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Alexander Bentley, Joachim Wahl, T. Douglas Price & Tim C. Atkinson The use of caves for funerary and ritual practices in Neolithic Ireland 305 Marion A. Dowd Terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene occupation and an early cremation burial at Ille 318 Cave, Palawan, Philippines Helen Lewis, Victor Paz, Myra Lara, Huw Barton, Philip Piper, Janine Ochoa, Timothy Vitales, A. Jane Carlos, Tom Higham, Leee Neri, Vito Hernandez, Janelle Stevenson, Emil Charles Robles, Andrea Ragragio, Rojo Padilla, Wilhelm Solheim II & Wilfredo Ronquillo Symbolic language in Torres Strait, NE Australia: images from rock art, portable objects 336 and human scars Liam M. Brady Meat-acquisition patterns in the Neolithic Yangzi river valley, China 351 Yuan Jing, Rowan Flad & Luo Yunbing Basalt bifacial tool production in the southern Levant: a glance at the quarry and 367 workshop site of Giv'at Kipod, Israel Danny Rosenberg, Ron Shimelmitz & Assaf Nativ Multivallate sites and socio-economic change: Thailand and Britain in their Iron Ages 377 , DougaldJ.W. O'Reilly Equids and an acrobat: closure rituals at Tell Brak 390 Joan Oates, Theya Molleson & Arkadiusz Sohysiak Geometric templates used in the Akrotiri (Thera) wall-paintings 401 C. Papaodysseus, M. Panagopoulos, P. Rousopoulos, G. Galanopoulos & C. Doumas Gesture politics and the art of ambiguity: the Iron Age statue from Hirschlanden 409 Ian Armit & Philomena Grant Early sculptural traditions in West Africa: new evidence from the Chad Basin of north- 423 eastern Nigeria Peter Breunig, Gabriele Franke & Michael Niisse Deported nation: the fate of the Bohai people of Mongolia 438 Nikolay N. Kradin & Alexander L. Ivliev Method Diet and status in Birka: stable isotopes and grave goods compared 446 Anna Linderholm, Charlotte Hedenstierna Jonson, Olle Svensk & Kerstin Liden Artefacts, skulls and written sources: the social ranking of a Celtic family buried at 462 Miinsingen-Rain Felix Miiller, Peter Jud & Kurt W. Alt Visualisation of LiDAR terrain models for archaeological feature detection 470 B.J. Devereux, G.S. Amable & P. Crow Debate The warriors' new headgear 480 Dirk Brandherm Response 485 S. Celestino Perez & C. Lopez-Ruiz Should archaeology be in the service of 'popular culture'? A theoretical and political 488 critique of Cornelius Holtorf's vision of archaeology Kristian Kristiansen Academic critique and the need for an open mind (a response to Kristiansen) 490 Cornelius Holtorf (Rome + Barbarians) = Europe? 493 N. James Reviews Review articles Publishing Catalhoyiik: multivocality in action? STUART CAMPBELL reviewing 497 Excavating Catalhoyiik: South, North and KOPAL Area reports from the 1995-99 seasons. Ian Hodder (ed.) Inhabiting Catalhoyiik: reports from the 1995-99 seasons by members of the Catalhoyiik teams. Ian Hodder (ed.) Changing Materialities at Catalhoyiik: reports from the 1995-99 seasons by members of the Catalhoyiik teams. Ian Hodder (ed.) Catalhoyiik Perspectives: reports from the 1995-99 seasons by members of the Catalhoyiik teams. Ian Hodder (ed.) Castles, crown and countryside LAWRENCE BUTLER reviewing 501 Excavations at Launceston Castle, Cornwall. Andrew Saunders Acts of Perception. A Study of Barnard Castle in Teesdale, Volumes 1 & 2. David Austin Book reviews Colin Renfrew. Prehistory: the Making of the Human Mind. J.D. LEWIS-WILLIAMS 504 Denis J. Murphy. People, Plants & Genes: the Story of Crops and Humanity. ALLAN HALL 505 Carlos E. Cordova. Millennial Landscape Change in Jordan: Geoarchaeology and Cultural 506 Ecology. PHILLIP C. EDWARDS Elizabeth H. Moore. Early Landscapes of Myanmar. CHARLES HIGHAM 507 Elena E. Kuzmina. The Origins of the Indo-Iranians. LUDMILA KORYAKOVA 509 Peter M. Day & Roger C.P. Doonan (ed.). Metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age Aegean. 510 NOEL H. GALE Marianne Rasmussen (ed.) Iron Age houses inflames: testing house reconstructions at Lejre. SY1 JOHN COLES Julian Thomas (ed.). Place and Memory: Excavations at the Pict's Knowe, Holywood and 513 Holme Farm, Dumfries and Galloway, 1994-8. C.R. WICKHAM-JONES David Mattingly. An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409. 515 ALAIN FERDIERE J. Theodore Pena. Roman Pottery in the Archaeological Record. MARK JACKSON and 517 KEVIN GREENE Michael Fulford, Amanda Clarke & Hella