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a review of
world archaeology
edited by robert witcher
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Cover. Excavations at the reconstructed heritage site of Castell Henllys have revealed the ubiquity of plastic waste, here particularly
that associated with school-party visits, as found in the Earthwatch roundhouse. Plastics such as these disposable eating implements
are entering the terrestrial as well as marine environment in a way that leaves a distinct archaeological signature of our times. For
full details, see the ‘The Iron Age in the Plastic Age: Anthropocene signatures at Castell Henllys’ by Harold Mytum and James Meek
in this issue. Photographs by A. Fairley.

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Research Articles
Subsistence and health in Middle Neolithic (9000–7000 BP) southern China: 13
new evidence from the Dingsishan site
Simei Zhu, Fajun Li, Xianglong Chen, Xianguo Fu & Yaowu Hu
Early Neolithic occupation of the lowlands of south-western Iran: new evidence 27
from Tapeh Mahtaj
Hojjat Darabi, Pernille Bangsgaard, Amaia Arranz-Otaegui, Golnaz Ahadi &
Jesper Olsen
Neolithic pathways in East Asia: early sedentism on the Mongolian Plateau 45
Chao Zhao, Lisa Janz, Dashzeveg Bukhchuluun & Davaakhuu Odsuren
New burial rites at the end of the Linearbandkeramik in south-west Slovakia 65
Nils Müller-Scheeßel, Zuzana Hukeľová, John Meadows, Ivan Cheben,
Johannes Müller & Martin Furholt
The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west 85
Wales
Mike Parker Pearson, Josh Pollard, Colin Richards, Kate Welham, Timothy
Kinnaird, Dave Shaw, Ellen Simmons, Adam Stanford, Richard Bevins, Rob
Ixer, Clive Ruggles, Jim Rylatt & Kevan Edinborough
The Early Iron Age collective tomb LCG-1 at Dibbā al-Bayah, Oman: 104
long-distance exchange and cross-cultural interaction
Dennys Frenez, Francesco Genchi, Hélène David-Cuny & Sultan Al-Bakri
Tracking turtles in the past: zooarchaeological evidence for human-turtle 125
interactions in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean
Canan Çakırlar, Francis J. Koolstra & Salima Ikram
Connectivity and funerary change in early medieval Europe 142
Emma Brownlee
Chacmools in Costa Rica: long-distance interaction between lower Central 160
America and Mesoamerica, c. AD 1000
Robert M. Rosenswig & Ricardo Vázquez Leiva

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 The battle of Vossenack Ridge: exploring interdisciplinary approaches for the 180
detection of U.S. Army field positions on a Second World War battlefield
Andreas Stele, Malte Schwickert & Christoph Rass
The Iron Age in the Plastic Age: Anthropocene signatures at Castell Henllys 198
Harold Mytum & James Meek
Mutable objects, places and chronologies 215
Victoria A. Sainsbury, Peter Bray, Chris Gosden & A. Mark Pollard

Debate Articles
Ancient DNA, kinship and relational identities in Bronze Age Britain 228
Joanna Brück
Making posthumanist kin in the past 238
Rachel J. Crellin
Making aDNA useful for kinship analysis 241
Bradley E. Ensor
Exploring human possibilities 244
Martin Furholt
Emergent or imposed? 247
Catherine J. Frieman
Kinship: politics and practice 249
Joanna Brück

Reviews
Book Reviews
Wolfram Grajetzki The people of the Cobra province in Egypt: a local history, 252
4500 to 1500 BC
DANIJELA STEFANOVIĆ
Marina Panagiotaki, Ilias Tomazos & Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos 254
Cutting-edge technologies in ancient Greece: materials science applied to trace ancient
technologies in the Aegean world
GEORGIA L. IRBY
Scott R. Hutson & Traci Ardren The Maya world 256
NORMAN HAMMOND
David J. Breeze & William S. Hanson The Antonine Wall: papers in honour of 259
Professor Lawrence Keppie
ANNA H. WALAS
Xiuzhen Li Bronze weapons of the Qin terracotta warriors: standardisation, craft 261
specialisation and labour organisation
RUILIANG LIU

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 Mehdi Saqalli & Marc Vander Linden Integrating qualitative and social science 263
factors in archaeological modelling
DANIËL VAN HELDEN
Billie Melman Empires of antiquities: modernity and the rediscovery of the ancient 265
Near East, 1914–1950
HÉLÈNE MALOIGNE
Dennis W. Harding Re-writing history: changing perceptions of the 267
archaeological past
TIM MURRAY
Luci Attala & Louise Steel Body matters: exploring the materiality of the 269
human body
SARAH TARLOW

New Book Chronicle 272

CLAIRE NESBITT

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 Project Gallery on the website (http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/
project-gallery)
Amak’hee 4: a newly documented rock art site in the Swaga Swaga Game
Reserve
Maciej Grzelczyk
EVOSHEEP: the makeup of sheep breeds in the ancient Near East
Emmanuelle Vila, Philippe Abrahami, Moussab Albesso, Agraw Amane, Camille
Bader, Rémi Berthon, Sofiane Bouzid, Daniel Bradley, Catherine Breniquet,
Jwana Chahoud, Thomas Cucchi, Hossein Davoudi, Bea de Cupere, Gilles
Escarguel, Oscar Estrada, Lionel Gourichon, Daniel Helmer, Wei Huangfu,
Joséphine Lesur, Marjan Mashkour, Cécile Michel, Azadeh Mohaseb, Ludovic
Orlando, François Pompanon, Jacqueline Studer & Manon Vuillien
A unique cultic complex of the transitional period from the Bronze Age to Early
Iron Age in Western Siberia
Vyacheslav I. Molodin, Dmitry V. Selin, Lyudmila N. Mylnikova, Igor A.
Durakov & Nataliya S. Efremova
Streets and houses of Roman Alexandria revisited
Grzegorz Majcherek
The ‘Waiat Archaeology Project’ in Torres Strait, northern Australia
Duncan Wright, Cygnet Repu & Falen D. Passi
Geophysical survey locates an elusive Tlingit fort in south-east Alaska
Thomas M. Urban & Brinnen Carter

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