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www.antiquity.ac.uk Volume 94 • Number 375 • June 2020

a review of world archaeology edited by robert witcher

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Featured in this issue:

Land-use and cultivation in the etaghas of the Tadrart Acacus (south-west Libya): the dawn of Saharan agriculture? Savino di Lernia, Isabella Massamba N’Siala, Anna Maria Mercuri & Andrea Zerboni

Marking the sacral landscape of a north Arabian oasis: a sixth-millennium BC monumental stone platform and surrounding burials Olivia Munoz, Marianne Cotty, Guillaume Charloux, Charlène Bouchaud, Hervé Monchot, Céline Marquaire, Antoine Zazzo, Rémy Crassard, Olivier Brunet, Vanessa Boschloos & Thamer al-Malki

Early commensal interaction between humans and hares in Neolithic northern China Pengfei Sheng, Yaowu Hu, Zhouyong Sun, Liping Yang, Songmei Hu, Benjamin T. Fuller & Xue Shang

Foraging and farming: archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence for Neolithic exchange on the Tibetan Plateau Lele Ren, Guanghui Dong, Fengwen Liu, Jade d’Alpoim-Guedes, Rowan K. Flad, Minmin Ma, Haiming Li, Yishi Yang, Yujia Liu, Dongju Zhang, Guolin Li, Jiyuan Li & Fahu Chen

From the earliest farmers to the fi rst urban centres: a socio-economic analysis of underground storage practices in north-eastern Iberia Georgina Prats, Ferran Antolín & Natàlia Alonso

The sceptres of life-sized divine statues from Canaanite Lachish and Hazor Yosef Garfi nkel

New discoveries at Mokarta, a Bronze Age hilltop settlement in western Sicily Christopher Sevara, Roderick B. Salisbury, Ralf Totschnig, Michael Doneus, Klaus Löcker & Sebastiano Tusa

Ground-penetrating radar survey at Falerii Novi: a new approach to the study of Roman cities Lieven Verdonck, Alessandro Launaro, Frank Vermeulen & Martin Millett

Medieval long-wall construction on the Mongolian Steppe during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries AD Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Ido Wachtel, Dan Golan, Otgonjargal Batzorig, Chunag Amartuvshin, Ronnie Ellenblum & William Honeychurch

Love and hope: emotions, dress accessories and a plough in later medieval Britain, c . AD 1250–1500 Eleanor R. Standley

The Maya wall paintings from Chajul, Guatemala Jarosłanw Zrałka, Katarzyna Radnicka, Monika Banach, Lucas Asicona Ramírez, María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos-Pascual, Cristina Vidal-Lorenzo, Lars Frühsorge & Juan Luis Velásquez

A rare miniature and small-scale stencil assemblage from the Gulf of Carpentaria: replication and meaning in Australian rock art Liam M. Brady, John J. Bradley, Amanda Kearney & Daryl Wesley

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Cover. Conservation of wall paintings from the Colonial period that were discovered inside a house inhabited by Indigenous Ixil Maya in the city of Chajul (Guatemala). The murals were created using old, pre-Hispanic technology, and their iconography combines pre-Columbian elements with imported European components. For further details, see the full article by Zrałka et al. in this issue; photograph by Robert Słabonski.

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Volume 94 Number 375 June 2020

Editorial 571Robert Witcher

Research Articles

Land-use and cultivation in the etaghas of the Tadrart Acacus (south-westLibya): the dawn of Saharan agriculture?

580

Savino di Lernia, Isabella Massamba N’Siala, Anna Maria Mercuri &Andrea Zerboni

Marking the sacral landscape of a north Arabian oasis: a sixth-millenniumBC monumental stone platform and surrounding burials

601

Olivia Munoz, Marianne Cotty, Guillaume Charloux, Charlène Bouchaud,Hervé Monchot, Céline Marquaire, Antoine Zazzo, Rémy Crassard,Olivier Brunet, Vanessa Boschloos & Thamer al-Malki

Early commensal interaction between humans and hares in Neolithicnorthern China

622

Pengfei Sheng, Yaowu Hu, Zhouyong Sun, Liping Yang, Songmei Hu,Benjamin T. Fuller & Xue Shang

Foraging and farming: archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence forNeolithic exchange on the Tibetan Plateau

637

Lele Ren, Guanghui Dong, Fengwen Liu, Jade d’Alpoim-Guedes,Rowan K. Flad, MinminMa, Haiming Li, Yishi Yang, Yujia Liu, Dongju Zhang,Guolin Li, Jiyuan Li & Fahu Chen

From the earliest farmers to the first urban centres: a socio-economic analysis ofunderground storage practices in north-eastern Iberia

653

Georgina Prats, Ferran Antolín & Natàlia Alonso

The sceptres of life-sized divine statues from Canaanite Lachish and Hazor 669Yosef Garfinkel

New discoveries at Mokarta, a Bronze Age hilltop settlement in western Sicily 686Christopher Sevara, Roderick B. Salisbury, Ralf Totschnig, Michael Doneus,Klaus Löcker & Sebastiano Tusa

Ground-penetrating radar survey at Falerii Novi: a new approach to the study ofRoman cities

