Books received.

Witcher, Robert

The list includes all books received between 1 November 2014 and 31 December 2014. 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

PETER BELLWOOD (ed.). The global prehistory of human migration, xvi+432 pages, numerous b&w figures. 2014. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-118-97059-1 paperback 29.99 [pounds sterling].

KATHERINE BOYLE, RYAN J. RABETT & CHRIS O. HUNT (ed.). Living in the landscape: essays in honour of Graeme Barker, xvi+363 pages, 126 colour and b&w illustrations, 28 tables. 2014. Cambridge: McDonald Institute & Oxbow; 978-1-902937-73-1 hardback 48 [pounds sterling].

ROBERT CHAPMAN & ALISON WYLIE (ed.). Material evidence: learning from archaeological practice, xx+362 pages, 72 b&w illustrations, 5 tables. 2015. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 978-0-415-83746-0 paperback $49.95.

STEVEN E. CHURCHILL. Thin on the ground: Neandertal biology, archeology and ecology, xvi+453 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, and tables. 2014. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-118-59087-4 hardback 100 [pounds sterling].

CHRISTIANE DENYS & MARYLENE PATOU-MATHIS (ed.). Manuel de taphonomie. 284 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Arles: Errance; 978-2-87772-577-4 paperback 34 [euro].

BRIAN HAYDEN. The power of feasts: from prehistory to the present, ix+427 pages, 104 b&w illustrations. 2014. New York: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-61764-3 paperback 24.99 [pounds sterling] & $36.99.

MARILYN Johnson. Lives in ruins. Archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble. 275 pages. 2014. New York: HarperCollins; 978-0-06-212718-1 hardback $25.99.

IAN KUIJT, COLIN P. QUINN & GABRIEL COONEY (ed.). Transformation by fire: the archaeology of cremation in cultural context, viii+323 pages, 18 figure, 10 tables. 2014. Tucson: University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-3114-1 hardback $60.

MATTHEW T. RUTZ & MORAG KERSEL (ed.). Archaeologies of text: archaeology, technology, and ethics (Joukowsky Institute Publication 6). xvni+250 pages, 37 b&w illustrations, 6 tables. 2014. Oxford & Haverton (PA): Oxbow; 978-1-78297-766-7 paperback 30 [pounds sterling].

European pre- and protohistory

ALAIN BENARD. Symboles et mysteres. L'art rupestre du sud de l'Ile-de-France. 222 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Arles: Errance; 978-2-87772-568-2 hardback 39 [euro].

MAREK GEDI. Die Pfeilspitzen in Polen (Prahistorische Bronzefunde, Abteilung V, 6. Band), ix+192 pages, 36 b&w illustrations, 1 table. 2014. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner; 978-3-515-10781-5 hardback 72 [euro].

RAIMON GRAELLS I FABREGAT, MICHAL KRUEGER, SAMUEL SARDA SEUMA & GABRIELLA SCIORTINO. El problema de las "imitaciones" durante la protohistoria en el mediterraneo centro-occidental. Entre el concepto y el ejemplo (Iberia Archaeologica 18). 185 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Tubingen & Berlin: Wasmuth; 978-3-8030-0240-2 hardback 42 [euro].

LUTZ Klassen. Along the road: aspects of causewayed enclosures in south Scandinavia and beyond (East Jutland Museum Publications 2). 330 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Langelandsgade: Aarhus University Press; 978-87-7124-449-6 hardback $56.

JOHAN Ling. Elevated rock art: towards a maritime understanding of Bronze Age rock art in northern Bohuslan, Sweden (Swedish Rock Art Research 2). xiv+271 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and tables. 2014. Oxford & Havertown (PA): Oxbow; 978-1-78297-762-9 hardback 40 [pounds sterling].

CATALIN NICOLAE POPA & SIMON STODDART (ed.). Fingerprinting the Iron Age: approaches to identity in the European Iron Age: integrating south-eastern Europe into the debate, xii+428 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Oxford & Havertown (PA): Oxbow; 978-1-78297-675-2 hardback 48 [pounds sterling].

