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Editorial

Editorial.......5

Research articles

Jean‑Jacques Delannoy, Bruno David, Jean‑Michel Geneste, Margaret Katherine, Bryce Barker, Ray L. Whear and Robert G. Gunn

The social construction of caves and rockshelters: Chauvet Cave (France) and Nawarla Gabarnmang (Australia).......12

Laurent Lespez, Zoï Tsirtsoni, Pascal Darcque, Haïdo Koukouli‑Chryssanthaki, Dimitra Malamidou, René Treuil, Robert Davidson, Georgia Kourtessi‑Philippakis and Christine Oberlin

The lowest levels at Dikili Tash, northern Greece: a missing link in the Early Neolithic of Europe.......30

Zhang Chi and Hsiao‑chun Hung

Jiahu 1: earliest farmers beyond the Yangtze River.......46

Barry Kemp, Anna Stevens, Gretchen R. Dabbs, Melissa Zabecki and Jerome C. Rose

Life, death and beyond in Akhenaten's Egypt: excavating the South Tombs Cemetery at Amarna.......64

Henriette Hafsaas‑Tsakos

Edges of bronze and expressions of masculinity: the emergence of a warrior class at Kerma in Sudan.......79

Matthew Helmer and David Chicoine

Soundscapes and community organisation in ancient Peru: plaza architecture at the Early Horizon centre of Caylán.......92

Jayson Orton, Peter Mitchell, Richard Klein, Teresa Steele and K. Ann Horsburgh

An early date for cattle from Namaqualand, South Africa: implications for the origins of herding in southern Africa.......108

Xiaolong Wu

Cultural hybridity and social status: elite tombs on China's Northern Frontier during the third century BC.......121

Gundula Müldner

Stable isotopes and diet: their contribution to Romano-British research.......137

Davide Zori, Jesse Byock, Egill Erlendsson, Steve Martin, Thomas Wake and Kevin J. Edwards

Feasting in Viking Age Iceland: sustaining a chiefly political economy in a marginal environment.......150

Peter G. Stone

A four-tier approach to the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict.......166

Method

Carl Heron, Søren Andersen, Anders Fischer, Aikaterini Glykou, Sönke Hartz, Hayley Saul, Val Steele and Oliver Craig

Illuminating the Late Mesolithic: residue analysis of ‘blubber’ lamps from Northern Europe.......178

Ian K. Bailiff, Harriet R. Lacey, Robin A.E. Coningham, Prishanta Gunawardhana, Gamini Adikari, Chris E. Davis, Mark J. Manuel and Keir M. Strickland

Luminescence dating of brick stupas: an application to the hinterland of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.......189

Ioana A. Oltean

Burial mounds and settlement patterns: a quantitative approach to their identification from the air and interpretation.......202

Rebecca Bennett, Kate Welham, Ross A. Hill and Andrew Ford

Airborne spectral imagery for archaeological prospection in grassland environments—an evaluation of performance.......220

Debate

S.M. Bello, G. Delbarre, S.A. Parfitt, A.P. Currant, R. Kruszynski and C.B. Stringer

Lost and found: the remarkable curatorial history of one of the earliest discoveries of Palaeolithic portable art.......237

Borja Legarra Herrero

Modern political views and the emergence of early complex societies in the Bronze Age Mediterranean.......245

Tim Denham

Early farming in Island Southeast Asia: an alternative hypothesis.......250

Katsuyuki Okamura, Atsushi Fujisawa, Yasuhisa Kondo, Yu Fujimoto, Tomokatsu Uozu, Yumiko Ogawa, Simon Kaner and Koji Mizoguchi

The Great East Japan Earthquake and cultural heritage: towards an archaeology of disaster.......258

N. James

Resource and interpretation.......270

Review articles

Kate Spence

Egyptian archaeology and Egyptology: help at hand.......277

Vincent Megaw

A Celtic cornucopia.......280

Book Reviews

Naomi Sykes

Book reviews.......285

Social zooarchaeology: humans and animals in prehistory

Jan Albert Bakker

Book reviews.......286

Danmarks megalitgrave, volume 1

John Coles

Book reviews.......287

An examination of prehistoric stone bracers from Britain

Jane Downes

Book reviews.......289

From machair to mountains: archaeological survey and excavation in South Uist

Jon Henderson

Book reviews.......290

A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: excavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South Uist

Katharina Rebay‑Salisbury

Book reviews.......292

Headhunting and the body in Iron Age Europe

Soultana‑Maria Valamoti

Book reviews.......293

The complete archaeology of Greece: from hunter-gatherers to the 20^th century A.D.

Anthony Snodgrass

Book reviews.......295

Acropolis restored

Anna Maria Mercuri

Book reviews.......296

Consumption, trade and innovation: exploring the botanical remains from the Roman and Islamic ports at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt

Martin Carver

Book reviews.......297

From one sea to another: trading places in the European and Mediterranean Early Middle Ages (Proceedings of the International Conference, Comacchio 27^th–29^th March 2009

José R. Oliver

Book reviews.......298

Beyond the blockade: new currents in Cuban archaeology

David Beresford‑Jones

Book reviews.......300

From foraging to farming in the Andes: new perspectives on food production and social organization

Rebecca E. Bria

Book reviews.......301

Andean expressions: art and archaeology of the Recuay culture

Mariko Yamagata

Book reviews.......303

Ancient Vietnam: history, art and archaeology

Stephen Daniels

Book reviews.......304

The archaeological imagination

Reviews

Madeleine Hummler

New Book Chronicle.......306