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A tale of two projects in North America's Southwest - Michael E. Whalen & Paul E. Minnis. Casas Grandes and its Hinterland: Prehistoric Regional Organization in Northwest Mexico. xvii+239 pages, 50 figures, 16 tables. 2001. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 0-8165-2097-6 hardback $45. - E. Charles Adams (ed.). Homol'ovi III: A Pueblo Hamlet in the Middle Little Colorado River Valley, Arizona (Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 193). xvi+373 pages, 80 figures, 138 tables. 2001. Tucson (AZ): Arizona State Museum/University of Arizona Press; 1-889747-71-8 paperback $24.95. - E. Charles Adams. Homol'ovi: An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster. xviii+304 pages, 30 figures, 28 tables. 2002. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 0-8165-2221-9 hardback $50.
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Magnus T. Bernhardsson. Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq. 2005. xiv+328 pages, 16 plates. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 0-292-70947-1 hardback £28.95.
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Daniel M. Gross. The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science. x+194 pages, 1 figure. 2006. Chicago (IL): The University of Chicago Press; 0-226-30979-7 hardback $35 & £22.50.
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Sam Smiles & Stephanie Moser (ed.). Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image. xiv+246 pages, 19 illustrations. 2005. Oxford & Malden (MA): Blackwell; 1-4051-1151-8 hardback £60 & 1-4051-1150-X paperback £19.99.
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Attilio Galiberti (ed.). Defensola: una miniera di selce di 7000 anni fa. 216 pages, numerous colour & b&w illustrations. 2005. Siena: Protagon Editori Toscani; 88-8024-143-5 hardback €20.
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Robin Skeates. Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy. xii+244 pages, 43 figures, 22 plates. 2005. London: Duckworth; 0-7156-3390-2 hardback £45.
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Joseph W. Shaw & Maria C. Shaw (ed.). Kommos V: The Monumental Minoan Buildings at Kommos (Kommos, An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete by the University of Toronto under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Volume V). xlii+1222 pages, 361 b&W & colour illustrations, 164 tables, 5 fold-out plans. 2006. Princeton (NJ) & Woodstock: Princeton University Press; 0-691-12123-0 hardback $195 & £125. - Joseph W. Shaw. Kommos, a Minoan Harbour Town and Greek Sanctuary in Southern Crete. 171 pages, 77+ b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens; 0-87661-659-7 paperback £16.95.
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David Wengrow. The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North-East Africa, 10000 to 2650 BC. xxii+344 pages, 83 illustrations, 5 tables. 2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-83586-0 hardback £50 & $90; 0-521-54374-6 paperback £22.99 & $34.99.
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Rose Kerr & Nigel Wood with Ts'ai Mei-fen & Zhang Fukang (ed. Rose Kerr). Science and Civilisation in China (Series editor: Joseph Needham), Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Vol. 5, Part 12: Ceramic Technology. xlix+918 pages, 183 b&w & colour figures, 147 tables. 2004. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-83833-9 hardback £120.
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Ben Fitzhugh. The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological Evidence from the North Pacific. xv+322 pages, 80 figures, 19 tables. 2003. New York & Boston: Kluwer Academic/Plenum; 0-306-47753-X hardback $125, 0-306-47853-6 paperback $55.
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Ingereth Macfarlane with Mary-Jane Mountain & Robert Paton (ed.). Many Exchanges: archaeology, history, community and the work of Isabel McBryde (Aboriginal History Monograph 11). xxxvi+412 pages, 81 illustrations, 15 tables. 2005. Canberra: Aboriginal History Inc.; 0-9585637-7-2 paperback Aus$49.95.
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Xavier Lafon & Gilles Sauron (ed.). Théorie et pratique de l'architecture romaine: études offertes à Pierre Gros. 342 pages, 124 illustrations, tables. 2005. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence; 2-85399-599-2 paperback €45.
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Tyler Bell. The Religious Reuse of Roman Structures in Early Medieval England (BAR British Series 390). 326 pages, 143 figures, 11 tables. 2005. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-835-1 paperback £40.
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Andrew Petersen. The Towns of Palestine under Muslim Rule, AD 600-1600 (BAR International Series 1381). xii+243 pages, 63 figures, 44 plates, 30 tables. 2005. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-821-1 paperback.
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Sonia Chadwick Hawkes & Guy Grainger. The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Finglesham, Kent (Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 64). 436 pages, 165 figures, 27 plates, 37 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology; 0-9549627-1-0 hardback £26.
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Colin Breen. The Gaelic Lordship of the O'Sullivan Beare: A Landscape Cultural History. 256 pages, 74 illustrations, 1 colour map, 4 tables. 2005. Dublin: Four Courts; 1-85182-955-5 hardback £40 & €45.
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Michael Potterton. Medieval Trim: History and Archaeology. 464 pages, 153 illustrations, 24 colour plates. 2005. Dublin: Four Courts; 1-85182-926-1 hardback £50 & €55.
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Oliver Creighton & Robert Higham. Medieval town walls: an archaeological and social history of urban defence. 320 pages, 120 b&w illustrations, 34 colour plates. 2005. Stroud: Tempus; 0-7524-1445-3 paperback £25.
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Roberta Gilchrist & Barney Sloane. Requiem: The Medieval Monastic Cemetery in Britain. xviii+274 pages, 155 b&w & colour illustrations, 23 tables. 2005. London: Museum of London Archaeology Service; 1-901992-59-4 paperback £29.95.
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The secret life of objects - Nathan Schlanger (ed.). Marcel Mauss: Techniques, Technology and Civilisation. xiv+178 pages, 10 illustrations. 2006. New York & Oxford: Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books; 1-57181-662-3 hardback. - Chris Caple. Objects: Reluctant Witnesses to the Past. xviii+266 pages, 59 illustrations, 4 tables. 2006. London & New York: Routledge; 0-415-30589-6 paperback £18.99. - J. Kateřina Dvořková (ed.). EuroREA: (Re)construction and Experiment in Archaeology – European Platform, Volume 2 - 2005. 160 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2005. Eindhoven: European Exchange on Archaeological Research and Communication/Society for Experimental Archaeology Hradec Králové, Czech Republic; 80-239-5559-4 paperback €8. - Lisa Frink & Kathryn Weedman (ed.). Gender and Hide Production. xiv+282 pages, 30 illustrations, 8 tables. Paperback edition 2006 (first published in 2005). Lanham (MD) & Oxford: AltaMira: 0-7591-0851-X paperback £22.99. - Judith A. Habicht-Mauche, Suzanne L. Eckert & Deborah L. Huntley (ed.). The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Dynamics in the Southwest AD 1250-1680. xii+324 pages, 42 illustrations, 26 tables. 2006. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 0-8165-2457-2 hardback $50. - Kenneth G. Hirth. Obsidian Craft Production in Ancient Central Mexico. 2006. xviii+378 pages, 171 illustrations, 124 tables. Salt Lake City (UT): University of Utah Press; 0-87480-847-2 hardback $60. - Eleanor Robson, Luke Treadwell & Chris Gosden (ed.). Who Owns Objects?: The Ethics and Politics of Collecting Cultural Artefacts. xvii+142 pages, 5 illustrations. 2006. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-84217-233-6 paperback £24. - Ana Filipa Vrdoljak. International Law, Museums and the Return of Cultural Objects. xxxvii+345 pages, 26 illustrations. 2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-84142-9 hardback £55 & $99.
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