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www.antiquity.ac.uk Volume 92 • Number 362 • April 2018

A REVIEW OF WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY EDITED BY ROBERT WITCHER

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Front cover: Millefi ori glass bead of Roman origin, probably used as a sword bead, found at the Migration-period ringfort of Sandby borg, south-east Sweden. At this site, evidence of a massacre has been uncovered during recent excavations conducted by Kalmar County Museum; for further details, see Alfsdotter et al. in this issue). Photograph: Daniel Lindskog.

Volume 92 Number 362 April 2018

Editorial 281

Rob Witcher

Research

The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Agelayers at Sibudu Cave

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Lucinda Backwell, Justin Bradfield, Kristian J. Carlson, Tea Jashashvili, Lyn Wadley& Francesco d’Errico

Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheuleanhandaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene

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Mark White & Frederick Foulds

Illuminating the cave, drawing in black: wood charcoal analysis at Chauvet-Pontd’Arc

320

Isabelle Théry-Parisot, Stéphanie Thiébault, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Catherine Ferrier,Valérie Feruglio, Carole Fritz, Bernard Gely, Pierre Guibert, Julien Monney,Gilles Tosello, Jean Clottes & Jean-Michel Geneste

Early art in the Urals: new research on the wooden sculpture from Shigir 334Mikhail Zhilin, Svetlana Savchenko, Svend Hansen, Karl-Uwe Heussner& Thomas Terberger

Missing link: an early wool textile from Pustopolje in Bosnia and Herzegovina 351Karina Grömer, Lise Bender Jørgensen & Marija Maric Bakovic

A jade parrot from the tomb of Fu Hao at Yinxu and Liao sacrifices of the ShangDynasty

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Rong Wang, Chang-sui Wang & Ji-gen Tang

Symbolic equids and Kushite state formation: a horse burial at Tombos 383Sarah A. Schrader, Stuart Tyson Smith, Sandra Olsen & Michele Buzon

The east bank of the Tiber below the Island: two recent advances in the study ofearly Rome

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Albert J. Ammerman

Trichuris trichiura in the mummified remains of southern Siberian nomads 410Vyacheslav Sergeyevich Slavinsky, Konstantin Vladimirovich Chugunov, AlexanderAlekseevich Tsybankov, Sergey Nikolaevich Ivanov, Alisa Vladimirovna Zubova &Sergey Mikhailovich Slepchenko

A moment frozen in time: evidence of a late fifth-century massacre at Sandby borg 421Clara Alfsdotter, Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay & Helena Victor

‘Differing in status, but one in spirit’: sacred space and social diversity at islandmonasteries in Connemara, Ireland

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Ryan Lash, Ian Kuijt, Elise Alonzi, Meredith S. Chesson & Tommy Burke

Technologies of urbanism in Mesoamerica: the pre-Columbian bridges ofCotzumalhuapa, Guatemala

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Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos

Tradition and transformation in Sámi animal-offering practices 472Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Tiina Äikäs, Marte Spangen, Markus Fjellström &Inga-Maria Mulk

The Digital Index of North American Archaeology: networking government data tonavigate an uncertain future for the past

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Eric C. Kansa, Sarah W. Kansa, Josh J. Wells, Stephen J. Yerka, Kelsey N. Myers,Robert C. DeMuth, Thaddeus G. Bissett & David G. Anderson

Debate

Against reactionary populism: towards a new public archaeology 507Alfredo González-Ruibal, Pablo Alonso González & Felipe Criado-Boado

Archaeology’s ‘People’ 516Reinhard Bernbeck & Susan Pollock

Decolonial archaeology as social justice 518Yannis Hamilakis

It’s not all about archaeology 521Laurajane Smith & Gary Campbell

Changing archaeology’s ‘brand’ would be helpful 523Larry J. Zimmerman

Authority vs power: capitalism, archaeology and the populist challenge 525Alfredo González-Ruibal, Pablo Alonso González & Felipe Criado-Boado

Reviews

Review articles

Rome’s zenith commemorated 528N. James

Ceramic studies: examining the full spectrum 531Rob A. Ixer

Integrative approaches in ceramic petrography Mary F. Ownby, Isabelle C. Druc & MariaA. Masucci (ed.)

