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Thomas A. Holland. Excavations at Tell Es-Sweyhat, Syria, volume 2. Archaeology of the Bronze Age, Hellenistic, and Roman remains at an ancient town on the Euphrates River. Part 1: Text; Part 2: Figures & Plates (Oriental Institute Publications 128). lx+620 pages, 335 figures, 340 plates, 3 maps, 108 tables. 2006. Chicago (IL): Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; 1-885923-33-3 hardback 2 volumes £90.
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New light on early Insular monasteries - Heather F. James & Peter Yeoman with numerous contributors. Excavations at St Ethernan's monastery, Isle of May, Fife (Tayside & Fife Archaeological Committee Monograph 6). xii+220 pages, 103 illustrations, 8 colour plates, 66 tables. 2008. Perth: Tayside & Fife Archaeological Committee; 1360-5550 paperback £15. - Christopher Lowe. Inchmarnock: an Early Historic island monastery and its archaeological landscape. xxii+314 pages, 156 b&w & colour illustrations, 34 tables. 2008. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903903-37-0 hardback £30 (Fellows £25). - Thomas McErlean & Norman Crothers. Harnessing the tides: the Early Medieval tide mills at Nendrum monastery, Strangford Loch. xx+468 pages, 344 b&w & colour illustrations, tables. 2007. Norwich: Environment & Heritage Service/The Stationery Office; 978-0-08877-3 hardback £25. - Martin Carver. Portmahomack: monastery of the Picts. xvi+240 pages, 94 illustrations, 16 colour plates. 2008. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; 978-0-7486-2441-6 hardback £75; 978-0-7486-2442-3 paperback £24.99.
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British rock art: from discovery to interpretation - Paul & Barbara Brown. Prehistoric rock art in the Northern Dales. 320 pages, 130 illustrations, 35 colour plates. 2008. Stroud: Tempus; 978-0-7524-4246-4 paperback £19.99. - Brian A. Smith & Alan A. Walker Rock art and ritual: interpreting the prehistoric landscapes of the North York Moors. 160 pages, 37 illustrations, 24 colour plates. 2008. Stroud: Tempus; 978-0-7524-4634-9 paperback £14.99. - Aron Mazel, George Nash & Clive Waddington (ed.) Art as metaphor: the prehistoric rock-art of Britain. x+256 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-905739-16-5 paperback £19.95.
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Colin Renfrew & Iain Morley (ed.). Image and imagination: a global prehistory of figurative representation. xxii+346 pages, 210 illustrations, 3 tables. 2007. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 978-1-902937-48-9 hardback £30.
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Under the same sky: two British settlements in early colonial Australia - Jim Allen. Port Essington: the historical archaeology of a north Australian nineteenth-century military outpost (Studies in Australasian Historical Archaeology 1). xvi+142 pages, 111 illustrations, 95 tables. 2008. Sydney: Sydney University Press/Australian Society for Historical Archaeology; 978-1-920898-87-8 paperback AUS $49.95 + p&p. - Graham Connah. The same under a different sky? A country estate in nineteenth-century New South Wales (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1625). x+270 pages, 174 illustrations. 2007. Oxford: John & Erica Hedges; 978-14073-0059-7 paperback £45.
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Andrew Robinson. Lost languages: the enigma of the world's undeciphered scripts. 352 pages, numerous illustrations & tables. Second edition 2009 (first published in 2002). London: Thames & Hudson; 9780-500-51453-5 hardback £16.95.
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Presenting archaeology: views from and on the platform - Hedley Swain. An introduction to museum archaeology. xxiv+368 pages, 20 illustrations, 5 tables. 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-86076-5 hardback £45 & $80; 978-0-521-67796-7 paperback £16.99 & $28.99. - Nena Galanidou & Liv Helga Dommasnes (ed.). Telling children about the past: an interdisciplinary perspective. xii+324 pages, 41 illustrations, 15 tables. 2007. Ann Arbor (MI): International Monographs in Prehistory; 978-1-879621-40-4 paperback $25. - Timothy Clack & Marcus Brittain (ed.). Archaeology and the media. 324 pages, 45 illustrations. 2007. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press; 978-1-59874-233-6 hardback £40; 978-1-59874-234-3 paperback £15.99.
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Andrew J. Lawson. Chalkland: an archaeology of Stonehenge and its region. 2007. Salisbury: Hobnob; 978-0-946418-61-9 casebound £25; 978-0-946418-70-1 paperback £17.95.
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Book reviews - Andrew Jones (ed.). Prehistoric Europe: theory and practice(Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology 12). xvi+378 pages, 93 illustrations, 2 tables. 2008. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-4051-2597-0 hardback £55; 978-1-4051-2596-3 paperback £19.99.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 864-865
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James Cuno. Who owns Antiquity? Museums and the battle over our ancient heritage. xl+228 pages, 6 illustrations. 2008. Princeton (NJ) & Oxford: Princeton University Press; 978-0-691-13712-4 hardback $24.95.
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David Quammen (ed.). Charles Darwin ‘On the Origin of Species’ (illustrated edition). xvi+544 pages, over 350 colour illustrations. 2008. New York: Sterling; 978-1-4027-5639-9 hardback £20 & $35.
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G.L. Dusseldorp. A view to a kill: investigating Middle Palaeolithic subsistence using an Optimal Foraging perspective. 200 pages, 21 illustrations, 35 tables. 2009. Leiden: Sidestone Press; 978-90-8890-020-4 paperback, €29.95.
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Arnold Aspinall, Chris Gaffney & Armin Schmidt. Magnetometry for archaeologists. x+208 pages, 83 b&w & colour illustrations, 5 tables. 2008. Lanham (MD): AltaMira; 978-0-7591-1106-6 hardback $70; 978-0-7591-1348-0 paperback $29.95.
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Tim Murray & Christopher Evans (ed.). Histories of archaeology: a reader in the history of archaeology. x+486 pages, 19 illustrations. 2008. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-955007-4 hardback £85; 978-0-19-955008-1 paperback £35.
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J. Desmond Clark, Elizabeth J. Agrilla, Diana C. Crader, Alison Galloway, Elena A.A. Garcea, Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (general editor) David N. Hall, Andrew B. Smith & Martin A.J. Williams. Adrar Bous: archaeology of a Central Saharan granitic ring complex in Niger (Studies in Human Sciences 170). 404 pages, 164 illustrations, 72 tables. 2008. Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa; 978-9-0747-5243-5 paperback.
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Book reviews - Boris Valentin. Jalons pour une paléohistoire des derniers chasseurs (XIV e – VIe millénaire avant J.-C.) (Cahiers Archéologiques de Paris 1). 326 pages, 81 illustrations. 2008. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne; 978-2-8594-4597-3 paperback €35.
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James M. Skibo & Michael Brian Schiffer. People and things: a behavioural approach to material culture. xiv+170 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables. 2008. New York: Springer; 978-0-387-76524-2 hardback $89.95.
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Book reviews - H.P. Blankholm. Målsnes 1: an early post-glacial coastal site in northern Norway. xii+108 pages, 76 b&w & colour illustrations, 21 tables. 2008. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-343-5 hardback £35.
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Paul Davies. Snails: archaeology and landscape change. xvi+200 pages, 98 illustrations, 14 tables. 2008. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-317-6 hardback £40.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 540-541
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Y.B. Tsetlin. The centre of the Russian plain in the Neolithic age: decoration of clay vessels and methods for the periodization of cultures. 274 pages, 52 plates, 75 tables. 2008. Tula: Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; 978-5-8125-1155-5 hardback (in Russian with 15-page English summary).
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