New book chronicle.

New book chronicle. Piles of animals, smaller piles of records from the 1920s to 1940s,revisited: three reports on three sites, seminal for the recognition ofthe antiquity of humans in North America, showcase new investigativemethods and techniques to further our understanding of human-animalinteraction in the dying days of the Pleistocene and the early days ofthe Holocene. These same techniques are applied to another kill site,this time much older and ascribed to the activities of Neanderthalhunters on the north European plain at Zwolen. Time spent in the companyof the prehistoric megafauna meg��a��fau��na?n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)Large or relatively large animals, as of a particular region or period, considered as a group.meg provides an excuse to look at the depictionof these animals, and others, in the caves of western Europe. The secondpart of this chronicle deals with prehistoric landscapes in and aroundthe European North Sea and northern Europe. Hunters and their prey, in the flesh and in art 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. J. MELTZER. Folsom: new archaeological investigations of aclassic Paleoindian bison kill. xiv+374 pages, 122 illustrations, 68tables. 2006. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University ofCalifornia 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. ; 0-520-24644-6 hardback 35.95 [pounds sterling]. ROBERT H. BRUNSWIG & BONNIE L. PITBLADO (ed.). Frontiers inColorado Paleoindian archaeology: from the Dent site to the RockyMountains. xx+364 pages, 76 illustrations, 29 tables. 2007. Boulder(CO): University Press of Colorado The University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit publisher supported partly by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, the University of Colorado, the University of Northern Colorado, and Western ; 978-0-8701890-5 hardback $60. DOUGLAS B. BAMFORTH (ed.). The Allen Site: a Paleoindian camp inSouthwestern Nebraska. xvi+286 pages, 144 illustrations. 2007.Albuquerque (NM): University of New Mexico Press The University of New Mexico Press, founded in 1929, is a university press that is part of the University of New Mexico. External linkUniversity of New Mexico Press ; 978-0-8263-4295-9hardback $55. ROMUALD SCHILD (ed.). The killing fields of Zwolen: a MiddlePaleolithic kill-butchery-site in central Poland. 248 pages, 134 b&w& colour illustrations, 33 tables. 2006. Warsaw: Institute ofArchaeology 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. and Ethnology ethnology(ĕthnŏl`əjē), scientific study of the origin and functioning of human cultures. It is usually considered one of the major branches of cultural anthropology, the other two being anthropological archaeology and , Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions, having the nature of an academy of sciences. HistoryThe Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN ; 83-8949923-1hardback. ADRIAN LISTER & PAUL BAHN with foreword by JEAN M. AUEL AUEL Automated Unit Equipment List .Mammoths: giants of the Ice Age. 192 pages, numerous b&w &colour illustrations. 2007. London: Frances Lincoln; 978-0-7112-2801-6hardback 19.99 [pounds sterling]. PAUL G. BAHN. Cave art: a guide to the decorated Ice Age caves ofEurope. 224 pages, numerous b&w & colour illustrations. 2007.London: Frances Lincoln; 978-0-7112-2655-5 paperback 14.99 [poundssterling]. PAUL PETTITT, PAUL BAHN, SERGIO RIPOLL & FRANCISCO J. Munoz.Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags in European context, xvi+292pages, 122 illustrations, 16 colour plates, 16 tables. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press; 978-0-19-929917-1 hardback 60 [pounds sterling]. Folsom is a bison kill site, dated to around 10 500 cal BE on theedge of the Great Plains in northern New Mexico Northern New Mexico may simply mean the northern part of New Mexico, but in cultural terms it usually means the area of heavy Spanish settlement in the north-central part. where remains of bisonantiquus were encountered in a 'bonebed' in 1926.Investigations were primarily triggered by the need to provide museumswith bison skeletons for display, but the excavations became far moreprominent when a projectile point (a fluted or 'Folsom point')was found associated with the bones and 'forever changed Americanarchaeology'. MELTZER'S comprehensive and well