vulnerable over time (Brown & Kelly, 2015: 224). Indeed, kinship societies cope with conflicts and contradictions either through fission or by displacing them onto the supernatural realm (Wolf, 2001: 348). Though we are barely scratching the surface of an incredibly complex site, the exceptional evidence displayed in this monograph strongly suggests that—at the peak period of collective action—the inha- bitants of Valencina de la Concepción were exploring elaborate ritual pathways to mediate these contradictions. REFERENCES Brown, J.A. & Kelly, J.E. 2015. Surplus Labor, Ceremonial Feasting, and Social Inequality at Cahokia: A Study in Social Process. In: C.T. Morehart & K. De Lucia, eds. Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life. Boulder: Uni- versity Press of Colorado, pp. 221‒44. doi: 10.5876/9781607323808.c009 deFrance, S.D. 2014. The Luxury of Variety: Animals and Social Distinction at the Wari Site of Cerro Baúl, Southern Peru. In: B.S. Arbuckle & S.A. McCarty, eds. Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, pp. 63‒84. doi: 10.5876/ 9781607322863.c003 Risch, R. 2016. How Did Wealth Turn into Surplus Profit? From Affluence to Scarcity in Prehistoric Economies. In: H.H. Meller, H.P. Hahn, R. Jung & R. Risch, eds. Arm und Reich—Zur Ressourcenvertei- lung in prähistorischen Gesellschaften / Rich and Poor—Competing for Resources in Pre- historic Societies (Tagungen des Landesmu- seums für Vorgeschichte Halle 14). Halle: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archaeologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Landesmu- seum für Vorgeschichte, pp. 33‒48. Wolf, E. 2001. Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press. PEDRO DÍAZ-DEL-RÍO Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científ icas (CSIC), Spain doi 10.1017/eaa.2018.79 Roland Gauß. Zambujal und die Anfänge der Metallurgie in der Estremadura (Portugal). Technologie der Kupfergewinnung, Herkunft des Metalls und soziokulturelle Bedeutung der Innovation. Früher Bergbau und Metallurgie auf der Iberischen Halbinsel, Faszikel 1. (Iberia Archaeologica 15. Früher Bergbau und Metallurgie auf der Iberischen Halbinsel, Faszikel 1. Tübingen: Wasmuth Verlag, 2016, 332 pp., 111 figs, 39 plates, hbk, ISBN 978-3-8030-0241-9) The Copper Age settlement of Zambujal (Torres Vedras, Portugal) stands out as one of the best explored prehistoric sites in Iberia, both in terms of the scale of the excavations carried out by the German Archaeological Institute since 1964 (Sangmeister & Schubart, 1981) and the quality and number of publications gener- ated by an on-going interdisciplinary research project. This prominent hill-top site of c. 6 ha in size, with up to four stone-built lines of fortification, is located next to the now totally filled in estuary of the Sizandro river, a few kilometres from the Atlantic coast, in central Portugal. The settlement’s sequence can be divided into four Copper Age phases dated between c. 2850 and 2200/2000 BCE and one Bronze Age phase, when the fortification system already seems to have been abandoned. This volume, which corresponds to the PhD thesis presented by the author at the Book Reviews 143 , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2018.80 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, on 22 Mar 2018 at 14:44:36, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use