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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd

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

References

European prehistory

Fulford, Michael, Barnett, Catherine, Pankhurst, Nicholas & Wheeler, Daniel. 2025. Silchester: the landscape setting of the Iron Age oppidum and Roman city. From the Neolithic to the Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxbow; 979-8-88857-040-1 hardback £44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Koch, John T., Fauvelle, Mikael, Cunliffe, Barry & Ling, Johan (ed.). 2025. Presenting counterpoints to the dominant terrestrial narrative of European prehistory (Maritime Encounters 1). Oxford: Oxbow; 979-8-88857-184-2 hardback £55.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lane, Paul J., Schadla-Hall, Tim & Taylor, Barry (ed.). 2025. Hunter-gatherers in the landscape: surveys and excavations in the eastern Vale of Pickering, 1976–2000. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 978-1-913344-20-7 hardback £52.Google Scholar
Newton, Andrew A. S., Mustchin, Antony R. R. & Walker, Julie. 2025. Late Iron Age to Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon settlement at Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire. (British Archaeological Reports British Series 693). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6249-6 paperback £56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Turek, Jan & Krištuf, Petr. 2025. The tombs of forefathers: Neolithic long barrows in ritual landscapes. Oxford: Oxbow; 979-8-88857-202-3 paperback £33.60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rissanen, Hannele. 2025. Umgang mit den Toten: Analyse der Bestattungspraxis in der jüngeren Latènezeit anhand des Fundortes Basel-Gasfabrik (Materialhefte zur Archäologie in Basel 2025 27). 978-3-905098-74-7 ebook OpenAccess https//doi.org/10.12685/mh.27.2025.1-405 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whallon, Robert. 2025. Badanj: Epipaleolithic excavations in Herzegovina, 1986–1987 (University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Memoirs 67). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; 978-1-951538-81-1 paperback $80.Google Scholar

Classical and Roman world

An., Daniel E. 2025. Fear of god: practicing emotion in Late Antique monasticism. Oakland: University of California Press; 978-0-520-41616-1 hardback £80.Google Scholar
Arrington, Nathan T., Terzopoulou, Donna, Tasaklaki, Marina & Tartaron, Thomas F. (ed.). 2025. The Molyvoti, Thrace, archaeological project 1: landscape, architecture, and material culture (Hesperia Supplement 54). Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 978-0-87661-556-0 paperback $100.Google Scholar
Barbet, Alix. 2025. La peinture murale romaine: Les styles décoratifs pompéiens. Dremil-Lafage: Mergoil; 978-2-35518-155-9 paperback €42.65.Google Scholar
Cosmopoulos, Michael B.. 2025. The world of Homer: archaeology, social memory, and the emergence of Greek epic poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-58288-9 hardback $44.99.Google Scholar
Gerg, Stefano Santocchini (ed.). 2025. Dal Tirreno al Mare Sardo: Studi per Marco Rendeli. Atti dell’Incontro Internazionale di Studi (Roma 10–11 novembre 2023). Rome: Bretschneider; 978-88-7689-351-3 paperback €149.Google Scholar
Gianni, Gaia. 2025. All in the family: childhood and fictive kinship in Roman society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; 978-0-472-13361-1 hardback $90 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12705608 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kress, Bianca Larissa. 2025. Die Akropoliskoren von Athen. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-054-2 paperback £35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Larsen, Matthew D.C. & Letteney, Mark. 2025. Ancient Mediterranean incarceration. Oakland: University of California Press; 978-0-520-38722-5 paperback £30. ebook OpenAccess https://www.ucpress.edu/read/books/ancient-mediterranean-incarceration Google Scholar
Lazarou, Anna. 2025. Metamorphoses of the Gorgo-Medusa from Archaic Greece to Late Antiquity (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3223). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6163-5 paperback £87.Google Scholar
Lindblom, Michael. 2025. The shaft graves and other Late Helladic I and II remains (Lerna X). Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 978-0-87661-310-8 hardback $150.Google Scholar
Martens, Brian. 2025. Marble statuettes of the Roman period (Agora XXXIX). Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 978-0-87661-239-2 hardback $150.Google 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
Tabolli, Jacopo & Vanni, Edoardo (ed.). 2025. Lungo il corso del fiume Paglia: Archeologia, mobilità e mediazione culturale nell’antichità (Quaderni di Otium 8). Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider; 978-88-7689-349-0 paperback €84.55.Google Scholar
van der Meulen-van der Veen, Berber S.. 2025. Cultural transformations in Germania Secunda: a holistic approach to ‘barbarian’ migrations (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 128). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-991-6 paperback £45 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781803279916 CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Early medieval, medieval and post-medieval archaeology

