January 2015 (119.1)

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Altmayer, Klaus. Die Herrschaft des Carus, Carinus und Numerianus als Vorläufer der Tetrarchie (Historia Einzelschriften 230). Pp. 506, b&w pls. 28. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014. €82. ISBN 978-3-515-10621-4 (cloth).

Azoulay, Vincent. Janet Lloyd, trans. Pericles of Athens. Pp. xviii + 291, figs. 16. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2014. $35. ISBN 978-0-691-15459-6 (cloth).

Baughan, Elizabeth P. Couched in Death: Klinai and Identity in Anatolia and Beyond. Pp. xvii + 487, figs. 168, color pls. 11, tables 2. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2013. $65. ISBN 978-0-299-29180-8 (cloth).

Beard, Mary. Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (Sather Classical Lectures 71). Pp. x + 319, figs. 6. University of California Press, Berkeley 2014. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-520-27716-8 (cloth).

Birk, Stine, Troels Myrup Kristensen, and Birte Poulsen, eds. Using Images in Late Antiquity. Pp. viii + 312, figs. 65, color pls. 32, tables 4. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2014. $65. ISBN 978-1-78297-261-7 (paper).

Bishop, M.C. The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain. Pp. xiv + 210, figs. 33, b&w pls. 19. Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, England 2014. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-84884-615-9 (cloth).

Borbonus, Dorian. Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome. Pp. xvi + 294, figs. 71, tables 17. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-03140-1 (cloth).

Braswell, Geoffrey E., ed. The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors: Settlement Patterns, Architecture, Hieroglyphic Texts, and Ceramics. Pp. xx + 437, figs. 136, tables 11. Routledge, New York 2014. $160. ISBN 978-0-415-74486-7 (cloth).

Bruseth, James E., ed. La Belle: The Ship that Changed History. Pp. 116, figs. 150. Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2014. $19.95. ISBN 978-1-62349-033-1 (paper).

Byrne, Denis. Counterheritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage Conservation in Asia (Routledge Studies in Heritage 5). Pp. x + 244, figs. 20. Routledge, New York 2014. $125. ISBN 978-0-415-74406-5 (cloth).

Collins, Rob, and Frances McIntosh, eds. Life in the Limes: Studies of the People and Objects of the Roman Frontiers. Pp. x + 238, figs. 79, color pls. 29, tables 7. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2014. $80. ISBN 978-1-78297-253-2 (cloth).

Creekmore III, Andrew T., and Kevin D. Fisher, eds. Making Ancient Cities: Space and Place in Early Urban Societies. Pp. xxii + 419, figs. 86, tables 4. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-04652-8 (cloth).

Cullen, Tracey, Lauren E. Talalay, Donald R. Keller, Lia Karimali, and William R. Farrand. The Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula, Euboea (Prehistory Monographs 40). Pp. xxvi + 161, figs. 37, b&w pls. 47, tables 22. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2013. $70. ISBN 978-1-931534-70-3 (cloth).

Cummings, Vicki, Peter Jordan, and Marek Zvelebil, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers. Pp. xxviii + 1,330, figs. 123, tables 33. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $199. ISBN 978-0-19-955122-4 (cloth).

Damaskos, Dimitris. Κατάλογος γλυπτών του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Καβάλας (Δημοσιεύματα Αρχαιολογικού Ινστιτούτου Μακεδονικών και Θρακικών Σπουδών 15). Pp. 159, b&w pls. 372. Αρχαιολογικο Ινστιτούτο Μακεδονικών και Θρακικών Σπουδών, Thessaloniki 2013. Price not available. ISBN 978-960-9726-04-7 (paper).

Day, Leslie Preston, and Kevin T. Glowacki. Kavousi IIB: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. The Buildings on the Periphery (Prehistory Monographs 39). Pp. xxxii + 195, figs. 136, b&w pls. 30, charts 70, tables 28. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2012. $80. ISBN 978-1-931534-69-7 (cloth).

de Vos Raaijmakers, Mariette, Redha Attoui, and Alessandro Battisti. Rus Africum. Vol. 2, Le paysage rural antique autour de Dougga: L’aqueduc Aïn Hammam-Thugga, cartograhie et relevés (Bibliotheca Archaeologica 34). Pp. 304, figs. 55, b&w pls. 229, Beilagen 3. Edipuglia, Bari 2013. €70. ISBN 978-88-7228-728-6 (paper).

