New book chronicle.

New book chronicle. This quarter's chronicle examines a crop of books dealing withthe way field research is carried out and presented, as well as someoverviews of the archaeology of areas as diverse as Central America,China and Scotland. The lore and lure of archaeology HEATHER MCKILLOP. In search of Maya Sea traders. xviii+226 pages,91 illustrations. 2005. College Station (TX): Texas A&M UniversityPress; 1-58544-389-1 hardback 30.95 [pounds sterling]. MICHAEL BALTER. The Goddess and the Bull. Catalhoyuk: anarchaeological journey to the dawn of civilization. 401 pages, 19illustrations, 42 plates. 2005. New York: Simon & Schuster/FreePress; 0-7432-4360-9 hardback 18.99 [pounds sterling]. FRANCOISE AUDOUZE & NATHAN SCHLANGER (ed.). Autour del'homme: contexte et actualite d'Andre Leroi-Gourhan. 442pages, illustrations. 2004. Antibes: Editions APDCA; 2-904110-39-9paperback 35 [euro]. LYKKE JOHANSEN & DICK STAPERT. Oldeholtwolde: a Hamburgianfamily encampment around a hearth. ix+229 pages, 295 figures, 5 colourplates. 2004. Lisse: A.A. Balkema; 90-5809-549-5 hardback 70 [poundssterling]. TATSUO KOBAYASHI with SIMON KANER & OKI NAKAMURA (ed.). Jomonreflections: forager life and culture in the prehistoric JapaneseArchipelago. viii+240 pages, 120 b&w & colour illustrations.2004. Oxford: Oxbow Books; 1-84217-088-0 hardback 25 [pounds sterling]. EDWARD L. OCHSENSCHLAGER. Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden ofEden Garden of Edenn.See Eden.Noun 1. Garden of Eden - a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were . x+285 pages, 150 illustrations, 32 colour plates. 2004.Philadelphia (PA): University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology andAnthropology The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology is an archaeology and anthropology museum that is part of the University of Pennsylvania in University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ; 1-931707-74-X hardback $39.95. In search of Maya Sea traders recounts Professor HEATHERMcKILLOP'S seasons of fieldwork between 1981 and 1997 off thesouthern coast of Belize, living and working on the mangrove mangrove,large tropical evergreen tree, genus Rhizophora, that grows on muddy tidal flats and along protected ocean shorelines. Mangroves are most abundant in tropical Asia, Africa, and the islands of the SW Pacific. islands ofWild Cane Cay and Frenchman's Cay, surveying and excavating lateClassic and early Postclassic Maya deposits bearing witness to trade inobsidian and exploitation of marine resources. This account of herwatery adventures with staff and students from the Universities ofCalifornia and Louisiana and Earthwatch volunteers is intended 'tomake the processes of Maya archaeological research more accessible tothe educated public and students' (p. x). But here's the rub.Though entertaining, the narrative gets lost in the petite histoire.McKillop and her team enjoyed the experience, and this sense ofadventure comes across well: it would be churlish churl��ish?adj.1. Of, like, or befitting a churl; boorish or vulgar.2. Having a bad disposition; surly: "as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear"Shakespeare. to belittle the senseof comradeship, shared hardship and adaptation to the elements that ispart of fieldwork. But it is a hard act to pull off and difficult toavoid making your reader cringe: Tiger the dog, the news that no-one wasever hit by a falling coconut, sunsets and gazing at the stars (here isArthur, an 86-year old volunteer (p. 101): 'while the moon sentsparkles dancing on the waves, he read Gaelic poetry to us that he hadwritten from his travels. A palm tree draped its fronds across theseascape') make for a lot of toe-curling. In the same vein is MICHAEL BALTER'S account of Catalhoyuk, abiography of the investigations on this iconic tell. The Goddess and theBull takes the reader from James Mellaart's excavations andsubsequent tribulations to the new campaign directed by Ian Hodder. Ajournalist for Science, Baiter is well informed and able to weaveeffortlessly explanations of archaeological concepts and sketches of themain