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Martin Hansson. Aristocratic landscape: the spatial ideology of the medieval aristocracy (Lund Studies in Historical Archaeology 2). 224 pages, 68 illustrations. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiskell International; 91-22-02154-X paperback SEK294.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 238-239
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W.G. Cavanagh, C. Gallou & M. Georgiadis (ed.). Sparta and Laconia: from prehistory to pre-modern (British School at Athens Studies 16). xxxii+424 pages, 407 b&w & colour illustrations, 6 tables. 2009. London: British School at Athens; 978-0-904887-61-7 hardback £97.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 1199-1200
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Book reviews - Lena Grandin, Eva Hjårthner-Holdar, Peter Kresten, Jan Peder Lamm, Kristina Lamm, Bente Magnus, Ole Stilborg, Anders Strinnholm, Anders Söderberg & Laila Kitzler-Åhfeldt. Excavations at Helgö XVII – Workshop Part III. 276 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations, numerous tables. 2008. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien; 978-91-7402-370-1 paperback.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 875-876
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Daniele Morandi Bonacossi (ed.). Urban and natural landscapes of an ancient Syrian capital: settlement and environment at Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna and in central-western Syria (Studi Archeologici su Qatna 1). 350 pages, 172 illustrations, 31 tables & 3 colour fold-out plates. 2007. Udine: Forum; 978-88-8420-418-9 paperback €70 & $105.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 548-549
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Book reviews - James Graham-Campbell with Magdalena Valor (ed.). The archaeology of medieval Europe, volume 1: eighth to twelfth centuries AD (Acta Jutlandica LXXXIII:1, Humanities Series 79). 479 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press; 978-87-7934-288-0 hardback £50, €75 & $90; 978-87-7934-290-3 paperback £35, €51.50 & $60.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 876-877
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Antoon Cornelis Mientjes. Paesaggi pastorali: studio ethnoarcheologico sul pastoralismo in Sardegna. 285 pages, 87 illustrations. 2008. Cagliari: CUEC Editrice; 978-88-8467-478-4 hardback €40.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 1200-1201
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A. Bernard Knapp. Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus: identity, insularity, and connectivity. xx+498 pages, 66 illustrations. 2008. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-923737-1 hardback £85.
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P. Allsworth-Jones. Pre-Columbian Jamaica. xvi+320 pages, 31 illustrations, 25 tables, CD-ROM. 2008. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-1596-2 hardback £60; 978-0-8173-5466-4 paperback £35.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 1202-1203
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Pompeii and Pompeiana - Mary Beard. Pompeii: the life of a Roman town. viii+360 pages, 114 illustrations, 23 colour plates. 2008. London: Profile Books; 978-1-861975-516-4 hardback £25. - Penelope M. Allison. The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii, Volume 3: the finds, a contextual analysis. xlvi+504 pages, 83 figures, 132 plates. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-926312-7 hardback £195. - Marina Ciaraldi. People & plants in ancient Pompeii: a new approach to urbanism from the microscope room (Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy Volume 12). 183 pages, 75 illustrations, 17 tables. 2007. London: Accordia Research Institute, University of London; 978-1-873415-30-6 paperback. - Carol C. Mattush. Pompeii and the Roman villa: art and culture around the Bay of Naples. xviii+366 pages, 250 colour & b&w illustrations. 2008. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-51436-8 hardback £30. - Victoria C. Gardner Coates & Jon L. Seydl (ed.). Antiquity recovered: the legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum. viii+296 pages, 123 b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Los Angeles (CA): J. Paul Getty Museum; 978-0-89236-872-3 hardback £40.
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- 30 June 2015, pp. 240-242
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Konstantinos L. Zachos Kωνσταντίινoς Λ Zαχoς. (ed.). Nicopolis B. Proceedings of the Second International Nicopolis Symposium (11-15 September 2002) NικoπoλιςB’. Πρακτικάτoυ Δϵυτέρoυ Διϵθνoυς ΣυμπoΣίoυ για τη Nικoπoλη. Volume I: xxvi+750 pages; Volume II: xiv+550 pages, CD-ROM. 2007. Preveza: Actia Nicopolis Foundation; volume 1: 978-960-7660-17-6 hardback; volume 2: 978-960-7660-18-3; set: 978-960-7660-16-9; hardback.
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Book reviews - Holyrood Archaeology Project Team. Scotland's Parliament site and the Canongate: archaeology and history. xxviii+306 pages, 125 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903-903-45-5 hardback £40 (Fellows £35).
