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Βιβλία αρχαιολογικού ενδιαφέροντος


Cities: The First
6,000 Years
, by Monica L. Smith,
reviewed by Nicola Terrenato



Jebel Khalid on the
Euphrates. Vol. 6, A Zooarchaeological Analysis
, by Karyn M.
Wesselingh, reviewed by Emmanuelle Vila

The Hellenistic
Harbour of Amathus: Underwater Excavations, 1984–1986
, Vol. 1 by Jean-Yves
Empereur and Tony Koželj; Vol. 2 edited by Jean-Yves Empereur, reviewed by
Deborah Carlson

Veii, edited by Jacopo
Tabolli, reviewed by J. Marilyn Evans

Building
Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy
, by Seth Bernard,
reviewed by John North Hopkins


Reuse and Renovation
in Roman Material Culture: Functions, Aesthetics, Interpretations
, edited by Diana Y.
Ng and Molly Swetnam-Burland, reviewed by Maryl B. Gensheimer

The Brothel of
Pompeii: Sex, Class, and Gender at the Margins of Roman Society
, by Sarah
Levin-Richardson, reviewed by John R. Clarke



Gardens of the Roman
Empire
, edited by
Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, Kathryn L. Gleason, Kim J. Hartswick, and Amina-Aïcha
Malek, reviewed by Nicole G. Brown

What’s New in Roman
Greece? Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Islands in the Roman Period:
Proceedings of a Conference Held in Athens, 8–10 October 2015
, edited by Valentina
Di Napoli, Francesco Camia, Vasilis Evangelidis, Dimitris Grigoropoulos, Dylan
Rogers, and Stavros Vlizos, reviewed by Michalis Karambinis

Urbanism and Empire in
Roman Sicily
, by Laura Pfuntner,
reviewed by Jerrad Lancaster




God’s Library: The
Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts
, by Brent Nongbri,
reviewed by Steven M. Stannish

