The principal aim of this research was to examine the scientific basis and methodology of incremental analysis in order to arrive at increased understanding of the British Mesolithic. The approach includes an examination of every aspect of incremental analysis: the scientific basis, the methodology of thin section production, microscopical techniques, and interpretation, in order to obtain the greatest possible amount of information from a rather specialised technique. The species chosen was Red deer, a common animal on archaeological sites in British prehistory.

21 papers from a session at the 15th USIPP congress, which examine the burial of infants mainly from archaeological and bioarchaeological perspectives, but also including work on wider issues of ritual and symbolism. The papers centre on the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age in Southeastern Europe Anatolia and the Levant, although for comparative purposes some look back to the Gravettian and forward as far as the Anglo-Saxons, as well as much further afield to Vietnam, for example.

Papers from the session aSpace and Time: Which Diachronies, which Synchronies, which Scales? / Typology vs Technologya held at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, September 2006. Contents: 1) Caracterisation et discontinuites des registres pedo-sedimentaires de laoccident peninsulaire entre 30.000 et 10.000 BP: Implications sur lainterpretation archeologique (Thierry Aubry, Miguel Almeida, Luca Dimuccio, Cristina Gameiro, Maria JoAo Neves, Laurent Klari); 2) Approche pluridisciplinare pour la reconstitution de processus pedo-sedimentaires et anthropiques pendant le pleniglaciaire superieur: Application au occupations solutreennes du site des maitreaux (France) (Thierry Aubry, Miguel Almeida, Morgane Liard, Bertrand Walter, Maria JoAo Neves); 3) Le gisement paleolithique moyen et superieur de Combemenue (Brignac-la-Plaine, Correze). Du microvestige au territoire, reflexions sur les perspectives daune approche multiscalaire (M. Brenet, C. Cretin); 4) Du silex, de laos et des coquillages: matieres et espaces geographiques dans le Gravettien Pyreneen (Pascal Foucher, Cristina San Juan-Foucher); 5) Laexploitation des matieres premieres lithiques au Magdalenien final en Estremadure Portugaise: donnees sur les sites de Lapa dos Coelhos et de laabri 1 de Vale dos CovAaees (Cristina Gameiro, Thierry Aubry, Francisco Almeida); 6) Big puzzles, short stories: advantages of refitting for micro-scale spatial analysis of lithic scatters from Gravettian occupations in Portuguese Estremadura (Francisco Almeida); 7) Laapport de la methode des remontages dans laevaluation des processus de formation et daalteration des depots archeologiques: le cas de Barca do Xerez de Baixo (Portugal) (Ana Cristina AraAjo, Francisco Almeida); 8) Les structures de combustion de LaEssart (Poitiers, Vienne, France): des epandages de pierres au fonctionnement daun habitat mesolithique (GrAgor Marchand, SylvAne Michel, Laurent Quesnel, Farid Sellami); 9) Le "bagage" des magdalAniens: indices d'arrivAes et de dAparts a partir du materiel en silex des campements de Monruz et Champreveyres (Suisse) (Marie-Isabelle Cattin); 10) Typologie et technologie: alliees ou opposees? (Michel Lenoir); 11) Technology vs. Typology: the case for and against a transition from the MSA to the LSA at Mumba Cave, Tanzania (Anthony E. Marks, Nicholas Conard); 12) Technology vs Typology? The Cantabrian Archaic Aurignacian/Protoaurignacian example (Aulvaro Arrizabalaga Valbuena, JosA Manuel MaAllo-FernAndez); 13) Gravettian and Solutrean stone tools from Vale Boi (Algarve, Portugal): Techno-Typology vs. Function (Juan Francisco Gibaja, Nuno Bicho); 14) Interpretation techno-economique des presences et absences dans les registres archeologiques Solutreens du centre de la France (Thierry Aubry, Miguel Almeida, Javier Mangado Llach, Maria JoAo Neves, Jean-Baptiste Peyrouse, Bertrand Walter); 15) Typologie et technologie apres le Solutreen / avant le Magdalenien. Reflexions sur la nature des deux approches et sur leur utilisation dans la definition daune A Phase de transition A (Catherine Cretin); 16) Le Badegoulien du Bassin parisien presente-T-Il des A caracteres regressifs A ? Reflexions a partir de laetude du gisement de plein air du Mont-St-Aubin a Oisy (Nievre, France) (Pierre Bodu, Lucie Chehmana); 17) Les industries lithiques de la fin du Solutreen et du Salpetrien ancien: apports de l'etude technologique a la comprehension de l'evolution culturelle au pleniglaciaire en Languedoc (France) (Guillaume Boccaccio, FrAdAric Bazile); 18) Typologie vs Typologie (SIC ). Comment la technologie contribue a raffiner la typologie des armatures lithiques (Boris Valentin); 19) Which blanks for which tools? Techno-typological analysis of retouched Sauveterrian artefacts at GalgenbAhel (Italy) (Ursula Wierer); 20) Human occupation at the Southern Po Plain margin in the Early Mesolithic: the contribution of technological and typological studies (Federica Fontana, Maria Giovanna Cremona); 21) Palimpsests, assemblages, phases & facies: the conundrum of taxonomic generalizations from particular archeological cases (Lawrence Guy Straus).

Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present sets out a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. In recent decades, archaeological approaches to rock paintings and engravings have significantly advanced our understanding of rock art in regional and global terms. On the other hand, however, little research has been done on contemporary uses of rock art. How does ancient rock art heritage influence contemporary cultural phenomena? And how do past images function in the present, especially in contemporary art and other media? In the past, archaeologists usually concentrated more on reconstructing the semantic and social contexts of the ancient images. This volume, on the other hand, focuses on how this ancient heritage is recognised and reified in the modern world, and how this art stimulates contemporary processes of cultural identity-making. The authors, who are based all over the world, off er attractive and compelling case studies situated in diverse cultural and geographical contexts.

Papers from the session Le concept de territoires dans le Paleolithique superieur europeen (Vol. 3, Session C16) presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Le concept de territoires pour les chasseurs cueilleurs du Paleolithique superieur europeen (Francois Djindjian); 2) Le concept de territoire au Paleolithique superieur: la Pologne en peripherie septentrionale de loecumene (Janusz K. Kozlowski); 3) Le concept de territoire a partir des donnees des sites des regions du Dniepr au Paleolithique superieur recent en Europe orientale (Lioudmila Iakovleva ); 4) Ukrainian Upper Palaeolithic between 40/10 000 BP: Current Insights into Environmental-Climatic Change and Cultural Development (Vadim N. Stepanchuk, Igor V. Sapozhnikov, Mikhail I.Gladkikh, Sergei N.Ryzhov); 5) Mobilite des groupes prehistoriques et approvisionnement en matieres premieres a la fin du Paleolithique superieur dans le Petit Caucase: donnees recentes sur le site de plein air de Kalavan 1 (nord du lac Sevan, Armenie) (Liagre J., Arakelyan D., Gasparyan B., Nahapetyan S., Chataigner C.); 6) Searching for territoriality over a limited territory: the case of Greece (Eugenia Adam ); 7) Cultural regionalization in the Palaeolithic of the middle Danube basin and western Balkans (Duan Mihailovic, Bojana Mihailovic); 8) Le concept de territoire dans le Paleolithique superieur morave (Martin Oliva); 9) Methods of stone raw material characterisation and raw material origins in the Palaeolithic: State of art in Hungary (Katalin T. Biro, Viola T. Dobosi, Andras Marko); 10) Constancy and change in Upper Palaeolithic, Hungary (V.T. Dobosi); 11) The Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician and the limits of Aurignacian expansion on the Northern European Plain (Damien Flas); 12) Le territoire de la basse vallee du Rhin, de la Meuse et de leurs affluents a la fin du paleolithique superieur (Belgique, Hollande, Allemagne du nord-ouest) (Marcel Otte, Pierre Noiret); 13) Provenance de diverses matieres premieres: un indice pour definir circulations et territoires au Magdalenien superieur en Suisse (Marie-Isabelle Cattin, Jehanne Affolter, Nigel Thew); 14) Le territoire des chasseurs aurignaciens dans les Prealpes de la Venetie: lexemple de la grotte de Fumane (Stefano Bertola, Alberto Broglio, Giampaolo De Vecchi, Alessandra Facciolo, Ivana Fiore, Fabio Gurioli, Pasquino Pallecchi, Antonio Tagliacozzo); 15) Ressources lithiques en Languedoc-Roussillon et territoires dexploitations au Paleolithique superieur (Sophie Gregoire, Frederic Bazile, Guillaume Boccaccio); 16) Exploitation des ressources et territoire dans le Massif central francais au Paleolithique superieur: approche methodologique et hypotheses (Laure Fontana, Mahaut Digan, Thierry Aubry, Javier Mangado Llach, Francois-Xavier Chauviere); 17) Mobilite, territoires et relations culturelles au debut du Magdalenien moyen cantabrique: nouvelles perspectives (M Soledad Corchon Rodriguz, Antonio Tarrino Vinagre, Jimena Martinez); 18) Territorial patterns during Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Cantabrian Iberia (Ordono, Javier Arrizabalaga, Alvaro ); 19) Fashion and glamour: weaponry and beads as territorial markers in Southern Iberia (Nuno Bicho); 20) Ibex as indicator of hunter-gatherer mobility during the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (Paolo Boscato, Ursula Wierer).