protagonists into his story. Catalhoyuk has a good story to telland it is told skilfully. But amongst candidates for excision areover-long quotes from the online excavation diary, or a fake weddingceremony between two team members worthy of a sixth-form cabaret. Bakerhas clearly fallen in love with (Tatalhoyuk, 'I have been drawn ...by Catalhoyuk's near-mythical celebrity and the fascination ofwitnessing one of the world's most important digs.... The team ofarchaeologists ... was one of the most interesting collections ofindividuals I had ever encountered' (p. 4). This personalengagement is at once the strength and weakness of the book: the humaninterest can be appealing (Shahina Farid digging, p. 143-4) andoff-putting (why are we exposed no less than three times to Mike ParkerPearson's naked body?). More to the point, the very closeidentification with Catalhoyuk's aims of multivocality, reflexivityor contextuality, and the assertion that this represents a new departurein field archaeology may make some readers uneasy: 'Interpretationat the trowel's edge.... Ian [Hodder] had come up with a goodphrase to describe the archaeological process' (p. 145). Really? Refreshing as it is to read the views from an outsider (Baker) andan insider (McKillop), one must nevertheless ask: what is the market forthese books? Publishers must have felt there was one, and I wish bothbooks well. But too much personal or evocative writing can backfire;books about those in the gang must not make us forget that fieldresearch procedure is a grown-up grown-up?adj.1. Of, characteristic of, or intended for adults: grown-up movies; a grown-up discussion.2. discipline. More on project design,ethics and funding, less on barbecues, please. A different gang considers the legacy of Andre Leroi-Gourhan(1911-86). Autour de l'homme, edited by AUDOUZE &SCHLANGER--around humankind, but also the man himself--originated in acolloquium col��lo��qui��um?n. pl. col��lo��qui��ums or col��lo��qui��a1. An informal meeting for the exchange of views.2. An academic seminar on a broad field of study, usually led by a different lecturer at each meeting. held in Meudon in 1995, but expanded into a broader appraisalof the man's oeuvre. Being French, there is a fair sprinkling ofphilosophy and long words, slightly oddly intermingled with numerousportraits of, and sketches by, the Master. Difficult to pigeon-hole,Leroi-Gourhan contributed to both the processualist and structuralistschools (Prehistoire de l'art occidental, Le geste geste?n.Variant of gest. et la parole)and is probably best known in the Anglo-Saxon world for championing thechaine operatoire and for his meticulous excavations at Pincevent. Thatfamous chaine operatoire is more than a manufacturing process, acontextualisation (again) of human investment. Among many searchingessays, summarised in an excellent French, German, English and Spanishabstract section (p. 385-442), note the contributions by Demoule onculture and ethnicity, a number of papers on Le geste et la parole andits applications by Audouze, Insoll, Schlanger and Pelegrin, a sectionon the meaning of rock art (Brigitte & Gilles Delluc, GeorgesSauvet) which occasionally requires nimble intellectual gymnastics toaccommodate Leroi-Gourhan's ideas with newer ideas on art in caves.Leroi-Gourhan, as a pioneer excavator ex��ca��va��torn.An instrument, such as a sharp spoon or curette, used in scraping out pathological tissue.excavator (eks´k (Alain Schnapp (p. 14) compareshim to Pitt-Rivers), receives less attention, but there is aninteresting contribution by Serge Vasil'ev on Soviet settlementarchaeology between 1920 and 1940, arguing that Leroi-Gourhan may havedeveloped his approach from such sources. Pincevent in the 1960s and1970s achieved iconic status, as Winchester did in Britain and nowperhaps Catalhoyuk and Lattes in France. A worthy example of the chaine operatoire in action is theexcavation report of an Upper Palaeolithic (Hamburgian) site atOldeholtwolde in the sand dunes of northern Holland. Here JOHANSEN &STAPERT have analysed some 7000 flint fragments to reconstruct thegestures of a small group of people around 