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Australian Archaeology Book Reviews

Review of books listed below are published in the journal Australian Archaeology. Reviews are reproduced here with permission of the Australian Archaeological Association Inc. (the publisher). Click on link for books of interest to link to the published review and other details. AAA receives a small commission for books purchased by following the amazon.com links provided for each book below.

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O'Connell, J.F.

Book review: The Great Kartan Mystery by Ronald Lampert

97-100
Murray, Tim

Book review: Australian Pioneer Technology: Sites and Relics by Judy Birmingham,, R. Ian Jack and Dennis Jeans

129-133
Meehan, Betty

Book review: Land Use and Resources in Desert Homelands by Scott Cane and Owen Stanley

73-74
Colley, S.M.

Book review: Devil's Lair A Study in Prehistory by Charles Dortch

75
Lampert, R.J.

Book review: Over The Edge: Functional Analysis of Australian Stone Tools by Johan Kamminga

76-77
Pearson, M.

Book review: Report on Archaeological Investigations at the 1826 Settlement Site - Corinella by P.J.F. Coutts

77-79
Spennemann, Dirk H.R.

Book review: Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago by Peter Bellwood

80-83
Bird Rose, Deborah

Book review: Life Before Genesis, A Conclusion. An Understanding of the Significance of Australian Aboriginal Culture by David Turner

68-73
Pearon, Michael

Book review: Prehistoric Farming in Europe by Graeme Barker

74-75
Harris, David

Book review: Archaeological Research in Kakadu National Park by Rhys Jones (ed.)

75-78
Connah, Graham

Book review: Archaeological Investigations at Risdon Cove Historic Site 1978-1980 by Angela McGowan

78-79
Donlon, Denise

Book review: The Skeleton Manual: A Handbook for the Identification of Aboriginal Skeletal Remains by Alan Thorne and Anne Ross

80-82
Gosden, Chris

Book review: Roman Bath Discovered by Barry Cunliffe

83-85
Murray, Tim

Book review: The Birth of the Prehistoric Chronology. Dating Methods and Dating Systems in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavian Archaeology by Bo Graslund

154-155
Gosden, Chris

Book review: Air Photography and Archaeology by D.N. Riley

159
Frankel, David

Book review: The Archaeology of Western Iran: Settlement and Society from Prehistory to the Islamic Conquest by F. Hole (ed.)

79-80
Allen, Harry

Book review: Archaeology with Ethnography: An Australian Perspective by Betty Meehan and Rhys Jones (eds)

80-81
Frankel, David

Book review: Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology Volume 24 by the Institute of Archaeology

81-82
Yesner, David

Book review: Man on the Rim: The Peopling of the Pacific by Alan Thorne and Robert Raymond

82-83
Baker, Neville

Book review: Hunters in Transition: Mesolithic Societies of Temperate Eurasia and Their Transition to Farming by M. Zvelebil (ed.)

83-84
Boyd, Bill

Book review: Plants in Australian Archaeology by W. Beck, A. Clarke and L. Head (eds)

97-99
Spriggs, Matthew

Book review: The Archaeology of Contextual Meanings by Ian Hodder (ed.) and Archaeology as Long-Term History by Ian Hodder (ed.)

99-104
Wakelin-King, Zoe

Book review: African Civilizations - Pre-Colonial Cities and States in Tropical Africa: An Archaeological Perspective by Graham Connah

104-105
Davidson, Iain and William Noble

Book review: What is an Animal? by Tim Ingold (ed.)

105-108
Skates, Anne

Book review: Our People Series by various authors

107-108
Sales, Kim

Book review: The Rock Paintings of Arnhem Land, Australia: Social, Ecological and Material Culture Change in the Post-Glacial Period by Darrel Lewis

109-111
Lampert, R.J.

Book review: Records in Stone: Papers in Memory of Alexander Thom by C.L.N. Ruggles

111-112
Gosden, Chris

Book review: Social Theory and Archaeology by M. Shanks and C. Tilley

69-70
Murray, Tim

Book review: Documentary Archaeology in the New World by Mary C. Beaudry

71-73
Smith, Moya

Book review: Marine Molluscan Remains from Franchthi Cave by Judith C. Shackleton

73-75
Bednarik, Robert G.

Book review: The Uses of Style in Archaeology by Margaret W. Conkey and Christine A. Hastorf

75-76
Lampert, R.J.