illustratedbook combines a re-assessment of the 1926-8 data with a report on hisown 199799 fieldwork and new analyses of the site's ecology,geology, climate, natural resources, chronology, fauna and lithics. Thegenerous coverage also allows for an expose of Meltzer's researchdesign and an in-depth review of the 'Folsom controversy'(i.e. difficulties in accepting the antiquity of the find in the 1920s,followed by an endorsement by the archaeological elite of the day,eclipsing the achievement of the original discoverers and excavators)which leads to a captivating discussion of spheres of influence in thearchaeological profession (pp. 47-8; fig. 2.15) and an excursus ex��cur��sus?n. pl. ex��cur��sus��es1. A lengthy, appended exposition of a topic or point.2. A digression. into themore recent head-scratching occasioned by Tom Dillehay'sdiscoveries ar Monte Verde in 1997 which showed a much earlier humanpresence in the southernmost Americas. Meltzer's report starts withan introductory chapter asking 20 questions, reprised at the end(Chapter 9: 'Answered and unanswered questions'). There welearn, for example, that the site was a single encounter kill of bisons(MNI See Merom New Instructions. : 32 in the sample) by a group of mobile hunters whose projectilepoints came from a very wide area and who stayed only briefly ar Folsombefore the winter set in. Folsom 'is in many ways an accident ofhistory, in its creation, preservation and history.' The site was'not especially significant' to the original hunting group,was rapidly buried by alluvium al��lu��vi��um?n. pl. al��lu��vi��ums or al��lu��vi��aSediment deposited by flowing water, as in a riverbed, flood plain, or delta. Also called alluvion. , and later revealed by a flash flood.'The irony ... is that ... however inconsequential this episode mayhave been in the lives of the Folsom hunter-gatherers who killed thosebison some 10 500 years ago, their actions would have a profound andlasting impact on American archaeology' (p. 307). Not bison but mammoths is what Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindianarchaeology is mostly about, as the Dent site, a little older thanFolsom, is the main focus of the collection edited by BRUNSWIG &PITBLADO. The book is in three parts: first context, then Dent, finallyrecent research elsewhere in Colorado. The central section consists of areview and update of the Dent site, revealed, once again in a floodepisode, in 1932 in the north-eastern Colorado plain at the foot of theRocky Mountains. Though badly recorded (p. 89), Dent became a landmarksite, as Clovis projectile points were found associated with mammothbones. New research since 1987 by one of the editors (Brunswig) hasestablished a deposition date for the 'bonebed' around 11 000BP and that the mammoths (MNI: 14 in the sample) represent accumulatedkills in several incidents; oxygen isotope analysis on the teethconfirms that the mammoths were killed at different seasons, probably inambushes in a gully of the Colorado piedmont; analysis of butchery marksis interpreted as 'serially episodic processing' (p. 178),while phytolith phy��to��lith?n.A minute particle formed of mineral matter by a living plant and fossilized in rock. and starch analysis on the teeth suggests that themammoths had access to a wide range of feeding grounds, eating grasses,conifers and oak. Part 3 showcases new research in climate modelling, ananalysis of hearth-centred use of space in the mountains of Colorado (noactual hearth was found), an overview of the archaeology of the southernRocky Mountains, a typology of late Paleoindian spear points and aretrospect from Wyoming. Frontiers ably shows what new methods cancontribute to addressing old questions and illustrates the shift overrecent years to mutlidiscplinarity and to studying whole landscapes; inthe latter the emphasis is also shifting from the plains to themountains. The Allen Site, a Paleoindian camp in Southwestern Nebraska on theGreat Plains is dated to c. 11 000-7500 BP, or post-Clovis period. It isa write-up of an earlier excavation by Holder in 1947-8, new fieldworkby the author, DOUGLAS BAMFORTH, at the site and in nearby locationsbetween 1989 and 1995, and a report on the analyses thus generated. Astimulating introduction on changing ideas in Paleoindian archaeologyprecedes the report proper, which, apart from the usual ingredients,features analyses of freshwater