Mediterranean archaeology

EMMA BLAKE. Social networks and regional identity in Bronze Age Italy, xiv+325 pages, 41 b&w illustrations, 15 tables. 2014. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-06320-4 hardback 65 [pounds sterling] & $99.

JOSEPHINE CRAWLEY QUINN & NICHOLAS C. VELLA (ed.). The Punic Mediterranean: identities and identification from Phoenician settlement to Roman rule. xxvii+376 pages, 124 colour and b&w illustrations, 4 tables. 2014. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-05527-8 hardback 80 [pounds sterling].

ALAN H. SIMMONS. Stone Age sailors. Paleolithic seafaring in the Mediterranean. 264 pages, 48 b&w illustrations, 11 tables. 2014. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press; 978-1-61132-114-2 hardback 60.50 [pounds sterling].

ANTONELLA TOLVE & SEBASTIANO TUSA. Archeologia dell'insediamento protostorico di Mursia (Pantelleria, Italia) (British Archaeological Reports international series 2621). iv+258 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. 2014. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-1256-9 paperback 40 [pounds sterling].

The Classical world

PETER Acton. Poiesis: manufacturing in Classical Athens, xviii+384 pages, 39 b&w illustrations, 35 tables. 2014. New York: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-933593-0 hardback 47.99 [pounds sterling].

GORDON LINDSAY CAMPBELL (ed.). The Oxford handbook of animals in Classical thought and life. xix+633 pages, 35 b&w illustrations. 2014. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-958942-5 hardback 95 [pounds sterling].

SARA M. WIJMA. Embracing the immigrant. The participation of metics in Athenian polis religion (5th-4th century BC) (Historia--Einzelschriften 233). 200 pages. 2014. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner; 978-3-515-10642-9 hardback 53 [euro].

The Roman world

J.A. BAIRD. The inner lives of ancient houses, xix+395 pages, 105 figures, 1 table. 2014. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-968765-7 hardback 85 [pounds sterling].

INGO EICHFELD. Mahlstedt, Ldkr. Oldenburg. Ein Siedlungsplatz der Romischen Kaiserzeit und Volkerwanderungszeit (Studien zur Landschafts- und Siedlungsgeschichte im sudlichen Nordseegebiet 5). 408 pages, 245 colour and b&w illustrations, 11 tables. 2014. Rahden/Westf: Marie Leidorf; 978-3-86757-335-1 hardback 59.80 [euro].

KENNETH LAPATIN (ed.). The Berthouville silver treasure and Roman luxury, ix+190 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Los Angeles (CA): J. Paul Getty Museum; 978-1-60606-420-7 hardback $50.

MARTIN PITTS & MIGUEL JOHN VERSLUYS (ed.). Globalisation and the Roman world: world history, connectivity and material culture, ix+296 pages, 22 b&w illustrations, 2 tables. 2015. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-04374-9 hardback 65 [pounds sterling].

Anatolia, Levant, Middle East

MARIAN H. FELDMAN. Communities of style: portable luxury arts, identity, and collective memory in the Iron Age Levant, xvii+250 pages, 64 colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Chicago (IL) & London: University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-10561-1 hardback 49 [pounds sterling].

BENJAMIN W. PORTER & ALEXIS T. BOUTIN (ed.). Remembering the dead in the ancient Near East: recent contributions from bioarcheology and mortuary archaeology, xv+261 pages, 37 b&w illustrations, 14 tables. 2014. Boulder: University Press of Colorado; 978-1-60732-324-2 hardback $70.

PAUL YULE. Cross-roads. Early and Late Iron Age south-eastern Arabia (Abhandlungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 30). 120 pages, numerous colour plates, b&w illustrations, and tables. 2014. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz; 978-3-447-10127-1 hardback 48 [euro].

Asia

JOHN VINCENT BELLEZZA. The dawn of Tibet: the ancient civilization on the roof of the world, xi+347 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. 2014. London: Rowman & Littlefield; 978-1-4422-3461-1 hardback 24.95 [pounds sterling] & $39.

PAUL EVERILL (ed.). Nokalakevi. Tsikhegoji. Archaeopolis. Archaeological excavations 2001-2010: Anglo-Georgian expedition to Nokalakevi (British Archaeological Reports international series 2612). xiv+129 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-1243-9 paperback 33 [pounds sterling].