Book review: Prehistory and Heritage: The Writings of John Mulvaney by D.J. Mulvaney

76-77
Corkill, Tessa

Book review: The New Archaeology and Aftermath: A View From Outside the Anglo-American World by K. Paddayya

71-72
White, J. Peter

Book review: Pacific Production Systems. Approaches to Economic Prehistory by D.E. Yen and J.M.J. Mummery

72-73
Witter, Dan

Book review: Time, Energy, and Stone Tools by Robin Torrence

73-75
Lawrence Cheney, Susan

Book review: A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture by R. Apperly, R. Irving and P. Reynolds

63-64
Smith, Tony

Book review: First Light by Peter Ackroyd and Motherland by Timothy O'Grady

64-65
Lampert, Ron

Book review: Nomads in Archaeology by Roger Cribb

65-66
Rainbird, Paul

Book review: The Domestication of Europe by Ian Hodder

66-67
Specht, Jim

Book review: Lapita Design, Form and Composition: Proceedings of the Lapita Design Workshop, Canberra by Matthew Spriggs

67-70
Chippindale, Christopher

Book review: Rock Art and Posterity: Conserving, Managing and Recording Rock Art by Colin Pearson and B.K. Swartz Jr. and Conserving Australian Rock Art: A Manual for Site Managers by David Lambert

70-71
Pardoe, Colin

Book review: Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology by Robert D. Leonard and George T. Jones (eds)

72-73
Stuart, Iain

Book review: Maritime Archaeology: A Technical Handbook by J. Green

73-75
Ross, Anne

Book review: Remains To Be Seen: Archaeological Insights into Australian Prehistory by David Frankel

75-76
Habgood, Phillip J.

Book review: The Willandra Lakes Hominids by S.G. Webb and Coobool Creek. A Morphological and Metrical Analysis of the Crania, Mandibles and Dentition of a Prehistoric Australian Human Population by Peter Brown

66-69
Smithers, Scott

Book review: The Cainozoic in Australia: A Reappraisal of the Evidence by M.A.J. Williams, P. De Deckker and A.P. Kershaw (eds) and Lessons For Human Survival: Nature's Record from the Quaternary by Paul Bishop (ed.)

70-72
Smith, Claire

Book review: Australian Rock Art: A New Synthesis by Robert Layton

72-73
Flannery, Tim

Book review: Ancestors for the Pigs: Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Genus Sus by Colin Groves

73-74
Megaw, M. Ruth

Book review: The Northern Barbarians 100BC-AD300 by Malcolm Todd

74
Bowdler, Sandra

Book review: The Naive Lands: Prehistory and Environmental Change in Australia and the South-West Pacific by John Dodson (ed.)

67
Bowdler, Sandra

Book review: Recovering the Tracks: The Story of Australian Archaeology by David Horton

68
Lilley, Ian

Book review: The Origins of Hereditary Social Stratification by Malcolm McKay

69-70
Thorley, Peter

Book review: Dingo Makes Us Human by Deborah Bird Rose

70-71
Schwede, Madge

Book review: Between Plateau and Plain by June Anderson

72
Beck, Wendy

Book review: The Riches of Ancient Australia by Josephine Flood

72-73
Veth, Peter

Book review: Sites and Bytes: Recording Aboriginal Places in Australia by Josephine Flood, Ian Johnson and Sharon Sullivan (eds)

73-74
Bednarik, Robert G.

Book review: An Analysis of Ice Age Art. Its Psychology and Belief System by Noel W. Smith

74
Lampert, Ron

Book review: Pitt Rivers. The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, DCL FRS FSA by Mark Bowden

64-65
Holdaway, Simon

Book review: Invitation to Archaeology by Philip Rahtz

65-66
Marshall, Brendan

Book review: Prodigious Birds. Moas and Moa-Hunting in Prehistoric New Zealand by Atholl Anderson

66-68
Cameron, David

Book review: Owls, Caves and Fossils: Predation, Preservation and Accumulation of Small Mammal Bones in Caves, with an Analysis of the Pleistocene Cave Faunas from Westbury-Sub-Mendip, Somerset, United Kingdom by Peter J. Andrews

68-69
Franklin, Natalie

Book review: The Rock Paintings of Arnhem Land, Australia: Social, Ecological and Material Culture Change in the Post-Glacial Period by Darrell Lewis

69-71
Cameron, David

Book review: The History and Archaeology of the Sydney Cove Shipwreck (1797): A Resource for Future Work by Shirley Strachan

71-72
Head, Lesley

Book review: Burning Bush. A Fire History of Australia by Stephen J. Pyne

72
Summerhayes, Glenn R.

Book review: Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality: A Dialectical Approach to Artifact Classification and Sorting by W.Y. Adams and E.W. Adams

69
Gorecki, Paul

Book review: Catalogue of the Roth Collection of the Aboriginal Artefacts from North Queensland, Vol. 1 by Kate Khan

69-70
Attenbrow, Val

Book review: Blue Mountains Dreaming. The Aboriginal Heritage by Eugene Stockton

70-71
David, Bruno

Book review: Reading Material Culture: Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism by Christopher Tilley (ed.)

