A Quarterly Review of World Archaeology Edited by Martin Carver Research 35 000 years of an Indian rockshelter Grain storage in the sixth millennium BC Why were daggers put in Bronze Age graves? Dante's universe goes to Mesoamerica Method Welcome to die new Field Archaeology: DNA mapping at "The farm beneath the Sand' Provenancing glass from its plants g##.;. i % • Ji •••••• :> 'l Is. .-v 4? - .<g^^<Sfew. Debate Celebrating 1859: Colin Renfrew, Clive Gamble, Robert Kruzynski, Tim Murray and Chris Evans on Darwin, Prestwich and the birth of deep history Paul Mellars sees Moonshine over Star Carr Project Gallery Geoarchaeological investigations at Sandhavn Tattooing in Melanesia The sack of Butrint c. AD 800 ISSN0003 598X Antiquity is an international peer-reviewed journal of archaeological research that aims to communicate the most significant new discoveries, theory, method and cultural resource issues rapidly and in plain language to practicing archaeologists everywhere. 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Gonzalez Morales & Lawrence Guy Straus Pavlov VI: an Upper Palaeolithic living unit 282 Jiri Svoboda, Miroslav Krdlik, Vera Culikova, Sarka Hladilova, Martin Novak, Miriam Nyvltova Fisakova, Daniel Nyvlt & Michaela Zelinkova Multiple uses for Australian backed artefacts 296 Gail Robertson, Val Attenbrow & Peter Hiscock Large-scale storage of grain surplus in the sixth millennium BC: the silos of Tel Tsaf 309 Yosef Garfinkel, David Ben-Shlomo & Tali Kuperman The oldest and longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35 000 years of modern 326 human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter Chris Clarkson, Michael Petraglia, Ravi Korisettar, Michael Haslam, Nicole Boivin, Alison Crowther, Peter Ditchfield, Dorian Fuller, Preston Miracle, Clair Harris, Kate Connell, Hannah James & Jinu Koshy Flint and metal daggers in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. A re-interpretation 349 of their function in the Late Neolithic and Early Copper and Bronze Age Niels V. Skak-Nielsen Bredaror on Kivik: a monumental cairn and the history of its interpretation 359 Joakim Goldhahn The Xiongnu settlements of Egiin Gol, Mongolia 372 Joshua Wright, William Honeychurch & Chunag Amartuvshin Pottery production and Islam in south-east Spain: a social model 388 Jose Cristobal Carvajal Lopez Dante's heritage: questioning the multi-layered model of the Mesoamerican universe 399 Jesper Nielsen & Toke Sellner Reunert Method The roots of provenance: glass, plants and isotopes in the Islamic Middle East 414 J. Henderson, J. Evans & Y. Barkoudah 'The Farm Beneath the Sand' - an archaeological case study on ancient 'dirt' DNA 430 Martin B. Hebsgaard, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Jette Arneborg, Patricia Heyn, Morten E. Allentoft, Michael Bunce, Kasper Munch, Charles Schweger & Eske Willerslev 230Th dates for dedicatory corals from a remote alpine desert adze quarry on 445 Mauna Kea, Hawai'i Patrick C. McCoy, Marshall I. Weisler, Jian-xin Zhao & Yue-Xing Feng Debate Celebrating the annus mirabilis 458 1859-Marking time 458 Christopher Evans John Evans, Joseph Prestwich and the stone that shattered the time barrier 461 Clive Gamble & Robert Kruszynski Small agencies and great consequences: Darwin's archaeology 475 Christopher Evans Illustrating 'savagery': Sir John Lubbock and Ernest Griset 488 Tim Murray 1859 + 150: Time depth and process 499 Colin Renfrew Moonshine over Star Carr: post-processualism, Mesolithic myths and 502 archaeological realities Paul Mellars Public relations for industrial archaeology 518 N. James Reviews Review articles New narratives for lost landscapes in middle England ANN WOODWARD reviewing 521 Mapping ancient landscapes in Northamptonshire. Alison Deegan & Glenn Foard The Raunds Area Project: a Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape in Northamptonshire. Jan Harding & Frances Healy Fifth-century rulers of the Kawachi Plain, Osaka, and early state formation in 523 Japan: some recent publications RICHARD PEARSON Maya miscitata NORMAN HAMMOND reviewing 528 Settlement archaeology at Quirigud, Guatemala. Wendy Ashmore The nature of an ancient Maya city: resources, interaction, and power at Blue Creek, Belize. Thomas H. Guderjan Ruins of the past: the use and perception of abandoned structures in the Maya Lowlands. Travis W. Stanton & Aline Magnoni (ed.) Reconstructing the past: studies in Mesoamerican and Central American prehistory. David M. Pendergast & Anthony P. Andrews Book reviews Colin Renfrew & Iain Morley (ed.). Image and imagination: a global prehistory of 535 figurative representation. TIMOTHY CLACK Andrew Robinson. Lost languages: the enigma of the world's undeciphered scripts. 536 JOHN BENNET James Cuno. Who owns Antiquity? Museums and the battle over our ancient heritage. by7 N. JAMES Arnold Aspinall, Chris Gaffney & Armin Schmidt. Magnetometry for archaeologists. 538 BEN GOURLEY Paul Davies. Snails: archaeology and landscape