Issue 360 - December 2017

List of Contents

Chris Scarre

Editorial...... 1413

Research

Frederick W.F. Foulds, Andrew Shuttleworth, Anthony Sinclair, Abdullah M. Alsharekh, Saud Al Ghamdi, Robyn H. Inglis & Geoff N. Bailey

A large handaxe from Wadi Dabsa and early hominin adaptations within the Arabian Peninsula...... 1421

Natasha Reynolds, Rob Dinnis, Alexander A. Bessudnov, Thibaut Devièse & Thomas Higham

The Kostënki 18 child burial and the cultural and funerary landscape of Mid Upper Palaeolithic European Russia...... 1435

Sue O'Connor, Mahirta, Sofía C. Samper Carro, Stuart Hawkins, Shimona Kealy, Julien Louys & Rachel Wood

Fishing in life and death: Pleistocene fish-hooks from a burial context on Alor Island, Indonesia...... 1451

Jacqueline S. Meier, A. Nigel Goring-Morris & Natalie D. Munro

Aurochs bone deposits at Kfar HaHoresh and the southern Levant across the agricultural transition...... 1469

Kevin Gibbs, Sven Isaksson, Oliver E. Craig, Alexandre Lucquin, Vyacheslav A. Grishchenko, Tom F.G. Farrell, Anu Thompson, Hirofumi Kato, Alexander A. Vasilevski & Peter D. Jordan

Exploring the emergence of an 'Aquatic' Neolithic in the Russian Far East: organic residue analysis of early hunter-gatherer pottery from Sakhalin Island...... 1484

Louise Gomart, Allon Weiner, Marzia Gabriele, Gilles Durrenmath, Sabine Sorin, Lucia Angeli, Marta Colombo, Cristina Fabbri, Roberto Maggi, Chiara Panelli, Didier F. Pisani, Giovanna Radi, Carlo Tozzi & Didier Binder

Spiralled patchwork in pottery manufacture and the introduction of farming to Southern Europe...... 1501

Meaghan Dyer & Linda Fibiger

Understanding blunt force trauma and violence in Neolithic Europe: the first experiments using a skin-skull-brain model and the Thames Beater...... 1515

Harald Meller

Armies in the Early Bronze Age? An alternative interpretation of Únětice Culture axe hoards...... 1529

Jessica H. Stone, Scott M. Fitzpatrick & Matthew F. Napolitano

Disproving claims for small-bodied humans in the Palauan archipelago...... 1546

Nicky Nielsen

Cereal cultivation and nomad-sedentary interactions at the Late Bronze Age settlement of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham...... 1561

Zhengyao Jin, Ruiliang Liu, Jessica Rawson & A. Mark Pollard

Revisiting lead isotope data in Shang and Western Zhou bronzes...... 1574

Yan Liu

Exotica as prestige technology: the production of luxury gold in Western Han society...... 1588

Philip Riris

On confluence and contestation in the Orinoco interaction sphere: the engraved rock art of the Atures Rapids...... 1603

Albert J. Ammerman, Charlotte L. Pearson, Peter I. Kuniholm, Bruce Selleck & Ettore Vio

Beneath the Basilica of San Marco: new light on the origins of Venice...... 1620

Kenichiro Tsukamoto

Reverential abandonment: a termination ritual at the ancient Maya polity of El Palmar...... 1630

Debate

N. James

Franklin's fate: discoveries and prospects...... 1647

Review articles

Yaroslav V. Kuzmin

Theory and practice in Russian and Soviet archaeology: retrospect and prospect...... 1652

Kathryn M. Baustian

Bioarchaeological perspectives on the social experience of prehistoric and historic communities...... 1656

Bernard Frischer

Ancient Rome mapped...... 1659

Gary M. Feinman

Aztec political economy: a new conceptual frame...... 1663

Book reviews

David J. Meltzer

W. Roger Powers, R. Dale Guthrie & John F. Hoffecker (edited by Ted Goebel) Dry Creek: archaeology and paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan hunting camp...... 1667

Carlos P. Odriozola, José Ángel Garrido Cordero & Rodrigo Villalobos García

Pierre Pétrequin, Estelle Gauthier & Anne-Marie Pétrequin JADE: interprétations sociales des objets-signes en jades alpins dans l'Europe néolithique. Tomes 3 & 4...... 1668

Christopher Evans

H. Fokkens, B.J.W. Steffens & S.F.M van As Farmers, fishers, fowlers, hunters: knowledge generated by development-led archaeology about the Late Neolithic, the Early Bronze Age and the start of the Middle Bronze Age (2850–1500 cal BC) in the Netherlands...... 1671

Steven Willis

C. Carreras & J. van den Berg (ed.) Amphorae from the Kops Plateau (Nijmegen)...... 1672

Thomas Schierl

Jan Schneider Ländliche Siedlungsstrukturen im römischen Spanien. Das Becken von Vera und das Camp de Tarragon—zwei Mikroregionen im Vergleich...... 1674

R.J.A. Wilson

Elizabeth Fentress, Caroline Goodson, Marco Maiuro, Margaret Andrews & J. Andrew Dufton (ed.) Villa Magna: an imperial estate and its legacies: excavations 2006–10...... 1676

Rubina Raja

Martha Sharp Joukowsky Petra Great Temple volume 3: Brown University excavations 1993–2008, architecture and material culture...... 1677

Anne Haour

Manfred K.H. Eggert & Dirk Seidensticker Campo: archaeological research at the mouth of the Ntem River (south Cameroon)...... 1679

Rodolfo Fattovich

Michela Gaudiello & Paul A. Yule (ed.) Mifsas Bahri: a Late Aksumite frontier community in the mountains of southern Tigray. Survey, excavation and analysis, 2013–16...... 1681

T. Max Friesen

Bjarne Grønnow The frozen Saqqaq sites of Disko Bay, West Greenland. Qeqertasussuk and Qajaa (2400–900 BC)...... 1682

New Book Chronicle

Robert Witcher

New Book Chronicle...... 1685