Le Berry antique: atlas 2000.

Le Berry antique: atlas 2000. C. BATARDY, O. BUCHSENSCHUTZ & F. DUMASY (ed.). Le Berryantique: atlas 2000 (Revue Archeologique La Revue Arch��ologique, published in Paris is one of the oldest, longest-running scientific journals. First appearing in 1844, it is neither the organ of an institution nor of any school, but has complete independence, under the guidance of its current editor, Martine du Centre de la France La France was a single that was released by Dutch popgroup BZN in 1986. It is about a man and woman who met and fell in love while in France. Supplement 21). 190 pages, colour figures, 1 b&w figure, 7 colourphotographs. 2001. 2-913272-05-3 (ISSN ISSNabbr.International Standard Serial Number 1159-7151) paperback 36.59[euro]. Le Berry antique is a thrilling resource likely to stimulate greatinterest in students of all ages. It is devoted to the Iron Age andRoman period, which are especially well represented and well researchedin this district. The atlas opens with a description of the district,its physical geography (notably soils) and environmental history,accounting for both archaeological visibility and the history ofresearch (and attempts to calculate the variable accuracy of reportedfind-spots). Sections are devoted to rural settlement (with plans ofvillas and chronological graphs), towns large and small, the `mortuarylandscape' (including quantitative calculations), transport andwater supply, the economy (comparatively brief on farming and long onpottery), and political organization from Iron Age to `LateAntiquity'. It would be fun to test questions of cultural andenvironmental continuity and intensification in Becoming Roman and GROVE& RACKHAM (see `Integration and independence', above) with thedata presented here. Not only the summary of research by its 18 experts but also theproduction is superb, the highly coloured maps especially crisp andattractive, varied yet consistent in style. Atlases of this kind arevery difficult and costly to produce (public sponsorship, NB, wasimpressive). The standard set here cannot easily be matched. FRAUKE STEIN with CHRISTIANE SCHIER, ALBERT SCHMITZ, BARBEL barbel:see carp. FECHT,SUSANNE MEISER, CHRISTEL RUHL-TAUSENDFREUND & DOMINIK MEYER.Bibliographie zur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte in der BundesrepublikDeutschland und Berlin (West) in den Grenzen vor 1990: das Schrifttumder Jahre 1988 und 1989. vii+379 pages. 2001. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner;3-515-07801-0 hardback 49 [euro] & SFr84.30. The last of Dr STEIN's bibliographies for West Germany coversprehistory prehistory,period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to and early history in 5614 cross-referred but unannotatedentries under five categories with up to four subsections each. See too the Handbook in `Rock art', above.