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• Rose Ferraby & Martin Millett. 2020. Isurium Brigantum: an archaeological survey of Roman Aldborough.

  Author:Michael FulfordFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20211,008 words Book review 1550LRose Ferraby & Martin Millett. 2020. Isurium Brigantum: an archaeological survey of Roman Aldborough (Research Reports of the Society of Antiquaries of London 81). London: Society of Antiquaries of London;...

• Ways of death: cremation and belief in first-millennium AD Ireland.

  Authors:Patrick Gleeson and Rowan McLaughlinFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20216,248 words Article 1280LArchaeological studies of belief, ideology and commemorative strategies in Ireland, and elsewhere in Europe, neglect the continuation of cremation far beyond the supposed fifth-century AD threshold for the shift to...

• Katarzyna Mikulska & Jerome A. Offner (ed.). 2019. Indigenous graphic communication systems: a theoretical approach.

  From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2021493 words Article 1410LKatarzyna Mikulska & Jerome A. Offner (ed.). 2019. Indigenous graphic communication systems: a theoretical approach. Louisville: University Press of Colorado; 978-1-60732-876-6 hardback $93. Mikulska and Offner's...

• Koji Mizoguchi & Claire Smith. 2019. Global social archaeologies: making a difference in a world of strangers.

  Author:Helaine SilvermanFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2021811 words Article 1440LKoji Mizoguchi & Claire Smith. 2019. Global social archaeologies: making a difference in a world of strangers. London: Routledge; 978-1-62958-307-5 paperback 25 [pounds sterling]. The World Archaeological Congress...

• The heritage of the Second World War: bombing in the forests and wetlands of the Kozle Basin.

  Authors:Jan M. Waga and Maria FajerFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20215,213 words Article 1350LThe Kozle Basin in Poland was radically transformed by aerial bombardment during the Second World War. Today, the region has approximately 6000 well-preserved bomb craters with diameters ranging from 5-15m and depths...

• Peter Eeckhout (ed.). 2020. Archaeological interpretations: symbolic meaning within Andes prehistory.

  Author:Elizabeth LeclercFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20211,026 words Article 1420LPeter Eeckhout (ed.). 2020. Archaeological interpretations: symbolic meaning within Andes prehistory. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-81306-644-8 hardback $95. This ten-chapter volume takes on one of...

• Objectscapes: a manifesto for investigating the impacts of object flows on past societies.

  Authors:Martin Pitts and Miguel John VersluysFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20216,042 words Article 1420LWorld history is often framed in terms of flows of people: humans coming 'out of Africa', the spread of farmers in the Holocene, the disruptions of the 'Sea Peoples', or 'colonisation' by Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans....

• Books received.

  From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2021402 words Bibliography, Brief ... 630LThis list includes all books received between 1 November 2020 and 31 December 2020. Those featuring at the beginning of New Book Chronicle have, however, not been duplicated in this list. The listing of a book in this...

• Robert Hosfield. 2020. The earliest Europeans, a year in the life: seasonal survival strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic.

  Author:Robert C. PowerFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2021978 words Article 1470LRobert Hosfield. 2020. The earliest Europeans, a year in the life: seasonal survival strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic. Oxford: Oxbow; 9781785707612 paperback 24.99 [pounds sterling]. Robert Hosfield's monograph...

• Combining sedentism and mobility in the Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition of northern China: the site of Shuidonggou locality 12.

  Authors:Mingjie Yi, Xing Gao, Fuyou Chen, Shuwen Pei, and Huimin WangFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20215,374 words Article 1400LScholars have long debated when the Neolithic began in China. Neolithisation, however, is a process rather than an event. It is more realistic to investigate the timing and nature of the socio-economic trajectory from...

• The rock-cut churches of Lalibela and the cave church of Washa Mika'el: troglodytism and the Christianisation of the Ethiopian Highlands.

  Authors:Marie-Laure Derat, Claire Bosc-Tiesse, Antoine Garric, Romain Mensan, Framjois-Xavier Fauvelle, Yves Gleize, et al.From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20215,866 words Article 1440LThe monolithic churches of Lalibela are commonly regarded as evidence for the shift of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia from Aksum to the Ethiopian Highlands during the thirteenth century AD. Recent research, however,...

• Chrysanthi Gallou. 2019. Death in Mycenaean Laconia: a silent place.

  From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2021539 words Article 1430LChrysanthi Gallou. 2019. Death in Mycenaean Laconia: a silent place. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-78925-242-2 hardback 48 [pounds sterling]. Like Williams and Gregoricka's volume, Death in Mycenaean Laconia: a silent place...

• First encounters in the north: cultural diversity and gene flow in Early Mesolithic Scandinavia.

  Authors:Mikael A. Manninen, Hege Damlien, Jan Ingolf Kleppe, Kjel Knutsson, Anton Murashkin, Anja R. Niemi, et al.From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20216,089 words Article 1500LPopulation genetic studies often overlook the evidence for variability and change in past material culture. Here, the authors use a Mesolithic example to demonstrate the importance of integrating archaeological evidence...

• The materiality of COVID-19.

  Author:Robert WitcherFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20213,106 words Article 1570LThe effects of COVID-19 have been many and diverse. The global death toll is moving towards three million and most national economies have slipped into deep recession. The pandemic has also generated new types and uses...

• Bilet and the wider world: new insights into the archaeology of Islam in Tigray.

  Authors:Julien Loiseau, Simon Dorso, Yves Gleize, David Ollivier, Deresse Ayenachew, Hiluf Berhe, et al.From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20216,426 words Article 1330LRecent archaeological investigations in eastern Tigray, Ethiopia, have revealed extensive evidence for medieval Muslim communities. Although the settlement of Muslims near modern Kwiha was previously attested by...

• Material cosmopolitanism: the entrepot of Harlaa as an Islamic gateway to eastern Ethiopia.

  Authors:Timothy Insoll, Nadia Khalaf, Rachel MacLean, Hannah Parsons-Morgan, Nicholas Tait, Jane Gaastra, et al.From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20215,571 words Article 1360LThe investigation of Islamic archaeology in Ethiopia has until recently been neglected. Excavations at Harlaa, a large urban centre in eastern Ethiopia, are now beginning to redress this lack of research attention. By...

• Geoff Emberling & Suzanne Davis (ed.). 2019. Graffiti as devotion along the Nile and beyond.

  From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2021732 words Article 1610LGeoff Emberling & Suzanne Davis (ed.). 2019. Graffiti as devotion along the Nile and beyond. Ann Arbor (MI): The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; 978-0-9906623-9-6 paperback $39. Continuing the theme of communication,...

• To the North and the South, through the Great Caucasus Mountains.

  Author:Paul D. WordsworthFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20211,685 words Book review 1660LEberhard Sauer. 2020. Dariali: the 'Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from antiquity to the age of the Huns and the Middle Ages (The British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monographs Series VI: 2 Volumes)....

• New Book Chronicle.

  Author:Claire NesbittFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2021188 words Brief article 1470LThis NBC considers a selection of volumes that speak to one of humanity's most significant themes: how we express ourselves, in both life and death. In this issue, we learn how the dead were represented in Bronze Age...

• 'COVID waste' and social media as method: an archaeology of personal protective equipment and its contribution to policy.

  Authors:John Schofield, Estelle Praet, Kathy A. Townsend, and Joanna VinceFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20215,779 words Article 1460LThe COVID-19 pandemic is creating a viral archive--an archaeological record of history in the making. One aspect of this archive is increased environmental pollution, not least through the discarded facemasks and gloves...