Book reviews

The Prehistoric Society provides reviews of recently published books on all areas of prehistory. We handpick experts on relevant fields to produce thoughtful reviews that summarise content and present individual perspectives on new publications.

We also accept proposals for reviews. Please get in touch with our Reviews Editor via reviews@prehistoricsociety.org if you’d like to discuss an idea for a review. Guidelines for reviews can be found below.

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One Island, Many Voices: Bute, Archaeology and the Discover Bute Landscape Partnership Scheme
Edited by Paul R.J. Duffy
Reviewed by Frank O'Reilly (Member of the Prehistoric Society)
Pattern and Progress: Field Systems of the Second and Early First Millennia BC in Southern Britain
Judie English
Reviewed by Bob Johnston (University of Sheffield)
The Neolithic and Bronze Age Enclosures at Springfield Lyons, Essex
Nigel Brown and Maria Medlycott
Reviewed by Jane Sidell (English Heritage)
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic New Discoveries at the Edge Of Europe
J. Smyth
Reviewed by Daniela Hofmann (University of Hamburg, Germany)
The Life and Death of Querns: the Deposition and Use-contexts of Querns on South-Western England
Susan R. Watts
Reviewed by Simon Timberlake (Cambridge Archaeological Unit)
Building the Great Stone Circles of the North
Edited by C. Richards
Reviewed by Andrew Meirion Jones (University of Southampton)
Climate Change Archaeology: Building Resilience from Research in the World's Coastal Wetlands
R. Van De Noort
Reviewed by Benjamin Gearey (Department of Archaeology, University College Cork)
Östersjöns Skeppssättningar. Monument Och Mötesplatser Under Yngre Bronsålder
J. Wehlin
Reviewed by Flemming Kaul (The National Museum of Denmark)
The Emergent Past: A Relational Realist Archaeology of Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices
C. Fowler
Reviewed by Catherine J. Frieman (Australian National University)
The Neolithisation of Iran: The Formation of New Societies. Themes from the Ancient Near East
Edited by R.J. Matthews and F. Nashli
Reviewed by Barbara Helwing (German Archaeological Institute, Berlin)
Upper Palaeolithic Sites in the Lower Courses of the Rivers Colne and Wey
P. Jones
Reviewed by Rebecca Scott (The British Museum, London)
Visualising The Neolithic
Edited by A. Cochrane and A.M. Jones
Reviewed by George Nash (Spiru Haret University, Romania and Centro de Geociências, Portugal)
Die Schilde Der Bronzezeit in Nord-, West- und Zentraleuropa
Marion Uckelmann
Reviewed by Brendan O'Connor (Edinburgh)
Die Vorskythenzeitlichen Metalgefässe im Gebiet des Heutigen Rumänien
T. Soroceanu
Reviewed by Brendan O'Connor (Edinburgh)
Gewässerführer Ostdeutschland: Kanuführer für Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen und Sachsen
J. Martin
Reviewed by Brendan O'Connor (Edinburgh)
The Bronze Age in the Severn Estuary
Martin Bell
Reviewed by Alex Gibson (University of Bradford)
Cult, Religion and Pilgrimage Archaeological Investigations at the Neolithic and Bronze Age Monument
J. Harding
Reviewed by Nicholas Thomas (Newlyn, Cornwall)
Beyond the Horizon. Societies of the Channel and North Sea 3,500 Years Ago
Edited by Anne Lehoerff and with the collaboration of Jean Bourgeois, Peter Clark and Marc Talon
Reviewed by Robert Van de Noort (University of Exeter)
Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay and Other Marine Finds of the Bronze Age
Stuart Needham, Dave Parham and Catherine Frieman
Reviewed by Dirk Brandherm (School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology Queen's University Belfast)
Female Burial Traditions of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age
Alice Rogers
Reviewed by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (University of Cambridge)