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Americas - Jens Fog Jensen. The Stone Age of Qeqertarsuup Tunua (Disko Bugt): a regional analysis of the Saqqaq and Dorset cultures of Central West Greenland (Meddelelser om Grønland — Man & Society 32). 272 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. Copenhagen: SILA/Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland, National Museum of Denmark; 87-90369-82-3 hardback. - Juliet E. Morrow & Cristóbal Gnecco (ed.). Paleoindian Archaeology: A Hemispheric Perspective. xvi+264 pages, 73 illustrations, 10 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3014-2 hardback $65. - Dale L. Hutchinson. Tatham Mound and the Bioarchaeology of European Contact. xxii+260 pages, 86 illustrations, 32 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3029-6 hardback $59.95. - Valli S. Powell-Marti & Patricia A. Gilman (ed.). Mimbres Society. viii+216 pages, 35 illustrations, 16 tables. 2006. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-2481-5 hardback $50. - Jeffrey R. Parsons. The Last Pescadores of Chimalhuacán, Mexico: An Archaeological Ethnography (Anthropological Papers 96, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan). xviii+378 pages, 64 figures, 110 plates, 79 tables. 2006. Ann Arbor (MI): Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan; 978-0-915703-62-3 paperback $28. - Cameron L. McNeill (ed.) Chocolate in Mesoamrica: A Cultural History of Cacao. xvi+542 pages, 159 illustrations, 14 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-2953-5 hardback $75.
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Scandinavia - Dagfinn Skre (ed.). Kaupang in Skiringssal (Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series, Volume 1, Norske Oldfunn XXII). 502 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Aarhus: Aarhus UniversityPress; 978-87-7934-259-0 hardback £39.95.
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Britain - Bryony Coles. Beavers in Britain's Past (WARP Occasional Paper 19). x+242 pages, 158 illustrations. 2006. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-2261 paperback £40. - Don Benson & Alasdair Whittle (ed.). Building Memories: The Neolithic Cotswold Long barrow at Ascott-Under-Wychwood Oxfordshire. xxxvi+380 pages, 269 illustrations, 24 colour plates. 57 tables. 2007. Oxford; Oxbow; 978-1-84217-236-0 hardback £55. - Stuart Needham, Keith Parfitt & Gill Varndell (ed.). The Ringlemere Cup: Precious Cups and the beginning ofthe Channel Bronze Age. x+116 pages, 67 illustrations, 14 colour plates, 5 tables. 2006. London: The British Museum; 978-086159-163-3 paperback. - John Lewis et al. Landscape Evolution in the Middle Thames Valley: Heathrow Terminal 5 Excavations Volume 1, Perry Oaks (Framework Archaeology Monograph 1). xii+250 pages, 122 b&w & colour figures, 56 colour plates, 30 tables, CD-ROM. 2006. Oxford & Salisbury; BAA, Oxford Archaeology & Wessex Archaeology; 978-0-9554519-0-4 hardback £15. - Ian Armit. Anatomy of an Iron Age Roundhouse: The Cnip Wheelhouse Excavations, Lewis. xxxvi+272 pages, 106 illustrations, 11 colour plates, 74 tables. 2006. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903903-32-6 hardback. - Ray Howell. Searching for the Silures: An Iron Age tribe in South-East Wales. 160 pages, 41 illustrations, 15 colour plates. 2006. Stroud: Tempus; 978-0-7524-4014-9 paperback £19.99. - Martin Millett (ed.). Shiptonthorpe, East Yorkshire: archaeological studies of a Romano-British roadside settlement (Yorkshire Archaeological Report 5). xvi+344 pages, 140 illustrations, 92 tables. 2006. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society & East Riding Archaeological Society; 1-9035-6465-4 paperback £25+p&p. - Michael Fulford, Amanda Clarke & Hella Eckardt. Life and labour in late Roman Silchester: excavations in Insula IX since 1997 (Britannia Monograph Series 22). xviii+404 pages, 125 illustrations, 71 tables. 2006. London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies; 978-0-907764-33-5 paperback. - H.E.M. Cool. Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain. xvi+282 pages, 30 illustrations, 43 tables. 2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-80276-5 hardback £55 & $99; 978-0-521-00327-8 paperback £19.99 & $36.99.
