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New book chronicle. This chronicle begins around the Bay of Naples Noun 1. Bay of Naples - an arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at NaplesItalia, Italian Republic, Italy - a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD , in the company ofbooks exploring Pompeii and its surroundings. We then return to Britainfor a round-up of books on British pre- and protohistory pro��to��his��to��ry?n.The study of a culture just before the time of its earliest recorded history.pro , a number ofthem published by Tempus, now the History Press. Pompeii and Pompeiana MARY BEARD. Pompeii: the life of a Roman town. viii+360 pages, 114illustrations, 23 colour plates. 2008. London: Profile Books;978-1-861975-516-4 hardback 25 [pounds sterling]. PENELOPE M. ALLISON. The Insula INSULA, Latin. An island. In the Roman law the word is applied to a house not connected with other houses, but separated by a surrounding space of ground. Calvini Lex; Vicat, Vocab. ad voc. of the Menander at Pompeii, Volume3: the finds, a contextual analysis. xlvi+504 pages, 83 figures, 132plates. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-926312-7hardback 195 [pounds sterling]. MARINA CIARALDI. People & plants in ancient Pompeii: a newapproach to urbanism from the microscope room (Accordia SpecialistStudies on Italy Volume 12). 183 pages, 75 illustrations, 17 tables.2007. London: Accordia Research Institute, University of London For most practical purposes, ranging from admission of students to negotiating funding from the government, the 19 constituent colleges are treated as individual universities. Within the university federation they are known as Recognised Bodies ;978-1-873415-30-6 paperback. CAROL C. MATTUSH. Pompeii and the Roman villa: art and culturearound the Bay of Naples, xviii+366 pages, 250 colour & b&willustrations. 2008. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-51436-8hardback 30 [pounds sterling]. VICTORIA C. GARDNER COATES COATES Community Opportunities Accountability and Training and Educational Services (US Department of Health and Human Services)& JON L. SEYDL (ed.). Antiquityrecovered: the legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum. viii+296 pages, 123b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Los Angeles (CA): J. PaulGetty Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company. BiographyBorn in Minneapolis, Minnesota, into a family already in the petroleum business, he was one of the first people in the world with a Museum; 978-0-89236-872-3 hardback 40 [pounds sterling]. Pompeii and Pompeiana Mary Beard's Pompeii, the life of a Roman town is a crackinggood read. Her book is sure to appeal to a wide range of readers, as sheexpertly answers the question 'What was it like?' Although shepays due attention to the high art that made Pompeii famous the worldover, and the patrons who commissioned it, she is more interested in theordinary people who make up the city. She paints a picture of a bustlingMediterranean commercial city, an 'ordinary place' (p. 45)much like modern Naples, peopled by patricians and small folk goingabout their business: a city where public baths are a hotbed of nastyinfections, whose citizens exhale exhale/ex��hale/ (eks��hal) to breathe out. ex��halev.1. To breathe out.2. To emit a gas, vapor, or odor. a distinct 'whiff ofhalitosis', have to cope with 'traffic calming schemes,loiterers and litter', eat 'on the wing' in fast foodoutlets and whose wealth is owed in part to the production of garum'a truly stinking concoction' (p. 185) produced by'nouveaux riches who made their fortune on rotten fish' (p.187). She is particularly good at debunking myths, starting with that ofa 'city frozen in time': although not the first to questionthe Pompeii premise, she is right to insist, since it has such a hold onthe public and academics alike; it is a load of cobblers, a combinationof 'voyeurism, pathos and ghoulish ghoul?n.1. One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome.2. A grave robber.3. An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses. prurience' mixed with theillusion of 'immediate contact with the ancient world' (p. 7).Not only was the city in the course of permanent and majorrefurbishment--again an image familiar to visitors of modernNaples--between the earthquake of AD 62 and the fatal eruption ofVesuvius in AD 79, but also the inhabitants of the city had time tocollect their belongings in the period immediately preceding thecatastrophe. Thus the assemblages recovered within the houses of Pompeiifrom the mid