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European prehistory
Antrobus, Abbey, Mortimer, Richard, Green, Michael, Fern, Chris & Smart, Rebecca. 2026. Burnt mounds and the Bronze Age exploitation of the Suffolk claylands: excavations at Fornham All Saints (Marham Park), Laxfield and Hepworth (Cotswold Archaeology Monograph 24). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-917215-04-6 paperback £25.Google Scholar
Blanchet, Stéphane, Nicolas, Théophane & Quilliec, Bénédicte (ed.). 2025. Les sociétés du Bronze ancien atlantique du XXIVe au XVIIe s. a.C. (Mémoires 65). Bordeaux: Ausonius; 978-2-35613-643-5 hardback €60.Google Scholar
Bourogiannis, Giorgos. 2025. The sanctuary of Ayia Irini reconsidered: a quest for gods and territories. Nicosia: Astrom; 978-9925-7935-7-0 hardback €53.Google Scholar
Canti, Matthew. 2026. The Stonehenge world: living, landscape, food and design at the time of our greatest monument. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press; 978-1-83624-585-8 hardback £40.Google Scholar
Evans, Christopher, Pollard, Joshua & Haughton, Mark. 2025. A book of sites: River Great Ouse floodplain and mis-stream islands investigations (The Archaeology of the Lower Ouse Valley 4). Cambridge: McDonald Institute; 978-1-913344-28-3 hardback £65 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.124127
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Govaerts, Brecht. 2026. Prehistoric aesthetics: an ontology of Stone Age art from the Lower Palaeolithic until the Neolithic. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-235-5 hardback £80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Noble, Gordon (ed.). 2026. Rhynie, a powerful place of Pictland: the development of a landscape of Pictish royal power from the Roman to the early medieval period. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-1-908332-38-7 hardback £30.10.9750/9781908332394CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Classical and Roman world
Borg, Barbara E., Campus, Antonio, D’Andrea, Francesca, Diffendale, Daniel P., Manetta, Consuelo & Soldovieri, Umberto (ed.). 2026. (Re-)uniting city and country: new research on urban and suburban socio-topographical structures (IN-ROME 1). Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3635-4 paperback €130.Google Scholar
Cannata, Antonino, Castorina, Alessandra & Scaravilli, Marco Stefano (ed.). 2026. HYBLAEA: Studi di archeologia e topografia dell’altopiano ibleo: volume 3. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-243-0 paperback £48 ebook free download for personal use http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805832430
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Formato, Lucia C.. 2026. Das kaiserzeitliche Gräberfeld von Leithaprodersdorf im Burgenland (Österreich): Eine Studie zu ländlichen Besiedlungsstrukturen im Hinterland von Carnuntum (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3259). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6309-7 paperback £99 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.30861/9781407363097
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Cosh, Stephen R.. 2026. Mosaics in Britannia. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-233-1 paperback £29.99.Google Scholar
Dobson, Mike (ed.). 2026. Roman Republican sieges: operations in Gaul and Hispania. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-217-1 paperback £38.Google Scholar
Fabbri, Fabiana. 2026. Etruscan and Roman Hellenistic anatomical ex voto: reassessing popular religious expressions in central Italy (MediTo – Archaeological and Historical Landscapes of Mediterranean Central Italy 8). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-61236-2 hardback €110.10.1484/M.MEDITO-EB.5.138021CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heinrich-Tamáska, Orsolya, Sfameni, Carla, Rummel, Christoph, Cleary, Simon Esmonde, Moreau, Dominic & Goddard, Christophe J. (ed.). 2026. Late Antique villae in the Balkans (3rd–7th c. AD): current research questions and perspectives. HAEMUS companion to the Late Antique Balkans 1 (Rome and after in Central and Eastern Europe 4). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-60476-3 hardback €155.10.1484/M.ROMA-EB.5.132471CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Henry, Richard. 2026. Fractured Britannia: the twilight of Roman Britain (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 137). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-245-4 hardback £65 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805832454
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Kitching, Paul. 2026. Questioning Hadrian’s Wall: a case study of evidential reasoning in archaeology (British Archaeological Reports British Series 703). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6380-6 paperback £53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marina-Sáez, Rosa, Domínguez-Arranz, Almudena & Gordón-Zan, Adrián (ed.). 2025. Proyectando la diversidad familiar desde la Antigüedad. Entre la vulnerabilidad y el empoderamiento. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-194-5 paperback £45 ebook free download for personal use http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805831945
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Marshall, Alistair. 2026. Catuvellaunia and Rome: economic and political relations during the final decades pre-conquest. The role of grain from southeastern Britain and its potential for maintenance of the Roman military along the frontier on the Rhine. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-249-2 hardback £98.Google Scholar
Micciché, Roberto. 2026. Zooarchaeology of ancient Greek sanctuaries in southwestern Sicily: faunal analysis from Selinus and Akragas as evidence of differences in the treatment of animals for ritual purposes. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-247-8 hardback £55.Google Scholar
Migliario, Elvira & Vettori, Giulia (ed.). 2025. Le dinamiche della romanizzazione: Conflitti e negoziazioni nell’Italia antica (Biblioteca di «Geographia Antiqua» 8). Florence: Olschki; 978-88-222-6995-9 paperback €47.50.Google Scholar
