New Book Chronicle

The disproportionate scholarly attention directed towards the prehistory of southern Britain—and Wessex in particular—is long-standing. The recent arrival on the Antiquity review shelves of several substantial excavation monographs and edited volumes, however, illustrates how this southern-centric gaze is shifting, with the publication of both vibrant and highly productive research- and developer-led excavations in northern England and Scotland.The volumes reviewed here represent the results of research excavations and mitigation for infrastructure projects, reporting individual sites and explorations of archaeological landscapes. They represent multiple seasons of fieldwork and painstaking post-excavation work; they also represent—particularly in the case of the monographs reviewed here—models of best practice.