Review articles

Reviewed by Leendert P. Louwe Kooijmans - Read for free online

• GEOFF BAILEY & PENNY SPIKINS (ed.). Mesolithic Europe. xviii+468 pages, 94 illustrations, 27 tables. 2008. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-85503-7 hardback £55 & $95.
• SINÉAD MCCARTEAN, RICK SCHULTING, GRAEME WARREN & PETER WOODMAN (ed.). Mesolithic horizons. 2 volumes, lx+1007 pages, 688 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-311-4 hardback £150.
• NYREE FINLAY, SINÉAD MCCARTEAN, NICKY MILNER & CAROLINE WICKHAM-JONES. (ed.). From Bann Flakes to Bushmills (Prehistoric Society Research Paper 1). xxiv+224 pages, 84 illustrations, 23 tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-355-8 hardback £35.
• CLIVE WADDINGTON & KRISTIAN PEDERSEN. Mesolithic studies in the North Sea Basin and beyond: proceedings of a conference held at Newcastle in 2003. viii+158 pages, 100 illustrations. 2007. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-224-7 hardback £48.
• TOM CARLSSON. Where the river bends — under the boughs of trees. 380 pages, 59 illustrations. 2008. Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet; 978-91-7209-502-1 hardback £18.

Reviewed by John D.M. Green

• RUSSELL B. ADAMS (ed.). Jordan: an archaeological reader. xviii+582 pages, 164 illustrations, 23 tables. 2008. London: Equinox; 978-1-84553-037-2 paperback £29.99.
• STEVEN E. FALCONER & PATRICIA L. FALL with ILYA BERELOV & MARY C. METZGER. Bronze Age rural ecology and village life at Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan. (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1586). 274 pages, illustrations, CD-ROM. 2006. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-84171-799-9 paperback £37.
• GRAEME BARKER, DAVID GILBERTSON & DAVID MATTINGLY (ed.). Archaeology and desertification: the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, southern Jordan. (Wadi Faynan Series 2; Levant Supplementary Series 6). xxvi+510 pages, 398 illustrations, 69 tables, CD-ROM. 2007. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-286-5 hardback £70.

Reviewed by Vincent Megaw - Read for free online

• FELIX MULLER. Art of the Celts: 700 BC to AD 700. 2009, 304 pages, 9.5 x 11, 450 illustrations. ISBN-13: 978-90-6153-864-6. Hardback £45

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Book Reviews

Reviewed by Ian Burrow

• PAUL EVERILL. The invisible diggers: a study of British commercial archaeology (Heritage Research Series 1). viii+216 pages, 48 illustrations, 32 tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-905933-10-5 paperback £24.95.

Reviewed by Ethan E. Cochrane

• R.A. BENTLEY. Handbook of archaeological theories. vi+590 pages, 38 illustrations, 12 tables. 2008. Lanham (MD): AltaMira; 978-0-7591-0032-9 hardback $179.95.

Reviewed by Paolo Biagi - Read for free online

• ROBIN DENNELL. The Palaeolithic settlement of Asia. (Cambridge World Archaeology). xxiv+548 pages, 172 illustrations, 47 tables. 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-61310-1 paperback £55 & $95.

Reviewed by Pascal Depaepe

• K. DI MODICA & C. JUNGELS (ed.). Paléolithique moyen en Wallonie: la collection Louis Eloy. (Collections du Patrimoine culturel 2). 219 pages, 317 illustrations. 2009. Namur: Service du Patrimoine culturel; 2-9600511-9-x paperback €24.

Reviewed by Andrew McCarthy

• PHILIPPE QUENET. Les échanges du nord de la Mésopotamie avec ses voisins proche-orientaux au IIIe millénaire (ca 3100-2300 av. J.-C.) (Subartu XXII). 440 pages+11 pages of illustrations, CD-ROM. 2008. Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-52643-0 paperback €126.

Reviewed by Heather D. Baker

• JOAN ARUZ, KIM BENZEL & JEAN M. EVANS (ed.). Beyond Babylon: art, trade, and diplomacy in the second millennium BC. xxiv+524 pages, 460 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. New Haven & London: Yale University Press & New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; 978-0-300-14143-6 hardback £45.

Reviewed by Thomas Zimmermann - Read for free online

• ANTONIO SAGONA & PAUL ZIMANSKY. Ancient Turkey. xii+420 pages, 168 illustrations, tables. 2009. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0415-28916-0 hardback £80 & $130; 978-0-415-48123-6 paperback £24.99 & $44.95; 978-0-203-88046-0 ebook.

