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Elizabeth N. Arkush & Mark W. Allen (ed.). The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest. xiv+550 pages, 89 illustrations, 15 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 0-8130-2930-9 hardback $65.
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Melinda A. Zeder, Daniel G. Bradley, Eve Emshwiller & Bruce D. Smith (ed.). Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms. xiv+362 pages, 136 Illustrations, 56 tables. 2006. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press; 0-520-24638-1 hardback £45.
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Brian F. Byrd. Early Village life at Beidha, Jordan: Neolithic Spatial Organization and Vernacular Architecture. The excavations of Mrs. Diana Kirkbride-Helbaek (Bheida Excavations 2/British Academy Monographs in Archaeology 14). xiv+444 pages, 454 illustrations, 17 tables. 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Council for British Research in the Levant; 0-19-727013-1 hardback £99.99
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David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce. Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of Gods. 320 pages, 75 illustrations, 29 colour plates. 2005: London: Thames & Hudson; 0-500-05138-0 hardback £18.95.
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Pál Patay. Kupferzeitliche Siedlung von Tiszalúc (Inventaria Praehistorica Hungariae XI). 208 pages, 82 figures, 55 plates, tables. 2005. Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum; 96-3706-1150 paperback.
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Richard J. Harrison (chapter 6 with F. Marco Simón). Symbols and warriors: images of the European Bronze Age. xi+360 pages, numerous illustrations. 2004. Bristol: Western Academic & Specialist Press; 09535418-7-8 hardback £48.
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L.P. Louwe Kooijmans, P.W. van den Broeke, H. Fokkens & A.L. van Gijn (ed.). The Prehistory of the Netherlands. 2 volumes, 844 pages, 501 illustrations, 48 colour plates, 12 tables. 2005. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press; 90-5356-160-9 (both volumes) hardback €89.50.
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Jan Bouzek. Studia Hercynia IX, Part I: Thracians and their Neighbours: their Destiny, Art and Heritage. Part II: Reports. 276 pages, 109 figures, 39 plates. 2004. Prague: Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University/Czech Society of Archaeology; ISSN 1212-5865-9 paperback.
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H.S. Smith, Sue Davies & K.J. Frazer with Roger Bland. The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara. The Main Temple Complex: The Archaeological Report (Egypt Exploration Society Excavation Memoir 75). xxx+224 pages, 46 figures, 75 plates. 2006. London: Egypt Exploration Society; 0-85698-170-2 hardback £90.
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Maarten J. Raven. The Tomb of Pay and Raia at Saqqara (Egypt Exploration Society Excavation Memoir 74). xxiv+172 pages, 12 figures, 160 plates. 2005. Leiden: National Museum of Antiquities & London: Egypt Exploration Society; 0-85698-164-8 hardback £95.
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Karsten Lambers. The Geoglyphs of Palpa, Peru: Documentation, Analysis, and Interpretation (Forschungen zur Archäologie Aussereuropäischer Kulturen 2). Box-set with 10 folded maps, DVD & paperback book: 180 pages, 76 b&w & colour illustrations, tables. 2006. Bonn: Deutsches Archäo-logisches Institut & Aichwald: Linden Soft; 3-929290-32-4.
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Neil Christie. From Constantine to Charlemagne: An Archaeology of Italy AD 300-800. xviii+586 pages, 101 illustrations. 2006. Aldershot: Ashgate; 1-85928-421-3 hardback £55.
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Andrzej Buko. Archaeologia Polski Wczesno'sredniowiecznej: Odkrycia – hipotezy – interprtacje. The Archaeology of early Medieval Poland: Discoveries – hypotheses – interpretations; summary in English). 446 pages, 164 illustrations, 41 colour plates. 2005. Warszawa: Trio; 83-7436-023-2 hardback zl-46.
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Rosemary Cramp. Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Volume VII, South-West England. xviii +446 pages, 29 figures, 565 plates, 3 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy; 0-19-726334-8 hardback £65.
