Review articles

Reviewed by Ole Grøn

• NIKLAS STEINBÄCK (ed.). Stenåldern i Uppland: uppdragsarkeologi och eftertanke [The Stone Age in Uppland: rescue archaeology and afterthoughts] (Arkeologi E4 Uppland – studier, volym 1). 560 pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations and tables. 2007. Uppsala: Riksantikvarieämbetet 978-91-7209-465-9; Societas Archeologica Uppsaliensis 978-91-976723-0-6; Upplandmuseet 978-91-85618-91-0 hardback.
• MICHEL NOTELID (ed.). Att nå den andra sidan: om begravning och ritual i Uppland [Reaching the other side: burial and ritual in Uppland] (Arkeologi E4 Uppland – studier, volym 2). 538 pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations and tables. 2007. Uppsala: Riksantikvarieämbetet 978-91-7209-466-6; Societas Archeologica Uppsaliensis 978-91-976723-1-3; Upplandmuseet 978-91-85618-92-7 hardback.
• HANS GÖTHBERG (ed.). Hus och bebyggelse i Uppland: delar av förhistoriska sammanhang [House and settlement in Uppland: fragments of prehistoric context]] (Arkeologi E4 Uppland – studier, volym 3). 472 pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations and tables. 2007. Uppsala: Riksantikvarieämbetet 978-91-7209-467-3; Societas Archeologica Uppsaliensis 978-91-976723-2-0; Upplandmuseet 978-91-85618-93-4 hardback.
• EVA HJÄRTHNER-HOLDAR, HÂKEN RANHEDEN & ANTON SEILER (ed.). Land och samhälle i förändring: Uppländska bygder i ett långtidsperspektiv [Land and society in transformation: Uppland settlements in a long-term perspective] (Arkeologi E4 Uppland – studier, volym 4). 778 pages pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations and tables. 2007. Uppsala: Riksantikvarieämbetet 978-91-7209-478-9; Societas Archeologica Uppsaliensis 978-91-97672-3-7; Upplandmuseet 978-91-85618-94-0 hardback.
• EVA HJÄRTHNER-HOLDAR, THOMAS ERIKSSON & ANNA ÖSTLING (ed.). Mellan himmel och jord: Ryssgärdet, en guldskimrande bronseåldersmiljö i centrala Uppland [Between Heaven and Earth: Ryssgärdet, a golden Bronze Age environment in central Uppland] (Arkeologi E4 Uppland – studier, volym 5). 556 pages pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations and tables. 2008. Uppsala: Riksantikvarieämbetet 978-91-7209-479-6 hardback.
• NICLAS BJÖRCK & EVA HJÄRTHNER-HOLDAR (ed.). Mellan hav och skog: Högmossen, en stenåldersmiljö vid en skimrande strand i Norra Uppland [Between sea and forest: Högmossen, a Stone Age environment at a glistening beach in Norra Uppland] (Arkeologi E4 Uppland – studier, volym 6). 416 pages pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations and tables, CD-ROM. 2008. Uppsala: Riksantikvarieämbetet 978-91-7209-498-7 hardback.

Reviewed by Adam T. Smith - Read for free online

• E.E. KUZMINA, edited by VICTOR H. MAIR. The prehistory of the Silk Road. xii+248 pages, 72 figures, tables. 2008. Philadelphia (PA): University of Pennsylvania Press; 978-0-8122-4041-2 $65 & £42.50.
• MICHAEL D. FRACHETTI. Pastoralist landscapes and social interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia. xviii+214 pages, 53 illustrations. 2008. Berkeley & Los Angeles (CA): University of California Press; 978-0-520-25689-7 hardback £26.95.

Reviewed by Tomás Ó Carragáin - Read for free online

• HEATHER F. JAMES & PETER YEOMAN with numerous contributors. Excavations at St Ethernan's monastery, Isle of May, Fife (Tayside & Fife Archaeological Committee Monograph 6). xii+220 pages, 103 illustrations, 8 colour plates, 66 tables. 2008. Perth: Tayside & Fife Archaeological Committee; 1360-5550 paperback £15.
• CHRISTOPHER LOWE. Inchmarnock: an Early Historic island monastery and its archaeological landscape. xxii+314 pages, 156 b&w & colour illustrations, 34 tables. 2008. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903903-37-0 hardback £30 (Fellows £25).
• THOMAS MCERLEAN & NORMAN CROTHERS. Harnessing the tides: the Early Medieval tide mills at Nendrum monastery, Strangford Loch. xx+468 pages, 344 b&w & colour illustrations, tables. 2007. Norwich: Environment & Heritage Service/The Stationery Office; 978-0-08877-3 hardback £25.
• MARTIN CARVER. Portmahomack: monastery of the Picts. xvi+240 pages, 94 illustrations, 16 colour plates. 2008. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; 978-0-7486-2441-6 hardback £75; 978-0-7486-2442-3 paperback £24.99.