71
Attenbrow, Val

Book review: The Archaeology of the Angophora Reserve Rock Shelter by Josephine McDonald

59-61
White, J. Peter

Book review: Archaeology of a Coastal Exchange System: Sites and Ceramics of the Papuan Gulf by David Frankel and James W. Rhoads

61
Lance, Allan

Book review: What is Archaeology? An Essay on the Nature of Archaeological Research by Paul Courbin

62-63
David, Bruno

Book review: Quinkan Prehistory: The Archaeology of Aboriginal Art in S.E. Cape York Peninsula, Australia by M.J. Morwood and D.R. Hobbs (eds)

63-64
David, Bruno

Book review: Re-Constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice by Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley

69-70
Simmons, Alexy

Book review: Women in Archaeology: A Feminist Critique by Hilary du Cros and Laurajane Smith (eds)

70-71
Viel, Rene and Jay Hall

Book review: Scribes, Warriors and Kings, the City of Copán and the Ancient Maya by William L. Fash

71-72
Morwood, M.J.

Book review: Bradshaws: Ancient Paintings of Northwest Australia by Grahame L. Walsh

47-48
Smith, Claire

Book review: First in Their Field: Women and Australian Anthropology by Julie Marcus (ed.)

48-49
Balme, Jane

Book review: The Illustrated History of Humankind by Goran Burenhult (ed.)

49-51
Moser, Stephanie

Book review: Gendered Archaeology by Jane Balme and Wendy Beck (eds)

51-52
Smith, Laurajane

Book review: Archaeological Theory: Who Sets the Agenda? by Norman Yoffee and Andrew Sherratt (eds)

52-53
Rich, Elizabeth

Book review: Weipa Shell Mounds: Cultural or Natural Deposits? by Geoff Bailey

53
Knuckey, Graham

Book review: Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians: Health and Disease Across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent by Stephen Webb

53-56
Veth, Peter

Book review: Abandonments of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches by S.M. Cameron and S.A. Tomka (eds)

56-58
Smith, Mike

Book review: Marki Alonia: An Early and Middle Bronze Age Town in Cyprus - Excavations 1990-1994 by David Frankel and Jennifer M. Webb

58
Bowdler, Sandra

Book review: Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia and Papua New Guinea by Jim Allen and J.F. O'Connell (eds)

69-70
Barker, Bryce

Book review: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader by R.W. Preucel and I. Hodder (eds)

70-71
Beck, Wendy

Book review: Bushfires and Bushtucker: Aboriginal Plant Use in Central Australia by Peter Latz

71
Field, Judith

Book review: The Illusion of Riches: Scale, Resolution and Exploration in Tasmanian Pleistocene Human Behaviour by Richard Cosgrove

71-72
Strang, Veronica

Book review: Returning to Nothing: The Meaning of Lost Places by Peter Read

72-73
Theunissen, Robert

Book review: The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia by Charles Highman

73-74
Wellfare, Sharon

Book review: Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History, Society and Culture by D. Horton

74-75
Gargett, Robert H.

Book review: Tracks, Scats and Other Traces: A Field Guide to Australian Mammals by Barbara Triggs

75-76
MacDonald, Katrina

Book review: Flintknapping: Making and Using Stone Tools (Second Edition) by John C. Whittaker

76
Cole, Noelene

Book review: Rock Art and Ethnography: Proceedings of the Ethnography Symposium, Australian Rock Art Research Association Congress, Darwin 1988 by M.J. Morwood and D.R. Hobbs (eds)

65
David, Bruno

Book review: Style, Society and Person: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives by Christopher Carr and Jill E. Neitzel (eds)

65-66
McNiven, Ian

Book review: Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory by Harry Lourandos

66-67
Mitchell, Catherine

Book review: The Prehistory of the Mind: A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion and Science by Steven Mithen

67-68
Pate, F. Donald

Book review: Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology (Second Edition) by Kenneth L. Feder