Reviewed by Andrew Robinson

• GAUTAM SENGUPTA & KAUSHIK GANGOPADHYAY (ed.). Archaeology in India: individuals, ideas and institutions. xx+396 pages, 34 illustrations. 2009. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal in association with Centre for Archaeological Studies & Training, Eastern India; 978-81-251-1202-2 hardback Rs. 1495.

Reviewed by Charles Higham

• BELLINA-PRYCE, B. & P. SILAPANTH. 2006. Weaving cultural identities on trans-Asiatic networks: Upper Thai-Malay Peninsula — an early socio-political landscape. Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrêeme Orient 93: 257-94. [Full volume citation: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême Orient 93 (2006). 560 pages, 175 illustrations, 15 tables. 2008. Paris: Ecole française d'Extrême Orient; 978-2-85539-673-6 paperback €50].

Reviewed by Alison Sheridan - Read for free online

• SERGE CASSEN. Exercice de stèle: une archéologie des pierres dressées, réflexion autour des menhirs de Carnac. 158 pages, 20 illustrations, 19 colour plates. 2009. Paris: Errance; 978-2-8772-394-7 paperback €29.

Reviewed by Massimo Cultraro

• JEAN GUILAINE, SEBASTIANO TUSA & PRIMO VENEROSO. La Sicile et l'Europe campaniforme. 216 pages, 117 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Toulouse: Archives d'Écologie Préhistorique; 978-2-35842-0006 paperback.

Reviewed by Girolamo F. De Simone

• ALWYN SCARTH. Vesuvius: a biography. x+342 pages, 101 illustrations. 2009. Harpenden: Terra; 978-1-903544-25-9 hardback £24.95

Reviewed by Miranda Aldhouse-Green - Read for free online

• RONALD HUTTON. Blood & mistletoe: the history of the Druids in Britain. xiv+492 pages. 2009. London: Yale University Press; 978-0-300-14485-7 £30.

Reviewed by Kevin Lane

• TOM D. DILLEHAY. Monuments, empires, and resistance: the Araucanian polity and ritual narratives. xx+484 pages, 75 illustrations. 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-87262-1 hardback £60 & $117.

Reviewed by Graham Connah

• ALISTAIR G. PATERSON. The lost legions: culture contact in colonial Australia. xx+268 pages, 37 illustrations, 11 tables. 2008. Lanham (MD): AltaMira; 978-0-7591-0683-3 hardback £51.95; 978-0-7591-0684-0 paperback £21.95.

Reviewed by Yves Desfosses

• NICHOLAS J. SAUNDERS & PAUL CORNISH (ed.). Contested objects: material memories of the Great War. xx+311 pages, 87 illustrations. 2009. London: Routledge; 978-0-415-45070-6 hardback.

Reviewed by Madeleine Hummler in New Book Chronicle December 2009

• KENNETH L. FEDER. The past in perspective: an introduction to human prehistory. Fourth edition. xxiv+696 pages, over 300 b&w & colour illustrations. 2010. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-539430-6 paperback £50. Companion website:
  http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195394306/student/?view=usa [checked 27th Feb 2010]
• BARRY CUNLIFFE, CHRIS GOSDEN & ROSEMARY A. JOYCE (ed.). The Oxford handbook of archaeology. xviii+1162 pages, over 100 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-927101-6 hardback £85.
• CHRIS SCARRE (ed.). The human past: world prehistory and the development of human societies. 784 pages, 770 b&w & colour illustrations. Second edition 2009 (first published by Thames & Hudson in 2005). London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-28780-4 paperback £32.50. Companion website: http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/web/humanPast/ [checked 27th Feb 2010]
• THOMAS HARRISON (ed.). The great empires of the ancient world. 288 pages, 300 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-051603 hardback £24.95.
• CHARLES FREEMAN. Sites of antiquity from ancient Egypt to the fall of Rome: 50 sites that explain the Classical world. 248 pages, numerous colour illustrations. 2009. Taunton: Blue Guides, Somerset Books; 978-1-905131-31-0 hardback £25, $50 & CAN$62.50.
• DOMINIC RATHBONE (ed.). Civilizations of the ancient world. 384 pages, over 1000 colour illustrations. 2009. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-288344 paperback £19.95.
• TINAIG CLODORÉ-TISSOT. Dictionary of archaeological terms English-French / French-English. 148 pages. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-905739-27-1 paperback £12.99.
• SUSAN J. CROCKFORD. A practical guide to in situ dog remains for the field archaeologist. 146 pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations. 2009. Victoria (BC): Pacific identifications Inc.; 978-0-9813628-0-9 paperback CAD$52.50 + p&p.
• DRAGOS GHEORGHIU. Artchaeology: a sensorial approach to the materiality of the past. 120 pages, 107 colour plates. Bucharest: Unarte; 978-973-1922-61-4 paperback.