mussels or blood residue on lithic lith��ic?1?adj.Consisting of or relating to stone or rock.Adj. 1. lithic - of or containing lithium2. lithic - relating to or composed of stone; "lithic sandstone" material. The faunal assemblage is dominated by bison, but there is alsoa wide range of other game and water animals present. In this the siteis quite different from Dent or Folsom: at Allen a mixed subsistencestrategy was employed in response to profound changes in theenvironment. Allen was a location repeatedly visited over some 3500years, a campsite 'ar which a variety of game was processed andconsumed by small multifamily groups' (p. 225) over short periodsduring the warm season. The changing environment appears to haveaffected some elements of the package (less reliance on large game, moremobility) while not affecting others (group size and composition). Theseresults are clearly presented, though not as excitingly as, for example,in the Folsom volume. The illustrations are rather uninspiring (e.g. thebasic location map on p. 7) and I missed more graphic documentation fromthe investigations of the 1940s; p. 117 hints at problems with thelatter: 'the 1947 material has no clear vertical provenience pro��ve��nience?n.A source or origin.[Alteration of provenance.]Noun 1. andthe faunal assemblage can be placed confidently only within one of thethree major strata.' At Zwolen in Poland, excavated between 1983 and 1990, documentationwas better, though the site did have its fair share of problems: thisrescue excavation had to cope with a rifle range, a sewage plant andaquarry. The report from this work, The Killing Fields of Zwolen--orbrainy Neanderthals fill freezer with horse meat--is a finemultidisciplinary study of a Middle Palaeolithic butchery site on thegreat northern plains of Europe, on a small tributary of the riverVistula. There a remarkable assemblage of tools and animal bones wasrecovered in alluvial deposits TL dated to c. 70-60 000 years BP andlater, in three distinct cultural layers. The great majority of animalbones belonged to horses (MNI: 38, a small proportion of those killed).These were hunted methodically by channelling herds towards thenarrowing Zwolefi valley, butchered on the spot and probably stored on afrozen oxbow that later melted (pp. 61, 233). This organised hunting inthe winter season was complemented by opportunistic hunting andscavenging, at other times, of bison, mammoth, woolly rhinoceros,reindeer and other smaller game, including birds and fish. In this, theNeanderthal hunters displayed 'modern' behaviour (pp.100-102). The Middle Palaeolithic lithic material, mostly flakes,biface-trimming flakes and tools, was brought to the site from localsources (30km away) but also from further afield (200km away) asfinished tools or roughouts. Zwolen fits in with the view thatNeanderthals were perfectly capable of hunting large game in anorganised fashion by ar least 60 000 BE Thereafter ROMUALD SCHILDperceives great forces at work: 'the cultural changes at around 40000 years ago might have had nothing to do with the intellectualcapacity of the brains of either modern man or the Neanderthal, for bothwere always superior to the preformed task. There were both of us there,but we simply do not know "who was who" in the great culturalacceleration and play of ideas that created the Upper Palaeolithic'(p. 238). So why the demise? While in the Ice Age, let us greet in passing the third edition in2007 of Mammoths: giants of the Ice Age. LISTER & BAHN'S bookwas first published in 1994 and then in 2000/2001. This hugely enjoyableintroduction includes everything from biology to extinction and usesmaterial from the sciences, archaeology and art in a balanced way. Thesite summaries, colour illustrations and maps are excellent and thesection on interpreting the evidence manages to be informative whileremaining concise. The new edition appears well updated: over half thetitles in the bibliography have a publication date after 2000, and thereare new sections, for example on the discoveries in the Yamal peninsulain northern Siberia in 2007 (see on pp. 46-7 the stunningly preservedbaby mammoth 'Lyuba'). A book to place in any hands aged 9 to99. The engraved mammoth discovered in 2000 in the Grotte de Cussac inthe Dordogne and reproduced on p. 121 of the book above cannot feature(because the cave is not accessible to the public; but see