Dyson, Stephen L. The Last Amateur: The Life of William J. Stillman. Pp. x + 379, figs. 31. State University of New York Press, Albany 2014. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-4384-5261-6 (cloth).

Efstratiou, Nikos, Alexandra Karetsou, and Maria Ntinou, eds. The Neolithic Settlement of Knossos in Crete: New Evidence for the Early Occupation of Crete and the Aegean Islands (Prehistory Monographs 42). Pp. xxviii + 217, figs. 85, tables 46. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2013. $80. ISBN 978-1-931534-72-7 (cloth).

Emerick, Keith. Conserving and Managing Ancient Monuments: Heritage, Democracy, and Inclusion (Heritage Matters 14). Pp. xii + 282, figs. 20. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, England 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-84383-909-5 (cloth).

Fries-Knoblach, Janine, Heiko Steuer, and John Hines, eds. The Baiuvarii and Thuringi: An Ethnographic Perspective (Studies in Historical Archaeology 9). Pp. viii + 388, figs. 99. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, England 2014. $120. ISBN 978-1-84383-915-6 (cloth).

Frood, Elizabeth, and Rubina Raja, eds. Redefining the Sacred: Religious Architecture and Text in the Near East and Egypt 1000 BC–AD 300 (Contextualizing the Sacred 1). Pp. xx + 260, figs. 48, color pls. 9, maps 4. Brepols, Turnhout 2014. €80. ISBN 978-2-503-54104-4 (cloth).

Galinsky, Karl, ed. Memoria Romana: Memory in Rome and Rome in Memory (MAAR Suppl. 10). Pp. xiv + 193, figs. 39. The American Academy in Rome, Rome 2014. $85. ISBN 978-0-472-11943-1 (cloth).

Graells, Raimon, Alberto J. Lorrio, and Fernando Quesada. Cascos hispano-calcídicos: Símbolo de las élites guerreras celtibéricas (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Kataloge vor- und frühgeschichtlicher Altertümer 46). Pp. xxiv + 315, figs. 210, b&w pls. 5, tables 3. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 2014. €70. ISBN 978-3-88467-230-3 (cloth).

Graf, Kelly E., Caroline V. Ketron, and Michael R. Waters, eds. Paleoamerican Odyssey. Pp. viii + 573, figs. 168, graphs 58, maps 56. Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2014. $45. ISBN 978-1-62349-192-5 (paper).

Greve, Anika. Sepulkrale hofarchitekturen im Hellenismus: Alexandria, Nea Paphos, Kyrene (Contextualizing the Sacred 3). Pp. xiv + 328, figs. 144. Brepols, Turnhout 2014. €120. ISBN 978-2-503-54409-0 (paper).

Hall, David. The Open Fields of England (Medieval History and Archaeology). Pp. xiv + 381, figs. 22, color pls. 16, tables 22. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $150. ISBN 978-0-19-870295-5 (cloth).

Harris, William V., ed. The Ancient Mediterranean Environment Between Science and History (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 39). Pp. xxii + 332, figs. 57, tables 7. Brill, Leiden 2013. $145. ISBN 978-90-04-25343-8 (cloth).

Hermary, Antoine, and Joan R. Mertens. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Stone Sculpture. Pp. 436, figs. 949. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2014. $175. ISBN 978-0-300-20671-5 (paper).

Herrero, Borja Legarra. Mortuary Behavior and Social Trajectories in Pre- and Protopalatial Crete (Prehistory Monographs 44). Pp. xviii + 359, figs. 141, tables 8. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2014. $80. ISBN 978-1-931534-74-1 (cloth).

Huckell, Bruce B., and J. David Kilby, eds. Clovis Caches: Recent Discoveries and New Research. Pp. x + 254, figs. 100, tables 49. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2014. $75. ISBN 978-0-8263-5482-2 (cloth).

Hurcombe, Linda M. Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory: Investigating the Missing Majority. Pp. xvi + 211, figs. 9, color pls. 60, table 1. Routledge, New York 2014. $130. ISBN 978-0-415-53792-6 (cloth).

Keller, Daniel, Jennifer Price, and Caroline Jackson, eds. Neighbours and Successors of Rome: Traditions of Glass Production and Use in Europe and the Middle East in the Later First Millennium AD. Pp. viii + 231, figs. 176. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2014. $85. ISBN 978-1-78297-397-5 (cloth).

Kennedy, Rebecca Futo. Immigrant Women in Athens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City (Routledge Studies in Ancient History 6). Pp. ix + 177, figs. 14. Routledge, New York 2014. $125. ISBN 978-0-415-73786-9 (cloth).

