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books
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September 2003:
Past Poetic: Archaeology in the Poetry of WB Yeats & Seamus Heaney by Christine Finn
Antiquaries: the Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Rosemary Sweet
Trethurgy: Excavations at Trethurgy Round, St Austell: Community & Status in Roman & Post-Roman Cornwall by Henrietta Quinnell
Urban Growth & the Medieval Church: Gloucester & Worcester by Nigel Baker & Richard Holt
Behaviour Behind Bones: the Zooarchaeology of Ritual, Religion, Status & Identity by Sharon Jones O'Day, Wim Van Neer & Anton Ervynck
Public Archaeology by Nick Merriman
The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Stafford vol IX: Burton-Upon-Trent by Institute of Historical Research
Archaeology, Ritual, Religion by Timothy Insoll
Charter Quay: the Archaeology of Kingston's Riverside by Wessex Archaeology
Melrose Abbey by Richard Fawcett & Richard Oram
Places of Special Virtue: Megaliths in the Neolithic Landscape of Wales by Vicki Cummings & Alasdair Whittle
Human Evolution Cookbook by Harold L Dibble, Dan Williamson & Brad M Evans
July 2003:
Bronze & the Bronze Age: Metalwork & Society in Britain c2500–800BC by Martyn Barber
Medieval Archaeology: Understanding Traditions & Contemporary Approaches by Christopher Gerrard
Voices in the Past: English Literature & Archaeology by John Hines
Excavations on Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth (1986–1999) by Simon Timberlake
Fiskerton. An Iron Age Timber Causeway with Iron Age & Roman Votive Offerings by Naomi Field & Mike Parker Pearson
Roman Carmarthen: Excavations 1978–1993 by Heather James
TRAC 2002: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Canterbury by Gillian Carr, Ellen Swift & Jake Weekes
Medieval Building Techniques by Günther Binding, trans Alex Cameron
Monastic Landscapes by James Bond
The Archaeology of Reformation by David Gaimster & Roberta Gilchrist
Barley, Malt & Ale in the Neolithic by Merryn Dineley
The Archaeology of Twentieth Century Tameside by Michael Nevell & John Walker
May 2004:
The Celts: Origins, Myths & Inventions by John Collis
Defying Rome: the Rebels of Roman Britain by Guy de la Bédoyère
Environmental Archaeology: Approaches, Techniques & Applications by Keith Wilkinson & Chris Stevens
Landscapes & Desire: Revealing Britain's Sexually Inspired Sites by Catherine Tuck & Alun Bull
Food, Culture & Identity in the Neolithic & Early Bronze Age by Mike Parker Pearson
Celts from Antiquity by Gillian Carr & Simon Stoddart and Megaliths from Antiquity by Tim Darvill & Caroline Malone
Life & Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda & its People by Alan K Bowman
The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Worthy Park, Kingsworthy by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes with Guy Grainger
Boundaries in Early Medieval Britain by David Griffiths, Andrew Reynolds & Sarah Semple
Sealed by Time: the Loss & Recovery of the Mary Rose by Peter Marsden
Piltdown Man: the Secret Life of Charles Dawson & the World's Greatest Archaeological Hoax by Miles Russell
Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott
March 2004:
Britain BC. Life in Britain & Ireland before the Romans by Francis Pryor
Pompeii. A Novel by Robert Harris
Anglo-Saxon Crafts by Kevin Leahy
Viking Weapons & Warfare by J Kim Siddorn
Glastonbury: Myth & Archaeology by Philip Rahtz & Lorna Watts
The Port of Medieval London by Gustav Milne
The City by the Pool by Michael J Jones, David Stocker & Alan Vince
Revealing the Buried Past by Chris Gaffney & John Gater
Essex Past & Present by Essex County Council
Seven Ages of Britain by Justin Pollard
The Complete Roman Army by Adrian Goldsworthy
Tracks & Traces: the Archaeology of the Channel Tunnel by Rail Link / Oxford Wessex Archaeology
January 2004:
Towers in the North: the Brochs of Scotland by Ian Armit
