World Archaeological Bulletin

BOOK NOTES

Tigers in Africa

Attendees may recall that Carmel Schrire delivered the Glynn Isaac Memorial lecture at WAC 4 in Cape Town in 1999. It was entitled "Tigers in Africa" and received a such a good response that Carmel and the University of Cape Town (UCT) have gone ahead with producing a published version of the talk. The resultant book is also called Tigers in Africa and will be published in a UCT series, by UCT Press, probably in association with the University Press of Virginia (USA) and Out of Africa (Namibia). It is a lavishly illustrated 64 page book, very beautiful, and will probably retail for about 100.00 South African rand, which is about US$15.00, UK£10.00 and about AUS$20.00.  Further details will appear in WAB 13 early in 2001.

Ethnoarchaeology of Anatolia 532 pp. + xii, 5 maps, 300 plates. ISBN 9652260116 (hb) US$70.00 less 20% for WAC members

Jak Yakar of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University in Israel has just published Ethnoarchaeology of Anatolia.  Issue No. 17 in the Institute’s monograph series Emory and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, the book is based on the premise that “the customs and way of life of traditional communities in Anatolia today are in reality reflections of the remote past”.  It is described as “the first integrated study to utilize ethnographic models to  reconstruct the socio-economic organization of Bronze and Iron Age rural [Anatolian] societies from settlement patters, architectural characteristics, artefactual and non-artefactual assemblages found in archaeological contexts as well as direct and indirect references in written records”. Order from: archpubs@post.tau.ac.il or

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