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landscapes, Vol. 16 No. 2, November, 2015, 193–198 In the Landscape and Between Worlds: Bronze Age Deposition Sites around Lakes Mälaren and Hjälmaren in Sweden.ByMARTIN RUNDKVIST. 2015, Umeå University, Archaeology and Environment 29, 153 pages, 49 figures, 15 tables, 3 appendices, ISBN 9789176012130, SEK 50, SEK 50 hbk. This exquisite little book is an enticing and delightful presentation of investigations into the findspots of Bronze Age artefacts around Stockholm in eastern Sweden within a study area 160 km N-S by 175 km E-W. Rundkvist sets out to identify ‘Bronze Age rules of landscape’ through examination of a large dataset of bronze and stone artefact locations and, in a short, beautifully succinct text of just 53 pages, achieves his aim. The remainder of the book consists of a gazetteer of sites, a bibliography, an appendix of illustrations of finds and maps of findspots, a catalogue of sites with known locations, and a catalogue of finds with less certain locations. The study of landscape contexts for Bronze Age deposition of metalwork is well established across Britain and Europe, thanks particularly to the pioneering work of Richard Bradley, and Chapter 1 offers a concise, measured and wide-ranging synthesis of the literature that