13 000 years ago. Though muchof the report is taken up with analysis of the flint and its depositionusing specifically designed software, culminating in a series ofrefitting groups (colour plates I-V), the authors go much further. Thetableau offered is of a group of four people, sitting for a few weeks inthe open air around a hearth of flat stones, cooking food, hunting andfishing nearby, gathering and processing raw materials. And, of course,flint knapping, shifting around the hearth, trying to keep out of thewind. This evocative scene is rooted in well-argued analyses, butsometimes more speculative reasoning. Pages 177-9 give the details:three knappers, one proficient (dad), one competent (older boy), and oneinexpert (young boy), the latter sitting nearest the fire but alsodarting about, breaking things and retrieving cores. A woman is assumedto be around, working on the preparation of hides. As for daughters,'assuming that all this is correct it follows that it is especiallythe presence of daughters, that is difficult to demonstratearchaeologically' (p. 178). Plus ca change ... In Japan, meanwhile, giant strides have been made recently in theconduct of fieldwork, benefiting the comprehension of the Jomon culture.Jomon reflections, beautifully illustrated in colour and clearly writtenusing the skills of SIMON KANER and OKI NAKAMURA, is TATSUOKOBAYASHI'S overview of this sedentary, pot-producing,hunting-gathering culture that flourished on the Japanese archipelagobetween 13000 and 1000 BC. There is much of interest in this accessiblesurvey, such as Kobayashi's views on ceramic styles or ideas on'the socialisation of nature' and cultivation (notagriculture). But it is the excavations of the last decade and theirpresentation that are really striking: enormous resources, mainly fromdeveloper funding, result in large, clean, clear excavations ofsettlements, funerary enclosures, stone circles and timber structures.The overhead colour illustrations for chapters 5, 6 and 8 are a feastfor the eyes. Extensively illustrated too is Iraq's Marsh Arabs in theGarden of Eden. Professor OCHSENSCHLAGER turned to ethnoarchaeology Ethnoarchaeology is the ethnographic study of peoples for archaeological reasons, usually focusing on the material remains of a society, rather than its culture. Ethnoarchaeology aids archaeologists in reconstructing ancient lifeways by studying the material and non-material in1968 as a result of discovering vessels of unbaked un��baked?adj.Not having been baked or cooked, especially in an oven: unbaked bricks; an unbaked pie crust.clay in excavationsat Al Hiba in southern Iraq. This led him to enquire over the next 20 orso years in the modern villages of the Beni Hasan, the Mi'dam(Marsh Arabs) and Hadij (Bedouin), not just about artefacts made ofmud--including figurines made by children as toys (figures 5.7-5.11,plate 4)--but also about a huge range of materials, nearly allperishable: mud and reed architecture, basketry basketry,art of weaving or coiling and sewing flexible materials to form vessels or other commodities. The materials used include twigs, roots, strips of hide, splints, osier willows, bamboo splits, cane or rattan, raffia, grasses, straw, and crepe paper. , weaving, using animalresources, building boats and much more are described, bearing witnessto a world that is now dying out. Ochsenschlager also gives us histhoughts on the potential and limitations of ethnoarchaeology (p. 273,280) and a lesson in fieldwork ethics and etiquette ('Winningpeople's respect' p. 42-4, how to behave in a mudhif, p.148-9). Overviews ... in which we explore different ways of portraying identity, inbooks, exhibitions, Festschriften, television programmes and conferenceproceedings. NICHOLAS J. SAUNDERS. Ancient Americas: the great civilisations,viii+248 pages, 14 figures, 26 b&w & 14 colour plates. 