eighteenth century onwards must be treated with greatcaution. Yet, though Mary Beard rightly points out that there is a lotwe do not know, there is still a wealth of detail which can be followedup in the extensive further notes at the end of the book--assembledhere, skilfully woven together and told most engagingly (see for examplethe lively soundscape sound��scape?n.An atmosphere or environment created by or with sound: the raucous soundscape of a city street; a play with a haunting soundscape. evoked on p. 80). The curate behaviour displayed at Pompeii, coupled with the factthat many areas of the city were disturbed after the eruption, make thereconstruction of a whole insula a difficult task. This is attempted inPENELOPE ALLISON'S finds report on The Insula of the Menander, ahefty scholarly tome published in 2006, volume 3 of the British PompeiiProject which started in 1978 (volumes 1, 2 and 4, on the structures,the decorations and the silver treasure appeared between 1997 and 2005).Add to this the perfunctory recording of the excavations of Insula Ibetween 1926 and 1933 (Allison's remark on p. 4 that 'therecording has not been particularly attentive' is generous) and itwould seem that the project of spatial analysis, of reconstructing thefunction of each building in the insula and the use pattern within themis doomed. Yet Allison's analysis and thorough illustratedcatalogue--the list of plates and figures alone takes up 35 pages ofprint--goes a long way towards characterising the components of theinsula, the domestic units, the large atrium houses and gardens (Houseof the Menander, House of the Craftsman, House of the Lovers), theworkshops, taverns and storerooms. Allison concludes that the wholeinsula was in a 'state of upheaval' prior to the eruption ofAD 79, with some dwellings abandoned, some in the course ofrefurbishment, some showing signs of looting or salvage operations andothers inhabited by occupants 'in straitened circumstances'(p. 365). She tends to ascribe this upheaval to either the earthquakethat shook Pompeii 17 years earlier in AD 62 or to post-eruptionsalvaging, paying perhaps too little attention to evacuation immediatelybefore destruction. She does however concede that 'some of thispattern may result from disrupted living conditions prior toeruption' (p. 388). One of the strengths of Mary Beard's book is that she does notstop at the city gates but sets Pompeii within the Campanian landscape,its source of food. This is also the subject of MARINA CIARALDI'sPhD dissertation, People & plants in ancient Pompeii.Ciaraldi's archaeobotanical analyses concentrate on four sampleareas: three come from the city--from the House of the Chaste Loversexcavated in the 1960s, from the House of the Vestals This refers to the house in the Roman Forum. The name has also been used as a a specific house excavated at Pompeii.The House of the Vestal Virgins (Latin: Atrium Vestae) was the place where Vestal Virgins lived. and the House ofHercules' Wedding excavated in the 1990s--and one from a villarustica, the Villa Vesuvio ar Scafati in the nearby countryside. Fromthis a three-phase sequence is constructed: from the sixth to the fourthcentury BC there is evidence of agriculture within a relatively sparselypopulated city, whose inhabitants rely on staple crops and fruit (grain,millet figs and grapes, some olives). In a second phase, between thefourth and second century BC, the range of foodstuffs foodstuffsnpl → comestibles mplfoodstuffsnpl → denr��es fpl alimentairesfoodstuffsfood npl → increases, withmore olives and grapes, bur agricultural produce is still processedwithin the city. Pepper, citrus fruit and some pulses were probablyimported, perhaps channelled though the port of Puteoli. In the thirdphase, from the later second century BC to AD 79, the fully urbanPompeii relies largely on the surrounding countryside for its food, withgardens and vineyards within the city too. The list of comestibles comestiblesNoun, plfood [Latin comedere to eat up] increases, including garden and medicinal plants, herbs, spices,cucumber or melon, dates, pine nuts, pistachio pistachio(pĭstăsh`ēō, pĭstä`shēō), tree or shrub (of the genus Pistacia) of the family Anacardiaceae (sumac family). The species that yields the pistachio nut of commerce is P. , some imported from theeast. At the villa Vesuvio outside Pompeii, Ciaraldi examined residuesfrom a dolium which contained large quantities of peaches and walnutsand a wide array of medicinal plants. She concludes that these plantsand fruits, together with lizards, frogs and toads also found in thedolium, were used to make