This collection showcases current research on the use of non-flint raw materials in prehistory, with an overwhelmingly European focus. Materials under discussion include obsidian, rhyolite, sandstone, gabbro, quartzite, Yellow Silicified Wood, Black Stone, quartz and chert, and the essays are divided into three sections: terminology and methodology; experimental archaeology and use wear studies; and the socio-economic implications of non-flint raw material use.

Despite their ubiquitous presence among prehistoric remains in Greece, ground stone tools have yet to attract the same kind of attention as have other categories of archaeological material, such as pottery or lithics. Flexible Stones provides a detailed analysis of the material discovered during the excavations at Franchthi Cave, Peloponnese, Greece. Approximately 500 tools, the raw material used for their manufacture, as well as the byproducts of such manufacture were found. Most of this collection comes from the Neolithic component of the site including a small number of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic cases with a large number of the studied tools indicating multiple uses. Anna Stroulia sees the multifunctional character of these tools as a conscious choice that reflects a flexible attitude of tool makers and users toward tools and raw materials. A CD-Rom with 209 additional plates is included."

This volume publishes papers from a session at the 15th uispp congress which examined prehistoric fuel management. Several papers combine anthracological study with findings from modern anthropological surveys, whilst there are also two experimental papers investigating the use of bone as a fuel source, as well as one offering prehistoric evidence for this possibility. Other papers review the evidence for the management of wood as a fuel sources from excavations at Kebara and Hayonim caves in Israel and from various sites in the south of France.

This collection of papers from the 15th UISPP congress seek to integrate perspectives from cognitive evolution and from the study of palaeoart, bringing together the latest key evidence from both disciplines. Different approaches include a study of the geometry of palaeoart, positing highly sophisticated spatial awareness among early hominins, neurovisual connections, behavioural studies, through the analysis of tools used in rock art production, semiotics, and two more conventional reports from excavations in India.

