archaeology

Book Reviews

Susan E. Alcock, et al.: Empires*
Perspectives from Archaeology and History
David W. Anthony: The Horse, The Wheel, and Language*
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
David H. Caldwell, et al.: The Lewis Chessmen Unmasked
- their provenance, background, and styling
Eric Christiansen: The Norsemen in the Viking Age*
- a descriptive survey staying close to the evidence
Michael D. Coe: Angkor*
And the Khmer Civilization
Graham Connah: African Civilizations*
An Archaeological Perspective
Barry Cunliffe: Britain Begins
- from the Ice Age to the Norman Conquest
John Curtis, Nigel Tallis: Forgotten Empire
The World of Ancient Persia
David Drew: The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings*
- a nice introduction to Mayan history and society
William Wayne Farris: Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures
Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
Walter L Friedrich: Fire in the Sea: The Santorini Volcano
Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis
John F. Hoffecker: A Prehistory of the North*
Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes
Patrick Vinton Kirch: On the Road of the Winds**
An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Conquest
Patrick Vinton Kirch: The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms
Patrick Vinton Kirch: The Wet and the Dry*
Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia
Gwendolyn Leick: Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City*
- ten cities over five millennia
Michael Loewe, Edward L. Shaughnessy: The Cambridge History of Ancient China*
From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C.
J.G. Macqueen: The Hittites
And their contemporaries in Asia Minor
Dirk Meier: Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages
- the Baltic, the North Sea, the North Atlantic and Russian rivers
Jean-Pierre Mohen: Standing Stones
Stonehenge, Carnac and the World of Megaliths
Hans J. Nissen: The Early History of the Ancient Near East
9000 - 2000 B.C.
Roland Oliver, Brian M. Fagan: Africa in the Iron Age
c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1400
David Rindos: The Origins of Agriculture
An Evolutionary Perspective
Dawn Rooney: Angkor
Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples
Karim Sadr: The Development of Nomadism in Ancient Northeast Africa
- a deft and suggestive combination of theory and evidence
Peter Schmidt, et al.: Maya Civilization*
- glorious colour photographs and scholarly papers
Michael E. Smith: The Aztecs*
- archaeology and social history
William H. Stiebing Jr: Out of the Desert?
Archaeology and the Exodus/Conquest Narratives
John Edward Terrell: Archaeology, Language, and History
Essays on Culture and Ethnicity