medicinal concoctions. This conjures up thehellbroth made by the witches in Macbeth Act IV, Scene I (the doliumalso contained little owls, chicken and mice), but I have some doubts asto the security of this context. Our last two Pompeii books are more concerned with the imprint thediscoveries of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries have left on ourcollective imagination. Pompeii and the Roman villa is the book thataccompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washingtonstaged between October 2008 and March 2009 and moving to the Los AngelesCounty Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. between May and October 2009. Its subtitle, art andculture around the Bay of Naples, tells us that it is concerned with thewider context, but this time not the ordinary people and commerce(negotium) but otium, the delightful art of doing nothing, except eat,drink, have congress and discuss Epicurianism in highly landscapedgardens. These pursuits are carried out on a much grander scale than atPompeii itself, with the 'obscene heaping of wealth uponwealth' (see chapters 2 and 3 by Stefano De Caro and KennethLapatin), shown in the magnificent 170-page long catalogue part of thebook, sandwiched between chapters 5 and 6 (Mary Beard on art collectingand Pietro Giovanni Guzzo on archaeology around the Bay of Naples, alargely descriptive account). The book (and presumably pre��sum��a��ble?adj.That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. the exhibition)is beautifully produced with excellent colour illustrations, conveyingsomething of the 'multimedia environment'--a phrase used byBettina Bergman in chapter 4 to describe Pompeian gardens--created inthese villas of otium. It is expertly edited by CAROL MATTUSH, whocannot, however, completely avoid using rather florid art historicallanguage in some of the catalogue entries (e.g. entry 106, p. 235,waxing lyrical about drapery on a first century AD copy of a marblestatue by a pupil of Pheidias). Antiquity recovered is a collection of essays by American scholarswho explore in great depth what was already touched on in the previousbook, i.e. reception, or how Pompeii, Herculaneum and the villas of thePhlegraean Fields and the Bay of Naples to Sorrento have been perceivedfrom the sixteenth century to the present day. Great scholarship isdisplayed in studies that range from volcanism volcanismor vulcanismAny of various processes and phenomena associated with the surface discharge of molten rock or hot water and steam, including volcanoes, geysers, and fumaroles. to gender studies andfrom the experiences of early tourists to modern film (RobertoRossellini's Viaggio in Italia of 1953 and Jean-Luc Godard'sIl disprezzo/Contempt of 1963). The 14 essays edited by VICTORIA GARDNERCOATES & JON SEYDL, the second part of a project which originated ina 2002 exhibition in Philadelphia (Antiquity recovered: Pompeii andHerculaneum in the Philadelphia collections, by the same authors) givedeep insights into what Pompeii has come to represent over the years.Yet I cannot help feeling that these highly accomplished scholars aresomewhat incurious in��cu��ri��ous?adj.Lacking intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity; uninterested.in��cu about the actual archaeology, though there are somevaliant attempts in the early chapters at documenting how the remainswere uncovered. The finely argued essays on Epicurian philosophy,psychoanalysis or feminism are not matched by equally criticalassessments of the archaeological data. Is it that the ancienthistorians, art historians, philologists and other Classicists are tooforgiving or too weary of engaging with the nuts and bolts nuts and boltspl.n. SlangThe basic working components or practical aspects: "[proposing] ofarchaeological investigation? This may be an indictment of the wayarchaeologists present their findings. Mary Beard, a scholar at easewith archaeological discourse, shows that the gap between archaeology,ancient history and art history can be bridged, and this is surely thebest reason to welcome her book. British round-up JOSHUA POLLARD (ed.). Prehistoric Britain. xvi+368 pages, 61illustrations, 3 tables. 2008. Malden (MA) & Oxford: Blackwell;978-1-4051-2545-1 hardback; 978-1-4051-2546-8 paperback 19.99 [poundssterling]. CHRISTOPHER A. SNYDER (ed.). Early peoples of Britain and Ireland:an encyclopedia. Volume I: A-G. xxvi+288 pages, 19 illustrations; VolumeII: H-Z. xxvi+306 pages, 25 illustrations. 2008. Oxford & Westport(CT): Greenwood; 978-1-84645-028-0 & 978-1-84645-029-7 hardback, 90[pounds sterling] (both volumes together). DAVID David, in the BibleDavid,d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. BARROWCLOUGH. Prehistoric Lancashire. 