13 papers from the fifth in an annual series of conferences designed as a forum for postgraduate archaeologists working on Cyprus to present their research. Essays cover a diverse range of topics from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. Contents: Script in Context: The Cypro-Minoan Script and its Place in Late Bronze Age Cypriot Society (Daisy Knox); The Demographic Minorities of Cyprus during the 12th century (Eleni Christou); Cyprus at the Crossroads: Intercultural Contact on Frankish Cyprus (Jimmy Schryver); Manifestations of Royalty in Cypriot Sculpture (Anna Satraki); Sacred Landscapes from Basileis to Strategos: Methodological and Interpretative Approaches (Giorgos Papantoniou); Female Representation in Hellenistic Cyprus: The Ptolemaic Court (Celine Marquaille-Telliez); Aegean Origin of Aniconic Cult of Aphrodite in Paphos (Katarzyna Zeman); The Wild Goat-and-Tree Icon and its Special Significance for Ancient Cyprus (Lesley Bushnell); The Fish and its Symbolism in the Early Christian Mosaics of Cyprus (Doria Nicolaou and Evi Karyda); Music in Medieval Cypriot Iconography: Evidence from Nativity Representations (Savvas Neocleous); Agios Georgios, Pegeia Cape Drepanon: Integrating an Excavation Site into an Archaeological Landscape (Konstantinos Raptis and Olga-Maria Bakirtzis); A Comparative Study of Heritage Management in Israel and Cyprus (Deirdre Stritch); An Analytical Approach to the Study of Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Deneia, Cyprus (Maria Dikomitou).

This study applies recent theoretical work on landscape and experience to the Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus, looking at the interrelationship of memory, death and the landscape. Interpretative chapters look at the migration of peoples to Cyprus, the developments through the Aceramic Neolithic, and the ways in which they created and managed their worlds specifically through the remembering of the dead.

This second interim report contains the latest research on the Walou Cave at Trooz. Excavations have revealed rich material dating from the Middle Palaeolithic up to the Neolithic. The chapters here focus on the avifauna, the Creswello-Tjongerian flint, the Gravettian flint, micromammals, ichtyology, malacology, animal palaeopathology, and the Gravettian assegai point from the cave of Fronds-de-Foret. Further volumes will focus on the Neolithic finds. French text.

This volume is the first geomorphological multi-discplinary work carried out on Cyprus, and aims to reconstruct environmental development during the Holocene period. The study also compares the processes shaping the semi-arid environment of the Giulas River basin with other eastern Mediterranean environments, as well as the interaction of human populations.

Burials and Society in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland describes and analyses the increasing complexity of later Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age burial in Ireland, using burial complexity as a proxy for increasing social complexity, and as a tool for examining social structure. The book commences with a discussion of theoretical approaches to the study of burials in both anthropology and archaeology and continues with a summary of the archaeological and environmental background to the Irish Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Then a set of criteria for identifying different types of social organisation is proposed, before an in-depth examination of the radiocarbon chronology of Irish Single Burials, which leads to a multifaceted statistical analysis of the Single Burial Tradition burial utilising descriptive and multivariate statistical approaches. A chronological model of the Irish Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age is then presented which provides the basis for a discussion of increasing burial and social complexity in Ireland over this period, proposing an evolution from an egalitarian society in the later Chalcolithic Period through to a prestige goods chiefdom emerging around 1900 BC. It is suggested that the decline of copper production at Ross Island, Co. Cork after 2000 BC may have led to a 'copper crisis' which would have been a profoundly disrupting event, destroying the influence of copper miners and shifting power to copper workers, and those who controlled them. This would have provided a stimulus towards the centralisation of power and the emergence of a ranked social hierarchy. The effects of this 'copper crisis' would have been felt in Britain also, where much Ross Island copper was consumed and may have led to similar developments, with the emergence of the Wessex Culture a similar response in Britain to the same stimulus.

Assemblies of rectangular stone pillars, or stelae, fill the plazas and courts of ancient Maya cities throughout the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Mute testimony to state rituals that linked the king's power to rule with the rhythms and renewal of time, the stelae document the ritual acts of rulers who sacrificed, danced, and experienced visionary ecstasy in connection with celebrations marking the end of major calendrical cycles. The kings' portraits are carved in relief on the main surfaces of the stones, deifying them as incarnations of the mythical trees of life.