68-69
Smith, Mike

Book review: Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths

69-70
Ulm, Sean

Book review: Kakadu: Natural and Cultural Heritage and Management by Tony Press, David Lea, Ann Webb and Alistair Graham (eds)

70-72
Vail, Gabrielle

Book review: Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon: The Calender of Mesoamerican Civilization by Vincent H. Malmström

72
White, J. Peter

Book review: Explorations into Highland New Guinea by Michael J. Leahy

72-73
Veth, Peter

Book review: Australian Archaeology 95: Proceedings of the 1995 Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference by Sean Ulm, Ian Lilley and Anne Ross (eds)

73-76
Thomas, Annie

Book review: Rock Art of the Dreamtime: Images of Ancient Australia by Josephine Flood

76
Burke, Heather

Book review: The Discovery of the Past: The Origins of Archaeology by Alain Schnapp

54
Lydon, Jane

Book review: The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney by Grace Karskens

54-56
Fletcher, Roland

Book review: Virtual Archaeology: Re-Creating Ancient Worlds by Maurizio Forte and Alberto Siliotti (eds)

56-57
Grave, Peter

Book review: Investigating Olduvai: Archaeology of Human Origins by Jeanne Sept

57-58
Gargett, Robert H.

Book review: American Beginnings: The Prehistory and Palaeoecology of Beringia by Frederick Hadleigh West (ed.)

58-59
MacDonald, Katrina

Book review: Adventures in Fugawiland: A Computer Simulation in Archaeology (Second Edition) by T. Douglas Price and Anne Birgette Gebauer

59-60
Morphy, Howard

Book review: Human Evolution, Language and Mind: A Psychological and Archaeological Enquiry by William Noble and Iain Davidson

60-61
Beck, Wendy

Book review: Uncommon Ground: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Values by Veronica Strang

71
Conroy, Linda

Book review: Beyond Art: Pleistocene Image and Symbol by Margaret W. Conkey, Olga Soffer, Deborah Stratmann and Nina G. Jablonski (eds)

71-73
Knight, James

Book review: Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A Word That Is, Was and Will Be by Diane Bell

73-75
Lilley, Ian

Book review: Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective by P. McConvell and N. Evans (eds)

75-76
Ross, June

Book review: Exploring Central Australia: Society, the Environment and the 1984 Horn Expedition by S.R. Morton and D.J. Mulvaney (eds)

59-60
Veth, Peter

Book review: The Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia and New Zealand by S. Lawrence and M. Staniforth (eds)

60-61
Pate, F. Donald

Book review: Quaternary Environments by M.A.J. Williams, A.P. Kershaw and T. Stokes

61-62
Gargett, Robert H.

Book review: Geoarchaeology: The Earth-Science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation by George (Rip) Rapp Jr. and Christopher L. Hill

62-64
David, Bruno

Book review: Bruising the Red Earth: Ochre Mining and Ritual in Aboriginal Tasmania by Antonio Sagona (ed.)

64-65
Walmsley, Jim

Book review: The City in Time and Space by Aidan Southall

70-71
Taçon, Paul S.C.

Book review: At a Crossroads: Archaeology and First Peoples in Canada by George P. Nicholas and Thomas D. Andrews

71
Allen, Harry

Book review: Second Nature: The History and Implications of Australia as Aboriginal Landscape by Lesley Head

74
Pate, F. Donald

Book review: Quaternary Environments (Second Edition) by Martin Williams, David Dunkerley, Patrick De Deckker, Peter Kershaw and John Chappell

74-76
Bedford, Stuart

Book review: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact by Patrick V. Kirch

67-69
Rawson, Mark

Book review: Aboriginal Archaeological Investigations in the Barwon Drainage Basin by Thomas Richards and Joanne Jordan

69-70
Stankowski, Katrina

Book review: Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology by Margarite Diaz-Andreu and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen (eds)

71-72
Weeks, Lloyd

Book review: Index of Dates from Archaeological Sites in Queensland by Sean Ulm and Jill Reid

56-57
Roberts, Amy

Book review: Anthropology and Archaeology: A Changing Relationship by Christopher Gosden

57-58
McDonald, Jo

Book review: The Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania by Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke (eds)

65-66
Chippindale, Christopher

Book review: Altered States: Material Culture Transformations in the Arafura Region by Clayton Fredricksen and Ian Walters (eds)

66-67
Smith, Mike

Book review: Faunal Extinction in an Island Society: Pygmy Hippopotamus Hunters of Cyprus by Alan H. Simmons and Associates with a foreword by G.A. Clark

67-68
Owen, Tim

Book review: Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Practice by Dena Dincauze

68-69
Paterson, Alistair

Book review: Native Title and the Transformation of Archaeology in the Postcolonial World by Ian Lilley (ed.)