Offa's Dyke: History and Guide by David Hill & Margaret Worthington
Easter Island. A Novel by Jennifer Vanderbes and Among Stone Giants. The Life of Katherine Routledge and her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island
Henge Monuments of the British Isles by Jan Harding
November 2003
Figuring it Out by Colin Renfrew
After the Ice: a Global Human History 20,000–5,000BC by Steve Mithen
Early Medieval Settlements: the Archaeology of Rural Communities in North-West Europe AD400–900 by Helena Hamerow
September 2003
The Archaeology of Medieval London by Christopher Thomas
The Tower Menagerie by Daniel Hahn
The British Settlement of Brittany by Pierre-Roland Giot, Philippe Guigon & Bernard Merdrignac
Water Technology in the Middle Ages by Roberta J Magnusson
The Sandbach Crosses by Jane Hawkes
July 2003
A History of Childhood by Colin Heywood
The Cultural Landcape edited by Richard Kelly, Lesley Macinnes, David Thackray & Philip Whitbourne and Europe's Cultural Landscape edited by Graham Fairclough & Stephen Rippon
Roman Lincoln by MJ Jones
Farming in the First Millennium AD by Peter Fowler
May 2003
Mining in World History by Martin Lynch
The Past in Prehitoric Societies by Richard Bradley
Shaping Medieval landscapes by Tom Williamson
Novgorod edited by Mark Brisbane and David Gaimster
Raising the Dead by AJ Stirland
The Geratest Killer by Donald R Hopkins
March 2003
Garrison Life at Vindolanda by Anthony Birley
Grahame Clark by Brian Fagan
The Archaeology of Mills and Milling by Martin Watts
The Roman Shore Forts by Andrew Pearson
Heads and Tales by Iain MacLeod & Brian Hill
December 2002
Two visions of Avebury by Mike Pitts
Kent or Sussex by Richard Brewer
Role of castles by Anthony Emery
Archaeology of war by John Schofield
October 2002
Viking Weapons and Warfare by J Kim Siddorn
Prehistoric Cooking by Jacqui Wood
European Landscapes of Rock Art edited by George Nash & Christopher Chippindale
The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland
by John Waddell
Vikings and the Danelaw edited by James Graham-Campbell, Richard Hall, Judith Jesch & David Parsons
Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain edited by Helena Hamerow & Arthur MacGregor
August 2002
The Welsh Border by Trevor Rowley
Digging up the Past by John Collis
The Historical Archaeology of Britain c 1540–1900 by Richard Newman, David Cranstone & Christine Howard-Davies
Genetics and the Search for Modern Human Origins by John H Relethford and The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe
June 2002
Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World by Katherine Dunbabin
Migrants and Invaders by Malcolm Todd
The Molecule Hunt by Martin Jones
Britons and Romans edited by Simon James & Martin Millett
The Archaeology of Shamanism edited by Neil Price
April 2002
Dangerous Energy by Wayne Cocroft
Bloody Marsh by Peter Warner
Vernacular Buildings in a Changing World edited by Sarah Pearson & Bob Meeson
Dying for the Gods by Miranda Aldhouse Green
The Vikings in Wales by Mark Redknap
February 2002
London Under Ground edited by Ian Haynes, Harvey Sheldon and Lesley Hannigan
Northumberland: the Power of Place by Stan Beckensall
Archaeology and the Social History of Ships by Richard Gould
Prehistoric and Roman Essex by James Kemble
Landscape Detective by Richard Muir
A Fortified Frontier by Iain MacIvor
December 2001
Prehistory in the Peak by Mark Edmonds and Tim Seaborne
Shadows in the Soil by Tony Waldron
Europe’s First Farmers edited by T Douglas Price
Landscapes of Lordship by Robert Liddiard
October 2001
Copperopolis by Stephen Hughes
Debating the Archaeological Heritage by Robin Skeates
Safe Sanctuaries by Christopher J Brooke
Blood Red Roses edited by Veronica Fiorato, Anthea Boylston & Christopher Knüssel
Seahenge by Francis Pryor
What the Romans did for Us by Philip Wilkinson
August 2001
Two on Hadrian's Wall reviewed by Paul Birdwell
One on Neanderthals reviewed by Paul Pettitt
