, of the past. The route also has some nationally including a landscape survey and investigation of important archaeological sites along, behind and in the agrarian systems of the Plâteau de Calern, before front of it. This book introduces the serious trail moving on to examine settlement patterns, walker or the local ‘single-stretch’ day rambler to population, politics, social structure and the local the types of archaeological monuments along the economy from the fifth century through to the route. It then follows each of the six sections of the modern day region. 432p, b/w and col. illus (Windgather route describing the individual sites and their Press 2013) 9781905119998 Pb £38.00 background along the trail. 160p, b/w illus, col pls (The History Press 2013) 9780752467283 Pb £14.99 Landscape Archaeology 11

People and the Sea: A Maritime Archaeological The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome Research Agenda for England to Ornamental Gnome Edited by Fraser Sturt, Jesse Ransley, Justin Dix & By Gordon Campbell Lucy Blue Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman People and the Sea considers all aspects of our maritime emperor Hadrian, the eccentric phenomenon of the heritage, from the submerged landscapes created by ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the changes in sea- level over the last million years, to England of the eighteenth century. It was at this the physical development of the modern coastline, time that it became highly fashionable for owners through to ports, their hinterlands and associated of country estates to commission architectural follies maritime communities. It investigates the nature of for their landscape gardens. These follies often seafaring, its associated material culture as well as included hermitages peopled either with imaginary peoples changing perceptions and interactions with hermits or with people employed as real hermits. the sea. Chronological chapters, from the Although the fashion for them had fizzled out by Palaeolithic to the 20th century, all consider a the end of the eighteenth century, they had left their number of key themes, exploring both the current indelible mark on both the literature as well as the state of knowledge and priorities for future research. gardens of the period, and live on in the figure of 272p b/w and col illus (CBA 2013) 9781902771939 Pb the modern-day garden gnome. This engaging and £30.00 generously illustrated book takes the reader on a Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities journey that is at once illuminating and whimsical, both through the history of the ornamental hermit and Persistent Landscapes and also around the sites of many of the surviving By Andrew Bevan & James Conolly hermitages themselves. 272p, b/w illus (Oxford UP Mediterranean landscape ecology, island cultures and 2013) 9780199696994 Hb £16.99 long-term human history have all emerged as major research agendas over the past half-century. This book brings these traditions together in considering Forthcoming from Oxbow Antikythera, a tiny island perched on the edge of Violence and Civilization: Studies of Social the Aegean and Ionian seas, over the full course of Violence in History and Prehistory its human history from the Neolithic through the present day. Antikythera is a rare case of an island Edited by Roderick Campbell that has been investigated in its entirety from several This collection of essays systematic fieldwork and disciplinary perspectives, begins with the premise that not least of which is an intensive archaeological violence, in its relationship to survey. The authors use the resulting evidence to order, is a central element of offer a unique vantage on settlement and land use history. Taking a broad histories. 327p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2013) definition of violence, 9781107033450 Hb £65.00 including structural and symbolic violence, the Landscape and Garden Design: Lessons from contributions move beyond History the problematic of By Gordon Haynes civilization’s mitigating or This book presents a chronological review of garden foundational role, instead design, gathering ideas and their implementation seeing violence as inherently over the last 500 years. Essential examples from each social, and, perhaps, socially inherent (if variable). design period or style are included, based upon their Beginning with a theoretical introduction, this contribution to the progress of design, and interdisciplinary volume includes seven papers illustrated with photographs, diagrams and plans. representing cultural anthropology, history, 224p (Whittles Publishing 2013) 9781849950824 Pb archaeology and international relations. The papers £35.00 range from China to the Americas and from the 2nd The Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle millennium BCE to the 21st century CE. Some deal Edited by Anna Keay & John Watkins with long-term developments while others focus on a single time and place. Many treat the issue of the The garden created by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at Kenilworth Castle in the early 1570s was visibility/invisibility of violence, while all in one way or another deal with the role of violence in the re- one of the wonders of Elizabethan England. It is production of community. Together, the volume aims also the best documented of all the great gardens of its age, providing the starting point for English to paint, with a few strokes, the outlines of a deep historical anthropology of social violence. 160p, b/w Heritages ambitious re-creation in 2009. This and col. illustrations (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782976202 beautifully illustrated book presents the extensive Pb £25.00 research that informed the scheme and describes the process by which the new garden was designed. 192p, 163 illus (English Heritage 2013) 9781848020344 Pb £40.00 ***Only £20.00 until publication*** 12 World Prehistory

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum Shell Energy: Prehistoric Coastal Resource By Robert L. Kelly Strategies In this volume Robert L. Kelly reviews the edited by G. N. Bailey, Karen Hardy and anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land Abdoulaye Camara tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, Shell middens are division of labour, marriage, descent, and political ubiquitous archaeological organisation. Using the paradigm of human features on coastlines behavioural ecology, he analyses the diversity in throughout the world these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain that have been variously away variability, and argues for an approach to analysed and interpreted prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory as mounds of food, burial rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to places, or simply as reconstruct the past. 375p (Cambridge UP 2013) convenient receptacles for 9781107607613 Pb £21.99 the preservation of stratified remains. This The Human Past: World Prehistory and the volume brings together Development of Human Societies information about little known, or recently By Christopher Scarre discovered, concentrations of shell mounds in areas The scope of this book is including Africa, the near East, South–east Asia and immense, as is its the Americas as well as new work on mounds in contribution to the study the classic areas including Denmark, the Pacific NW of archaeology. Within coast and Japan. Discussions are presented on new nineteen broad approaches to interpretation involving the use of geographical sections, ethnographic studies, analysis of molluscs, the use numerous specialists of shell as a raw material for making atefacts and in survey the span of human construction, and the variable formation processes prehistory, examining associated with mound formation. 320p b/w & col. key social developments, illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842177655 Hb £50.00 new and emerging technologies, and tracing the movement of human populations across the Origins of the World’s Mythologies globe and the development of human experience. By E. J. Michael Witzel Each discussion includes a review of key Focusing on the oldest able texts, buttressed by data controversies that have interested experts in that area from archeology, comparative linguistics and human for decades. The third edition is comprehensively population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a updated to take account of new discoveries, theories single original African source for our collective and interpretations, including sites such as myths, dating back some 100,000 years. Identifying Tianluoshan in China, techniques, such as DNA features shared by this “Out of Africa” mythology analysis and research areas such as the demography and its northern Eurasian offshoots, Witzel suggests of the pre-Colombian Americas. 784p, 753 illus, 211 that these common myths—recounted by the in col (Thames & Hudson 3rd ed 2013) 9780500290644 communities of the “African Eve”—are the earliest Pb £35.00 evidence of ancient spirituality. Moreover these Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate common features, Witzel argues, survive today in Imagination all major religions. 720p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013) By Christopher Collins 9780195367461 Hb £86.00, 9780199812851 Pb £30.00 Palaeopoetics maps the selective processes that World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: originally shaped the human genus millions of years A Characterization ago and prepared the human brain to play, imagine, Edited by Dan Hicks & Alice Stevenson empathize, and engage in fictive thought as mediated World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a by language. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, characterization introduces the range, history and Collins builds an evolutionary bridge between significance of the archaeological collections of the humans’ development of sensorimotor skills and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. In 29 newly- their achievement of linguistic cognition, bringing commissioned essays written by a specialist team, current scientific perspective to such issues as the the volume explores more than 136,000 artefacts from structure of narrative, the distinction between 145 countries, from the Stone Age to the modern metaphor and metonymy, the relation of rhetoric to period, and from England to Easter Island. 572p, b/ poetics, the relevance of performance theory to w and col illus (Archaeopress 2013) 9781905739585 Pb reading, the difference between orality and writing, £39.50 and the nature of play and imagination. 272p, b/w illus (Columbia UP 2013) 9780231160926 Hb £24.00 Human Evolution and British Prehistory 13

Evolution of Mind, Brain and Culture New from Oxbow By Gary Hatfield & Holly Pittman This book brings together the Quaternary History and Palaeolithic work of archaeologists, Archaeology in the Axe Valley at Broom, South cultural and physical West England anthropologists, psycholo- edited by R.T. Hosfield & C.P. Green gists, philosophers, geneti- This investigation of the cists, a neuroscientist, and an Lower Palaeolithic site at environmental scientist to Broom, Devon, highlights explore the evolution of the the huge potential of old human mind, the brain, and sites and the importance of the human capacity for the archaeological and culture. The volume geological legacy represents and critically resulting from more than engages with major theor- 150 years of field etical approaches, including Donald’s stage theory, investigations. The site, Mithen’s cathedral model, Tomasello’s joint which has produced large intentionality, and Boyd and Richerson’s modeling numbers of Palaeolithic of the evolution of culture in relation to climate artefacts, is generally change. The essays range in topic from the regarded as the most important open–air macroscopic (the evolution of social cooperation) to archaeological site of earlier Palaeolithic age in the microscopic (examining genetic data to infer south–western Britain. This volume seeks to explain evolutions in brain structure and function). 476p the distinctive character of its Acheulean (Pennsylvania UP 2013) 9781934536490 Hb £45.50 archaeology, the environmental conditions in which The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made the hominin occupants of the Axe valley flourished, Humans Unique and for how long. The setting of the Palaeolithic By Kim Sterelny archaeology within the unusual terrace deposits Over the last three million years or so, our lineage of the River Axe is explored and the local and global has diverged sharply from those of our great ape factors affecting it, including bedrock geology, relatives. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual tectonic uplift, climatic conditions and changing behavior, and foraging patterns have all shifted base-level, examined. 384p, 320 b/w + col illus. (Oxbow sharply away from other great apes. In The Evolved Books 2013) 9781842175200 Hb £60.00 Apprentice, Kim Sterelny argues that the divergence stems from the fact that humans gradually came to New in Paperback enrich the learning environment of the next generation. Humans came to co-operate in sharing information, and to cooperate ecologically and Image, Memory and Monumentality: reproductively as well, and these changes initiated Archaeological Engagements with the Material positive feedback loops that drove us further from World other great apes. 264p (MIT Press 2012) Edited by Andrew Meirion Jones, Joshua Pollard, 9780262016797 Hb £24.95 Julie Gardiner & Michael J. Allen Britain Begins Leading scholars in these 29 commissioned papers By Barry Cunliffe in honour of Richard Bradley discuss key themes Impressive in every sense, this hugely ambitious and in prehistoric archaeology assured book takes as its subject the entire history that have defined his of the British Isles from the end of the last Ice Age career, such as and their physical emergence as islands all the way monumentality, memory, down to the Norman Conquest. Cunliffe kicks off rock art, landscape, with an examination of the ways in which our material worlds and field ancestors have conceived the distant past, from practice. The scope is medieval myths to the dawn of modern archaeology. broad, covering both The remainder of the book is roughly chronological Britain and Europe, and in structure. Prominent themes include the ‘problem while the focus is very of origins’, where Cunliffe’s own research has been much on the archaeology of such significance, and the importance of of later prehistory, papers also address the communication, connectivity and cultural interconnection between prehistory and historic and transmission is emphasised throughout, with the contemporary archaeology. The result is a rich and Channel, the Atlantic and the North Sea seen as varied tribute to Richard’s energy and intellectual highways linking Britain and Ireland to the inspiration. 366p, 60 illustrations (Oxbow Books 2013) continent and building up an ongoing narrative 9781782973928 Pb £30.00 which is anything but narrowly insular. 553p, many col illus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199679454 Pb £20.00 14 Prehistoric Britain & Ireland

