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EUROPE BETWEEN THE OCEANS: 9000 B.C.-A.D. 1000. Barry Cunliffe. x + 518 pp. Yale University Press, 2008. $39.95. There are numerous contenders for the title of 'the last man to [...]

JEAN-PIERRE LEGENDRE, LAURENT OLIVIER & BERNADETTE SCHNITZLER. L'archeologie nazie en Europe de l'Ouest. 496 pages, 216 b&w & colour illustrations. 2007. Paris: Infolio; 978-2-88474-8049 hardback 28 €. This volume is [...]

The costumes, ornaments, technology, farming practices, architecture and other material remains of the early Celtic speaking Iron age people who lived in Southwest Germany, eastern France and Switzerland are discussed.

xiii+271 pages, 53 figures, 1 table, 37 b&w plates, 4 colour plates. 2000. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern; 3-8053-2689-0 hardback DM166.36. What was the precise nature of the relationship between the [...]

The `Landscape of Ancestors' project is a long-term, collaborative study of mortuary structures and social organization associated with the early Iron Age Heuneburg hillfort (600-450 BC) in southwest Germany (Kimmig [...]

Reviewed by Bettina Arnold, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. This volume is a welcome addition to the recent florescence of literature dealing with the symbiosis between archaeology and politics. Several chapters [...]

In the alternative fairy tale The Princess Bride, as William Goldman's character Miracle Max reanimates the apparent corpse of the hero Westley, he tells the anxious group observing the procedure: ‘There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive’ (Goldman 2007, 313). Only a select group of the dead can be characterized as being ‘slightly alive’, in the post-mortem agency sense, however, and the case studies presented here explore the many ways in which this subcategory of mostly dead individuals have engaged with and continue to impact the living in the past as well as today. Several themes emerge as especially salient: the iteration in the death-scape of the dynamic tension between the individual and the social group, which can result in transgression as well as conformity in the disposition of the body and its effects on the living; the symbolic capital represented by some dead bodies and the ways in which their potency may be affected by various forms of contextual association; and the ways in which the manipulation of the dead for political purposes is subject to constraints specific to the cultural contexts in which these interactions take place. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Discusses the way of life of the Celtic-speaking early iron age peoples who lived in Southwest Germany, eastern France and Switzerland north of the Alps between about 700 and 400 B.C. Costumes and ornaments; Technology and farming practices; Architecture and other material remains. INSET: FOR FURTHER READING.

An aid to more expeditious and accurate recording of archaeological features requiring neither a power source nor specialized training to operate has been developed in Germany and is currently in use on excavations in several European countries. This article presents the specifications of the Kartomat field-drawing machine, provides examples of its application, and offers suggestions for its production and use in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]