705

Lieven Verdonck, Alessandro Launaro, Frank Vermeulen & Martin Millett

Medieval long-wall construction on the Mongolian Steppe during the eleventhto thirteenth centuries AD

724

Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Ido Wachtel, Dan Golan, Otgonjargal Batzorig,Chunag Amartuvshin, Ronnie Ellenblum & William Honeychurch

Love and hope: emotions, dress accessories and a plough in later medievalBritain, c. AD 1250–1500

742

Eleanor R. Standley

The Maya wall paintings from Chajul, Guatemala 760Jarosław Zrałka, Katarzyna Radnicka, Monika Banach, Lucas Asicona Ramírez,María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos-Pascual, Cristina Vidal-Lorenzo,Lars Frühsorge & Juan Luis Velásquez

A rare miniature and small-scale stencil assemblage from the Gulf ofCarpentaria: replication and meaning in Australian rock art

780

Liam M. Brady, John J. Bradley, Amanda Kearney & Daryl Wesley

Reviews

Review Articles

Brochs and beyond: excavations at Old Scatness, ShetlandSIMON GILMOUR & JON HENDERSON 797

Excavations at Old Scatness, Shetland, volume 1: the Pictish village andViking settlementStephen J. Dockrill, Julie M. Bond, Val E. Turner, Louise D. Brown,Daniel J. Bashford, Julia E. Cussans & Rebecca A. Nicholson

Excavations at Old Scatness, Shetland, volume 2: the broch and Iron Age villageStephen J. Dockrill, Julie M. Bond, Val E. Turner, Louise D. Brown,Daniel J. Bashford, Julia E. Cussans & Rebecca A. Nicholson

Excavations at Old Scatness, Shetland, volume 3: the post-medieval townshipNigel D. Melton, Stephen J. Dockrill, Julie M. Bond, Val E. Turner,Louise D. Brown, Brian Smith, Daniel J. Bashford, Julia E.M. Cussans &Rebecca A. Nicholson

Prehistoric miningTIM KERIG 802

Mining and quarrying in Neolithic Europe: a social perspectiveAnne Teather, Peter Topping & Jon Baczkowski

Prehistoric copper mining in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula: La Turquesa orMas de les Moreres Mine (Cornudella de Montsant, Tarragona, Spain)Núria Rafel Fontanals, Mark A. Hunt Ortiz, Ignacio Soriano &Selina Delgado-Raack

Book Reviews

Joakim Goldhahn Birds in the Bronze Age: a North European perspective 806KRISTIINA MANNERMAA

Philip Allsworth-Jones Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Nigeria in its West Africancontext

808

ELS CORNELISSEN

James E. Bennett The archaeology of Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period 810SILVIA LUPO

Rebecca Yamin & Donna J. Seifert The archaeology of prostitution andclandestine pursuits

812

TIMOTHY J. GILFOYLE

Roberta Gilchrist Sacred heritage: monastic archaeology, identities, beliefs 814DAVID MORGAN

Luca Zan, Bing Yu, Jianli Yu & Haiming Yan Heritage sites in contemporaryChina: cultural policies and management practices

816

HAO LIU

Nam C. Kim & Marc Kissel Emergent warfare in our evolutionary past 819DOUGLAS P. FRY

Patrick Roberts Tropical forests in prehistory, history, and modernity 821TIM DENHAM

Katheryn C. Twiss The archaeology of food: identity, politics, and ideology in theprehistoric and historic past

824

MARY C. BEAUDRY

Lesley McFadyen & Dan Hicks Archaeology and photography: time, objectivityand archive

826

CHRISTINA RIGGS

New Book Chronicle 829

Claire Nesbitt

Corrigendum

Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among theCorded Ware Culture in Europe—CORRIGENDUM

839

Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft, Karin M. Frei, Rune Iversen,Niels N. Johannsen, Guus Kroonen, Łukasz Pospieszny, T. Douglas Price,Simon Rasmussen, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Martin Sikora & Eske Willerslev

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CLIOdynamic ARCHaeology: computational approaches to FinalPalaeolithic/Early Mesolithic archaeology and climate changeFelix Riede, Shumon T. Hussain, Claudia Timmreck & Jens-Christian Svenning

A later fifth-millennium cal BC tumulus at Hofheim-Kapellenberg, GermanyDetlef Gronenborn, Heinrich Thiemeyer, Anja Cramer, Nicolas Antunes,Dieter Neubauer & Pierre Pétrequin

Landscapes of (re)conquest: dynamics of multicultural frontiers in medievalSouth-west EuropeGuillermo García-Contreras, Aleks Pluskowski, Michelle Alexander,Rowena Banerjea & Marcos García García

Semi-finished glass from Ile-Ife, Nigeria: implications for the archaeology ofglass in sub-Saharan AfricaAbidemi Babatunde Babalola, Adisa Benjamin Ogunfolakan & Thilo Rehren

Ancient zinc smelting in the Upper and Middle Yangtze River regionYuniu Li, Birui Xiao, Gill Juleff, Wan Huang, Dadi Li & Jiujiang Bai

History, archaeology and memory of the Swahili-Arab in the Maniema,Democratic Republic of CongoNoemie Arazi, Suzanne Bigohe, Olivier Mulumbwa Luna, Clément Mambu,Igor Matonda, Georges Senga & Alexandre Livingstone Smith