69
Chippindale, Christopher

Book review: Australian Rainforests: Islands of Green in a Land of Fire by David Bowman

49-50
Marwick, Ben

Book review: A Dictionary of Archaeology by Ian Shaw and Robert Jameson (eds)

50
Rainbird, Paul

Book review: The Fourth Lapita Conference, June 2000, Canberra, Australia by G.R. Clark, A.J. Anderson and T. Vunidilo (eds)

51
Smith, Anita

Book review: Conservation of Earth Structures by John Warren

51-53
Smith, Pamela A.

Book review: Gwion Gwion: Secret and Sacred Pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal People of Australia by Ngarjno, Ungudman, Banggal and Nyawarra; Jeff Doring (ed.)

53-54
Sweet, Jonathan

Book review: Lacquer: Technology and Conservation. A Comprehensive Guide to the Technology and Conservation of Asian and European Lacquer by Marianne Webb

54-55
Taçon, Paul

Book review: Rock Art Science: The Scientific Study of Palaeoart by Robert Bednarik

55-56
Veth, Peter

Book review: Nhanda Villages of the Victoria District, Western Australia by Rupert Gerritsen

57-58
Griffin, Darren

Book review: The Languages of Archaeology: Dialogue, Narrative, and Writing by Joyce Rosemary

60
McNiven, Ian J.

Book review: Uncovering Australia: Archaeology, Indigenous People and the Public by Sarah Colley

61
Ross, Annie

Book review: An Annotated Bibliography of Theses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies at the University of Queensland, 1948-2000 by Sean Ulm, Anna Shnukal and Catherine Westcott

62
Smith, Mike

Book review: The Archaeology of Drylands: Living at the Margin by Graeme Barker and David Gilbertson (eds)

62-63
Williams, Martin

Book review: East of Wallace's Line. Studies of Past and Present Maritime Cultures of the Indo-Pacific Region by Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth (eds)

63-64
Bowdler, Sandra

Book review: East of Wallace's Line: Studies of Past and Present Maritime Cultures of the Indo-Pacific Region by Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth (eds)

47
Wilson, Meredith

Book review: Visions from the Past: The Archaeology of Australian Aboriginal Art by M.J. Morwood

47-48
Harrison, Rodney

Book review: Archaeologies of Memory by Ruth M. Van Dyke and Susan E. Alcock (eds)

48-51
Murray, Tim

Book review: Thinking from Things: Essays in the Philosophy of Archaeology by Alison Wylie

51
Birmingham, Judy

Book review: After Captain Cook: The Archaeology of the Recent Indigenous Past in Australia by Rodney Harrison and Christine Williamson (eds)

52
Bowdler, Sandra

Book review: The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847 by Keith Windschuttle

69-70
Ireland, Tracy

Book review: Much More than Stones and Bones: Australian Archaeology in the Late Twentieth Century by Hilary du Cros

70-71
Megaw, Vincent

Book review: Treasures of the Nicholson Museum the University of Sydney by D.T. Potts and K.N. Sowada (eds)

72-73
Bulbeck, David

Book review: The Incas by Terence N. D'Altroy

76
Cole, Noelene

Book review: Colouring the Past: The Significance of Colour in Archaeological Research by Andrew Jones and Gavin MacGregor (eds)

76-78
Crowther, Alison

Book review: A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht by V. Attenbrow and R. Fullagar (eds)

78-79
Harrison, Rodney

Book review: Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000BC to the Present by Chris Gosden and The Archeology of the Colonized by Michael Given: Review essay: Archaeologies of Colonialism

79-81
McNiven, Ian

Book review: Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology by Alan Barnard

81-82
Pate, F. Donald

Book review: Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets by Lewis R. Binford

82-83
Struwe, Ruth

An Ambitious German in Early Twentieth Century Tasmania: The Collections Made by Fritz Noetling

31-37
Dortch, Joe, Charles Dortch and Robert Reynolds

Test Excavation at the Oyster Harbour Stone Fish Traps, King George Sound, Western Australia: An Investigation Aimed at Determining the Construction Method and Maximum Age of the Structures

38-43
Barker, Bryce

The Temporality of Cultural Material on a Deflated Dune System at Abbot Point, Central Queensland Coast

44-46
Basgall, Mark

Book Review: Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives edited by Peter Veth, Mike Smith & Peter Hiscock