256 pages, 166 b&w& colour illustrations. 2008. Stroud: History Press;978-0-7524-4708-7 paperback 19.99 [pounds sterling]. ANDREW DUNWELL & IAN IAN Interactive Affiliate NetworkIAN i am nothingIAN Instrumentation & Automation NewsIAN Ianuarius (Latin: January)IAN Instituto Agronomico Nacional (Paraguay)IAN Incident Area Network RALSTON. Archaeology and early history ofAngus. 192 pages, 62 figures, 26 colour plates. 2008. Stroud: Tempus;978-0-7524-4114-6 paperback 17.99 [pounds sterling]. RICHARD TABOR. Cadbury Castle: the hillfort and landscapes. 192pages, 100 illustrations, 32 colour plates. 2008. Stroud: History Press;978-0-7524-4715-5 paperback 17.99 [pounds sterling]. ANGUS KONSTAM, illustrated by PETER DENNIS. British forts in theage of Arthur. 64 pages, 60 colour & b&w illustrations. 2008.Oxford: Osprey; 978-1-84603-362-9 paperback 11.99 [pounds sterling]. GERALD MOODY. The Isle of Thanet For the district of the same name, see ."... a garden indeed, a county of corn but the labourers' houses all along, beggarly in the extreme. The people dirty, poor-looking, but particularly dirty. from prehistory to the NormanConquest. 192 pages, 103 illustrations. 2008. Stroud: Tempus;978-0-7524-4689-9 paperback 17.99 [pounds sterling]. DAVID M. WILSON Sir David Mackenzie Wilson, KB (born October 30 1931) is an archaeologist, specialising in the Viking Age, and a museum director.He was the director of the British Museum from 1977 to 1992. . The Vikings in the Isle of Man Noun 1. Isle of Man - one of the British Isles in the Irish SeaManBritish Isles - Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic . 156 pages, 60b&w & colour illustrations. 2008. Aarhus: Aarhus UniversityPress; 978-87-7934-367-2 hardback DKK DKKIn currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Danish Krone.Notes:The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 238, 34.25 [euro], 22.95 [poundssterling] & $48; 978-87-7934-370-2 paperback DKK158, 22.95 [euro],15 [pounds sterling] & $30. Prehistoric Britain is a collection edited by JOSHUA POLLARD--whocontributes a thoughtful first chapter (The construction of PrehistoricBritain)--of 15 chapters by 15 single authors given the task to reviewrecent trends in British prehistory from the Palaeolithic to the lateIron Age. After a comprehensive overview of the Palaeolithic (Chapter 2,by Paul Pettitt), the book divides into two roughly equal blocks: thefirst is dedicated to the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age(Chapters 3-8 by Julian Thomas (Mesolithic-Neolithic transition), RickSchulting (foodways), Lesley McFadyen (landscapes), Vicki Cummings(monuments), Chantal Conneller (lithics) and Andrew Jones (mortuarypractices)); the second deals with the period spanning from the midsecond millennium BC to the end of the Iron Age (Chapters 10-12 and 15by Jacqui Mulville (foodways, later), Joanna Bruck (domestic space),Robert Johnston (landscape, later) and Melanie Giles (identity)); a fewchapters span longer periods appropriate to their subject matter: DavidField's chapter (9) considers the development ofthe agriculturalcountryside from the Neolithic onwards, Ann Woodward's (13) dealswith ceramics from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, and StuartNeedham's (14) examines exchange from the Mesolithic to the laterBronze Age. This collection meets admirably the aims of the Blackwell Studiesin Global Archaeology series, which seeks to 'immerse readers infundamental archaeological ideas and concepts.... thereby exposing[them] to some of the most exciting contemporary developments in thefield'. Some contributors tend more towards reviews and overviews(e.g. Mulville), others more towards theoretically informed exposes(e.g. Jones, Bruck, Needham), and others showcase the findings of newanalyses, in particular biochemical ones (e.g. Schulting), which Pollardhails as the 'quiet scientific revolution' currently takingplace. Most authors achieve a good balance between the narration oftheir particular field of interest and theoretical stances, the lattermuch permeated by post-processual approaches. These have become verysophisticated. Perhaps inevitably, as a large proportion of the authorsmust have been born after 1960, Thatcher's legacy of emphasis onthe individual and distrust for the notion of society shows.Nevertheless, this book should be placed on reading lists alongside suchstaples as Hunter and Ralston's 1999 The archaeology of Britain, asan excellent way of taking the pulse of