Flückinger, Anna & Bemmann, Jan (ed.). 2024. Coining values: bronze between money and scrap in late Roman and early medieval Europe (Limes und Legion 2). Wiesbaden: Reichert; 978-3-7520-0816-6 hardback €69.Google Scholar
Franklin, Julie, Ginnever, Matthew & Gaunt, Kimberley. 2025. Living and dying in a Lancashire cotton town: excavation at St Peter’s Church and Burial Ground, Blackburn, Lancashire (British Archaeological Reports British Series 692). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-5649-5 paperback £70.Google Scholar
Gleeson, Patrick. 2025. Landscapes of kingship in early medieval Ireland AD 400–1150. Dublin: Four Courts Press; 978-1-80151-165-0 hardback €45.Google Scholar
Hoggett, Richard & Faulkner, Neil (ed.). 2025. The Anglo-Saxon agricultural revolution in Norfolk: proceedings of a conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sedgeford historical and archaeological research project. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-072-6 paperback £40 ebook OpenAccess https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805830726 Google Scholar
Howard-Johnston, James. 2025. Byzantium in a changing world. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-889787-3 hardback £90.Google Scholar
Lesnes, Élisabeth & Younker, Randall W.. 2025. San Miceli: an early Christian rural settlement in western Sicily. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3516-6 paperback €216.Google Scholar
Lloveras, Lluís, Rissech, Carme, Nadal, Jordi & Banks, Philip (ed.). 2025. Reconstructing past monastic life volume 1: bioarchaeology, life and death. New trends from archaeological, bioanthropological and documentary perspectives. Oxford: Oxbow; 979-8-88857-173-6 paperback £48.Google Scholar
Lloveras, Lluís, Rissech, Carme, Nadal, Jordi & Banks, Philip (ed.). 2025. Reconstructing past monastic life volume 2: diet, landscape and monastic space. New trends from archaeological, bioanthropological and documentary perspectives. Oxford: Oxbow; 979-8-88857-175-0 paperback £48.Google Scholar
Redi, Fabio. 2025. L’Aquila “città nuova” sulla frontiera fra Meridione e Stato della Chiesa: L’impianto e l’edilizia residenziale fra XII e XV secolo (Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean (365–1556) 18). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-044-3 paperback £40.Google Scholar
Rutgers, Leonard V., Christie, Neil, Jensen, Robin M. & Magness, Jodi (ed.). 2025. The Cambridge encyclopaedia of Late Antique art and archaeology. Volume 1: architecture, artifacts and evidence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-53510-6 hardback £110.Google Scholar
Sharples, Niall. 2025. The Vikings in the Hebrides. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-914427-39-8 paperback £30.40.Google Scholar
Treveil, Philip. 2025. The historic landscapes of Cornwall and Devon: a study of rural settlement and field systems during the later medieval and post-medieval periods (British Archaeological Reports British Series 695). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6077-5 paperback £52.Google Scholar
Tsetskhladze, Gocha R., Hargrave, James & Manoledakis, Manolis (ed.). 2025. The Black Sea: hub of peoples and cultures (8th century BC–5th/6th century AD): proceedings of the Seventh International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities (Thessaloniki, 26–30 September 2022). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-933-6 paperback £80.Google Scholar

Africa and Egypt

Freed, Rita E.. 2026. Ancient Nubian art: a history. Los Angeles (CA): Getty Publications; 978-1-60606-981-3 paperback $50.Google Scholar
Petacchi, Simone & Le Pennec, Christophe. 2025. Catalogue de la collection égyptienne du Musée d’Histoire et d’Archéologie de Vannes (Archaeopress Egyptology 52). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-056-6 paperback £35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stephens, Michael Allen. 2025. The Egyptian New Kingdom navy: technology, administration, logistics and strategic operation (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3219). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6273-1 paperback £62.Google Scholar

Western Asia

Corsi, Andrea Luigi. 2025. Abbasid architectural stucco decoration from excavations at the Friday Mosque of Isfahan (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3222). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6319-6 paperback £40.Google Scholar
Cyrus, Georg. 2025. Die Aneignung und Umnutzung von Herrschaftsräumen am Beispiel der Squattersiedlung der südwestasiatischen Eisenzeit. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-987-9 paperback £55 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781803279879 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kas Hanna, Elie Essa (ed.). 2025. Villes mortes della Siria: Topografia cristiana e insediamenti del Massiccio Calcareo (IVVII secolo) (Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean (365–1556) 17). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-050-4 paperback £50.Google Scholar
Malena, Sarah. 2025. Fertile crossroads: elites and exchange in the southern Levant’s Early Iron Age. Sheffield: Equinox; 978-1-80050-474-5 hardback £90.Google Scholar
Messina, Vito & Kian, Jafar Mehr. 2025. Shami, Kal-e Chendar: research of the Iranian-Italian joint expedition in Khuzestan (Iranian-Italian Joint Expedition in Khuzestan: Archaeological Reports 2). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-955-8 paperback £85 ebook OpenAccess https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803279558 Google Scholar
Redford, Scott (ed.). 2025Kinet Höyük 7: the medieval period, parts i and ii: Bilkent University excavations at Kinet Höyük, Hatay, Turkey (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3224). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6257-1 paperback £165.Google Scholar
van der Veen, Pieter & Wallenfels, Ronald (ed.). 2025. Assyria and the West: a fresh look at the unshakeable pillars of Late Bronze and Iron Age chronology in the eastern Mediterranean world. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-989-3 hardback £90 ebook OpenAccess https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803279893 Google Scholar