Based on a thorough analysis of the imagery and inscriptions of seven stelae erected in the Great Plaza at Copan, Honduras, by the Classic Period ruler "18-Rabbit-God K," this ambitious study argues that stelae were erected not only to support a ruler's temporal claims to power but more importantly to express the fundamental connection in Maya worldview between rulership and the cosmology inherent in their vision of cyclical time. After an overview of the archaeology and history of Copan and the reign and monuments of "18-Rabbit-God K," Elizabeth Newsome interprets the iconography and inscriptions on the stelae, illustrating the way they fulfilled a coordinated vision of the king's ceremonial role in Copan's period-ending rites. She also links their imagery to key Maya concepts about the origin of the universe, expressed in the cosmologies and mythic lore of ancient and living Maya peoples.

Papers from the 'Mountain Environments in Prehistoric Europe' session (C31) of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Exploitation du milieu montagnard dans le mousterien final: la Grotte du Noisetier a frechet-aure (Pyrenees centrales Francaises) (Vincent Mourre, Sandrine Costamagno, Laurent Bruxelles, David Colonge, Stephanie Cravinho, Veronique Laroulandie, Bruno Maureille, Celine Thiebaut, Julien Viguier); 2) Late Pleistocene Human Occupation and Large Mammal Distribution in the Eastern Alpine Region (Martina Pacher); 3) The Mousterian of the Vallicelli Cave (Monte San Giacomo, Salerno, Italy), in the pre- and protohistoric settlement framework at the slopes of Mount Cervati (Carmine Collina, Rosalia Gallotti, Marcello Piperno, Nicoletta Santangelo, Antonio Santo); 4) From Lake Chiemsee to the Totes Gebirge - on the Alpine path of the Neanderthals? (Doris Doppes, Wilfried Rosendahl); 5) Adaptation a l'environnement montagneux au Paleolithique en Hongrie (Zsolt Mester); 6) Des caches et entrepots au Paleolithique: une necessite dans l'exploitation cynegetique saisonniere des milieux montagnards (Thierry Tillet); 7) Locating micro-refugia in periglacial environments during the LGM (Nathan Walker); 8) Processus evolutifs essentiels dans le paleoenvironnement et les industries de la fin du Tardiglaciaire dans les Alpes du Nord francaises et le Jura meridional (Gilbert Pion); 9) Prehistoric reindeer-hunting in the southern Norwegian highlands (Sveinung Bang-Andersen); 10) The first occupation of the Southern Alps in the Late Glacial at Riparo Tagliente (Verona, Italy). Detecting the organisation of living-floors through a G.I.S. integrated analysis of technological, functional, palaeoeconomic and spatial attributes (Federica Fontana, Antonio Guerreschi, Stefano Bertola, Francesca Bonci, Cristina Cilli, Jeremie Liagre, Laura Longo, Giovanna Pizziolo, Ursula Thun Hohenstein); 11) Changes of Geographical Environment in Prehistoric Azerbaijan (Upper Pleistocene and Holocene) (Malahat Farajova); 12) The Palaeolithic naturalistic art at the Dalmeri Rockshelter and climate variability (G. Dalmeri, A. Cusinato, S. Frisia, M. Hrozny Kompatscher, K. Kompatscher, M. Bassetti, R. Belli); 13) The use of mountain sectors during Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic in the Western Switzerland Prealps (Pierre Crotti, Jerome Bullinger); 14) Structuring a settlement model for the early Mesolithic in north-eastern Italy (Stefano Grimaldi); 15) The oldest silex and rock crystal mining traces in high alpine regions (Walter Leitner); 16) La neolithisation de la vallee du Rhone et de ses marges (Thomas Perrin); 17) Neolithic in the European Mid-Mountains. Case study from the Polish Carpathians (Pawel Valde-Nowak); 18) A view from the Apennines: the role of the inland sites in southern Italy during the Bronze Age (Alberto Cazzella, Giulia Recchia); 19) Settlement strategies in alpine valleys of Lombardy (Northern Italy) from Neolithic to Early Bronze Age: some examples (Marco Baioni, Raffaella Poggiani Keller); 20) Data on settlement views during Neolithic in prealpin lakes of NW Lombardy (northern Italy) (Daria Giuseppina Banchieri); 21) Mountain environment and landscape in prehistoric Sicily: the Madonie region (Palermo, Italy) (Vincenza Forgia).