Reviewed by Alistair Paterson

• JIM ALLEN. Port Essington: the historical archaeology of a north Australian nineteenth-century military outpost (Studies in Australasian Historical Archaeology 1). xvi+142 pages, 111 illustrations, 95 tables. 2008. Sydney: Sydney University Press / Australian Society for Historical Archaeology; 978-1-920898-87-8 paperback AUS$ 49.95 + p&p.
• GRAHAM CONNAH. The same under a different sky? A country estate in nineteenth-century New South Wales (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1625). x+270 pages, 174 illustrations. 2007. Oxford: John & Erica Hedges; 978-14073-0059-7 paperback £45.

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Book Reviews

Reviewed by Ron Pinhasi

• G.L. DUSSELDORP. A view to a kill: investigating Middle Palaeolithic subsistence using an Optimal Foraging perspective. 200 pages, 21 illustrations, 35 tables. 2009. Leiden: Sidestone Press; 978-90-8890-020-4 paperback, €29.95

Reviewed by Teresa E. Steele

• J. DESMOND CLARK, ELIZABETH J. AGRILLA, DIANA C. CRADER, ALISON GALLOWAY, ELENA A.A. GARCEA, DIANE GIFFORD-GONZALEZ (general editor), DAVID N. HALL, ANDREW B. SMITH & MARTIN A.J. WILLIAMS. Adrar Bous: archaeology of a Central Saharan granitic ring complex in Niger (Studies in Human Sciences 170). 404 pages, 164 illustrations, 72 tables. 2008. Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa; 978-9-0747-5243-5 paperback.

Reviewed by Pavel Dolukhanov

• Y. B TSETLIN. The centre of the Russian plain in the Neolithic age: decoration of clay vessels and methods for the periodization of cultures. 274 pages, 52 plates, 75 tables. 2008. Tula: Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; 978-5-8125-1155-5 hardback (in Russian with 15-page English summary).

Reviewed by Alasdair Whittle

• ISTVÁN ZALAI-GAÁL, unter Mitarbeit von KITTI KÖHLER und ANETT OSZTÁS. Zur Herkunft des Schädelkults im Neolithikum des Karpatenbeckens (Archaeolingua Series Minor 27). 142 pages, 54 illustrations, 3 tables. 2009. Budapest: Archaeolingua; 978-963-9911-08-6 paperback €28.

Reviewed by Magdalena Midgley

• KLAUS EBBESEN. Danske Jættestuer. 695 pages, 653 illustrations. 2009. København: Attika; 978-87-7528-737-6 hardback 570Kr.

Reviewed by Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero

• S. CELESTINO, N. RAFEL & X.-L. ARMADA (ed.). Contacto cultural entre el Mediterráneo y el Atlántico (siglos XII-VIII ane): la precolonización a debate (Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma Serie Arqueológica 11). 626 pages, 328 illustrations. 2008. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; 978-84-00-08689-3 paperback.

Reviewed by Núria Rafel

• DIRK BRANDHERM with SALVADOR ROVIRA LLORENS. Las espadas del Bronce Final en la Península Ibérica y Baleares (Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Abteilung IV, 16. Band). xii+212 pages, 84 illustrations, tables. 2007. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner; 978-3-515-09166-4 hardback €96.

Reviewed by Frances Reynolds - Read for free online

• J.E. CURTIS & N. TALLIS (ed.). The Balawat Gates of Ashurnasirpal II. xx+264 pages, 62 b&w & colour plates, 102 figures, 10 tables, 1 diagram. 2008. London: British Museum Press; 978-0-7141-1166-7 hardback £50.

Reviewed by Daniel R. Stewart

• 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.

Reviewed by Marco Rendeli

• 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.

Reviewed by José R. Oliver

• 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.

Reviewed by George R. Milner - Read for free online

• 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.

Reviewed by Stijn Arnoldussen

• 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.