Morillon, Gaëlle. 2026. Les stations routières des Gaules et des Germanies (Ier s. av. J.-C. – IVe s. apr.J.-C.) (Archéologie et Histoire Romaine 58). Dremil-Lafage: Mergoil; 978-2-35518-160-3 hardback €56.87.Google Scholar
Mulder, Tara. 2026. A womb of one’s own: lost histories of childbirth in ancient Rome. Oakland: University of California Press; 978-0-520-39874-0 hardback £25.10.1525/9780520398757CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Osanna, Massimo & Fabbri, Marco (ed.). 2026. POMPEI REGIO V 3 a. La Casa del Giardino: I risultati di una ricerca multidisciplinare (Studi e Ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei 52). Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3447-3 paperback €180.Google Scholar
Pozo, Salvador F.. 2026. Corpus de lucernas antiguas – bronce, plomo e hierro – halladas en la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares: Ensayo de clasificación, tipología y cronología (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3253). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6323-3 paperback £48.10.30861/9781407363233CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Southon, Emma. 2026. Servus: how slavery made the Roman Empire. London: Hodder & Stoughton; 978-1-3997-4125-5 paperback £25.Google Scholar
Tasso, Mirko. 2026. Dio, gli dèi e il divino: religione e identità nei carmina del Nord Africa (Epigrafia e Antichità 54). Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3610-1 paperback €130.Google Scholar
Raffa, Alessio Toscano. 2026. Architettura e cultura materiale a Finziade (Licata-AG): I vani-cucina delle case tardo-repubblicane (II-I Sec. a.C.) (Bibliotheca Archaeologica 91). Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3686-6 hardback €100.Google Scholar
Wimmer, Benjamin. 2026. Frührömische Tierknochen aus der Neuen Residenz in Salzburg: Archäozoologische Perspektiven auf die Versorgung und Romanisierung Iuvavums (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3257). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6400-1 paperback £83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Early medieval, medieval and post-medieval archaeology
Gormley, Sarah & McClelland, Jordan. 2026. Fowler’s Pottery: excavation of a 19th century manufacturing site in Mid Ulster (Queen’s University Belfast Irish Archaeological Monograph 3). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-190-7 paperback £30.Google Scholar
Lucchetti, Simone. 2027. Die Staffelgiebel: La facciata a gradoni a Roma tra XIII–XIV secolo (lermArte 48). Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3604-0 paperback €80.Google Scholar
Passuello, Angelo & Olympios, Michalis (ed.). 2026. Behind the scenes of medieval roofs: an overview of the roofing systems of Italian churches (Bibliotheca Archaeologica 90). Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3430-5 paperback €70.Google Scholar
Spadanuda, Giulia & Stilo, Francesco (ed.). 2025. RACTA III 2024: Ricerche di Archeologia Cristiana, Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo. III Colloquio Internazionale tra dottorandi e dottori di ricerca Roma, 5–7 febbraio 2024. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-197-6 paperback £52 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805831976
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Sweetman, David. 2026. The medieval castles of Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts; 978-1-80151-214-5 paperback €22.45.Google Scholar
Willsher, Betty. 2026. Understanding Scottish graveyards. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-237-9 paperback £24.99 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805832379
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Africa and Egypt
Lunsingh Scheurleer, Robert A. & van Oppen de Ruiter, Branko F.. 2026. Catalogue of terracottas from Egypt dating to the Late Period and Graeco-Roman times: Allard Pierson – The Collections of the University of Amsterdam (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3252). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6328-8 paperback £99 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.30861/9781407363288
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Reader, Colin D.. 2026. Rewriting the history of the Great Sphinx. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-209-6 paperback £35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Western Asia
DeGrado, Jessie. 2026. Assyria’s plunder: from ancient empire to modern loot. Denver: University Press of Colorado; 978-1-64642-801-4 hardback $105.10.5876/9781646428021CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kadowaki, Seiji, Abe, Masashi, Akashi, Chie, Arai, Saiji, Arimatsu, Yui, Kondo, Yasuhisa, Kume, Shogo, Miki, Takehiro, Nakata, Hiroto, Odaka, Takahiro & Shimogama, Kazuya (ed.). 2026. Curating the prehistoric past: studies on West Asian archaeology and beyond in honour of Yoshihiro Nishiaki. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-257-7 hardback £75.Google Scholar
Montesanto, Mariacarmela. 2026. The Iron Age pottery from Tell Atchana/ancient Alalakh: a typological and functional analysis (LEMA 8). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-62160-9 hardback €80.10.1484/M.LEMA-EB.5.151941CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roustaei, Kourosh. 2026. Tappeh Sang-e Chakhmaq: a 2000-year Neolithic sequence in the Shahroud area, Northeast Iran (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3255). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6411-7 paperback £69.10.30861/9781407364117CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Americas
Adler, Michael A.. 2026. Transilient acts and resilient villages: Pueblo community persistence in the Northern Rio Grande. Tucson: University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-4884-2 hardback $75.Google Scholar
