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New book chronicle. Big books for students, glossy books for their parents, small booksfor use or distraction, things that are not books: these constitute theelements of this spring chronicle. Big books KENNETH L. FEDER FEDER Fundo Europeu De Desenvolvimento Regional (Portugal)FEDER Federaci��n Espa?ola de Asociaciones de Enfermedades Raras . The past in perspective: an introduction to humanprehistory prehistory,period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to . Fourth edition, xxiv+ 696 pages, over 300 b&w &colour illustrations. 2010. Oxford: Oxford University Press;978-0-19-539430-6 paperback 50 [pounds sterling]. Companion website:http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195394306/student/?view=usa BARRY CUNLIFFE, CHRIS GOSDEN & ROSEMARY A. JOYCE (ed.). TheOxford handbook of archaeology. xviii+1162 pages, over 100illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-927101-6hardback 85 [pounds sterling]. CHRIS SCARRE (ed.). The Human past: world prehistory and thedevelopment of human societies. 784 pages, 770 b&w & colourillustrations. Second edition 2009 (first published by Thames &Hudson in 2005). London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-28780-4paperback 32.50 [pounds sterling]. Companion website:http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/web/humanPast/ Fat textbooks, well established across the Atlantic, made theirmark on the British undergraduate market with the publication of Renfrewand Bahn's Archaeology: theories, methods and practice back in1991. Now in its fifth edition (2008, costing 29.95 [pounds sterling];ISBN ISBNabbr.International Standard Book NumberISBNInternational Standard Book NumberISBNn abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m978-0-500-28719-4) and augmented by a companion website(http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/web/archaeology/5e/index.html)containing summaries, flashcards, quizzes and exercises, thisundergraduate staple has been joined over the years by a number ofcontenders for students' meagre mea��geralso mea��gre ?adj.1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain.3. allowances. The uneven 2-volume setof the Handbook of archaeological methods (2005) and theories (2008;review by Ethan Cochrane in this reviews section, pp. xxx) would givelittle change out of 200 [pounds sterling]. So, what is more affordable?Three big textbooks have come out recently, either new editions(FEDER'S The past in perspective in its fourth edition, andScarre's Human past in its second edition) or brand-newpublications (CUNLIFFE, GOSDEN & JOYCES'S Oxford handbook ofarchaeolagy). Let us take a brief look at them. KENNETH L. FEDER'S nearly 700-page long The past inperspective must be popular in the US since it has reached its fourthedition since 1995. It comes with a companion website (the usualsummaries, flashcards and quizzes, plus instructor resources). The bookis essentially in two parts: the first 8 chapters are devoted to thePleistocene and early humans, the next 8 chapters to the Holocene andmanifestations of complexity around the world. To a European student,the balance is radically different from what might be expected. Indeed,in the second part of the book, it gets harder to find European examplesor case studies, once past Star Carr, Stonehenge and Minoan Crete (e.g.nothing on the European Iron Age). There is of course much to commend inthis book, such as explicit didactic purpose, clear exposition andintelligent debunking of myths (which is one of Feder's abidinginterests). I found it however rather prescriptive and could not shakeoff my first impression of an author who spends twice as much spacethanking his cats ('kitties'; urgh!) than his wife in theacknowledgements. Petty? Yes. So, to make amends, I conclude by pointingout the benefits of seeing a textbook with a different global balanceand would recommend that The past in perspective be consulted for itswealth of well-organised information mastered by a single author. Neither CUNLIFFE, GOSDEN & JOYCE nor SCARRE would contemplateattempting world-wide coverage single-handedly in their respectiveOxford handbook of archaeology and Human past, opting instead to edit avast range of specialist contributions. Since the Oxford handbook is thenew kid on the block, comments will be mainly on this book. This doesnot in any way lessen the quality of Scarre's Human past, which inmy opinion is the best textbook on world archaeologyhttp://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/84/ant840275.htm available. Ir is pleasure tofind that it has made it into a second