In this issue...

...our very capable set of reviewers give you the low down on what's hot and what's not about archaeological books, conferences, television and computer games.

We also have an exclusive report from Vicky Cooper, our extremely able TV editor who has just returned from spending a day on location with the BBC filming their new series called Meet the Ancestors!

Book Reviews

• David Dungworth reviews Early Metal Mining and Production by Paul Craddock
• Kathryn Denning reviews Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
• John Hawthorne reviews Evidence for Christianity in Roman Britain. The small finds by C.F. Mawer
• Mel Giles reviews Cambridgeshire from the Air by Susan Oosthuizen
• Martin Evison reviews two books; The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza & Francesco Cavalli-Sforza and Virtual Archaeology: Great Discoveries Brought to Life Through Virtual Reality edited by Colin Renfrew
• Cornelius Holtorf reviews Neanderthal by John Darnton
• Graeme Warren reviews The Environmental Impact of Later Mesolithic Cultures: The Creation of Moorland Landscape in England and Wales. by I.G. Simmons

Conference Reviews

• Sevi Triantaphyllou reviews the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, hosted by the University of Edinburgh on 21st-23rd February, 1997
• Jenny Moore reviews the Fire and the Palaeoenvironment conference hosted by the University of Sheffield on the 12th/13th April, 1997.

Computer Games Reviews

• Garry Booth reviews the computer game The Dig
• Paul Cooke reviews the game Civilization II

Television Reviews

• Vicky Cooper gives us the run down of some of the best archaeological television around.

Have YOU got anything that you would like to review for us? Everything archaeological is fair game; films, CD-ROMs, television programmes – if you've got an opinion on it, we won't be the only ones who want to hear about it!

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