Reviewed by Peter Stewart - Read for free online

• DAVID S. NEAL & STEPHEN R. COSH. Roman mosaics of Britain. Volume III: south-east Britain (in 2 parts). xx+288 pages, 531 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. London: Society of Antiquaries of London; 978-0-85431-289-4 hardback £200.

Reviewed by Daniel Keller

• ANDREAS FISCHER mit Beitrag von MARKUS PETER. Vorsicht Glas! Die römischen Glasmanufakturen von Kaiseraugst (Forschungen in Augst 37). 194 pages, 152 b&w & colour illustrations, tables 2009. Augst: Augusta Raurica; 978-3-7151-0037-1 hardback CHFr.100 & €66.

Reviewed by Phil Freeman

• RICHARD HINGLEY. The recovery of Roman Britain 1586-1906: a colony so fertile. (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology). xiv +390 pages, 58 illustrations. 2008. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-923702-9) hardback £75.

Reviewed by Christopher Scull

• MARTIN CARVER, CATHERINE HILLS & JONATHAN SCHESCHKEWITZ. Wasperton: a Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon community in central England. x+372 pages, 73 b&w & colour illustrations, 45 tables. 2009. Woodbridge: Boydell; 978-1-843834-27-4 hardback £60 & $115.

Reviewed by Julie Lund

• EVA S. THÄTE. Monuments and minds: monument re-use in Scandinavia in the second half of the first millennium AD (Acta Archaeologica Lundensia Series in quarto 27). xiv+338 pages, 35 illustrations, 15 tables, CD-ROM. 2007. Lund: Acta Archaeologica Lundensia; 91-89578-04-X hardback.

Reviewed by Torsten Kempke

• MATS ROSLUND (translated by ALAN CROZIER). Guests in the house: cultural transmission between Slavs and Scandinavians 900 to 1300 AD. xxvi+558 pages, 180 illustrations. 2007. Leiden & Boston: Brill; 978-90-04-16189-4 hardback €129 & $181.

Reviewed by Emma Bentz

• CHRISTOPHER GERRARD WITH MICK ASTON. The Shapwick Project, Somerset: a rural landscape explored (Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 25). xxviii+1048 pages, 1041 illustrations, 4 colour plates, CD-ROM. 2007. Society for Medieval Archaeology, printed & distributed by Maney, Leeds; 978-1-905981-86-1 paperback £50 & $90 (Society for Medieval Archaeology member price £45 & $80).

Reviewed by Robert McCombe - Read for free online

• ARTHUR MACGREGOR. Curiosity and Enlightenment: collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. x+386 pages, 197 b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. New Haven & London: Yale University Press; 978-0-300-12493-4 hardback £45.

Reviewed by Madeleine Hummler in New Book Chronicle December 2009

• JEAN-PAUL DEMOULE (ed.). La révolution néolithique en France. 180 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Paris: La Découverte; 978-2-7071-5138-4 paperback €22.
• LAURENT CAROZZA & CYRIL MARCIGNY. L'âge du Bronze en France. 156 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Paris: La Découverte; 978-2-7071-5139-1 paperback €20.
• PATRICE BRUN & PASCAL RUBY. L'âge du Fer en France: première villes, premiers états celtiques. 180 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Paris: La Découverte; 978-2-7071-5664-8 paperback €22.
• MARTIAL MONTEIL & LAURENCE TRANOY. La France gallo-romaine. 180 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Paris: La Découverte; 978-2-7071-5664-8 paperback €22.
• ISABELLE CATTEDU. Archéologie médiévale en France: le premier Moyen Age (ve-xie siècle). 180 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Paris: La Découverte; 978-2-7071-5712-6 paperback €22.
• JOËLLE BURNOUF. Archéologie médiévale en France: le second Moyen Age (xiie-xvie siècle). 180 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Paris: La Découverte; 9-782-5323-4 paperback €22.
• GREGOR MARCHAND (ed.). Des feux dans la vallée: les habitats du mésolithique et du néolithique récent de l'Essart à Poitiers. 246 pages, 164 illustrations. 2009. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes; 978-2-7535-0834-7 paperback €24.
• MAXENCE BAILLY & HUGUES PLISSON (ed). La valeur fonctionnelle des objets sépulcraux: actes de la table ronde d'Aix-en-Provence 25–27 octobre 2006 (Préhistoire et Anthropologie Méditerranéennes 14). 230 pages, 92 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Aix-en-Provence: Association pour la Promotion de la Préhistoire et de l'Anthropologie Méditerranéennes (APPAM); 1167-492 X paperback €30.
• DANIELA HOFMANN & PENNY BICKLE (ed.). Creating communities: new advances in Central European Neolithic research. viii+264 pages, 118 illustrations, 17 tables. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217353-4 paperback £40.
• PETER A.C. SCHUT (ed.). Listing archaeological sites, protecting the historical landscape (EAC Occasional Paper 3). 170 pages, 123 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Brussels: Europae Archaeologiae Consilium; 978-90-579-9144-8 hardback.