Prehistoric Britain: the ceramic basis Ann Woodward & J.D. Hill (ed.)

The Oxford handbook of archaeological ceramic analysis Alice M.W. Hunt (ed.)

Societies and economics in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age 534David A. Warburton

The ancient Egyptian economy 3000–30 BCE Brian Muhs

Seals, craft and community in Bronze Age Crete Emily S.K. Anderson

The collapse of the Mycenaean economy. Imports, trade, and institutions 1300–700 BCESarah C. Murray

Rethinking the dichotomy: ‘Romans’ and ‘barbarians’ 538Nicky Garland

Romans & barbarians beyond the frontiers: archaeology, ideology & identities in the northSergio Gonzalez Sanchez & Alexandra Guglielmi

The barbarians: lost civilisations Peter Bogucki

Book reviewsNicholas Ashton Early humans 541Metin I. Eren

A. Reingruber, Z. Tsirtsoni & P. Nedelcheva (ed.) Going west? The dissemination ofNeolithic innovations between the Bosporus and the Carpathians. Proceedings of the EAAConference, Istanbul, 11 September 2014

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Fokke Gerritsen

John M. Marston Agricultural sustainability and environmental change at ancientGordion

543

Michele Massa

Robert John Skelly & Bruno David Hiri: archaeology of long-distance maritime tradealong the south coast of Papua New Guinea

545

Jim Allen

William F. Keegan & Corinne L. Hofman The Caribbean before Columbus 546Antonio Curet

Scott R. Hutson (ed.) Ancient Maya commerce: multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil 548Norman Hammond

Jason O’Donoughue Water from stone: archaeology and conservation at Florida’s springs 549Terje Oestigaard

Annette Rast-Eicher Fibres: microscopy of archaeological textiles and furs 551Mary Brooks

Uroš Matic & Bo Jensen (ed.) Archaeologies of gender and violence 552Debra L. Martin

Oliver J.T. Harris & Craig N. Cipolla Archaeological theory in the new millennium.Introducing current perspectives

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Leo S. Klejn

New Book Chronicle 556Dan Lawrence

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

The Palaeolithic of Seimarreh Valley in the Central Zagros, IranMohsen Zeynivand, Saeid Bahramiyan & Khodakaram Mazaheri

A possible Late Pleistocene forager site from the Karaburun Peninsula,western TurkeyÇiler Çilingiroglu, Berkay Dinçer, Ismail Baykara, Ahmet Uhri & Canan Çakırlar

Connecting Early Neolithic worlds: excavating Mala (Nova) Pecina in DalmatianZagora, CroatiaKonstantinos P. Trimmis & Ivan Drnic

The first possible evidence of the Aceramic Neolithic in the Iranian Central PlateauMohammad Esmaeil Esmaeili Jelodar

The discovery of the earliest specialised Middle Neolithic pottery workshop inwestern Thessaly, central GreeceAthanasia Krahtopoulou, Anastasia Dimoula, Alexandra Livarda & Niki Saridaki

Collapse or transformation? Regeneration and innovation at the turn of the firstmillennium BC at Arslantepe, TurkeyMarcella Frangipane, Francesco Di Filippo, Federico Manuelli & Lucia Mori

The Georgian Caucasus and its resources: the exploitation of the Mount Chikianiuplands during the metal agesPaolo Biagi & Renato Nisbet

Landscapes of production and punishment: convict labour management on theTasman Peninsula 1830–1877Martin D. Gibbs, Richard L. Tuffin, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, David A. Roberts,David Roe, Jody N. Steele, Susan Hood & Barry S. Godfrey

Progress, problems, and possibilities of GIS in the South Caucasus:an international workshop summaryIan Lindsay, Karen S. Rubinson, Alan F. Greene, Emily Hammer & Dan Lawrence

Corrigendum

Shimao and Erlitou: new perspectives on the origins of the bronze industry incentral China—CORRIGENDUMJ. Rawson