Bąkowska-Czerner, Grażyna, and Rafał Czerner, eds. Greco-Roman Cities at
the Crossroads of Cultures: The 20th Anniversary of Polish-Egyptian
Conservation Mission Marina el-Alamein. Pp. iv + 312. Archaeopress, Oxford
2019. £60. ISBN 978-1-78969-148-1 (paper).
Barrett, Caitlín Eilís. Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in
Pompeian Gardens. Pp. xxiv + 445. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2019. $99.
ISBN 978-0-19064-135-1 (cloth).
Barrett, John C., and Michael J. Boyd. From Stonehenge to Mycenae: The
Challenges of Archaeological Interpretation. Pp. xiv + 201. Bloomsbury
Academic, London 2019. $95. ISBN 978-1-4742-9189-7 (cloth).
Berlin, Andrea M., and Paul J. Kosmin, eds. Spear-Won Land: Sardis from
the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Pp.
xvi + 289. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2019. $129.95. ISBN
978-0-299-32130-7 (cloth).
Breeze, David J. The Frontiers of Imperial Rome, 2nd ed. Pp. xxiv + 244.
Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, U.K. 2019. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-52676-080-7
(paper).
Bunbury, Judith. The Nile and Ancient Egypt: Changing Land- and
Waterscapes, from the Neolithic to the Roman Era. Pp. xvi + 182. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge 2019. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-10701-215-8 (cloth).
Collins, Andrew, and Gregory L. Little. Denisovan Origins: Hybrid
Humans, Göbekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America. Pp. xvi
+ 398. Bear & Company, Rochester, Vt. 2019. $24. ISBN 978-1-59143-263-0
(paper).
Diakou, Stella. The Upper Geometric Cemetery at Lapithos: University of
Pennsylvania Museum Excavations 1931–1932 (SIMA 146). Pp. xxvi + 395. Astrom
Editions, Uppsala 2018. €80. ISBN 978-91-981535-3-8 (cloth).
Dzbyński, Aleksander. Cinematosophical Introduction to the Theory of
Archaeology: Understanding Archaeology Through Cinema, Philosophy, Literature
and Some Incongruous Extremes. Pp. xiv + 299. Vernon Press, Wilmington, Del.
2019. $52. ISBN 978-1-62273-727-7 (cloth).
Elkins, Nathan T. A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome’s
Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It. Pp. 168. Johns Hopkins University
Press, Baltimore 2019. $19.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-3255-7 (paper).
Endreffy, Kata, Arpád Miklós Nagy, and Jeffrey Spier, eds. Magical Gems
in Their Contexts: Proceedings of the International Workshop Held in the Museum
of Fine Arts, Budapest, 16–18 February 2012 (StArch 229). Pp. xx + 340. L’Erma
di Bretschneider, Rome 2019. €230. ISBN 978-88-913-1297-6 (paper).
Feuchtwang, Stephan, and Michael Rowlands. Civilisation Recast:
Theoretical and Historical Perspectives. Pp. vi + 218. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge 2019. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-10848-434-3 (cloth).
Fischer, Peter M., and Teresa Bürge. Two Late Cypriot City Quarters at
Hala Sultan Tekke: The Söderberg Expedition 2010–2017 (SIMA 147). Pp. 648.
Astrom Editions, Uppsala 2018. €108. ISBN 978-91-981535-4-5 (cloth).
González Cesteros, Horacio, and Piero Berni Millet. Roman Amphorae in
Neuss: Augustan to Julio-Claudian Contexts (Roman and Late Antique
Mediterranean Pottery 12). Pp. viii + 136. Archaeopress, Oxford 2018. £35. ISBN
978-1-78969-052-1 (paper).
Gorzelany, Dorota. Macedonia – Alexandria: Monumental Funerary Complexes
of the Late Classical and Hellenistic Age. Pp. iv + 236. Archaeopress, Oxford
2019. £32. ISBN 978-1-78969-136-8 (paper).
Greenslade, Simon, ed. Butrint 6: Excavations on the Vrina Plain. Vol.
1, The Lost Roman and Byzantine Suburb (Butrint Archaeological Monographs 6).
Pp. 448. Oxbow, Oxford 2019. $99. ISBN 978-1-78925-213-2 (cloth).
Greenslade, Simon, ed. Butrint 6: Excavations on the Vrina Plain. Vol.
2, The Finds (Butrint Archaeological Monographs 6). Pp. xx + 284. Oxbow Books,
Oxford 2019. $90. ISBN 978-1-78925-217-0 (cloth).
Hulin, Linda, Lindy Crewe, and Jennifer M. Webb, eds. Structures of
Inequality on Bronze Age Cyprus: Studies in Honour of Alison K. South (SIMA-PB
187). Pp. xviii + 276. Astrom Editions, Nicosia, Cyprus 2018. €48. ISBN
978-9925-7455-0-0 (cloth).
Jacobs, Ine, and Hugh Elton, eds. Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century:
Current Research and Future Directions. Pp. viii + 245. Oxbow, Oxford 2019.
$55. ISBN 978-1-78925-007-7 (paper).
Kirch, Patrick Vinton, and Clive Ruggles. Heiau, ‘Āina, Lani: The
Hawaiian Temple System in Ancient Kahikinui and Kaupō, Maui. Pp. xx + 360.
University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2019. $75. ISBN 978-0-82487-827-6 (cloth).
Leatherbury, Sean V. Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity: Between Reading
and Seeing. Pp. xviii + 366. Routledge, London 2019. $140. ISBN
978-1-4724-5918-3 (cloth).
Levi, Sara T., Valentina Cannavò, and Daniele Brunelli. Atlas of Ceramic
Fabrics 2. Italy: Southern Tyrrhenian. Neolithic–Bronze Age. Pp. viii + 168.
