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Rosetta Online Journal - Issue 02 2007

http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_02/Gregory.htm
The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham released the second issue of the online journal "Rosetta" which covers a wide scope of archaeology, history and classics subjects. The journal is free to view and Issue #02 is online now and contains, at the above address, a review by Stephen Gregory of David Wengrow's The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North-East Africa, c.10,000 to 2,650 BC. Here's an extract:

Perhaps the true value of this book is that it removes the modern myth that the political unification of ‘the Two Lands’ marked the birth of ‘eternal Egypt’; it rather describes the gradual emergence of a state which remained constantly in formation. While much of the evidence discussed is well known, Wengrow offers a substantially different interpretation and, by considering the psychological and philosophical aspects which underlie processes of social and political change, convincingly infers abstract concepts from the tangible remains so as to offer a wider perspective on the period of transition from Neolithic to Dynastic Periods.

- Palarch October 2007
PalArch Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology Thanks to André Veldmeijer for letting me know that the the October 2007 issue of the PalArch Journals are online. All content is available free of charge in PDF format. The Journal of Archaeology of...

- Palarch Journal Of Archaeology Of Egypt/egyptology 2, 1: 1-8
Thanks to André J. Veldmeijer for sending the following email, notifying that the new edition of PalArch's Journal of Egypt/Egyptology (ISSN 1567-214X) is available online: The April 2007 issue of our free journals is now online at: http://www2.blogger.com/www.PalArch.nl....

- Book Review: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/06_08_wengrow.htm A detailed review by Alice Stevenson of David Wengrow's The Archaeology of Early Egypt: "The Archaeology of Early Egypt is ambitious in scope covering the period from the end of the last Ice...

- New Publications
Some new Egyptology-related publications are available, as follows: Book:Wengrow, David The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North East Africa, 10,000 to 2650 BCISBN: 0521543746 Cambridge World Archaeology http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521835860...

- Book: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521543746 Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the information that a new book on early Egypt is forthcoming: The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North East Africa, 10,000 to 2650 BC...

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