Books received.

This list includes all books received between 1 September 2015 and 31 October 2015. Those featuring at the beginning of New Book Chronicle have, however, not been duplicated in this list. The listing of a book in this chronicle does not preclude its subsequent review in Antiquity.

General

MARTA DIAZ-GUARDAMINO, LEONARDO GARCIA SANJUAN & DAVID WHEATLEY (ed.). 2015. The lives of prehistoric monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe, xviii+356 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, 6 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-872460-5 hardback 85 [pounds sterling].

ROBERT D. DRENNAN, C. ADAM BERRY & CHRISTIAN E. PETERSON. 2015. Regional settlement demography in archaeology. ix+180 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, tables. Clinton Corners (NY): Eliot Werner; 978-0-9898249-1 paperback $32.95.

ERIC R. FORCE. 2015. Impact of tectonic activity on ancient civilizations: recurrent shakeups, tenacity, resilience, and change, xii+199 pages, several b&w illustrations, 4 tables. London: Lexington; 978-1-4985-1427-9 hardback 52.95 [pounds sterling].

CAROLINE TREMEAUD (ed.). 2015. Les Nouvelles de l'archeologie. Genre et archeologie (Les Nouvelles de farcheologic 140). 64 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Paris: Editions MSH; 978-2-7351-2052-9 paperback 12 [euro].

GERDA VON BULOW. 2015. Kontaktzone Balkan. Beitrage des Internationalen 1Colloquiums Die Donau-Balkan-Region als Kontaktzone zwischen Ost-West und Nord-Sud (Kolloquien zur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte 20). ix+259 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, 4 tables. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt GmbH; 978-3-7749-3983-7 hardback 42 [euro].

European pre- and protohistory

KRISTIAN BRINK, SUSAN HYDEN STERLING]N, KRISTINA JENNBERT, LARS LARSSON & DEBORAH OLAUSSON (ed.). 2015. Neolithic diversities: perspectives from a conference in Lund, Sweden (Acta Archaeologica Lundensia 65). 253 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Lund: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University; 978-91-89578-60-9 hardback.

LEE CLARE, KRISTIN HELLER, MAHA ISMAIL-WEBER & CARSTEN MISCHKA. 2015. Die Bandkeramik im Altdorfer Talchen bei Inden (Rheinische Ausgrabungen Band 69). x+478 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, 46 tables and CD. Darmstadt: Philipp von Zabern in Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft; 978-3805348799 hardback 69.90 [euro].

BARRY CUNLIFFE. 2015. By steppe, desert, and ocean: the birth of Eurasia, ix+530 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-968917-0 hardback 30 [pounds sterling].

T. DOUGLAS Price. 2015. Ancient Scandinavia: an archaeological history from the first humans to the Vikings. xx+494 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. New York: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-023197-2 hardback 41.99 [pounds sterling].

GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ & HENRY MARCHESI (ed.). 2015. Statues-menhirs et pierres levees du Neolithique a aujourdhui: actes du 3e Colloque international sur la statuaire megalithique, Saint-Pons-de-Thomieres, du 12 au 16 septembre 2012. 503 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Montpellier & Saint-Pons-de-Thomieres: Direction regionale des affaires culturelles Languedoc-Roussillon & Groupe archeologique du Saint-Ponais; 978-2-914825-08-5 paperback.

JOANNA SOFAER. 2015. Clay in the age of bronze: essays in the archaeology of prehistoric creativity, xii+214 pages, 32 b&w illustrations, 2 tables. New York: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-15536-6 paperback 69.99 [pounds sterling].

Mediterranean archaeology

FRANCK GODDIO & DAMIAN ROBINSON (ed.). 2014. Thonis-Heracleion in context, xiii+319 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, 6 tables. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology Monographs; 978-1905905331 hardback 45 [pounds sterling].

CATHERINE JACQUEMARD, PHILIPPE FLEURY & SOPHIE MADELEINE (ed.). 2015. La technologie greco-romaine: transmission, restitution et mediation. 284 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen; 978-2-84133-517-6 paperback 28 [euro].

TOD A. MARDER & MARK WILSON JONES (ed.). 2015. The Pantheon: from Antiquity to the present, xix+471 pages, 18 colour and 174 b&w illustrations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-80932-0 hardback 65 [pounds sterling].

CLAUDIA SAGONA. 2015. The archaeology of Malta: from the Neolithic through the Roman period, xix+449 pages, 66 b&w illustrations, 5 tables. New York: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-00669-0 hardback 84.99 [pounds sterling].

