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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Longbridge Deverill Cow Down. An Early Iron Age Settlement in West Wiltshire
Sonia Chadwick Hawkes with Christopher Hawkes. Edited by Lisa Brown.
Reviewed by Niall Sharples (Department of Archaeology and Conservation, Cardiff University)
The Mesolithic of the Kennet Valley
Roy Froom
Reviewed by Phil Harding (Wessex Archaeology)
Enclosing The Neolithic: Recent Stuides in Britain and Europe
Edited by A. Gibson
Reviewed by Alasdair Whittle (Department of Archaeology and Conservation, Cardiff University)
Reflections on the Past: Essays in Honour of Frances Lynch
Edited by William J. Britnell and Robert J. Silvester
Reviewed by Frances Griffith (Exeter, Devon)
The Idea of Order: the Circular Archetype in Prehistoric Europe
Richard Bradley
Reviewed by Alex Gibson (University of Bradford)
Warfare and Violence in the Iron Age Of Southern France
Mags McCartney
Reviewed by Colin Haselgrove (University of Leicester)
Neanderthals In Wales: Pontnewydd and the El Wy Valley Caves
Edited by Stephen Aldhouse-Green, Rick Peterson and Elizabeth A. Walker
Reviewed by John McNabb (University of Southampton)
Prehistoric Materialities: Becoming Material in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland
Andrew Meirion Jones
Reviewed by Anwen Cooper (Oxford University)
The Human Past. World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies
Edited by Chris Scarre
Reviewed by Leendert P. Louwe Kooijmans (Leiden University)
Background to Beakers: Inquiries into Regional Cultural Backgrounds of the Bell Beaker Complex
Edited by H. Fokkens and F. Nicolis
Reviewed by Alex Gibson (University of Bradford)
From Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in South Uist
Edited by Mike Parker Pearson
Reviewed by Kenneth Brophy (University of Glasgow)
Is There a British Chalcolithic?: People, Place and Polity in the Late 3rd Millennium
Edited by M.J. Allen, J. Gardiner and A. Sheridan
Reviewed by Dave Field
Jade. Grandes haches alpines du Néolithique européen,. Ve au IVe millénaires av. J.-C
P. Pétrequin, S. Cassen, M. Errera, L. Klassen, A. Sheridan et A.- M. Pétrequin
Reviewed by Peter Topping (Newcastle University)
Life in Copper Age Britain
Julian Heath
Reviewed by Alex Gibson (University of Bradford)
The Archaeometallurgy of Iron
Edited by Jiří Hošek, Henry Cleere and L̕ubomír Mihok
Reviewed by David Dungworth (English Heritage)
Two Iron Age 'Aggregated' Settlements in the Environs of Leicester. Excavations at Beaumont Leys
J. Thomas
Reviewed by Ann Woodward
An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and The Prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland
Andrew Meirion Jones, Da Vina Freedman, Blaze O'Connor , Hugo Lamdin-Whymark*, Richard Tipping and Aaron Watson
Reviewed by Alison Sheridan (National Museums Scotland)
Dynamics of Neolithisation in Europe: Studies in Honour of Andrew Sherratt
Edited by Angelos Hadjikoumis, Erick Robinson and Sarah Viner
Reviewed by Fraser Sturt (University Of Southampton)
Hoards, Hounds and Helmets. A Conquest-period Ritual Site at Hallaton, Leicestershire
Vicki Score
Reviewed by Adrian M. Chadwick (Northamptonshire Archaeology)
Studies in the Final Palaeolithic Settlement of the Great European Plain
Edited by M. Kobusiewicz and J. Kabacinski
Reviewed by Paul Pettitt (University Of Sheffield)