Table of Contents

List of Contributors ii

List of Figures iv

List of Tables viii

Preface xi

1 Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum Dan Hicks 1

I Africa

2 Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa Peter Mitchell 16

3 Kenyan Stone Age: the Louis Leakey Collection Ceri Shipton 35

4 Stone Age North Africa Nick Barton 52

5 Egypt and Sudan: Mesolithic to Early Dynastic Period Alice Stevenson 60

6 Egypt and Sudan: Old Kingdom to Late Period Elizabeth Frood 90

7 Greco-Roman Egypt Christina Riggs 115

8 Later Holocene Africa Paul Lane 122

II Europe

9 Palaeolithic Britain Alison Roberts 169

10 Palaeolithic Continental Europe Alison Roberts 216

11 Later Prehistoric and Roman Europe Joshua Pollard Dan Hicks 240

12 Post-Roman Europe Eleanor Standley Dan Hicks Alice Forward 262

13 Oxfordshire Matthew Nicholas Dan Hicks 279

14 Neolithic and Bronze Age Malta and Italy Simon Stoddart 302

15 The Aegean and Cyprus Yannis Galanakis Dan Hicks 312

16 Iron Age and Roman Italy Zena Kamash Lucy Shipley Yannis Galanakis Stella Skaltsa 336

III The Americas

17 South America Bill Sillar Dan Hicks 358

18 Central America Elizabeth Graham Dan Hicks Alice Stevenson 383

19 The Caribbean Dan Hicks Jago Cooper 401

20 North America Dan Hicks Michael Petraglia 409

IV Asia

21 Asia and the Middle East Dan Hicks 455

22 The Levant: Palestine, Israel and Jordan Bill Finlayson 471

23 India and Sri Lanka Dan Hicks Michael Petraglia Nicole Boivin 482

24 Japan Alice Stevenson Fumiko Ohinta Simon Kaner 504

25 China Lukas Nickel 511

26 Myanmar and Malaysia Huw Barton 517

V Oceania

27 Australia and Oceania Dan Hicks 525

28 New Zealand Yvonne Marshall 554

29 Easter Island and Pitcairn Island Dan Hicks Sue Hamilton Mike Seager Thomas Ruth Whitehouse 564