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The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica: The material record, edited by Jeffrey P. Blomster & David Cheetham, 2017. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-10710-767-0, £79.99 hardback. 340 pp., 115 b&w figs, 33 tables

of Greece comprising map 2.1 (pp. 118–19) have site names in tiny (c. 2 point, i.e., <1 mm high!) light grey type on a light grey image of Greece; even expanded to 200 per cent, the map labels are barely legible.4 There are several wrong callouts to illustrations.5 Despite these physical shortcomings, this book makes significant contributions to our understanding of the interrelationships of trade, the economy, demography and socioeconomic collapse. Equally important is the demonstration that it is possible to cross, indeed even to erase, the subdisciplinary boundary between the Bronze and Iron Ages in a meaningful way that contributes to both ‘sides’. I learned a lot from reading this book.