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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The Megaliths of Northern Europe
Magdalena S. Midgley
Reviewed by Joshua Pollard (University of Bristol)
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Mapping Ancient Landscapes in Northamptonshire
Alison Deegan and Glenn Foard
Reviewed by Bob Bewley
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Prehistoric Coastal Communities: The Mesolithic in Western Britain
Martin Bell
Reviewed by Robert Van de Noort (University of Exeter)
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The Late Neolithic Tell Settlement at Polgár-Csõszhalom, Hungary. The 1957 Excavation
Eszter Bánffy and Ida Bognár-Kutzián
Reviewed by John Chapman (Durham University)
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Britain's Oldest Art. The Ice Age Cave Art of Creswell Crags.
Paul Bahn and Paul Pettitt
Reviewed by Andrew J. Lawson (Salisbury)
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Hambledon Hill, Dorset. Excavation and Survey of a Neolithic Monument Complex and its Surrounding Landscape
Roger Mercer and Frances Healy
Reviewed by Richard Bradley (University of Reading)
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Le Sanctuaire Secret des Bisons. Il y a 14,000 ans, dans la Caverne du Tuc d'Audoubert
Robert Begouen, Carole Fritz, Gilles Tosello, Jean Clottes, Andreas Pastoors and Francois Faist
Reviewed by Andrew J. Lawson (Salisbury)
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The Early Neolithic on the Great Hungarian Plain. Investigations of the Körös Culture Site of Ecse
Edited by Alasdair Whittle
Reviewed by John Chapman (Durham University)
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Monuments in the Landscape
Edited by Paul Rainbird
Reviewed by Mark Bowden (English Heritage)
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Pre-Columbian Jamaica
P. Allsworth-Jones
Reviewed by Peter Drewett (University of Sussex)
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Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria: The Archaeology of Landscape Revisited
Edited by Matthew Fitzjohn
Reviewed by Robert Leighton (School of History, Classics and Archaeology University of Edinburgh)
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Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists In Pre-War Britain
Adam Stout
Reviewed by Mile Russell (Centre for Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage Bournemouth University)
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Feasting and Social Complexity in Later Iron Age East Anglia
Sarah Ralph
Reviewed by James Morris (Archaeological Solutions)
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Histories of Archaeology: a Reader in the History of Archaeology
Edited by Tim Murray and Christopher Evans
Reviewed by Christopher Tilley (Department of Anthropology, University College London)
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Providia-Solinstata Prehistoric Salt-Production Center. The 2005-2007 Excavation Seasons
Edited by Vassil Nikolov
Reviewed by Bisserka Gaydarska
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The First Africans: African Archaeology from the Earliest Toolmakers to the Most Recent Foragers
Lawrence Barham and Peter Mitchell
Reviewed by Judith Sealy (Department of Archaeology University of Cape Town)
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Bright Blades and Red Metal: Essays on North Italian Prehistoric Metalwork
Mark Pearce
Reviewed by Stuart Needham
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Changing Perspectives on the First Millennium BC: Proceedings of the Iron Age Research Student Semin
Edited by Oliver Davis, Niall Sharples and Kate Waddington
Reviewed by Tom Moore (Durham University)
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Chalkland: an archaeology of Stonehenge and its region
Andrew Lawson
Reviewed by Timothy Darvill (Bournemouth University)
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Finding Time for the Old Stone Age: a History of Palaeolithic Archaeology and Quaternary Geology in Britain, 1860-1960
A. O'Connor
Reviewed by Rob Hosfield (Dept. of Archaeology, University of Reading)
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