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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Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice
Andrew Jones
Reviewed by Anthony Harding (University of Exeter)
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The Land of Boudica: Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk
John Davies
Reviewed by Mary Davis (National Museum of Wales)
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A "Splendid Idiosyncrasy": Prehistory at Cambridge 1915-50
Pamela Jane Smith, with a foreword by Colin Renfrew
Reviewed by Derek Roe (University of Oxford)
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Beacons in the Landscape. The Hillforts of England and Wales
Ian Brown
Reviewed by Al Oswald (English Heritage)
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The Horse In Human History
P. Kelena
Reviewed by Jennifer Foster (University of Reading)
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Snails; Archaeology and Landscape Change
Paul Davies
Reviewed by Mike Allen (AEA: Allen Environmental Archaeology and Bournemouth University)
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The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia
Robin Dennell
Reviewed by Ryan Rabett (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge)
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The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology
Barry Cunliffe, Chris Gosden and Rosemary A. Joyce
Reviewed by Bob Chapman (University of Reading)
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Borderlands: the Archaeology of the Addenbrooke's Environs, South Cambridge
Christopher Evans with Duncan Mackay and Leo Webley
Reviewed by Jacqueline A. Nowakowski (Historic Environment, Cornwall Council)
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Monument, Memory and Myth: Use and Re-use of Three Bronze Age Round Barrows at Cossington, Leicester
John Thomas
Reviewed by Paul Garwood (University of Birmingham)
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Monumental Beginning: the Archaeology of the N4 Sligo Inner Relief Road
Ed Dahanher
Reviewed by Alex Gibson (University of Bradford)
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Near the Bend in the RIver: the Archaeology of the N25 Kilmacthomas Realignment
Penny Johnston, Jacinta Kiely and John Tierney
Reviewed by Alex Gibson (University of Bradford)
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Past Bodies: Body Centred Research in Archaeology
Edited by Dušan Borić and John Robb
Reviewed by Martin Smith (Bournemouth University)
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Time and Change: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on the Long Term in Hunter-Gatherer
Dimitra Papagianni, Robert Layton and Herbert Maschner
Reviewed by Paul Pettitt (University of Sheffield)
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Image and Audience: Rethinking Prehistoric Art
Richard Bradley
Reviewed by Professor Muiris O'Sullivan (School of Archaeology, University College Dublin)
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Image and Audience: Rethinking Prehistoric Art
Richard Bradley
Reviewed by Professor Muiris O'Sullivan (School of Archaeology, University College Dublin)
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Life in the Loop: Investigation of a Prehistoric and Romano-British Landscape at Biddenham Loop, Bedfordshire
Mike Luke
Reviewed by Frances Healy (Cardiff University)
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Målsnes 1: an Early Post-Glacial Site in Northern Norway
H.P. Blankholm
Reviewed by Graeme Warren (School of Archaeology, University College Dublin)
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People of the Long Barrows: Life and Death and Burial in the Earlier Neolithic
Martin Smith and Megan Brickley
Reviewed by David Field (English Heritage)
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The Dartmoor Reaves: Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions
Andrew Fleming
Reviewed by Lorraine Seymour (University of Sheffield)
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