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The Year of the Bronze Age in France

Matthew G. Knight
Vol 99 Issue 408, 1691-1701  |  Free to read
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New Book Chronicle: encountering the dead in the past and the present

Marion Uckelmann
Vol 99 Issue 408, 1719-1726  |  Free to read
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Received Aug 2025

Atlas of the ancient Maya world

Walter R.T. Witschey & Clifford T. Brown
Reviewed by Norman Hammond
Vol 99 Issue 408, 1714-1716 | Share
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Received Apr 2025

Discovering Vietnam’s ancient capital: the archaeology and history of the Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long – Hanoi

Andrew Hardy & Nguyễn Tiến Đông (ed.)
Reviewed by Miriam T. Stark
Vol 99 Issue 408, 1716-1718 | Share
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Received Apr 2025

From hard rock to heavy metal: metal tool production and use by Indigenous hunter-gatherers of North America

Michelle Rae Bebber & Christopher B. Wolff (ed.)
Reviewed by Heather Walder
Vol 99 Issue 408, 1704-1707 | Share
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Received Feb 2025

Human dispersal, human evolution, and the sea: the Palaeolithic seafaring debate

John F. Cherry & Thomas P. Leppard
Reviewed by Riczar Fuentes
Vol 99 Issue 408, 1702-1704 | Share
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Received Jan 2025

Live stock and dead things: the archaeology of zoopolitics between domestication and modernity

Hannah Chazin
Reviewed by Floor Huisman
Vol 99 Issue 408, 1707-1709 | Share
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Received Nov 2024

Islands and communities: perspectives on insularity, connectivity, and belonging

Anastasia Christophilopoulou (ed.)
Reviewed by Evan I. Levine
Vol 99 Issue 408, 1712-1714 | Share
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Received Nov 2024

The burials of Cerro Azul, Peru

Joyce Marcus
Reviewed by Margot Serra
Vol 99 Issue 408, 1709-1712 | Share
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Received Feb 2026

Phoenicia, Carthage, and popular government in the Pre-Classical Mediterranean: the other democracy

Brett Kaufman
Received Feb 2026

Sentient seas: archaeologies of seascapes and maritime rituals

Ian J. McNiven
Received Feb 2026

Talking to the rain: paintings and carvings on stone in Chihuahuan desert landscapes

Polly Schaafsma
Received Feb 2026

Ethics in Caribbean archaeology: past, present, and future

Felicia J. Fricke, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta & Maaike S. de Waal (ed.)
Received Feb 2026

Nurturing the elite: representations of drinking, eating, and religious vessels in Palmyrene funerary iconography

Olympia Bobou, Ilaria Bucci & Rubina Raja
Received Feb 2026

The Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset

David Roberts, Roger H. Leech & Rachel S. Cubitt
Received Jan 2026

Sounds for a new world: the Christianizing soundscapes of Late Antiquity

Philip Abbott
Received Jan 2026

An archaeology of Milpa cultures: maize and ecological worldbuilding in Central Mexico

Keitlyn Alcántara
Received Jan 2026

Invisible labour in Antiquity: visualizing obscure work in the ancient Mediterranean and West Asia

Nathanael Andrade & Rubina Raja (ed.)
Received Jan 2026

Les soldats de Napoléon en leur camp: le camp de Boulogne, La Grande Armée, 1803-1805

Frédéric Lemaire