recent British prehistory. For prehistory, I would be less inclined to recommend Early peoplesof Britain and Ireland, two hardback volumes edited by CHRISTOPHER A.SNYDER. Not that the achievement of this early medievalist me��di��e��val��istalso me��di��ae��val��ist ?n.1. A specialist in the study of the Middle Ages.2. A connoisseur of medieval culture.medievalist1. based atMarymount University, Arlington, Virginia, is not considerable,marshalling over 500 alphabetical entries by 62 contributors, about halfof them American, the other half British (many from LampeterUniversity), with a smattering of Dutch Irish and Canadian. Just thatthe encyclopaedia would have been better had its scope been restrictedto the first millennium AD (it ends in AD 1154). For pre- andprotohistory, the entries are often quite outdated (there are rather fewreferences to works after 2000) and aleatory aleatoryadj. uncertain; usually applied to insurance contracts in which payment is dependent on the occurrence of a contingent event, such as injury to the insured person in an accident or fire damage to his insured building. . That is not to say thatthere are not good individual entries, for example AidanO'Sullivan's long entry on prehistoric and early medieval (butnot Roman) houses, or good summaries, for example by John Collis onaspects of the Iron Age (he was not given the Celts to do, that taskbeing taken on by the editor, Christopher Snyder). Commendable as it isto take the long view and expose student of early historic periods toprehistory, the treatment of prehistory is just not sufficient. This isperhaps best exemplified by the full-page map entitled 'PrehistoricBritain and Ireland in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithicperiods' which is woefully empty (great blank swathes betweenWessex and Orkney, and not even locating sites mentioned in theaccompanying texts); the self same map is repeated three times on pages389, 412 and 434 to accompany the entries on each of these periods. Ifthese comments seem ungracious, they come from someone less versed inthe early Middle Ages, where the encyclopaedia appears morecomprehensive and more authoritative. If I needed to look up a lesserknown early king or saint, I would certainly turn to Early peoples for aconvenient way in. The publishers Tempus, rebranded as the History Press, have a solidreputation for supplying 'entry level' texts on aspects ofBritish archaeology. But they also publish more substantial studies, aswe shall see in a brief round-up of recent Tempus/History Press titles.Prehistaric Lancashire by DAVID BARROWCLOUGH is one such example: animpressively researched and documented overview of a part of northwestEngland, perceived by many to have been a prehistoric 'blackhole'. Barrowclough, who uses a wealth of antiquariandocumentation, as well as hitherto unpublished recent excavation dataand a series of 33 new radiocarbon dates for Early Bronze Age burials inthe region (Appendix on pp. 229-30) shows that this was certainly notthe case in most periods, though for the Neolithic 'the evidencefor occupation still needs to be developed' (p. 11). Neverthelesshe is able to document a 'continuum of Late Mesolithic practicesinto the Neolithic' (pp. 83 & 93). It is, however, the BronzeAge that attracts Barrowclough's greatest attention (a third of thebook: Chapter 5 is devoted to Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age burialtraditions, and the twin themes of continuity and diversity; Chapter 6to the selective deposition of metalwork in the Middle and Late BronzeAge in rivers and bogs). The book, which also thoroughly documentsMesolithic (Chapter 3) and Iron Age (Chapter 7) occupation in thismultifaceted upland and lowland landscape (illustrated by colour plates4 & 6-8 showing the environmental conditions pertaining to each ofthe prehistoric periods) is front and back-ended by two essays, one onantiquarian collecting (Chapter 2) and one on 'the past in thepast' and constructions of identity (Chapter 8). Barrowclough showsthat he is well aware of the new trends charted in Pollard'sPrehistoric Britain and well able to use these theoretical stances inhis vision of prehistoric Lancashire. Archaeology and early history of Angus in central-eastern Scotland,between the Grampian mountains, the North Sea and the river Tay reportson the results of five years' work (1996-2000) by field schools ofthe University of Edinburgh (body, education) University of Edinburgh - A university in the centre of Scotland's capital. The University of Edinburgh has been promoting and setting standards in education for over 400 