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Taking the pulse of archaeology in Jordan - 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.
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Bearing the truth about Celtic art: Kunst der Kelten in Bern
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- 30 June 2015, pp. 250-255
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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.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 256-257
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R. Alexander Bentley, Herbert D.G. Maschner & Christopher Chippindale (ed.). Handbook of archaeological theories. vi+590 pages, 38 illustrations, 12 tables. 2008. Lanham (MD): AltaMira; 978-0-7591-0032-9 hardback $179.95.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 257-258
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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.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 258-259
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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.
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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.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 260-261
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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.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 261-263
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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.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 263-264
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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.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 264-265
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B. Bellina-Pryce & 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'Extrême 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].
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 265-266
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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.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 266-267
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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.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 267-268
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Alwyn Scarth. Vesuvius: a biography. x+342 pages, 101 illustrations. 2009. Harpenden: Terra; 978-1-903544-25-9 hardback £24.95
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 269-270
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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.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 270-271
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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.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 271-272
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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.
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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.
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Big books - 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 - 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/
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 275-276
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Glossy books - 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.
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- 30 June 2015, pp. 276-277
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