http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/cussac/fr/index.htm) in PAUL BAHN'SCave art: a guide to the decorated Ice Age caves of Europe, afull-colour guidebook to take along when travelling through France (24sites presented), Spain (20 sites), Portugal (Escoural and the Coavalley), Italy (2 sites in Sicily, one each in Calabria and Liguria) andEngland (Creswell Crags). All the information a visitor needs isthere--is there a loo nearby, how far do I have to walk, is it slippery?among many questions answered--and the text renders something of thefeeling that penetrating a deep decorated cave creates, touches onaspects of stylistic attributions, dating, decorative techniques, thefigures depicted and possible meanings. Bahn emphasises that 'Notall of [Ice Age art] is necessarily mysterious or religious ... It isgenerally agreed that [it] contains messages ... but unfortunately werarely know how to read them' (p. 31) but urges visitors to see forthemselves with the help of this little guide (the English readingpublic being, we are told on p. 9, poorly supplied with this type ofpublication). Animals in Upper Palaeolithic parietal art, Britain finally gotthem in 2003 at Creswell Crags in the English Peak District. There is inthe book edited by PETTITT, BAHN, RIPOLL & MUNOZ still some of thefeeling of elation elation/ela��tion/ (e-la��shun) emotional excitement marked by acceleration of mental and bodily activity, with extreme joy and an overly optimistic attitude. at the discoveries on 14 April 2003 and of theexcitement experienced by the participants at the Palaealithic cave artar Creswell Crags in European context conference in April 2004 whoseproceedings this book contains. Since 2003, quite a menagerie--but LesCombarelles it is not--has joined the 'caprid' first reportedfrom Church Hole in Antiquity in June 2003. This animal is now a stag(possibly with tines on its antlers, formerly the ibex's horns), asRipoll and Munoz reinterpret it (p. 17). Apart from the stag, Ripoll andMunoz's descriptions refer to cervids, horse, bovids, a number ofbirds, lines and symbols. But caution is still required: some imagedescriptions carry the rider "but believed to be natural byPP' [Paul Pettitt]; some illustrations (e.g. plate 12) carryinterpretative drawings not referred to in the text (and different yetagain on Ripoll's own website: seehttp://www.uned.es/dptopha/creswell/fotos/creswell15.jpg); the'ibis' (fig. 2.5-6) looks completely different in stylecompared to the other engravings; there are problems with the presenceof ibex (now solved if the image is that of a stag) and bison in theBritish late Glacial fauna (Yalden, p. 58); and some associations oflines are frankly difficult for a non-specialist to make out. This isespecially true for the 'birds' panels (X and Vil, see figures2.9-10, 4.1-3, 8.3-5, 8.9, plate 9) which Paul Pettit reinterprets asfemale figures. The argument for the association of female figures withMagdalenian parietal art is indeed strong and there is a generalagreement in form; but I remain sceptical. On the other hand, I amequally unconvinced by the birds; if really pushed, I would go forsuperimposed legs or hindquarters of animals. The book also containssubstantial chapters on the archaeology of Creswell Crags and its region(e.g. by Chamberlain, Jacobi) and on parietal art sites in Normandy(Gouy, by Martin), Sicily and Sardinia (Mussi), the Quercy (Lorblancheton horses), L'Angle sur l'Anglin (Pincon), Cantabria (GonzalezSainz on dating) and the Coa valley (Baptista and Batarda Fernandez onpreservation issues). Clearly the work at Creswell Crags is work inprogress. But 60 [pounds sterling] is a lot to pay for interimstatements and sometimes only loosely connected papers from elsewhere: asumming up from an European perspective might have usefully replaced therather pedestrian summary of the conference at the end of the book andone might have expected more completeness and consistency in thebook's illustrations: no decent location map, images discussed butnot illustrated, differences in style (e.g. only the birds/femalesillustrated as 3D laser scans). We look forward to consolidated reportsfrom a site that is so clearly of enormous significance, and perhaps oneday from other cave art in Britain. Wet and dry archaeology in northern Europe VINCENT GAFFNEY, KENNETH THOMSON & SIMON Simon,in the Bible.1 One of the Maccabees.2 or Simon Peter: see Peter, Saint.3 See Simon, Saint.4 Kinsman of Jesus.5 Leper of Bethany in whose house a woman anointed Jesus' feet. FITCH (ed.). MappingDoggerland: the Mesolithic landscapes of the southern North Sea. xii+132pages, 81 colour & b&w illustrations, 6 tables. 