Volume 89
Number 343
February 2015
Editorial Research
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A future of archaeology Koji Mizoguchi
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Death by twins: a remarkable case of dystocic childbirth in Early Neolithic Siberia Angela R. Lieverse, Vladimir Ivanovich Bazaliiskii & Andrzej W. Weber
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Cleaning the dead: Neolithic ritual processing of human bone at Scaloria Cave, Italy John Robb, Ernestine S. Elster, Eugenia Isetti, Christopher J. Kn¨usel, Mary Anne Tafuri & Antonella Traverso
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Natural and artificial colours: the megalithic monuments of Brittany Primitiva Bueno Ram´ırez, Rodrigo de Balb´ın Behrmann, Luc Laporte, Philippe Gou´ezin, Florian Cousseau, Rosa Barroso Bermejo, Antonio Hernanz Gismero, Mercedes Iriarte Cela & Laurent Quesnel
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Life and death in the Neolithic variscite mines at Gav`a (Barcelona, Spain) Ferran Borrell, Josep Bosch & Tona Maj´o
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Mursi ox modification in the Lower Omo Valley and the interpretation of cattle rock art in Ethiopia Timothy Insoll, Timothy Clack & Olirege Rege
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From bodies to bones: death and mobility in the Lake Titicaca basin, Bolivia Scott C. Smith & Maribel P´erez Arias
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To set before the king: residential mural painting at Xultun, Guatemala William Saturno, Heather Hurst, Franco Rossi & David Stuart
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Ritualised craft production at the Hopewell periphery: new evidence from the 137 Appalachian Summit Alice P. Wright & Erika Loveland
Method Fragmenting times: interpreting a Bayesian chronology for the Late Neolithic 154 occupation of C ¸ atalh¨oy¨uk East, Turkey Arkadiusz Marciniak, Marek Z. Bara´nski, Alex Bayliss, Lech Czerniak, Tomasz Goslar, John Southon & R.E. Taylor Cooperative harvesting of aquatic resources and the beginning of pottery production in 177 north-eastern North America Karine Tach´e & Oliver E. Craig
Debate Representations of oxhide ingots in Scandinavian rock art: the sketchbook of a Bronze 191 Age traveller? Johan Ling & Zofia Stos-Gale Opening the Bronze Age world Flemming Kaul
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Oxhide ingots in the European North? Anthony Harding
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Reflections on Bronze Age travels Kalle Sognnes
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Here, there and everywhere? Dirk Brandherm
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Travellers’ tales and science-based archaeology: ex oriente lux revisited A. Bernard Knapp
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Final response and future directions Johan Ling & Zofia Stos-Gale
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Reviews Review articles A Bohemian paradise J.V.S. MEGAW reviewing
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The prehistory of Bohemia 5. The Early Iron Age—the Hallstatt period. Natalie Venclov´a (ed.) with M. Chryt´acˇek, P. Drda, D. Kouteck´y, J. Mich´alek & V. Vokolek The prehistory of Bohemia 6. The Late Iron Age—the La T`ene period. Natalie Venclov´a (ed.) with P. Drda, J. Mich´alek, J. Militk´y, V. Salaˇc., P. Sankot & V. Vokolek The prehistory of Bohemia 7. The Roman Iron Age and the Migration period. Vladim´ır Salaˇc (ed.) with E. Droberjar, J. Militk´y, J. Musil & K. Urbanov´a Figurines, materiality and social life in ancient Mesoamerica KATINA T. LILLIOS reviewing
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Material relations: the marriage figurines of Prehispanic Honduras Julia A. Hendon, Rosemary A. Joyce & Jeanne Lopiparo Maya figurines: intersections between state and household Christina T. Halperin Andean exceptionalism and the new Inka scholarship R. ALAN COVEY reviewing
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Inca sacred space: landscape, site, and symbol in the Andes Frank Meddens, Katie Willis, Colin McEwan & Nicholas Branch (ed.) The Incas Terence N. D’Altroy Ancient Inca Alan L. Kolata Book reviews Robin Dennell & Martin Porr (ed.) South Asia, Australia and the search for human origins 235 PETER BELLWOOD Knut Helskog Communicating with the world of beings. The World Heritage rock art sites in Alta, Arctic Norway PAUL G. BAHN
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Anthony Harding & Valerii Kavruk (ed.) Explorations in salt archaeology in the Carpathian zone JOHN CHAPMAN
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Michel Mouton & J´er´emie Schiettecatte In the desert margins. The settlement process in ancient South and East Arabia PAUL A. YULE
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Judith S. McKenzie, Joseph A. Greene, Andres T. Reyes, Catherine S. Alexander, Deirdre 240 G. Barrett, Brian Gilmore, John F. Healey, Margaret O’Hea, Nadine Schibille, Stephan G. Schmid, Wilma Wetterstrom & Sara Whitcher Kansa The Nabataean temple at Khirbet et-Tannur, Jordan, volume 1. Architecture and religion. Final report on Nelson Glueck’s 1937 excavation RUBINA RAJA Dominic Ingemark Glass, alcohol and power in Roman Iron Age Scotland JAMES BRUHN
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Davide Zori & Jesse Byock (ed.) Viking archaeology in Iceland. Mosfell Archaeological Project JAMES BARRETT
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Andrew Reynolds & Leslie Webster (ed.) Early medieval art and archaeology in the northern world. Studies in honour of James Graham-Campbell JANE HAWKES
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Rosemary Cramp The Hirsel excavations VICTORIA WHITWORTH
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Alfredo Gonz´alez-Ruibal An archaeology of resistance: materiality and time in an African borderland PETER VAN DOMMELEN
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Koji Mizoguchi The archaeology of Japan: from the earliest rice farming villages to the rise of 248 the state MARK J. HUDSON Gyles Iannone (ed.) The great Maya droughts in cultural context: case studies in resilience and vulnerability LISA J. LUCERO
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New Book Chronicle Chris Scarre & Robert Witcher
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Antiquity Project Gallery
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Project Gallery on the website (http://antiquity.ac.uk, click on Antiquity+) Marathousa 1: a new Middle Pleistocene archaeological site in Greece Eleni Panagopoulou, Vangelis Tourloukis, Nicholas Thompson, Athanassios Athanassiou, Georgia Tsartsidou, George E. Konidaris, Domenico Giusti, Panagiotis Karkanas & Katerina Harvati New evidence for international trade in Bronze Age central Anatolia: bullae at K¨ultepeKanesh ¨ urk Fikri Kulako˘glu & G¨uzel Ozt¨ First evidence for pre-Columbian raised fields in Central America Juan G. Mart´ın, Tom´as Mendiz´abal, Rainer Schreg, Dolores Piperno & Richard G. Cooke The first salt production workshop discovered in the Manchurian Plain (Yinjiawopu site, Jilin, China) Pauline Sebillaud, Xiaoxi Liu & Lixin Wang Gogmagog Peter Meadows A cost-effective and safe method for storing small lithic artefacts Kumar Akhilesh & Shanti Pappu