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European prehistory
Beuker, Jaap, Drenth, Erik, Hirsch, Klaus, Mennenga, Moritz & Segschneider, Martin. 2025. Heligoland flint in prehistoric Europe: characteristics, typology, distribution, symbolism and provenance. Leiden: Sidestone; 978-94-6426-412-8 paperback €50 online OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.59641/mm189py
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Domaradzka, Sylwia. 2026. Subneolithic communities in the basin of the Narew and the lower and middle Bug (Warsaw Studies in Archaeology 16). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61960-6 hardback €140.10.1484/M.WSA-EB.5.150411CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Grigoriev, Stanislav. 2025. Indo-Aryans in the Bronze Age. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-066-5 hardback £60.10.2307/jj.36648483CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Waddell, John. 2026. The Celtic world: a history. Dublin: Four Courts; 978-1-80151-200-8 hardback €26.95.Google Scholar
Classical and Roman world
Abbott, Philip. 2026. Sounds for a new world: the Christianizing soundscapes of Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-781073-6 hardback £25.99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Andrade, Nathanael & Raja, Rubina (ed.). 2026. Invisible labour in Antiquity: visualizing obscure work in the ancient Mediterranean and West Asia (The Archaeology and History of Western Asia (300 BCE–750 CE) 1). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61983-5 hardback €125.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barca, Natale. 2025. Aquileia: lo scudo di Roma (Studia Historica 135). Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3608-8 paperback €120.Google Scholar
Bendall, Lisa Maria. 2026. Reading Linear B volume 1: an introduction to the writing system and Mycenaean Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-33644-4 hardback £90.Google Scholar
Collins, Rob & Symonds, Matthew (ed.). 2026. Hadrian’s Wall: new insights on frontier culture (Britannia Monographs 38). London: The Roman Society; 978-0-907764-52-6 paperback £60.Google Scholar
Luca Dal Monte. 2025. Il Foro di Augusto: Architettura e decorazione architettonica dei portici e delle esedre (Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma. Supplementi 33). Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3546-3 hardback €140.Google Scholar
Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta. 2026. The Roman arch: architecture, politics, and the commemoration of victory in Rome (196 BCE to 43 CE). Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-781507-6 hardback £86.Google Scholar
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Matijević, Krešimir, Raja, Rubina & Rüpke, Jörg (ed.). 2025. Caesar’s visions and impact on the Roman Empire: revisiting the archaeological and historical record of the 40s BC (Rome Studies 2). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61930-9 hardback €130.10.1484/M.RS-EB.5.150292CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Salis, Gianfranca, Rendeli, Marco & Ghiani, Andreina (ed.). 2025. Al di là del mare: Etruria e Sardegna in mille anni di storia (Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici 68). Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider; 978-88-7689-353-7 paperback €114.Google Scholar
Early medieval, medieval and post-medieval archaeology
Bakirtzis, Nikolas. 2025. Architecture and sacred landscape in Byzantium: making Prodromos monastery on Mount Menoikeion (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3250) Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6219-9 paperback £54.Google Scholar
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Delfino, Alessandro, De Luca, Ilaria & Meneghini, Roberto. 2025. Un atelier per maioliche di età rinascimentale a Roma: Lo scavo della fornace per ceramiche nell’area del Foro di Traiano (1998–2016) (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3249). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6360-8 paperback £56.10.30861/9781407363608CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harrington, Sue (ed.). 2025. Excavations at Highdown, West Sussex: burials from the 5th and 6th centuries AD (British Archaeological Reports British Series 702). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6313-4 paperback £85.10.30861/9781407363134CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Karpińska, Klaudia, Smallman, Riley & Oehrl, Sigmund (ed.). 2026. Between bones and beliefs: human-bird relations in Central and Northern Europe in the first millennium AD (The Archaeology of Northern Europe 4). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61482-3 hardback €100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Larrington, Carolyne, Velten, Hans Rudolf & Young, Helen (ed.). 2026. Popularising the Middle Ages in modern fantasy: neomedievalism, video games, and Vikings (Medievalism 32). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer; 978-1-84384-759-5 hardback £85.Google Scholar