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Building the past in the Aegean - Pascal Darcque, Michael Fotiadis & Olga Polychronopoulou (ed.). Mythos: La préhistoire égéenne du XIXè au XXIè siècle après J.-C. Actes de la table ronde internationale d'Athènes, 21-23 novembre 2002 (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, Supplément 46). iv+400 pages, 56 illustrations. 2006. Athènes/Paris: Ecole Française d'Athènes/De Boccard; 2-86958-195-5 paperback €80. - Y. Hamilakis & N. Momigliano (ed.) Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the ‘Minoans’ (Creta Antica 7). 296 pages, 62 illustrations, 1 table. 2006. Padova: Aldo Ausilio/Bottega d'Erasmo; 978-88-6125-007-9 paperback. - Lyvia Morgan (ed.). Aegean Wall Painting: A Tribute to Mark Cameron (British School at Athens Study 13). 250 pages, 24 colour plates, 186 b&w illustrations, 7 tables. 2005. London: British School at Athens; 0-904887-49-9 hardback £79. - Clairy Palyvou. Akrotiri, Thera: An Architecture of Affluence 3,500 Years Old (Prehistory Monograph 15 of the Institute of Aegean Prehistory). xxviii+210 pages, 257 illustrations, 10 colour plates, 4 tables. 2005. Philadelphia (PA): Institute of Aegean Prehistory Academic Press; 1-931534-14-4 hardback £40. - Martin M. Winkler (ed.). Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic. xi+236 pages, 20 plates. 2007. Oxford, Malden (MA) & Victoria: Blackwell; 1-4051-3182-9 hardback £55 & $74.95 & AUS$165; 1-4051-3183-7 paperback £19.99 & $29.95 & AUS$48.95. - Stephen L. Dyson. In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. xvi+316 pages, 40 illustrations. 2006. New Haven & London: Yale University Press; 978-0-300-11097-5 hardback £30. - Craig A. Mauzy with John McK. CampII . Agora Excavations 1931-2006: A Pictorial History. 128 pages, 267 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. Princeton (NJ): American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 0-87661-910-3 paperback $15, £9 & €15. - Susan I. Rotroff & Robert D. Lamberton. Women in the Athenian Agora. 56 pages, 71 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. Princeton (NJ): American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 0-87661-644-9 paperback $4.95, £3.50 & €4.95. - Carol L. Lawton. Marbleworkers in the Athenian Agora. 52 pages, 58 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. Princeton (NJ): American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 0-87661-645-7 paperback $4.95, £3.50 & €4.95.
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General - Graeme Barker. The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did foragers become farmers? xvi+598 pages, 138 illustrations, 15 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-9281091 hardback £80. - Roy Ellen (ed.). Ethnobiology and the Science of Humankind (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue 1). viii+202 pages, 19 illu-strations, 8 tables. 2006. Oxford, Malden (MA) & Victoria, Australia: Blackwell; 978-1-4051-4589-7 paperback £19.99 & $34.95 & AUS$65.95. - Frederic Seller, Russell Greaves & Pei-Lin YU (ed.). Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology ofMobility. xviii+290 pages, 54 illustrations, 28 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 0-81302956-2 hardback $65. - Isabelle Sidera with Emmanuelle Vila & Phillippe Erikson (ed.). La chasse: pratiques sociales et symboliques (Colloques de la Maison René-Ginouvès). xiv+266 pages, 87 illustrations. 2006. Paris: De Boccard; 2-7018-0192-3 paperback. - Michael Bright. Beasts of the Field: The Revealing NaturalHistoryofAnimalsinthe Bible. xviii+346 pages. 2006. London: Robson Books; 978-1-86105-831-7 paperback £12.99 - Azar Gat. War in Human Civilization. xvi+822 pages, 61 illustrations, 4 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-926213-7 hardback £25 & $45. - Rainer Vollkommer. Neue Sternstunden der Archäologie. 2006. 278 pages, 36 illustrations. München; Beck; 978-3406-55058-4 paperback. - Matthew JOHNSON. Ideas of landscape. xxii+242 pages, 34 illustrations. 2006. Malden (MA), Oxford & Victoria (Aus); Blackwell; 978-1405-101592 hardback £50 & $74.95 & AUS$165; 978-14051016-08 paperback £19.99 & $34.95 & AUS$55.95 - Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel, Christina Luke & Kathryn Walker Tubb (ed.). Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade. xiv+350 pages, 33 illustrations, 3 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 0-8130-2972-4 hardback $65. - Ian Russell (ed.). Images, Representations and Heritage: Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology. xxiv+390 pages, 54 illustrations, 4 tables. 2006. New York: Springer; 978-038732215-5 hardback $79.95. - John Chapman & Bisserka Gaydarska. Parts and Wholes: Fragmentation in Prehistoric Context. xiv+250 pages, 123 illustrations, 43 colour plates, 38 tables. 2007. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-2223 paperback £30. - N. Steven Archer & Kevin M. Bartoy (ed.). Between Dirt and Discussion: Methods, Methodology, and Interpretation in Historical Archaeology. xiv+236 pages, 50 illustrations, 12 tables. 2006. New York: Springer; 978-0387-34218-4 hardback $99.