Two on Gladiators reviewed by Rosalind Niblett
And one on King Arthur's Round Table reviewed by Paul Stamper
June 2001
Roman Britain by Peter Carrington
Town in time by Paul Wilkinson
Gods and grain by Nick Thorpe
Empires apart by Richard Brewer
April 2001
Stone circles by Simon Denison
Children in the past by Dawn Hadley
Joy of wood by Maisie Taylor
Air photos by Bob Bewley
February 2001
Holy images by Simon Denison
Coastal sites by Gustav Milne
Food forward by Mike Allen
Thrill of the Chase by Chris Gerrard
Iron Age coins by Jonathan Williams
Flint mines by Peter Topping
December 2000
In the past by Susan Oosthuizen
Welsh past by David Longley
Places for people by David Wheatley
Togas et al by Jenny Hall
Henge makers by Simon Denison
Old bones by Keith Dobney
October 2000
Cerne giant by Chris Gerrard
Dark Age war by Richard Underwood
Flints and rivers by Nick Ashton
Tin mining by Adam Sharpe
Severn wetlands by Robert Van de Noort
Rock art by Henry Owen-John
August 2000
Stone Age wonder by Tim Taylor
Romans at war by Jon Coulston
More to life than telly by Simon Denison
Bugs, plants and pollen by Allan Hall
Neolithic Ireland by Jim Mallory
Late Roman culture by Keith Matthews
June 2000
Origins of society by Paul Pettitt
Crusaders abroad by Kay Prag
Warfare forever by Richgard Osgood
Changing strongholds by John Kenyon
Conservation vs access by Laurence Keen
Not for the timid by Simon Denison
April 2000
Gold through the ages by Rob Ixer
Archaeology of death by Simon Mays
Men who dig graves by Blaise Vyner
Ancient chemistry by Richard Evershed
February 2000
Stonehenge fiction by Richard Lee
After the Romans by Roger White
Neolithic revised by John Gale
Saxon trading by Alan Vince
Kilmartin House by Graham Ritche
Neolithic Europe by Niall Sharples
December 1999
Peter Herring on a textbook on archaeological survey
Duncan Coe on round and round the timber circles
Mark Edmonds on the how and why of understanding stones
November 1999
David Field on livestock farming in the Bronze Age
David Howlett on ingenious texts from a not-so Dark Age
Ken Dark on jumbling old events with modern myths
October 1999
Aubrey Burl on astronomy and prehistory: the proof
Chrissie Freeth on gender, skeletons, health and theory
Geraint Coles on passion, people and environmental data
Magdalena Midgley on half a novel and half something else
September 1999
Steve Boyle on the archaeology of recent centuries
John Chapman on artefacts and a communication theory
Peter Ellis on a Roman army where discipline is AWOL
Stephanie Moser on the Victorian approach to archaeology
July 1999
Andrew Sherratt on Catastrosphes, tree-rings and climate
Heinrich Härke on The why, who and how of past migrations
Tom Williamson on a geographer's view of landscape
Stephen Driscoll on a comprehensive text on the Vikings
June 1999
David Barker on Ceramics in Georgian polite society
Ken Thomas on A dry book about archaeological shells
Dilip Chakrabarti on Sweeping from the Near to the Far East
May 1999
Sally Crawford on strict monks who excelled at industry
Anne Woodward on Iron Age animals seen in everyday life
Jenny Moore on over a decade of gender archaeology
Paul Pettitt on approaching rock art as archaeology
April 1999
Martin Dean on getting it all wrong about shipwrecks
Guy Halsall on how peasant Gauls became urban Romans
Ross Samson on claiming Finnish origins for Picts
Simon Denison on why Time Team is no frivolous show
March 1999
Gustav Milne on the final report on the Mithras affair
Christopher Gerrard on a serenade to the Wiltshire downs
Jane Grenville on looking for history under your feet
Ian Wood on the study of an 8th century masterpiece
February 1999
Colin Forcey on an explanation of late Roman paganism
Rob Witcher on essays on aspects of cultural identity
Ian Ralston on the European Iron Age on a broad canvas
Rob Young on landscape seen through Neolithic eyes
December 1998
Dave Evans on new work on Iron Age East Yorkshire
