Publication & Book Reviews

Publication & Book Reviews

This section contains all my reviews and breakdowns of recent academic publications and book reviews

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Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: August

Fortified stilt village, Polish vampires, cuneiform DNA, Canary Islands genetics, Bronze age steppe pyramids and more

Sep 6 •

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Breakdown: Unusual human fossil from Hualongdong, China

A new species, a strange hybrid or the beginning of Out-of-Asia?

Aug 9 •

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Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: April

Bronze Age Drugs, Swahili Genetics, Viking America, Natives Horses, Benin Bronzes & Mongolian Yak Dairy

May 9 •

Stone Age Herbalist

Review: Did The Yamnaya Ride Horses?

Trautmann et al. 2023. First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship

Mar 12 •

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Breakdown: Two New Genetics Papers On The Upper Palaeolithic And Mesolithic

Posth et al 2023 and Villalba-Mouco et al 2023: Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers & A 23,000-year-old southern…

Mar 3 •

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Book Review: Indigenous Continent, The Epic Contest For North America

Pekka Hämäläinen's sweeping new book on North American history

Feb 8 •

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Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: January

Mummified crocodiles, Neolithic Warfare, Cave Art Calendars, Archaic Obsidian Workshops, Mysterious Iron Age Tunnels, Siberian Genetics and more

Jan 31 •

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