Archaeopress, Oxford 2019. £35. ISBN 978-1-78969-117-7 (paper).
Mazzilli, Francesca. Rural Cult Centres in the Hauran: Part of the
Broader Network of the Near East (100 BC–AD 300). (Archaeopress Roman
Archaeology 51). Pp. viii + 208. Archaeopress, Oxford 2018. £32. ISBN
978-1-78491-954-2 (paper).
Morais, Rui, Delfim Leão, and Diana Rodríguez Pérez, eds., with Daniela
Ferreira. Greek Art in Motion: Studies in Honour of Sir John Boardman on the
Occasion of His 90th Birthday. Pp. iv + 510. Archaeopress, Oxford 2018. £75.
ISBN 978-1-78969-023-1 (paper).
Nolan, Roger. Julius Caesar’s Invasion of Britain: Solving a 2,000-Year-Old
Mystery. Pp. xxiv + 145. Frontline Books, Barnsley, U.K. 2018. $34.95. ISBN
978-1-52674-791-4 (cloth).
Olsen, Birgit Anette, Thomas Olander, and Kristian Kristiansen, eds.
Tracing the Indo-Europeans: New Evidence from Archaeology and Historical
Linguistics. Pp. viii + 184. Oxbow, Oxford 2019. £25. ISBN 978-1-78925-270-5
(paper).
Ortman, Scott G., ed. Reframing the Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Economy
(Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona 80). Pp. viii + 203. The
University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2019. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-8165-3931-4
(paper).
Parcak, Sarah. Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past.
Pp. 277. Henry Holt, New York 2019. $30. ISBN 978-1-2501-9828-0 (cloth).
Peltenburg, Edgar, Diane Bolger, and Lindy Crewe, eds. Figurine Makers
of Prehistoric Cyprus: Settlement and Cemeteries at Souskiou. Pp. xx + 588.
Oxbow, Oxford 2019. £48. ISBN 978-1-78925-019-0 (cloth).
Perreault, Charles. The Quality of the Archaeological Record. Pp. x +
254. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2019. $35. ISBN 978-0-226-63096-0
(paper).
Puddu, Mauro. Funerary Archaeology and Changing Identities: Community
Practices in Roman-Period Sardinia (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 55). Pp. vi
+ 180. Archaeopress, Oxford 2018. £40. ISBN 978-1-78969-000-2 (paper).
Redmond, Brian G., Bret J. Ruby, and Jarrod Burks, eds. Encountering
Hopewell in the Twenty-first Century, Ohio and Beyond. Vol. 1, Monuments and
Ceremony. Pp. x + 270. The University of Akron Press, Akron 2019. $89.95. ISBN
978-1-629221-02-1 (cloth).
Regnier, Amanda L., Scott W. Hammerstedt, and Sheila Bobalik Savage,
eds. The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma: Archaeology from
the WPA Era Until Today. Pp. 380. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa
2019. $69.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-2025-6 (cloth).
Sampson, Adamantios. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Sailors in the Aegean
and the Near East. Pp. xii + 194. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon
Tyne 2019. £66.99. ISBN 978-1-5275-3635-7 (cloth).
Stein, Joshua G. Trajan’s Hollow. Pp. 296. Applied Research and Design
Publishing, San Francisco 2019.
$30. ISBN
978-1-940743-93-6 (paper).
Szabó, Csaba. Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia: Materiality and Religious
Experience (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 49).
Pp. viii +
242. Archaeopress, Oxford 2018. £40. ISBN 978-1-78969-081-1 (paper).
Tabolli, Jacopo, ed. From Invisible to Visible: New Methods and Data for
the Archaeology of Infant and Child Burials in Pre-Roman Italy and Beyond (SIMA
149).
Pp. x + 273. Astrom Editions, Uppsala 2018.
€68. ISBN 978-9925-7455-2-4 (cloth).
Tang, Birgit. Decorating Floors: The Tesserae-in-Mortar Technique in the
Ancient World (AnalRom 51).
Pp. 475. Edizioni Quasar, Rome 2018.
€32. ISBN 978-88-7140-932-0 (paper).
Von Mehren, Margit. The Orientalizing and Lucanian Tombs from Loc. De
Santis I at Pontecagnano (AnalRom 52). Pp. 275. Edizioni Quasar, Rome 2019.
€32.
ISBN 978-88-7140-936-8 (paper).
Walter, Hans, Angelika Clemente, and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier. Ursprung
und Frühzeit des Heraion von Samos. Vol. 1, Topographie, Architektur und
Geschichte (Samos 21.1). Pp. 350. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2019.
€78.
ISBN 978-3-95490-399-3 (cloth).
Webb, Jennifer M. Lapithos Vrysi tou Barba, Cyprus: Early and Middle
Bronze Age Tombs Excavated by Menelaos Markides (SIMA 148).
Pp.
xx + 294. Astrom Editions, Uppsala 2018. €80. ISBN 978-9925-7455-1-7 (cloth).
Williams, Kimberly D., and Lesley A. Gregoricka, eds. Mortuary and
Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia.
Pp.
xii + 256. University of Florida Press, Gainesville 2019. $100. ISBN
978-1-68340-079-0 (cloth).

Yegül, Fikret, and Diane Favro. Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From
the Origins to Late Antiquity.
Pp. xvi + 897. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge 2019. $300. ISBN 978-0-52147-071-1 (cloth).

ΠΗΓΗ: AJA, 3.2.2020. ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 3.2.2020.
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