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BALMUTH, M. S., CHESTER, D. K. & JOHNSTON, P. A. (eds) 2006. Cultural Responses to the Volcanic Landscape: The Mediterranean and Beyond.

xix +345 pp. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America; distributed in the UK by Oxbow Books and in the USA by David Brown Book Company. Price £26.00 (paperback). ISBN 1 931909 06 7.

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This is a collection of 19 contributions taken from two interdisciplinary symposia. These are heavily dominated by work on Vesuvius, Etna and the surrounding regions and as such this book represents a valuable collection of recent multidisciplinary research on archaeology related to these two important volcanoes. The ‘beyond’ in the title is represented by two papers (on Cappadocia and Central Mexico). The individual articles explore a variety of subject areas, including volcanological research of recent decades, volcanic hazard assessment, the evolution of volcanic landforms and deposits, the special features pertaining to excavation within extrusive deposits, the archaeological and ancient . . . [Full Text of this Article]