Allard, Amélie. 2026. Community politics of the fur trade: relationships, mobility, and landscapes of possibility. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-7956-1 hardback $90.10.5744/9780813079561CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Alvarado León, Claudia I. & Helmke, Christophe (ed.). 2026. Redefining the Epiclassic period in Mesoamerica: proceedings of the Copenhagen Roundtable (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 21). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-219-5 hardback £55 ebook OpenAccess http://doi.org/10.32028/9781805832195
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Johnson, Lisa & Campiani, Arianna. 2025. The urban questions: interdisciplinary and multiscalar approaches to investigating the ancient Mesoamerican city. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press; 978-1-64769-228-5 hardback $80.10.1353/book.143031CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lunniss, Richard. 2026. Living with the ancestors at Salango, coastal Ecuador: the Regional Development sanctuary (c. 300 BC – AD 600) (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3256). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6378-3 paperback £66.10.30861/9781407363783CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stuart, David. 2026. The four heavens: a new history of the ancient Maya. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press; 978-0-691-21384-2 hardback £30.Google Scholar
Heritage, conservation and museums
Malfitana, Daniele. 2026. Ricerca, patrimonio, responsabilità pubblica. Un decennio di idee e proposte per una politica della riserva sui beni culturali: contributi e commenti per La Sicilia. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3694-1 paperback €30.Google Scholar
Simpson, St John (ed.). 2026. Gold, silver and glass: power networks, cultural identities, technology transfers and agency across the Old World (7th century BC – 1st century AD). Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 16–18 June 2023. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-186-0 hardback £80.Google Scholar
Theory, method and historiography
Arakawa, Fumiyasu, Seowtewa, Octavius & Retzinger, Dylan. 2026. Collaboration in practice: transforming community-based research in the Southwest. Tucson: University of Arizona Press; 978-0-8165-5634-2 paperback $35.10.2307/jj.33803540CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Avlami, Chryssanthi & Konaris, Michael D. (ed.). 2025. The multiple antiquities of Greek modernity (19th–21st century) (Mondes Méditerranéens et Balkaniques 20). Athens: École française d’Athènes; 978-2-86958-653-6 hardback €55.10.4000/15swuCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baaklini, Adonice-Ackad. 2026. A little handbook of stratigraphic exercises: mastering the Harris matrix. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-227-0 paperback £19.99.Google Scholar
Halcrow, Siân E., Agarwal, Sabrina C., de la Cova, Carlina, Gowland, Rebecca & Schug, Gwen Robbins (ed.). 2026. Bioarchaeology, activism and social justice: equitable and sustainable global futures. Cham: Springer; 978-3-032-10353-6 hardback £44.99 ebook OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-10354-3
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Malfitana, Daniele, Cottica, Daniela, Pallecchi, Silvia, Raffa, Alessio Toscano & Mazzaglia, Antonino (ed.). 2026. Contesti e biografie di oggetti: approcci integrati allo studio della Cultura materiale. Risultati e prospettive dal progetto PRIN 2022 SHERDs – Networks in Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean – Making and managing history with material culture (Bibliotheca Archaeologica 92). Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3683-5 hardback €270.Google Scholar
Matila, Tuuli, Hyttinen, Marika & Seitsonen, Oula (ed.). 2026. The contemporary archaeology of inequality: material culture and social change (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3254). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6305-9 paperback £34.10.30861/9781407363059CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schlanger, Nathan. 2026. The invention of technology: an intellectual history with André Leroi-Gourhan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-56222-5 hardback £95.10.1017/9781009562195CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilkie, Laurie A. & Kinkopf, Katherine M.. 2026. An introduction to crip archaeology. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-7955-4 hardback $90.10.5744/9780813079554CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wong, Gillian L. & Klemmer, Amy Milson (ed.). 2025. Zooarchaeology beyond human subsistence. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press; 978-1-64769-216-2 hardback $70.10.2307/jj.34178629CrossRefGoogle Scholar
General
Covolan, Marina (ed.). 2026. Au fil de l’eau et du temps: Architecture, spatialité et diachronie de la gestion de l’eau en Méditerranée. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80583-176-1 hardback £55.Google Scholar
Dell, Christopher. 2026. Prophecies: omens, auguries, divination, oracles, dreams, apocalypse. New York: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-02963-3 hardback $45.Google Scholar
Scaro, Agustina & Calomino, Eva A. (ed.). 2026. Interdisciplinary approaches to small objects in the Mediterranean: case studies from antiquity to medieval times (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3258). Oxford: BAR; 978-1-4073-6386-8 paperback £42.10.30861/9781407363868CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vassal, Véronique (ed.). 2026. Le Rouge: Couleurs et religions (Résonances 1). Dremil Lafage: Mergoil; 978-2-35518-162-7 paperback €50.Google Scholar
Wyman, Patrick. 2026. Lost worlds: how humans tried, failed, succeeded, and built our world. Glasgow: Harper Collins; 978-0-06-325648-4 hardback £25.Google Scholar
Second and subsequent editions
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 $90.10.5744/9781683405726CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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