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Books received

The list includes all books received between 1 June and 1 September 2009. Those featuring at the beginning of New Book Chronicle have, however, not been duplicated in this list. The listing of a book in this chronicle does not preclude its subsequent review in Antiquity.

General

• FREDERICK L. COOLIDGE & THOMAS WYNN. The rise of Homo sapiens: the evolution of modern thinking. viii+308 pages, 41 illustrations. 2009. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons; 978-1-4051-5254-9 paperback £17.99.
• PETER N. PEREGRINE, ILIA PEIROS & MARCUS FELDMAN (ed.). Ancient human migrations: a multidisciplinary approach. xii+208 pages, 53 illustrations, 21 tables. 2009. Utah (UT): University of Utah Press; 978-0-87480-942-8 paperback $30.
• LYNN MESKELL (ed.). Cosmopolitan archaeologies. 296 pages. 2009. Durham (NC) & London: Duke University Press; 978-0-8223-4444-5 paperback £14.99.
• ANN GARRISON DARRIN & BETH LAURA O'LEARY (ed.). Handbook of space engineering, archaeology, and heritage. xx+1016 pages, over 250 illustrations. 2009. Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press; 978-1-4200-8431-3 hardback £97.
• MARCELLO BARBANERA (ed.). Relitti riletti: metamorfosi delle rovine e identità culturale. 510 pages, 220 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri; 978-88-339-1919-5 hardback €75.
• PHILIP WILKINSON. Myths and legends: an illustrated guide to their origins and meanings. 352 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. London: Dorling Kindersley; 978-1-4053-3552-2 hardback £16.99.
• BARRY B. POWELL. Writing: theory and history of the technology of civilization. xx+276 pages, 112 illustrations. 2009. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons; 978-1-4051-6256-2 hardback £50.
• ANDREW ROBINSON. Writing and script: a very short introduction. xii+157 pages, 37 illustrations. 200. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-986778-2 paperback £7.99.
• DOMINIC RATHBONE (ed.). Civilizations of the ancient world. 384 pages, over 1000 colour illustrations. 2009. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-28834-4 hardback £19.95.
• DALE SERJEANTSON. Birds. xxvi+486 pages, 169 illustrations, 61 tables. 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-75858-1 paperback.

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European pre- and protohistory

• K. DI MODICA & C. JUNGELS (ed.). Paléolithique moyen en Wallonie: la collection Louis Eloy. 219 pages, 317 illustrations. 2009. Namur: Service du Patrimoine culturel; 2-9600511-9-x paperback €24.
• AMIRKHANOV, H. (ed.). Palaeolithic studies in Zaraysk 1999–2005. 466 pages, 178 colour & b&w illustrations, 4 loose maps inside back cover, 36 tables. 2009. Moscow: Paleograph Press; 978-5-89526-022-5 hardback (in Russian with 30 pages of summaries and captions of illustration in English).
• SINÉAD MCCARTEAN, RICK SCHULTING, GRAEME WARREN & PETER WOODMAN (ed.). Mesolithic horizons. 2 volumes, lx+1007 pages, 688 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-311-4 hardback £150.
• NYREE FINLAY, SINÉAD MCCARTEAN, NICKY MILNER & CAROLINE WICKHAM-JONES. (ed.). From Bann Flakes to Bushmills (Prehistoric Society Research Paper 1). xxiv+224 pages, 84 illustrations, 23 tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-355-8 hardback.
• Y. B TSETLIN. The centre of the Russian plain in the Neolithic age: decoration of clay vessels and methods for the periodization of cultures. 350 pages, 74 tables. 2008. Tula: Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; 978-5-8125-1155-5 hardback (in Russian with 15 page English summary).
• JEAN GUILAINE, SEBASTIANO TUSA & PRIMO VENEROSO. La Sicile et l'Europe campaniforme. 216 pages, 117 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Toulouse: Archives d'Ecologie Préhistorique; 978-2-35842-0006 paperback.
• DANUTA PIOTROWSKA. Prolegomena do archaeologii Birskupina. Tom I: bibliografia archeologiczna Biskupina 1933–1983. 464 pages, 13 illustrations. 2009. Warszawa: Panstwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne w Warszawie; 978-83-60099-17-9 hardback.
• FELIX MÜLLER (ed.). Art of the Celts 700 BC to AD 700. 304 pages, 238 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Bern: Historisches Museum Bern & Bruxelles: Mercatorfonds; 978-90-6153-864-6 hardback CHFr.60.
• MARTIN GOJDA. Flights into the past. DVD produced by EU Culture 2000 programme. 2009. Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and English Heritage.

