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John Mulvaney & Johan Kamminga. Prehistory of Australia. xx+480 pages. b&w illustrations, 16 colour plates. 1999. Washington (DC): Smithsonian Institution Press; 1-56098-804-5 paperback £19.95 & $27.95.
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Book Reviews - Clive Orton. Sampling in archaeology. xi+261 pages, 71 figures, 1 2 tables. 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-56226-0 hardback f 4 5 & £16.95, 0-52156666-5 paperback US$74.95 & US$27.95.
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From prehistory to the Middle Ages in Western Europe - Malcolm F. Fry. Coití: logboats from Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland Archaeological Monograph 4). xi+152 pages, 101 figures, 8 plates, 4 tables. 2000. Antrim: Greystone; 0-85640-676-7 paperback £19.99. - Probleme der Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet Vol. 25. 326 pages, 186 figures, 29 tables. 1998. Wilhelmshaven: Niedersächsiches Institut für Historische Küstenforschung; 3-89598-629-1 (ISSN 0343-7965) hardback DM88. - Peter Halkon & Martin Millett(ed.). Rural settlement and industry: studies in the Iron Age and Roman archaeology of lowland east Yorkshire (Yorkshire Archaeological Report No. 4). xiv+245 pages, 122 figures, 93 tables. 1999. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society Roman Antiquities Section & East Riding Archaeological Society; 0-902122-90-8 paperback. - John Alexander & Joyce Pullinger. Roman Cambridge: excavations on Castle Hill 1956–1988 (Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 88). 268 pages, 320 figures, 1 table. 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society; ISSN 0309-3606 paperback £14.50. - José María Blázquez Martínez & María Paz García-Gelabert Pérez. Castulo, Jaén, España, II: el conjunto arquitectónico del Olivar (BAR International Series 789). 389 pages, 53 figures, 80 plates. 1999. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-841 71-106-3 paperback £59. - Ken Dowden. European paganism: the realities of cult from antiquity to the Middle Ages. xxi+367 pages, 36 figures. 2000. London: Routledge; 0-415-12034-9 hardback £45. - Nigel Pennick. Celtic sacred landscapes. 224 pages, b&w figures. 2000. London: Thames & Hudson; 0-500-28201-3 paperback £9.95.
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Michel Lorblanchet. La naissance de l'art: genèse de l'art préhistorique. 304 pages, b&w and colour figures. 1999. Paris: Errance; 2-87772-165-5 hardback FF290.
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British miscellanies - A.F. Harding (ed.). Experiment and design: archaeological studies in honour of John Coles. x+ 198 pages, 119 figures, 8 tables. 1999. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-900188-76-7 hardback £45. - Paul Pattison, David Feild & Stuart Ainsworth (ed.). Patterns of the past: essays in landscape archaeology for Christopher Taylor. xvi+ 143 pages, 56 figures, 1 table. 1999. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-900188-83-X paperback.
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Michael Hudson & Baruch A. Levine (ed.). Urbanization and land ownership in the ancient Near East. (Peabody Museum Bulletin 7). 495 pages, figures, tables. 1999. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology; 0-87365-957-0 paperback $35.
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Americas - Frank Salomon & Stuart B. Schwartz (ed.). South America (Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Vol. III) (2 vols), xxviii+2030 pages, 63 figures, 51 maps. 1999. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-33393-8 (the 2 vols), 0-521-63075-4 (Part 1), 0-521-63076-2 (Part 2) hardback £120. - Richard E.W. Adams & Murdo J. MacLeod (ed.). Mesoamerica (Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Vol. II) (2 vols), xxx+1026 pages, 99 figures, 17 tables, 51 maps. 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-65205-7 (the 2 vols), 0-521-35165-0 (Part 1), 0-521-65204-9 (Part 2) hardback £120 & US$175. - David R. Abbott. Ceramics and community organization among the Hohokam. xii+259 pages, 33 figures, 22 tables. 2000. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 0-8165-1936-6 hardback $40. - John Kantner & Nancy M. Mahoney (ed.). Great House communities across the Chacoan landscape (Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona no. 64). x+194 pages, 76 figures, 18 tables. 2000. Tucson (AZ); University of Arizona Press; 0-8165-2072-0 paperback $16.95. - Marcello A. Canuto & Jason Yaeger (ed.). The archaeology of communities: a New World perspective. xv+271 pages, 42 figures, 5 tables. London: Routledge; 0-415-22277-X hardback £60,0-415-22278-8 paperback £19.99. - Laura Laurencich Minelli (ed.). The Inca world: the development of pre-columbian Peru, AD 1000–1534 (tr. Andrew Ellis, James Bishop & Angelica Mercurio Ciampi). 240 pages, 232 figures, 112 colour photographs. 2000. Norman (OK): University of Oklahoma Press; 0-8061-3221-3 hardback $49.95. - Richardson Benedict Gill. The great Maya droughts: water, life, and death, xx+464 pages, 99 figures, 16 tables. 2000. Albuquerque (NM): University of New Mexico Press; 0-8263-2194-1 hardback $49.95. - Maria Isabel D’Agostino Fleming (ed.). Anais da I Reunião Internacional de Teoria Arqueológica na América do Sul (Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia Supplement 3). x+403 pages, figures, tables. 1999. Säo Paulo: São Paulo University; ISSN 0103-9709 paperback. - Patricia A. McAnany. Living with the ancestors: kinship and kingship in ancient Maya society, xvi+213 pages, 37 figures, 1 table. 2000. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 0-292-75236-9 paperback £11.50. - Frank Hamilton Cushing. Exploration of ancient key-dweller remains on the Gulf coast of Florida. xxii+120 pages, 11 figures. 2000. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 0-8130-1791-2 paperback $29.95. - Warren King Moorehead (ed.). Exploration of the Etowah Site in Georgia: the Etowah papers. xxxix+178 pages, 104 figures, 1 table. 2000. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 0-8130-1793-9 paperback $29.95.