2007. Oxford:Archaeopress; 978-1-905739-14-1 paperback 19.99 [pounds sterling]. CLIVE WADDINGTON (ed.). Mesolithic settlement in the North Seabasin: a case study from Howick, North-East England. xx+236 pages, 156b&w & colour illustrations, 59 tables. 2007. Oxford: Oxbow;978-1-84217-246-9 hardback 20 [pounds sterling]. JOHN BARBER, CLARA CLARA Clairemont Amateur Radio Association CLARK, MIKE CRESSEY, ANNE CRONE cronesee crock. , ALEX HALE, JONHENDERSON, RUPERT HOUSLEY, ROB SANDS & ALISON SHERIDAN (ed.)compiled by CATHERINE GREEN. Archaeology from the Wetlands: recentperspectives (Proceedings of the eleventh WARP Conference, Edinburgh2005). xx+364 pages, 156 illustrations, 26 tables. 2007. Edinburgh:Society of Antiquaries of Scotland The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is the senior antiquarian body in Scotland, with its headquarters, collections, archive, and lecture theatre in the Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh. The Society plays an important role in the cultural life and heritage of Scotland. ; 978-0-903903-40-0 hardback 25[pounds sterling]. RCAHMS RCAHMS Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments ofScotland The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) is an executive non-departmental public body financed by the Scottish Parliament through the Architecture Policy Unit of the Tourism, Culture and Sport Group of the Education Department of the ). In the shadow of Bennachie: a field archaeology of Donside,Aberdeenshire. xii+306 pages, 288 colour & b&w illustrations.2007. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland & RoyalCommission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland;978-0-90390346-2 hardback 30 [pounds sterling]. If discovering Upper Palaeolithic parietal art on mainland Britainwas momentous, how about mapping a whole late Pleistocene and earlyHolocene landscape beneath the southern North Sea? Welcome toDoggerland, which is making a triumphant and colourful reappearance inGAFFNEY, THOMSON [dagger] & FITCH'S Mapping Doggerland,complete with hills, ridges, rivers, valleys, lakes, saltmarshes andplains, thanks to 3D seismic data gathered for different purposes(hydrocarbon prospection), as well as other sophisticated 2D survey andcoring data. In the words of the authors: 'The analysis of 23 000square kilometres of seismic data is comparable to carrying out ageophysical survey over a country the size of Wales ... In the course ofthe North Sea Palaeolandscape Project, it is hardly hyperbole to assertthat, along with the outstanding contributions of Coles [her seminalpaper of 1998, 'Doggerland: a speculative survey' in PPS (Packets Per Second) The measurement of activity in a local area network (LAN). In LANs such as Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI, as well as the Internet, data is broken up and transmitted in packets (frames), each with a source and destination address. 64:45-81], Flemming, Dix and others, the project has effectively begun toprovide the archaeological outline of a previously undiscovered Europeanrealm' (p. 8). After the introduction, three technical chaptersexplain the Lypes of data used in this venture, the technology andmethodology of 3D seismic data donated by Petroleum Geo Services to theproject, and how to visualise them. Chapter 5 presents the geomorphologyof two ridges found within a deep basin, the Outer Silver Pit, whilechapter 6 investigates the role salt tectonics play in latePleistocene/early Holocene land formations and influence the courses ofrivers. The main chapter in the book is chapter 7, the atlas: this iswhere we get to see the relief, drainage basins and much else besides,detailed in a table on p. 90 (for example 24 lakes or wetlands). Chapter8 deals with the sediments and pollen from boreholes obtained from theBritish Geological Survey The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly-funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research. : the analysis of 8 cores proved a littledisappointing (p. 101), but nevertheless the landscape acquired a coatof trees, shrubs, herbs and mosses in the