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Antiquity , Volume 99 , Issue 404 , April 2025 , pp. 603 - 607
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd

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This list includes all books received between 1 November 2024 and 31 December 2024. The listing of a book here does not preclude its subsequent review in Antiquity.

References

European prehistory

Anderson, Emily S.K.. 2024. Minoan zoomorphic culture: between bodies and things. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-45203-8 hardback £100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Brunner, Mirco, Menne, Julia & Hafner, Albert (ed.). 2024. Borders and interaction: concepts of frontiers in archaeological perspectives (Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 398). Bonn: Habelt; 978-3-7749-4305-6 hardback €69.Google Scholar
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Eccher, Silvia. 2024. La fauna del villaggio dell'età del Ferro di Bressanone-Stufles (Alto Adige, Italia): Indagini archeozoologiche e paleoecologiche nel quadro della protostoria padano-alpina (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3188). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6167-3 paperback £96.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Kienlin, Tobias (ed.). 2024. Household practices and houses – current approaches from archaeology and the sciences (Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 399). Bonn: Habelt; 978-3-7749-4439-8 hardback €85.Google Scholar
Killen, John (ed.). 2024. The new documents in Mycenaean Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-28609-1 hardback £180.Google Scholar
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Nash, George. 2024. Neolithic tombs of Wales. Eardisley: Logaston; 978-1-910839-72-0 paperback £25.Google Scholar
Sassatelli, Giuseppe (ed.). 2024. Gli Etruschi nella Valle del Po: Atti del XXX Convegno Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici (Atti di Convegni 30). Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider; 978-88-7689-345-2 hardback €152.Google Scholar
Uthmeier, Thorsten & Maier, Andreas (ed.). 2024. Stone Age: studying technologies of non-analogous environments and glacial ecosystems. Papers in honor of Jürgen Richter (Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 396). Bonn: Habelt; 978-3-7749-4427-5 hardback €125.Google Scholar
Linden, Marc Vander. 2024. The Bell Beaker phenomenon in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-49686-5 paperback £17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Classical and Roman world

Audoly, Marion & Sanchez, Corinne (ed.). 2025. Les domus à Narbonne et en Gaule narbonnaise (Archéologie et Histoire Romaine 52). Dremil-Lafage: Mergoil; 978-2-35518-149-8 paperback €47.39.Google Scholar
Brice, Lee L. & Greene, Elizabeth M. (ed.). 2024. Women and the army in the Roman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-06857-5 hardback £105.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chandezon, Christophe, D'Andrea, Bruno & Gardeisen, Armelle (ed.). 2024. Circulations animales et zoogéographie en Méditerranée (Xe s. av. J.-C.-Ier s. apr. J.-C.) (Collection de l’École française de Rome 622). Rome: École française de Rome; 978-2-7283-1808-7 paperback €42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Clayton Fant, J., Long, Leah E. & McAlpine, Lynley J.. 2024. Roman decorative stone collections in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (Kelsey Museum Studies 10). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; 978-0-472-13195-2 hardback $80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Colivicchi, Fabio & McCallum, Myles (ed.). 2024. The Routledge handbook of the archaeology of urbanism in Italy in the age of Roman expansion. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-1-032-22268-4 hardback £215.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Elia, Diego, Hasaki, Eleni & Serino, Marco (ed.). 2024. Technology, crafting and artisanal networks in the Greek and Roman world: interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ceramics. Berlin: De Gruyter; 978-3-11-115461-9 hardback £100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gardelli, Paolo. 2024. Villa Arianna at Stabiae: history, art and architecture of a Roman villa in the Bay of Naples (Urban Spaces 10). Berlin: De Gruyter; 978-3-11-133898-9 hardback £118.50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gimatzidis, Stefanos (ed.). 2024. Greek Iron Age pottery in the Mediterranean world: tracing provenance and socioeconomic ties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-47485-6 hardback £120.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Green, Ashleigh. 2024. Birds in Roman life and myth. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-1-032-16289-8 paperback £39.99.Google Scholar
Heller, Anna & Hallmannsecker, Martin (ed.). 2024. The Oxford handbook of Greek cities in the Roman empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-287093-3 hardback £161.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Morris, Alexandra F.. 2024. Disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic world: Plato's stepchildren. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-1-032-59087-5 hardback £135.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shaw, Elizabeth. 2024. Roman feet and shoes: the cultural significance of feet, footwear, and their representations in the north-western provinces (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3186). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6154-3 paperback £55.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilson, Andrew & Russell, Ben. 2024. The ‘place of palms’: an urban park at Aphrodisias. Wiesbaden: Reichert; 978-3-7520-0692-6 hardback €110.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Early medieval, medieval and post-medieval archaeology