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European prehistory - Romuald Schild (ed.). The Killing Fields ofZwoleń: A Middle Paleolithic Kill-Butchery-Site in Central Poland. 248 pages, 134 b&w & colour illustrations, 33 tables. 2006. Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences; 83-89499-23-1hardback. - Detlef Gronenborn (ed.). Klimaveränderung und Kulturwandel in neolithischen Gesellschaften Mitteleuropas, 6700–2200 v. Chr./Climate variability and Culture Change in Neolithic Societies of Central Europe, 6700–2200 cal BC (RGZM Tagungen Band 1). viii+232 pages, 80 illustrations, 23 tables. 2005. Mainz: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte; 3-88467-096-4 paperback. - Fragkiska Megaloudi. Plants and Diet in Greece from Neolithic to Classic Periods (British Archaeological Report International Series 1516). x+96 pages, 26 illustrations, 21 tables. 2006. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-949-8 paperback £28. - Douglass W. Bailey. Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic. xx+244 pages, 69 illustrations. 2005. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 0-415-33151-X hardback; 0-415-33152-8 paperback £25.99. - Alain Gallay. Les sociétes mégalithiques: pouvoir des hommes, mémoire des morts (Le savoir Suisse 37). 140 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables. 2006. Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes; 978-2-88074-707-7 paperback SFr. 16 & €11.50 - Hermann Parzinger. Die Frühen Völker Eurasiens vom Neolithikum bis zum Mittelalter. 1045 pages, 266 b&w & colour illustrations, 28 plates, 3 fold-out tables in jacket. 2006. Munchen: Beck; 978-3-406-54961-8 hardback €98. - Lynne Bevan. Worshippers and Warriors: reconstructing gender relations in the prehistoric rockartof Naquane National Park, Valcamonica, Brescia, northern Italy (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1485). 2006. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-920-X paperback £34. - Tibor Kemenczei. Funde ostkarpatenländischen Typs im Karpatenbecken (Prahistorische Bronzefunde, Abteilung XX, 10. Band). x+186 pages, 64 figures. 2005. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. - Evgenij V. Cernenko. Die Schutzwaffen der Skythen (Prahistorische Bronzefunde, Abteilung III, 2. Band). xiv+158 pages, 55 illustrations. 2006. Suttgart: Franz Steiner.