years. , overseen by its field unit, the Centre forField Archaeology. ANDREW DUNWELL and IAN RALSTON, after introducingnotions of archaeological visibility and the prehistoric sequence in theregion (Chapters 2-4) plunge into the main part of their book fromchapter 5 onwards: investigations of a number of sites in the Lunan andEsk valleys and uplands, dated mainly to the first millennia BC and AD,designed to 'plug the gaps in the data set' (p. 19). Theirfindings are woven into their narrative of the hillforts, roundhouses,lowland settlements, souterrains and burial sites of the region,enhanced by good illustrations (Plates 17 and 19 showing the Hawkhillscooped Iron Age building and the Andownie souterrain Sou´ter`rainn. 1. A grotto or cavern under ground. under excavationare excellent). Of particular interest are the excavations of the twinhillforts of the Brown and White Caterthuns, seen as probably notpermanently occupied, perhaps communal meeting places, but certainlydefensible (p. 82), just one of many aspects covered in the book. Itends with an overview of Angus in the time of the Celts, Romans, Pictsand Scots, stressing that in the Iron Age the landscape was organised onhierarchical lines (p. 160) and that it owed its prosperity toagriculture. Appendices consist of notes on radiocarbon dates, lists offurther reading and suggested places to visit. Cadbury Castle: the hillfort and landscapes is also a report turnedinto a narrative, this time about the work of the South Cadbury EnvironsProject, an intensive survey programme which combined geophysicalsurvey, fieldwalking, test pitting and excavation in an area 8 x 8kmcentred on the hillfort of South Cadbury in Somerset, south-westEngland, best known from Leslie Alcock's excavations of the 1960sand 1970s (published by Alcock in 1972 and 1995 and by Barrett, Freeman& Woodward in 2000). This very detailed presentation, not withoutoccasional lapses into pure conjecture, of the landscape flora theNeolithic to the Early Middle Ages (though the focus fades here afterthe Iron Age) is the considerable work of a local archaeologist, RICHARDTABOR, who shows what can be achieved by a combination of amateur andacademic input and who has interesting comments to make onarchaeological visibility and the design of survey programmes. South Cadbury also figures in ANGUS KONSTAM'S British forts inthe age of Arthur, a nicely produced booklet published by Osprey, apublishing house which specialises in military history. The clear text,with good illustrations and vivid reconstructions by PETER DENNIS,summarises such landmark sites as Tintagel, South Cadbury, the Saxonshore forts For other uses of "Saxon Shore", see Saxon Shore (disambiguation).The Saxon Shore Forts is the collective name given to a system of forts (castra) built along the east and south-east coast of what is now England, during the latter centuries of the Roman occupation of , Dinas Powys or Dinas Emrys. The author is careful not tooveremphasise Verb 1. overemphasise - place special or excessive emphasis on; "I cannot overemphasize the importance of this book"overemphasize, overstressexaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overstate, amplify, magnify, overdraw - to enlarge beyond bounds or the the Arthurian legend but, perhaps with the readers'market in mind, is still keen to retaina certain aura of mystery aroundthe subject: 'All we can do now is explore these sites, and imaginewhat might have gone on within the confines of their walls' (p.55). This is followed by a good section on sites to visit. If I have greeted Barrowclough's Prehistoric Lancashire as agood example of a regional study by an author who is aware of widercontexts, GERALD MOODY's Isle of Thanet from prehistory to theNorman Conquest is more traditional. Though it seems a perfectly goodaccount of the area's archaeology and includes new discoveries(e.g. a number of Beaker burials), the focus is close, really close.There are no maps that show anything much beyond the Isle of Thanet. Noteven Richborough, not many miles away from Thanet and whose relationshipwith the Isle is discussed at length in the Roman chapter, appears onthe Roman map (p. 140). Was this a subtle way of discouraging aperception of history encouraged by 1066 and all that? There are no problems of focus and definition for the last in ourBritish round-up, DAVID WILSON's Vikings in the Isle of Man. It iswritten by one of the most respected scholars of the Viking period inEurope, and one who lives in the Isle of Man, about a real island withinhabitants in contact with the North Sea and the North Atlantic world.It takes