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The Pacific - Yvonne Marshall, Andrew Crosby, Sepeti Matararaba & Shannon Wood. Sigatoka: the shifting sands of Fijian prehistory (University of Southampton Department of Archaeology Monograph 1). iv+128 pages, 42 b&w figures, 18 colour figures, 5 tables. 2000. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-84217-011-2 paperback. - Barry Vladimir Rolett. Hanamiai: prehistoric colonization and cultural change in the Marquesas Islands (East Polynesia) (Yale University Publications in Anthropology 81). xvi+277 pages, 80 figures, 45 tables. 1998. New Haven (CT): Yale University Department of Anthropology & Peabody Museum; 0-913516-18-1 paperback.
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Gisela Walberg. Excavations on the acropolis of Midea: results of the Greek-Swedish excavations—the excavations of the lower terraces 1985–1991. Vol. I:1 (text): 364 pages, figures, tables; vol. I:2 (plates): 7 pages, 145 plates. 1998. Stockholm: Paul Aström; 91-7916-039-5 hardback £48.
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Writing and power - Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt & Jean-Pierre Vernant. Ancestor of the West: writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece (tr. Teresa Lavender Fagan), xiii+192 pages, 8 figures. 2000. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 0-226-06715-7 hardback $25 & £17.50. - Jack Goody. The power of the written tradition. viii+192 pages. 2000. Washington (DC): Smithsonian Institution Press; 1-56098-987-4 hardback $45, 1-56098-962-9 paperback $18.95. - Armando Petrucci. Writing the dead: death and writing strategies in the Western tradition (tr. Michael Sullivan), xviii+163 pages, 64 illustrations. 1998. California (CA): Stanford University press; 0-8047-2859-3 hardback £25 & $35.
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Brenda Rohl & Stuart Needham. The circulation of metal in the British Bronze Age: the application of lead isotope analysis. (Occasional paper 102.) vi+234 pages, 41 figures, 36 graphs. 1998. London: British Museum Press; 0-86159-102-X (ISSN 0142-4815) paperback £22.
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Textbooks, handbooks and reference - Colin Renfrew & Paul Bahn. Archaeology: theories, methods and practice (3rd edition). 640 pages, figures. 2000. London: Thames & Hudson; 0-500-28147-5 paperback £19.95. - Margaret Cox & Simon Mays (ed.). Human osteology in archaeology and forensic science. xxi + 522 pages. 102 figures, 37 tables. 2000. Londen: Greenwich Medical Media; 1-841-100-463 hardback£39.50. - Mark Gillings & Aligia Wise. (ed.). GIS:guide to good practice. vii + 88 pages. figures, tables. 1999. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-900188-69-4 paperback £10. - Barbara Ann Kipfer. Encyclopedic dictionary of archaeology. xi + 708 pages. 2000. New York(NY): Kluwer Academic / Plenum; 0-306-46158-7 hardback $150.
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Book Reviews - Mike Parker Pearson & Niall Sharples with Jacqui Mulville & Helen Smith. Between land and sea: excavations at Dun Vulan, South Uist (Sheffield Environmental & Archaeological. Research Campaign in the Hebrides 3). xxvi+379 pages, 190 figures, 75 tables. 1999. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press; hardback 1-85075-880-8 £57.50.
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Lars Jørgensen & Anne Nørgård Jørgensen with Ulla Mannering & Claus Malmros (tr. John Hines). Nørre Sandegård Vest: a cemetery from the 6th–8th centuries on Bornholm (Nordiske Fortidsminder Serie B Volume 14). 243 pages, 149+52 figures. 1997. Copenhagen: Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab; hardback 87-87483-35-1 ISSN 0105-578X.
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New journal - Stratum Plus 1–6. 342,376,397,408,520, 374 pages, b&w figures. 1999. Kishinev: High Anthropological School; ISBN 9975-9559-0-8 US$18/issue.
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