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Books received

The list includes all books received between 1 June and 1 September 2009. 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

• ROBERT L. BETTINGER. Hunter-gatherer foraging: five simple models. xii+112 pages, 20 figures, 43 tables. 2009. Clinton Corners (NY): Eliot Werner; 9780-9797731-3-6 paperback $29.50.
• SOPHIE A. DE BEAUNE, FREDERICK L. COOLIDGE & THOMAS WYNN (ed.). Cognitive archaeology and human evolution. xiv+186 pages, 17 illustrations. 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-74611-3 paperback £16.99, $27.99; 978-0-521-76977-8 hardback £50, $85.
• CHARLES R. ORTLOFF. Water engineering in the ancient world. Archaeological and climate perspectives on societies of ancient South America, the Middle East, and South-East Asia. viii+424 pages, 133 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-923909-2 hardback £80.
• PIERRE ROUILLARD (ed.). Portraits de migrants, portraits de colons I (Colloques de la Maison René-Ginouvès 5). viii+168 pages, 25 illustrations. 2009. Paris: De Boccard; 978-2-7018-0259-6 paperback.
• YANNIS HAMILAKIS & ARIS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS (ed.). Archaeological ethnographies: a special issue of Public Archaeology (Public Archaeology 8, nos. 2-3, August 2009). 261 pages. 2009. Leeds: Maney; 978-1-906540-73-9 paperback £36, $62.
• MEGAN ALDRICH & ROBERT J. WALLIS (ed.). Antiquaries & archaists: the past in the past the past in the present. 170 pages, 42 illustrations. 2009. Reading: Spire; 978-1-904965-23-7 paperback £19.95.

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European pre- and protohistory

• JEAN-PAUL DEMOULE (ed.). L'Europe: un continent redécouvert par l'archéologie. 224 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Paris: Gallimard ; 978-2-070-12379-7 paperback €29.
• ANNE-MARIE TILLIER. L'homme et la mort: l'émergence du geste funéraire durant la préhistoire. 186 pages, 9 illustrations. 2009. Paris : CNRS Editions; 978-2-271-06878-1 paperback €15.
• STEFAN KAROL KOZLOWSKI. Thinking Mesolithic. xiv+546 pages, numerous illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-335-0 hardback £60.
• ISTVÁN ZALAI-GAÁL, unter Mitarbeit von KITTI KÖHLER und ANETT OSZTÁS. Zur Herkunft des Schädelkults im Neolithikum des Karpatenbeckens (Archaeolingua Series Minor 27). 142 pages, 54 illustrations, 3 tables. 2009. Budapest: Archaeolingua; 978-963-9911-08-6 paperback €28.
• LAWRENCE BARFIELD (ed.). Excavations in the Riparo Valtenesi, Manerba 1976-1994 (ORIGINES, Studi e materiali pubblicati a cura dell' Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria). 594 pages, 225 figures, 22 colour plates, 29 tables. 2007 (2008). Firenze: Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria; 978-8860-5052-4 hardback €70.
• BRYAN K. HANKS & KATHERYN M. LINDUFF. Social complexity in prehistoric Eurasia: monuments, metals, and mobility. xx+418 pages, 96 illustrations. 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-51712-6 hardback £50, $95.
• PETER CLARK (ed.). Bronze Age connections: cultural contact in prehistoric Europe. viii+188 pages, 95 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-348-0 paperback £40.
• JENS MARTIN. Die Bronzegafäße in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen und Sachsen (Prähistorische Bronzefunde Abteilung II, 16. Band). 2009. x+260 pages, 60 illustrations. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner; 978-3-515-09388-0 hardback €98.
• D.W. HARDING. The Iron Age round-house: later prehistoric building in Britain and beyond. xii+346 pages, 66 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-955857-5 hardback £70.
• DUNCAN GARROW, CHRIS GOSDEN & J.D. HILL (ed.). Rethinking Celtic art. vi+226 pages, 86 illustrations, 9 colour plates, 8 tables. 2008. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-318-3 paperback £35.