the reader from early (i.e. around 900 AD, p. 52) pagan,ceremonial burials through to carved stone crosses and the advent ofChristianity in a couple of chapters which follow the introduction. Twomore chapters are dedicated to settlements, economy, the Church andpolitics, which takes the narrative to the institution of the Tynwald inthe past and in its modern incarnation. A short final chapter commentson the legacy of the Viking age, particularly 'theintangibles--language, law, Church and constitution--that positivelyconfirm the importance of the Norse heritage in the Isle of Man'(p. 138). This book is wonderfully clear and concise. Note that it isnot a Tempus book, but one in a similar format published by AarhusUniversity Press. Here the (excellent) colour plates occur throughoutthe text, and there are helpful, unobtrusive footnotes. The paperbackversion costs less than the Tempus books, so perhaps the History Presscan learn a trick or two from the Danes. It goes without saying that the scales, in time and space, varygreatly in this sample of publications about British archaeology. It isalso obvious that close-focus studies feed the wider picture and viceversa. There is inevitably an imperfect match--and a time lapse bothways--between the more theoretically informed overviews such as those inPollard's edited collection and the narratives developed at localor regional level. Let us hope that archaeologists active in Britain,whatever sector they are working in, will continue to nourish thedialogue that must exist between those who get the stuff out of thegound, those who care about their locality, those who are accomplishedat constructing (grand) narratives and those who like to try out newideas. Books received The list includes all books received between 1 September and 1December 2008. Those featuring at the beginning of New Book Chroniclehave, however, not been duplicated in this list. The listing of a bookin this chronicle does not preclude its subsequent review in Antiquity. General T1M MURRAY & CHRISTOPHER EVANS (ed.). Histories of archaeology:a reader in the history of archaeology The history of archaeology has been one of increasing professionalisation, and the use of an increasing range of techniques, to obtain as much data on the site being examined as possible. OriginsThe exact origins of archaeology as a discipline are uncertain. . x+486 pages, 19 illustrations.2008. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-955007-4 hardback 85[pounds sterling]; 978-0-19-955008-1 paperback 35 [pounds sterling]. DAVID QUAMMEN (ed.). Charles Darwin 'On the origin of thespecies' (illustrated edition), xvi+544 pages, over 350 colourillustrations. 2008. New York: Sterling; 978-1-4027-5639-9 hardback 20[pounds sterling] & $35. ADRIAN DESMOND & JAMES MOORE. Darwin's sacred cause: face,slavery and the quest for human origins. xx+456 pages. 2009. London:Allen Lane; 978-1-8461-4035-8 paperback 25 [pounds sterling]. SHUICHI MATSUMURA, PETER FORSTER & COL1N RENFREW (ed.).Simulations, genetics and human prehistory, xiv+208 pages, 72illustrations, 23 tables, CD-ROM. 2008. Cambridge: McDonald Institutefor Archaeological Research The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research is a research institute of the University of Cambridge in England. HistoryThe Institute was established in 1990 through a generous benefaction from the late Dr D. M. McDonald, a well-known and successful industrialist. ; 978-1-902937-45-8 hardback 25 [poundssterling]. JANA MARIKOVIA-KUBKOVA, NATHAN SCHLANGER & SONIA LEVIN (ed.).Castrum Pragense. Sites of memory: between scientific research andcollective representations (AREA 8, Proceedings of the AREA Seminar atPrague Castle, February 2006). 124 pages, 46 b&w & colourillustrations. 2008. Prague: Archeologicky ustav AV CR & Nanterre:Archives of European Archaeology; 978-80-86124-86-5 &978-2-9600527-5-6 paperback. HENK KARS & ROBERT M. VAN HEERINGEN (ed.). Preservingarchaeological remains in situ: proceedings of the 3rd conference 7-9December 2006, Amsterdam (Geoarchaeological and BioarchaeologicalStudies 10). viii+326 pages, numerous illustrations & tables. 2008.Amsterdam: Institute for Geo- and Bioarchaeology, Vrije UniversiteitAmsterdam. PENNY CUNNINGHAM, JULIA HEEB & ROELAND PAARDEKOOPER (ed.).Experiencing archaeology by experiment, x+118 pages, 66 illustrations, 4tables. 2008. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-342-8 paperback 25 [poundssterling]. PAUL DAVIES. Snails: archaeology and landscape change. xvi+200pages, 98 illustrations, 14 tables. 2008. 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