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Mediterranen archaeology - OLIVER Dickinson. The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and change between the twelfth and eighth centuries BC. xvi+298 pages, 57 illustrations, 2 tables. 2006. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-415-13589-4 hardback; 978-0-415-13590-0 paperback £16.99; 978-0-203-96836 e-book. - D. Evely (ed.). LefkandiIV. The Bronze Age: The Late Helladic IIIC Settlement at Xeropolis (British School at Athens Supplementary Volume 39). xviii+332 pages, 104 figures, 103 plates, CD-ROM. 2006. London: British School at Athens; 0-904887-51-0 hardback £98 + p&p. - CATIE Mihalopoulos. Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 29: Cypriote Antiquities in Collections in Southern California (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology XX, 29). 64 pages, 54 plates. 2006. Savedalen: Paul Astrom; 978-91-7081-220-0 paperback. - Peter Attema, Albert Nijboer & Andrea Zifferero (ed). Papers in Italian Archaeology VI. Communities and Settlements from the Neolithic to the Early Medieval period (Proceedings of the 6th Conference ofItalian Archaeologyheldat the University ofGroningen, Groningen Institute ofArchaeology, The Netherlands, April 15-17, 2003) (British Archaeological Report International Series 1452 I & II). xx+1080 pages, numerous illustrations & tables. 2005. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-888-2 paperback £120 (both volumes). - Stephan Steingräber, translated by Russell Stockman. Abundance of Life: Etruscan Wall Painting from the Geometric period to the Hellenistic period (published in Italian as Pittura murale etrusca by Arsenale, Verona 2006). 328 pages, 250 colour illustrations. 2006, Los Angeles (CA): J. Paul Getty Museum; 978-0-89236-865-5 hardback £80. - John R. Patterson. Landscapes & Cities: Rural Settlement and Civic Transformations in Early Imperial Italy. xiv+348 pages, 17 illustrations. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-8140887 hardback £60. - Richard Hodges. Eternal Butrint: A UNESCO World heritage Site in Albania. xiv+256 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. London: Butrint Foundation//General Penne; 978905680-01-6 hardback. - Arthur Evans. Ancient Illyria: An Archaeological Exploration (first published as Antiquarian Researches in Illyricum in Archaeologia 1885 & 1886; other paper in Numismatic Chronicle 1880 and introduction by John Wilkes in Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, London 1976). xxii+340 pages, 143 illustrations. 2006. London; I.B. Tauris/Centre for Albanian Studies; 978-84511-167-0 hardback £45. - Branko Kirigin, Nikša Vujnović, Slobodan Čače, Vincent Gaffney, Tomaž Podobnikar, Zoran Stančič & Josip Burmaz (ed. by Vincent Gaffney & Branco Kirigin). The AdriaticIslands Project Volume 3. The Archaeological Heritage of Vis, Biševo, Svetac, Palagruža and Štolta (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1492). iv+240 pages, 24 figures, 3 tables. 2006. Oxford: Archaeo-press; 1-84171-923-4 paperback £38. - Dominique Pieri. Le commerce du vin oriental ài l’époque Byzantine (Vè-VIIèsiècles): le temoignage des amphores en Gaule (Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique 174). vi+350 pages, 199 illustrations, 9 tables. 2005. Beyrouth; Institut Francais du Proche-Orient; 2-912738-30-X paperback €40.
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The Classical and Roman world - John Julius Norwich. The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean. xviii+668 pages, 89 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. London: Chatto & Windus; 9780-701-17608-2 hardback £25 & Can$45. - Jonathan M. Hall. A History of the Archaic Greek World ca. 1200- 479 BCE. xx+322 pages, 39 illustrations. 2007. Malden (MA) & Oxford: Blackwell; 978-0-631-22667-3 hardback £65 & $84.95; 978-0-631-22668-0 paperback £19.99 & $34.95. - Mogens Herman Hansen. Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State. viii+238 pages, 9 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 9780-19-920849-4 hardback£40 & 978-0-19-920850-0 paperback £14.99. - Carol G. Thomas. Alexander the Great in his World. xii+254 pages, 31 illustrations. 2007. Oxford & Malden (MA): Blackwell; 978-0631-232452 hardback £60 & $74.95; 978-0631-2324-69 paperback £19.99 & $29.95. - Donald G. Kyle. Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World. xviii+404 pages, 24 illustrations, 3 tables. 2007. Oxford & Malden (MA): Blackwell; 978-06312297-04 hardback £60 & $81.95; 978-0631-229711 paperback £19.99 & $32.95. - Pliny The Younger, translated by P.G. Walsh. Complete Letters (Oxford World’s Classics). xliv+380 pages. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 9780-19-280658-1 paperback £9.99. - Maureen Carroll. Spirits of the Dead: Roman Funerary Commemoration in Western Europe (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents). xx+332 pages, 83 illustrations, 5 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-929107-6 hardback £70. - Stephen Mitchell. A History of the Later Roman Empire AD 284-641: The Transformation of the Ancient World. xvi+470 pages, 37 illustrations. 2007. Malden (MA), Oxford & Victoria: Blackwell; 9781405-1485-77 hardback £60, $84.95 & AUS$198; 978-1405-1085-60 paperback £19.99, $34.95 & AUS$54.95. - H.A. Drake (ed.). Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices. xxii+396 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables. 2006. Aldershot: Ashgate; 978-0-7546-54988 hardback £55.
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