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Mediterranean archaeology

• MARTA CAMPS & CAROLYN SZMIDT (ed.). The Mediterranean from 50 000 to 25 000 BP: turning points and new directions. xxii+354 pages, 158 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-314-5 hardback £80.
• HEDVIG LANDENIUS ENEGREN. The people of Knossos: prosopographical studies in the Knossos Linear B archives (Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations 30). 220 pages. 2008. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis; 978-91-554-7108-8 paperback.
• SARA OWEN & LAURA PRESTON (ed.). Inside the city in the Greek world: studies of urbanism from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period (University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology Monograph 1). 140 pages, 28 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 9781-84217-349-7 paperback £28.
• CHRISTOPH BACHHUBER & R. GARETH ROBERTS (ed.). Forces of transformation: the end of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean (Proceedings of an international symposium held at St. John's College, University of Oxford 25–26th March 2006). viii+227 pages, 151 illustrations, 16 tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-332-9 hardback £45.00.
• SIMON K.F. STODDARD. Historical dictionary of the Etruscans. xl+320 pages, 26 illustrations. 2009. Lanham (MD): Scarecrow; 978-0-8108-5471-0 hardback £49.95.
• SINCLAIR BELL & HELEN NAGY (ed.). New perspectives on Etruria and early Rome. xxiv+306 pages, 121 illustrations. 2009. Madison (WI): University of Wisconsin Press; 978-029923030-2 hardback $55.
• Pharos. Journal of the Netherlands Institute in Athens. Volume XV (2007). vi+220 pages. 2007. Athens: Netherlands Institute in Athens; ISSN 1380-2240 paperback €30.

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The Classical and Hellenistic world

• JOHN H. OAKLEY & OLGA PALAGIA (ed.). Athenian potters and painters volume II. vii+360 pages, 343 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-350-3 hardback £70.
• ANDREW ERSKINE (ed.). A companion to ancient history (Blackwell Companion to the Ancient World). xxxviii+694 pages, 32 illustrations. 2009. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-4051-3150-6 hardback £95.
• RYAN K. BALOT (ed.). A companion to Greek and Roman political thought (Blackwell Companion to the Ancient World). xxviii+660 pages. 2009. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-4051-5143-6 hardback £95.
• CAROLINE ALEXANDER. The war that killed Achilles: the true story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War. xxiv+280 pages, 1 map. 2009. New York: Penguin; 978-0-670-02112-3 paperback $26.95.
• MARTIN HAMMOND (trans.). Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War (Oxford World's Classics). lxiv+720 pages, 11 maps. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-282191-1 paperback £10.99.
• PHILIP MATYSZAK. Classical compendium: a miscellany of curious facts, bizarre beliefs & scandalous gossip from ancient Greece and Rome. 192 pages, 120 illustrations. 2009. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-05162-7 hardback £9.99.