47-48
Denham, Tim

Book Review: First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by Peter Bellwood

49-50
Hallam, Sylvia

Book Review: Hominid Adaptations and Extinctions by David W. Cameron

50-51
Hallam, Sylvia

Book Review: Palaeo-Environmental Change and the Persistence of Human Occupation in South-Western Australian Forests by Joe Dortch

51-53
Knuckey, Graham

Book Review: The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory by Jean Guilaine & Jean Zammit

53-54
Lockhart, Brandy

Book Review: The Archaeologist's Manual for Conservation: A Guide to Non-Toxic, Minimal Intervention Artifact Stabilization by Bradley A. Rodgers

54-55
Morrison, Michael

Book Review: The Archaeology of Time by Gavin Lucas

55-56
Ormsby, Tim

Book Review: The Archaeologist?s Field Handbook by Heather Burke & Claire Smith

56-57
Ross, Anne

Book Review: Archaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses edited by Jane Balme & Alistair Paterson

57-58
Russell, Lynette

Book Review: Shared Landscapes: Archaeologies of Attachment and the Pastoral Industry in New South Wales by Rodney Harrison

58-59
Slack, Michael & Richard Fullagar

Book Review: Inscribed Landscapes: Marking and Making Place edited by Bruno David & Meredith Wilson

59-62
Thorley, Peter

Book Review: 23?S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts edited by Mike Smith & Paul Hesse

62
Briggs, Susan

Thesis Abstract: Portonian Respectability: Working-class Attitudes To Respectability In Port Adelaide Through Material Culture, 1840-1900

63
Dudley, Jo

Thesis Abstract: Paradise Lost: The Archaeological Landscape Of A Late Nineteenth Century Queensland Gold Mining Community

63
Farmen, Kristjan W.M.

Thesis Abstract: The Antipodean Hog Farm: Youth Subcultures, Human Ecology And Investigations Into The Lifeways Of Australia's Hippies

63-64
Ormsby, Tim

Thesis Abstract: Kennewick Man Meets Lady Mungo: An International Look At Repatriation

64
Robertson, Gail

Thesis Abstract: Backed Artefact Use In Eastern Australia: A Residue And Use-Wear Analysis

64-65
Rosendahl, Daniel

Thesis Abstract: All The Small Things: The Refinement Of Foraminiferal Analysis To Determine Site Formation Processes In Archaeological Sediments

65
Susino, George James

Thesis Abstract: Analysis Of Lithic Artefact Microdebitage For Chronological Determination Of Archaeological Sites

65-66
Wallis, Lynley A.

Thesis Abstract: Phytoliths, Late Quaternary Environments And Archaeology In Tropical Semi-Arid Northwest Australia

66
Wilson, Christopher

Thesis Abstract: Return Of The Ngarrindjeri: Repatriating Old People Back To Country

66-67
Wimmer, Martin

Thesis Abstract: Archaeology Of The Russian Scare: The Port Adelaide Torpedo Station

67
Boyd, Bill

Book Review: Archaeology of Asia edited by Miriam T. Stark

61
Fullagar, Richard

Book review: Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands edited by Ian Lilley

62-63
Kahn, Jennifer G.

Book review: Pieces of the Vanuatu Puzzle: Archaeology of the North, South, and Centre by Stuart Bedford

63-64
McNiven, Ian J.

Book review: Lithics ‘Down Under’: Australian Perspectives On Lithic Reduction, Use And
Classification
edited by Chris Clarkson & Lara Lamb

64-65
Pocock, Celmara

Book review: Object Lessons: Archaeology And Heritage In Australia edited by Jane Lydon & Tracy Ireland

65-67
Rosendahl, Daniel

Book review: The Archaeology Of The Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia edited by Sue O’Connor, Matthew Spriggs and Peter Veth

67-68
Keen, Ian

Aboriginal Economy And Society: Australia At The Threshold Of Colonisation

68-69
Ridges, Mal

Nonlinear Models For Archaeology And Anthropology: Continuing The Revolution

69-70
Guse, Daryl Lloyd

Our Home Our Country: A Case Study Of Law, Land, And Indigenous Cultural Heritage In The Northern Territory, Australia

72
Barker, Bryce

Book Review: Shamans, Sorcerers and Saints: A Prehistory of Religion by Brian Hayden

53
Fairbairn, Andrew

Book Review: The Goddess and the Bull: Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization by Michael Balter

54-56
Franklin, Natalie

Book Review: Introduction to Rock Art Research by David S. Whitley

56-57
Gibbs, Martin

Book Review: Many Exchanges: Archaeology, History, Community and the Work of Isabel McBryde edited by Ingereth McFarlane with Mary-Jane Mountain & Robert Paton

57-58
Murphy, Karen

Book Review: Writing Archaeology: Telling Stories about the Past by Brian Fagan

58-59
Taçon, Paul S.C.