16 papers presented from an EAA session held at Krakow in 2006, exploring various aspects of the archaeology of death. Contents: Chapter 1. The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs (Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard); Chapter 2. More than Metaphor: Approaching the Human Cadaver in Archaeology (Liv Nilsson Stutz); Chapter 3. A Piece of the Mesolithic. Horizontal Stratigraphy and Bodily Manipulations at Skateholm (Fredrik Fahlander); Chapter 4. Excavating the KingsAe Bones: The Materiality of Death in Practice and Ethics Today 9Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard); Chapter 5. From Corpse to Ancestor: The Role of Tombside Dining in the Transformation of the Body in Ancient Rome (Regina Gee); Chapter 6. Cremations, Conjecture and Contextual Taphonomies: Material Strategies during the 4th to 2nd Millennia BC in Scotland (Paul R J Duffy and Gavin MacGregor); Chapter 7. Ritual and Remembrance at Archaic Crustumerium. The Transformations of Past and Modern Materialities in the Cemetery of Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy) (Ulla Rajala); Chapter 8. Reuse in Finnish Cremation Cemeteries under Level Ground - Examples of Collective Memory (Anna Wickholm); Chapter 9. Life and Death in the Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula (Ana M. S. Bettencourt); Chapter 10. Norwegian Face-Urns: Local Context and Interregional Contacts (Malin Aasbe); Chapter 11. The Use of Ochre in Stone Age Burials of the East Baltic (Ilga Zagorska); Chapter 12. oDeath Mythso: Performing of Rituals and Variation in Corpse Treatment during the Migration Period in Norway (Siv Kristoffersen and Terje Oestigaard); Chapter 13. Reproduction and Relocation of Death in Iron Age Scandinavia (Terje Gansum); Chapter 14. A Road for the VikingAes Soul (Ake Johansson); Chapter 15. A Road to the Other Side (Camilla Gr); Chapter 16. Stones and Bones: The Myth of Ymer and Mortuary Practises with an Example from the Migration Period in Uppland, Central Sweden (Christina Lindgren).

In perhaps as few as one hundred years, the Inka Empire became the largest state ever formed by a native people anywhere in the Americas, dominating the western coast of South America by the early sixteenth century. Because the Inkas had no system of writing, it was left to Spanish and semi-indigenous authors to record the details of the religious rituals that the Inkas believed were vital for consolidating their conquests. Synthesizing these arresting accounts that span three centuries, Thomas Besom presents a wealth of descriptive data on the Inka practices of human sacrifice and mountain worship, supplemented by archaeological evidence.

Of Summits and Sacrifice offers insight into the symbolic connections between landscape and life that underlay Inka religious beliefs. In vivid prose, Besom links significant details, ranging from the reasons for cyclical sacrificial rites to the varieties of mountain deities, producing a uniquely powerful cultural history.

This study examines the relationship between the Mycenaean palatial administration and the relgious sector, asking whether the religious sector should be considered as a subsidiary part of the central administration, or with, in fact it had its own power and economic independence. The study reassesses linear B tablets, particularly those related to land-holding to reconstruct he economic activities of the sanctuaries and their religious personnel, showing them to have been involved in agriculture, animal husbandry, textile manufacture and bronze working, interacting with the palatial administration in much the same way as the secular collectors.

A study of tenure through analysis of land divisions in Bronze Age Dartmoor. Methods used include spatial analysis of land division and settlement patterns, metrological analysis, experimental reconstruction and synthesis of palaeoenvironmental, excavation and artefactual data. The findings suggest that tenure on Dartmoor was not an exclusive individual right, but involved inclusive claims and obligations held in persons and groups - in short that it should be seen more in terms of identity.