edition, revised and updated toinclude recent discoveries and new thinking and a companion website withsummaries, quizzes and flashcards. I would agree with Elizabeth Twohig(reviewing the first edition of The Human past in European Journal ofArchaeology 8 (2005): 316) that 'if a student could only afford onetextbook for archaeology, I would recommend The Human past.' I do not, however, see The Oxford handbook as competition, more asa complement centred on concepts more than on summarising themultiplicity of past human endeavours. Between them 42 authors andeditors have produced 35 discursive chapters arranged in 7 parts: thefirst two deal with the history of the discipline, theories, method andpractice; part 3 considers early humans, part 4 subsistence strategiesand part 5 complex societies including those of China, Mesoamerica andthe central Andes. It is in this section that two excellentcontributions are to be found: Robin Skeates on trade and interactionand Ian Morris's essay on what is meant by that catch-all phrase'cultural complexity'. He comes up with his own 'minimaldefinition': cultural complexity is 'the scale of practices(settlement, energy capture, monument building, inequality andheterogeneity, and communication) characterising societies' (p.529). Amen to that. Though a mouthful, once you remove the subdefinitionin the brackets it becomes clear: the scale of practices. The handbookthen sets off on widely scattered overviews, starting with CyprianBroodbank's excellent expose of the fluctuating dynamics in theMediterranean basin over a very long duration. Overviews ranging fromsubSaharan Africa to the circumpolar cir��cum��po��lar?adj.1. Located or found in one of the Polar Regions.2. Astronomy Denoting a star that from a given observer's latitude does not go below the horizon. zone, and from East Asia to NorthAmerica follow. The book ends with a few issues and debates such as therepatriation RepatriationThe process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.Notes:If you are American, converting British Pounds back to U.S. dollars is an example of repatriation. of cultural remains or sex and gender discussed in part 7. Predictably enough, the chapter that least grabbed myimagination--though I confess to not having read the whole of this hugetome--was Roger White's chapter on excavation. Why is it sodifficult to write inspiringly about this subject? At the heart of itthere seems to be a contradiction, expressed thus: 'the importanttask of the archaeologist, therefore, is not interpretation, since thiscan be discarded later if it is proved to be incorrect, bur therecording and the presentation of the data that lies behind theinterpretation' (p. 201). White really does mean it since it isalso the point he hammers home ('dispassionate detail') in hisfinal sentences on p. 207. This is pedestrian, and shows naive faiththat there are such things as data that any observer could record.Surely by now it is acknowledged that this is not the case: asChristopher Chippindale puts it in an article in American Antiquity (654[2000]: 605) archaeologists do not deal in data (givens) but capta'things that we have ventured forth in search of andcaptured'. Only when we stop being sanctimonious sanc��ti��mo��ni��ous?adj.Feigning piety or righteousness: "a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg that looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity"Mark Twain. about 'thedata' will excavation become once again a stimulating arena. 1160 pages allow generous coverage. Yet, perhaps with the US marketin mind,--is it just a coincidence that Paleo-Indian points are chosento illustrate the jacket?--Europe is not hugely prominent, nor indeedthe Iron Age. There are generally few illustrations; the duplication ofthe same plan of the Uluburun shipwreck on pages 563 (in chapter bySkeates) and 707 (in chapter by Broodbank) could have been avoided. Theexception is Stephanie Moser's chapter which discussesarchaeological representation of the past from the Renaissance to thetwentieth century where the (monochrome) pictures are essential. Did theeditors succeed in their aim, which is to 'give those new to thediscipline some sense of the excitement, possibility, and controversy ofarchaeological practices and results. For those already knowledgable,there is plenty that is new and which has never been brought together inthis form before' (p. xvi)? On the whole yes, even if some chaptersare perhaps at the low end of the excitement scale. Glossy books THOMAS HARRISON (ed.). The great empires of the ancient world. 288pages, 300 b&w & colour illustrations. 