Book Review: Australian Apocalypse: The Story of Australia’s Greatest Cultural Monument by Robert G. Bednarik

59-60
Brooks, Alasdair

Book Review: Historical Archaeology: Why the Past Matters by Barbara J. Little

55-56
Craib, John L.

Book Review: Doing Archaeology: A Cultural Resource Management Perspective by Thomas F. King

56
David, Bruno

Book Review: A Companion to Archaeology edited by John Bintliff

56-58
Lennon, Jane

Book Review: Uses of Heritage by Laurajane Smith

58-60
Macfarlane, Ingereth

Book Review: The Meaning of Water by Veronica Strang

60-61
McDonald, Jo

Book Review: Peopling the Cleland Hills: Aboriginal History in Western Central Australia 1850–1980 by M.A. Smith

61
Prangnell, Jonathan

Book Review: Historical Archaeology edited by Martin Hall and Stephen W. Silliman

62
Slack, Michael

Book Review: North American Archaeology edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Diana DiPaolo Loren

62-63
Sullivan, Sharon

Book Review: High Lean Country: Land, People and Memory in New England edited by Alan Atkinson, J.S. Ryan, Iain Davidson and Andrew Piper

63-64
Strang, Veronica

Book Review: How a Continent Created a Nation by Libby Robin

64-65
Walmsley, Alan

Book Review: Islamic Art and Archaeology of Palestine by Myriam Rosen-Ayalon

65-67
White, J. Peter

Book Review: The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People by Josephine Flood

67
Babidge, Sally

Book Review: Renewing Women’s Business: A Documentary by Julie Drew & Wardaman Aboriginal Corporation

64-65
Barker, Bryce

Book review: Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland by Sean Ulm

65-67
Cosgrove, Richard

Book review: The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies edited by Bruno David, Bryce Barker & Ian J. McNiven

67-68
Edwards, Phillip C.

Book review: Neolithic by Susan Foster McCarter

68-69
Fagan, Brian

Book review: Archaeology of Ancient Australia by Peter Hiscock

69-70
Frankel, David

Book review: Artifact Classification: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach by Dwight W. Read

71-72
Gibbs, Martin

Book review: Whalers and Free Men: Life on Tasmania’s Colonial Whaling Stations by Susan Lawrence

72
Gojak , Denis

Book review: Inauthentic Archaeologies: Public Uses and Abuses of the Past by Troy Lovata

72-74
Gould, Richard A.

Book review: Lithics in the Land of the Lightning Brothers: The Archaeology of Wardaman Country, Northern Territory by Chris Clarkson

74-75
Hiscock, Peter

Book review: Box Office Archaeology: Refining Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past edited by Julie M. Schablitsky

75-76
Hook, Fiona

Book review: Salvage Excavation of Six Sites Along Caddies, Seconds Ponds, Smalls and Cattai Creeks
in the Rouse Hill Development Area, NSW
by Jo McDonald Cultural Heritage Management Pty Ltd

76
King, Thomas F.

Book review: Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage by Laurajane Smith

77-78
McNiven, Ian J.

Book review: The Archaeologist’s Fieldwork Companion by Barbara Ann Kipfer

78-79
Murray, Tim

Book review: Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming: An Archaeology of Preunderstanding by Bruno David

79-81
Paterson, Alistair

Book review: A Companion to Social Archaeology edited by Lynn Meskell & Robert W. Preucel

81-82
Bailey, Geoff

Book review: The Archaeology of Montebello Islands, North-West Australia: Late Quaternary Foragers on an Arid Coastline by Peter Veth, Ken Aplin, Lynley Wallis, Tiina Manne, Tim Pulsford, Elizabeth White & Alan Chappell

59-60
Davidson, Iain

Book review: Cave Art: A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe by Paul Bahn

60
Denham, Tim

Book review: The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe edited by Sue Colledge & James Conolly

60-62
du Cros, Hilary

Book review: Archaeology and the Media edited by Timothy Clack & Marcus Brittain

62-63
Fairbairn, Andrew

Book review: The Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic by Rob Swigart

63-65
Flood, Josephine

Book review: Mungo Over Millennia: The Willandra Landscape and its People edited by Helen Lawrence

65-66
Green, Michael

Book review: The Discovery of the Hobbit: The Scientific Breakthrough that Changed the Face of Human History by Mike Morwood & Penny van Oosterzee

66-67
Kirch, Patrick V.