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Mediterranean archaeology

• PHILIP P. BETANCOURT. The Bronze Age begins: the ceramics revolution of Early Minoan I and the new forms of wealth that transformed prehistoric society. xx+136 pages, 69 illustrations. 2009. Philadelphia (PA): INSTAP Academic Press; 978-1-931534-52-9 paperback £30.
• RAFFAELE C. DE MARINIS & MARTA RAPI (ed.). L'abitato etrusco del Forcello di Bagnolo San Vito (Mantova): le fasi di età arcaica. 312 pages, 164 illustrations. 2007. Milano: Università degli Studi di Milano & Commune di Bagnolo San Vito.
• MICHAEL DIETLER & CAROLINA LOPEZ-RUIZ (ed.). Colonial encounters in ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and indigenous relations. xiv+324 pages, 62 illustrations, 3 tables. 2009. Chicago (IL): The University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-14847-2 hardback $55, £38.
• MARTÍN ALMAGRO GORBEA (ed.). La necrópolis de Medellín I: la excavacíon y sus hallzagos (Bibliotheca Archaeologic Hispanica 26 / Studia Hispano-Phoenica 5). 352 pages, 474 illustrations. 2006 (2007). Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia; 978-84-95983-88-6 paperback €50.
• MARTÍN ALMAGRO GORBEA (ed.). La necrópolis de Medellín II: estudio de los hallzagos (Bibliotheca Archaeologic Hispanica 26-2 / Studia Hispano-Phoenica 5-2). pages 353-774, illustrations 475-860. 2008. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia; 978-84-96849-46-4 paperback €60.
• MARTÍN ALMAGRO GORBEA (ed.). La necrópolis de Medellín III: estudios analíticos; IV: interpretacíon de la necrópolis; V: el marco histórico de Medellín-Conisturgis (Bibliotheca Archaeologic Hispanica 26-3 / Studia Hispano-Phoenica 5-3). pages 775-1156, illustrations 861-962. 2008. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia; 978-84-96849-47-1 paperback €60.
• YANNIS MANIATIS (ed.). Asmosia VII. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity, Thassos, 15-20 September, 2003 (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 51). xviii+830 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Paris: De Boccard; 978-2-86958-207-1 paperback.

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The Classical world

• PAUL CARTLEDGE. Ancient Greece: a history in eleven cities. xxii+262 pages, 14 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-923338-0 hardback £12.99.
• EMILY KEARNS. Ancient Greek religion: a sourcebook. xii+370 pages, 18 illustrations. 2009. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons; 978-1-4051-4928-0 paperback £22.99.
• MICHAEL LLEWELLYN SMITH, PASCHALIS M. KITROMILIDES & ELENI CALLIGAS (ed.). Scholars, travels, archives: Greek history and culture through the British School at Athens (British School at Athens Studies 17). xxvi+254 pages, 116 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. London: British School at Athens; 978-090-488-760-0 hardback £55.

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The Roman world

• ESTELLE LAZER. Resurrecting Pompeii. xvii+386 pages, 67 illustrations, 30 tables. 2009. London & New York : Routledge; 978-0-415-26146-3 hardback.
• ALOYS WINTERLING. Politics and society in Imperial Rome. 170 pages, 2 figures. 2009. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons; 978-1-4051-7969-0 hardback £45.
• PATRICIA SOUTHERN. Ancient Rome: the rise & fall of an empire 753 BC-AD 476. 382 pages, 62 colour plates. 2009. Stroud: Amberley; 978-1-84868-100-2 hardback £20 & $35.95.
• JAMES KER. The death of Seneca. xvi+412 pages, 39 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-538703-2 hardback £43.