Forthcoming from Oxbow The Ebbsfleet Elephant: Excavations at Southfleet Road, Swanscombe in advance of The Quaternary of the Trent High Speed 1, 2003-4 Edited by David R. Bridgland, Andy J. Howard, Edited by Francis Wenban-Smith Mark J. White & Tom S. White This volume provides the full account of the This volume is an integrated discovery, excavation and subsequent analysis of rich overview and synthesis of and deeply buried archaeological horizons associated the available data relating to with the Hoxnian interglacial between about 425,000 the Quaternary evolution of and 375,000 years ago.The highlight of this work the River Trent. It provides was recovery of the remains of an extinct straight- detailed descriptions of the tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus Pleistocene sedimentary surrounded by the undisturbed scatter of flint tools records from the Trent, its used for its butchery, made and abandoned at the tributaries and related spot. 595p, 279 col illus (Oxford Archaeology 2013) drainage systems and the 9780904220735 Hb £25.00 ***NYP*** biostratigraphical and The Origins of the Irish archaeological material By J. P. Mallory preserved therein. Signi- In this new study Mallory emphasizes that the Irish ficant new data are presented from recently did not have a single origin, but are a product of discovered sites of geological and archaeological multiple influences that can only be tracked by importance, including previously unrecognised employing the disciplines of archaeology, genetics, fluvial deposits, as well as novel analyses, such as geology, linguistics, and mythology. After describing mathematical modelling of fluvial incision as the collision that fused the two halves of Ireland recorded by the river terrace deposits. 416p, 16p colour together, the origins of its first farmers and their DVD (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781842174616 Hb £30.00 monumental impact on the island is followed by an ***Only £22.95 until publication*** exploration of how metallurgists in copper, bronze, and iron brought Ireland into increasingly wider Gristhorpe Man: A Life and Death in the orbits of European culture. Assessments of Bronze Age traditional explanations of Irish origins are Edited by Nigel D. Melton, Christopher Knusel combined with the latest genetic research. 320p, b/w & Janet Montgomery illus (Thames and Hudson 2013) 9780500051757 Hb £19.95 In July 1834 excavation of a barrow at Gristhorpe near Scarborough recovered an intact, waterlogged, Star Carr: Life in Britain after the Ice Age oak coffin containing a By Nicky Milner, Barry Taylor, Chantal Conneller perfectly preserved Bronze & Tim Schadla-Hall Age skeleton that had been Star Carr is one of the most famous and important wrapped in an animal skin prehistoric sites in Europe. Dating from the early and buried with worked Mesolithic period, over 10,000 years ago, the site has flints, a bronze dagger with produced a unique range of artefacts and settlement a whalebone pommel, and a evidence. This book tells the story of the discovery bark vessel apparently of Star Carr, and brings it up-to-date with details of containing food residue. the current excavations. It also discusses other 2004 saw the opportunity important Mesolithic sites in Britain and Europe and for a scientific re- how these are transforming our view of life after examination of the burial the Ice Age. 124p, 53 figs full color (Council for British and grave goods. Analysis Archaeology 2013) 9781902771991 Pb £13.00 of the skeleton included an examination of its The Boyne Currach: From Beneath the skeletal morphology and palaeopathological conditions combined with isotopic analyses of the Shadows of Newgrange bones and teeth in order to investigate mobility, diet, By Claidhbh O Gibne and status. These analyses, combined with This book tells the fascinating story of a much-used examination of the surviving coffin lid, the grave vessel with prehistoric origins: the currach. An goods, and radiocarbon and dendrochronological overview of the history of the Boyne currach and dating, reveal fascinating insights into the social related skin boats is followed by a how-to guide with position, inter-regional contacts and the burial rite instructions on how to build your own currach, associated with this enigmatic mature man who including the materials needed, where to source probably saw active combat and who suffered from them, and how to master the age-old techniques of a benign brain tumour. 256p, b/w and col. illustrations weaving and binding. The final section of the book (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782972075 £50.00 details a unique attempt by the author to recreate the currach used by the builders of the Newgrange ***Only £40.00 until publication*** passage tombs. 168p, b/w and col illus (Four Courts Press 2013) 9781846823794 Pb £15.00 Prehistoric Britain & Ireland 15 Stonehenge Explained: Exploring the Greatest New from Windgather Press Stone Age Mystery By Michael Parker Pearson Building the Great Stone Circles of the North This book dicusses the results of the Stonehenge edited by Colin Richards Riverside Project (2003-2009), led by Mike Parker Of all prehistoric monu- Pearson: correcting previously erroneous ments, few are more chronology and dating; filling in gaps in our emotive than the great knowledge about its people and how they lived; stone circles that were identifying a previously unknown type of Neolithic built throughout Britain building; charting the discovery of Bluestonehenge, and Ireland. From the tall, a circle of 25 blue stones from western Wales; and elegant, pointed mono- confirming what started as a hypothesis - that liths of the Stones of Stonehenge was a place of the dead - through more Stenness to the grandeur than 64 cremation burials unearthed there, which of Stonehenge and the span the monument’s use during the third sarsen blocks at Avebury, millennium BC. 406p, col pls (Simon & Schuster Ltd circles of stone exert a 2013) 9780857207326 Pb £9.99 magnetic fascination to The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe those who venture into their sphere. In Britain today, more people visit these structures than any Bowmen: Excavations at Boscombe Down, other form of prehistoric monument and visitors Volume 1 stand in awe at their scale and question how and By A. P. Fitzpatrick why they were erected. Building the Great Stone Found a few kilometres from Stonehenge, the graves Circles of the North looks at the enigmatic stone of the Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen structures of Scotland and investigates the date to the 24th century BC and are two of the background of their construction and their cultural earliest Bell Beaker graves in Britain. This excavation significance. Beginning with a consideration of how report contains a series of wide-ranging studies and the stone structures of Western Scotland can be scientific analyses by an array of experts and a interpreted, the volume looks in detail at the context discussion of the graves within their British and of the circles and cairns from Orkney and the Outer continental European contexts. 240p, 77 col & b/w Hebrides – from quarrying the raw material to their illus (Wessex Archaeology 2011, Pb 2013) 9781874350620 symbolic role within the landscape – before widening Pb £25.00 out into a consideration of the societies who built A Gazetteer of Prehistoric Standing Stones in and used them and the myth and folklore that is Great Britain now embedded within these megaliths. 320p b/w and By Olaf Swarbrick col illus (Windgather Press 2013) 9781909686120 Pb This gazetteer sets out to list the prehistoric sites £39.95 with standing stones in Great Britain between the Scilly Isles and Shetlands. The entries are in the main Imperial College Sports Grounds and RMC based on personal observation, and the author does Land, Harlington: The development of not claim comprehensiveness, but this is nonetheless prehistoric and later communities in the Colne an impressive undertaking. The gazetteer contains Valley and on the Heathrow Terraces grid references, notes on the composition of the sites By Andrew B. Powell, Alistair Barclay, Lorraine and details of the physical size and appearance of the stones. Many of the stones are illustrated in Mepham & Chris J. Stevens colour sketches and black and white photos. 101p, These excavations revealed parts of an archaeological (BAR BS 558, Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309606 Pb landscape with a rich history of development from £25.00 before 4000 BC to the post-medieval period. Early to Middle Neolithic occupation was represented by Prehistoric Communities at Colne Fen, Earith: a rectangular ditched mortuary enclosure and a large Bronze Age Fieldsystems, Ring-Ditch spread of pits. A possible dispersed monument Cemeteries and Iron Age Settlement complex of three hengiform enclosures was By Christopher Evans, Matt Brudenell, Ricky associated with the rare remains of cremation burials Patten & Roddy Regan radiocarbon dated to the Middle Neolithic. Limited This volume forms the first in a series of books Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age activity was charting a decade of intensive fieldwork along a 2km identified, which is in stark contrast to the Middle stretch of the Colne Fen. Apart from relating the to Late Bronze Age when a formalised landscape of project’s palaeoenvironmental researches, it outlines extensive rectangular fields, enclosures, wells and the excavation of two ring-ditch monuments (with pits was established. A small, Iron Age and Romano- accompanying cremation cemeteries), major Middle British nucleated settlement was constructed, with Bronze Age fieldsystems and their accompanying associated enclosures flanking a trackway. 250p, 110 occupation clusters, and seven Iron Age settlements. b&w and col illus (Wessex Archaeology 2013) 288p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge Archaeological Unit 9781874350743 Hb £30.00 ***NYP*** 2013) 9780954482497 Hb £30.00 16 Prehistoric Britain & Ireland

Forthcoming Reprint Horton Kingsmead Quarry Volume 1 By Gareth Chaffey, Alistair Barclay & Ruth Pelling The Dover Bronze Age Boat in Context: Society Excavations at Kingsmead Quarry, Berkshire, have and Water Transport in Prehistoric Europe provided an opportunity to investigate a large multi- by Peter Clark period site with occupation dating back over 12,000 The discovery of the well years. This is the first of three volumes and covers preserved remains of a the results from 2003–2009. A range of structural Bronze Age boat in Dover evidence, augmented by considerable quantities of in 1992 was one of the artefactual and environmental information, show most important post-war Horton to have been a suitable and significant place finds in Britain. The boat for episodic settlement from the start of the Neolithic. was of a stitched oak A detailed account of the site is given in this volume, plank structure, and has whilst its position in the wider archaeological been dated to 1550 BC. To landscape of the Middle Thames Valley is discussed. mark the tenth 300p, b/w and col illus, 30 col plates (Wessex Archaeology anniversary of the boat’s 2013) 9781874350668 Hb £40.00, ***NYP*** discovery, a conference Prehistoric Settlement in the Lower Kennet was held in Dover in 2002. This publication brings Valley: Excavations at Green Park (Reading to a wider audience sixteen of the papers presented Business Park)Phase 3 and Moores Farm, there, allowing all those interested in this fascinating Burghfield, Berkshire relic to share in the findings of experts from all over By Adam Brossler, Fraser Brown, Erika Guttman Europe. Subjects include: evidence of the boat’s marine environment; the reconstruction of the boat; & Leo Webley boats as Bronze Age artefacts; British prehistoric The Green Park excavations shipbuilding; the use of model ships in uncovered a field system archaeological research; north-west European boats and occupation features before AD 400; the sewn-plank boats of the Humber; dating to the middle to late the prehistoric harbours of Kent; the environmental Bronze Age. Five context of the Dover boat; sea-faring voyages and waterholes or wells were rock art ships; social and religious perceptions of distributed across the field the ship in Bronze Age northern Europe; the heritage system, the waterlogged fills management of boats; the social role of the ship and of which preserved wooden the sea in Bronze Age Norway. 152p b/w illus (Oxbow revetment structures and Books 2004, reprint 2014) 9781842171394 Pb £30.00 valuable environmental evidence, as well as pottery. Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay, The Moores Farm excavations revealed occupation and other marine finds of the Bronze Age from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, middle Bronze Age and early Iron Age. The middle Bronze Age By Stuart P. Needham, Dave Parham & Catherine settlement included pits, ovens and possible post Frieman structures, and was again situated within a A haul of 361 bronzes from Langdon Bay, Kent, contemporaneous field system dotted with represents one of the largest waterholes. 150p, 75 illustrations and 38 tables (Oxford deposits from Bronze Age Archaeology 2013) 9781905905294 Pb £20.00 Europe. Dating to the thirteenth century BC, the Cliffs End Farm Isle of Thanet, Kent: A collection is diverse in Mortuary and Ritual site of the Bronze Age, character and originates in Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Period with various parts of western Evidence for Long-distance Maritime Mobility Europe and the British Isles. By Jacqueline I. McKinley, Matt Leivers, Jörn The assemblage from Schuster, Peter Marshall, Alistair Barclay & Nick Salcombe, Devon is of Stoodley similar date with a unique Excavations undertaken in 2004/5 uncovered a dense combination of types and area of archaeological remains including Bronze Age materials. For the first time, barrows and enclosures, and a large prehistoric maritime archaeologists, period specialists, scientists mortuary feature, as well as a small early 6th to late and coastal geomorphologists, bring together 7th century Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery. research on these two exceptional sites: history of English Heritage funded an extensive programme discovery, evaluation of context and character, of radiocarbon and isotope analyses, which have detailed scientific analyses and a fully illustrated produced some surprising results that shed new catalogue. 240p, 95 figs incl colour (CBA 2013) light on long distance contacts, mobility and 9781902771953 Pb £25.00 mortuary rites during later prehistory. 288p, b/w and col illus, 48 col plates (Wessex Archaeology 2013) 9781874350705 Hb £35.00 ***NYP*** Prehistoric Europe 17