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The Roman world

• ALWYN SCARTH. Vesuvius: a biography. x+342 pages, 101 illustrations. 2009. Harpenden: Terra; 978-1-903544-25-9 hardback £24.95
• EMIDIO DE ALBENTIIS, photographs by ALFREDO & PIA FOGLIA. Secrets of Pompeii: everyday life in ancient Rome. 200 pages, 170 colour illustrations. Los Angeles (CA): J. Paul Getty Museum; 978-0-89236-941-6 hardback $44.95 & £25.
• UMBERTO PAPPALARDO. The splendor of Roman wall painting. 240 pages, 227 illustrations. First paperback edition 2009 (first published in 2008 by Arsenale Editrice). Los Angeles (CA): Getty Publications; 978-0-89236-958-4 hardback $45.
• ANDREA FABER & ADOLF HOFFMANN. Die Casa del Fauno in Pompeji (VI 12) 1. Bauhistorische Analyse. Die stratigraphischen Befunde und Funde der Ausgrabungen in den Jahren 1961 bis 1963. 334 pages, 509 b&w & colour illustrations, CD-ROM. 2009. Wiesbaden: Reichert; 978-3-89500-650-0 hardback €100.95.
• ANDREAS FISCHER mit Beitrag von MARKUS PETER. Vorsicht Glas! Die römischen Glasmanufakturen von Kaiseraugst (Forschungen in Augst 37). 194 pages, 152 b&w & colour illustrations, tables 2009. Augst: Augusta Raurica; 978-3-7151-0037-1 hardback CHFr.100 & €66.
• BARRY HOBSON. Latrinae et foricae: toilets in the Roman world. x+190 pages, 142 illustrations. 2009. London: Duckworth; 978-0715638507 paperback £14.99.
• BENEDICT LOWE. Roman economy, society and culture in Iberia. viii+230 pages, 34 illustrations. 2009. London: Duckworth; 978-0-715-63499-8 paperback.
• PETER E. KNOX (ed.). A companion to Ovid (Blackwell Companion to the Ancient World). xviii+534 pages, 10 illustrations, 1 table. 2009. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-4051-4183-3 hardback £95.
• MARIAN GRIFFIN (ed.). A companion to Julius Caesar (Blackwell Companion to the Ancient World). xx+512 pages, 32 illustrations. 2009. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-4051-4923-5 hardback £95.
• FRANK MCLYNN. Marcus Aurelius: a life. xix+684 pages, 1 illustration. 2009. Cambridge (MA): Da Capo; 978-0-306-81830-1 hardback $30.
• MARTIN M. WINKLER (ed.). The fall of the Roman Empire: film and history. xviii+334 pages, 26 illustrations. 2009. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons; 978-1-4051-8223-2 hardback £60.
• CAROLINE LAWRENCE. The prophet from Ephesus (The Roman mysteries series 16) 212 pages, 2 maps. 2009. London: Orion; 978-1-84255-606-1 paperback £6.99.
• CAROLINE LAWRENCE. The man from Pomegranate Street (The Roman mysteries series 17). x+262 pages, 4 illustrations. 2009. London: Orion; 978-1-84255-193-6 hardback, £9.99.

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Black Sea, Anatolia, Levant, Middle East

• PIA GULDAGER BILDE & JANE HJARL PETERSEN (ed.). Meetings of cultures in the Black Sea region: between conflicts and coexistence (Black Sea Studies 8). 422 pages, 143 illustrations. 2009. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press; 978-87-793-4419-8 hardback £38.
• ROGER MATTHEWS & CLAUDIA GLATZ (ed.). At empires' edge. Project Paphlagonia: regional survey in north-central Turkey (British Institute at Ankara Monograph 44). xiv+274 pages, 312 b&w & colour illustrations, 21 tables. 2009. London: British Institute in Ankara; 978-1-898249-23-8 hardback.
• HARALD HAARMANN & JOAN MARLER. Introducing the mythological crescent: ancient beliefs and imagery connecting Eurasia with Anatolia. 172 pages, 73 illustrations. 2008. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz; 978-3-447-05832-2 paperback €39.80.
• ANDREW FAIRBAIRN & EHUD WEISS (ed.). From foragers to farmers: papers in honour of Gordon C. Hillman. xx+ 276 pages, 134 illustrations, 70 tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-354-1 hardback £55.
• CONSTANTINOS KOUTSADELIS. Mortuary practices in the process of Levantine Neolithisation (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1685). xviii+178 pages, 67 illustrations, 12 tables. 2007. Oxford: John & Erica Hedges; 978-1-4073-0072-6 paperback £41.
• TREVOR BRYCE with HEATHER D. BAKER, DANIEL T. POTTS, JONATHAN N. TUBB, JENNIFER M. WEBB & PAUL ZIMANSKY. The Routledge handbook of the peoples and places of ancient Western Asia. lvi+888 pages, 160 illustrations. 2009. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 978-0-415-39485-7 hardback £160 & $260; 978-0-203-87550-6 ebook
• BENJAMIN R. FOSTER & KAREN POLINGER FOSTER. Civilizations of ancient Iraq. xiv+298 pages, 24 illustrations. 2009. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press; 978-0-691-13722-3 hardback £18.95 & $26.95.
• CHRISTINE PRESTON. The rise of man in the gardens of Sumeria: a biography of L.A. Waddell. xvi+260 pages, 8 illustrations. 2009. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press; 978-1-84519-315-7 hardback £55.
• JÉRÉMIE SCHIETTECATTE (ed.) with CHRISTIAN JULIEN ROBIN. L'Arabie à la veille de l'Islam: bilan clinique (Orient & Méditerranée 3). 316 pages, 93 illustrations. 2008. Paris: De Boccard; 978-2-7018-0256-5 paperback.

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Asia

• EFEO. 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.
• SIMON KANER (ed.). The power of Dogu: ceramic figures from ancient Japan. 2009. 176 pages, c. 150 colour & b&w illustrations. 2009. London: British Museum Press; 978-0-7141-2464-3 paperback £19.99.

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Africa and Egypt

• JOEL E. TISHKEN, TÓYÌN FÁLOLÁ & AKÍNTÚNDÉ AKÍNY EMÍ. Sàngó in Africa and the African diaspora. x+366 pages, 39 illustrations. 2009. Bloomington (IN): Indiana University Press; 978-0-253-35336-8 hardback $75; 978-0-253-22094-3 paperback $75.
• LÁSZLÓ TÖRÖK. Between two worlds: the frontier region between ancient Nubia and Egypt 3700BC –500 AD. xxii+652 pages, 53 plates, 25 tables. 2009. Leiden: Brill; 978-90-04-17197-8 hardback €180 & $281.
• ROGER S. BAGNALL (ed.). The Oxford handbook of papyrology. xxii+688 pages, 115 illustrations, tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-517838-8 hardback £85.
• GWENOLA GRAFF. Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I – Nagada II: nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique (Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6). 432 pages, 650 illustrations. 2009. Leuven: Leuven University Press; 978-90-5867-662-7 paperback €75.
• MARIAM F. AYAD. God's wife, god's servant: the god's wife of Amun (c. 740–525 BC). xviii+204 pages, 51 illustrations. 2009. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-415-41170-7 hardback.

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Americas

• RICHARD W. JEFFERIES. Holocene hunter-gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley. xiv+346 pages, 41 illustrations, 4 tables. 2009. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-1658-7 hardback; 978-0-8173-5541-8 paperback $36.95.
• STEPHEN H. LEKSON. A history of the ancient Southwest. xii+440 pages, 69 illustrations. 2009. Santa Fe (NM): School for Advanced Research; 978-1-934691-10-6 paperback.
• BRENDA J. BOWSER & MARÍA NIEVES ZEDEÑO (ed.). The archaeology of meaningful places. x+222 pages, 58 illustrations, 7 tables. 2009. Salt Lake City (UT): University of Utah Press; 978-0-87480-882-7 paperback.
• JOHN EDWARD STALLER (ed.). Pre-Columbian landscapes of creation and origin. xii+390 pages, 110 illustrations. 2009. Heidelberg: Springer; 978-0-387-76909-7 hardback & CD-ROM £69.99, $99 & €76.95.
• MICHELE H. HAYWARD, LESLEY-GAIL ATKINSON & MICHAEL A. CINQUINO (ed.). Rock art of the Caribbean. xiv+286 pages, 55 illustrations, 17 tables. 2009. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-1650-1 hardback $51.75; 978-0-8173-5530-2 paperback $30.95.
• BASIL A. REID. Myths and realities of Carribean history. xiv+154 pages, 74 illustrations. 2009. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-5534-0 paperback $28.95.
• GABRIELLE VAIL & ANTHONY AVENI (ed.). The Madrid Codex: new approaches to understanding an ancient Maya manuscript. xxx+426 pages, 117 colour & b&w illustrations, 43 tables. 2009. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-8-87081-939-1 paperback £29.50.
• CHRISTINA T. HALPERIN, KATHERINE A. FAUST, RHONDA TAUBE & AURORE GIGUET (ed.). Mesoamerican figurines. xiv+440 pages, 152 illustrations, 20 tables. 2009. Florida (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3330-3 hardback $75.00.

