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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedEvidence for prehistoric salt production in Britain has been confined to the Bronze and Iron Ages. This article presents new evidence for Early Neolithic (3800-3700 BC) salt-working at Street House, Loftus, in north-east...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedPeter Attema & Remco Bronkhorst (ed.). 2020. The people and the state: material culture, social structure, and political centralisation in central Italy (800-450 BC) from the perspective of ancient Crustumerium (Rome,...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedScholars have long hypothesised that the central courts of the elaborate Minoan complexes of Crete (c. 1950-1450 BC) were used for ritualised, communal gatherings. New archaeological evidence from the court centre at the...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedA. Schnapp. 2020. Une histoire universelle des mines: des origines aux lumieres. Paris: Editions du Seuil; 978-2-02-128250-4 eBook 49.99 [euro]. The history of archaeology, largely written for archaeologists by...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedCaption: Frontispiece 1. Waste pit with misfired pottery vessels, under excavation during 2020 in the Altona district of Hamburg, Germany. The excavations, in advance of development of the site, have revealed two pits...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedThe history of agricultural terraces remains poorly understood due to problems in dating their construction and use. This has hampered broader research on their significance, limiting knowledge of past agricultural...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedThis list includes all books received between 1 January 2021 and 28 February 2021. Those featuring at the beginning of New Book Chronicle have, however, not been duplicated in this list. The listing of a book in this...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedHermann Gorbahn. 2020. Pernil Alto: an agricultural village of the Middle Archaic period in southern Peru (Forschungen zur Archaologie Aufiereuropaischer Kulturen Band 17). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz; 978-3-447-11417-2...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedThe study of prehistoric textile production requires the excavation of sites with exceptional organic preservation. Here, the authors focus on thread production using evidence from two fourth-millennium BC pre-Alpine...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedBarrows are a prominent feature of Britain's Bronze Age landscape. While they originated as burial monuments, they also appear to have acquired other roles in prehistory. British prehistorians, however, have been...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedThe human remains recovered from the famous Bjerringhoj Viking Age burial in Denmark have been missing for more than 100 years. Recently, an assemblage of bones resembling those recorded at Bjerringhoj--some with...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedWhile environmental reconstruction has been a staple in the study of past societies, underused tools from ecology, such as food webs, can enable a more thorough understanding of the human place within ecosystems. Drawing...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedMarion Forest (ed.). 2020. El Palacio: historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoacan, Mexico (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 53). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-7896-9797-1 Open...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedIn the novel Cold earth a group of archaeologists on fieldwork in a remote part of Greenland find themselves isolated after a global pandemic severs communications with the wider world. (1) At first, the lack of news...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedClive Gamble. 2021. Making deep history: zeal, perseverance, and the time revolution of 1859. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-198870-69-2 hardback 25 [pounds sterling]. From our vantage point in 2021 we can...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedBertille Lyonnet & Nadezhda Dubova (ed.). 2020. The world of the Oxus Civilization. Abingdon & New York: Roudedge; 978-1-138-72287-3 hardback 190 [pounds sterling]. A generation ago the Oxus Civilization did not exist...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedThe prehistoric peopling of the Tibetan Plateau is a contentious issue, with most archaeologists proposing that the first occupants migrated into the region from the north and the north-east, including from the vast area...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedAleksander K. Konopatskii. 2021. Aleksei P. Okladnikov: the great explorer of the past. Volume II: a biography of a Soviet archaeologist (1960s-1980s). Translated by Richard L. Bland & Yaroslav V. Kuzmin. Oxford:...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedThe numerous review volumes that the Antiquity office receives encompass a diverse range of archaeological research and a broad chronological and geographic spread. NBC represents a small selection of the varied new...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 381) Peer-ReviewedNorth-western Arabia is marked by thousands of prehistoric stone structures. Of these, the monumental, rectilinear type known as mustatils has received only limited attention. Recent fieldwork in AlUla and Khaybar...