Book reviews

The Prehistoric Society provides reviews of recently published books on all areas of prehistory. We handpick experts on relevant fields to produce thoughtful reviews that summarise content and present individual perspectives on new publications.

We also accept proposals for reviews. Please get in touch with our Reviews Editor via reviews@prehistoricsociety.org if you’d like to discuss an idea for a review. Guidelines for reviews can be found below.

Download Book Review Guidelines (Word docx, 146 KB)
Flint daggers in prehistoric Europe
C.J. Frieman and B. V Eriksen
Reviewed by Philippa Bradley (Wessex Archaeology)
Read review
From cooking vessels to cultural practices in the late Bronze Age Aegean
Edited by J. Hruby and D. Trusty
Reviewed by Ina Berg (University of Manchester)
Read review
Life and death in the Mesolithic of Sweden
M. Larsson
Reviewed by Nicky Milner (University of York)
Read review
Twice-crossed River: prehistoric and palaeoenvironmental investigations at Barleycroft Farm/Over Cambridgeshire
C. Evans, with J. Tabor and M. Vander Linden
Reviewed by Jane Sidell (Historic England)
Read review
Woodland in the Neolithic of northern Europe: The forest as ancestor
G. Noble
Reviewed by Ruth Pelling (Historic England)
Read review
Across the Alps in prehistory: Isotopic mapping of the Brenner Passage by bioarchaeology
G. Grupe, A. Grigat and G. McGlynn
Reviewed by Mandy Jay (Durham University (Honorary Research Fellow))
Read review
Molluscs in archaeology: Methods, approaches and applications
Edited by M. Allen
Reviewed by Charles French (University of Cambridge)
Read review
The Making of Prehistoric Wiltshire
D. McOmish and D. Field
Reviewed by Mike Parker Pearson (UCL Institute of Archaeology)
Read review
The Neolithic of Europe: Papers in honour of Alasdair Whittle
Edited by P. Bickle, V. Cummings, D. Hofmann and J. Pollard
Reviewed by Alex Gibson (University of Bradford)
Read review
50 finds from Hampshire: Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme
K. Hind
Reviewed by Melanie Pomeroy-Kellinger (County Archaeologist, Wiltshire Council)
Read review
50 finds from Wiltshire: Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme
R. Henry
Reviewed by Melanie Pomeroy-Kellinger (County Archaeologist, Wiltshire Council)
Read review
An upland biography: Landscape and prehistory on Gardom's Edge
J. Barnatt, B. Bevan and M. Edmonds
Reviewed by Roger Martlew (Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust)
Read review
Archaeology and landscape at the Land's End, Cornwall: The West Penwith surveys 1980-2010
P. Herring, N. Johnson, A. Jones, J. Nowakowski, A. Sharpe and A. Young
Reviewed by Lee Bray (Dartmoor National Park Authority)
Read review
Iron Age hillfort defences and the tactics of sling warfare
P. Robertson
Reviewed by Harold Mytum (University of Liverpool)
Read review
Making a mint. Comparative studies in Late Iron Age coin mould
M. Landon
Reviewed by Colin Haselgrove (University of Leicester)
Read review
Trypillia mega-sites and European prehistory 4100-3400 BC
Edited by Johannes Müller, Knut Rassmann and Mykhailo Videiko
Reviewed by Alexandra Anders (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University)
Read review
Dress & identity in Iron Age Britain: A study of glass beads and other objects of personal ornament
E. Foulds
Reviewed by Helen Chittock (University of Oxford)
Read review
Evidential reasoning in archaeology
R. Chapman and A. Wylie
Reviewed by Adrian M. Chadwick (University of Bristol)
Read review
Ireland's first settlers: Time and the Mesolithic
P. Woodman
Reviewed by Ben Elliott (University of York)
Read review
William Boyd Dawkins and the Victorian science of cave hunting: Three men in a cavern
Mark White
Reviewed by John McNabb (University of Southampton)
Read review