2004.Stroud: Sutton; 0-7509-3340-2 hardback 20 [pounds sterling]. MAGNUS FISKESJO & CHEN Chen - Peter Chen XINGCAN. China before China: JohanGunnar Andersson Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874-1960), Swedish archaeologist, paleontologist and geologist, closely associated with the beginnings of Chinese archaeology in the 1920s. His Chinese name was An Tesheng (安特生)[1]. , Ding Wenjiang and the discovery of China'sprehistory, a companion volume for the new exhibit at the Museum of FarEastern Antiquities The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (?stasiatiska Museet), Stockholm, Sweden. Public museum launched by Sweden's Parliament in 1926, with the Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874-1960) as founding director. (Bilingual ed. English/Chinese). 159 pages, numerousb&w & colour illustrations. 2004. Stockholm: Museum of FarEastern Antiquities (Ostasiatiska Museet); 91-970616-3-8 hardback. NAOMI Naomi(nāō`mē, –mī, nā`ō–), in the Bible, Ruth's mother-in-law. F. MILLER & KAMYAR ABDI. Yeki bud, yeki nabud: essays onthe archaeology of Iran in honor of William M. Sumner (Cotsen Instituteof Archaeology The Institute of Archaeology is an academic department of University College London (UCL), in the United Kingdom. The Institute is located in a separate building at the north end of Gordon Square, Bloomsbury. Monograph 48). xi+340 pages, 165 figures, 23 tables.2003. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University ofCalifornia/American Institute of Iranian Studies/University ofPennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology may refer to a number of museums, including: Museo Nacional de Arqueolog��a Antropolog��a e Historia del Per��, Lima, Peru. University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, England. ; 1-931745-05-6hardback $50. FRANCIS PRYOR. Britain AD: a quest for Arthur, England and theAnglo-Saxons. xxvi+268 pages, 31 illustrations, 29 colour plates, 1table. 2004. London: Harper Collins; 0-00-718186-8 hardback 20 [poundssterling]. ALISTAIR MOFFAT. Before Scotland: the story of Scotland beforehistory. 352 pages, 22 colour plates, 2 maps. 2005. London: Thames &Hudson; 0-500-05133-X hardback 18.95 [pounds sterling]. EMMA EMMAEngstrom Multigas Monitor for anesthesia. CARVER & OLIVIA LELONG (ed.). Modern views--ancient lands:new work and thought on cultural landscapes (BAR British Series 377).viii+143 pages, 87 b&w & colour illustrations, tables. 2004.Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-655-3 paperback 32 [pounds sterling]. Ancient Americas is a chronological narrative of the greatcivilisations of Mesoamerica and parts of South America. Faced withhaving to cram so much into 220 pages, Saunders chooses to concentrateon material remains and symbolism. This may be why it is difficult toget a sense of place and scale from the book: there are no maps, bar twogeneral location maps, no site or structure plans, no synoptic tables(just a basic chronological chart, p. vi). Ancient Americas has the feelof an Ancient Peoples and Places' book, but at least the collectionedited by Glyn Daniel did refer to illustrations, which this book doesnot, and had captions more informative than some here. Despite thesefailings, there is food for thought, particularly in a stimulatingopening chapter on the clash between Western cultures and the Caribbeanafter AD 1492: 'This was an encounter ... with a civilisation whoseideas about disease, natural philosophy, morality, spirituality and thehuman experience of the natural world had evolved along a profoundly"other" trajectory.' (p. 3) A new permanent exhibition at the Swedish Museum of Far EasternAntiquities gives visitors and readers of China before China, itsaccompanying volume, an insight into how the study of Chinas prehistoryopened to the world. The 2004 display is based around the collections ofJohan Gunnar Andersson (1874-1960) and Ding Wenjiang (1887-1934). Thisfascinating chapter of archaeological historiography is told in adelightful book by FISKESJO & XINGCAN; set against a turbulentpolitical and intellectual background, a visually stunning story thatuses photomontages, portraits, scenes from mining and village life,facsimiles of letters and notebooks, unravels in English and Chinese.This is recommended reading for anyone interested in cultural ethics andthe politics of archaeology. Yeki bud, yeki nabud ('once upon a time...' in Persianfairy