South and Southeast Asia

Lakshminarayanan, Ashwini. 2025. Gender in Gandhāran art: representations and interactions in the Buddhist context (1st4th centuries CE). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-60951-5 hardback €125.Google Scholar
Ross, Kenneth William. 2025The identity at death of the old and young from the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages on the Southeast Asian mainland. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-062-7 paperback £65 ebook OpenAccess https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805830627 Google Scholar
Sontakke, Virag G., Tiwary, Sachin Kr. & Sharma, Dheeraj. 2025. Pre- and protohistoric archaeology of Chunar, Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh): new research from Dantari Hill (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3218). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6269-4 paperback £28.Google Scholar

Americas

Brady, James E. & Verdugo, Cristina (ed.). 2025. Exploring the Mesoamerican subterranean realm. Denver: University Press of Colorado; 978-1-64642-695-9 hardback $110.Google Scholar
Davidson, James M.. 2025. Cross marks in the African diaspora: a North American perspective (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3217). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6253-3 paperback £43.Google Scholar
Heredia Espinoza, Verenice Y., Cardona Machado, Héctor J. & Englehardt, Joshua D. (ed.). 2025. Bajo la sombra del volcán: Vestigios de los antiguos pobladores de Los Guachimontones, Jalisco (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 62). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-052-8 paperback £40 ebook OpenAccess https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805830528 Google Scholar
Machado, Lisa & Cowie, Sarah E.. 2025. Beer garden, Catholic hospital, and Indigenous presence: complicated site components in an American mining boomtown (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3221). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6299-1 paperback £46.Google Scholar
Martín Medina, Geiser Gerardo & García Targa, Juan (ed.). 2025. El Agua en Mesoamérica y Aridoamérica: Gestión y uso (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3216). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6271-7 paperback £98.Google Scholar
Matsumoto, Mallory E.. 2025. The Maya myths: a guide to the gods, heroes and ancestors. New York: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-02654-0 hardback $25.95.Google Scholar
Witschey, Walter R.T. & Brown, Clifford T.. 2025. Atlas of the ancient Maya world (The Early Americas: History and Culture 13). Leiden: Brill; 978-90-04-71113-6 hardback €150.Google Scholar

Heritage, conservation and museums

Arrighetti, Andrea. 2025. Archaeoseismology in a Mediterranean city: Siena and the PROTECT project. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-058-0 paperback £35 ebook OpenAccess https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805830580 Google Scholar
Hilton, John R.. 2025. Colonial intrigues and my dismissal as Director of Antiquities: a memoir of Cyprus in the 1930s. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-064-1 paperback £35.Google Scholar
Winbladh, Marie-Louise. 2025. Archaeology as a weapon: long-lasting legacies of colonialism and nationalism in Israel, Palestine, Cyprus and Greece. Wilmington (DE): Vernon; 979-8-8819-0273-5 hardback £72.Google Scholar

Theory, method and historiography

Bartelheim, Martin, Hardenberg, Roland, Männlein, Irmgard, Riehl, Simone, Schade, Tobias & Scholten, Thomas (ed.). 2025. ResourceCultures: how resources affect societies. Wiesbaden: Reichert; 978-3-7520-0868-5 hardback €69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Casey, Kathleen B.. 2025. The things she carried: a cultural history of the purse in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-758782-9 hardback £26.99.Google Scholar
Feinman, Gary M. & Price, T. Douglas (ed.). 2025. The future of archaeology. New York (NY): Eliot Werner; 979-8-9912264-9-3 paperback $32.95.Google Scholar
Horváth, Gyöngyvér & Onians, Isabelle (ed.). 2025. Art LoVers: celebrating Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians in words and pictures. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-975-6 paperback £60 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781803279756 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jordan, Pamela, Mura, Sara & Hamilton, Sue (ed.). 2025New sensory approaches to the past: applied methods in sensory heritage and archaeology. London: UCL Press; 978-1-80008-868-9 paperback £45 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088696 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Neils, Jenifer (ed.). 202554 Souidias: a history of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 978-0-87661-971-1 hardback $45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sampatakou, Despoina Vasiliki. 2025. Creating and evaluating digital media for archaeological storytelling: the life and death of MYC1V at Grave Circle A, Mycenae (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3220). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6209-0 paperback £53.Google Scholar

General

Bivolaru, Alexandra, Cottica, Daniela & Morhange, Christophe (ed.). 2025. Waterscapes archaeology: multi-scalar human-environment interactions in coastal lagoons. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-953-4 paperback £35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Luckhurst, Roger. 2025. Graveyards: a history of living with the dead. New York: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-02770-7 hardback £30.Google Scholar
Moore, Jerry D.. 2025. Cat tales: a history. New York: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-02953-4 hardback $34.95.Google Scholar