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 877-878
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Prehistoric art - Paul Bahn & Paul Pettitt. Britain's oldest art: the Ice Age cave art of Creswell Crags. viii+118 pages, 70 colour & b&w illustrations, 6 tables. 2009. Swindon: English Heritage; 978-1-84802-025-2 paperback £14.99. - David S. Whitley. Cave paintings and the human spirit: the origin of creativity and belief. 322 pages, 24 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Amherst (NY): Prometheus Books; 978-1-59102-636-5 hardback $25.98. - Richard Bradley. Image and audience: rethinking prehistoric art. xv+260 pages, 84 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-953385-5 hardback £50.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 879-880
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D. Troy Case & Christopher Carr. The Scioto Hopewell and their neighbors: bioarchaeological documentation and cultural understanding. xviii+ 775 pages, 82 illustrations, 58 tables, CD-ROM. 2008. New York: Springer: 978-0-387-77386-5 hardback $139 & £73.50.
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Andrew Simmonds, Nicholas Marquez-Grant & Louise Loe. Life and death in a Roman city: excavation of a Roman cemetery with a mass grave at 120-22 London Road, Gloucester (Oxford Archaeology Monograph 6). xvi+182 pages, 40 figures, 49 plates, 82 tables. 2008. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology; 978-0-904220-49-0 paperback £19.99.
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British round-up - Joshua Pollard (ed.). Prehistoric Britain. xvi+368 pages, 61 illustrations, 3 tables. 2008. Malden (MA) & Oxford: Blackwell; 978-1-4051-2545-1 hardback; 978-1-4051-2546-8 paperback £19.99. - Christopher A. Snyder (ed.). Early peoples of Britain and Ireland: an encyclopedia. Volume I: A–G. xxvi+288 pages, 19 illustrations; Volume II: H–Z. xxvi+306 pages, 25 illustrations. 2008. Oxford & Westport (CT): Greenwood; 978-1-84645-028-0 & 978-1-84645-029-7 hardback, £90 (both volumes together). - David Barrowclough. Prehistoric Lancashire. 256 pages, 166 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Stroud:History Press; 978-0-7524-4708-7 paperback £19.99. - Andrew Dunwell & Ian Ralston. Archaeology and early history of Angus. 192 pages, 62 figures, 26 colour plates. 2008. Stroud: Tempus; 978-0-7524-4114-6 paperback £17.99. - Richard Tabor. Cadbury Castle: the hillfort and landscapes. 192 pages, 100 illustrations, 32 colour plates. 2008. Stroud: History Press; 978-0-7524-4715-5 paperback £17.99. - Angus Konstam, illustrated by Peter Dennis. British forts in the age of Arthur. 64 pages, 60 colour & b&w illustrations. 2008. Oxford: Osprey; 978-1-84603-362-9 paperback £11.99. - Gerald Moody. The Isle of Thanet from prehistory to the Norman Conquest. 192 pages, 103 illustrations. 2008. Stroud: Tempus; 978-0-7524-4689-9 paperback £17.99. - David M. Wilson. The Vikings in the Isle of Man. 156 pages, 60 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press; 978-87-7934-367-2 hardback DKK238, €34.25, £22.95 & $48; 978-87-7934-370-2 paperback DKK158, €22.95, £15 & $30.
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Christopher B. Donnan. Moche tombs at Dos Cabezas (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Monograph 59). xii+242 pages, 309 colour & b&w illustrations, 3 tables. 2007. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California; 978-1-931745-51-2 paperback £35; 978-1-931745-52-9 hardback £58.
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Histories of archaeology - Marc-Antoine Kaeser, Sonia Lévin, Sabine de Rieckhoff & Nathan Schlanger (ed.) The making of European archaeology/Początki archeologii Europjskiej. 62 pages, 32 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Paris: Culture Lab; 978-2-9600527-8-7 paperback (AREA exhibition catalogue in French/Spanish, English/Polish or German/Czech). - N. de Haan, M. Eickhoff & M. Schwegman (ed.) Archaeology and national identity in Italy and Europe 1800–1950 (Fragmenta 2, Journal of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome). 2008. viii+264 pages, 53 illustrations. Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-52406-1 paperback €72. - Lucia Patrizio Gunning. The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the collection of antiquities for the British Museum. x+224 pages, 15 illustrations. 2009. Farnham: Ashgate; 978-0-7546-6023-1 hardback £60. - Cathy Gere. Knossos & the prophets of modernism. x+278 pages, 20 illustrations. 2009. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-28953-3 hardback £19 & $27.50. - Göran Blix. From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the cultural politics of archaeology. viii+310 pages, 16 illustrations. 2009. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; 978-0-8122-4136-5 hardback £39 & $59.95.
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Christopher Evans with Duncan Mackay & Leo Webley. Borderlands: the archaeology of the Addenbrooke's Environs, South Cambridge (CAU Landscape Archives: New Archaeologies of the Cambridge Region 1). xii+212 pages, 108 illustrations, 50 tables. 2008. Cambridge: Cambridge Archaeological Unit; 978-0-9544824-7-3 paperback £25.
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 1204-1205
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