DAVIDE TANASI & NICHOLAS C. VELLA. 2015. The late prehistory of Malta: essays on Borg in-Nadur and other sites, vii+199 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, and tables. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-78491-127-0 paperback 35 [pounds sterling].

MIA GAIATRENTIN & IOSIF HADJIKYRIAKO (ed.). 2015. Cypriot cultural details, vii+222 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-78570-066-8 paperback 38 [pounds sterling].

The Roman world

MARY BEARD. 2015. SPQR: a history of ancient Rome. 606 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, 5 maps. London: Profile; 978-1846683800 hardback 25 [pounds sterling].

F. D'ANDRIA, K. MANNINO, R. D'ANDRIA, G. MASTRONUZZI, F. GHIO & M.M. MANCO. 2014. L'imperatore torna sulla scena. La statua loricata riscoperta nel teatro romano di Lecce. 64 pages, numerous colour illustrations. Monteroni di Lecce: Edizioni Esperidi; 978-88-97895-45-9 paperback 13 [euro].

IAIN FERRIS. 2015. An illustrated introduction to ancient Rome. 96 pages, 60 colour and b&w illustrations. Stroud: Amberley; 978-1-4456-4565-0 paperback 9.99 [pounds sterling].

SYLVIA FUNFSCHILLING. 2015. Die romischen Glaser aus Augst und Kaiseraugst Kommentierter Formenkatalog und ausgewahlte Neufunde 1981-2010 aus Augusta Raurica (Forschungen in Augst 51; 2 volumes). 708 pages, 644 colour and b&w illustrations, 98 tables. Augst: Augusta Raurica; 978-3-7151-0051-7 hardback 172 [euro].

CHARLENE ALEXANDRIA MURPHY. 2015. Romans, rubbish, and refuse: the archaeobotanical assemblage of Regione VI, insula I, Pompeii (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 8). xii+137 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-78491-115-7 paperback 29 [pounds sterling].

Anatolia, Levant, Middle East

ROMANA HARFOUCHE & PIERRE POUPET (ed.). 2015. Du Mont Liban aux Sierras d'Espagne. Sols, eau et societh en montagne: autour du projet franco-libanais CEDRE 'Nahr Ibrahim ii+284 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1784911355 paperback 44 [pounds sterling].

EDGAR PELTENBURG. 2015. Tell Jerablus Tahtani, Syria, I: mortuary practices at an Early Bronze Age fort on the Euphrates River (Levant Supplementary series 17). xv+374 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and tables. Oxford & Havertown (PA): Oxbow; 978-1-78570-143-6 hardback 48 [pounds sterling].

AXELLE ROUGEULLE (ed.). 2015. Sharma. Un entrepot de commerce medieval sur la cote du Hadramawt (Yemen, ca 98-1180) (British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs 17). xxii+559 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-78491-194-2 paperback 88 [pounds sterling].

GLENN M. SCHWARTZ (ed.). 2015. Rural archaeology in early urban northern Mesopotamia: excavations at Tell al-Raqa'i (Monumenta Archaeologica 36). xxvii+663 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; 978-1-938770-04-3 hardback $89.

Asia

GINA L. BARNES. 2015. Archaeology of East Asia: the rise of civilisation in China, Korea and Japan, xix+492 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, 25 tables. Oxford & Havertown (PA): Oxbow; 978-1-78570-070-5 hardback 39.95 [pounds sterling].

KISHOR K. BASA, RABINDRA K. MOHANTY & SIMADRI B. OTA (ed.). 2015. Megalithic traditions in India: archaeology and ethnography. Volume 1: archaeological studies. Volume 2: application of scientific techniques and ethnographic studies, 1x+816 pages, 446 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. Bhopal & New Delhi: Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya & Aryan Books International. 978-81-7305-544-7 hardcover $361.

ASKO PARPOLA. 2015. The roots of Hinduism: the Early Aryans and the Indus civilization, xiii+363 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. New York: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-022692-3 paperback $35.

ANDREW ROBINSON. 2015. The Indus: lost civilizations. 208 pages, 78 b&w illustrations. London: Reaktion; 978-178023-502-8 hardback 15 [pounds sterling].

Africa and Egypt

TIMOTHY INSOLL. 2015. Material explorations in African archaeology, xiii+473 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, 17 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-955006-7 hardback 90 [pounds sterling].

Americas

ADAM HERRING. 2015. Art and vision in the Inca Empire. Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca. ix+249 pages, 61 colour and 10 b&w illustrations. New York: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-09436-9 hardback 64.99 [pounds sterling].

