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Cover. Watercolour of ancient rock-cut settling basin and cistern (foreground), and terrace system (background) currently in use in the
northern hinterlands of Petra, Jordan. Figure by Nick de Pace/Petra Roads Project. For further details, see Felipe Rojas et al. in this
issue’s Project Gallery with their article on ‘Assembling Petra’s rural landscapes’.

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Research Articles
Archaeology without antiquity 852
Assaf Nativ & Gavin Lucas
Rethinking pig domestication in China: regional trajectories in central China 864
and the Lower Yangtze Valley
Ningning Dong & Jing Yuan
Flint ‘figurines’ from the Early Neolithic site of Kharaysin, Jordan 880
Juan José Ibáñez, Juan R. Muñiz, Thomas Huet, Jonathan Santana, Luis C.
Teira, Ferran Borrell, Rafael Rosillo & Eneko Iriarte
Subsistence and persistence: agriculture in the Central Plains of China through 900
the Neolithic to Bronze Age transition
Yuan Jing, Roderick Campbell, Lorenzo Castellano & Chen Xianglong
Petrified animals: fossil beads from a Neolithic hunter-gatherer double burial at 916
Zvejnieki in Latvia
Aija Macāne
All things bright: copper grave goods and diet at the Neolithic site of Osłonki, 932
Poland
Chelsea Budd, Peter Bogucki, Malcolm Lillie, Ryszard Grygiel, Wiesław
Lorkiewicz & Rick Schulting
A prehistoric copper-production centre in central Thailand: its dating and 948
wider implications
Thomas F.G. Higham, Andrew D. Weiss, Charles F.W. Higham, Christopher
Bronk Ramsey, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Sydney Hanson, Steven A. Weber,
Fiorella Rispoli, Roberto Ciarla, Thomas O. Pryce & Vincent C. Pigott
Three thousand years of farming strategies in central Thailand 966
Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Sydney Hanson, Thanik Lertcharnrit, Andrew D. Weiss,
Vincent C. Pigott, Charles F.W. Higham, Thomas F.G. Higham & Steven A.
Weber
Planning Punic cities: geophysical prospection and the built environment at 983
Motya, Sicily
Jason T. Herrmann & Paola Sconzo

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 Mortuary practices of the first Polynesians: formative ethnogenesis in the 999
Kingdom of Tonga
Frederique Valentin, Geoffrey Clark, Philip Parton & Christian Reepmeyer
The architecture of access: ramps at ancient Greek healing sanctuaries 1015
Debby Sneed
The context and meaning of an intact Inca underwater offering from Lake Titicaca 1030
Christophe Delaere & José M. Capriles
Inequality on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America measured by 1042
house-floor area and storage capacity
Kenneth M. Ames & Colin Grier

Debate
The dangers of conflating responsible and responsive artefact stewardship with 1060
illicit and illegal collecting
Suzie Thomas & Bonnie L. Pitblado
Archaeology’s awkward allies 1068
Pieterjan Deckers
‘Not with the same brush’ 1071
Joe Watkins
Engaging with demand and destruction 1074
Morag M. Kersel
Unravelling the spectra of stewards and collectors 1077
Bonnie L. Pitblado & Suzie Thomas

Reviews

Review Articles

Making magic
RICHARD GORDON 1080
Material approaches to Roman magic: occult objects & supernatural substances
Adam Parker & Stuart Mckie
Egyptian magic: the quest for Thoth’s book of secrets
Maarten J. Raven

The archaeology of Afghanistan revisited

J. EVA MEHARRY 1084
Archaeological gazetteer of Afghanistan
Warwick Ball
The archaeology of Afghanistan
Raymond Allchin, Warwick Ball & Norman Hammond

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 Book Reviews

Maria Ivanova, Bogdan Athanassov, Vanya Petrova, Desislava Takorova 1088

& Philipp W. Stockhammer Social dimensions of food in the prehistoric Balkans
ERICA ROWAN
Lotte Reedz Sparrevohn, Ole Thirup Kastholm & Poul Otto Nielsen 1090
Houses for the living: two-aisled houses from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in
Denmark
KRISTIAN KRISTIANSEN
Andrew Poulter The transition to Late Antiquity on the Lower Danube: 1092
excavations and survey at Dichin, a Late Roman to Early Byzantine fort and a
Roman aqueduct
JAMES CROW
Felipe Rojas The pasts of Roman Anatolia: interpreters, traces, horizons 1094
HUGH ELTON
Philipp Pilhofer Das frühe Christentum im kilikisch-isaurischen Bergland (Die 1095
Christender Kalykadnos-Region in den ersten fünf Jahrhunderten) [Early
Christianity in the Cilician-Isaurian Highlands]
YAVUZ YEĞ IN
Joanna Brück Personifying prehistory: relational ontologies in Bronze Age Britain 1097
and Ireland
CHRIS FOWLER
Martin Carver Formative Britain: an archaeology of Britain, fifth to eleventh 1110
century AD
ANDREW REYNOLDS
Lyn Blackmore, Ian Blair, Sue Hirst & Christopher Scull The Prittlewell 1102
princely burial: excavations at Priory Crescent, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 2003
TOBY MARTIN
Catriona J. McKenzie & Eileen M. Murphy Life and death in medieval Gaelic 1104
Ireland: the skeletons from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal
MARA TESORIERI
Jane Kershaw & Gareth Williams Silver, butter, cloth: monetary and social 1106
economies in the Viking Age
MARTIN RUNDKVIST
Aleksander K. Konapatskii, Richard L. Bland & Yaroslav V. Kuzmin Aleksei 1108
P. Okladnikov: the great explorer of the past. Volume I: a biography of a Soviet
archaeologist (1900s–1950s)
STEPHEN LEACH

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 New Book Chronicle 1111

Claire Nesbitt

Addendum
A new look at the Minoan ‘blue’ monkeys—ADDENDUM 1120
Bernardo Urbani & Dionisios Youlatos

Corrigenda
Tormented Alderney: archaeological investigations of the Nazi labour and 1121
concentration camp of Sylt—CORRIGENDUM
Caroline Sturdy Colls, Janos Kerti & Kevin Colls
Mahendraparvata: an early Angkor-period capital defined through airborne 1123
laser scanning at Phnom Kulen—CORRIGENDUM
Jean-Baptiste Chevance, Damian Evans, Nina Hofer, Sakada Sakhoeun &
Ratha Chhean

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

project-gallery)
First results of a Middle Stone Age survey in the Kerma region, northern Sudan
Nuno Bicho, Jonathan Haws & Matthieu Honegger
‘Project Piedemonte’: between the Maloti-Drakensberg and the Great
Escarpment in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Paloma de la Peña & David M. Witelson
Crop choice, gathered plants and household activities at the beginnings of
farming in the Pelagonia Valley of North Macedonia
Ferran Antolín, Amalia Sabanov, Goce Naumov & Raül Soteras
New polychrome painting from Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan
Alexey Fribus, Nadezhda Dubova, Robert Sataev, Liliya Sataeva, Vladimir
Kufterin & Muhametnazar Begliev
Assembling Petra’s rural landscapes
Felipe Rojas, Sarah Newman, Cristiano Nicosia & Daniel Plekhov
Exploring Chaundkot Fort in Garhwal, central Himalaya, India
Nagendra Singh Rawat & Vinod Nautiyal

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