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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd

This list includes all books received between 1 September 2025 and 31 October 2025. The listing of a book here does not preclude its subsequent review in Antiquity.

References

European prehistory

Amicone, Silvia. 2025. Pottery technology at the dawn of the Metal Age: exploring dynamics within Vinča material culture. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-889-6 hardback £55 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781803278896 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Belfiore, Valentina (ed.). 2025. La scultura preromana in area centro-italica: problemi archeologici, tecnologici ed epigrafici del terzo millennio (Reports, Excavations and Studies of the Archaeological Unit of the University G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara 5). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-959-6 hardback £75.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brown, Jude & Lock, Gary. 2025. Travels through prehistoric Spain: a guide. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-090-0 paperback £29.99.Google Scholar
Gal, Emily & Rennell, Rebecca. 2025. Uist unearthed: 5000 years of prehistory and history told through the interactive exploration of five archaeological sites. Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61635-3 paperback €42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hallager, Birgitta P.. 2025. LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Athen 4°, 61). Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens; 978-91-7916-071-5 hardback 530 SEK.Google Scholar
Heath, Julian. 2025. Prehistoric Europe: 50 great discoveries. London: Bloomsbury; 978-1-5381-9244-3 hardback £31.50.Google Scholar
Morell-Rovira, Berta, Oms, F. Xavier, Remolins, Gerard & Gibaja, Juan F. (ed.). 2025. Exploring death: understanding the life of Neolithic societies in the Western Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxbow; 979-8-88857-141-5 hardback £55.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pearson, Mike Parker, Mulville, Jacqui, Smith, Helen & Marshall, Peter. 2025. Cladh Hallan: roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age. Part 2: material culture, subsistence, skeletons and synthesis. Oxford: Oxbow; 979-8-88857-116-3 hardback £31.95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Martínez, Francisco Ramos. 2025. Cerámica de importación y rutas comerciales en época ibérica plena (ss V-III a.n.e.) en la Región de Murcia (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3227). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6293-9 paperback £32.Google Scholar
Waldvogel, Laura. 2025. Des sépultures aux sociétés: inégalités économiques et hiérarchies dans la plaine d’Alsace au Néolithique ancien et moyen (5 300 à 4 000 av. n. è.). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-094-8 hardback £90 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805830948 CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Classical and Roman world

Albertocchi, Marina & Berti, Fede (ed.). 2025. Iasos. Una polis nella Caria costiera in età arcaica. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider; 978-88-7689-352-0 paperback €123.50.Google Scholar
Avramidou, Amalia (ed.). 2025. The sanctuary of Parthenos at ancient Neapolis (Kavala), volume II: pottery, stone inscriptions, and small finds (Studies in Classical Archaeology 17). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61767-1 paperback €125.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Berthault, Frédéric. 2025. Contribution à l’histoire de burdigala et de son commerce pendant l’antiquité. Le témoignage des amphores (Archéologie et Histoire Romane 556). Dremil-Lafage: Mergoil; 978-2-35518-154-2 paperback €42.65.Google Scholar
Burns, Krishni. 2025. Bringing their mother home: Roman multiculturalism and the mother of the gods. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; 978-0-472-13363-5 hardback $90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gooch, Emma & Ruddick, Jerome (ed.). 2025. The materiality of Ancient Greek identities, 9th to 2nd centuries BCE. London: Bloomsbury; 978-1-350-44281-8 hardback £81.Google Scholar
Idà, Livio. 2025. Le Latomie Costiere della Sicilia Sud-Orientale: Aspetti tecnici, trasporto e titolarità della risorsa lapidea (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3229). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6275-5 paperback £55.Google Scholar
Jones, Alex. 2025. Roman Birmingham 5: Metchley Roman Fort, Birmingham: Excavations in the fort interior and defences 2003–2004, 2010 and 2017–2019 (British Archaeological Reports British Series 694). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6261-8 paperback £29 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.30861/9781407362618 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jones, Alex. 2025. Roman Birmingham 6: overview and synthesis of 1934–2019 excavations at Metchley Roman Fort, Birmingham (British Archaeological Reports British Series 696). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6259-5 paperback £29 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.30861/9781407362595 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Morris, Francis M. & Davey, James E. R.. 2025. A landscape of plenty: excavations on a Roman estate, Cambridgeshire. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-103-7 hardback £60 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805831037 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Partida, Elena C. & Graml, Constanze (ed.). 2025. Ergasteria: premises and processes of creation in antiquity. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-825-4 paperback £65 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781803278254 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Quaresma, José Carlos (ed.). 2025. An urban Roman dump from 270+ AD (Tarraco – Carrer de Castaños, 1): analysis of the content (pottery, glass, coins, and fauna) (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3228). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6221-2 paperback £99.Google Scholar
Wood, Edwin. 2025. Britannia under the boot: Roman militaria from the ‘civil zone’ of Southern England (British Archaeological Reports British Series 697). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6303-5 paperback £54.Google Scholar
Zabinski, Grzegorz, Wozniak, Marcin, Gramacki, Jaroslaw & Gramacki, Artur. 2025. East Germanic ironmaking in the Roman period: archaeometry of slag and ore finds in the Przeworsk Culture. London: Bloomsbury; 978-1-350-53548-0 hardback £76.50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Early medieval, medieval and post-medieval archaeology