Paul Miller on theory, philosophy and ethics of GIS
Julian Thomas on explaining why people built monuments
November 1998
Stephen Hughes on industrial growth and marginal land
Ernest Black on doubting Togidubnus at Fishbourne
Stuart Wrathmell on a wider vision for industrial research
Alasdair Whittle on a book for the man who loves megaliths
October 1998
Mike Pitts on science and humanity at Stonehenge
Stephen Rippon on what landscape is, and how it evolved
Rob Ixer on solid progress in stone axe research
Siân Jones on history and `herstory' in archaeology
September 1998
John Mitchell on half a million years in a short book
Peter Carrington on The Rose dressed up like a good read
Timothy Taylor on the origins of war from outdated sources
John Newman on Sutton Hoo from prehistory onwards
July 1998
Tom James on history from the great fire of Windsor
Brian Ayers on a study that puts history into houses
Frances Lynch on Silbury Hill and the New Age angle
June 1998
Peter Clark on how the technology of ships developed
Mike Heyworth on a reliable guide to research resources
Benny Peiser on evidence for Bronze Age climate change
Sandy Heslop on seals and behaviour that never changes
May 1998
Simon Clarke on a comprehensive image of military life
Jerry O'Sullivan on studies in the long shadow of a saint
Mark Hall on one man's monument to Dartmoor
April 1998
Paul Bidwell on Hadrian, architect and speech-maker
Neil Brodie on looting and crimes against humanity
Martin Henig on a disappointing study of Roman art
Lawrence Butler on how medieval changed to post-medieval
March 1998
Chris Daniell on a London hospital and a model report
Chris Tabraham on Irish castles and a troubled history
Peter Rowley-Conwy on essays from prehistory's man of ideas
Mark Lawrence on an encyclopaedia of history from the sea
February 1998:
Martin Evison on new faces and a helping of guesswork
Ken Dark on mathematics and archaeological change
Simon Denison on photography, vision and ancient sites
December 1997:
Peter Yeoman on cathedrals, war and Scottish identity
Ben Ferrari on a lifetime's study of ancient shipping
Mark Pearce on Benedictine monks in Dark Age Italy
Duncan Brown on pottery from everywhere and every age
November 1997:
Andrew Chamberlain on surveying Europe's oldest monuments
Richard Pollard on a manifesto and manual on Roman pots
Roger Mercer on blasting away in all directions at once
John Kenyon on castles that won the west of Scotland
October 1997:
Stephen Rippon on peeling back the layers of landscape
Nick Ashton on the popular version of Boxgrove's story
September 1997:
Patrick Ottaway on the tale of our `oldest recorded town'
Mark Bowden on a short book with a grand ambition
John Hines on a very solid theory of ethnic identity
Ray Marjoram on peak archaeology, but not for novices
July 1997:
Margaret Davey on peeling back Dartmoor's layers of time
Peter Ellis on what the Roman landscape looked like
Gracis Grew on Roman Britain through rose-tinted specs
Rosalind Niblett on change comes to post-Roman Europe
June 1997:
David Burridge on from Spanish Armada to the Cold
War
Paul Stamper on happy and mutual reordering of the
land
Mark Lake on if language and art make us human
Simon Denison on a model introduction to archaeology
May 1997:
Amanda Chadburn on when Iron Age societies adopted
money
James Bond on Saxon Wessex and the Burghal Hidage
Alan Vince on no justice done here to virtual reality
Nat Alcock on notable buildings in one Sussex parish
April 1997:
Peter Huggins on a hard read about Essex
archaeology
Jane Grenville on archaeology, law and sins of
omission
Phil Bethell on Roman homes in all their forms
Simon Denison on images with their own point of view
March 1997:
Niall Sharples on dates, dates and a few odd
omissions
Simon Mays on infanticide and law in the 18th century
Susanna Wade Martins on Norfolk's archaeology through the
ages
February 1997:
