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New Book Chronicle

With the change of Reviews Editor, it is entirely appropriate to express thanks—both personal and on behalf of the readers of Antiquity—to my predecessor, Madeleine Hummler. As well as commissioning around 500 book reviews and review articles, Madeleine personally cast her discerning eye over around 300 books, fieldwork reports, conference proceedings and museum catalogues, summarising her thoughts in the pages of the New Book Chronicle (NBC). We are enormously grateful for the insights she has provided on a diverse range of material covering more or less every continent in every period. We wish Madeleine well with her new post-Antiquity life!