Kosmin, Paul J. The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire. Pp. xvi + 423, figs. 15, maps 9. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2014. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-674-72882-0 (cloth).

Kotsonas, Antonis, ed. Understanding Standardization and Variation in Mediterranean Ceramics: Mid 2nd to Late 1st Millennium BC (BABesch Suppl. 25). Pp. viii + 196, figs. 106, tables 13. Peeters, Leuven 2014. €87. ISBN 978-90-429-3091-9 (paper).

Lee, Benjamin Todd, Ellen Finkelpearl, and Luca Graverini, eds. Apuleius and Africa (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies 18). Pp. xvi + 344, figs. 43. Routledge, New York 2014. $135. ISBN 978-0-415-53309-6 (cloth).

Mair, Victor H., and Jane Hickman, eds. Reconfiguring the Silk Road: New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity. Pp. xvi + 104, figs. 39. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia 2014. $59.95. ISBN 978-1-934536-68-1 (cloth).

Martin, Debra L., and Cheryl P. Anderson, eds. Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How Violent Death is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 67). Pp. xii + 329, figs. 61, tables 17. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-04544-6 (cloth).

Mattusch, Carol C. Enduring Bronze: Ancient Art, Modern Views. Pp. 168, figs. 113. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2014. $30. ISBN 978-1-60606-326-2 (paper).

Moret, Jean-Marc. I marmi di Garaguso: Vittorio Di Cicco e l’imbroglio della loro scoperta. Pp. 348, figs. 51. Osanna Edizioni, Venosa 2014. €50. ISBN 978-88-8167-448-0 (paper).

Murray, Tim. From Antiquarian to Archaeologist: The History and Philosophy of Archaeology. Pp. 261, figs. 7. Pen & Sword, Barnsley, England 2014. £25. ISBN 978-1-78346-352-7 (cloth).

Nielsen, Inge. Housing the Chosen: The Architectural Context of Mystery Groups and Religious Associations in the Ancient World (Contextualizing the Sacred 2). Pp. xvi + 322, figs. 136, b&w pls. 62. Brepols, Turnhout 2014. €120. ISBN 978-2-503-54437-3 (paper).

Olsen, Barbara A. Women in Mycenaean Greece: The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos. Pp. x + 379, figs. 2, tables 9. Routledge, New York 2014. $130. ISBN 978-0-415-72515-6 (cloth).

Olsen, Bjørnar, and Þóra Pétursdóttir, eds. Ruin Memories: Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past (Archaeological Orientations). Pp. xviii + 492, figs. 173. Routledge, New York 2014. $205. ISBN 978-0-415-52362-2 (cloth).

Palka, Joel W. Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes: Insights from Archaeology, History, and Ethnography (Archaeologies of Landscape in the Americas Series). Pp. xvi + 374, figs. 175, table 1, maps 7. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2014. $75. ISBN 978-0-8263-5474-7 (cloth).

Papadopoulou, Ioanna, and Leonard Muellner, eds. Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus (Hellenic Studies 63). Pp. xxiv + 272, figs. 15. Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C. 2014. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-674-72676-5 (paper).

Papapostolou, Ι.Α. Το Ιερό του Θέρμου στην Αιτωλία: Περιήγηση του χώρου (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 291). Pp. 252, figs. 145. Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2014. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-5047-10-8 (paper).

Platts, Hannah, John Pearce, Caroline Barron, Jason Lundock, and Justin Yoo, eds. TRAC 2013: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Theoretical Roman Archaeological Conference, King’s College, London, 4–6 April 2013. Pp. 173, figs. 38, tables 6. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2014. $60. ISBN 978-1-78297-690-5 (paper).

Poblome, Jeroen, ed. Exempli Gratia: Sagalassos, Marc Waelkens and Interdisciplinary Archaeology. Pp. 222, figs. 34, tables 3. Leuven University Press, Leuven 2013. $89.50. ISBN 978-90-5867-979-6 (cloth).

Prignitz, Sebastian. Bauurkunden und Bauprogramm von Epidauros (400–350): Asklepiostempel, Tholos, Kultbild, Brunnenhaus (Vestigia 67). Pp. 395, b&w pls. 67. C.H. Beck, Munich 2014. €108. ISBN 978-3-406-65820-4 (cloth).