Adams, Max & O’Brien, Colm. 2025. Northumbria AD 367–867: earth-hall, ring-gift and heaven’s field. Edinburgh: Birlinn; 978-0-85976-742-2 hardback £25.Google Scholar
Haselgrove, Susanne & Barclay, Katherine. 2025. Winchester: city of kings. London: Bloomsbury; 978-1-350-39977-8 paperback £17.99.Google Scholar
Hodges, Richard. 2025. The origins of Anglo-Saxon towns: a Viking gift? London: Bloomsbury; 978-1-350-52318-0 paperback £22.49.Google Scholar
Insoll, Timothy, Maclean, Rachel & Almahari, Salman (ed.). 2025. The archaeology of irrigation technology and water management in the Islamic World: proceedings of the Bahrain conference, January 2024. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-109-9 hardback £60.Google Scholar
Lacey, Brian. 2025. Cenél nEógain and the Donegal kingdoms, AD 800–1200. Dublin: Four Courts Press; 978-1-80151-171-1 hardback €49.50.Google Scholar
Ritter, Max & Turquois, Élodie (ed.). 2025. The imagery and aesthetics of Late Antique cities (Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité Tardive 44). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61191-4 hardback €125.Google Scholar
Savage, Carl. 2025. Coinage, landscape and society in the borderlands: economy and politics in Scotland and Northern England 1136–1603 (British Archaeological Reports British Series 698). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6291-5 paperback £56.Google Scholar

Africa and Egypt

Betrò, Marilina & Miniaci, Gianluca (ed.). 2025. Clashing religions in Ancient Egypt: exploring different layers of religious beliefs (Aegyptologica Pisana 1). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61416-8 hardback €125.Google Scholar
Rogers, John, Bishop-Allen, Catherine, Bohun, Henry, Hutchinson-Wong, Reuben G. & Sartori, Marina (ed.). 2025. Current research in Egyptology 2024: proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual symposium. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-113-6 paperback £80 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805831136 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sayadi, Ahmed. 2026. D’Ammaedara à Haïdra: approche archéologique et historique (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 127). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-022-1 hardback £60.Google Scholar

Western Asia

Akilli, Nihal. 2025. Dağdeviren Höyük: excavations and finds from an Early Bronze Age settlement and cemetery in western Anatolia (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3234). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6315-8 paperback £69.Google Scholar
Bradbury, Jennie. 2025. Death and burial within the ancient Levant (4500–550 BCE): challenging the normative. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-1-032-89497-3 hardback £108.75.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brody, Lisa & Chen, Anne Hunnell (ed.). 2025. Dura-Europos: past, present, future (Studies in Classical Archaeology 16). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61604-9 paperback 110 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SCA-EB.5.143377 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Garba, Roman. 2025. Hinterland monuments of ancient nomads: trilith stone structures of Southeastern Arabia (The Archaeological Heritage of Oman 15). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-101-3 hardback £55.Google Scholar
Lischi, Silvia (ed.). 2025. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies vol. 54: papers from the fifty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 27–29 June 2024 (Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 54). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-060-3 paperback £69.Google Scholar
Macdonald, Michael C.A. & al-Najem, Muhammad (ed.). 2025. Taymāʾ III: catalogue of the inscriptions in the Taymāʾ Museum and other collections (Taymā’: Multidisciplinary Series on the Results of the Saudi-German Archaeological Project 3). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-945-9 hardback £75 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781803279459 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sokoly, Jochen. 2025. Textiles of the Early Islamic Caliphates. New York (NY): Thames and Hudson; 978-0-500-96605-1 hardback $85.Google Scholar
Sussman, Varda. 2025. Oil lamps in the Holy Land during the early and later Islamic periods (7th–16th/17th CE): the collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-911-4 paperback £65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Americas

Hiquet, Julien. 2025. Essor Monumental et Dynamiques des Populations: la cité Maya de Naachtun (Guatemala) au Classique Ancien (150–550 apr. J.-C.) (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 63). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-078-8 paperback £90 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805830788 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Overholtzer, Lisa. 2025. Toward a small data archaeology: Otomí, Aztec Imperial, and Spanish colonial Xaltocan, Mexico. Denver: University Press of Colorado; 978-1-64642-749-9 hardback $93.Google Scholar
Stuart, David E.. 2025. Ancient women gardeners: prelude to the Chacoan World. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press; 978-0-8263-6847-8 paperback $29.95.Google Scholar

