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Antiquity
Antiquity is a quarterly journal that was founded in 1927. The publication issues peer-reviewed articles on world archaeology. Antiquity is published by Antiquity Publications, Ltd. It is owned by the Antiquity Trust. Headquarters is in York, United Kingdom. The journal is edited by Martin Carver, emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of York. It is also produced by members of the directors of the Antiquity Publications, Ltd., including Chris Evans, Roger Guthrie, Martin Millett, Nicky Milner, Cameron Petrie, Mike Pitts and Andrew Rogerson
Articles from Vol. 78, No. 302, December
Also Received
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JANICE KAMRIN. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs: a practical guide. 256 pages, b&w & colour figures. 2004. New York (NY): Harry N. Abrams; 0-8109-4961-X $35, CAN$52.50, 22.50 [pounds sterling]. FRANCOISE DUNAND & CHRISTIANE ZIVIE-COCHE (tr....
Ancient Roads and GPS Survey: Modelling the Amarna Plain
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Introduction The construction of the city now known as Tell el-Amarna was begun in the fifth year of the reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaten (c. 1350 BC) (Kemp 1989). The city remained the centre of power during Akhenaten's reign, but upon his death...
... and Exponents
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JOHN CHERRY, CHRIS SCARRE & STEPHEN SHENNAN (ed.). Explaining social change., studies in honour of Colin Renfrew. xi+239 pages, 87 figures, 26 tables. 2004. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 1-902937-23-6 (ISSN 1363-1349)...
An Early Eighteenth-Century Denture from Rochester, Kent, England
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Introduction The denture (Figure 1) was discovered in a pit lined with chalk blocks which was excavated in 1998 at Boley Hill, Rochester, Kent by Alan Ward for Canterbury Archaeological Trust. The pit was identified as a disused latrine, and in...
Animal Bones (ICAZ)
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SHARYN JONES O'DAY, WIM VAN NEER & ANTON ERVYNCK (ed.). Behaviour behind bones: the zooarchaeology of ritual, religion, status and identity (Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002)....
An Unfinished Temple at the Classic Maya Centre of Aguateca, Guatemala
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Introduction Large temple pyramids were central elements of every city of the Classic Maya (AD 250900). The construction of temples representing the dominant ideology was probably one of the most important projects that the ruler and court officials...
Asia
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GREGORY L. POSSEHL. The Indus civilization: a contemporary perspective. xi+276 pages, 192 figures, 46 tables. 2002. Walnut Creek (CA): Altamira; 0-7591-0171-X hardback $80, 07591-0172-8 paperback $29.95. A succinct but thorough and comprehensive...
Britain & Ireland: Report & Analysis, Evocation & Inspiration
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On Britain, this quarter, we have received both technical site reports and, from Tempus, syntheses on districts for the amateur aficionado. Starting with the latter, we find, on one hand, two accounts arranged around conventional narratives stretching,...
Culture and Its Origins
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DEAN FALK. Braindance: new discoveries about human origins and brain evolution (2nd ed.). xi+253 pages, 46 figures. 2004. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 0-8130-2738-1 paperback $19.95. STANLEY I. GREENSPAN, MD & STUART G. SHANKER,...
Editorial
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Bruce Trigger's Understanding Early Civilisations is a book that every archaeologist will eventually read, like Gordon Childe's Man makes himself. Not that I have read it all: at 688 pages the only academics able to do this quickly will be those who...
Exhibitions: Exotica and Exigencies
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Two exhibitions, in England and France, are showing different ways to promote interest in archaeology and history from regions afar. Sudan: ancient treasures is a lavish and elegant show at the British Museum, London. In Auch, Le crepuscule des dieux,...
Neolithic Land-Use and Environmental Degradation: A Study from the Western Isles of Scotland
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Introduction The remarkable survival of partially waterlogged remains of a Neolithic settlement on an islet (Eilean Domhnuill) in Loch Olabhat, North Uist, Scotland, has allowed an integrated study of the inhabitants' exploitation of their environment....
New Evidence and Revised Interpretations of Early Agriculture in Highland New Guinea
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Introduction Several areas in the Highlands of New Guinea, in particular the Upper Wahgi Valley, are significant for interpreting the emergence of agriculture during the early to mid-Holocene. Of these sites, Kuk Swamp (hereafter referred to as...
Palaeogeography around the Harappan Port of Lothal, Gujarat, Western India
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Introduction Lothal, one of the most fascinating remnants of the ancient Harappan civilisation, covers an area of 64752[m.sup.2] (Rao 1985). The essential components of the town are a dockyard 37m in length and 21.8m wide to the west of which are...
Power and Place: Agency, Ecology, and History in the American Bottom, Illinois
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Is ecology or agency the principal imperative of the formation of complex societies? Using new survey data, the author shows how both interest in the development of the riverside settlement area of the American Bottom and how the different modern histories...
Reassessing the Chronology of Biblical Edom: New Excavations and [sup.14]C Dates from Khirbat En-Nahas (Jordan)
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Introduction The archaeology of the Iron Age (c. 1200 - 586 BC) in the southern Levant (Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan and adjacent areas) has been fraught with controversy ever since its nineteenth century beginnings primarily because...
Retrospect: The Innovative and Gregarious Viking Scholar and Former Director of the British Museum Contemplates His Travels in the Changing Landscape of Early Medieval Europe
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I have been asked to look back at my archaeological life--a difficult concept in which one is tempted to string together a series of anecdotes about archaeologists one has known. And I do have personal recollections and anecdotes about many--as far...
The Early Development of Music. Analysis of the Jiahu Bone Flutes
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Introduction It seems quite clear that no known human cultures lack music (Brown et al. 2000), but there is a dearth of archaeological evidence for musical development in prehistoric times. The earliest musical instruments ever found are the bone...
The Making and Meaning of a Mississippian Axe-Head Cache
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Researchers in eastern North America have previously associated the caching or hoarding of large quantities of craft objects with the centralised economies of Mississippian peoples (see Brown 1996; Cobb 2000; Muller 1997; Pauketat 1997a, b). While...
The Practice: Methods and Ethics
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M.J. DAVIS, K.L.A. GDANIEC, M. BRICE & L. WHITE with C.A.I. FRENCH & R. THORNE. Mitigation of construction impact on archaeological remains. xii+91 pages, 28 figures, 4 tables, CD-ROM. 2004. n.p.: English Heritage; 1-901992-41-1 paperback 6.95...
Vegetation Disturbance and Human Population in Colombia-A Regional Reconstruction
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Introduction Students of environmental change world wide are increasingly concerned with the effects of human intervention on vegetation, especially since 8000 BC (the Holocene). Numerous palaeoecological investigations reconstructing vegetation...
