Making Ancient Cities. Space and place in Early Urban societies, edited by Andrew T. Creekmore III & Kevin D. Fisher, 2014. New York (NY): Cambridge University Press; ISBN 978-1-107-04652-8 hardback, \\pounds65 & $99; xxi+419 pp., 86 figs, 4 tables.
Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean, by Tamar Hodos, 2006. Abingdon: Routledge; ISBN-13 978-0-415-37836-9 hardback \\pounds65 & US$130; 280 pp., 97 ills.
Landscapes and Power in Early China: the Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045–771 BC, by Li Feng, 2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; ISBN-13 978-052-185-272-2; ISBN-10 052-185-272-2 hardback \\pounds55 & US$106; xviii+405 pp., 65 figs., 1 table.