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Prehistoric Art

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

Aruz, Joan, Ann Farkas, and Elisabetta Valtz Fino, eds. The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Perspectives on the Steppe Nomads of the Ancient World. Exh. cat. New York and New Haven and London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2007. 256 pp.; 29 color ills.; 149 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780300124033)

Bahn, Paul G. Prehistoric Rock Art: Polemics and Progress. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 90 b/w ills. Paper $27.99 (9780521140874)

Bahn, Paul, Natalie Franklin, and Matthias Strecker, eds. Rock Art Studies: News of the World Volume 3. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2009. 319 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $120.00 (9781842173169)

Bahrani, Zainab. Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia. Routledge, 2000. 234 pp.; 44 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0415218306)

Bataille, Georges. The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture. Ed. Stuart Kendall; trans. Stuart Kendall and Michelle Kendall. New York: Zone Books, 2009. 224 pp.; 15 ills. Paper $19.95 (9781890951566 )

Benzel, Kim, Sarah Graff, Yelena Rakic, and Edith W. Watts. Art of the Ancient Near East: A Resource for Educators. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. 140 pp.; 75 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Paper $79.95 (9780300086737)

Brienen, Rebecca Parker. Visions of Savage Paradise: Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007. 288 pp. Paper $65.00 (9789053569472)

Carpenter, Edmund, ed. Upside Down: Arctic Realities. Exh. cat. Houston: Menil Collection, 2011. 232 pp.; 132 color ills.; 62 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300169386)

Causey, Faya. Amber and the Ancient World. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012. 144 pp.; 63 color ills. Cloth $25.00 (9781606060827)

Chang, Kwang-chih, and Pingfang Xu. The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective. Ed. Sarah Allan. The Culture and Civilization of China. Bejing and New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with New World Press, 2005. 384 pp.; 308  color ills.; 94 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300093827)

Company, Reindeer. The Art Historian, 2 Vols., ("Ancient to Medieval" and "Renaissance to Modern and Non-Western"). The Reindeer Company, 1997. 600 ills. CD-ROM $40.00

Demakopolou, Katie, Christiane Eluère, and Jørg Jensen. Gods and Heroes of the European Bronze Age. Thames and Hudson, 1998. 300 pp.; 260 color ills.; 300 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0500019150)

Fitzhugh, William W., Julie Hollowell, and Aron L. Crowell, eds. Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. Exh. cat. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2009. 328 pp.; 272 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Paper $55.00 (9780300122060)

Gombrich, Ernst. The Story of Art: Pocket Edition. New York: Phaidon, 2006. 1064 pp.; 335 color ills.; 56 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0714847038)

Heyd, Thomas, and John Clegg, eds. Aesthetics and Rock Art. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. 316 pp.; 106 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (075463924X)

Hurwit, Jeff. The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 384 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (0521428343)

Laing, Lloyd. European Influence on Celtic Art. Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2010. 248 pp. Cloth $70.00 (9781846821752)

Lodoen, Trond, and Gro Mandt. The Rock Art of Norway. Oxford: Windgather Press, 2010. Many color ills. Paper $50.00 (9781905119288)

Miller, Mary Ellen. Maya Art and Architecture. Thames and Hudson, 1998. 240 pp.; 57 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Paper $14.95 (050020327X)

Schrader, Jeffrey. La Virgen de Atocha: Los Austrias y las imágenes milagrosas. Trans. Teresa Sans and Fábian Chueca. Madrid: Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 2005. 256 pp.; 90 color ills. Paper (8478126295)

Striker, Cecil L., and Y. Dogan Kuban, eds. Kalenderhane in Istanbul: The Excavations. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2007. 387 pp.; 128 b/w ills. Cloth €51.00 (9783805338189)