tales) celebrates William Sumner in a Festschrift fest��schrift?n. pl. fest��schrif��ten or fest��schriftsA volume of learned articles or essays by colleagues and admirers, serving as a tribute or memorial especially to a scholar. , edited byMILLER & ABDI, allowing 34 contributors to take stock of Iranianarchaeology up to the revolution of 1979 and present new work from about1995. Much research grew out of Sumner's highly respected fieldworkat Malyan, in the upland province of Fats. Fourth millennium BC Malyanacted as 'a conduit through which the products of pastoralists wereexchanged' (Zeder & Blackman: 137) but the activities of thesepastoralists are elusive, leading Alizadeh (p. 85) to explore ways ofdiscerning their impact on lowland farming communities. Toughprincipally concerned with developments in south-western Iran in thefifth to first millennia BC, north-western Iran and Transcaucasia alsofeature, as do later epochs, the Islamic (Whitcomb on the Zeitgeistrepresented by ceramics) and the present day (with insights by Beck onchanges in nomadic pastoralism between 1970 and 1998, brought about bythe introduction of mechanised transport, electricity and propane and bypolitical changes; there is also an engrossing account by Ezat Negahbanon setting up Tehran University's department of archaeology and afield centre in a caravanserai). Two television ventures come from Britain (PRYOR and MOFFAT). Aspublic awareness of the past increases, so does the need to manage andpresent it [CARVER & LELONG (ed.)]. PRYOR tells us at the outset 'I believe with some passion thatarchaeology is a personal discipline' [sounds painful] and 'ifarchaeologists ... care about their subject, they will have axes togrind and I prefer to sharpen mine in public' (p. vii-iii). InBritain AD, Francis Pryor, who subscribes to the concept of the longueduree, offers a personal view of the shaping and identity of Britain(Scotland does not get much of a look in), from Iron Age to Anglo-Saxontimes. It is a stimulating book with references in extended notes at theend. Central to Pryor's thinking is a deep suspicion of theinvasion hypothesis in British archaeology. The author is on the side ofminimal incursion, favouring acculturation of ideas and customs. But,possibly because Britain AD is linked to television which seems tofavour polarised argument, his simplistic sim��plism?n.The tendency to oversimplify an issue or a problem by ignoring complexities or complications.[French simplisme, from simple, simple, from Old French; see simple exposition of the oppositepoint of view seems unnecessary. Pryor's faith in 'morereliable science-based techniques such as stable isotope analysis'(p. 127) [to illuminate the authochtonous/migrant debate] gets aired ina passage on results of such analyses for burials at West Heslerton (p.212-3); but what is the point of telling us that 10 people were local,10 people from over the Pennines and four extraneous, if we are not toldthe population size from which the 24 samples were taken? Pryor'sconclusions (p. 240-1) have something to offer every political shade inmodern Britain: '... the British have long seemed to respect thefreedom of the individual ... I also believe that the British are by andlarge an inclusive nation ... The English language thrives because ...it colourfully expresses what people all over the world think andbelieve'. The latter should be greeted by unprintable un��print��a��ble?adj.Not proper for publication for legal or social reasons: unprintable remarks.unprintableAdjective colourfulexpletives in many European and World languages. MOFFAT'S book has a sticker with 'TV tie-in' on itsjacket, but there is nothing in Before Scotland referring to TV. Moffatalso believes that 'History ought to be a personal matter' (p.7) and is also an exponent of the longue duree. This concept permeateshis presentation of the lands that make Scotland from the retreat of thelast glaciation to Pictish (late first millennium AD) times. The book isthe product of an enquiring, lively mind, written engagingly. Theauthor's curiosity leads him to investigate and report not just