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The Human Past: World Prehistory and the development of human societies (fourth edition), edited by Chris Scarre, London, Thames and Hudson, 2018, 768 pp., Illus. 746, £45.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 9780500294208. Palaeoart of the Ice Age, by Robert G. Bednarik, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, vi and 248 pp., Illus. 76, £61.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781443895170. Moving on in Neolithic studies: understanding mobile lives, edited by Jim Leary and Thomas Kador, Oxford, Oxbow Books (Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 14), 2016, xii and 186 pp., Illus. 27, £38.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781785701764. Neolithic Britain: the transformation of social worlds, by Keith Ray and Julian Thomas, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, xv and 384 pp., Illus. 95, £30.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780198823896. Axe-heads and identity: an investigation into the roles of imported axe-heads in identity formation in Neolithic Britain, by Katharine Walker, Oxford, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018, xiv and 335 pp., Illus. 142, £40.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781784917449. Daily life at the turn of the Neolithic: a comparative study of longhouses with sunken floors at Resengaard and nine other settlements in the Limfjord region, South Scandinavia, by John Simonsen, Aarhus, Aarhus University Press, Publications of the Jutland Archaeological Society Volume: 98, 2017, 535 pp., Illus. 230, £48.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9788793423145. Excavations at Knowth volume 6: the passage tomb archaeology of the Great Mound at Knowth, edited by George Eogan and Kerri Cleary, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy (Royal Irish Academy Monographs in Archaeology), 2017, lvii and 838 pp., Illus. 397, £45.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781908996763. Dress and identity in Iron Age Britain: a study of glass beads and other objects of personal adornment, by Elizabeth M. Foulds, Oxford, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2017, xiii and 337 pp., Illus. 194, £50.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781784915261. Art and archaeology of the Greek World (second edition), by Richard T. Neer, London, Thames and Hudson, 2019, 408 pp., Illus. 559, £45.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780500052082. Rome in the ancient world: from Romulus to Justinian (third edition), by David Potter, London, Thames and Hudson, 2018, 368 pp., Illus. 233, £35.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780500051979. Britannia Romana: Roman inscriptions and Roman Britain, by Roger S. O. Tomlin, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2018, xvi and 472 pp., Illus. 251, £48.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781785707001. Rome’s Holy Mountain: the Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity, by Jason Moralee, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, xxiv and 278 pp., Illus. 32, £47.99 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780190492274. ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL 2019, VOL. 176, NO. 2, 425–429 https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2019.1602934