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These reviews have been published in The Archaeological Journal Volume 171 for 2014.
A Forged Glamour: landscape, identity and material culture in the Iron Age
By Melanie Giles
Reviewed by Peter Halkon
Published by Windgather Press
Accidental and Experimental Archaeometallurgy
Edited by David Dungworth and Roger C. P. Doonan
Reviewed by Tim Young
Published by the Historical Metallurgy Society
Across the North Sea: Later Historical Archaeology in Britain and Denmark, c1500-2000 AD
Edited by Henrik Harnow, David Cranstone, Paul Belford and Lene Høst-Madsen
Reviewed by Harold Mytum
Published by University Press of Southern Denmark
Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD: a chronological framework
By Alex Bayliss, John Hines, Karen Høilund Nielsen, Gerry McCormac and Christopher Scull, edited by John Hines and Alex Bayliss
Reviewed by Sue Harrington
Published by Maney, for the Society for Medieval Archaeology
Archaeology, the Public and the Recent Past
Edited by Chris Dalglish
Reviewed by John Carman
Published by Boydell and Brewer, for the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology
Celtic from the West 2: rethinking the Bronze Age and the arrival of Indo-European in Atlantic Europe
Edited by John T. Koch and Barry Cunliffe
Reviewed by John Collis
Published by Oxbow Books
Champion: the making and unmaking of the English Midland landscape
By Tom Williamson, Robert Liddiard and Tracey Partida
Reviewed by Susan Oosthuizen
Published by Liverpool University Press
County House technology
Edited by P. S. Barnwell and Marilyn Palmer
Reviewed by Malcolm Airs
Published by Paul Watkins Publishing
Curating Human Remains: caring for the dead in the United Kingdom
Edited by Myra Giesen
Reviewed by Howard Williams
Published by Boydell & Brewer
Excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk, 1972-1976: fascicule 6
By Ian Longworth, Gillian Varndell, and Jacek Lech
Reviewed by Anne Teather
Published by British Museum Press
Humans and the Environment: new archaeological perspectives for the twenty-first century
Edited by Matthew I. J. Davies and Freda Nkirote M’Mbogori
Reviewed by Tony Brown
Published by Oxford University Press
Image, Memory and Monumentality: archaeological engagements with the material world
Edited by Andrew Meirion Jones, Joshua Pollard, Michael J. Allen and Julie Gardiner
Reviewed by Oliver J. T. Harris
Published by Oxbow Books, for the Prehistoric Society
Is there a British Chalcolithic? People, place and polity in the late 3rd millennium
Edited by Michael J. Allen, Julie Gardiner and Alison Sheridan
Reviewed by Gary Robinson
Published by Oxbow Books, for the Prehistoric Society
Living by the sword: the archaeology of Brisley Farm, Ashford, Kent
By Jim Stevenson
Reviewed by Colin Haselgrove
Published by Spoilheap Publications
Marine Archaeology: a handbook
By Virginia Dellion-Musgrave
Reviewed by Nigel Nayling
Published by the Council for British Archaeology
Newcastle and Northumberland: Roman and Medieval architecture and art
Edited by Jeremy Ashbee and Julian M. Luxford
Reviewed by David Rollason
Published by Maney, for the British Archaeological Association
People and the Sea: a maritime archaeological research agenda for England
Edited by Jesse Ransley and Fraser Sturt, with Justin Dix, Jon Adams and Lucy Blue
Reviewed by Peter Clark
Published by the Council for British Archaeology
Prehistoric Materialities: becoming material in prehistoric Britain and Ireland
By Andrew Meirion Jones
Reviewed by Kate Waddington
Published by Oxford University Press
Presenting the Romans: interpreting the frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site
Edited by Nigel Mills
Reviewed by Matthew Symonds
Published by Boydell & Brewer
Robert Willis and the foundation of architectural history
By Alexandrina Buchanan
Reviewed by Warwick Rodwell
Published by Boydell & Brewer
South Wales from the Romans to the Normans: Christianity, literacy and lordship
By Jeremy Knight
Reviewed by David Austin
Published by Amberley Publishing
St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire: a parish and its community. Volume 1 - history, archaeology and architecture
By Warwick Rodwell
Reviewed by Howard Williams
Published by Oxbow Books
The Anglo Saxon World
By Nicholas J. Higham and Martin J. Ryan
Reviewed by Christopher Scull
Published by Yale University Press
The Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers: key themes for archaeologists
By Vicki Cummings
Reviewed by Thomas Kador
Published by Bloomsbury
The Correspondence of Joseph Black: volumes one and two
Edited by Robert G. W. Anderson and Jean Jones
Reviewed by David Cranstone
Published by Ashgate
The Early and Middle Bronze Age Spearheads of Britain
By Richard Davis, with a contribution by Jeremy P. Northover
Reviewed by Brendan O’Connor
Published by Franz Steiner Verlag
The Idea of Order: the circular archetype in prehistoric Europe
By Richard Bradley
Reviewed by Niall Sharples
Published by Oxford University Press
Visualising the Neolithic
Edited by Andrew Cochrane and Andrew Meirion Jones
Reviewed by George Nash
Published by Oxbow Books