This book first provides information on the different classes of artefacts: stone, clay figurines, and bone tools, pottery being considered and illustrated throughout the book. Nevertheless, this book does present results from an impressive range of contemporary and forward-looking techniques, including magnetic ground survey, satellite images, and fieldwork and excavation methodology well adapted to an excellent research plan. There are also some negative aspects of the book's contents, such as a series of full-page black-and-white photographs that have no captions, in a book that is otherwise very well illustrated with colour photographs. [Extracted from the article]