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African archaeology in broader context - Mike Smith & Paul Hesse (ed.). 23°S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts. xii+436 pages, 65 b&w & colour figures. 2005. Canberra: National Museum of Australia; 1-876944-30-7 paperback Aus $42.95. - Peter Mitchell. African Connections: Archaeological Perspectives on Africa and the Wider World. xxiv+309 pages, 71 figures, 5 tables. 2005. Walnut Creek (CA): AltaMira; 0-7591-0259-7 paperback £27. - Andrew B. Smith. African Herders: Emergence of Pastoral Traditions. xviii+251 pages, 92 figures, 6 tables. 2005. Walnut Creek (CA): AltaMira; 0-7591-0748-3 paperback £27.
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Ancient Andean space and architecture: new syntheses and debates - Susan Toby Evans & Joanne Pillsbury (ed.). Palaces of the Ancient New World. viii+416 pages, numerous illustrations. 2004. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; 0-88402-300-1 hardback $30. - Gordon F. McEwan (ed.). Pikillacta: The Wari Empire in Cuzco. x+182 pages, 82 illustrations, 29 tables. 2005. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press; 0-87745-931-2 hardback $49.95. - Jerry D. Moore. Cultural Landscapes in the Ancient Andes: Archaeologies of Place. xii+270 pages, 69 figures, 16 tables. 2005. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 0-8130-2822-1 hardback $65.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 720-724
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Alive and well: the state of Roman pottery studies - Michel Bonifay. Etudes sur la céramique romaine tardive d'Afrique (BAR International Series 1301). viii+525 pages, 269 illustrations, 3 colour plates, tables. 2004. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-651-0 paperback £52. - J.Ma. Gurt i Esparraguera, J. Buxeda i Garrigós & M.A. Cau Ontiveros (ed.). LRCW I. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archaeometry (BAR International Series 1340). vi+736 pages, 439 illustrations, tables. 2005. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-686-3 paperback £55.
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A tale of two projects in North America's Southwest - Michael E. Whalen & Paul E. Minnis. Casas Grandes and its Hinterland: Prehistoric Regional Organization in Northwest Mexico. xvii+239 pages, 50 figures, 16 tables. 2001. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 0-8165-2097-6 hardback $45. - E. Charles Adams (ed.). Homol'ovi III: A Pueblo Hamlet in the Middle Little Colorado River Valley, Arizona (Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 193). xvi+373 pages, 80 figures, 138 tables. 2001. Tucson (AZ): Arizona State Museum/University of Arizona Press; 1-889747-71-8 paperback $24.95. - E. Charles Adams. Homol'ovi: An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster. xviii+304 pages, 30 figures, 28 tables. 2002. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 0-8165-2221-9 hardback $50.
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Magnus T. Bernhardsson. Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq. 2005. xiv+328 pages, 16 plates. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 0-292-70947-1 hardback £28.95.
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Between East and West in Antiquity - Richard Hodges, William Bowden & Kosta Lako. Byzantine Butrint: excavations and surveys 1994-1999. viii+424 pages, 169 figures, 88 b&w plates, 31 colour plates, 16 colour illustrations, tables. 2004. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-84217-158-5 hardback £40. - William Bowden. Epirus Vetus: the Archaeology of a Late Antique Province. viii+280 pages, 111 figures, 1 table. 2003. London: Duckworth; 0-7156-3116-0 hardback £45. - Oliver J. Gilkes (ed.). The Theatre at Butrint: Luigi Maria Ugolini's excavations at Butrint, 1928-1932 (Albania Antica IV; British School at Athens Supplementary Vol. 35). xvii+271 pages, 162 figures, 2 tables. 2003. London: British School at Athens; 0-904887-44-8 hardback £72+p&p. - Inge Nielsen. Cultic Theatres and Ritual Drama: a study in regional development and religious interchange between East and West in Antiquity. 446 pages, 128 figures, 71 photographs. 2002. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press; 87-7288-879-2 hardback.
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Bronze Age swords, graves and catalogues - Harry Wüstemann. Die Schwerter in Ostdeutschland (Prähistorische Bronzefunde Abteilung IV, Band 15). vi+356 pages, 123 figures, tables. 2004. Stuttgart; Franz Steiner; 3-515-08441-X hardback €80. - Christof Clausing. Untersuchungen zu den urnenfelderzeitlichen Gräbern mit Waffenbeigaben vom Alpenkamm bis zur Südzone des Nordischen Kreises: eine Analyse ihrer Grabinventare und Grabformen (British Archaeological Report International Series 1375). vi+184 pages, 92 figures, 4 tables. 2005. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports/John and Erica Hedges; 1-84171-703-7 paperback £45.
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North African perspectives - Michel Janon & Jean-Marie Gassend. Lambése, capitale militaire de l'Afrique romaine. 86 pages, 65 b&w & colour illustrations incl. many water-colours. 2005. Ollioules: Editions de la Nerthe; 2-913483-52-6 hardback. - David J. Mattingly (ed.). Synthesis: the archaeology of Fazzān (Vol. 1). xxvi+430 pages, 269 figures, 31 tables. 2003. London: Society for Libyan Studies with Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahariya Department of Antiquities; 1-90097102X hardback £50.