The Iron Age on the Northumberland Coastal Europe Before Rome: A Site-by-Site Tour of the Plain: Excavations in advance of development Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages 2002-2010 By T. Douglas Price By N. Hodgson, Jonathan McKelvey & Warren Price takes the reader on a Muncaster guided tour through This book reports on three Iron Age earthwork- dozens of the most enclosure complexes (at Blagdon Park 2, East important prehistoric sites Brunton and West Brunton), excavated in 2002-8. on the continent, from As well as these three settlements several lesser and very recent discoveries to unenclosed sites and pit alignments are described, some of the most well- giving the most complete sample so far of the Iron known, like Chauvet, Age landscape in this area. Radiocarbon dates suggest Stonehenge, and Knossos. that the earthwork-enclosures were formed around He focuses on more than 200 BC as the latest phases on roundhouse 60 sites, organized settlements continuously occupied since the late chronologically according Bronze Age, whilst all of the sites reported here were to their archaeological time period and accompanied abandoned by the second-century AD, and probably by numerous colour photographs, maps, and not long after the construction of Hadrian’s Wall. drawings. Introductory prologues to each chapter 231p, b/w illus (Tyne and Wear Museums 2013) provide context for wider changes in human 9780905974903 Pb £19.95 behavior and society in the time period, while the author’s concluding remarks offer expert reflections Salt Production, Distribution and Use in the on the enduring significance of these places. 464p, British Iron Age col illus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199914708 Hb £30.00 By Janice Kinory The study of salt during British prehistory has Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind experienced an awakening during the past 40 years. By Jill Cook In this work the author explores the evidence for The accompanying title to the British Museum the production of salt in the coastal regions of Essex, exhibition, this book explores the masterpieces of along the south coast and at the Droitwich salt sculpture, drawing and decoration of the last Ice Age. springs. Models for, and implications of, salt Over 100 objects are featured, including small but distribution networks are considered and exquisite sculptures made from mammoth ivory, information is presented on how salt may have been engraved drawings, ceramic models, decorated used in the Iron Age and the social and ritual uses of objects and jewellery from the age of the great salt are also discussed. 171p, b/w illus (BAR BS 559, painted caves. The author examines them in a new Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309729 Pb £31.00 light, as works of aesthetic – not solely archaeological – interest, and as such forming part of an unbroken A Sacred Island: Iron Age, Roman and Saxon continuum of human creativity. 288p col illus (British Temples and Ritual on Hayling Island Museum Press 2013) 9780714123332 Hb £30.00 By Anthony King & Grahame Soffe Dissent with Modification: Human Origins, Excavations from 1976-81, as well as continuing work into the new Millennium, have revealed the Palaeolithic Archaeology and Evolutionary importance of Hayling Island as a major Iron Age Anthropology in Britain 1859-1901 and Roman religious site, with two successive Iron By John McNabb Age timber shrines discovered beneath a Roman This book explores the development of human temple. This booklet synthesises the results of the origins as a scientific debate in the years after 1859, excavations for a general audience. 44p, col illus drawing on archaeology, anthropology and human (Hayling Island Excavation Project 2013) 9781906113148 palaeontology, it sets the emerging discipline of Pb £5.00 Palaeolithic studies in its broader social and intellectual context, and shows how in its first forty Harvesting the Stars: A Pagan Temple at years the understanding of the Palaeolithic adapted Lismullin, Co. Meath to profound changes in the scientific knowledge of By Aidan O’Connell the origin of our species 377p, color & b/w illus Aimed at the informed general reader this well- (Archaeopress 2012) 9781905739523 Pb £29.95 produced book details the discovery, excavation and interpretation of an Iron Age post-enclosure at A Mind Set on Flint Lismullin. The author interprets the post-enclosure By M.L.J. Niekus, R.N.E. Barton, Thomas as an open-air pagan temple, exploring questions Terberger & Martin Street such as: Why was it built? Who built it? How was it A festschrift for Dick Stapert. The contributions cover used? Was it a venue for spectacular nocturnal rituals nearly 300,000 years of Human History, with topics imploring the Gods for a bountiful harvest? 206p, include the making and use of fire, children in the col illus, CD-Rom (Wordwell Ltd 2013) 9780957438002 Stone Age, spatial analysis, and other themes related Pb £25.00 to the study of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and beyond. 539p, col illus (Barkhuis 2012) 9789491431135 Hb £85.00 18 Prehistoric Europe New from Oxbow Unconformist Archaeology: Papers in Honour of Paolo Biagi The First Farmers of Central Europe: Diversity By Elisabetta Starnini in LBK Lifeways The twelve papers in this volume cover the fields of edited by Penny Bickle and Alasdair Whittle Paolo Biagi’s scientific activity, extending from the From about 5500 cal BC to prehistory from northern Italy, the Adriatic and the soon after 5000 cal BC, the Aegean, to the Indus Valley. The topics covered lifeways of the first farmers include the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, the of central Europe, the LBK Neolithization of the Mediterranean Basin, and culture, are seen in archaeometric approaches to prehistoric archaeology. distinctive practices of Other contributions are look at matters philosophical longhouse use, settlement and theoretical, and offer an original view of the forms, landscape choice, human past. 144p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2528, subsistence, material Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311463 Pb £32.00 culture and mortuary rites. The Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals Although showing many in Southwest Asia and Europe features in common across Edited by Sue Colledge, James Conolly, K. M. its very broad distribution, however, the LBK phenomenon was not everywhere Dobney, K. Manning & Stephen Shennan the same, and there is a complicated mixture of This volume tackles the fundamental and broad-scale uniformity and diversity. This major study takes a questions concerning the spread of early animal strikingly large regional sample, from northern herding from its origins in the Near East into Hungary westwards along the Danube to Alsace in Europe beginning in the mid-10th millennium BC, the upper Rhine valley, and addresses the question drawing together work by more than 30 of the extent of diversity in the lifeways of developed international researchers. The zooarchaeological and late LBK communities, through a wide–ranging record and discussions of the evolution and study of diet, lifetime mobility, health and physical development of Neolithic stock-keeping take center condition, the presentation of the bodies of the stage in the debate over the profound effects of the deceased in mortuary ritual. It uses an innovative Neolithic revolution on both our biological and combination of isotopic (principally carbon, nitrogen cultural evolution. 354p, (Left Coast Press 2013) and strontium, with some oxygen), osteological and 9781611323221 Hb £79.50 archaeological analysis to address difference and Tecnotipologia y Distribucion Espacial del change across the LBK, and to reflect on cultural Material Macrolitico del Cerro change in general. 608p b/w illus (Cardiff Studies in de la Virgen de Orce (Granada) Campañas Archaeology, Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842175309 Hb 1963-1970 : Una aproximación paleoeconómica £55.00 By Selina Delgado-Raack Cerro de la Virgen is a classic site on the Iberian peninsula for the Copper-Bronze Age transition. From Hand to Handle: The First Industrial Excavations in the 1960s and 1970s unearthed crucial Revolution stratigraphic sequences used for all later Copper/ By Lawrence Barham Bronze Age studies of the Iberian peninsula. This Our utter dependency on technology began with book examines all the stone tools from the site the first stone tools made more through which a new insight into the Los Millares than 2.6 million years ago, but culture is given. Spanish text. 257p, (BAR 2518, it was only with the invention Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311364 Pb £42.00 of hafting, some 500,000 years Counterpoint: Essays in Archaeology and ago, that technology took its Heritage modern form. For the first Edited by Serena Sabatini time, tools were made from This substantial festschrift celebrates Professor multiple parts combined into Kristian Kristiansens’s life and achievements with a working whole, requiring 88 papers by colleagues and friends from all over considerable planning based the world; they are divided into following sections: on an expert understanding of Beyond Academia; Landscape, Demography and the properties of the raw Subsistence Economy; Rituals, Hoards and materials involved. Yet it was Wetlands; Rock Art; Graves and Burial Monuments; the ability to imagine the final, integrated form of Materiality and Social Concerns; Technology and the tool which would have profound implications Craftsmanship; Travel and Transmission; for the human species. This volume brings together Problemizing the Past; Practices of Archaeology and evidence for the cognitive, social and technological Heritage Studies. 769p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2508, foundations that were necessary for this first Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311265 Pb £90.00 industrial revolution. 384p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199604715 Hb £75.00 Egypt 19

forthcoming from Oxbow Books Exploring Prehistoric Identity in North-West Europe Edited by Victoria Ginn, Rebecca Enlander & Rebecca Crozier Identity is relational and a construct, and is expressed in a myriad of ways. For example, material culture and its pluralist meanings have been readily manipulated by humans in a prehistoric context in order to construct personal and group identities. Artefacts were often from or reminiscent of far-flung places and were used to demonstrate membership of an (imagined) regional, or European community. Earthworks frequently archive maximum visual impact through elaborate ramparts and entrances, while variations in domestic architectural style also demonstrate the malleability of identity, and the prolonged, intermittent use of particular places for specific functions indicates that the identity of place is just as important in our archaeological understanding as the identity of people. By using a wide range of case studies, both temporally and spatially, these thought processes may be explored further and diachronic and geographic patterns in expressions of identity investigated. 176p, b/w and col. illus (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781842178133 Pb £35.00 ***Only £28.00 until publication*** Communicating with the World of Beings: The World Heritage rock art site in Alta, Arctic Norway By Knut Helskog The rock art found in the Alta area, Norway, comprises thousands of images including vast panels depicting many animals including reindeer and elk as well as fish, birds, boats, humans and geometric patterns. They provide much information about the people who lived in this northern area from about 5000 BC up until the birth of Christ; about their social organisation, hunting and trapping, beliefs, rituals, stories, legends, myths and culture, changes, continuity and history. In this beautifully illustrated book Knut Helskog provides a lyrical and personal interpretation of the chronology, patterning and possible meanings behind this extraordinary landscape of prehistoric rock art. 192p, col illus t/out (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782974116 Hb £35.00 ***Only £26.00 until publication***

Paths Towards a New World by Mats Larson and Geoffrey Lemdahl Covering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the Late Mesolithic to the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes the reader on a journey through the development of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against the backdrop of climatic and landscape change. Using examples selected from a wealth of archaeological sites, artefacts and palaeo-environmental studies he explores a series of chronological themes: such as how the relationship between land and water influenced people’s lives in many ways and the development of often long- distance cultural and exchange networks, as reflected in the occurrence of ‘foreign’ stone axes, flint, copper and pottery. 144p, b/w and col illus. (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782972570 Pb £35.00 ***Only £26.00 until publication***

Animal Secondary Products: Archaeological perspectives on domestic animal exploitation in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Edited by Haskel J. Greenfield Animal Secondary Products investigates animal exploitation and the animal economy from the end of the Neolithic to the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Near East and Europe. Incorporating current zooarchaeologial theory and cutting-edge methodological developments, it critically assesses Andrew Sherratt’s highly influential concept of a Secondary Products Revolution. The model presented here argues for a genuine shift in development with a combination of both primary (meat hide, bone) and secondary (milk, wool, traction) products. It conceptualises changes between the Neolithic and Bronze Age that dramatically transformed the nature of animal exploitation strategies, cultivation practices, land management strategies, nature of settlement, and political and economic organisation in Europe. 256p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782974017 Hb £65.00 ***Only £50.00 until publication*** 20 Prehistoric Europe

Ancestral Heaths: Reconstructing the Barrow The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Landscape in the Central and Southern Age Netherlands Edited by Anthony Harding & Harry Fokkens By Marieke Doorenbosch A wide-ranging survey of a In this book a detailed vegetation history of the crucial period in prehistory landscape around burial mounds is presented. Newly during which many social, obtained and extant data derived from palynological economic, and technolo- analyses taken from barrow sites are (re-)analysed. gical changes took place. It is argued that barrows were built on existing After an introduction and heaths, which had been, and continued to be a discussion of chronology, maintained for many thousands of years. The successive chapters deal barrow landscape was part of the economic zone of with settlement studies, farming communities, while the heath areas were burial analysis, hoards and used as grazing grounds. In fact, it is argued that hoarding, monumentality, these ancestral heaths were the most important rock art, cosmology, gender, factor in structuring the barrow landscape. 280p col and trade, as well as a series illus (Sidestone Press 2013) 9789088901928 Pb £48.00 - of articles on specific technologies and crafts (such only £42.00 until publication! ***NYP*** as transport, metals, glass, salt, textiles, and weighing). The second half of the book covers each The Stone of Life: The Archaeology of Quern country in turn. From Ireland to Russia, Mills and Flour Production in Europe up to Scandinavia to Sicily, every area is considered, and c.500 AD up to date information on important recent finds is by David Peacock discussed in detail. 979p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013) This book is about the archaeology of querns and 9780199572861 Hb £120.00 mills, simple stone instruments which are vital to Prehistory of Iberia: Debating Early Social survival in a society which adopts bread as its staple. It might be expected that as querns and mills are Stratification commonplace in archaeology, they would be key Edited by Maria Cruz Berrocal, Leonardo Garcia artefacts, studied exhaustively. Alas, this is far from Sanjuan & Antonio Gilman the case, although in the last decade there has been The study of social stratification and state formation burgeoning interest throughout much of Europe has played a large part in recent Spanish and because of this, it is timely to survey the subject, archaeological research; in this volume a group of adopting a broad viewpoint. A study on this scale Spanish scholars reassess the origins of these has not been attempted since the late nineteenth processes, and make their findings more widely able century. 220p b/w and col illus (The Highfield Press 2014) to the English speaking world. After three chapters 9780992633608 Hb £40.00 - special offer - only £36.00 providing broader theoretical overviews, a range of until the end of 2013! case studies are presented. The authors, writing largely from historical-materialist perspectives, but Bronze Age Warfare: Manufacture and use of drawing on a wide range of contemporary Weaponry theoretical approaches, emphasise the complexity and edited by Marion Uckelmann & Marianne diversity of processes involved in early social Modlinger stratification and the importance of regional and The articles in this volume cover aspects relating to historical factors. A further focus is the place of archaeometallurgy, functional analyses, experimental resistance to institutionalised exploitation as a factor work and use-wear analysis to investigate the use in the dynamics of state formation. 423p (Routledge and manufacture of European Bronze Age weaponry. 2013) 9780415885928 Hb £80.00 This includes but is by no means limited to swords, Tollund Man: Gift to the Gods halberds, bows and arrows, as well as defensive objects like shields and helmets. 219p, b/w illus (BAR By Christian Fischer 2255, Archaeopress 2011) 9781407308227 Pb £41.00 On 6th may 1950 villagers from Tollund in southern Denmark discovered a corpse so fresh that they Tumuli Graves: Status Symbol of the Dead in believed they had discovered a recent murder victim. Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe The police were baffled by the body and, in an attempt Edited by Valeriu Sirbu & Christian Schuster to identify the time of death, brought in archaeology These essays range across the Bronze and Iron Ages professor, P. V. Glob. Upon initial examination Glob and across Europe to present a broad investigation suggested that the body was over two thousand of the phenomenon of Tumuli graves. Topics years old and most likely the victim of a sacrifice. addressed include the monuments and their internal This book, written by the director of the museum at fittings; grave goods and social status, gender and which Tollund man has resided since his discovery, age; figurative representations and the symbolism presents the investigations into this enigmatic figure of colour in burial chambers; military equipment; and tells the story of his life and death based upon clothing and jewelry; animal (and human?) sacrifice; the evidence of the archaeological record. 192p, b/w post-burial ritual. 92p b/w illus (BAR 2396, and col illus (The History Press 2012) 9780752486352 Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309897 Pb £23.00 Pb £17.99 Prehistoric Europe & Asia 21

Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe New from Oxbow By Ian Armit Evidence for the removal, Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts curation and display of heads and Traditions: Contributions to Current in Iron Age Europe ranges Research in Indology Volume I from classical literary edited by Nina Mirnig, Peter-Daniel Szanto and references to iconography Michael Williams and skeletal remains. In September 2009 young Traditionally, this material researchers and graduate has been associated with a students in this field came Europe-wide ‘head-cult’, and together to present their used to support the idea of a cutting-edge work at the unified Celtic culture in first International Indology prehistory. This book Graduate Research demonstrates instead how headhunting and head- Symposium, which was veneration were practised across a range of diverse held at Oxford University. and fragmented Iron Age societies. Using case studies This volume, the first in a from France, Britain and elsewhere, it explores the new series which will complex and subtle relationships between power, publish the proceedings of religion, warfare and violence in Iron Age Europe. the Symposium, will make important contributions 272p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2012) 9780521877565 to the study of the classical civilisation of the Indian Hb £60.00 sub-continent. The series, edited by Nina Mirnig, Warfare and Violence in the Iron Age of Péter-Dániel Szántó and Michael Williams, will strive Southern France to cover a wide range of subjects reaching from By Mags McCartney literature, religion, philosophy, ritual and grammar This study aims to identify patterns of warfare in to social history, with the aim that the research the southern French Iron Age through examination published will not only enrich the field of classical of the documentary, settlement, iconographic and Indology but eventually also contribute to the osteological evidence. The best known aspects of the studies of history and anthropology of India and archaeological material and literary sources suggest Indianised Central and South-East Asia. 486p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842173855 Pb £38.00 a society in which warfare was an overriding preoccupation. This case study, however, offers a more nuanced and contextual interpretation and Silk Roads of the Northern Tibetan Plateau demonstrates how, if treated as a form of social during the Early Middle Ages: (from the Han interaction, rather than a breakdown in social to Tang Dynasty) norms, warfare might be integrated into wider archaeological interpretations of social and political By Tao Tong change. 156p, b/w illus (BAR 2403, Archaeopress 2012) This work analyses the history and archaeological 9781407309989 Pb £29.00 evidence reflecting the Han Chinese, Tuyuhun and Tibetan domination of the northern Tibetan Plateau, Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: on which the Qinghai Silk Road features. It focuses Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the on the Tuyuhun-Tubo elite cemeteries and artefacts, Iron Age and Roman Periods including silks, gold and silver objects, coffin By Alex Mullen paintings and other significant findings made during The Celtic-speaking communities of Southern Gaul the past decades. The result gives fresh insights into interacted with the ancient Mediterranean world the complicated cultural dimensions and interactions during a period of constantly evolving cultural along the Silk Road, which contributed greatly to configurations. Using sociolinguistics and the shaping of the Tibetan culture. 195p b/w illus (BAR archaeology, this book investigates evidence for 2521, Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311395 Pb £34.00 multilingualism and multiple identities from the Chariots in Early China : Origins, cultural foundation of Greek Marseille in 600 BC to the final interaction, and identity phases of Roman Imperial power. 473p, b/w illus By Hsiao-yun Wu (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107020597 Hb £65.00 This book concerns the adaption of a steppe Connections and Complexity: New innovation, the horse-drawn chariot, in Chinese Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia society during the 12th – 3rd century BCE. The By Shinu Abraham, Praveena Gullapalli, Teresa P. importance of the steppe driving skill in warfare, Raczek & Uzma Rizvi and political and ritual ceremonies in Chinese society Contributions focus on four major themes: not only brought a number of steppe people to serve reinterpreting material culture; identifying domains in Chinese states, but also largely transformed and regional boundaries; articulating complexity; Chinese social, political, and burial practices, and and modelling interregional interaction. 352p, b/w value systems. 135p, (BAR 2457, Archaeopress 2013) illus (Left Coast Press 2013) 9781598746860 Hb £70.50 9781407310657 Pb £28.00 22 World Archaeology forthcoming from Oxbow Books Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area: The History, Origin, and Development of Irrigated Agriculture by B. V. Adrianov, edited by Simone Mantellini Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area, is the English translation of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov’s work concerning the study of ancient irrigation systems and the settlement pattern in the historical region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan). This work holds a special place within the Soviet archaeological school because of the results obtained through a multidisciplinary approach combining aerial survey and fieldwork, surveys, and excavations. This translation has been enriched by the addition of introductions written by several eminent scholars from the region regarding the importance of the Khorezm Archaeological–Ethnographic Expedition and the figure of Boris V. Andrianov and his landmark study almost 50 years after the original publication. 300p (American School of Prehistoric Research monograph, Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842173848 Hb £20.00 ***Only £16.95 until publication***

The Social Lives of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third Millennium BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa (Pakistan) by Sharri R. Clark After more than 80 years of research, the Indus Civilization (ca. 2600–1900 BC) remains largely enigmatic. In this geographically extensive civilization, which still has no known monumental art and undeciphered texts, the largest corpus of representational art at many Indus sites is terracotta figurines. This research examines the figurines from the urban site of Harappa (ca. 3300–1700 BC) as reflections of some of the underlying structures of Indus society and cultural change, focusing particularly on figurines from securely dated archaeological contexts. 512p, b/w illus, CD containing appendices with 928 pages of col and b/w images (American School of Prehistory Monograph, Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842174555 Hb £20.00 ***Only £16.95 until publication*** Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume 2 Edited by Giovanni Ciotti, Alastair Gornall & Paolo Visigalli Puspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium and presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre- modern South Asian cultures with papers covering a variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of the region. Focusing on textual sources in the languages in which they were composed, different disciplinary perceptions are offered on intellectual history, linguistics, philosophy, literary criticism and religious studies. 224p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782974154 Pb £28.00

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Prehistory of the Western Sahara: A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009 By Jo Clarke & Nick Brooks During the last ten years, the Western Sahara Project has undertaken large scale archaeological and environmental research that has begun to address the gaps in our knowledge of the archaeology and palaeoenvironments of Western Sahara, and to develop narratives of prehistoric cultural adaptation and change from the end of the Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. A detailed discussion of past environmental change and a presentation of the environmental results are provided. A typology of built stone features – monuments and funerary architecture is presented, focusing on stone features, but also including discussion of ceramics and rock art and the analysis of lithic assemblages. Chapters focusing on intensive survey work in key study areas consider the landscape contexts of monuments and the results of excavation of burial cairns and artefact scatters. 328p, b/w illus with 32pp colour plates (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782971726 Pb £55.00

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The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: Beyond Edited by Peter Mitchell & Paul Lane Pharaohs This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up- By Douglas J. Brewer to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering Egyptologists, art historians, the entirety of the continent’s past from the philologists, and beginnings of human evolution to the anthropological archaeo- archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As logists have long worked side well as covering almost all periods and regions of by side in Egypt, but they the continent, it includes a mixture of key often fail to understand one methodological and theoretical issues and debates, another’s approaches. This and situates the subject’s contemporary practice book aims to introduce within the discipline’s history and the infrastructural students to the archaeological challenges now facing its practitioners. 1052p, B/W side of the study of ancient illus (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199569885 Hb £120.00 Egypt and to bridge the gap The Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol. 4: Excavations between disciplines by explaining how archaeologists tackle a variety of problems. Douglas at Old Jarma (Ancient Garama) J. Brewer introduces the theoretical reasoning for edited by David J. Mattingly each approach, as well as the methods and This volume presents the results of excavations and techniques applied to support it. 210p, b/w illus survey work at the site of Old Jarma, identifiable (Cambridge UP 2012) 9780521880916 Hb £60.00, with the Garamantian capital, Garama, that also 9780521707343 Pb £18.99 had a long after-life in Medieval and Early Modern times. The Fazzan Project revealed an extraordinary Tausret: Forgotten Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt urban story, spanning 10 major construction phases Edited by Richard Wilkinson that extended from c.400 BC to the AD 1930s. The Tausret ruled Egypt as successively Queen, regent detailed publication of the complex stratigraphic and Pharaoh in her own right in the years around evidence and the accompanying finds assemblages 1200 BCE, and is now becoming the focus of the opens a fascinating window on the cultural heritage kind of concerted study that has long been accorded and lifeways of a central Saharan oasis. 700p b/w better-known female Pharaohs such as Cleopatra and illus, CD-Rom (Society for Libyan Studies 2013) Hb Hatsheptsut. This volume collects together that £95.00 work, with leading scholars contributing chapters reviewing the role of royal women in Egypt, the reign Ancient Egypt Investigated: 101 Important of Tausret herself, her representation in her Questions and Intriguing Answers monuments, and exploring in depth her tomb and By Thomas Schneider her temple in the Valley of the Kings. 145p, b/w illus, Here Thomas Schneider asks col pls (Oxford UP 2012) 9780199740116 Hb £22.50 ‘What are the 101 single most important questions about Ancient Egyptian Administration ancient Egypt’ The questions Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia he has chosen - and the Ancient Egyptian Administration provides the first answers he provides - range comprehensive overview of the structure, from the surprising ‘Why did organization and evolution of the pharaonic upper class Egyptians never administration from its origins to the end of the Late wear a beard?’ to the profound Period. The book not only focuses on bureaucracy, ‘Was ancient Egypt a culture departments, and official practices but also on more of death?’ and the provocative informal issues like patronage, the limits in the actual ‘What do we not know about exercise of authority, and the competing interests ancient Egypt?’. 282p, b/w illus between institutions and factions within the ruling (Tauris & Co Ltd 2013) 9781780762302 Hb £18.99 elite. Furthermore, general chapters devoted to the best-documented periods in Egyptian history are Diachronic Trends in Ancient Egyptian supplemented by more detailed ones dealing with History: Studies dedicated to the memory of Eva specific archives, regions, and administrative Pardey problems. 1100p (Brill 2013) 9789004249523 Hb £245.00 Edited by Miroslav Bárta & Hella Küllmer Titles and Bureaux of Egypt 1850-1700 BC The book includes contributions from the following By Stephen Quirke authors: Hartwig Altenmüller, Ladislav Bareš, A thematic dictionary of the most important titles of Miroslav Bárta, Andreas Effland, Martin Fitzenreiter, the Late Middle Kingdom, with a short description Hans Goedicke, Peter Jánosi, Dieter Kurth, Christian and short bibliography for each title. 154p, b/w ilust Loeben, Juan Carlos Moreno García, Jana with contents (Golden House Publications 2013) Mynár˜ová, Anthony Spalinger, Miroslav Verner, 9780954721800 Pb £25.00 Hana Vymazalová, Wolfgang Waitkus. 221p (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2013) 9788073084448 £29.00 ***NYP*** 24 Egypt New from Oxbow Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation By Ian Shaw Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of Ancient This book draws not only on Egypt traditional archaeological edited by A. J. Shortland and C. Bronk Ramsey and textual sources but also This volume presents the on the results of scientific findings of a major analyses of ancient materials international project on the and on experimental and application of radiocarbon ethno-archaeological dating to the Egyptian information. Although the historical chronology. principal aim is to bring Researchers from the together evidence for different Universities of Oxford and aspects of Egyptian technolo- Cranfield in the UK, along gical development, it also with a team from France, examines wider cognitive and social contexts, such Austria and Israel, as the ancient Egyptian propensity for mental radiocarbon dated more creativity and innovation. Shaw considers those than 200 Egyptian objects aspects of Egyptian society that made it predisposed made from plant material from museum collections (or not) to certain types of innovation, e.g. from all over the world. The results comprise an techniques of metalworking, transportation and accurate scientifically based chronology of the kings construction. 160p (Duckworth 2013) 9780715631188 of ancient Egypt, documenting the various rulers Pb £19.99 of Egypt’s Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. The Representations of the Family in the Egyptian radiocarbon dates nail down a chronology that is Old Kingdom: Women and Marriage broadly in line with previous estimates. However, By Kim McCorquodale they do rule out some chronologies that have been In their tomb chapels, officials recorded scenes of put forward particularly in the Old Kingdom, which ritual and daily life which often include close family is shown to be older than some scholars thought. members. This study examines this material and 192p, 80 b/w + col illus. (Oxbow Books, 2012) other data relating to the female relatives of these 9781842175224 pb £48.00 officials to establish the place of wives and other females in the tomb owner’s family and to arrive at Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece an understanding of the institute of marriage in the By Veronique Dasen Old Kingdom. A particular focus is the incidence of This volume brings together for the first time a whole polygamy in this official class. 131p (BAR 2513, range of mostly Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311319 Pb £44.00 unpublished or little- The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical known iconographic, Study epigraphic, literary, and anthropological evidence By James P. Allen for dwarfs in the ancient This book examines how the phonology and world. Dasen covers such grammar of the ancient Egyptian language changed areas as the history of from the first appearance of written documents, to caricature and the portrait; the Coptic dialects of the second century AD. It medical history and the discusses phonology, working backward from the development of the vowels and consonants of Coptic to those that can perception of congenital be deduced for earlier stages of the language, as well disorders; social history; as grammar, including both basic components such ethnography; and history of religion, with as nouns and the complex history of the verbal questions on the magical and ritual efficiency of the system. 254p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013) malformed in sacred and theatrical contexts. 354p, 9781107032460 Hb £55.00, 9781107664678 Pb £19.99 80 b/w pls, many figs (Oxford UP 2013) 9780199680863 Aspects of Demotic Orthography Pb £40.00 Edited by S. P. Vleeming Nefer: the Aesthetic Ideal in Classical Egypt Although we feel confident that, at least in theory, By Willie Cannon-Brown we thoroughly understand these scripts, practical This book provides an original treatment of the difficulties in reading the cursive variants of hieratic concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks and demotic remain. In their variety, the studies to examine the dimensions of ‘nefer’, the term used presented in these papers bear witness to the rich to describe the good and the beautiful, within the texture of demotic script by investigating several context of ordinary life. 116p (Routledge 2006, Pb 2013) parameters by which it may be measured, including 9781135862305, Hb £90.00, 9780415650380 Pb £26.00 the reading of individual signs and grammatical categories such as verbal morphology. 184p, (Peeters Press 2013) 9789042929012 Pb £80.00 Egypt 25