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Anatolia, Levant, Middle East

• JOHN. J. SHEA & DANIEL E. LIEBERMAN. Transitions in prehistory: essays in honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef. xx+498 pages, 77 illustrations, 27 tables. 2009. Oxford & Oakville: Oxbow & American School of Prehistoric Research; 978-1-84217-340-4 hardback £20.
• PETER J. PARR (ed.). The Levant in transition: proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum on 20-21 April 2004 (Palestine Exploration Fund Annual IX). vi+122 pages, 80 illustrations, 2 tables. 2009. Leeds: Many; 978-1-904350-99-6 hardback £48 & $96 (PEF members £31 & $62).
• KIM DUISTERMAAT. The pots and potters of Assyria: technology and organisation of production, ceramic sequence and vessel function at Late Bronze Age Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria (Papers on Archaeology from The Leiden Museum of Antiquities - PALMA 4). 608 pages, 402 b&w & colour illustrations, 97 tables. 2008. Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-52652-2 paperback €125.
• YOAV ARBEL. Ultimate devotion: the historical impact and archaeological expression of intense religious movements. 206 pages, 43 illustrations. 2009. London: Equinox; 978-1-84553-226-0 hardback £55.
• ERIC H. CLINE. Biblical archaeology: a very short introduction. xii+156 pages, 10 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-534263-5 paperback £7.99.
• KLAUS EBBESEN. De indoeuropæiske sprogs oprindelse (The origins of the Indo-European languages). 70 pages. 2009. København: Attika; 978-87-7528-760-4 paperback €20+VAT (in Danish & English).

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Other Asia

• CHRISTOPHER EVANS with JUDITH PETTIGREW, YARJUNG KROMCHAI TAMU & MARK TURIN. Grounding knowledge / walking land: archaeological research and ethno-historical identity in central Nepal. xii+212 pages, 117 illustrations, 12 tables. 2009. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 978-1-902937-50-2 hardback £40.
• SIMON KANER (ed.). The power of Dogu: ceramic figures from ancient Japan. 176 pages, 67 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. London: The British Museum Press; 978-0-7141-2464-3 paperback £19.99.

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Africa and Egypt

• PENELOPE WILSON & DIMITRIS GRIGOROPOULOS. The West Delta Regional Project, Beheira and Kafr el-Sheikh provinces (Egypt Exploration Society Memoir 86). xiv+490 pages, 174 figures, 13 colour maps, 7 tables, CD-ROM. 2009. London: Egypt Exploration Society; 978-0-85698-194-4 paperback £55.
• DIETER ARNOLD translated by SABINE H. GARDINER & HELEN STRUDWICK, edited by NIGEL & HELEN STRUDWICK. The monuments of Egypt: an A-Z companion to ancient Egyptian architecture. vi+274 pages, numerous illustrations. New paperback edition 2009 (first published as Lexicon der ägyptischen Baukunst by Artemis & Winkler in 1994; English edition published as The encyclopaedia of ancient Egyptian architecture by I.B. Tauris in 2003). London: I.B. Tauris; 978-1-84885-042-2 paperback £14.99.
• MIROSLAV VERNER. The pyramids: their archaeology and history. xiv+496 pages, numerous illustrations. 2009. London: Atlantic Books; 978-1-84354-890-4 paperback £12.99.

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Americas

• Anon. Ideals of beauty: Asian and American art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries. 192 pages, 141 b&w & colour illustrations. 2010. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-204030 paperback £9.95.
• JESSICA JOYCE CHRISTIE (ed.). Landscapes of origin in the Americas: creation narratives linking ancient places and present communities. xvi+204 pages, 27 illustrations. 2009. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-1673-0 hardback $48.50; 978-0-8173-5560-9 paperback $28.95.
• MICHAEL V. WILCOX. The Pueblo revolt and the mythology of conquest. xiv+316 pages, 34 illustrations. 2009. Berkeley (CA): University of California Press; 978-0-520-25205-9 hardback £27.95.
• KATHLEEN DEAGAN & DAVID HURST THOMAS (ed. & contributors). From Santa Elena to St. Augustine: indigenous ceramic variability (AD 1400-1700) (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 90). 230 pages, 87 b&w & colour illustrations, 42 tables. 2009. New York: American Museum of Natural History; ISSN 0065-9452 paperback.
• STEPHEN HOUSTON, CLAUDIA BRITTENHAM, CASSANDRA MESICK, ALEXANDRE TOKOVININE & CHRISTINA WARINNER. Veiled brightness: a history of ancient Maya colour. xiv+148 pages, 51 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-71900-2 hardback $60.
• LESLIE G. CECIL & TIMOTHY W. PUGH (ed.). Maya worldviews at conquest. xx+426 pages, 66 b&w & colour illustrations, 6 tables. 2009. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-945-2 hardback $60.
• HEATHER ORR & REX KOONTZ (ed.). Blood and beauty: organized violence in the art and archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America. xxviii+370 pages, 145 illustrations. 2009. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; 978-1-931745-80 hardback $95; 978-1-931745-58-1 paperback $65.
• ANTHONY AVENI. The end of time: the Maya mystery of 2012. xxii+190 pages. 2009. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-961-2 paperback $19.95.
• JOHN R. TOPIC (ed.). La arqueología y la etnohistoria: un encuentro andino (Historia Andina 37). 362 pages, 43 illustrations, 19 tables. 2009. Lima & New York: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos / Institute of Andean Research; 978-9972-51-242-1 paperback Soles 50 & $18.