Quilter, Jeffrey. The Ancient Central Andes (Routledge Word Archaeology). Pp. xvi + 336, figs. 48. Routledge, New York 2014. $130. ISBN 978-0-415-67309-9 (cloth).

Renfrew, Colin, and Paul Bahn, eds. The Cambridge World Prehistory. Vol. 1, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific; vol. 2, East Asia and the Americas; vol. 3, West and Central Asia and Europe. Pp. 2,049, figs. 659, tables 14, maps 190. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $675. ISBN 978-1-107-02377-2 (vol. 1); 978-1-107-02378-9 (vol. 2); 978-1-107-02379-6 (vol. 3) (cloth).

Roksandic, Mirjana, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Sabine Eggers, Meghan Burchell, and Daniela Klokler, eds. The Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites. Pp. xviii + 368, figs. 56, charts 38, tables 63, maps 22. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2014. $85. ISBN 978-0-8263-5456-3 (cloth).

Schaus, Gerald P. Stymphalos: The Acropolis Sanctuary. Vol. 1 (Phoenix Suppl. 54). Pp. xvi + 499, figs. 202, charts 8, tables 21. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2014. $145. ISBN 978-1-4426-4529-5 (cloth).

Schnapp, Alain, ed. World Antiquarianism: Comparative Perspectives (Getty Research Institute Issues & Debates). Pp. viii + 455, figs. 104, maps 4. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles 2013. $60. ISBN 978-1-60606-148-0 (paper).

Shinde, Vasant, Teresa P. Raczek, and Gregory L. Possehl, eds. Excavations at Gilund: The Artifacts and Other Studies (University Museum Monograph 138). Pp. xviii + 254, figs. 111, tables 68. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia 2014. $99.95. ISBN 978-1-934536-66-7 (cloth).

Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos (Prehistory Monographs 45). Pp. xviii + 84, b&w pls. 7, tables 5, maps 6. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2014. $60. ISBN 978-1-931534-75-8 (cloth).

Snape, Steven. The Complete Cities of Ancient Egypt. Pp. 240, figs. 242. Thames & Hudson, London 2014. $50. ISBN 978-0-500-05179-5 (cloth).

Sommerstein, Alan H., ed. Menander in Contexts (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies 16). Pp. xvi + 286, figs. 4. Routledge, New York 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-94371-3 (cloth).

Tournavitou, Iphigeneia. Κύθηρα. Το μινωϊκό ιερό κορυφής στον Άγιο Γεώργιο στο Βουνό 4: Κεραμεική της εποχής του χαλκού (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 289). Pp. xx + 664, b&w pls. 36, charts 19, graphs 34, tables 21. Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2014. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-8047-11-5 (paper).

Tully, John A.N.Z. The Island Standard: The Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Coinages of Paros (Numismatic Studies 28). Pp. xiv + 206, figs. 8, b&w pls. 27, tables 54, maps 2. The American Numismatic Society, New York 2013. $120. ISBN 978-0-89722-329-4 (cloth).

Waterfield, Robin. Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece. Pp. xxiv + 287, figs. 25, maps 5. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-19-991689-4 (cloth).

Whittaker, Helène. Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece. Pp. xiv + 291, figs. 14, tables 4, maps 7. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-04987-1 (cloth).

Wileman, Julie. Warfare in Northern Europe Before the Romans: Evidence from Archaeology. Pp. viii + 190, figs. 32, b&w pls. 14. Pen & Sword, Barnsley 2014. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-78159-325-7 (cloth).

Wilson, Penelope, Gregory Gilbert, and Geoffrey Tassie. Sais II: The Prehistoric Period at Sa el-Hagar (Egypt Exploration Society Excavation Memoir 107). Pp. xviii + 280, figs. 134, b&w pls. 117, tables 56. Egypt Exploration Society, London 2014. £70. ISBN 978-0-85698-218-7 (paper).

Worthington, Ian. By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire (Ancient Warfare and Civilization). Pp. xxii + 388, figs. 24, maps 10. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-19-992986-3 (cloth).

Yntema, Douwe. The Archaeology of South-East Italy in the First Millennium BC: Greek and Native Societies of Apulia and Lucania Between the 10th and the 1st Century BC (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 20). Pp. viii + 304, figs. 162, tables 5. University of Amsterdam Press, Amsterdam 2013. $99. ISBN 978-90-8964-579-1 (cloth).

List of Books Received

American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 119, No. 1 (January 2015)

DOI: 10.3764/ajaonline1191.BooksReceived

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