2009. London: Thames& Hudson; 978-0-500-051603 hardback 24.95 [pounds sterling]. CHARLES FREEMAN. Sites of antiquity from ancient Egypt to the fallof Rome: 50 sites that explain the Classical world. 248 pages, numerouscolour illustrations. 2009. Taunton: Blue Guides, Somerset Books;978-1-905131-31-0 hardback 25 [pounds sterling], $50 & CAN$62.50. DOMINIC RATHBONE (ed.). Civilizations of the ancient world. 384pages, over 1000 colour illustrations. 2009. London: Thames &Hudson; 978-0-500-288344 paperback 19.95 [pounds sterling]. If students are spending their loan money on chunky textbooks, theymight persuade their parents to buy one of a number of well illustratedbooks on 'great civilisations' produced to high standards forthe general public. And they could do worse than leafing through themthemselves, as the excellent colour photographs help build a visualvocabulary and as some 'high' civilisations might not alwaysbe taught in archaeology departments (in Britain at least).Paradoxically, since the print runs are large, these books all cost lessthan 25 [pounds sterling]. Of three books in this category newly published in 2009 mypreference would go to THOMAS HARRISON's edited volume The greatempires of the ancient world. The breadth of The great empires isimpressive: 10 chapters cover the world from New Kingdom Egypt to theearly Emperors of China and include chapters on the Parthians andSasanians or the early empires of South-east Asia (the latter by RobinConingham and Mark Manuel). This is a well thought-out book, with allthe ingredients present: dear timelines, maps, lists of rulers,excellent illustrations including reconstructions, landscapes and theoccasional archive photographs (e.g. early tourists on the steps of thePropylaia in Athens, p. 147), further reading lists by subject and ahindex. Nice touches are the selected quotes from Classical writershighlighted in huge fonts. The combination of glossy presentation withchapters by specialists in each area works well. Congratulations to thepublishers and the editor who also contributes an introduction whichcomments on the 'harnessing of ancient history to modern ends'and takes a broad view of the waxing and waning of empires. Geographically more limited--bur nevertheless ranging fromHadrian's Wall to Palmyra--is Sites of antiquity from ancient Egyptto the fall of Rome. This book is a Blue Guide, but quite different fromthe pocket-sized Blue Guides of old. Like them it is 'designed forthe traveller who desires to understand more fully what he or shesees' (inside cover) but will probably be used more for backgroundreading. It contains, in the first 200 pages, overviews of sites inEgypt, Classical Greece (but starting with Minoan and Mycenaean sitesand also including sites in Magna Graecia), the Hellenistic and theRoman world. A short 24-page section on early Christian sites closes thebook. As with the first book, standards of production are excellent,with good colour photographs, schematic timelines, clear site maps anddiagrams, a short bibliography by subject, a short glossary, lists ofgods and rulers and an index. Particularly useful are the small mapvignettes which introduce each site. In short, a very nice book about 50sites [in] the Classical world. It might however have been a bitambitious to claim that these explain the Classical world. Theynevertheless present it very well. The third member of the trio is more difficult to pigeonhole pi��geon��hole?n.1. A small compartment or recess, as in a desk, for holding papers; a cubbyhole.2. A specific, often oversimplified category.3. The small hole or holes in a pigeon loft for nesting.tr. .Civilizations of the ancient world is packed with information andimages, probably more so than the other two, with hundreds of entries onaspects of daily life, costume architecture, warfare, government,religion, etc. These illustrate the civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia,Greece and Rome (some 260 pages) as well as 'Othercivilisations' which fills a short 30-page final section; there thepresentation mainly takes the form of illustrated timelines. Thedistinctive trair of this book--which 'draws on the wholehistorical and archaeological tradition, old and new' (p. 8)--isthe deliberate choice of line drawings from nineteenth-and (early)twentieth-century works to illustrate the book, 'in homage to thepioneering days of discovery and scholarship' (p. 9). Yes, it hassome period charm, but somehow the result is unsatisfying, a strangemixture of a bright new Dorling-Kindersley-style book with an old album.This may just be a question of taste, but I am left wondering what theintended readership will be. Can it be the 'visual guide', the'invaluable reference for all students of early history' thatit hopes to become? Small books TINAIG CLODORE-TISSOT. Dictionary of archaeological termsEnglish-French/French-English. 