Going out in Daylight – prt m hrw: The Ancient City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Egyptian Book of the Dead - translation, its People sources, meanings By Barry J. Kemp By Stephen Quirke Amarna holds a dual This translation with Egyptian transliteration, fascination as both the presents all the compositions on prt m hrw Book of only complete Ancient the Dead papyri from the New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Egyptian city to be Period. The volume gives and illustrates at least one excavated, and as the version of every written composition. Writings at newly founded capital city the margins or outside the prt m hrw corpus, of Akhenaten, whose including all ascribed Book of the Dead numbers in reign saw such radical Egyptological publications, are included in the final departures in religious section. The translations are supported by a thematic ideology and in the and historical introduction and closing glossary. portrayal of the pharaoh 641p (Golden House Publications 2013) 9781906137311 himself. Barry Kemp has excavated at Amarna for Pb £70.00 over thirty years and is the ideal guide to the city. In the superbly illustrated and beautifully written Architecture, Astronomy and Sacred Landscape survey he describes its planning and construction, in Ancient Egypt its temples and royal buildings, and above all what By Giulio Magli it can tell us about the daily lives of its people. In so This book examines the interplay between doing he also explores Akhenaten’s motivations and astronomy and dynastic power in the course of the way that his vision was played out in this urban ancient Egyptian history, focusing on the setting. He shows how urban space was conceived fundamental role of astronomy in the creation of as comprising a series of interlinked “urban villages” the pyramids and the monumental temple and burial and how the city’s economy was geared to serving complexes. Using a variety of data retrieved from the state, but was at the same time dependent on study of the sky and measurements of the buildings, benefactions in terms of food. 320p, b/w and col illus Magli establishes an intimate relationship among (Thames and Hudson 2012) 9780500051733 Hb £29.95 celestial cycles, topography, and architecture. He also shows how they were deployed in the ideology of Akhenaten’s Workers: The Amarna Stone the pharaoh’s power in the course of Egyptian Village Survey, 2005-9. Volume I. The Survey, history. 272p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013) Excavations and Architecture 9781107032088 Hb £60.00 By A. Stevens Bahriya Oasis: Recent Research into the Past From 2005 to 2009 a survey and excavation project was undertaken at the Stone Village, a small of an Egyptian Oasis settlement on the eastern desert plain of Amarna. This Edited by Marek Dospìl & Lenka Suková was the first concerted effort to record this site, and This book presents the outcomes of the recent introduce it into the story of Amarna. The fieldwork exploration of Bahriya, an Egyptian oasis located in revealed a community of labourers likely engaged in the Western Desert about 350 km south-west of tomb-cutting and related tasks, including at the Cairo. Part I of the volume is devoted to the southern Royal Tombs, but of lesser social standing than the part of the Oasis (also known as El-Hayz) and the occupants of the Workmen’s Village. 467p, b/w illus exploration carried out there by the team led by the (Egypt Exploration Society 2012) 9780856982088 Pb Czech Institute of Egyptology. Part II concentrates £65.00 on the northern part of the same oasis publishing the results of scholarly research by the French team Akhenaten’s Workers: The Amarna Stone led by Université de Strasbourg. A final chapter deals Village Survey, 2005-9. Volume II. The Faunal with water-management in the Western Desert as a and Botanical Remains, and Objects whole. 314p col pls (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2013) By A. Stevens 9788073084561 Hb £73.00 ***NYP*** 398p, b/w illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2012) Kom Firin II: The Urban Fabric and Landscape 9780856982095 Pb £65.00 by Neal Spencer The Chapel of Kahai and His Family The second and final publication of the British By Miral Lashien Museum's fieldwork at Kom Firin, presenting key This publication offers magnificently rich colour findings from the western Nile Delta, a little-explored plates and line drawings showing all the intricate yet strategically important area of Egypt. Focusing details of the scenes and inscriptions of this richly on two principal areas of the excavations, inside the decorated Old Kingdom tomb. Contrary to the belief north-eastern corner of the New Kingdom enclosure that Nefer prepared the joint tomb for himself and and an area of Saite occupation, the book offers a his father Kahai, the author shows that we have here detailed discussion of artefact assemblages, faunal a rare case of a son dying before his father with the remains, the ancient landscape and a chapter on latter adding an alcove dedicated for his son in his modern Kom Firin. 304p, b/w illus (British Museum chapel. 56p, 76 col pls, 11 b&w pls (Australian Centre for Press 2013) 9780861591923 Pb £45.00 ***NYP*** Egyptology 2013) 9780856688362 Pb £75.00 26 Egypt

The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Waterborne Power Interpretation Edited by Kostas Buraselis By Ari Z. Bryen With its emphasis on the dynasty’s concern for Over a hundred papyrus control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the petitions, submitted to local Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and and imperial officials, in original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key which individuals from the period of Hellenistic history. Within the developing Egyptian countryside sought Aegean empire of the Ptolemies, the role of the navy redress for acts of violence is examined together with that of its admirals. committed against them, Egypt’s close relationship to Rhodes is subjected to survive. By assembling these scrutiny, as is the constant threat of piracy to the long-neglected materials (also transport of goods on the Nile and by sea. 294p, b/w translated as an appendix to illus (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107033351 Hb £60.00 the book) and putting them Loi et coutume dans l’Égypte grecque et in conversation with contempo-rary perspectives romaine: Les facteurs de formation du droit en from legal anthropology and social theory, Bryen shows how legal stories were used to work out Égypte d’Alexandre le Grand à la conquête relations of deference within local communities. arabe Rather than a simple force of imperial power, an open By Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski legal system allowed petitioners to define their The book is devoted to the study of legal sources in relationships with their local adversaries while Egypt during the millennium from the rule of contributing to the body of rules and expectations Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest. They are by which they would live in the future. 363p known through documents, mostly Greek, but also (University of Pennsylvania Press 2013) 9780812245080 in Egyptian and Latin, written on papyri. The study Hb £49.00 of legal sources introduces the reader to the variety of problems steming from the papyrological L’Architecture et les pratiques funéraires dans documents. French text. (Journal of Juristic Papyrology l’Égypte romaine.: Volume I: Synthese. Volume 2014) Hb £68.00 ***NYP*** II Catalogue The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt By Gael Cartron Thanks to extensive excavations carried out since By Christina Riggs the 1980s, our knowledge of necropoles used during Roman Egypt is a critical the Roman period in Egypt has been considerably area of interdisciplinary enriched. This study includes a catalogue of 325 such research, which has steadily funerary sites, 214 of which are well documented, expanded since the 1970s and and helps to clarify our understanding of the varied continues to grow. This architectural forms, including pit graves with raised handbook draws together surface structures (pyramids, columns and chapels), many different strands of hypogea with steps or sloping access, rock-cut research on Roman Egypt, tombs, sarcophagi placed in the open, sepulchres in order to suggest both the with surface loculi, and tombs shaped as houses or state of knowledge in the temples French text. 630p b/w illus (BAR 2398, field and to explore possible Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309934 Pb £80.00 areas of future research. Its 45 essays are arranged in seven thematic sections: The Cambridge History of Religions in the land and state; city, town and chora; people; religion; Ancient World texts and language; images and objects; and borders, By Michele Renee Salzman trade and tourism. 816p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012) The essays in these volumes 9780199571451 Hb £95.00 have a broad reach, covering Family in Roman Egypt the ancient Near East and By Sabine Hubner Mediterranean, and extending from the Bronze Age into the This study captures the dynamics of the everyday late Roman period. The family life of the common people in Roman Egypt. contributors incorporate a The book discusses such things as family composition wide spectrum of textual and and household size and the differences between material evidence into their urban and rural families, exploring what can be analyses of their fields. The ascribed to cultural patterns, economic regional and historical considerations and/or individual preferences by orientations of the essays will enable readers to see setting the family in Roman Egypt into context with how a religious tradition or movement assumed a other pre-modern societies where families adopted distinctive local identity, as well as to understand such strategies to deal with similar exigencies of their how each tradition developed within its broader daily lives. 272p, (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107011137 regional context. 1002p, 2 vols, b/w illus (Cambridge Hb £60.00 UP 2013) 9781107019997 Hb £135.00 Near East 27

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The Neolithisation of Iran edited by Roger Matthews, Hassan Fazeli Nashli and Yaghoub Mohammadifar The significant role of Iran in the early stages of the transition to sedentism was recognised more than half a century ago but has not been to the fore of academic consciousness in recent decades. In the meantime, investigations into Neolithic transformation have proceeded apace in all other regions of the Fertile Crescent and beyond. Here, 18 studies attempt to redress that balance in re–assessing the role of Iran in the early neolithisation of human societies. These studies, many of them by Iranian scholars, consider patterns of change and/or continuity across a variety of topographical landscapes; investigate Neolithic settlement patterns, the use of caves, animal exploitation and environmental indicators and present new insights into some well–known and some newly investigated sites. 272p (BANEA, Oxbow Books 2013) 9781782971900 Pb £38.00