Five papers from the session 'The Aegean Bronze Age in Relation to the Wider European Context' presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Cork, 5-11 September 2005. Contents: 1) Late Bronze Age Aegean Trade Routes in the Western Mediterranean (Andrea Vianello); 2) From Diffusion to Interaction: Connections between the Nordic Area and Valcamonica during the First Millennium (Li Winter); 3) On the Alleged Connection between the Early Greek Galley and the Watercraft of Nordic Rock Art (Michael Wedde); 4) Warfare and Religion in the Bronze Age (Helene Whittaker); 5) Perspectives on the 'Bronze Age' (Gullog Nordquist)."

The identification of the occurence and results of warfare in the archaeological records of prehistoric societies has always been fraught with difficulties. This study investigates this prickly area through the development of a series of correlates, resulting in testable models which can be applied to the archaeological record. Correlates include causal correlates, such as climatic deterioration, or demographic rise; preparatory correlates, such as appearance of fortifications or proliferation of weaponry; functional correlates, such as burned sitesor unburied bodies/weapons trauma; and relative correlates, such as change in subsistence or trading practice. It is based on three case studies - the Middle Thames Region in the Later Bronze Age, Gallica Belgica, and the Salt River Area, Arizona, c.1250-c.1450 AD.

This book was originally published in 1984. For over a million years rocks provided human beings with the essential raw materials for the production of tools. Nevertheless we still know very little about the behaviour and processes that resulted in the creation of archaeological sites at or near lithic quarries. In the past archaeologists have placed much emphasis on the process of 'exchange' in their analysis of prehistoric economies while largely ignoring the sources of the exchanged objects. However, with the development of interest in the means of production, these sites have begun to take on a new significance. Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production is the first systematic study of archaeological sites that served as quarries for stone tools. Its theoretical and methodological importance will extend its appeal beyond those archaeologists concerned with lithic technology and prehistoric exchange systems to archaeologists and anthropologists in general and to geographers and geologists.

The site of Knossos on the Kephala hill in central Crete is of great archaeological and historical importance for both Greece and Europe. Dating to 7000 B.C., it is the home of one of the earliest farming societies in southeastern Europe, and, in the later Bronze Age periods, it developed into a remarkable center of economic and social organization within the island, enjoying extensive relations with the Aegean, the Greek mainland, the Near East, and Egypt. After the systematic excavation of the deep Neolithic occupation levels by J.D. Evans in the late 1950s and later and more limited investigations of the Prepalatial deposits undertaken primarily during restoration work, no thorough exploration of the earliest occupation of the mound had been attempted. This monograph fills the gap, detailing the recent studies of the stratigraphy, architecture, ceramics, sedimentology, economy, and ecology that were a result of the opening of a new excavation trench in 1997. Together, these studies by 13 different contributors to the volume re-evaluate the importance of Neolithic Knossos and place it within the wider geographic context of the early island prehistory of the eastern Mediterranean.

In 1957, preliminary investigations revealed a major Late Neolithic settlement mound, which also happened to be the northernmost tell settlement on the Great Hungarian Plain. Although the trial was limited to a small trench, the several meters thick deposits yielded exciting finds and several richly furnished burials. The brief preliminary report and the various references to the excavation made it quite obvious that the tell was one of the key sites of the Hungarian Neolithic and thus the full publication of the tell and its finds was, quite understandably, eagerly awaited by prehistorians. Investigations resumed in 1989 as part of the excavations preceding the construction of the M3 motorway. This excavation was preceded by various geophysical surveys and palaeoenvironmental sampling in order to reconstruct the settlement's one-time environment and to determine the exact date of its occupation. However, until the results of the new excavation are published in detail, this monograph will be the single available study on the Polgar-Csoszhalom site, the eponymous site of a Late Neolithic culture."