This is an excellent resource for anyone making a study of human sacrifice in ancient times. As any scholar knows, the first thing you do when considering a book of this type is flip through the bibliography to see if it's for real—unfortunately Amazon does not allow this, but I can vouch—this book is well grounded and extremely well researched. It draws on more recent archeological findings and anthropological interpretations. What is best about this book is it does not try to "rock the academic world" with lofty, highly subjective theses; rather is an "[exploration of] the evidence for human sacrifice in the ancient European Iron Age and Roman period." In other words, an important reference work for any number of fields. Best of all? Aldhouse-Green is a good writer, delivering a book both engaging and accessible, even to the those with a casual interest.