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Early medieval, medieval and historic periods - Peter Schmid. Die Keramikfunde der Grabung Feddersen Wierde, 1. Jh.v. bis 5.Jh.n. Chr. (Probleme der Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet Band 29, Feddersen Wierde Band 5). 192 pages, 97 figures, 51 tables. 2006. Oldenburg: Isensee; 3-89995-355-X hardback. - Odile Maufras (ed.). Habitats, nécropoles et paysages dans la moyenne et la basse vallée du Rhône (VIIè-XVè s.): contribution des travaux du TGV-Méditerranée à l'étude des sociétés rurales médiévales (Documents d'archéologie française 98). 474 pages, 205 illustrations, 63 tables. 2006. Paris: Maison des sciences de l'homme; 2-7351-0985-2 paperback. - Laurent Fau (ed.). Les Monts d'Aubrac au Moyen Age: Genèse d'un monde agropastoral (Documents d'archéologie française 101). 214 pages, 128 illustrations, 14 tables. 2006. Paris: Maison des sciences de l'homme; 978-2-7351-1117-6 paperback €40. - Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert & Catharina Raudvere (ed.). Old Norse religion in long-term perspectives: origins, changes, and interactions (an international conference in Lund, Sweden, June 3-7, 2004). 416 pages, numerous illustrations, tables. 2006. Lund: Nordic Academic Press; 978-91-89116-81-8 hardback Kr.300. - Rosemary Cramp. Wearmouth and Jarrow Monastic Sites Volume 2. xvi+676 pages, 323 illustrations, 72 tables (incl. 2 fold-outs). 2006. Swindon: English Heritage; 978-1-873592-94-6 paperback. - Jeffrey D. Hass. Medieval Selby: a new study of the Abbey and town 1069-1408 (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Occasional Paper 4). xii+142 pages, 18 illustrations. 2006. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society; 1-9035-6445-X paperback £15+p&p. - Sharon E.J. Gerstel (ed.). Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Liturgical, and Theological Perspectives on Religious Screens, East and West. ii+246 pages, 173 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection/Harvard University Press; 978-0-88402-311-1 hardback £41.95. - Edward Norman. The Roman Catholic Church: An Illustrated History. 192 pages, 152 b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-251324 hardback £22.50. - Signe Horn Fuglesang & David M. Wilson (ed.). The Hoen Hoard: A Viking Gold Treasure of the Ninth Century (Acta Ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia Volumen XIV). 340 pages, 48 illustrations, 72 b&w & colour plates. 2006. Rome & Oslo: Bardi/Norwegiam Institute in Rome; 88-88620-21-4 hardback. - Per Lagerås. The Ecology of Expansion and Abandonment: Medieval and Post-Medieval Land-use and Settlement Dynamics in a Landscape Perspective. 256 pages, 52 illustrations, 14 tables. 2007. Lund: Riksantikvarieämbetet; 978-91-7209-441-3 paperback £12. - Dan Hicks & Mary C. Beaudry (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. xvi+404 pages, 31 illustrations, 1 table. 2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-85375-0 hardback £45 & $80; 978-0-521-61962-2 paperback £19.99 & $34.99.
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Early medieval and medieval - Wendy Davies, Guy Halsall & Andrew Reynolds (ed.) People and Space in the Middle Ages (Studies in the Early Middle Ages). 368 pages, 52 illustrations, 2 tables. 2006. Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-51526-7 hardback. - Catherine E. Karkov & Nicholas Howe (ed.). Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England. xx+248 pages, 25 illustrations. 2006. Tempe (AZ): Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; 978-0-86698-363-1 hardback £36 & $40. - Penelope Walton Rogers. Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England, AD 450–700. xx+290 pages, 177 b&w & colour illustrations, 7 tables. 2007. York: Council for British Archaeology; 978-1-902771-54-0 paperback. - Rachel Moss (ed.) Making and Meaning in Insular Art. xxiv+342 pages, 255 b&w & colour illustrations, 2 tables. 2007. Dublin: Four Courts; 978-1-85182-986-6 hardback £60. - Andrew Saunders. Excavations at Launceston Castle, Cornwall (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 24). xviii+490 pages, 344 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. London: Maney; 978-1-904350-75-0 paperback. - Julian Munby, Richard Barber & Richard Brown. Edward Ill’s Round Table at Windsor: The House of the Round Table and the Windsor Festival of 1344. xiv+282 pages, 24 b&w illustrations, 16 colour plates, 8 tables. 2007. Woodbridge: Boydell; 978-1-84383-313-0 hardback £35. - Reviel Netz & William Noel. The Archimedes Codex. xii+306 pages, 42 illustrations. 2007. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 978-0-297-64547-4 hardback £18.99.
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Renaissance - Brian Curran. The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy. xiv+432 pages, 119 b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Chicago (IL): The University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-12893-1 hardback £28.50 & $45. - Philip Schwyzer. Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature. xii+300 pages, 11 plates. 2007. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-920660-5 hardback £50.
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Other - Bryan Sentance. Basketry: A World Guide to Traditional Techniques. 216 pages, 833 b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-28670-8 paperback £16.95. - Alan Axelrod. Profiles in Audacity: Great Decisions and How They Were Made. x+310 pages. 2006. New York: Sterling; 978-1-4027-3282-9 hardback £14.99.
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Revised and second editions, paperbacks and reprints - Aubrey Burl. A brief history of Stonehenge: a complete history and archaeology of the world’s most enigmatic stone circle. 2007 (first paperback edition, first published in hardback by Constable in 2006). London: Constable & Robinson; 978-1-84529-591-2 paperback £8.99 - Brian M. Fagan Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia. Revised edition (first published 1979 by Little, Brown & Co, Boston). xxii+386 pages, 37 illustrations. 2007. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-867-7 paperback $18.95. The first edition of this book was reviewed by Seton Lloyd in Antiquity 55: 68-9. - Kevin Andrews. Castles of the Morea (Gennadeion Monographs IV). Revised edition (first published 1953) with a foreword by Glenn R. Bugh xxx+314 pages, 271 illustrations. 2006. Princeton (NJ): American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 978-0-87661-406-8 hardback £45. - Allen M. Young The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao. Revised and expanded edition (first published 1994). xvi+218 pages, 47 illustrations. 2007. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3044-9 paperback $24.95. - Nigel Davies. The Incas. New paperback edition (First published 1995). xii+260 pages, 5 maps. 2007. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-865-3 paperback $26.95.
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Second and paperback editions, reprints - Graham Ley. A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater. Revised edition (first published 1991). xiv+126 pages, 14 illustrations. 2006. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-47762-6 hardback $32 & £20.50; 978-0-226-47761-9 paperback $12 & £8. - Kurt A. Raaflaub & Mark Toher (ed.). Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and his Principate. xxii+496 pages, 12 illustrations. Mark 2006 reprint (first edition 1990, first paperback edition 1993). Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press; 978-0-520-08447-6 paperback £26.95 (print-on-demand). - Jeremy K. Knight. The End of Antiquity: Archaeology, Society and Religion AD 235-700. Second edition (first published 1999). 2007. 224 pages, 52 illustrrations. Stroud: Tempus; 978-0-7524-4082-8 paperback £17.99.
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