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Daniel M. Gross. The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science. x+194 pages, 1 figure. 2006. Chicago (IL): The University of Chicago Press; 0-226-30979-7 hardback $35 & £22.50.
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New volumes on the Vasilikos Valley in Cyprus - Ian A. Todd (ed.). Vasilikos Valley Project 7: Excavations at Kalavasos – Tenta, Volume II (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology LXXI: 7). xviii+398 pages, 93 figures, 47 plates. 2005. Sävedalen: Paul Åström; 91-7081-139-3 paperback. - Ian A. Todd & Paul Croft. Vasilikos Valley Project 8: Excavations at Kalavasos – Ayious (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology LXXI: 8). xviii+238 pages, 66 figures, 54 plates. 2004. Sävedalen: Paul Åström; 91-7081-110-5 paperback $158.20. - Ian A. Todd. Vasilikos Valley Project 9: The Field Survey of the Vasilikos Valley Volume I (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology LXXI: 9). xviii+210 pages, 50 figures, 51 plates. 2004. Sävedalen: Paul Åström; 91-7081-125-3 paperback $129.40.
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Barbara Voorhies. Coastal collectors in the Holocene: the Chantuto people of southwest Mexico. xviii+364 pages, 124 illustrations, 54 tables. 2004. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 0-8130-2758-6 hardback $69.95
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A! virgo infelix, tu nunc in montibus erras - Jeanette Forsén & Björn Forsén. The Asea Valley Survey: an Arcadian mountain valley from the Palaeolithic period until modern times (Skrifter utgvina av Svenska Institutet i Athen 4°, 51). 378 pages, 195 figures. 2003. Stockholm: Swedish Institute in Athens; 91-7916-047-6 hardback £80. - Thomas F. Tartaron. Bronze Age Landscape and Society in Southern Epirus, Greece (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1290). vi+240 pages, 121 figures, 29 tables. 2004. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-640-5 paperback £36.
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Roman nudes and athletics - Christopher H. Hallett. The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC-AD 300 (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Presentation). xxii+391 pages, 12 figures, 160 plates. 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 0-19-924049-3 hardback £80. - Zahra Newby. Greek Athletics in the Roman World: Victory and Virtue (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Presentation). xiv+314 pages, 87 b&w illustrations, 9 colour plates. 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 0-19-927930-6 hardback £80.
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Sam Smiles & Stephanie Moser (ed.). Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image. xiv+246 pages, 19 illustrations. 2005. Oxford & Malden (MA): Blackwell; 1-4051-1151-8 hardback £60 & 1-4051-1150-X paperback £19.99.
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Mediterranean pond life - W.V. Harris (ed.). Rethinking the Mediterranean. xx+414 pages, 19 illustrations, 1 table. 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 0-19-926545-3 hardback £65. - Emma Blake & A. Bernard Knapp (ed.). The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory. xvi+333 pages, 28 figures, 3 tables. 2005. Malden (MA) & Oxford: Blackwell; 0-631-23267-2 hardback £60, 0-631-23268-0 paperback £19.99. - John F. Cherry, Despina Margomenou & Lauren E. Talalay (ed.). Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline. xiv+179 pages, 30 figures, 11 tables. 2005. Ann Arbor (MI): Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; 0-9741873-1-3 paperback $19.95.
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Prudence M. Rice. Maya political science: time, astronomy and the cosmos. xxii+352 pages, 82 illustrations, 16 tables. 2004. Austin: University of Texas Press; hardback 0-292-70261-2 $60 & paperback 0-29270569-7 $24.95.
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H.G.M. Edwards & J.M. Chalmers (ed.). Raman Spectroscopy in Archaeology and Art History. xxii+476 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, 55 colour plates. 2005. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry; 0-85404-522-8 hardback £130.
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Robert Killick & Jane Moon (ed.). The Early Dilmun settlement at Saar (London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition Saar Excavation Report 3). xii+367 pages, 536 colour illustrations, tables. 2005. Ludlow: Archaeology International; 0-9539561-1-3 hardback.
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People of the Caribbean: Cuba and Puerto Rico - L. Antonio Curet, Shannon Lee Dawdy & Gabino La Rosa Corzo (ed.). Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology. xvi+241 pages, 46 illustrations, 5 tables. 2005. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 0-8173-5187-6 paperback $26.95. - L. Antonio Curet. Caribbean Paleodemography: Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico. xiv+271 pages, 38 figures, 11 tables. 2005. Tuscaloosa (AL): The University of Alabama Press; 0-8173-5185-X paperback $29.95.
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Attilio Galiberti (ed.). Defensola: una miniera di selce di 7000 anni fa. 216 pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations. 2005. Siena: Protagon Editori Toscani; 88-8024-143-5 hardback €20.
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