JOHN N. MIKSIC. Singapore and the Silk Road of the sea, 1300-1800. ix+491 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Singapore: NUS Press; 978-9971-69-558-3 paperback $48.

K. PADDAYYA. Multiple approaches to the study of India's early past: essays in theoretical archaeology, xvi+213 pages, 46 b&w illustrations. 2014. New Delhi: Aryan Books International; 978-81-7305-478-5 hardback $29.75.

KISHORE RAGHUBANS. Dynamics of settlement patterns in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan (British Archaeological Reports international series 2671). x+194 pages, 1 colour plate and 183 b&w illustrations. 2014. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-1313-9 paperback 35 [pounds sterling].

Africa and Egypt

ROWLAND ABIODUN. Yoruba art and language. Seeking the African in African art. xxviii+386 pages, 135 colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-04744-0 hardback 75 [pounds sterling].

PETER BREUNIG (ed.). Nok: African sculpture in archaeological context. 303 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Frankfurt am Main: Africa Magna; 978-3-937248-46-2 paperback 49.80 [euro].

HANS-AKE NORDSTROM. The West Bank survey from Faras to Gemai. Sites of Early Nubian, Middle Nubian and Pharaonic Age (British Archaeological Reports international series 2650). xviii+215 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, 29 tables. 2014. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-1289-7 paperback 36 [pounds sterling].

DAVID O'CONNOR. The old kingdom town at Buhen (EES Excavation Memoir 106). xiv+403 pages, 175 b&w illustrations. 2014. London: Egyptian Exploration Society; 978-0-85698-215-6 paperback [pounds sterling] 70.

Americas and Oceania

ATHOLL ANDERSON, JUDITH BINNEY & AROHA HARRIS. Tangata Whenua: an illustrated history. 544 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Wellington: Bridget Williams; 978-1-927131-41-1 hardback $99.99.

PHILIP L. KOHL, IRINA PODGORNY & STEFANIE GANGER (ed.). Nature and antiquities: the making of archaeology in the Americas, x+246 pages, 12 figures. 2014. Tucson: University of Arizona Press; 978-08165-3112-7 hardback $60.

OLIVIA C. NAVARRO-FARR & MICHELLE RICH (ed.). Archaeology at El Peni-Waka': ancient Maya performances of ritual, memory, and power, viii+278 pages, 67 figures. 2014. Tucson: University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-3096-0 hardback $65.

ALISON E. RAUTMAN. Constructing community: the archaeology of early villages in central New Mexico. xvii+285 pages, 18 figures, 20 tables. 2014. Tucson: University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-3069-4 hardback $60.

AKINWUMI OGUNDIRAN & PAULA SAUNDERS (ed.). Materialities of ritual in the black Atlantic, xii+404 pages, 47 colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; 978-0-253-01386-6 hardback 42 [pounds sterling].

DANIEL O. SAYERS. A desolate place for a defiant people: the archaeology of Maroons, indigenous Americans, and enslaved laborers in the great dismal swamp, xvi+254 pages, 30 b&w illustrations, 4 tables. 2014. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-6018-7 hardback $79.95.

Britain and Ireland

DEBBY BANHAM & ROSAMOND FAITH. Anglo-Saxon farms and farming, xv+336 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, 4 tables. 2014. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-920794-7 hardback 65 [pounds sterling].

DAVID EDMONDSON. Anglo-Saxon England in 100 places. 96 pages, 45 colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Stroud: Amberley; 978-1-4456-4315-1 paperback 12.99 [pounds sterling].

CATHERINE HILLS & SAM LUCY. Spong Hill IX: chronology and synthesis, xv+479 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, and tables. 2013. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 978-1-902937-62-5 hardback 59 [pounds sterling].

JIM MCKEON & JERRY O'SULLIVAN (ed.). The quiet landscape. Archaeological investigations on the M6 Galway to Ballinsaloe national road scheme (NRA Scheme Monographs 15). xi+232 pages, numerous colour illustrations, CD. 2014. Dublin; National Roads Authority; 978-780-9574380-7-1 paperback 25 [euro].