process, commensurate with anearly Holocene woodland and open habitat. Where do we go from here? Ashort chapter (9) touches on the impact the rising sea levels andeventual submergence between 10 000 and 6000 BP had on the economic andsocial organisation of the time (a subject flagged up by Bryony bryony:see gourd. Coles in1998 and later and which we shall meet again in Waddingtoffs bookbelow), problems of visibility, or the possibility of also'reading' the later Palaeolithic landscape of the North Seabasin. A model of the topographic and economic zones in the region ispresented (p. 107) and matched with a map of the threat to this newlyrevealed land. The final message is that Doggerland may have been theprime European Mesolithic settlement area and what we know fromterrestrial archaeology represents peripheral manifestations (p. 117),forcing us to rethink early Holocene human activity in Britain,Scandinavia and the Low Countries. Back on the mainland, at Howick on the coast betweenNewcastle-upon-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed a small promontory overlooksan estuary, a few hundred metres from what was then the North Sea shore.There a hut, a circular sunken-floored building 6m in diameter withinternal posts, was built and rebuilt twice over a period of continuousoccupation between 7850 and 7650 cal BC. Whether this occupation waspermanent or not is open to debate, bur CLIVE WADDINGTON and his mainco-contributors Nicky Milner and Geoff Bailey are strongly inclinedtowards the former. The way this settlement worked and used theplentiful resources from its surroundings is presented in a model (p.199) which gives three alternatives: seasonal, permanent or mixedresidency between estuarine/coastal and upland locations. This is one ofthe many positive elements in an excellent report. The project combinedfavourable circumstances--the site is little disturbed, not complicatedby multiperiod occupation, the assemblages are discrete (though thereare complex taphonomic problems with the animal bones and the shellassemblages)--with clear research procedures. Following the initialdiscovery in 2000, a full site evaluation programme was undertaken,leading to a research design with two elements: the excavation of thesettlement site in 2002, and an off-site programme with airphotographic, geophysical, fieldwalking, test-pitting and coringsurveys. The results from this coordinated activity are clearly exposedin the report: apart from the hut, experimentally reconstructed twicewith thatch and with turf, there are hearths and pits and activity areaswith chipped stone debitage The term debitage refers to the totality of waste material produced during lithic reduction and the production of chipped stone tools. This assemblage includes, but is not limited to, different kinds of lithic flakes, shatter, and production errors and rejects. . These features and their assemblages areanalysed in great detail, starting with 59 [sup.14]C dates, a study ofthe lithics, use-wear and residue analysis, a consideration of bevelledpebbles (probably tools for smoothing seal skins), a study of the faunaland shell remains (no midden middendungheap. though), a discussion of the abundantroasted hazelnuts (intensive exploitation is suggested) and anassessment of the data from the environmental survey. Together thesestudies build up a picture of a family unit with access to plentifulfoodstuffs foodstuffsnpl → comestibles mplfoodstuffsnpl → denr��es fpl alimentairesfoodstuffsfood npl → , as well as freshwater and marine resources. It 'pointstowards a settlement system that involved not only residential stabilityover generations but also one that did not require significantmobility' (p. 197). And why should this be happening innorth-eastern Britain, which is emerging as an important area for earlysettlement and for the beginning of narrow blade lithic traditions,between 8000 and 7500 BC? Waddington contends that this is the time thatsaw the start of the rise of sea levels in the North Sea basin, causingdisplacement of human groups and pressure on neighbouring lands:'one response to such pressure may have been to build permanenthuts, possibly as territorial markers, in order to protect access to therich and already inhabited lands around the North Sea margin' (p.207). The Doggerland Daily headlines for 1 April 7700 BC might have read'Floods Trigger Property Boom' and 'NE Negotiates Quotason Economic Migrants'. Once more in the water, or bog, with Archaeology from the Wetlands:recent perspectives, a compendious com��pen��di��ous?adj.Containing or stating briefly and concisely all the essentials; succinct.