Lemaire, Frédéric. 2026. Les soldats de Napoléon en leur camp: le camp de Boulogne, La Grande Armée, 1803–1805 (Archéologie Moderne et Contemporaine 11). Dremil-Lafage: Mergoil; 978-2-35518-141-2 hardback €75.Google Scholar
Africa and Egypt
de Lapierre, Julien Auber, Diemer, Gersande Eschenbrenner & Schram, Valérie (ed.). 2025. Wood and woodcraft in Egypt from antiquity to Islamic times: proceedings of the first NetWood conference (June 2021) (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3248). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6281-6 paperback £56.Google Scholar
Piercy, Robin C.M., Green, Jeremy N., Green, Susan, Matthews, Sheila & Teixeira, André (ed.). 2025. The shipwreck of the Santo António de Tanná (1697), parts i and ii: the history and archaeology of a Portuguese frigate in the Indian Ocean (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3251). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6265-6 paperback £230.Google Scholar
Svoboda, Marie & Cartwright, Caroline (ed.). 2026. Mummy portraits of Ancient Egypt, volume 2: emerging research from the APPEAR project. Los Angeles (CA): Getty Publications; 978-1-60606-996-7 paperback $75 ebook OpenAccess https://getty.edu/publications/mummy-portraits-2/
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Western Asia
Bobou, Olympia, Bucci, Ilaria & Raja, Rubina. 2026. Nurturing the elite: representations of drinking, eating, and religious vessels in Palmyrene funerary iconography (Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 13). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61780-0 hardback €190.10.1484/M.SPAH-EB.5.145170CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Boyd, Thomas (ed.). 2026. The Canadian excavations at Anemurium in Cilicia, volume 2 (Archéologie et Histoire Romaine 57). Dremil-Lafage; Mergoil; 978-2-35518-159-7 hardback €45.Google Scholar
Döpper, Stephanie, Mershen, Birgit, Kanditt, Josephine, Biezeveld, Irini & Schmidt-Lux, Thomas (ed.). 2025. Mudbrick settlements of the Oman peninsula inhabited – abandoned – re(dis)covered. Leiden: Sidestone; 978-94-6426-401-2 paperback €40 online OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.59641/j0m6g7h8i9
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Feldman, Marian H.. 2026. Remembering and forgetting in ancient Mesopotamia: ziggurats, royal sculpture, and the shaping of the Akkadian legacy during the Ur III period. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-84285-1 hardback $55.Google Scholar
Franke, Kristina A., Stöllner, Thomas, Nezafati, Nima, Mishmastnehi, Moslem & Kehl, Martin (ed.). 2025. ResourceScapes in the Iranian highlands: soils, water, wind and minerals as factors of appropriation and integration (The Iranian Highlands. Early Societies between Resilience and Integration 3). Leiden: Sidestone; 978-94-6427-138-6 paperback €45 online OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.59641/dd812gp
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Mouton, Michel (ed.). 2024. Deux campagnes de prospections au Yémen: 1992–1993 (International Association for the Study of Arabia Monographs 21). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-917-6 paperback £35.10.2307/jj.23338167.6CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eastern Asia
Dong Hoon Shin (ed.). 2026. Korean mummies of the Joseon kingdom: an introduction for archaeologists. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-205-8 hardback £65.Google Scholar
Lockyer, Angus. 2026. Japan: a history in objects. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-48119-6 hardback £35.Google Scholar
Americas
Alcántara, Keitlyn. 2026. An archaeology of Milpa cultures: maize and ecological worldbuilding in Central Mexico. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-1-68340-627-3 paperback $35.10.5744/9781683406600CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bagley, Joseph & Herbster, Holly. 2026. The historical archaeology of Massachusetts. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-8129-8 paperback $35.10.5744/9780813079530CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hruby, Zachary (ed.). 2026. Ceremonial lithics in Classic Mesoamerica. Denver: University Press of Colorado; 978-1-64642-780-2 hardback $120.Google Scholar