Britain and Ireland

STEPHEN H. HARRISON & RAGHNALL O FLOINN. 2015. Viking graves and grave-goods in Ireland (Medieval Dublin Excavations 1962-81, series B, volume 11 (2014). xxiii+783 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, tables. Dublin: National Museum of Ireland; 978-0-901777-99-7 hardback 50 [pounds sterling].

SHEELAGH HUGHES. 2015. Illustrating the past: archaeological discoveries on Irish road schemes (TII Heritage 1). vi+122 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Dublin: Transport Infrastructure Ireland; 978-0-9932315-1-3 hardback 25 [euro].

FRASER HUNTER & IAN RALSTON (ed.). 2015. Scotland in later prehistoric Europe, xiv+301 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-1-90833-206-6 hardback 60 [pounds sterling].

KRIS LOCKYEAR (ed.). 2015. Archaeology in Hertfordshire: recent research. A festschrift for Tony Rook. xvii+356 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, 13 tables. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press; 978-1-909291-42-3 paperback 20 [pounds sterling].

TADHG O'KEEFFE. 2015. Medieval Irish buildings, 1100-1600. 320 pages, 14 colour and 148 b&w illustrations. Dublin: Four Courts; 978-1-84682-248-3 paperback 22.50 [pounds sterling].

STEPHEN RIPPON, CHRIS SMART & BEN PEARS. 2015. The fields of Britannia, xix+445 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, 34 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-964582-4 hardback 90 [pounds sterling].

PATRICK TAYLOR. 2015. Timber circles in the east. iii+116 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Ipswich: Polystar; 978-1-9071546-0-7 paperback 8.95 [pounds sterling].

MARTIN WALL. 2015. The Anglo-Saxon Age: the birth of England. 256 pages, 30 colour illustrations. Stroud: Amberley; 978-1-4456-4772-2 hardback 20 [pounds sterling].

Byzantine, early medieval and medieval

IRENE BAUG, JANICKE LARSEN & SIGRID SAMSET MYGLAND (ed.). 2015. Nordic Middle Ages--artefacts, landscapes and society. Essays in honour of Ingvild Oye on her 70th birthday (University of Bergen Archaeological Series 8). 341 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Bergen: University of Bergen; 978-82-90273-89-2 hardback.

ANTON ENGLERT. 2015. Large cargo ships in Danish Waters 1000-1250 (Ships and Boats of the North 7). 378 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Roskilde: Viking Ship Museum; 978-87-85180-53-7 hardback 50 [pounds sterling].

HOWARD WILLIAMS, JOANNE KIRTON & MEGGEN GONDEK (ed.). 2015. Early medieval stone monuments: materiality, biography, landscape, xiii+279 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, 4 tables. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer; 978-1-78327-074-3 hardback 60 [pounds sterling].

Heritage, conservation & museums

LAURIE RUSH & LUISA BENEDETTINI MILLINGTON. 2015. The Carabinieri command for the protection of cultural property: saving the world's heritage (Heritage Matters Series 17). xix+210 pages, 54 b&w illustrations. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer; 978-1-78327-056-9 hardback 60 [pounds sterling].

HELEN WALASEK with contributions by RICHARD CARLTON, AMRA HADZIMUHAMEDOVIC, VALERY PERRY & TINA WIK. 2015. Bosnia and the destruction of cultural heritage, xxix+399 pages, 127 b&w illustrations. Farnham: Ashgate; 978-1-4094-3704-8 hardback 80 [pounds sterling].

Paperback editions and other books

EDOARDO ALBERT & KATIE TUCKER. 2015 (first published in hardback 2014). In search of Alfred the Great: the king, the grave, the legend. 256 pages, 30 colour and b&w illustrations. Stroud: Amberley; 978-1445649641 paperback 9.99 [pounds sterling].

ELSPETH R.M. DUSINBERRE. 2013 (first published in hardback 2013). Empire, authority, and autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia, xxvi+374 pages, 131 b&w illustrations, 3 tables. New York: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-57715-2 paperback 65 [pounds sterling].

VALERIE Hansen. 2015 (first published in hardback 2012). The Silk Road: a new history, xv+304 pages, 19 colour and 61 b&w illustrations. New York: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-021842-3 paperback 12.99 [pounds sterling].

GIUSEPPE PEZZINI. 2015. Terence and the verb 'to be' in Latin, xvii+355 pages, numerous tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-873624-0 hardback 75 [pounds sterling].