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Australasia

• ANDREW FAIRBAIRN, SUE O'CONNOR & BEN MARWICK (ed.). New directions in archaeological science (terra australis 28). vi+262 pages, 101 illustrations. 2009. Canberra: ANU E-Press; 978-1-9215-3648-9 paperback and online http://epress.anu.edu.au/ta28_citation.html [checked 27th Feb 2010].
• SHARYN JONES. Food and gender in Fiji: ethnoarchaeological explorations. xvi+204 pages, 25 illustrations. 2009. Lanham (MD): Lexington Books; 978-0-7391-3480-1 hardback £39.95.

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Britain and Ireland

• BARRY LEWIS. Hunting in Britain from the Ice Age to the present. 224 pages, 66 illustrations, 23 colour plates. 2009. Stroud: History Press; 978-0-7524-4802-2 paperback £19.99.
• MICHAEL J. ALLEN, NIALL SHARPLES & TERRY O'CONNOR (ed.). Land and people. Papers in memory of John G. Evans (Prehistoric Society Research Paper 2). xiv+236 pages, 93 illustrations, 13 tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-373-2 hardback £35.
• HILARY K. MURRAY, J. CHARLES MURRAY & SHANNON M. FRASER. A tale of the unknown unknowns: a Mesolithic pit alignment and a Neolithic timber hall at Warren Field, Crathes, Aberdeenshire. xii+132 pages, 51 b&w & colour illustrations, 19 tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-347-3 hardback £20.
• ANNA RITCHIE. On the fringe of Neolithic Europe: excavation of a chambered cairn on the Holm of Papa Westray, Orkney. xx+152 pages, 49 illustrations, 46 tables. 2009. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903903-47-9 hardback.
• SIMON BUTEUX & HENRY CHAPMAN. Where rivers meet: the archaeology of Catholme and the Trent-Tame confluence (CBA Research Report 161). xii+180 pages, 82 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. York: Council for British Archaeology; 978-1-902771-78-6 paperback £15.
• LILIAN LADLE & ANN WOODWARD. Excavations at Bestwall Quarry, Wareham 1992-2005. Volume 1: the prehistoric landscape (Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society Monograph 19). xxii+402 pages, 223illustrations, 124 tables. 2009. Dorchester: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society; 978-0-900341-88-5 paperback.
• CHRIS FENTON-THOMAS. A place by the sea. Excavations at Sewerby Cottage Farm, Bridlington (On-Site Archaeology Monograph 1). xxii+342 pages, 228 illustrations, 86 tables. 2009. York: On-Site Archaeology Ltd; 978-0-9561965-0-7 paperback.
• COLIN HASELGROVE. The Traprain Law Environs Project: fieldwork and excavations 2000-2004. xxviii+280 pages, 173 b&w & colour illustrations, 34 tables. 2009. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903903-48-6 hardback.
• ALAN RUSHWORTH. Housesteads Roman Fort — the grandest station (2 volumes). 742 pages, 289 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Swindon: English Heritage; 978-1-848020-26-9 paperback £100.
• W.A. CUMMINS. Decoding the Pictish symbols. ii+218 pages, numerous illustrations. 2009. Stroud: History Press; 978-0-7524-5239-5 paperback £16.99.
• MARTIN RORKE, E. PATRICIA DENNISON, SIMON STRONACH & RUSSEL COLEMAN. Historic Kirkintilloch: archaeology and development (The Scottish Burgh Survey). xii+92 pages, 32 illustrations, 1 loose foldout broadsheet in back-cover. 2009. York & Edinburgh: Council for British Archaeology & Historic Scotland; 978-1-902771-58-8 paperback £9.50.
• MICHAEL STANLEY, ED DANAHER & JAMES EOGAN (ed.). Dining and dwelling: proceedings of a public seminar on archaeological discoveries on national road schemes, August 2008 (Archaeology and the National Roads Authority Monograph Series 6). x+184 pages, 130 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Dublin: National Roads Authority; 978-0-9545955-7-9 paperback.