Nilsson, Sara Ellis & Nyzell, Stefan (ed.). 2024. Viking heritage and history in Europe: practices and re-creations. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-367-62862-8 hardback £116.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Panato, Marco. 2024. River and society in Northern Italy: the Po Valley, 500–1000 AD (Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 4). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press; 978-90-485-5880-3 hardback £128.Google Scholar
Roffey, Simon. 2024. An archaeological history of hermitages and eremitic communities in medieval Britain and beyond. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-1-032-43987-7 paperback £39.99.Google Scholar
Wallensten, Jenny & Ekroth, Gunnel (ed.). 2024. “The pen fell from my hand when I was in my eighty-sixth year.” Revisiting the work of Martin P. Nilsson (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Athen, 8°, 24). Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens; 978-91-7916-070-8 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.30549/actaath-8-24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Africa and Egypt

Chirikure, Shadreck (ed.). 2024. The Oxford encyclopedia of African archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-007979-6 hardback £255.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Kelly, Sue. 2024. Unveiling female social power in early Egypt (c. 3080–2180 BCE) (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3189). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6173-4 paperback £55.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marshall, Amandine. 2024. Motherhood and early childhood in Ancient Egypt: culture, religion, and medicine. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press; 978-1-64903-090-0 hardback $70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Redding, Richard W.. 2024. A view from the herd: cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs in Pharanoic Egypt. A primer for Egyptologists and archaeologists (Archaeobiology 5). Columbus (GA): Lockwood Press; 978-1-957454-08-5 hardback $69.95.Google Scholar
Regulski, Ilona. 2024. Tomb M12.3 at Asyut: a unique testimony from the 12th Dynasty (The Asyut Project 19). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz; 978-3-447-12163-7 hardback €68.Google Scholar
Stockstill, Abbey. 2024. Marrakesh and the mountains: landscape, urban planning, and identity in the medieval Maghrib. University Park (PA): Penn State University Press; 978-0-271-09676-6 hardback $104.95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Western Asia

De Giorgi, Andrea U. (ed.). 2024. Antioch on the Orontes: history, society, ecology, and visual culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-108-83399-8 hardback £140.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mynářová, Jana, Bertolini, Ludovica & Zangani, Federico (ed.). 2024. Migration and mobility in the ancient Near East and Egypt – the Crossroads 4. Proceedings of an international conference held in Prague, September 19–22, 2022. Columbus (GA): Lockwood Press; 978-1-957454-10-8 hardback $99.50.Google Scholar
Schachner, Andreas. 2024. Ausgrabungen in der Unterstadt von Boğazköy II: Der Große Tempel von Ḫattuša, die Magazine in seinem Umfeld und das sogenannte Südareal (Boğazköy Ḫattuša, Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen 30). Wiesbaden: Reichert; 978-3-7520-0803-6 hardback €129.Google Scholar

Asia

Njoto, Hélène. 2024. Sultans-bâtisseurs et innovations architecturales à Java au début de la période coloniale (XVIe - début XIXe siècle) (Mémoires archéologiques 30). Paris: Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient; 978-2-85539-429-9 paperback €50.Google Scholar
Rante, Rocco (ed.). 2024. The Oasis of Bukhara, volume 3: material culture, socio-territorial features, archaeozoology and archaeometry (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 21). Leiden: Brill; 978-90-04-50707-4 hardback €179.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Americas