148 pages. Oxford: Archaeopress;978-1-905739-27-1 paperback 12.99 [pounds sterling] SUSAN J. CROCKFORD. A practical guide to in situ In place. When something is "in situ," it is in its original location. dog remains forthe field archaeologist. 146 pages, numerous colour & b&willustrations. 2009. Victoria (BC): Pacific identifications Inc.;978-0-9813628-0-9 paperback CAD$52.50 + p&p. DRAGOS GHEORGHIU. Artchaeology: a sensorial sensorial/sen��so��ri��al/ (sen-sor��e-al) pertaining to the sensorium. sen��so��ri��aladj.Of or relating to sensations or sensory impressions. approach to themateriality of the past. 120 pages, 107 colour plates. Bucharest:Unarte; 978-973-1922-61-4 paperback. TINAIG CLODORE-TISSOT's Dictionary of archaeological termsEnglish-French/French-English should in theory be useful. Thiscollection of words, which grew because the author found that 'theterms specific to archaeology were not so easy to find in a classicFrench-English/English-French dictionary', is supposed to contain'all the archaeological terms necessary to fieldwork'(Foreword). Really? Clodore-Tissot claims to have 'taken part inseveral excavation campaigns in Great Britain and Ireland'. Did shenever go up the spoilheap, use a mattock mattockPicklike digging implement, one of the oldest tools of agriculture. It resembles the modern hoe but with a stone or wooden blade rather than a metal one, set at right angles to a long wooden handle. , ranging pole or tape? And, ifasked to trowel a surface clean, the decapage she was carrying out wasnot scrapping. Her spiral-bound booklet with plastic covers to take outinto the field is of limited use there; it is easier and safer to pickup site lingo from the team. So, is this strange, seemingly random,wordlist any better at fulfilling the author's second aim, 'tobe helpful in the reading of archaeological books and publications fromthe Paleolithic (sic) to the Middle Ages'? Well, not really. Whyinclude so many cognate words--for 'A' I picked at randomabdomen, acacia, adjacent, alphabet, ancestral or animal--, why includeall common farmyard animals (and a gorilla--gorille since you ask) butnot henge hengeNouna circular monument, often containing a circle of stones, dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages [from Stonehenge] , cursus or lynchet? Why pad the French with wigwam wigwam(wĭg`wäm), dwelling found among the Algonquian of the Eastern woodlands area of the United States. The wigwam was usually conical, arborlike, or domed. Some were small, accommodating a single family; others were large communal dwellings. , wisigoth,Wisigoth and wisigothique, or translate Canada? Are the French VikingsEnglish Vickings? Are we any the wiser looking up anthracologie andcarpologie to be told anthracology and carpology without explanation?These are minor blemishes (as is the fact that the French foreword has afairly basic grammatical error [quej'ai pu rencontres]); moredisappointing are the approximations or omissions. For example, a canalis translated as 'channel' only without the addition of canal;a caniveau should be a gutter, not the rather misleading 'ditch,drain, flume'; ajoure is not 'holed' but executed inopenwork. I could go on picking boles to achieve the nicest of ajoureeffects. Suffice to say that this was a good idea that failed, perhapsthrough lack of guidance. Standard dictionaries or even fairly basicfree online dictionaries will do the job just as well until a propermultilingual archaeological dictionary is produced. Another spiral-bound plastic-covered small book to take out intothe field is Susan Crockford's A practical guide to in situ dogremains. With 146 waterproof pages, an inset quick reference pocketfoldout fold��out?n.1. Printing A folded insert or section, as of a cover, whose full size exceeds that of the regular page.2. A piece or part, as of furniture, that folds out or down from a closed position. and free downloadable dog skeleton recording forms (available athttp://www.pacificid.com), this belongs to the category of useful books.After briefly introducing dogs and dog burial through the ages, theauthor provides guidance on how to record dogs before embarking on themain purpose of the booklet, recognising dog remains, from the head tothe last phalanges of its hind legs. This is supported by numerousphotographs to aid identification. Though undoubtedly helpful, I foundsome of the colour photographic reproduction not as good as could be andmissed line