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Early medieval and medieval

• EDWARD JAMES. Europe's barbarians AD 200 - 600. x+344 pages, 25 illustrations, 2009. Harlow: Pearson Education; 978-0-582-77296-0 paperback £19.99.
• PETER S. WELLS. Barbarians to angels: the Dark Ages reconsidered. xviii+240 pages, 24 illustrations. 2009. London: Norton; 978-0-393-33539-2 paperback £11.99.
• FELIX JAKOBSON. Die Brandgräberfelder von Daumen und Kellaren im Kreise Allenstein, Ostpr. (Daumen und Kellaren — Tumiany i Kielary Band 1) (Schriften des Archäologischen Landesmuseums Schleswig-Holstein 9). 2009. Neumünster: Wachholtz; 978-3-529-01869-5 hardback €150 with volume 2 by Hilberg, below).
• VOLKER HILBERG. Masurische Bügelfibeln (Daumen und Kellaren — Tumiany i Kielary Band 2) (Schriften des Archäologischen Landesmuseums Schleswig-Holstein 9). 2009. Neumünster: Wachholtz; 978-3-529-01869-5 hardback €150 with volume 1 by Jakobson, above).
• VIRGINIA BLANTON & HELENE SCHECK (ed.). Intertexts: studies in Anglo-Saxon culture presented to Paul E. Szarmach. xxxii+448 pages, 14 illustrations. 2009. Tempe (AZ): Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Turnhout: Brepols; 978-0-86698-382-2 hardback $57, €50.
• CHRISTOPHER SCULL. Early medieval (late 5th-early 8th centuries AD) Cemeteries at Boss Hall and Buttermarket, Ipswich, Suffolk (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 27). xvi+364 pages, 213 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Leeds: The Society for Medieval Archaeology; 978-1-906540-18-0 hardback.
• D.H. EVANS & CHRISTOPHER LOVELUCK (ed.). Life and economy at early medieval Flixborough c. AD 600-1000: the artefact evidence (Excavations at Flixborough 2). xxvi+510 pages, 282 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-310-7 hardback £30.
• ANTON ENGLERT & ATHENA TRAKADAS (ed.). Wulfstan's voyage: the Baltic Sea region in the early Viking Age as seen from shipboard (Maritime Culture of the North 2). 374 pages, 168 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Roskilde: The Viking Ship Museum; 978-87-85180-56-8 hardback £53.
• FERGUS KERR. Thomas Aquinas: a very short introduction. xiv+127 pages, 21 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-955664-9 paperback £7.99.

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Later historical periods

• MARINA BELOZERSKAYA. To wake the dead: a Renaissance merchant and the birth of archaeology. 308 pages, 25 illustrations. 2009. New York; London: W.W. Norton & Company; 978-0-393-06554-1 hardback £17.99.
• DANIEL MAUDLIN. The Highland house transformed: architecture and identity on the edge of Britain, 1700-1850. xiv+194 pages, 68 illustrations, 5 tables. 2009. Dundee: Dundee University Press; 978-1-84586-018-9 paperback £16.99.
• PHILIP DAVIES. Lost London, 1870-1945. 368 pages, over 500 illustrations. 2009. Croxley Green: Transatlantic Press; 978-09557949-8-8 hardback £29.99.
• YVES DESFOSSES, ALAIN JACQUES & GILLES PRILAUX. Great War archaeology. 128 pages, numerous colour illustrations. 2009. Rennes: Ouest-France; 978-2-7373-4817-4 paperback €15.90.

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Journals

• EJA. European Journal of Archaeology 12/1-3, April-December 2009. Special issue: Vere Gordon Childe — 50 years after. 276 pages, 15 illustrations, 11 tables. 2009. London: Sage; ISSN 1561-9571 (print), 1741-2722 (online); paperback.
• JONAS. Journal of Nordic archaeological science 16. 86 pages, 39 illustrations, 8 tables. 2009. Stockholm: Archaeological Research Laboratory; ISSN 1650-1519, paperback. Available at http://www.archaeology.su.se/arklab/jonas [checked 27th Feb 2010].

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Paperback, second and subsequent editions, translations

• MIKE RAPPORT. 1848, year of Revolution. xiv+462 pages, 30 illustrations, 1 map. Paperback edition 2009 (first published by Little Brown in 2008). London: Abacus; 978-0-349-11864-2 paperback £12.99