[Middle English, from Late Latin compendi tome containing 38 articles by 67contributors edited by BARBER et al. As the eleventh WARP conference washeld in Edinburgh, the emphasis was naturally on Scotland, but there isa strong showing from Ireland and England too, as well as contributionsfrom Scandinavia, the Benelux, northern America and Poland. The volumeis organised in 5 sections. The first discusses issues of preservationand monitoring; it is also where Swedish and Dutch examples of practiceare presented and the occasion for airing some theoretical thoughts, forexample in two papers by O'Sullivan and Van de Noort. Put veryschematically the first stresses the opportunities to study long-termbehaviour and 'cultural biographies' but also warns thatwetlands show seasonal, sporadic or interrupted sequences; the secondrestates that wetlands are an artificial construct, are part of alandscape, itself a place to do stuff, or 'taskscape'.Thereafter the articles are arranged by type of environment--alluvial,peat, lacustrine--followed by poster papers (there I particularly likedKatrin Thier on the language of wetlands in northern Europe). Thoughthere are excellent contributions in all sections (the Middle Bronze Agebundles from County Meath caught my imagination), it is the lakesection, with 9 crannog crannog:see lake dwelling. crannogIn Scotland and Ireland, an artificially constructed site for a house or settlement, usually on an islet or in the shallows of a lake. papers (8 from Scotland, one from Ireland) thatis the most impressive and cohesive. A battery of specialists repeatedlyaddress questions of taphonomy ta��phon��o��my?n.1. The study of the conditions and processes by which organisms become fossilized.2. The conditions and processes of fossilization. , structural history, deposit modelling,dating, preservation and monitoring of the 500 or so 'AncientScottish lake dwellings or crannogs' (title of an 1882 book byRobert Munro). Most thought-provoking are the papers which deal withconstruction, deposition, decay and implications for dating by Crone(Loch Glashan), Henderson (2 articles), Cavers (with good diagrams onpp. 248-9) and Dixon (Loch Tav dating). This is where the editedproceedings are at their best; less convincing are the arguments for aseparation of wetland archaeology from mainstream archaeology, as weread on p. 4: '... we mar need to conclude that the lack of impactof wetland results on the interpretational models applied to drylandsites probably cannot be remedied' and 'Perhaps then we haveto accept that wetland archaeology is a theatre of archaeology in itsown right ...' Just because the archaeology is wet, in danger ofdrying out, often very good, requiring its own protocols and givinginsights into aspects denied dryland archaeologists, should not give itlicence to secede. Maritime archaeologists have also bemoaned the lackof attention paid by landbound archaeologists in the past but arestriving to make 'their' archaeology relevant. Surely that isa better way forward. And finally onto Aberdeenshire, with In the shadow of Bennachie, abeautiful volume by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and HistoricalMonuments of Scotland, in a series devoted to landscape studies. Thenewest in the series is dedicated to Donside in Aberdeenshire, spanningan area some 80 x 30km from the Grampian uplands, down the valley of theriver Don to Aberdeen and the North Sea coast. The title of the bookrefers to the hill of Bennachie in the piedmont overlooking the Domperhaps the battle of Mons Graupius The Battle of Mons Graupius took place in 83 or 84. Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the Roman governor had sent his fleet ahead to panic the Caledonians, and, with light infantry reinforced with British auxiliaries, reached the site, which he found occupied by the enemy. which Tacitus describes in hisbiography of Agricola was fought in its shadow. The book is not aninventory (which the reader is invited to consult through theCommission's Canmore database, see http://www.rcahms.gov.uk) bur avolume which puts the monuments from earliest prehistory to World War IIstructures in context. The volume contains five large chapters inchronological order: Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments (chapter 5),including, for example, detailed considerations of recumbent stonecircles Recumbent stone circles are a variation on the more familiar standard stone circles found throughout the British Isles and Brittany. The recumbent circle is a form peculiar to the north east of Scotland. Recumbent stone circles date back to approx 3000 BC. (p. 59 ff.); the later prehistoric landscape, with hut circles,souterrains or landmark forts like Tap o' Noth (p. 97 ff.) andRoman camps are in chapter 6; the early medieval landscape, with itsPictish symbol stones (for example ar Rhynie, p. 119 ff.) and stonescarrying Christian iconography has a chapter of its own (chapter 7); thelong medieval and later chapter (chapter 8) considers the manystone-built structures but also the archaeology of rural settlement;finally eighteenth- to twentieth-century landscapes, illustrated forexample by the decayed grandeur of the Palladian mansion ar Wardhouse(p. 234), occupy chapter 9. The volume goes further than just splendidlypresenting its wares. The first four chapters which introduce theregion, the discovery of its monuments and their survival ordisappearance (chapters 1-3) contains an extensive essay on theenvironment (chapter 4), which is also where the Mesolithic archaeologyfeatures. Anda concluding chapter, proceeding once againchronologically, emphasises the wealth of the region bur also the impactthat the agricultural improvements of the eighteenth and nineteenthcenturies had on this landscape. Ir is also concerned with visibilityand the limitations of surveying monuments, stating that 'it ismerely a starting point in managing the long-term conservation andinvestigation of our cultural heritage' (p. 251). The RoyalCommission has more than proven its commitment to long-term research inpresenting us with this book. These four books, each excellent examples of their type, showinnovation, depth, breadth and attention to detail, though Wetlands andHowick, published commendably speedily, show some signs of haste. Thequality of production, especially of Bennachie is high and it has been apleasure to get acquainted with 'ah entirely new Europeancountry' (Doggerland, p. 118). Books received The list includes all books received between 1 December 2007 and IMarch 2008. Those featuring at the beginning of New Book Chronicle have,however, not been duplicated in this list. The listing of a book in thischronicle does not preclude its subsequent review in Antiquity. General OSCAR (Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime) AOL's internal project name for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). The core functions of OSCAR, known as the Basic OSCAR Services (BOS), include Login/Logoff, Locate (find out about other AIM users), Instant Message MORO ABADIA. Arqueologia prehistorica e historia de laciencia: hacia una historia critica de la arqueologia. 310 pages. 2007.Barcelona: Bellaterra; 978-84-7290-379-1 paperback 22 [euro]. MARGARITA DIAZ-ANDREU. A World History of Nineteenth-CenturyArchaeology. Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past (Oxford Studies inthe 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. 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Creationism creationismor creation science,belief in the biblical account of the creation of the world as described in Genesis, a characteristic especially of fundamentalist Protestantism (see fundamentalism). and its Critics in Antiquity. xviii+270pages. 2007. Berkeley (CA): University of California Press;978-0-520-25364-3 hardback 17.95 [pounds sterling] ROBERT H.F. CARVER. The Protean Ass. The Metamorphoses of Apuleiusfrom Antiquity to the Renaissance. xvi+546 pages. 2008. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press; 978-0-19-921786-1 hardback The Roman empire and late antiquity EDMUND THOMAS. Monumentality and the Roman Empire. Architecture inthe Antonine Age. xxvi+378 pages, 184 illustrations. 2007. Oxford:Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-928863-2 hardback 120 [poundssterling]. A. G. POULTER (ed.). The Transition to Late Antiquity on the Danubeand Beyond (Proceedings of the British Academy 141). xxx+678 pages, 214illustrations, 8 colour plates, 19 tables. 2007. 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