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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Shadows of a Northern Past: Rock Carvings in Bohuslän and Østfold
John Coles
Reviewed by Andrew J. Lawson
A Record in Stone: the Study of Australia's Flaked Stone Artefacts
Simon Holdaway and Nicola Stern
Reviewed by Harry Allen (University of Auckland)
African Archaeology
David W. Phillipson
Reviewed by Anthony Sinclair (University of Liverpool)
Discovering Dorothea: the Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate
Karolyn Shindler
Reviewed by Miles Russell (Bournemouth University)
Inhabiting Çatalhöyük: Reports From the 1995-99 Seasons
Members of the Çatalhöyük Team
Reviewed by Stuart Campbell (University of Manchester)
Investigating Upper Mesopotamian Households Using Micro-Archaeological Techniques
Lynn Rainville
Reviewed by Roger Matthews (Institute of Archaeology UCL)
Long Barrows of the Cotswolds and Surrounding Areas
Timothy Darvill
Reviewed by Alasdair Whittle (Cardiff University)
Monuments Megalithique De Grande-Bretagne Et Däirland
Chris Scarre
Reviewed by David Tomalin (University of Southampton)
South Uist: Archaeology and History of a Hebridean Island
Michael Parker Pearson, Niall M. Sharples and Jim Symonds
Reviewed by Alison Sheridan (National Museums of Scotland)
The Materiality of Stone; Explorations in Landscapes of Phenomenology: 1
Christopher Tilley
Reviewed by Catriona Gibson (Wessex Archaeology)
Determining the Antiquity of Dog Origins: Canine domestication as a model for the consilience between molecular genetics and archaeology
Michelle J. Raisor
Reviewed by Juliet Clutton-Brock (Editor, Journal of Zoology)
Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic
Douglass W. Bailey
Reviewed by Bisserka Gaydarska (Durham)
Safonfok, Kosrae: Emergence of Complexity - an Archaeological Investigation of Prehistoric Settlement
Felicia Beardsley
Reviewed by Huw Barton (University of Leicester)
The Prehistoric Rock Art of Kilmartin
Stan Beckensall
Reviewed by K. Boughey
Warfare, Violence and Slavery in Prehistory
Edited by M. Parker Pearson and I.J.N.Thorpe
Reviewed by Alex Gibson (University of Bradford)
Lbk Dialogues. Studies in the Formation of the Linear Pottery Culture
Edited by A. Lukes and M. Zvelebil
Reviewed by John Chapman (Durham University)
Prehistoric Flintwork
Chris Butler
Reviewed by Alan Saville (National Museums of Scotland)
The Monumental Cemeteries of Prehistoric Europe
Magdalena S. Midgley
Reviewed by John Chapman (Durham University)
Cornwall in Prehistory
Toni-Maree Rowe
Reviewed by Jacqueline A. Nowakowski (Cornwall County Council)
Cronología Absoluta Y Periodizaciän de la Prehistoria de las Islas Baleares
Rafael Micó Pérez
Reviewed by Bob Chapman (University of Reading)