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Western Asia - Getzel M. Cohen. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin and North Africa. xiv+488 pages, 9 maps. 2006. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press; 978-0-52024148-0 hardback £55. - Shaher M. Rababeh. How Petra was Built: an analysis of the construction techniques of the Nabataean freestanding buildings androck-cut monuments in Petra, Jordan (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1460). xii+238 pages, 193 illustrations. 2005. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-898-X paperback £36. - Paavo Roos. Survey of Rock-Cut Chamber-Tombs in Caria (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 72:2). 144 pages, 69 illustrations. 2006. Sävedalen: Paul Åström; 978-91-7081-216-3 paperback. - Juliette van Krieken-Pieters (ed.). Art and Archaeology of Afghanistan: Its Fall and Survival. (Handbuch der Orientalistik 8) xxii+412 pages, 64 b&w & colour plates, 1 map. 2006. Leiden & Boston: Brill; 978-90-04-15182-6 hardback €89 & $116.
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Eastern Asia - Xiangming Dai. Pottery Production, Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yuanqu basin, North-Central China (British Ar-chaeological Reports International Series 1502). viii+ 130 pages, 79 illustrations, 18 tables. 2006. Oxford; Archaeopress; 1-84171-939-0 paperback £30. - Gina L. Barnes. State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a 4th -century ruling elite. xxii+262 pages, 44 illustrations, 16 tables. 2007. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 978-0-415-31178 hardback £70; 978-0203-46287-4 ebook.
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Egypt and Africa - Joyce Tyldesley. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt from Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra. 224 pages, 273 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-05145-0 hardback £19.95. - Charlotte Booth. People of Ancient Egypt. 290 pages, 75 illustrations, 25 colour plates. 2006.Stroud: Tempus; 0-7524-3927-8 hardback £20. - Stephanie Moser. Wondrous curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum. xvi+328 pages, 89 illustrations, 13 colour plates. 2006. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press; 978-226¬54209-6 hardback. - Jean-Luc Chappaz (ed.) with Nora Ferrero, Sandra Deglon, Delphine Petro & Marie Vandenbeusch. Kerma et archéologie nubienne.60 pages, 69 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. Geneva: Musée d’artet d’histoiredeGenève/Infolio; 978-2¬8306-0234-0 & 978-2-88474-128-6 paperback. - Graham Connah. Forgotten Africa: an introduction to its archaeology. xiv+194 pages, 67 illustrations. 2004. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 0-415-30590-X hardback £60; 0-415-30591-8 paperback £18.99. - Saul Dubow. A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000. xii+296 pages, 11 illustrations. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-929663-7 hardback £60.
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Oceania - William R. Dickinson. Temper Sands in Prehistoric Oceanian Pottery: Geotectonics, Sedimentology, Petrography, Provenance (Geological Society of America Special Paper 406). viii+164 pages, 40 figures, 30 colour plates, 30 tables. 2006. Boulder (CO): Geological Society of America; 978-0-8137-2406-5 paperback $65.
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Americas - Donald A. Proulx. A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography: Readinga Culture through its Art. xiv+236 pages, 335 figures, 40 colour plates. 2006. Iowa City (IA): University of Iowa Press; 978-0-87745-979-8 hardback $59.95. - Robert D. Drennan. Prehispanic Chiefdoms in the Valle de la Plata, Volume 5: Regional Settlement Patterns/Cacicazgos Prehispanicos del Valle de la Plata, Tomo 5: Patrones de Asentamiento Regionales (University ofPittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology 16). xxvi+236 pages, 119 illustrations, 23 tables. 2006. Pittsburgh & Bogotá: University of Pittsburgh Department of Anthropology & Universidad de Los Andes Departamento de Antropología; 978-1-877812-82-8 paperback $36. - Steve Bourget. Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture. xiv+258 pages, 260 illustrations, 25 colour plates, 4 tables. 2006. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-71279-9 hardback £38. - Jessica Joyce Christie & Patricia Joan Sarro (ed). Palaces and Power in the Americas: From Peru to the Northwest Coast. xiv+414 pages, 126 illustrations, 4 tables. 2006. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-70984-3 hardback £29. - Helaine Silverman (ed.). Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America. xviii+302 pages, 92 illustrations, 1 table. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3001-2 hardback $65. - Stephen Houston, David Stuart & Karl Taube. The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya. viii+324 pages, 265 illustrations. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 0-292-71294-4 hardback £35. - Traci Ardren & Scott R. Hutson (ed.). The SocialExperience ofChildhoodin AncientMesoamerica. xxii+310 pages, 73 illustrations, 11 tables. 2006. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 9780-87081-827-1 hardback $45. - Jon M. Weeks & Jane A. Hill (ed.). The Carnegie Maya: The Carnegie Institution ofWashington Maya Research Program, 1913–1957. 784 pages, 25 illustrations, 44 tables. 2006. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-833-2 hardback with CD-ROM $275; 978-0-87081-8349 CD-ROM only $200. - Vera Tiesler & Andrea Cucina (ed.). Janaab’Pakal of Palenque: Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler. xiv+220 pages, 47 illustrations, 13 tables. 2006. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 9780-8165-2510-2 hardback $50. - A. Martin Byers. Cahokia: A World Renewal Cult Heterarchy. xiv+600 pages, 53 illustrations, 25 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-2958-0 hardback $69.95. - RONALD J. Mason. Inconstant Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions. xii+298 pages, 2006. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-1533-7 hardback $50. - Jordan E. Kerber (ed.). Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Native Peoples and Archaeology in the Northeastern United States. xxxii+378 pages, 27 illustrations. 2006. Lincoln (NE): University of Nebraska Press; 978-0-8032-7817-2 paperback; 9780-8032-2765-1 hardback £40. - Clarence R. Geier, David G. Orr & Matthew B. Reeves (ed.). Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampment during the American Civil War. xviii+280 pages, 82 illustrations, 3 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-2941-2 hardback $65. - David Erroll & John Erroll, photographs by Anne Day. American Genius: Nineteenth-Century Banklocks and Time Locks. 368 pages, 400 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. New York: Quantuck Lane Press; 978-1-59372-016-2 hardback £35, $95 & CAN$125.
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Britain and Ireland - Stephen Oppenheimer. The origins of the British: A Genetic detective Story. 2006. London: Constable & Robinson; 978-1-84529-158-7 hardback £20. - Trevor Rowley. The English landscape in the twentieth century. xvi+472 pages, numerous illustrations. 2006. London: hambledon continuum; 1-85285-388-3 hardback £30. - Timothy Darvill. Stonehenge: the biography of a landscape. 320 pages, 118 illustrations, 27 colour plates, 4 tables. 2006. Stroud: Tempus; 0-7524-3641-4 hardback £25. - Roy Loveday. Inscribed across the landscape: the cursus enigma. 222 pages, 84 illustrations. 2006. Stroud: Tempus; 0-7524-3652-X paperback £19.99. - Stan Beckensall. Circles in Stone: a British prehistoric mystery. 224 pages, 25 colour plates. 2006. Stroud: Tempus; 978-07524-4015-6 paperback £18.99. - Steve Burrow. The tomb builders in Wales 40003000 BC. x+150 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales; 0-7200-08568-X paperback £14.99. - Christopher Evans & Ian Hodder. A woodland archaeology: Neolithic sites at Haddenham (The Haddenham Project Volume 1 ). xxii+390 pages, 189 illustrations, 102 tables. 2006. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 9871-902937-31-1 hardback£35. - Christopher Evans & Ian Hodder. Marshland communities and cultural landscapes from the Bronze Age to present day (The Haddenham Project Volume 2). xxvi+510 pages, 293 illustrations, 160 tables. 2006. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 9871-902937-32-8 hardback £35. - Stephen Parry. Raunds Area Survey: an archaeological study ofthe landscape of Raunds, Northamptonshire 1985-94. xx+292 pages, 101 tables, 105 illustrations +12 large colour maps in case. 2006. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-180-6 paperback and maps in hard case £30. - Jerry O’Sullivan & Michael Stanley (ed.). Settlement, Industry and Ritual: Proceedings ofa Public Seminaron ArchaeologicalDiscoverieson NationalRoad Schemes, September 2005 (Archaeology and the National Roads Authority Monograph Series 3). x+154 pages, 95 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. Dublin: National Roads Authority; 0-954955-2-1 paperback.
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Early medieval, medieval and historic periods - Rosemary Cramp with contributions by C. Roger Bristow, John Higgitt, R.C. Scrivener & Bernard C. Worssam. Corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture Volume VII, South-West England. xviii+446 pages. 29 figures, 565 plates, 3 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy; 0-19726334-8 hardback £65. - Richard Jones & Mark Page. Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: Beginnings and Ends. xviii+270 pages, 78 illustrations. 2006. Bollington: Windgather; 978-1-905119-08-0 hardback; 978-1905119-09-7 paperback £19.99. - Sam Turner (ed.). Medieval Devon and Cornwall: Shaping an Ancient Countryside. xvi+176 pages, 67 illustrations. 2006. Bollington: Windgather; 978-1-905119-07-3 paperback £19.99. - Christopher Lowe. Excavations at Hoddom, Dumfriesshire: An Early Ecclesiastic Site in South-west Scotland. xviii+222 pages, 87 figures, 67 plates. 2006. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 9780-903903-39-4 hardback £35. - Clare Mccutcheon. Medieval Pottery from Wood Quay, Dublin: The 1974-6 Waterfront Excavations (National Museum of Ireland Medieval Dublin Excavations 1962-81, Ser. B, vol. 7). 2006. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy; 1-904890-12-1 hardback €35. - Barbara Yorke. The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain c. 600-800. xvi+334 pages, 2 maps, tables. 2006. Harlow: Pearson Education; 978-0-852-77292-2 paperback £18.99. - Veronica Ortenberg. In Search of the Holy Grail: The Quest for the Middle Ages. xvi+336 pages, 17 illustrations. 2006. London: hambledon continuum; 9781-85285-383-9 hardback £25. - Brian Marshall. Lancashire’s Medieval Monasteries. 156 pages, 68 illustrations. 2006. Blackpool: Landy; 978-1-872895-68-0 paperback £10. - C.M. Woolgar. The Senses in Late Medieval England. xii+372 pages, 86 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. New Haven & London: Yale University Press; 978-0300-11871-1 hardback £25. - Martin Hansson. Aristocratic Landscape: The Spatial Ideology ofthe Medieval Aristocracy (Lund Studies in Historical Archaeology 2). 224 pages, 68 illustrations. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiskell International; 91-22-02154-X paperback SEK294. - Viccy Coltman. Fabricating the Antique: Neoclacissism in Britain, 1760-1800. xii+256 pages, 86 illustrations, 5 colour plates. 2006. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 0-226-11396-5 hardback $48 & £30.50.
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Scandinavia - Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson & Lena Holmquist Olausson. The oriental mounts from Birkas garrison: an expression of warrior rank and status (Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien Antikvarist arkiv 81). 102 pages, numerous illustrations. 2006. Stockholm; Almqvist & Wiskell; 91-7402-358-6 paperback SEK193. - Claus Feveile (ed.). Ribe Studier. Det Aeldste Ribe: Udgravninger pa nordsiden af Ribe Å 1984-2000. 2 volumes, summaries in English (Jysk Arkeologisk Selskab Skrifter 51). 762 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations, tables. 2006. Hojberg: Jysk Arkeologisk Selskab; 87-88415-33-3 hardback Dkr. 500.
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Second and paperback editions, translations - Bruce G. Trigger. A History of Archaeological Thought. Second edition. xx+710 pages, 50 illustrations. 2006 (first edition 1990). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 9787-0-521-84076-7 hardback £50 & $90; 978-0-521-60049-1 paperback £19.99 & $31.99. - Marc Van De Mieroop. A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC. xxii+342 pages, 55 illustrations, 3 tables, Second edition 2007 (first published in 2004). Malden (MA), Oxford & Victoria: Blackwell; 978-1405-1491-05 hardback£60, $84.95 & AUS$198; 978-1405-149112 paperback £18.99, $34.95 & AUS$49.50. - Peter A. Clayton. Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. 224 pages, 350 b&w & colour illustrations. First paperback edition 2006 (first published in hardback in 1994). London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-28628-9 paperback £14.95. - Françoise Dunand & Roger Lichtenberg translated by David Lorton Mummies and death in Ancient Egypt (first published in 1998 as Les momies et la mort en Egypte by Errance, Paris). xvi+234 pages, 255 illustrations. 2006. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press; 978-0-8014-4472-2 hardback $39.95 & £22.95. - Stuart Munro-Hay. The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant: The True History of the Tablets of Moses. xii+276 pages, 11 illustrations. Paperback edition 2006 (first published in hardback in 2005). London: I.B. Tauris; 978-1-84511-248-6 paperback £12.99
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