Arnold, Dean E.. 2024. Maya blue: unlocking the mysteries of an ancient pigment. Denver: University Press of Colorado; 978-1-64642-667-6 hardback $45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Greene, Virginia. 2024. The pottery figurines of Tikal (Tikal Report 28). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum; 978-1-949057-25-6 hardback $120.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hole, Frank & Flannery, Kent V.. 2024. Gheo-Shih: an archaic microband camp in the Valley of Oaxaca. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; 978-1-951538-77-4 paperback $50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Holl, Augustin F.C.. 2024. Archaeology of urban bondage: the New York African burial ground. Sheffield: Equinox; 978-1-80050-515-5 hardback £85.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Huckert, Chantal D. & Gallegos Gómora, Miriam Judith (ed.). 2024. Figuración humana en Mesoamérica prehispánica: arqueología, iconografías y lecturas (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3184). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6125-3 paperback £44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marcus, Joyce. 2024. The burials of Cerro Azul, Peru (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan 65). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; 978-1-951538-75-0 paperback $50.Google Scholar
Meighan, Clement W. & Blair, Elliot H.. 2024. Glass trade beads in California (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3185). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6203-8 paperback £38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
de Murúa, Martín, translated and edited by Bauer, Brian S., Gamarra C., Eliana & Lombardi, Andrea Gonzales. 2024. The general history of Peru: book 1. Denver: University Press of Colorado; 978-1-64642-655-3 paperback $45.95.Google Scholar
O'Neil, Megan E.. 2024. Memory in fragments: the lives of ancient Maya sculptures. Austin: University of Texas Press; 978-1-4773-2939-9 hardback $65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rodríguez, Véronica Pérez, Morell-Hart, Shanti & King, Stacie M. (ed.). 2024. Mesquite pods to mezcal: 10,000 years of Oaxacan cuisines. Austin: University of Texas Press; 978-1-4773-2796-8 hardback $60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Solari, Amara & Williams, Linda K.. 2024. Maya Christian murals of Early Modern Yucatán. Austin: University of Texas Press; 978-1-4773-2968-9 hardback $60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Woodfill, Brent K.S. & Henderson, Lucia R. (ed.). 2024. Archaeology in a living landscape: envisioning nonhuman persons in the Indigenous Americas. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-7919-6 hardback $100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Theory, method and historiography

Blake, Emma. 2024. Identity studies in archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-45970-9 paperback £17.Google Scholar
Boëda, Éric. 2024. Techno-logic & technology: a paleo-history of knapped lithic objects. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-1-032-41650-2 paperback £39.99.Google Scholar
DiBattista, Adam. 2024. Worked bone, antler, ivory, and keratinous materials. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-18167-9 paperback £17.Google Scholar
Ellenblum, Ronnie. 2024. Fragility: climate science, climate history and the rise and fall of civilizations. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; 978-965-208-240-4 hardback 180 NIS.Google Scholar

General

Bowser, Brenda J. & Cameron, Catherine M. (ed.). 2024. Landscapes of movement and predation: perspectives from archaeology, history, and anthropology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-5335-8 hardback $75.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Christophilopoulou, Anastasia (ed.). 2024. Islands and communities: perspectives on insularity, connectivity, and belonging. Oxford: Oxbow; 979-8-88857-151-4 paperback £38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grace Ellis, M., DeSanto, Carly M. & Howey, Meghan C.L. (ed.). 2024. Infrastructure in archaeological discourse: framing society in the past. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-1-032-67843-6 hardback £135.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hupfauf, Peter. 2024. The art of the Eurasian Steppe: its influence on European cultures. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-1-032-69989-9 hardback £135.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jones, Michael J.. 2024. Digging Lincoln: an archaeological memoir. Bicester: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-847-6 paperback £25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Swenson, Edward. 2024. Infrastructures of religion and power: archaeologies of landscape, ritual, and semiotics. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-367-40422-2 paperback £36.99.Google Scholar

Second editions

Bruhns, Karen Olsen. 2024. Ancient South America (2nd Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-68249-7 hardback £33.99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mitchell, Peter. 2024. The archaeology of southern Africa (2nd Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-32475-5 paperback £34.99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar