Antiquity: Volume 73 - Issue 282

Pubic lice (Pthirus pubis L.) were present in Roman and Medieval Britain
Harry Kenward
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 911-915
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation
As methods of retrieval become ever better, and analysis more refined, the horrid vermin of human occupation are identified and mapped. Recent analyses of deposits from Carlisle provide data on pubic lice.

The concept of affordance and GIS: a note on Llobera (1996)
David S. Webster
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 915-917
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation
Llobera (1996) seeks to utilize the concept of affordance in his GIS study of Wessex linear ditches. Unfortunately, he does not seem fully to appreciate what is implied in the concept of affordance, nor the role that it plays within Gibson's theory of direct perception. I offer this short note as an addendum to Llobera's discussion of affordance and its uses with GIS.

Stone sarcophagus manufacture in ancient Egypt
Denys A. Stocks
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 918-922
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation
Experimental work on the techniques for making stone sarcophagi demonstrate how a variety of tools, material and drilling methods were employed in ancient Egypt

Among the New Books
N. James
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 923-942
- Article
- - You have access
- PDF
- Export citation

Nuragic Sardinia and the outside world
David Ridgway
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 942-944
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Through the Clovis barrier
Preston Miracle
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 944-947
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Perils of iconography: the Maya
Claude-François Baudez
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 948-950
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Settlement shift: Pueblo cases
Tammy Stone
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 950-951
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Mississippian studies
Jon Muller
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 952-953
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Book reviews - Michael D. Petraglia & Ravi Korisettar (ed.). Early human behaviour in global context: The rise and diversity of the lower Palaeolithic record (One World Archaeology 28). xx+482 pages, 119 figures, 39 tables. 1998. London & New York (NY): Routledge; 0-415-11763-1 hardback £95 & $160
R. Coard
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 953-954
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Book reviews - Nick Ashton, Simon G. Lewis & Simon Parfitt (ed.). Excavations at the Lower Paleolithic site at East Farm, Barnham, Suffolk, 1989-94 (British Museum Occasional Paper 125). vii+305 pages, figures, tables. 1999. London: British Museum; 0-86159-125-9 paperback £25
Mark J. White
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 954-955
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Book reviews - Susan Pollock. Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that nerver was. 272pp., 29 half-tones, 23 tables, 10 graphs, 13 figures, 9 maps, 11 plans. 1999. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-57334-3 hardback £32.50; 0-521-57568-0 paperback £10.95
St. J. Simpson
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 956-957
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Book reviews - Carolyn Postgate, David Oates & Joan Oates. The excavation at Tell al-Rimah; the pottery (Iraq Archaeological Reports 4). 1997. 275 pages, 101 plates. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq; 0-85668-700-6 paperback £48
Augusta McMahon
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 957-958
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Book reviews - Helen M. Parkins (ed.). Roman urbanism: beyond the consumer city. xvi+227 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, 1997. London: Routledge; 0-415-11771-2 hardback £45
Alison E. Cooley
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 958-959
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Book reviews - Clive Ruggles. Astronomy in prehistoric Britain and Ireland. xi+286 pages, b&w figures, 18 tables. 1999. New Haven (CT) & London: Yale University Press; 0-300-07814-5; hardback $65 & £45
John Barnatt
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 959-961
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Book reviews - Simon James. The Atlantic Celts: ancient people or modern invention? 160 pages, 14 figures. 1999. London: British Museum; 0-7141-2165-7; paperback; £6.99
Ruth Megaw, Vincent Megaw
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 961-962
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Book reviews - John Steane. The archaeology of the medieval English monarcy. 226 pages, 121 illustrations. 1999. London & New York (NY): Routledge; 0-713-472464 hardback £40 & $49.95; 0-415-197880 paperback £19.99 & $32.99
Tom Beaumont James
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 962-963
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Book reviews - Mark Bowden (ed.). Unravelling the landscape: an inquisitive approach to archaeology. 223 pages, 94 figures. 1999. Stroud & Charleston (SC): Tempus; 0-7524-1447-X; paperback; £19.99 & $32.50
A. E. Brown
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, p. 963
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Book reviews - William Balée (ed.). Advances in historical ecology. xvi+430 pages, figures & bables. 1998. New York (NY): Columbia University Press; 0-231-10632-7 hardback $75 & £52
Stephen Nugent
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, p. 964
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Elizabeth J. Reitz & Elizabeth S. Wing. Zooarchaeology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology). xix+455 pages, 117 figures, 34 tables. 1999. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-48069-8 hardback £ $80; 0-521-48529-0 paperback £22.95 $34.95 - Cheryl Claassen. Shell. (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology) xiv+266 pages, 38 figures, 21 tables. 1998. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-57036-0 hardback £50 & $74.95; 0-521-57852-3 paperback £17.95 & $27.95
T. P. O'Connor
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 964-966
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Antiquity

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 73 - Issue 282 - December 1999

Notes

Pubic lice (Pthirus pubis L.) were present in Roman and Medieval Britain

The concept of affordance and GIS: a note on Llobera (1996)

Stone sarcophagus manufacture in ancient Egypt

Review

Among the New Books

Review Articles

Nuragic Sardinia and the outside world

Through the Clovis barrier

Perils of iconography: the Maya

Settlement shift: Pueblo cases

Mississippian studies

Book reviews

Book reviews - Michael D. Petraglia & Ravi Korisettar (ed.). Early human behaviour in global context: The rise and diversity of the lower Palaeolithic record (One World Archaeology 28). xx+482 pages, 119 figures, 39 tables. 1998. London & New York (NY): Routledge; 0-415-11763-1 hardback £95 & $160

Book reviews - Nick Ashton, Simon G. Lewis & Simon Parfitt (ed.). Excavations at the Lower Paleolithic site at East Farm, Barnham, Suffolk, 1989-94 (British Museum Occasional Paper 125). vii+305 pages, figures, tables. 1999. London: British Museum; 0-86159-125-9 paperback £25

Book reviews - Susan Pollock. Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that nerver was. 272pp., 29 half-tones, 23 tables, 10 graphs, 13 figures, 9 maps, 11 plans. 1999. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-57334-3 hardback £32.50; 0-521-57568-0 paperback £10.95

Book reviews - Carolyn Postgate, David Oates & Joan Oates. The excavation at Tell al-Rimah; the pottery (Iraq Archaeological Reports 4). 1997. 275 pages, 101 plates. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq; 0-85668-700-6 paperback £48

Book reviews - Helen M. Parkins (ed.). Roman urbanism: beyond the consumer city. xvi+227 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, 1997. London: Routledge; 0-415-11771-2 hardback £45

Book reviews - Clive Ruggles. Astronomy in prehistoric Britain and Ireland. xi+286 pages, b&w figures, 18 tables. 1999. New Haven (CT) & London: Yale University Press; 0-300-07814-5; hardback $65 & £45

Book reviews - Simon James. The Atlantic Celts: ancient people or modern invention? 160 pages, 14 figures. 1999. London: British Museum; 0-7141-2165-7; paperback; £6.99

Book reviews - John Steane. The archaeology of the medieval English monarcy. 226 pages, 121 illustrations. 1999. London & New York (NY): Routledge; 0-713-472464 hardback £40 & $49.95; 0-415-197880 paperback £19.99 & $32.99

Book reviews - Mark Bowden (ed.). Unravelling the landscape: an inquisitive approach to archaeology. 223 pages, 94 figures. 1999. Stroud & Charleston (SC): Tempus; 0-7524-1447-X; paperback; £19.99 & $32.50

Book reviews - William Balée (ed.). Advances in historical ecology. xvi+430 pages, figures & bables. 1998. New York (NY): Columbia University Press; 0-231-10632-7 hardback $75 & £52

Antiquity

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 73 - Issue 282 - December 1999

Notes

Review

Review Articles

Book reviews