on'straight' archaeology, but also on tales, folklore andpoetry, and seek illumination from other cultures, written up in smallbox-vignettes throughout the text (e.g. Australia, p. 76, 91, 98;(Catalhoyuk, p. 78; the Cheyennes, p. 290, 299). But, to a Cartesianmind, this discursive style takes some getting used to; though BeforeScotland follows a chronological sequence, the free-roaming approach,lack of references and lack of plans (e.g. there should be a plan ofBalbridie, discussed on pages 109-20; Ian Ralston is not mentioned, norare most excavators in Scotland, except for Penny Spikins on DoggerBank) detract from what is otherwise a good read. CARVER & LELONG organised a conference in Glasgow in 2001 todiscuss aspects of the Scottish landscape. The proceedings presentprehistoric and multiperiod case studies, from the Kyle of Durness downto the Upper Clyde. A paper by Fleming explores liminality, using anexample from St Kilda. The second half of the proceedings deals with theway the Scottish landscape is, or could be, managed and the way it isinterpreted. In particular, Ralston (on 'wild lands') andWickham-Jones (on why 'grotty' sites are part of people'severyday experience of the landscape and why their 'hiddendepths' matter) are inspiring. Modern Views--Ancient Lands endswith examples of interpretations that bring Scotland closer to thepeople and visitors of Scotland. Site formation ALLAN GAVIN THAYER MORTON. Archaeological site formation:understanding lake margin contexts (British Archaeological ReportsInternational Series 1211). vii+139 pages, 78 figures, 40 tables. 2004.Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-574-3 paperback 28 [pounds sterling]. European prehistory OLIVIER KELLER. Aux origins de la geometrie: le paleolithique et lemonde n. 1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.Le beau mondefashionable society. See Beau monde.Demi mondeSee Demimonde. des chasseurs-cueilleurs. 233 pages, 72 illustrations, 8 tables.2004. Paris: Vuibert; 2-7117-5370-0 paperback 26 [euro]. VANESSA LEA. Les industries lithiques du Chasseen en Languedocoriental: caracterisation par l'analyse technologique (BritishArchaeological Reports International Series 1232). v+294 pages, 204figures. 2004. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports; 1-8417-1360-0paperback 50 [pounds sterling]. CYRIL MARCIGNY & EMMANUEL GHESQUIERE (ed.). L'ile deTatihou (Manche) a l'age du Bronze: habitats et occupation du sol(Documents d'archeologie francaise 96). 185 pages, 149 figures, 16tables. 2003. Paris: Maison des sciences de l'Homme; 2-7351-0976-3paperback 36 [euro]. Greece, Cyprus, Rome and Spain DARYL HINE (tr.). Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns: Works andDays Works and Dayslong poem by Hesiod, considered a farmers’ almanac of ancient Greece. [Gk. Lit.: Benét, 1102]See : Pastoralism , Theogony the��og��o��ny?n. pl. the��og��o��niesAn account of the origin and genealogy of the gods.the , The Homeric Hymns, The Battle of the Frogs and Mice. 220pages, 2 maps. 2005. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including The Chicago Manual of Style, dozens of academic journals, including ;0-226-32965-8 hardback $35 & 24.50 [pounds sterling]. NESTOR-LUIS CORDERO. By being, it is: the thesis of Parmenides.xiv+216 pages. 2004. Las Vegas (NV): Parmenides Publishing;1-930972-03-2 hardback $28 & 20 [pounds sterling]. ARNOLD HERRMANN. To think like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides, theorigins of philosophy, xxx+ 374 pages. 2005. Las Vegas (NV): ParmenidesPublishing; 1-930972-00-8 hardback $32 & 22.50 [pounds sterling]. TIM TIM TimothyTIM Technical Interchange MeetingTIM Transient Intermodulation DistortionTIM Time Is MoneyTIM The Invisible Man (movie)TIM Telecom Italia Mobile (Italian cellular provider)EVERSON. Warfare in ancient Greece: arms and armour from theheroes of Homer to Alexander the Great. xvi+231 pages, 72 illustrations.2004. Stroud: Sutton; 0-7509-3318-6 hardback 20 [pounds sterling]. ANGELOS CHANIOTIS. War in the Hellenistic World: a social andcultural history, xxiv+308 pages, 12 illustrations, 5 maps. 2005. Oxford& Malden (MA): Blackwell; 0-631-22607-9 hardback 55 [poundssterling] & 0-631-22608-7 paperback 16.99 [pounds sterling]. SEAN n. 1. A seine. See Seine. HEMINGWAY. The horse and jockey Horse and Jockey (An Marcach) is a village in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, on the N8 National Primary Route from Dublin to Cork. It is situated km (mi) south of Thurles, at the junction of the N8 and the N62. from Artemision: a bronzeequestrian monument of the Hellenistic period, xvii+222 pages, 76figures, 10 colour plates. 