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Australia

• 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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Britain and Ireland

• 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.
• GILLIAN HOVELL. Visiting the past: a guide to finding and understanding Britain's archaeology. 160 pages, 107 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Stroud: History Press; 978-0-7534-4833-6 paperback £12.99.
• PETER MURPHY. The English coast: a history and a prospect. xiv+282 pages, 15 illustrations, 2 tables. 2009. London & New York: Continuum; 978-1-84725-143-5 hardback £60.
• DAVID G. PASSMORE & CLIVE WADDINGTON. Managing archaeological landscapes in Northumberland (Till-Tweed Studies Volume 1). xxiv+400 pages, 260 illustrations, 57 tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-84217-345-9 hardback £45.
• KENNETH BROPHY & GORDON BARCLAY (ed.). Defining a regional Neolithic: the evidence from Britain and Ireland (Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 9).viii+128 pages, 54 illustrations, 2 tables. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-333-6 paperback £28.
• STEPHEN J. YEATES. A dreaming for the witches: a recreation of the Dobunni primal myth. xii+244 pages, 84 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-358-9 paperback £19.95.
• PAMELA JANE SMITH. A 'splendid idiosyncrasy': prehistory at Cambridge 1915-50. vi+220 pages, 48 illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-034-4 paperback £41.00.
• JOHN BARNATT & NICOLA BANNISTER. The archaeology of a great estate: Chatsworth and beyond. xiv+218 pages, 93 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-905119-27-1 £20.
• MARK BOWDEN, GRAHAM BROWN & NICKY SMITH. An archaeology of town commons in England: 'A very fair field indeed'. x+102 pages, 72 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Swindon: English Heritage; 978-1-84802-035-1 paperback £17.99.

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Early medieval and medieval

• DIETER QUAST (ed.). Foreigners in early medieval Europe: thirteen international studies on early medieval mobility (Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 78). viii+296 pages, 147 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Mainz: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum; 978-3-88467-131-3 hardback €98.
• DAGFINN SKRE (ed.). Means of exchange (Kaupang Excavation Project Publication, Volume 2, Norske Oldfunn XXIII). 378 pages, 141 b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press & Kaupang Excavation Project, University of Oslo; 978-87-7934-308-5 hardback £34.
• CARLO CITTER. Dieci anni di ricerche a Castel Di Pietra: edizone degli scavi 1997–2007. 229 pages, 103 illustrations. 2009. Firenze: All'Insegna del Giglio; 978-99-7814-458-3 paperback €30.
• LAWRENCE JAMES. Aristocrats: power, grace and decadence. Britain's great ruling classes from 1066 to the present. x+438 pages, 38 b&w & colour plates. 2009. London: Little Brown; 978-0-316-73189-8 hardback £25.

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Maritime archaeology

• GEORGE F. BASS, ROBERT H. BRILL, BERTA LLEDÓ & SHEILA D. MATTHEWS. Serçe Limani Volume II: the glass of an eleventh-century shipwreck. xiv+520 pages, 2102 b&w & colour illustrations, 12 tables. 2009. College Station (TX): Texas A&M University Press; 978-1-60344-064-6 paperback $150.
• PETER MARSDEN (ed.). Mary Rose, your noblest shippe: anatomy of a Tudor warship (The Archaeology of the Mary Rose Volume 2). xxvi+434 pages, 300 illustrations, 32 tables. 2009. Portsmouth: Mary Rose Trust; 978-0-9544029-2-1 hardback (casebound) £45.

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Later historical periods

• J.H ANDREWS. Maps in those days. xviii+549 pages, 250 illustrations. 2009. Dublin: Four Courts; 978-1-84682-188-2 hardback £50.00.
• NEIL FORBES, ROBIN PAGE & GUILLERMO PÉREZ (ed.). Europe's deadly century: perspectives on 20th century conflict heritage. x+158 pages, 93 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. Swindon: English Heritage; 978-1-84802-039-9 paperback £20.
• 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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Paperback, second and subsequent editions, translations

• PHILIP L. KOHL. The making of Bronze Age Eurasia. xxiii+296 pages, 113 illustrations. First paperback edition 2009 (first published in 2007). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-13015-8 paperback £18.99& $ 29.99; 978-0-521-84780-3 hardback £50 & $100.
• W.B. BARTLETT. Assassins: the story of Medieval Islam's secret sect. 316 pages. 2009 (first published by Sutton in 2001). Stroud: History Press; 978-0-7524-5205-0 paperback £12.99.
• JAMES KEMBLE. Prehistoric and Roman Essex. 221 pages, 59 b&w illustrations, 32 colour plates. Second edition 2009 (first published in 2001). Stroud: History Press; 978-0-7524-5032-2 paperback £16.99.