J.P. MALLORY. The origins of the Irish. 320 pages, 122 b&w illustrations. 2015 (first published in hardback 2013). London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-29184-9 paperback 14.95 [pounds sterling].

NIGEL SMITH. Patterns in the landscape: evaluating characterisation of the historic landscape in the South Pennines (British Archaeological Reports British series 604). x+220 pages, 78 colour and b&w illustrations, numerous tables. 2014. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-1320-7 paperback 38 [pounds sterling].

Byzantine, early medieval and medieval

SARAH KATE RAPHAEL. Azdud (Ashdod-Yam): an early Islamic fortress on the Mediterranean coast (British Archaeological Reports international series 2673). vi+111 pages, 2 colour plates and 33 b&w illustrations, 10 tables. 2014. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-1315-3 paperback 26 [pounds sterling].

IAN RUSSELL & MAURICE F. HURLEY (ed.). Woodstown: a Viking-age settlement in Co. Waterford, xxiii+413 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Dublin: Four Courts; 978-1-84682-536-1 paperback 35 [pounds sterling].

LOUISE M. SYLVESTER, MARK C. CHAMBERS & GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER (ed.). Medieval dress and textiles in Britain: a multilingual sourcebook, xii+412 pages, 8 colour plates. 2014. Woodbridge: Boydell; 978-1-84383-932-3 hardback 60 [pounds sterling].

FRANCESCA ZAGARI. Dalla villa al monastero: nuovi dati archeologici da S. Maria di Grottaferrata (British Archaeological Reports international series 2632). 195 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-1269-9 paperback 34 [pounds sterling].

Historical archaeology

AYMAT CATAFAU & OLIVIER PASSARRIUS (ed.). Un palais dans la ville, volume 2.

Perpignan des rois Majorque. 432 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Canet en Roussillon: Trabucaire; 978-2-84974-190-0 paperback 37 [euro].

ARMANDO DONATO & ANTONIO TERAMO (ed.). La fortificazione della piazza di Messina e le Martello Tower. Il piano difensivo anglo siciliano nel 1810 (British Archaeological Reports international series 2644). vi+76 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. 2014. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-1283-5 paperback 22 [pounds sterling].

OLIVIER PASSARRIUS & AYMAT CATAFAU (ed.). Un palais dans la ville, volume 1. Le Palais des rois de Majorque k Perpignan. 567 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 2014. Canet en Roussillon: Trabucaire; 978-2-84974-189-4 paperback 39 [euro].

Heritage, conservation and museums

DUNCAN CHAPPELL & SASKIA HUFNAGEL (ed.). Contemporary perspectives on the detection, investigation and prosecution of art crime. Australasian, European and North American perspectives, xii+276 pages, 1 b&w figure, 2 tables. 2014. Farnham: Ashgate; 978-1-4094-6313-9 hardback 70 [pounds sterling].

TIMOTHY DARVLLL & ANTONIO PEDRO BATARDA FERNANDES (ed.). Open-air rock-art conservation and management: state of the art and future perspectives. xi+297 pages, 60 b&w illustrations, 16 tables. 2014. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 978-0-415-84377-5 hardback 85 [pounds sterling].

LOUISE GROVE & SUZIE THOMAS (ed.). Heritage crime: progress, prospects and prevention, xiv+235 pages, 11 b&w illustrations, 3 tables. 2014. Basingstoke: Macmillan; 978-1-137-35750-2 hardback 65 [pounds sterling].

BETH LAURA O'LEARY & P.J. CAPELOTTI (ed.). Archaeology and heritage of the human movement into space. xiii+166 pages, 15 colour and 29 b&w illustrations, 4 tables. 2015. New York: Springer; 978-3-319-07865-6 hardback 90 [pounds sterling].

Other

JAMES LOXLEY, ANNA GROUNDWATER & JULIE SANDERS (ed.). Ben Jonsons walk to Scotland. An annotated edition of the 'Foot Voyagexvii+237 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. 2013. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-00333-0 hardback [pounds sterling] 63.

RUTH SCURR. John Aubrey: my own life. 522 pages. 2015. London: Chatto & Windus; 978-0-7011-7907-6 hardback 25 [pounds sterling].

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