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Stephen Shennan [email protected], University College London, UK ANTIQUITY Volume 79 Number 306 December 2005 Editorial 757 Research Ceramics, seeds and culinary change in prehistoric India 761 Dorian Q. Fuller Ice-cores, sediments and civilisation collapse: a cautionary tale from Lake Titicaca 778 Michael J. Calaway Subpolar settlement in South Polynesia 791 Atholl Anderson Urban centres and the emergence of empires in Eastern Inner Asia 801 J. Daniel Rogers, Erdenebat Ulambayar & Mathew Gallon The social context of early pottery in the Lingnan region of south China 819 Richard Pearson FOCUS ON ISLAM IV Archaeological approaches to the study of Islam in Island Southeast Asia 829 Peter Lape Islamic archaeology in the Iberian peninsula and Morocco 837 Johnny De Meulemeester Multi-disciplinary approaches to the Islamic period in Egypt and the Red Sea Coast 844 Mutsuo Kawatoko Politics and narratives: Islamic archaeology in Israel 858 Andrew Petersen Method Matrilocality during the prehistoric transition to agriculture in Thailand? 865 R. Alexander Bentley, Michael Pietrusewsky, Michele T. Douglas & Tim C. Atkinson Did the first farmers of central and eastern Europe produce dairy foods? 882 Oliver E. Craig, John Chapman, Carl Heron, Laura H. Willis, Laszlo Bartosiewicz, Gillian Taylor, Alasdair Whittle & Matthew Collins Processing of milk products in pottery vessels through British prehistory 895 M.S. Copley, R. Berstan, S.N. Dudd, S. Aillaud, A.J. Mukherjee, V. Straker, S. Payne & R.P. Evershed A geochemical investigation of the origin of Rouletted and other related South Asian 909 fine wares L.A. Ford, A.M. Pollard, R.A.E. Coningham & B. Stern Debate Megaliths and post-modernism: the case of Wales 921 Andrew Fleming The identification and protection of cultural heritage during the Iraq conflict: 933 A peculiarly English tale Peter Stone The ownership of time: approved 14C calibration or freedom of choice? 944 Tjeerd H. van Andel Reviews Review articles Caves and rocks: state of the art JOHN COLES reviewing 949 Lascaux: le geste, I'espace et le temps. Norbert Aujoulat. Cosquer redecouvert. Jean Clottes, Jean Courtin & Luc Vanrell. Bergkunst: Helleristningar i Noreg. Gro Mandt & Trond Lodon. Helleristninger: Billederfra Bornholms Bronzealder. Kaul Flemming, Martin Stoltze, Finn Ole Nielsen & Gerhard Milstreu. The Rock Art Archaeological Park: ideas, strategies and actions for the integral management of Galicianpetroglyphs (RGPA Report?)). Jose Manuel Rey Garcia, Faustino Infante Roura, Eugenio Rodriguez Puentes & Majesiis Tallon Nieto. The future of Rock Art — a world review (Report of the National Heritage Board of Sweden 2004: 7). Ulf Bertilsson & Louise McDermott (ed.). The Valcamonica symposiums 2001 and 2002 (Report of the National Heritage Board of Sweden 2004: 6). Ulf Bertilsson & Louise McDermott (ed.). Prehistoric pictures as archaeological sourcelFbrhistoriska bilder som arkeologisk kiilla (GOTARCSeries C: 50). Gerhard Milstreu & Henning Prehl (ed.). Does Man Make Himself? and what have we done? DON BROTHWELL reviewing 954 The Complete World of Human Evolution. Chris Stringer & Peter Andrews. Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution. Peter J. Richerson & Robert Boyd. Olympia, Olympiads and Olympic bronze NIGEL SPIVEY reviewing 956 XII Bericht iiber die Ausgrabungen in Olympia: 1982 bis 1999. Helmut Kyrieleis with Klaus Herrmann, Christa Schauer & Jorg Rambach. Archaische Silhouettenbleche und Schildzeichen in Olympia (Olympische Forschungen 30). Hanna Philipp. Changing landscapes in the Roman heartland and beyond BRYAN WARD-PERKINS 958 reviewing Bridging the Tiber: approaches to regional archaeology in the middle Tiber valley (Archaeological Monograph of the British School at Rome 13). Helen Patterson (ed.). Landscapes of change: rural evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Neil Christie (ed.). Celtic inscriptions from Gaul and Britain T.M. CHARLES-EDWARDS reviewing 961 Textes Gallo-Latins sur instrumentum {Recueil des Inscriptions Gauloises [RIG] vol. II fasc. 2; Gallia 45th Supplement). Pierre-Yves Lambert. The Celtic inscriptions of Britain: phonology and chronology, c. 400-1200 (Publications of the Philological Society vol. 37). Patrick Sims-Williams. Pioneering approaches to prehistoric Scotland C.R. WICKHAM-JONES reviewing 964 Set in stone: new approaches to Neolithic monuments in Scotland. Vicki Cummings & Amelia Pannett (ed.). The moon and the bonfire: an investigation of three stone circles in north-east Scotland. Richard Bradley. Dwelling among the monuments: the Neolithic village ofBarnhouse, Maeshowepassage grave and surrounding monuments at Stenness, Orkney. Colin Richards (ed.). Kilellan Farm, Ardnave, Islay: excavations of a prehistoric to early medieval site by Colin Burgess and others 1954-1976. Anna Ritchie (ed.). Book reviews Michael W. Morris. Soil science and archaeology: Three test cases from Minoan Crete 968 (Prehistory Monographs 4). BILL BOYD Tjeerd H. van Andel & William Davies (ed.). Neanderthals and modern humans in the 969 European landscape during the lastglaciation (McDonald Institute Monograph). ARIANE BURKE Peter Bellwood. First farmers: the origins of agricultural societies. JOHN EDWARD TERRELL 970 Marie-Pierre Ruas. Productions agricoles, stockage etfinage en Montagne Noire medievale: 971 le grenier castral de Durfort (Tarn) (Document d'Archeologie Francaise 93). JANE M. RENFREW Peter M.M.G. Akkermans & Glenn M. Schwartz. The archaeology of Syria: from complex 972 hunter-gatherers to early urban societies (c. 16,000-300 BC). MIRANDA J. SEMPLE Mitchell S. Rothman with Brian Peasnall. Tepe Gawra: the evolution of a small prehistoric 973 center in northern Iraq (University Museum Monograph 112). JOAN OATES A. Martin Byers. The Ohio Hopewell episode: paradigm lost, paradigm gained. 975 MARK F. SEEMAN Mark D. Varien & Richard H. Wilshusen (ed.).