Jenkins, Jessica A. & Wallis, Neill J. (ed.). 2026. Animals and animality in Eastern Woodland societies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-1-68340-658-7 hardback $90.10.5744/9781683406587CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ruuska, Alex K.. 2026. When the earth was new: memory, materiality, and Numic ritual. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press; 978-1-64769-234-6 hardback $90.Google Scholar
Schaafsma, Polly. 2026. Talking to the rain: paintings and carvings on stone in Chihuahuan desert landscapes. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press; 978-1-64769-230-8 hardback $90.Google Scholar
Scott-Ireton, Della A. & McKinnon, Jennifer F.. 2026. The archaeology of American shipwrecks. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-7967-7 paperback $90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Theory, method and historiography
Berthon, Amélie, Cazin, Antoine, Demarest, Mélanie, Dubreucq, Émilie, Petit, Pauline, Raffin, Aurélie (ed.). 2026. Imagerie scientifique et objet archéologique: Actes du colloque Corpus de Caen, 8–10 mars 2023 (Monographies Instrumentum 82). Dremil-Lafage: Mergoil; 978-2-35518-157-3 paperback €50.Google Scholar
Christensen, Joel P. (ed.). 2025. The Oxford critical guide to Homer’s Odyssey. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-898509-9 paperback £25.10.1093/9780191926846.001.0001CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Davidson, Iain. 2025. Art or scribbles? In the eye of the beholder: the evolutionary emergence of visual communication (Interdisciplinary Evolution Research 11). Cham: Springer; 978-3-031-90457-8 hardback £139.99.Google Scholar
Dupont, Catherine, Baudry, Anna & Daire, Marie-Yvane (ed.). 2025. Archaeology of coastal settlements/Archéologie des peuplements littoraux: HOMER 2021 conference. Leiden: Sidestone; 978-94-6426-341-1 paperback €95 online OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.59641/vv634yh
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Fricke, Felicia J., Malatesta, Eduardo Herrera & de Waal, Maaike S. (ed.). 2026. Ethics in Caribbean archaeology: past, present, and future. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-8128-1 paperback $35 ebook OpenAccess https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00114128/00001/pdf/0
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Lyu, Meilin & Shi, Yun (ed.). 2025. The Schliemann eastern odyssey in 19th-century China and Japan: a complete transcription and translation. Leiden: Sidestone; 978-94-6426-420-3 paperback €45 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.59641/bb634en
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McNiven, Ian J.. 2026. Sentient seas: archaeologies of seascapes and maritime rituals. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-8154-0 paperback $35.10.5744/9780813079615CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moreton, Melissa & Conklin Akbari, Suzanne (ed.). 2026. Textiles in manuscripts: a local and global history of the book. Berlin: De Gruyter; 978-3-68924-117-9 hardback £72.10.1515/9783689240011CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Murray, Tim. 2026. Archaeology: historiography and theory. Cham: Springer; 978-3-032-11845-5 hardback £109.99.Google Scholar
Pawleta, Michał & Ernyey, Katalin (ed.). 2026. Teaching the past: prehistory and archaeology in European schools and national curricula (New Approaches in Archaeology 6). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61708-4 hardback €125.Google Scholar
Talaga, Maciej (ed.). 2025. Moving the past: embodied research on discontinued movement cultures. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-192-1 paperback £30 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805831921
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Weller, Ulrike. 2026. Pfeil- und Lanzenspitzen: Erkennen. Bestimmen. Beschreiben (Bestimmungsbuch Archäologie 10). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag; 978-3-422-80328-2 paperback £19.50.Google Scholar
Second and subsequent editions
Jellicoe, Geoffrey, Jellicoe, Susan & Richardson, Tim. 2026. The landscape of man: shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day (fourth edition). New York: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-02824-7 hardback $85.Google Scholar
Passalacqua, Nicholas V., Pilloud, Marin A. & Congram, Derek. 2026. Ethics and professionalism in forensic anthropology (second edition). Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-1-68340-572-6 hardback $90.Google Scholar
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