Book review: Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement edited by Stuart Bedford, Christophe Sand & S.P. Connaughton

67-69
Littleton, Judith

Book review: Salvage Excavation of Human Skeletal Remains at Ocean and Octavia Streets, Narrabeen, Site #45-6-2747 by Jo McDonald Cultural Heritage Management Pty Ltd

69-70
Mackay, Richard

Book review: Sustaining Heritage: Giving the Past a Future by Tony Gilmour

70
Nicholas, George

Book review: Digging It Up Down Under: A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia by Claire Smith & Heather Burke

71-72
Orser, Charles E. Jr

Book review: Port Essington: The Historical Archaeology of a North Australian Nineteenth Century Military Outpost by JKim Allen

72-73
Potts, D.T.

Book review: The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq by Peter Stone & Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly (eds)

73-74
Ryan, Lyndall

Book review: ‘The Axe Had Never Sounded’: Place, People and Heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania by John Mulvaney

74-76
Stuart, Iain

Book review: A Fearsome Heritage: Diverse Legacies of the Cold War by John Schofield & Wayne Cocroft (eds)

76-77
Taçon, Paul S.C.

Book review: Rock Art of the Kimberley: Proceedings of the Kimberley Society Rock Art Seminar Held at the University of Western Australia, Perth, 10 September 2005 by Mike Donaldson & Kevin Kenneally (eds)

77
Weisler, Marshall

Book review: Otoliths of Common Australian Temperate Fish: A Photographic Guide by Dianne Furlani, Rosemary Gales & David Pemberton

78
Asmussen, Brit

Book review: What’s Changing: Population Size or Land-Use Patterns? The Archaeology of the Upper Mangrove Creek, Sydney Basin by Val Attenbrow

75-76
Clarkson, Chris

Book review: Australia’s Eastern Regional Sequence Revisited: Technology and Change at Capertee 3 by Peter Hiscock & Val Attenbrow

76-77
Davidson, Iain

Book review: The Bone Readers: Atoms, Genes and the Politics of Australia’s Deep Past by Claudio Tuniz, Richard Gillespie & Cheryl Jones

77-78
Gibbs, Martin

Book review: Archaeology to Delight and Instruct: Active Learning in the University Classroom by Heather Burke & Claire Smith (eds)

78-79
Godwin, Luke

Book reviiew: The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration by Russell McDougall & Iain Davidson (eds)

80-81
Lennon, Jane

Book review: A Critical Exploration of Frameworks for Assessing the Significance of New Zealand’s Historic Heritage by Sara Donaghey

81-82
Marwick, Ben

Book review: Place as Occupational Histories: An Investigation of the Deflated Surface Archaeological Record of Pine Point and Langwell Stations, Western New South Wales, Australia by Justin Shiner

82
Ross, June

Book review: Aesthetics and Rock Art III Symposium: Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress by Thomas Heyd & John Clegg (eds)

83-84
Roberts, Amy

Book review: Heritage, Communities and Archaeology by Laurajane Smith & Emma Waterton

84-85
Rothschild, Nan

Book review: The Lost Legions: Culture Contact in Colonial Australia by Alistair Paterson

85
Rowland, Michael J.

Book review: Climate Change: The Science, Impacts and Solutions by A. Barrie Pittock

85-87
Shiner, Justin

Book review: Time to Quarry: The Archaeology of Stone Procurement in Northwestern New South Wales, Australia by Trudy Doelman

87-88
Westaway, Michael C.

Book review: The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections by Nicolas Peterson, Lindy Allen & Louise Hamby (eds)

88-90
Aldhouse-Green, Miranda

Book review: Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination by Karin Sanders

72-73
de Leiuen, Cherrie

Book review: Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia by Paul Memmott

73-74
Littleton, Judith

Book review: Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology by Soren Blau & Douglas Ubelaker (eds)

74-75
Lourandos, Harry

Book review: Australia and the Origins of Agriculture by Rupert Gerritsen

75-77
Milledge Nelson, Sarah

Book review:Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia by Denis Byrne

77-78
Shott, Michael J.

Book review: Measured on Stone: Stone Artefact Reduction, Residential Mobility, and Aboriginal Land Use in Arid Central Australia by Wallace Boone Law

78-80