Rough Cilicia: New Historical and Archaeological Approaches edited by Michael C. Hoff and Rhys F. Townsend The region of Rough Cilicia (modern area the south–western coastal area of Turkey), known in antiquity as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the western part of the larger area of Cilicia. The twenty–two papers presented here give a useful overview on current research on Rough Cilicia, from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period. The first two articles deal with the Bronze and Iron Ages, and refer to the questions of colonization, influences, and relations. The following four articles concern the pirates of Cilicia and Isauria. Six papers publish work on Roman architecture: architectural decoration, council houses, Roman temples, bath architecture, cenotaph, and public buildings. Ceramics are not neglected whilst six papers cover the Early Christian and Byzantine periods and cover rural habitat, trade, the Kilise Tepe settlement, late Roman churches, Seleucia, and the miracles of Thekla. 320p, 260 col illus. (Oxbow Books, 2012) 9781842175187 hb £60.00

The Later Prehistory of the Badia: Excavation and Surveys in Eastern Jordan, Volume 2 by A. V. G. Betts, with D. Cropper, L. Martin and C. McCartney The Jordanian badia is an arid region that has been largely protected from modern development by its extreme climate and has preserved a remarkably rich record of its prehistoric past. This is the second of two volumes to document extensive surveys and excavations in the region from Al-Azraq to the Iraqi border over the period 1979- 1996. Broadly, it covers the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the eastern badia, which witnessed a spread of campsites and short-term occupation, as well as the first appearance of sheep and goat as one element of the steppic economy alongside traditional practices of hunting and foraging. 240p (Oxbow Books in association with the Council for British Research in the Levant, 2012) 9781842174739 Hb £48.00

Souvenirs and New Ideas edited by Diane Fortenberry During the 18th and 19th centuries, many travellers aimed to record their travels through Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and Turkey by collecting souvenirs and mementos of places they had visited. Souvenirs and New Ideas explores the human desire to retain the memory of a journey by ‘collecting objects’ with a series of essays examining the motivation of a variety of different travellers ranging from intrepid female solo travellers to European royalty. The acquisitions of these individuals ranged from tales of folklore and academic knowledge to the wholesale looting of Egyptian antiquities. Although the habit of ‘collecting antiquities’ is deplored and condemned today, this volume sheds light on the attitudes behind the practice and seeks to strengthen our current beliefs about the value of cultural patrimony. 200p (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842178157 Pb £25.00 28 Near East New from Oxbow Books Cultures in Contact: From Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Late Palaeolithic and By Joan Aruz, Sarah Graff & Yelena Rakic Neolithic Communities of the Jordanian Steppe. These essays explore interconnections among the The Azraq Basin Project Volume 1: Project rich and complex Bronze Age civilizations extending Background and the Late Palaeolithic (Geological from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean, ranging Context and Technology) from reports of new archaeological discoveries and by Andrew N. Garrard and Brian Byrd interpretations of material culture, to innovative Beyond the Fertile Crescent is investigations of literary, historical, and political aspects of interactions among these great powers. the first volume of the Azraq 320p, col illus (Yale UP 2013) 9780300185034 Pb £35.00 Project, a large-scale archaeological and palaeo- Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the environmental survey and Ancient Near East excavation project under- By Omur Harmansah taken between 1982 and 1989 During the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200–850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly in the ecologically diverse performative official discourse that revolved around sub-region of the Azraq Basin constructing cities, cultivating landscapes, building in north-central Jordan: an watercourses, erecting monuments, and initiating area rich in Palaeolithic and public festivals. This volume combs through Neolithic archaeology. archaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural, and Beginning with an overview to the Project aims, a environmental evidence to tell the story of a region detailed analysis of past and present environments and from the perspective of its spatial practices, landscape land use and the history of excavation in the Basin, history, and architectural technologies. It argues that Beyond the Fertile Crescent explores the geology, the cultural processes of the making of urban spaces stratigraphy and dating of the Late Palaeolithic sites shape collective memory and identity as well as sites of political performance and state spectacle. 372p, b/ and provides a detailed description of the technology w illus (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107027947 Hb £65.00 and typology of the lithic assemblages from the sites. These are then compared with those from the wider Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Levant, in order to explore possible links between Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India technological traditions and social groups in order to By Getzel M. Cohen understand the evidence for settlement strategies across In this book, Cohen provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on the region. 448p (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2013) all the Graeco-Macedonian settlements founded (or 9781842178331 Hb £45.00 refounded) in the East. Organized geographically, Cohen pulls together discoveries and debates from The Oxford Handbook of the State in the dozens of widely scattered archaeological and Ancient Near East and Mediterranean epigraphic projects, making a distinct contribution Edited by Peter F. Bang & W. Scheidel to ongoing questions and opening new avenues of This Handbook offers a comprehensive survey of inquiry. 440p, (University of California Press 2013) ancient state formation in 9780520273825 Hb £59.00 western Eurasia and North Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology Africa. Eighteen experts of the Early Dynastic Temple introduce readers to a wide By Jean M. Evans variety of systems spanning This book examines the sculptures created during 4,000 years, from the earliest the Early Dynastic period (2900-2350 BC) of Sumer, known states in world a region corresponding to present-day southern history to the Roman Empire Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple and its successors. It seeks to complexes, some 550 Early Dynastic stone statues understand the inner of human figures carved in an abstract style have workings of these states by survived. 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The Earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-E Abad and Jani edited by Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews and Yaghoub Mohammadifar Over a period of several millennia, from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene (c. 13,000-7000 BC), communities in south-west Asia developed from hunter-foragers to villager-farmers, bringing fundamental changes in all aspects of life.Two vital and consistent aspects of change were a shift from mobile to sedentary lifestyles and increasingly intensive human management of animal and plant resources. Building on earlier campaigns of archaeological investigation, the current phase of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project is designed to explore these issues in one key region. Two Early Neolithic mounds were excavated: Sheikh-e Abad in the high Zagros and Jani, in the foothills of the Mesopotamian plains, each comprising up to 10 m depth of deposits indicating occupation spanning over 2000 years, and providing great scope for diachronic and spatial analyses. 224p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782972235 Pb £40.00 ***Only £30.00 until publication*** The Proto-Elamite Settlement and Its Neighbors: Tepe Yaya Period IVC By Benjamin Mutin & C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky The site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran is famous, among other important aspects, for the Proto-Elamite complex dated to around 3000 BC (Period IVC). In addition to a synthesis of the Proto-Elamite period and the material assemblage at Tepe Yahya, This study provides an updated review and comprehensive discussion of the Proto-Elamite sphere, its relations to Mesopotamia, and its eastern Middle Asian neighbors. It illustrates that the “multi-cultural” situation at Tepe Yahya Period IVC was present across many sites in Middle Asia and that, in addition to the Proto-Elamite sphere and the cities of Mesopotamia, Middle Asia around 3000 BC was incorporated within an interactive “multi-players” network of polities. (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782974192 Hb £25.00 ***Only £20.00 until publication*** Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours: Local Developments and Long-range Interactions in the 4th Millennium BC Edited by Cameron A. Petrie The fourth millennium BC was a critical period of socio-economic and political transformation in the Iranian Plateau and its surrounding zones. This period witnessed the appearance of the world’s earliest urban centres, hierarchical administrative structures, and writing systems. 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These documents inspired 20 internationally-renowned scholars – many of whom excavated at the sites they describe – to report on what we know today of nine of these sites Jerusalem, Khirbet et-Tell, Samaria & Sebaste, Tell Balata (Shechem), Tell es-Sultan (Jericho), Khirbet Qumran, Caesarea, Megiddo, and Bet She’an. They explore questions such as: Who excavated these sites over the years? What were the specific aims of their campaigns? What techniques and methods did they use? How did they interpret these excavations? What finds were most noteworthy? 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The twenty-two conglomerate 3.5 meters high on a rather barren chapters in the present slope partly littered with Acheulean-type bifaces, volume offer the first pebble tools, cores, and flake artifacts. The site was comprehensive survey of discovered in 1949. In 1951, during a field season of this important material, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago with special attention to under the direction of Robert J. Braidwood Barda evidence for significant Balka was visited and further studied by Herbert E. interconnections in textile terminology among Wright Jr. and Bruce Howe. Wright and Howe languages and cultures, across space and time. For returned shortly thereafter to conduct a four-day example, the Greek word for a long shirt, khiton , sounding campaign of trenching and localized ki-to in Linear B, derives from a Semitic root, ktn geological investigations. This volume is Howe’s final . But the same root in Akkadian means linen, in report of these investigations. 32p b/w illus (Oriental Old Assyrian a garment made of wool, and perhaps Institute Press 2013) 9781614910008 Pb £19.50 ***NYP*** cotton, in many modern languages. These and House of Prisoners: Slavery and State in Uruk numerous other instances underscore the need for By Andrea Seri detailed studies of both individual cases and the This book deals with the house of prisoners (bit asiri) common threads that link them. This example at the city of Uruk during the revolt against king illustrates on the one hand how connected some Samsu-iluna of Babylon, Hammurabi’s son. The textiles terms are across time and space, but it also analysis comprises some 410 documents dated or shows how very carefully we must conduct the attributable to king Rim-Anum, one of the etymological and terminological enquiry with insurgents who attained relative independence as constantly changing semantics as the common the ruler of Uruk. The study of this corpus reveals thread. 326p (Oxbow Books 2010, Pb 2013) details about diplomatic dealings between the central 9781782973911 Pb £30.00 power and rebel rulers, about the functioning of the house of prisoners of war, and about the individuals who participated in different echelons of the local Commerce and Colonialization in the Ancient administration. This monograph investigates what Near East kind of organization “the house of prisoners” was, By Maria Eugenia Aubet how it worked, how it interacted with other In this analysis of the first colonialisms in history, institutions, the composition of its labor force, and the eastern roots of the state management of captive and enslaved Phoenician colonial system in individuals. 464p (Walter de Gruyter 2013) the first millennium BC are 9781614511090 Hb £125.00 traced and the metropolis of The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King Tyre is established as the final of Assyria (704-681 BC0, Part 1: Royal link in a long chain of colonial experiences in the ancient Near Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 3/1 East. The author reviews some By Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny of the theories and debates This volume provides reliable, up-to-date editions about trade and the colonial of thirty-eight historical inscriptions of Sennacherib. phenomenon, scrutinises the They record numerous construction projects at colonial situations that arose Nineveh, including the city’s walls and the “Palace in the East in a context of long- Without a Rival.” Each text (with its English distance interregional trade, and analyses the translation) is supplied with a brief introduction examples where a metropolis with a mercantile containing general information, a catalogue tradition intervenes and acts as intermediary in containing basic information about all exemplars and different interregional exchange circuits. 420p, b/w a commentary containing further technical illus (Cambridge UP 2013) 9780521514170 Hb £65.00 information. 267p (Eisenbrauns 2012) 9781575062419 Hb £95.00 Near East 31

Çatalhöyük Excavations: the 2000-2008 Seasons The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Çatalhöyük Excavations presents the results of the excavations that took place at the site from 2000 to 2008 when the main aim was to understand the social geography of the settlement, its layout and social organization. Excavation, recording and sampling methodologies are discussed as well as dating, ‘levels’, and the grouping of buildings into social sectors. The excavations in three areas of the East Mound at Çatalhöyük are described: the South Area, the 4040 Area in the northern part of the site, and the IST Area excavated by a team from Istanbul University. The description of excavated units, features and buildings incorporates results from the analyses of animal bone, chipped stone, groundstone, shell, ceramics, phytoliths, micromorphology. 300p, 300 figures and 50 tables (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara 2013) 9781898249290 Hb £60.00 ***NYP*** Humans and Landscapes of Çatalhöyük: Reportd from the 2000-2008 Seasons Edited by Ian Hodder The present volume presents new data on the ways in which the Çatalhöyük settlement and environment were dwelled in. A first section explores how houses, open areas and middens in the settlement were enmeshed in the daily lives of the inhabitants, integrating a wide range of different types of data at different scales. A second section examines subsistence practices of the site’s inhabitants and builds up a picture of how the overall landscape was exploited and lived within. A third section examines the evidence from the skeletons of those buried within the houses at Çatalhöyük in order to examine health, diet, lifestyle and activity within the settlement and across the landscape. This final section also reports on the burial practices and associations in order to build hypotheses about the social organization of those inhabiting the settlement. 320p, 250 figures and 50 tables (BIAA 2013) 9781898249306 Hb £60.00 ***NYP*** Substantive technologies at Çatalhöyük: reports from the 2000-2008 seasons edited by Ian Hodder The present volume presents new data on the ways in which humans became increasingly engaged in their material environment such that ‘things’ came to play an active force in their lives. In the absence of large local stone, humans became increasingly involved in the extraction and manipulation of clay for a wide range of purposes – from bricks to ovens, pots and figurines. This heavy use of clays led to changes in the local environment that interacted with human activity, as indicated in the first section of the volume. In the second section, other examples of material technologies are considered all of which in various ways engage humans in specific dependencies and relationships. For example, large-scale studies of obsidian trade have drawn a complex picture of changing interactions between humans over time. The volume concludes with an integrated account of the uses of materials at Çatalhöyük based on the analysis of heavy residue samples from all contexts at the site. 300p b/w illus (BIAA 2013) 9781898249313 Hb £60.00 ***NYP*** Integrating Çatalhöyük: themes from the 2000-2008 seasons edited by Ian Hodder The present volume discusses general themes that have emerged in the analysis and interpretation of the results of excavations in 2000-2008. It synthesizes the results of research described in other volumes in the same series. It commences with accounts of the recent work on community collaboration at the site It then synthesizes the work on landscape use and mobility, integrating the work of subsistence analysis and the analysis of human remains. The storage and sharing of food is a related topic. The ways in which houses were constructed, lived in and abandoned leads to a broad discussion of settlement and social organization at Çatalhöyük and of their change through time.The social uses of materials and technologies are explored and the roles of materials in personal adornment. 300p b/w illus (BIAA 2014) 9781898249320 Hb £45.00 ***NYP*** ***Special Offer - Buy all four volumes for only £200.00*** 32 Near East

