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Pots and time in Bronze Age Ireland

reflects consistent, intensive processing of reindeer and horse in order to exploit fat reserves and meat, as well as the importation of ‘architecturally/industrially important’ mammoth bone into the site. The latter are argued to have been used to build a cache, large bones being placed over ivory rods and tusk rings in a bone pile near the cave’s south-western entrance, suggesting anticipated re-use of the cave for ivory artefact production. However, although the sub-title of the book suggests that it concerns contrasts in the subsistence practices of Neanderthals and modern humans, few such inferences are drawn, and, as Niven herself emphasises, the Middle Palaeolithic assemblage from the site is unsuitable for addressing such issues. Other than completeness in terms of data publication, one wonders why material from these levels (and the Magdalenian deposits) is included at all; perhaps much of this volume would have sat better within a larger monograph bringing together all the information from the re-analysis of the Vogelherd material. These observations aside, this book does represent a detailed and valuable study of subsistence practices at a specific locale during the earliest Aurignacian.