2004. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London:University of California Press "UC Press" redirects here, but this is also an abbreviation for University of Chicago PressUniversity of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. ; 0-520-23308-5 hardback $65 & 42.95[pounds sterling]. Pharos: Journal of the Netherlands Institute at Athens 11 (2003).viii+158 pages, 8 figures, 27 plates. 2004. Assen: Royal van Gorcum;ISSN ISSNabbr.International Standard Serial Number 1380-2240 paperback 30 [pounds sterling]. DEMOS CHRISTOU (1994) & SOPHOCLES HADJISAVAS (1995-8) (ed.).Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the year 1994, 1995,1996, 1997, 1998. Each c. 100 pages, numerous plates. All 2003. Nicosia:Ministry of Communications and Works, Republic of Cyprus; ISSN 1010-1136paperback. SOPHOCLES HADJISAVAS (ed.). [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE INASCII ASCIIor American Standard Code for Information Interchange,a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. .]/Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 2003. 380pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2004. Nicosia:Department of Antiquities of Cyprus; ISSN 0070-2374 hardback. SAM WILKINSON. Caligula. viii+110 pages, 3 illustrations. 2005.London & New York: Routledge; 0415-34121-3 paperback 9.99 [poundssterling]. R. Ross HOLLOWAY. Constantine and Rome. xiv+ 191 pages, 123illustrations. 2004. New Haven & London: Yale University Press;0-300-10043-4 hardback 25 [pounds sterling]. MARTIN ALMAGRO-GORBEA, JOSE M. ALVAREZ MARTINEZ, JOSE M. BLAZQUEZMARTINEZ & SALVADOR ROVIRA (ed.). El Disco de Teodosio (Estudios delGabinete de Antiguedades de la Real Academia de la Historia 5). 342pages, numerous illustrations. 2000. Madrid: Real Academia de laHistoria; 84-8951260-4 hardback. ANTONIO PENA JURADO. Hermas de pequeno formato del MuseoArqueologico de Cordoba. 158 pages, 2 figures, 30 plates. 2002. Cordoba:Seminario de Arqueologla, Universitad de Cordoba; 84-9325913-6paperback. Middle East, Egypt FRANCESCA BALOSSI RESTELLI. Formation processes of the firstdeveloped Neolithic societies in the Zagros and the northernMesopotamian plain (Studi di Preistoria Orientale 1). viii+83 pages, 24figures, 13 tables. 2001. Rome: Visceglia; 88-87320-12-8 paperback 22[euro]. ANTHONY J. SPALINGER. War in ancient Egypt: the new kingdom, xx+291pages, 34 illustrations, 5 maps. 2005. Oxford & Malden (MA):Blackwell; 1-40511371-5 hardback 60 [pounds sterling] &1-4051-1372-3 paperback 16.99 [pounds sterling]. Asia MOLLY EMMA AITKEN. When gold blossoms: Indian jewelry from theSusan L. 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NEERU MISRA MISRA Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (UK)(ed.). Sufis and Sufism: some reflections. 161 pages.2004. New Delhi: Manohar; 81-7304564-X hardback Rs400. DOUGLAS T. McGETCHIN, PETER K.J. PARK & D.R. SARDESAI (ed.).Sanskrit and 'Orientalism': Indology and comparativelinguistics in Germany, 1750-1958. 386 pages, 14 plates. 2004. NewDelhi: Manohar; 81-7304-557-7 hardback Rs895. D.N. JHA JHA Justice and Home AffairsJHA Job Hazard Analysis (OSHA)JHA Jewish Home for the AgingJHA Japan Hospital Association . Early India: a concise history. 269 pages, 31 plates, 11maps. 2004. New Delhi: Manohar; 817304-578-X hardback Rs395. CHANNA Channa is a genus of the Channidae family of snakehead fishes. It contains about 29 species. Fish in the genus (called c�� l��c in Vietnamese) are prized in Vietnamese cuisine, and are sometimes used as a main ingredient in the sour soup called WICKREMESEKERA. 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