OXFORD f JOURNAL OF ARCHAFOLOGY © Blackwell Publishers 1998 ISSN 0262-5253 Printed and bound by Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd Volume 17 No. 1 March 1998 INGO PINI The ‘Ring of Nestor’ R.A. IXER and P. BUDD The mineralogy of Bronze Age copper ores from the British Isles: implications for the composition of early metalwork JONATHAN LAST Books of Life: biography and memory in a Bronze Age barrow GOCHA R. TSETSKHLADZE Who built the Scythian and Thracian royal and élite tombs? ................ MARK GRAHAME Rome without Romanization: cultural change in the pre-desert of Tripolitania (first- third centuries AD) JOHN TAYLOR Late Iron Age ballast-quarnies at Hengistbury Head, Dorset Note Megaw, J.V.S. and Megaw, M. Ruth. Cartoons, crocodiles and Celtic art: images from a scholar’s notebooks Volume 17 No. 2 July 1998 MICHAEL B. COSMOPOULOS Reconstructing Cycladic prehistory: Naxos in the early and middle Late Bronze ALEXANDER A. BAUER Cities of the sea: maritime trade and the origin of Philistine settlement in the Early Iron Age southern Levant MIRANDA GREEN Humans as ritual victims in the later prehistory of Western Europe PALOMA CABRERA Greek trade in Iberia: the extent of interaction VANESSA FELL Iron Age ferrous hammerheads from Britain JON C. HENDERSON Islets through time: the definition, dating and distribution of Scottish crannogs . .. Volume 17 No. 3 November 1998 KLAVS RANDSBORG Region, culture and society: understanding antiquity from the field LUDMILA IAKOVLEVA and GENEVIEVE PINCON The Upper Palaeolithic sculptured ibex of Angles-sur-!’ Anglin, France SARAH MILLIKEN Hunter-gatherer land use in Late Glacial south-east Italy RICHARD BRADLEY and RAMON FABREGAS VALCARCE Crossing the border: contrasting styles of rock art in the prehistory of north-west Iberia DAVID FIELD Round barrows and the harmonious landscape: placing Early Bronze Age burial monuments in south-east England EVA PARISINOU Lighting practices in early Greece (from the end of the Mycenaean world to the 7th century BC) NIKOLA THEODOSSIEV The dead with golden faces: Dasaretian, Pelagonian, Mygdonian and Boeotian funeral masks