Colin Martin on Scottish remains and Rome's
indecision
Robert Protheroe Jones on an update on the industrial
heritage
Kathy Willis on moorland and its Mesolithic causes
December 1996:
Mike Webber on an animated book on medieval
death
Finbar McCormick on few relics, but a credible saint at
least
Peter Marsden on an underwater view of American
history
Paul Bidwell on a pro-Roman view of Hadrian's
Wall
November 1996:
Peter Davenport on old news revisited about Roman
Bath
Mike Parker Pearson on The Hebrides at the centre of the
map
October 1996:
Jon Coulston on no decline and fall in the Roman
army
Christopher Tolan-Smith on few advances in Mesolithic
Scotland
Roger Thomas on photography is not just point-and-
click
John Carmen on all the fun and games of a good
battle
September 1996:
Patrick Boylan on a legal view of the antiquities trade
Philip Barker on a guide that's too heavy to handle
Gustav Milne on strictly history in medieval
Southwark
Peter Ellis on not a bad theory, if facts don't matter
July 1996:
Glenn Foard on Civil War Exeter loses its archaeology
David Graham on crime, loot and the antiquities
trade
Neil Jarman on when medieval life is seen in details
June 1996:
Warwick Rodwell on the monastic parts others don't
reach
Simon Timms on the landscape picture
Bob Laxton on no introduction to tree-ring data
David Gaimster on the mistakes of the Rose and the
Globe
May 1996:
Brita Green on cultured ruffians of the Viking North
Cathy King on Roman soundbites for the well-informed
Debbie Griffiths on monuments as part of the landscape
April 1996:
Adrian Tindall on Plastic Pete and the Lindow Men
Jennifer Wakely on aching joints in long-dead bones
Peter Carrington on Bede and those cussed natives
again
Trevor Anderson on archaeology meets the police force
March 1996:
Chris Knight on images of potency in rock art
Bob Silvester on history mixed with romantic
fiction
Andrew Jones on this detectorist has the right idea
February 1996:
Mike Pitts on this century at Stonehenge (at last)
Gordon Maxwell on quick-marching round our Roman
camps
Tony Wilmott on baths, markets, defences,
everything
December 1995:
Ian Shepherd on guide, literature, and good
company
David Starley on ancient mining, for specialists
only
Miranda Green on getting it all wrong on Celtic
art
November 1995:
Margaret Cox on now for the north-west
wetlands
Val Turner on a book that's way behind
the times
Catherine Johns on Roman art and the
wider picture
Jim Earle on Heath Robinson meets the
Luftwaffe
October 1995:
Diana Chatwin on more than a few plain
old timbers
Jeffrey May on everything from everyone on
the Celts
Grenville Astill on the landscape of
Alfred's Wessex
September 1995:
Richard Larn on
sailing the dark medieval waters
Olwyn Owen on history's turn
to be the footnote
George Hart on putting the
cor-blimey into wonder
John Schofield on patient
recording for its own sake
July 1995:
Raymond Lamb on Orkney's
excavator leads the tour
Ian Jenkins on when Greek art
went travelling
Mick Aston on a thousand things
you didn't know
Barri Jones on placing Roman
Africa on the map
June 1995:
John Percival on the villas
of Pliny
Tim Copeland on breathing
new life into Roman towns
Alex Woolf on the wrong route
to Saxon England
James Symonds gives a long
look to archaeology's future
May 1995:
Jason Wood on two shots at a
building
revolution
Heather James on hearing the
mute
stones speak
Christopher Evans on discovering
man's true antiquity
April 1995:
Keith Wade on Sutton Hoo
Barbara Bender on cognitive
processualism
Ed Dennison on the archaeology of
buildings
Margaret Faull on the coal
industry
March 1995:
John Creighton on
Euro-sceptics
of Roman Britain
Patrick Greene on presenting
the
past safely
Cyril Hart on King Cnut
February 1995:
Noel Fojut on voyaging round the
Viking world
David Mattingly on Pompeii
and
the town planners
Michael Lewis on two centuries
of
work in a short book
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