www.antiquity.ac.uk Volume 93 • Number 367 • February 2019

a review of world archaeology edited by robert witcher

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EDITOR Robert Witcher

REVIEWS EDITOR Dan Lawrence

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Volume 93 Number 367 February 2019

Editorial 3

Robert Witcher

Research

Quartz crystal materiality in Terminal Pleistocene Lesotho 11Justin Pargeter & Jamie Hampson

‘They came from the ends of the earth’: long-distance exchange of obsidian inthe High Arctic during the Early Holocene

28

Vladimir V. Pitulko, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Michael D. Glascock,Elena Yu. Pavlova & Andrei V. Grebennikov

Megalith quarries for Stonehenge’s bluestones 45Mike Parker Pearson, Josh Pollard, Colin Richards, Kate Welham,Chris Casswell, Charles French, Duncan Schlee, Dave Shaw, Ellen Simmons,Adam Stanford, Richard Bevins & Rob Ixer

The problem with tells: lessons learned from absolute dating of Bronze Agemortuary ceramics in Hungary

63

Paul R. Duffy, Györgyi M. Parditka, Julia I. Giblin & László Paja

High-precision dating of ceremonial activity around a large ritual complex inLate Bronze Age Mongolia

80

Antoine Zazzo, Sébastien Lepetz, Jérôme Magail & Jamyian-Ombo Gantulga

Absolute tree-ring dates for the Late Bronze Age eruptions of Aniakchak andThera in light of a proposed revision of ice-core chronologies

99

Jonny McAneney & Mike Baillie

Recalibrating grave-good chronologies: new AMS radiocarbon dates from LateBronze Age burials in Lika, Croatia

113

Emily Zavodny, Brendan J. Culleton, Sarah B. McClure, Douglas J. Kennett &Jacqueline Balen

Imaging the gods: animal mummies from Tomb 3508, North Saqqara, Egypt 128Stephanie Atherton-Woolham, Lidija McKnight, Campbell Price &Judith Adams

A barrel-vaulted reservoir at Kale-Krševica: hydraulic technology and Iron Age‘Hellenisation’ in Serbia

144

Ivan Vranic

Dong Son drums from Timor-Leste: prehistoric bronze artefacts in IslandSoutheast Asia

163

Nuno Vasco Oliveira, Sue O’Connor & Peter Bellwood

Viking warrior women? Reassessing Birka chamber grave Bj.581 181Neil Price, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Torun Zachrisson, Anna Kjellström,Jan Storå, Maja Krzewin ska, Torsten Günther, Verónica Sobrado,Mattias Jakobsson & Anders Götherström

A bazaar assemblage: reconstructing consumption, production and trade frommineralised seeds in Abbasid Jerusalem

199

Oriya Amichay, Doron Ben-Ami, Yana Tchekhanovets, Ruth Shahack-Gross,Daniel Fuks & Ehud Weiss

So ends this day: American whalers in Yaburara country, Dampier Archipelago 218Alistair Paterson, Ross Anderson, KenMulvaney, Sarah de Koning, Joe Dortch&Jo McDonald

The destroyer of worlds hidden in the forest: ColdWar nuclear warhead sites inPoland

236

Grzegorz Kiarszys

Reviews

Exhibition review

‘Meet the Vikings’—or meet halfway? The new Viking display at the NationalMuseum of Denmark in Copenhagen

256

Søren M. Sindbæk

Review articles

The early settlement of Northern Europe 260Harry K. Robson

Ecology of early settlement in Northern Europe: conditions for subsistence and survivalPer Persson, Felix Riede, Birgitte Skar, Heidi M. Breivik & Leif Jonsson (ed.)

Technology of early settlement in Northern Europe: transmission of knowledge andculture Kjel Knutsson, Helena Knutsson, Jan Apel & Håkon Glørstad (ed.)

Early economy and settlement in Northern Europe: pioneering, resource use, copingwith change Hans Peter Blankholm (ed.)

Searching for the territorial origins of England 264Stuart Brookes

From Roman civitas to Anglo-Saxon shire: topographical studies on the formation ofWessex Bruce Eagles

Kingdom, civitas, and county. The evolution of territorial identity in the Englishlandscape Stephen Rippon

Book reviews

Ian Hodder Religion, history, and place in the origin of settled life 267Trevor Watkins

Alasdair Whittle The times of their lives: hunting history in the archaeology ofNeolithic Europe

268

Johannes Müller

Jonathan Kaplan & Federico Paredes UmañaWater, cacao, and the early Maya ofChocolá

270

Timothy W. Pugh

Stephanie Wynne-Jones & Adria LaViolette (ed.) The Swahili world 271Stéphane Pradines

Nigel Baker, Jonathan Brett & Robert Jones Bristol: a worshipful town and famouscity

273

Alejandra Gutiérrez

Andy M. Jones & Henrietta Quinnell (ed.) An intellectual adventurer inarchaeology: reflections on the work of Charles Thomas

275

J.V.S. Megaw

Birger Stichelbaut (ed.) Traces of war: the archaeology of the First World War 276J.L. Novotny

Haiming YanWorld Heritage craze in China: universal discourse, national culture,and local memory

278

Hao Liu

New Book Chronicle 280

Dan Lawrence

Project Gallery on the website (http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/project-gallery)

FINDER project: collagen fingerprinting (ZooMS) for the identification ofnew human fossilsKaterina Douka, Samantha Brown, Tom Higham, Svante Pääbo,Anatoly Derevianko & Michael Shunkov

Investigating ancient animal economies and exchange in Kyrgyzstan’s AlayValleyWilliam T.T. Taylor, Svetlana Shnaider, Robert Spengler III, Ludovic Orlando,Aida Abdykanova & Andrei Krivoshapkin

Filling gaps in Aegean deep histories? Evaluating quartz concentrations fromKoupharika-Krotiria on Kythera, GreeceTimothy E. Gregory, P. Nick Kardulias, Stavros A. Paspalas,Konstantinos P. Trimmis & Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory

Investigations at Nahal Roded 110: a Late Neolithic ritual site in the southernNegevMichal Birkenfeld, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, JerryBond, Erika Guttmann-Bond, Linda S. Cummings, Hadas Goldgeier, MariaKrakovsky, Filipe Natalio, Keren Nebenhaus, Frank H. Neumann, Naomi Porat,Louis Scott, Tal Simmons, Talia Yashuv & Uzi Avner

Late Bronze–Iron Age fortification complexes of the historical Javakheti region,GeorgiaDimitri Narimanishvili

Mirabad-e Emam Qoli: a newly discovered Sassanid-era fire temple insouth-eastern IranLeyla Fazel & Yaghoub Mohammadifar

Mapping Gerasa: a new and open data map of the siteAchim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja & David Stott