Cities and Citadels in Turkey Temples and Sanctuaries from the early Iron Edited by Scott Redford & Nina Ergin Age Levant: Recovery after Collapse For millennia, walled citadels have served both as By William E. Mierse residences for rulers and military forces and as sacred The sanctuaries presented in centers embodying the power of the elite. The essays this book reveal the exciting in this volume examine the phenomenon of citadels developments in archi- in a comparative perspective in Anatolia and tecture that occurred over neighboring regions. Archaeology, art history, and the five-century span from history are brought to bear on the phenomenon of 1200-700 BCE and show the citadel in its urban context. 346p (Peeters Press that the architects 2013) 9789042927124 Hb £100.00 responsible for creating Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of them were designing the University of Chicago, Volume Š, fascicle 3 buildings to meet the new edited by H.G. Guterbock, Harry A. Hoffner and needs of the societies that T.P.J. van den Hout took shape in the wake of 176p (Oriental Institute 2013) 9781885923950 Pb £18.50 the downfall of the Late Bronze Age. The analysis is largely based on comparative studies, a formalist Across the Border: Late Bronze-Iron Age approach that permits the isolation of lines of Relations Between Syria and Anatolia continuity and the detection of discontinuity. Mierse Edited by K. Ashhan Yener augments this traditional approach with One of the most intriguing issues facing considerations of the social and political forces that archaeologists working in the second millennium were influencing design choices and introduces the BC is the collapse of Late Bronze Age palace archaeological investigation of cult as it has economies and the rise of smaller principalities called developed in the postprocessual school of Iron Age kingdoms. Theories about this political archaeology. 480p (Eisenbrauns 2012) 9781575062464 transition have varied from environmental causes, Hb £65.00 internal dynastic squabbles in Hattusha, to Later Village Period Settlement Development in marauding bands of mythical “Sea Peoples”. This the Karun River Basin, upper Khuzestan Plain, book compares archaeological data from new as well as established excavations dating to the Late Bronze Greater Susiana, Iran and Iron Ages. Special attention is given to By Abbas Moghaddam significant new understandings of chronology that This study re-evaluates the previous understanding will contextualize the structural collapses at the end of the Later Village Period in Greater Susiana of the Late Bronze Age and will illuminate the rise (southwestern Iran) by focusing mostly on of new Iron Age kingdoms and their imperial settlement and landscape. By providing a picture of ambitions. 542p, (Peeters Press 2013) 9789042927155 the previously unknown prehistoric human Hb £130.00 occupations in the Eastern plain through an examination and assessment of recent survey and Horsemen of Israel: horses and chariotry in excavation results and contextualizing this Monarchic Israel information with the results of previous research, it By D. Cantrell contributes to our understanding of human Notwithstanding the occupation and settlement pattern between ca. 5000 substantial textual and and 3500 B.C. in southwestern Iran. 290p, b/w illus archaeological evidence of (BAR 2347, Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309323 Pb the horse’s historic presence, £43.00 recent scholars seem to be led Ancient Settlement Patterns and Cultures in by a general belief that there were very few horses in Iron the Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iran Age Israel and that Israel’s by Abbas Alizadeh, Loghman Ahmadzadeh and chariotry was insignificant. Mehdi Omidfar The reason for this current In 1948 Donald McCown recorded 118 sites in the sentiment is tied primarily Ram Hormuz and Ahvaz areas and eventually chose to the academic controversy of the past 50 years over for excavation the large prehistoric mound complex whether the 17 tripartite-pillared buildings excavated Tall-e Geser. Apart from short articles, the site was at Megiddo in the early 20th century were, in fact, never fully published. In Part 1 of this two-part stables, or an alternative such as storehouses, volume, Abbas Alizadeh and colleagues have marketplaces, or barracks. Cantrell’s book undertaken a final publication of the site. Part 2 emphasises the importance of the horse in Israel’s presents the results of regional surveys conducted armies, drawing on her own practical experience of in the Ram Hormuz plain from 2005 to 2008, working with horses as well as archaeological and undertaken with the goal of understanding the semi- textual sources. 160p, b/w illus (Eisenbrauns 2011) nomadic, mobile component of lowland Susiana and 9781575062044 Hb £55.00 its hinterlands through time. 158p b/w illus (Oriental Institute 2013) 9781885923974 Hb £55.00 ***NYP*** Near East 33

Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers: The Concept The Palace of Darius at Susa: The Great Royal of Evil in Early Iran Residence of Achaemenid Persia By S. K. Mendoza Forrest Edited by Jean Perrot Early Iranians believed evil had to have a source The royal palace of Darius outside of God, which led to the concept of an entity the Great at Susa finally as powerful and utterly evil as God is potent and gets the book it deserves in good. These two forces, good and evil, which have the form of this massive, always vied for superiority, needed helpers in this comprehensive and struggle. According to the Zoroastrians, every entity beautifully produced had to take sides, from the cosmic level to the survey. Jean Perrot, who microcosmic self. One of the results of this battle was directed the excavations at that certain humans were thought to side with evil. the palace from 1969-79 This first comprehensive study of the concept of evil assembles a stellar cast of in early Iran uncovers details of the Iranian struggle French scholars to describe against witchcraft, sorcery, and other “evils,” and analyse the beginning with their earliest texts. 245p, (University excavations themselves, the structures found and of Texas Press 2013) 9780292747678 Pb £16.99 the architectural and iconographic developments The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New they represent, and to place the whole in the context Beginning for the Middle East of Achaemenid rule, and what they reveal about the By John Curtis, Neil MacGregor & Irving Finkel achievements and kingship of Darius in particular. 506p, col illus t/out (Tauris & Co Ltd 2013) 9781848856219 The Cyrus Cylinder is one Hb £60.00 of the most famous objects to have survived from the Empire, Authority and Autonomy in ancient world. It is often Achaemenid Anatolia referred to as the first bill By Elspeth Dusinberre of human rights as it Through a wide array of textual, visual, and appears to permit freedom archaeological material, Elspeth Dusinberre shows of worship throughout how the rulers of the Achaemenid empire the Persian Empire and to constructed a system flexible enough to provide for allow deported people to the needs of different peoples within the confines of return to their homelands. a single imperial authority and highlights the This catalogue is being variability in response. She examines the dynamic published in conjunction tensions between authority and autonomy across with the first ever tour of the object to the United the empire, providing a valuable new way of States, along with sixteen other objects from the considering imperial structure and development. British Museum’s collection. The book discusses 397p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107018266 how these objects demonstrate the innovations Hb £65.00 initiated by Persian rule in the Ancient Near East. Animals, Gods and Men from East to West 144p, col illus (British Museum Press 2013) 9780714111872 Hb £25.00 Edited by Alessandra Peruzzetto, Francesca Dorna Metzger & Lucinda Dirven King and Court in Ancient Persia, 559 to 331 The 21 articles collected in this volume centre on BCE animals in relation to men and gods. Many articles By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones deal with iconographical issues, but epigraphy, Immortalized in Greek literature as despotic tyrants, ceramics and animal bones are subject of research as a new vision of Persian monarchy is emerging well. The focus is on Near Eastern Archaeology, in which shows the Kings in a very different light. particular with respect to the Hellenistic, Parthian Inscriptions present an image of Persian rulers as and Sasanian periods. 206p b/w illus (BAR 2013) liberators, peace-makers, valiant warriors, righteous 9781407311340 Pb £35.00 god-fearing judges, and law-makers. Around them Alexander Romance in Persia and the East the Kings established lavish and sophisticated courts, the centres of political decision-making and cultural Edited by Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson & Ian achievements in which the image of monarchy was Richard Netton endorsed and advanced by an almost theatrical The Alexander Romance was translated into Syriac display of grandeur and power. This book explores in the sixth century and may have become current the representation of Persian monarchy and the in Persia as early as the third century AD. From court of the Achaemenid Great Kings from the point these beginnings it reached into the Persian national of view of the ancient Iranians themselves and epic, the Shahnameh, into Jewish traditions, and through the sometimes distorted prism of Classical into the Quran and subsequent Arab romance. The authors and Biblical sources. 224p, b/w illus papers in this volume all have the aim of deepening (Edinburgh UP 2013) 9780748641260 Hb £80.00, our understanding of this complex development. 9780748641253 Pb £24.99 416p, (Barkhuis 2012) 9789491431043 Hb £77.00 34 Cyprus New from Oxbow Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory Through the Bronze Age Landscape and Interaction: Troodos Survey Vol 1: By A. Bernard Knapp Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation This book treats the archaeology of Cyprus from by Michael Given, A. Bernard Knapp, Jay Noller, the first-known human presence during the Late Luke Sollars and Vasiliki Kassianidou Epipalaeolithic through the end of the Bronze Age. The Troodos Mountain range A. Bernard Knapp examines the archaeological and in central Cyprus is a region documentary records of prehistoric Cyprus within of great physical and cultural their regional context. Focusing on key themes such diversity. The landscapes as identity, insularity and connectivity, and society, range from fertile, cultivated community and polity throughout, this book plains to narrow, dry valleys provides a remarkably up-to-date and integrated and forested mountain synthesis of human activity on the Mediterranean’s regions and this physical third-largest island. 660p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP topography is overlain by a 2013) 9780521723473 Pb £19.99 rich human cultural The Transport Amphorae and Trade of Cyprus landscape of farming, mining, Edited by Mark L. Lawall & John Lund industry, settlement, burial This publication seeks to throw new light on and ritual behaviour. Over six important aspects of the economy of Cyprus field seasons, a team of specialists and fieldwalkers between c. 700 BC and AD 700 through a concerted from the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental study of the transport amphorae found in and Survey Project (TAESP) investigated the northern around the island. Such vessels are a prime source edge of this region and explored the complex and of information about the island’s exports and imports dynamic relationship between landscape and people of agricultural products, and ultimately about the over 12,000 years. Beginning with a considered fluctuations in the economy of Cyprus, contributing overview of the context, research aims and both to our undestanding of the changing methodology of the project, Volume 1 provides intensities of Cypriot connections with other centres detailed accounts of the archaeology, material around the Mediterranean and to the documentation culture, geography and environmental record of the of regional patterning within the island itself. 244p, entire survey area. This wealth of information is then b/w and col illus (Aarhus UP 2013) 9788771242133 Hb bought together to produce a series of chronological £25.00 and thematic analyses of the interaction between people and landscape in this region of Cyprus from AMILLA: The Quest for Excellence. Studies the Prehistoric through to the Modern period. 400p Presented to Guenter Kopcke in Celebration of b/w and col illus (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2013) His 75th Birthday 9781782971870 Hb £48.00 edited by Robert B. Koehl Landscape and Interaction, Troodos Survey Vol 34 Articles pertain to various topics on the ancient art, architecture, and archaeology of the greater 2: The TAESP Landscape Eastern Mediterranean region: from Pre-Dynastic by Michael Given, A. Bernard Knapp, Jay Noller, Egypt to the Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia, Luke Sollars and Vasiliki Kassianidou Cyprus and the Near East, and Etruscan Italy. 444p Covering four regions of the survey area (The Plains, b/w illus (INSTAP 2013) 9781931534734 Hb £55.00 Karkotis Valley, Upper ***NYP*** Lagoudhera Valley and The Mountains) this volume Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity: focuses on explicit research Exploring their limits questions appropriate to each Edited by Franco De Angelis region. Each region is These essays investigate in fresh ways how regional investigated from the and global phenomena in the ancient Mediterranean, Neolithic to the present day Near East and Eurasia shaped local life. Still today and, through ‘Intensive two models tend to guide explanations of Survey Zones’ – selected to intercultural and interregional contact and give a representative range of interaction: diffusionism from cores (or centres) to the physical and cultural peripheries, and Mediterraneanism, the set of terrain – many notable new distinctive environmental, cultural and historical discoveries are made. These include the pattern of images that create a unified and unchanging view Bronze Age Settlement in the Plains, Archaic rural of the Mediterranean. These essays, however are sanctuaries and cemeteries, the scope of Late Roman born of a greater historical appreciation of the copper-mining and isolated Medieval mountain phenomenon of globalisation, including the settlements. 296p b/w and col illus (CBRL/Oxbow Books recognition that the world has witnessed periods of 2013) 9781782971887 Hb £38.00 globalisation since the end of the Ice Age. 362p, (Peeters Press 2013) 9789042926691 Hb £95.00 Aegean Prehistory 35