Oceania

Piotto, Elena Luisa. 2025. Island life: 40,000 years of shellfish exploitation in the Wallacean Archipelago (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3226). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6207-6 paperback £48.Google Scholar
Robin, Guillaume & Adams, Ron. 2025. Ethnoarchaeology of rock-cut tombs: a study of Toraja cemeteries (Sulawesi, Indonesia). Oxford: Oxbow; 979-8-88857-220-7 paperback £30.40.Google Scholar

Heritage, conservation and museums

Crisà, Antonino. 2025. Codename SICILYWAR: archaeology, museums, and social networks under threat in Sicily during World War II. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-863-6 paperback £95 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781803278636 CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Theory, method and historiography

Adcock, Mike. 2025. Music stones: the rediscovery of ringing rock. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-014-6 paperback £29.99.Google Scholar
Lucas, Gavin, Andersen, Vivi Lena, Maxwell, Ágústa Edwald, Nordin, Jonas Moníe & Ylimaunu, Timo (ed.). 2025. Poverty and plenty in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic: later historical archaeologies of material excess and scarcity. London: Bloomsbury; 978-1-350-45583-2 hardback £81 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350455863.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beller, Jeremy A., Greenfield, Tina L. & Fowler, Kent D. (ed.). 2025. Economies of scale in Old World archaeology: essays and reflections in honour of Haskel J. Greenfield (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3232). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6321-9 paperback £72.Google Scholar
Cobb, Hannah & Hawkins, Kayt (ed.). 2025. Documenting activism, creating change: archaeology and the legacy of #MeToo. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-006-1 paperback £45 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805830061 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crouzet, Guillemette & Miller, Eva (ed.). 2025. Finding antiquity, making the modern Middle East: archaeology, empires, nations. London: Bloomsbury; 978-1-350-45869-7 hardback £81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Forte, Maurizio (ed.). 2025. A new Etruscan archaeology: twenty-first century techniques and methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-758202-2 hardback £64.Google Scholar
Hingley, Richard, Sharpe, Kate & Yarrow, Thomas. 2025. Ancient identities in Britain: exploring heritage in the making. London: UCL Press; 978-1-80008-941-9 paperback £35 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089426 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Iancu, Liviu Mihail & Meo, Francesco (ed.). 2025. Textiles and war in Europe and the Mediterranean from prehistory to late antiquity: proceedings of the International Conference held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilisation in Bucharest, Romania, 17–19 May 2023. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-080-1 hardback £55 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805830801 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jones, Jennifer E., Scott-Ireton, Della A. & Raupp, Jason T. (ed.). 2025. Citizen science in maritime archaeology: terminology, theory and infrastructure. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-7940-0 hardback $90.Google Scholar
Simón, Marta Rojano (ed.). 2025. Explorando el pasado de manera multidisciplinar: conexiones entre la arqueología y otras ciencias y artes. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-084-9 hardback £50 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805830849 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Searcy, Michael T.. 2025. Archaeological structuration: a critical engagement for the twenty-first century. Tucson: University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-3872-0 hardback £70.Google Scholar
van Helden, Daniël P. & Szafara, Victoria (ed.). 2025. Investigating consumption: the archaeology of social practice. Papers in honour of Penelope Allison on the occasion of her retirement (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3230). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6279-3 paperback £55.Google Scholar
Verna, Emeline, Cabot, Elodie, Desfossés, Yves & Signoli, Michel (ed.). 2025. Archaeo-anthropology of conflicts in France: from the earlier Middle Ages to the Second World War (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3225). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6289-2 paperback £53.Google Scholar

General

Chernykh, Evgenij N.. 2025. The megastructure of the Eurasian world through the prism of geology, archaeology, and history. Newton (MA): Academic Studies; 978-88-97830-02-3 hardback $117.99.Google Scholar
Chick, Jane, Hodges, Richard & Riddler, Ian (ed.). 2025. A cornucopia for a polymath: studies in archaeology, architecture and art history for John Burnett Mitchell. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-034-4 paperback £75.Google Scholar
Hodges, Richard. 2025. Butrint: at the crossroads of the Mediterranean. London: Bloomsbury; 978-1-350-54860-2 paperback £19.79.Google Scholar
Larsson, Jenny H., Olander, Thomas & Jørgensen, Anders Richardt (ed.). 2025. Indo-European ecologies: cattle and milk – snakes and water (Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture 2). Stockholm: Stockholm University Press; 978-91-7635-271-7 paperback 234 SEK ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.16993/bcu CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Spinazzi-Lucchesi, Chiara. 2025. Threads of contact: tracing the relationship between Egypt and the southern Levant through textile tools. Oxford: Oxbow; 979-8-88857-147-7 paperback £32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tamiolaki, Melina (ed.). 2025. Leadership in the ancient world: concepts, models, theories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-00-949384-0 hardback £95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar