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Books received

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2015

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This list includes all books received between 1 July 2015 and 31 August 2015.

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Books Received
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2015 

This list includes all books received between 1 July 2015 and 31 August 2015.

General

Baker, Brenda J. & Tsuda, Takeyuki (ed.). 2015. Migration and disruptions: toward a unifying theory of ancient and contemporary migrations. xiii+348 pages, 26 b&w illustrations, and 6 tables. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-6080-4 hardback $84.95.

Everill, Paul & Irving, Pamela (ed.). 2015. Rescue archaeology: foundations for the future. xxiii+293 pages, several colour and b&w illustrations. Hertford: Rescue–The British Archaeological Trust; 978-0-903789-20-2 paperback £29.

Hampson, Jamie. 2015. Rock art and regional identity: a comparative perspective. 248 pages, 102 b&w illustrations. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast; 978-1-61132-371-9 hardback $79.

Kelly, Lynne. 2015. Knowledge and power in prehistoric societies: orality, memory, and the transmission of culture. xxvi+276 pages, 43 b&w illustrations, 4 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-05937-5 hardback £64.99.

Robinson, Mike & Silverman, Helaine (ed.). 2015. Encounters with popular pasts: cultural heritage and popular culture. ix+253 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. New York: Springer; 978-3-319-13182-5 hardback $89.99.

European pre- and protohistory

Aldhouse-Green, Miranda. 2015. Bog bodies uncovered: solving Europe's ancient mystery. 223 pages, 15 colour and 63 b&w illustrations. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-051825 hardback £18.95.

Guilaine, Jean. 2015. Les hypogées protohistoriques de la Méditerranée. 335 pages, numerous colour illustrations. Arles: Errance. 978-2-87772-544-6 paperback €45.

Manco, Jean. Blood of the Celts: the new ancestral story. 2015. 240 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-05183-2 hardback £18.95.

Menotti, Francesco (ed.). 2015. The end of the lake-dwellings in the Circum-Alpine region. x+250 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-78297-860-2 paperback £45.

Mediterranean archaeology

Papadopoulos, John K., Morris, Sarah P., Bejko, Lorenc & Schepartz, Lynne A.. 2014. The excavation of the prehistoric burial tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania. Volume 1: text. Volume 2: illustrations (Monumenta Archaeologica 34). xxxvii+1118 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and tables. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; 978-1-938770-00-5 hardback £150.

Pickup, Sadie, Bergeron, Marianne & Webb, Jennifer. 2015. Cypriote antiquities in Reading. The Ure Museum at the University of Reading and the Reading Museum (Reading Borough Council) (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology XX: 30). vii+55 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Uppsala: Åströms; 978-91-7081-201-9 hardback €24.

Scopacasa, Rafael. 2015. Ancient Samnium: settlement, culture, and identity between history and archaeology. xvi+352 pages, 22 b&w illustrations and 12 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-871376-0 hardback £75.

The Classical and Roman worlds

Bayley, Justine, Freestone, Ian & Jackson, Caroline (ed.). 2015. Glass of the Roman world. xxvi+204 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-78297-774-2 hardback £40.

Ferris, Iain. 2015. The mirror of Venus: women in Roman art. 255 pages, 94 colour illustrations. Stroud: Amberley; 978-1445633725 hardback £20.

Lapatin, Kenneth. 2015. Luxus: the sumptuous arts of Greece and Rome. xii+292 pages, 243 colour illustrations. Los Angeles (CA): Getty; 978-1-60606-422-1 hardback $74.95.

Mitchell, Thomas N.. 2015. Democracy's beginning: the Athenian story. xvi+350 pages. London: Yale University Press; 978-0-300-21503-8 paperback £25.

Spivey, Nigel. 2015. Classical civilization: Greeks and Romans in 10 chapters. xiii+353 pages, 6 b&w maps. London: Head of Zeus; 978-1-78185-500-3 hardback £16.99.

Toner, Jerry. 2015. The ancient world. 154 pages, 15 colour and b&w illustrations. London: Profile; 978-1781254202 paperback £8.99.

Anatolia, Levant, Middle East

Fisher, Greg (ed.). 2015. Arabs and empires before Islam. xxiii+580 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-965452-9 hardback £120.

Smith, Adam T.. 2015. The political machine: assembling sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus. xv+242 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press; 978-0-691-16323-9 hardback $39.50 & £27.95.

Strange, John (ed.). 2015. Tall al-Fukhãr. Results from excavations in 1990–93 and 2002. Volume 1: text. Volume 2: plates (Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus 9). 680 pages. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag; 978-87-7124-409-0 hardback £100.

Stoneman, Richard. 2015. Xerxes: a Persian life. xi+275 pages, 40 b&w illustrations, 1 table. London: Yale University Press; 978-0-300-18007-7 hardback £25.

Asia

Guha, Sudeshna. 2015. Artefacts of history: archaeology, historiography and Indian pasts. xiii+273 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. New Delhi: Sage; 978-93-515-0164-0 hardback £47.50.

Honeychurch, William. 2015. Inner Asia and the spatial politics of empire: archaeology, mobility, and culture contact. xi+321 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. New York: Springer; 978-1-4939-1814-0 hardback £117 & $179.

Yang, Meili. 2016. Art, archaeology and science: an interdisciplinary approach to Chinese archaeological and artistic materials. xiii+162 pages, 42 b&w illustrations. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press; 978-1-84519-733-9 hardback £65.

Africa and Egypt

Booth, Charlotte. 2015. Lost voices of the Nile: everyday life in ancient Egypt. 284 pages, 30 colour illustrations. Stroud: Amberley; 978-1-4456-4285-7 hardback £20.

Chirikure, Shadreck. 2015. Metals in past societies: a global perspective on indigenous African metallurgy. xxi+166 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. New York: Springer; 978-3-319-11640-2 paperback $54.99.

Derricourt, Robin. 2015. Antiquity imagined: the remarkable legacy of Egypt and the ancient Near East. xi+288 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. London: Tauris; 978-1-78453-275-8 hardback £25.

Americas

Boersema, Jan J.. 2015. The survival of Easter Island: dwindling resources and cultural resilience. xvi+296 pages, 44 b&w illustrations, 1 table. New York: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-02770-1 hardback $99.

Cowgill, George L.. 2015. Ancient Teotihuacan: early urbanism in Central Mexico. xvi+296 pages, 119 b&w illustrations, and 3 tables. New York: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-87033-7 hardback £60.

Gamboa, Jorge. 2015. Archaeological heritage in a modern urban landscape: the ancient Moche in Trujillo, Peru. xi+96 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. New York: Springer; 978-3-319-15469-5 paperback $54.99.

Randall, Asa R.. 2015. Constructing histories: Archaic freshwater shell mounds and social landscapes of the St Johns River, Florida. ix+331 pages, 51 b&w illustrations, and 5 tables. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-6101-6 hardback $79.99.

Urton, Gary & Von Hagen, Adriana (ed.). 2015. Encyclopedia of the Incas. x+324 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Lanham (MA): Rowman & Littlefield; 978-0-7591-2362-5 hardback £49.95.

Britain and Ireland

Bolger, Teresa, Jones, Martin, Brian MacDomhnaill, MacLeod, Ross, Moloney, Colm & Timpany, Scott. 2015. Through the lands of the Auteri and St Jarlath: the archaeology of the M17 Galway to Tuam and N17 Tuam bypass schemes (NRA Scheme Monograph 17). x+138 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and CD. Dublin: National Roads Authority; 978-0-9932315-0-6 paperback €25.

Bolger, Teresa, Moloney, Colm & Shiels, Damian (ed.). 2015. A journey along the Carlow Corridor: the archaeology of the M9 Carlow bypass (NRA Scheme Monograph 16). x+210 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and CD. Dublin: National Roads Authority; 978-0-9574380-9-5 paperback €25.

McAlister, Vicky & Barry, Terry (ed.). 2015. Space and settlement in medieval Ireland. xv+237 pages, 40 b&w illustrations, and 2 tables. Dublin: Four Courts; 978-1-8482-500-2 hardback €49.50.

Byzantine, early medieval and medieval

Carlson, Deborah N., Leidwanger, Justin & Kampbell, Sarah M. (ed.). 2015. Maritime studies in the wake of the Byzantine shipwreck at Yassiada, Turkey. xix+248 pages, 92 b&w illustrations, and tables. College Station: Texas A&M University Press; 978-1-62349-215-1 hardback $75.

Hansen, Maria Fabricius. 2015. The spolia churches of Rome: recycling Antiquity in the Middle Ages. 256 pages, numerous colour illustrations. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag; 978-87-7124-210-2 paperback £25.

Harris, Jonathan. 2015. The lost world of Byzantium. xi+264 pages. New Haven (CT): Yale University Press; 978-0-300-17857-9 hardback £25.

Historical archaeology

Funari, Pedro Paulo A. & Orser, Charles E. Jr (ed.). 2015. Current perspectives on the archaeology of African slavery in Latin America. xi+135 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. New York: Springer; 978-1-4939-1263-6 paperback $54.99.

Funari, Pedro Paulo A. & Senatore, Maria Ximena (ed.). 2015. Archaeology of culture contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America. xix+369 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. New York: Springer; 978-3-319-08068-0 hardback $179.

Other

Marchesi, Ilaria (ed.). 2015. Pliny the book-maker: betting on posterity in the Epistles. 278 pages. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-872946-4 hardback £60.

Sekaquaptewa, Emory, Hill, Kenneth C. & Washburn, Dorothy K.. 2015. Hopi katsina songs. xii+420 pages. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press; 978-0-8032-6288-1 hardback $65 & £45.

Trautmann, Thomas R.. 2015. Elephants and kings: an environmental history. xvi+372 pages, 45 colour and b&w illustrations. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-26436-3 paperback $30.

Paperback, second and subsequent editions

Lekson, Stephen H.. 2015. The Chaco Meridian: one thousand years of political and religious power in the ancient Southwest (second edition; first published 1999). xix+255 pages, 43 b&w illustrations. Lanham (MA): Rowman & Littlefield; 978-1-4422-4645-4 paperback £23.95.

Leone, Mark P. & Knauf, Jocelyn E. (ed.). 2015. Historical archaeologies of capitalism (second edition, first published 1999). xv+489 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. New York: Springer; 978-3-319-12759-0 hardback $79.99.

Potter, David. 2015. Constantine the Emperor (reprinted edition, first published 2013). xiv+368 pages, several b&w illustrations. New York: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-23162-0 paperback £14.99.

Rice, Prudence M.. 2015. Pottery analysis: a sourcebook (second edition, first published 1987). xxxii+561 pages, 114 b&w illustrations, and 49 tables. Chicago (IL): University Press of Chicago; 978-0-226-92321-5 paperback $55.