Forthcoming from Oxbow Early Aegean Warrior, 3000-1450 BC By Raffaele D’Amato A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the A concise, well illustrated overview of warfare in Chronology and History of the Aegean and East the Aegean Bronze Age. The author shows how Mediterranean in the mid Second Millennium archaeology and ancient depictions can help us to BC reconstruct the arms and armour of this period, as well as fortifications, ships, and religious and By Sturt Manning military cultures. 64p col illus (Osprey 2013) The eruption of the Thera (Santorini) volcano in 9781780968582 Pb £11.99 the Aegean Sea in the mid-second millennium BC impacted on all the major cultures of the region.The Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze date of the eruption has long been a subject of Age Mediterranean importance and controversy since accurate dating By Louise Steel would offer a unique linchpin for the study and The importance of cultural contacts in the East synchronisation of the history and cultures of the Mediterranean has long been recognized and is the region. A Test of Time, first published in 1999, sought focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork to resolve the issue through a critical review of the in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant archaeological and scientific data, including the continues to add to our understanding of the nature presentation of radiocarbon dates, which together of this contact and its social and economic suggested a new ‘early’ chronology for the Aegean significance, particularly to the cultures of the c. 1700–1400 BC. This edition comprises the original, Aegean. This book integrates anthropological unrevised text, together with an appended essay discourse on contact, examining exchange systems, which critically reviews the continuing debate the gift, notions of geographical distance and power, between 1999 and 2012 and presents a raft of new colonization, and hybridization. 282p, b/w illus scientific data, including the Bayesian modelling of (Routledge Ltd 2013) 9780415537346 Hb £80.00 radiocarbon dates relating to a range of relevant Pylai Aidao: Un Percorso Iconografico e archaeological sequences from Egypt and the eastern Letterario Sulla Diffusione del Tema delle Porte Mediterranean. 672p (Oxbow Books 1999, 2nd ed. 2014) dell’ ade da Oriente a Occidente: Un percorso 9781782972198 Pb £45.00 iconografico e letterario sulla diffusione del ***Only £34.00 until publication*** tema delle Porte dell’Ade da Oriente a Occidente By Annalisa Tasso Tools, Textiles and Contexts: Textile Production This work focuses on the persistence of the ‘Gates in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean of Hades’ iconographic theme among the peoples of Bronze Age the ancient Mediterranean. The analysis considers edited by Eva Andersson Strand and Marie-Louise both the written tradition and the iconographic evidence surviving in funerary contexts, showing Nosch how the idea of the nether world among the eastern Textile production is one of civilizations constituted a background for Greek and the most important crafts Etruscan imaginary. Italian text. (BAR 2524, in Aegean and Eastern Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311425 Pb £24.00 Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent The Neolithic Settlement of Knossos in Crete: interdisciplinary and New Evidence for the Early Occupation of collaborative work offers Crete and the Aegean Islands crucial new perspectives edited by Nikos Efstratiou, Alexandra Karetsou into this field. The new and Maria Ntinou and updated catalogue of After the systematic excavation of the deep Neolithic archaeological textile finds occupation levels by J.D. Evans in the late 1950s and is presented here. later and more limited investigations of the Collaboration between archaeologists specialised in Prepalatial deposits undertaken primarily during their site and textile tool specialists has produced restoration work, no thorough exploration of the data sets of a large number of textile tools from earliest occupation of the site of Knossos has been several Bronze Age settlements. Analysis of these attempted. This monograph fills the gap, detailing tools, combined with experimental archaeology the recent studies of the stratigraphy, architecture, provides unique insights into both the production ceramics, sedimentology, economy, and ecology that processes and, significantly, into the range of types were a result of the opening of a new excavation of textiles that could have been produced at specific trench in 1997. Together, these studies by 13 different sites. 484p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2014) contributors to the volume re-evaluate the 9781842174722 Hb £48.00 importance of Neolithic Knossos and place it within the wider geographic context of the early island ***Only £38.95 until publication*** prehistory of the eastern Mediterranean. 218p b/w illus (INSTAP 2013) 9781931534727 Hb £55.00 ***NYP*** 36 Aegean Prehistory Knossos Monastiriako Tomb and ‘Deposit’ Forthcoming in Paperback Edited by Laura Preston The archaeological sites on Materiality and Social Practice: Transformative the Monastiriako Kephali Capacities of Intercultural Encounters hill analysed in this volume edited by Joseph Maran and Philipp W. include the earliest known Stockhammer mortuary activity at the key Materiality and Social Minoan centre of Knossos Practice investigates the on the island of Crete. Two transformative potential Bronze Age sites are arising from the interplay presented, known as the between material forms, ‘Tomb’ and the ‘Deposit’, social practices and originally excavated in the intercultural relations. 1930s but until now never Such a focus necessitates published in detail. The stone artefacts, human an approach that takes a remains, faunal remains, glyptic material and transcultural perspective ceramics are described and discussed, and the sites as a fundamental are placed within the broader framework of Minoan methodology and, then a mortuary practices at Knossos during the second broader understanding of the inter-relationship millennium BC. 125p, 73 figs, 11 tables (British School between humans and objects. Adopting a at Athens 2013) 9780904887686 Hb £56.00 transcultural approach forces us to change What are these Queer Stones? Baetyls: archaeology's approach towards items coming from Epistemology of a Minoan Fetish the outside. By using them mostly for reconstructing By Sam Crooks systems of exchange or for chronology, archaeology This monograph examines the aniconic cult stones, has for a long time reduced them to their properties or baetyls, of the Aegean Bronze Age. Minoan as objects and as being foreign. This volume explores baetyls are commonly understood by reference to the notion that the significance of such items does the interpretive vocabularies of ancient Near Eastern not derive from the transfer from one place to another traditions developed by comparative ethnographies as such but, rather, from the ways in which they popular in the early 20th century. This study were used and contextualised. The main question is presents and interrogates the Aegean evidence for how, through their integration into discourses and baetyl cult, providing a catalogue of archaeological practices, new frameworks of meaning were created evidence attesting to this cultic practice. Contextual conforming neither with what had existed in the analysis provides the basis for interpreting and receiving society nor in the area of origin of the (re)constructing aspects of the cult. It is argued that objects. 224p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013) the ambiguity inherent in these aniconic stones 9781782975410 Pb £28.00 ***NYP*** renders them uniquely flexible in serving multiple cultic, ritual and ideological functions across Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World different contexts. 79p, b/w illus (BAR 2511, By Thomas F. Tartaron Archaeopress 2013) 9781407311296 Pb £22.00 In this book, Thomas F. The Settlement at Dhaskalio Tartaron presents a new and Edited by Colin Renfrew, Olga Philaniotou, Neil original reassessment of the maritime world of the Brodie, Giorgos Gavalas & Michael Boyd Mycenaeans. By all accounts This volume presents the findings from the well- a seafaring people, they stratified settlement of Dhaskalio, today an islet near enjoyed maritime the Cycladic island of Keros, Greece. A series of connections with peoples as radiocarbon dates situates the duration of the distant as Egypt and Sicily. settlement from around 2750 to 2300 BC. The volume These long-distance relations begins with a discussion of the geological setting of have been celebrated and Keros and of sea-level change. The excavation and much studied, Tartaron, finds (excluding the pottery, discussed in later however, argues that local maritime networks, in volumes) are fully documented, with consideration the form of “coastscapes” and “small worlds,” are of stratigraphy, geomorphology, organic remains, far more representative of the true fabric of and the evidence for metallurgy. It is concluded that Mycenaean life. He offers a complete template of there was a small permanent population of around conceptual and methodological tools for recovering 20, increased periodically by up to 400 visitors who small worlds and the communities that inhabited would have participated in the rituals of deposition them. Combining archaeological, geoarchaeological, occurring at the Sanctuary at Kavos. 832p, b/w illus and anthropological approaches with ancient texts (McDonald Institute 2013) 9781902937649 Hb £80.00, and network theory, he demonstrates the application ***NYP*** of this scheme in several case studies. 353p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013) 9781107002982 Hb £65.00 Etruscan and Ancient Mediterranean 37

Etruscan World Forthcoming from Oxbow Books By Jean MacIntosh Turfa In the past fifteen years Medicine and Healing in the Ancient striking advances have been Mediterranean made in scholarship and edited by D. Michaelides research techniques for There are many recoverable aspects and indications Etruscan Studies. concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past Archaeological and scientific – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal discoveries have changed remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or our picture of the Etruscans surgical equipment and visual representations in and furnished us with new, tombs and other monuments thorough to specialized information. epigraphic and literary sources. The 42 papers Thanks to the work of presented here cover many aspects medicine in the dozens of international scholars, it is now possible Mediterranean world during Antiquity and early to discuss topics of interest that could never before Byzantine times, bringing together both be researched, such as Etruscan mining and internationally established specialists on the history metallurgy, textile production, foods and agriculture. of medicine and researchers in the early stages of In this volume, over 60 experts provide insights into their career. The contributions are grouped under a all these aspects of Etruscan culture, and more, as series of headings: medicine and archaeology; media well as highlighting profitable directions for future (online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean; research. 1167p, b/w illus (Routledge 2013) medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery; 9780415673082 Hb £150.00 medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; new Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and Art Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources. These subject areas are addressed through a combination of wide By Richard De Puma ranging archaeological and osteological data and the This informative and engaging book on the examination and interpretation of philosophical, Museum’s outstanding collection of Etruscan art also literary and historiographical texts to provide a provides an introduction to the fascinating and comprehensive suite of studies into early practices diverse culture of ancient Etruria, which thrived in in this fundamental field of human experience. 446p central Italy from about 900 to 100 BC. Masterpieces (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782972358 Hb £55.00 of the collection include seventh-century BC objects from the Monteleone di Spoleto tomb group ***Only £36.00 until publication*** (including the famous, remarkably well-preserved, bronze chariot), intricate gold jewellery, carved gems, Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Collection and wonderful ambers. 336p, col illus t/out (Yale UP 2013) 9780300179538 Hb £45.00 of the Princeton Art Museum By Anastassios Antonaras Lampes antiques de Méditerranée : La collection For the first time, this Rivel important volume features By Jean Bussiere & Jean-Claude Rivel nearly all of the ancient A detailed illustrated catalogue of 406 glass objects in the (Mediterranean, Africa and Near East) ceramic collection of the Princeton lamps, dated from the Bronze Age to Late Roman University Art Museum. era, from the Rivel Collection. 380p b/w illus (BAR Taken together, the 509 2428, Archaeopress 2012) 9781407310275 Pb £53.00 ancient glass vessels and Prosopographia Ponti Evxini Externa plaques provide a timeline By A. Avram of archaeological and Although there are specialist studies on the mobility cultural history from the of the inhabitants of the cities and regions of the middle of the second Black Sea, we lack a comprehensive prosopography millennium B.C. to the rise of Islam in the 7th of those of them active abroad. This work, century. An introductory essay by award-winning containing 3358 entries, is a first attempt, casting scholar Anastassios Antonaras summarizes the light on the mobility of different social and history of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine glass, with professional groups, not only mercenaries and a special emphasis on people—workers, artisans, merchants but also itinerant philosophers and artists. owners, and vendors—and on the processes they Chronologically, the work starts with the earliest used to create and decorate these artifacts. attestations and finishes with the end of the 6th Conveniently arranged according to production century AD. 462p (Peeters Press 2013) 9789042927193 technique, each entry in Fire and Sand features a Hb £105.00 color photograph, ink drawing, and detailed description. 408p, col illus t/out (Yale UP 2013) 9780300179811 Hb £45.00