drawings, so useful for highlighting things like foramina foramina/fo��ram��i��na/ (fo-ram��i-nah) plural of foramen. fo��ram��i��nan.A plural of foramen. .Nevertheless, the author has surely achieved her purpose, which is topromote 'more consistent and rigorous data collection by both fieldand laboratory archaeozoologists'(p. 10). A small book with few words and many colour pictures isArtchaeology, which comes from DRAGOS GHEORGHIU of the University ofBucharest HistoryIn 1694 Constantin Brancoveanu, ruler of Wallachia, had founded the Princely Academy of Saint Sava in Bucharest with lectures delivered in Greek. In 1776, Alexander Ypsilantis, ruler of Wallachia, reformed the curriculum of the Saint Sava Academy, where courses of . A foreword by Andrea Vianello (Intute, Oxford) places theideas behind this symbiosis symbiosis(sĭmbēō`sĭs), the habitual living together of organisms of different species. The term is usually restricted to a dependent relationship that is beneficial to both participants (also called mutualism) but may be extended to of art and archaeology in context. Thissensorial approach to the materiality of the past involves re-creation(rather than reconstruction) and re-enactment of past experiences withingiven spaces and landscapes, using all our senses, and the engagement ofcontemporary artists. Georghiu believes that a fusion between theexperimental, the somatic and the sensorial can stimulate currentresearch in archaeology. So, this combination of phenomenological,archaeological and artistic approaches resulted in a number of projectsmanipulating materials and elements such as clay, water, fire, organicand building materials, metals, textiles and paint. Mainly based in thelandscape around the Chalcolithic site of Vadastra in Romania--plus theBronze Age sanctuary of Santa Vittoria di Serri in Sardinia--, theresults of these sensorial experiences are depicted in vivid coloursover some 100 pages. Whether the experiences are more than colourfulevocation is for readers to judge. Certainly the villagers of Vadastrawere sometimes baffled, for example when a long spiral of painted clothwas unfurled to evoke a lake, 'a couple of villagers ran to watertheir cattle, believing that the last rain had filled the old drylake' (p. 107). Of course, manipulation of the landscape bycontemporary artists or, on a more modest scale, archaeologists, isnothing new. Nevertheless Artchaeology is worth a perusal, for thevisual impact of its images. Not books The senses which were already engaged in the last book can findmore sustenance through the proliferation of multi-media outlets. Anumber of ventures to be found on the internet or on DVD DVD:see digital versatile disc. DVDin full digital video disc or digital versatile discType of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. are brieflyintroduced here. What did it sound like in the past? Work funded by the Engineeringand Physical Sciences Research Council and the Arts and HumanitiesResearch Council The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research in the arts and humanities, mainly to universities in the United Kingdom. in Britain is trying to answer just that, in a researchproject called 'Improving Heritage Experience through AcousticReality and Audio Research' (I Hear Too [!]), led by Damian Murphyof the University of York This article is about the British university. For the Canadian university, see York University. The University of York is a campus university in York, England. . He and his team, by measuring the acousticproperties of enclosed spaces, creating computer models and projectingthese elements onto past environments, hope to further insight into howpeople in the past might have heard their world. Amongst experiments arerecreated sounds at Coventry Cathedral before it was bombed in 1940 andat Stonehenge some 4000 years ago (don't hold your breath; the dipsare about 14 and 16 minutes into the podcast). For a taster of thiswork, go to http://www.vimeo.com/7727516. What does it look like when you do not have a chance to visitwell-known World Heritage sites? A new partnership between UNESCO UNESCO:see United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. UNESCOin full United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization andGoogle makes it possible to take a virtual tour around some WorldHeritage sites through Street View. The 19 sites are located in Spain (7cities), France (e.g. Versailles), Italy (e.g. Pompeii), the Netherlands(windmills at Kinderdijk-Elshout), the Czech Republic (e.g. Prague) andthe United Kingdom (e.g. Stonehenge) (seehttp://maps.google.co.uk/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://www.svmapplets.com/sv/unesco/). Street View allows viewers totake a virtual stroll based on images taken by cameras mounted onvehicles or tricycles (for example this tricycle carrying thephotographic and GPS equipment stuck in a rut at Pompeii; photograph byJennifer F. Stephens; www.pompeiiperspectives.org). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is a little disappointing that this first batch of sites are allin Europe, and mostly historic, but it seems that, at UNESCO'ssuggestion, more sites will be accessible in future through thisfacility. More ways of exploring what it may have been like in the past, thistime at Avebury in southwest England, features in the latest issue (27,December 2009) of the online journal Internet Archaeology. 'DigitalAvebury: new "avenues" of research' by Simon R. Daviesapplies three-dimensional digital modelling techniques to this Neolithicmonument complex to examine a journey along the avenues and tounderstand associations between the monuments and the natural andmanmade landscape. The images are simple but striking. Seehttp://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue27/index.html. Avebury and Stonehenge also feature prominently in a 75-minute DVDproduced jointly by the Institutes of Archaeology of the Czech andSlovak Academy of Sciences The Slovak Academy of Sciences SAV (in Slovak Slovensk�� akad��mia vied) is the main scientific and research institution in Slovakia fostering basic and strategic basic research. It was founded in 1942, closed after WWII, and then refounded in 1953. and English Heritage. Written by MARTINGOJDA, Flights into the past is a comprehensive lesson in aerialarchaeology in 29 'chapters'. These give a thorough groundinginto the principles, history, methods and applications of aerialarchaeology, mapping and lidar. The footage, mainly from the CzechRepublic, Slovakia, Britain and Austria gives a real feel for seeinglandscapes from above. I would recommend this unashamedly un��a��shamed?adj.Feeling or showing no remorse, shame, or embarrassment:una��sham didactic DVDto anyone teaching an introductory course in archaeological methods andpractice. Details are: MARTIN GOJDA. Flights into the past. DVD producedby EU Culture 2000 programme. 2009. Institute of 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. (CzechAcademy of Sciences), Institute of Archaeology (Slovak Academy ofSciences) and English Heritage. Lovers of old maps and prints will be delighted with an open accesswebsite launched nearly a year ago by UNESCO and 32 partnerinstitutions. The World Digital Library, a multilingual site located athttp://www.wdl.org/en/ contains material from libraries and archivesfrom all over the world including manuscripts, maps, books, printsphotographs and more. I found little of direct archaeological interestin a quick browse, but stumbled upon a Collection of drawings copiedfrom the original figures discovered in the Pueblo of Palenque (dated1787, in the Library of Congress) and spent too much time happilyrummaging around old maps. Maps and old photographs of Cambridge form the layers of abeautiful wooden puzzle created by ISSAM ISSAM International Society for the Study of the Aging Male KOURBAJ, artist-in-residence atChrist's College, with help from Andrew Hall and Christopher Evans(Cambridge Archaeological Unit). A Cambridge palimpsest palimpsest(păl`ĭmpsĕst'): see manuscript. is a box of 4layers, a backwards chronicle of the development of Cambridge: the toplayer is a colour aerial photograph of Cambridge today; next comes aLuftwaffe monochrome shot of 1940; remove that and a map of 1798 isrevealed; dig down and you reach Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medievalfeatures which sit on top of the wooden base, the underlying geology. Asthe puzzle was produced in a limited edition (enquiries to CambridgeUniversity Press Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). Bookshop) to celebrate the 800th anniversary of theUniversity, Antiquity was delighted to receive an exemplar and theoffice enjoyed 'excavating' Cambridge and putting it backtogether. Details are: ISSAM KOURBAJ. A Cambridge palimpsest: a box oflayers charting the development of Cambridge. 2009. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press; 978-0-521-15543-4, boxed 75 [pounds sterling]. New journal Welcome to a new journal, the Journal of Archaeology in the LowCountries (JALC JALC John A. Logan CollegeJALC Jazz at Lincoln CenterJALC Joint Aeronautical Logistics Commanders (DoD)JALC Jet Approach and Landing Chart ). It was founded by Leendert Louwe Kooijmans in 2009 andis edited by Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers. It is dedicated to presentingresearch from the Palaeolithic to recent times in the Low Countries inthe broader sense, i.e. the Lower Rhine Basin. Louwe Kooijmans writes inhis first editorial: 'The Journal of Archaeology in the LowCountries has been established as a means to stop the recently formedgap [the loss of Helinium and the Proceedings of the State Service forArchaeological Investigations in the Netherlands (Berichten ROB)]... Itoffers all archaeologists working in the Netherlands and Flanders anopportunity to publish information and conclusions worthy of beingpresented to an international public. The journal is emphatically opento anyone desiring to participate in scientific debates, working forcompanies, heritage-management or university institutes. The onlycriterion for the acceptance of contributions is scientific quality,which will be assessed by the editors and external peers. I hope thatthe Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries will be a showcase ofthe very best that archaeology in the Netherlands and Flanders has tooffer.' The journal has published two issues to date: its first numberincludes substantive articles on late Iron Age coinages in the LowerRhine (Roymans & Aarts), on the different courses followed byindividual communities in the process of Neolithisation (LouweKooijmans), or on a veterinarian veterinarian/vet��er��i��nar��i��an/ (vet?er-i-nar��e-an) a person trained and authorized to practice veterinary medicine and surgery; a doctor of veterinary medicine. vet��er��i��nar��i��ann. instrument (or not) found at the Romancemetery of Tiel-Passewaaij (Heeren). The second issue includes a reporton living conditions from the analysis of cesspits excavated at the latemedieval prison of Malines in Belgium (Troubleyn et al.) or are-evaluation of an important Beaker barrow discovered at Niersen in1907 (Bourgeois et al.). The Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries is published byAmsterdam University Press as a free, open access online journal, withtwo issues in May and October. It is also available as print-on demand(yearly subscription: 99.95 [euro]). For further information and freedownloads, see www.jalc.nl. Antiquity sends every good wish to this newjournal and hopes it will continue to display the high quality offieldwork and research in the Low Countries for many years to come. Books received The list includes all books received between 1 September and 1December 2009. 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 ROBERT L. BETTINGER. Hunter-gatherer foraging: five simple models,xii+112 pages, 20 figures, 43 tables. 2009. Clinton Corners (NY): EliotWerner; 9780-9797731-3-6 paperback $29.50. SOPHIE A. DE BEAUNE, FREDERICK L. COOLIDGE & THOMAS WYNN (ed.).Cognitive archaeology and human evolution, xiv+186 pages, 17illustrations. 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press;978-0-521-74611-3 paperback 16.99 [pounds sterling], $27.99;978-0-521-76977-8 hardback 50 [pounds sterling], $85. CHARLES R. ORTLOFF. Water engineering in the ancient world.Archaeological and climate perspectives on societies of ancient SouthAmerica, the Middle East, and South-East Asia, viii+424 pages, 133illustrations. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-923909-2hardback 80 [pounds sterling]. PIERRE ROUILLARD (ed.). Portraits de migrants, portraits de colonsI (Colloques de la Maison Rene-Ginouves 5). viii+168 pages, 25illustrations. 2009. Paris: De Boccard; 978-2-7018-0259-6 paperback. YANNIS HAMILAKIS & ARIS ARIS American Religious Identification SurveyARIS Architecture of Integrated Information SystemsARIS Active Rack Isolation SystemARIS Aggregate Route-based IP SwitchingARIS Agentia Romana pentru Investitii Straine ANAGNOSTOPOULOS (ed.). Archaeologicalethnographies: a special issue of Public Archaeology (Public Archaeology8, nos. 2-3, August 2009). 261 pages. 2009. Leeds: Maney;978-1-906540-73-9 paperback 36 [pounds sterling], $62. MEGAN MEGAN Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature ALDRICH & ROBERT J. WALLIS (ed.). Antiquaries &archaists: the past in the past, the past in the present. 170 pages, 42illustrations. 2009. Reading: Spire; 978-1-904965-23-7 paperback 19.95[pounds sterling]. European pre- and protohistory pro��to��his��to��ry?n.The study of a culture just before the time of its earliest recorded history.pro JEAN-PAUL DEMOULE (ed.). L'Europe: un continent redecouvertpar l'archeologie. 224 pages, numerous b&w & colourillustrations. 2009. Paris: Gallimard; 978-2-070-12379-7 paperback 29[euro]. ANNE-MARIE TILLIER. 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