January 2021 (125.1)

Books Received

List of Books Received

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Ball, Warwick. Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan. Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019. Pp. 736. $170. ISBN 9780199277582 (cloth).

Bárta, Miroslav. Analyzing Collapse: The Rise and Fall of the Old Kingdom. New York: American University in Cairo Press 2019. Pp. xv + 253. $60. ISBN 9789774168383 (e-book).

Bassir, Hussein, ed. Living Forever: Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt. New York: American University in Cairo Press 2019. Pp. xxviii + 272. $60. ISBN 9789774169014 (e-book).

Berenfeld, Michelle. The Triconch House (Aphrodisias 11). Wiesbaden: Reichert 2020. Pp. 160. $104. ISBN 9783954904051 (cloth).

Bockmann, Ralf, Anna Leone, and Philipp von Rummel, eds. Africa – Ifrīqiya: Continuity and Change in North Africa from the Byzantine to the Early Islamic Age. Papers of a Conference Held in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano – Terme di Diocleziano, 28 February–2 March 2013. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2019. Pp. viii + 322. €58. ISBN 978-3-447-11333-5 (e-book).

Buchwald, Jed Z., and Diane Greco Josefowicz. The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2020. Pp. 576. $39.93. ISBN 9780691200903 (cloth).

Caputo, Clementina. The House of Serenos. Part I: The Pottery (Amheida V). New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and New York University Press 2020. Pp. 272. $85. ISBN 978-1-47980-465-8 (cloth).

Collins-Clinton, Jacquelyn. Cosa: The Sculpture and Furnishings in Stone and Marble (MAAR Suppl. 15). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2020. Pp. 360. $125. ISBN 978-0-472-13159-4 (cloth).

Dahlén, Ashk P., ed. Achaemenid Anatolia: Persian Presence and Impact in the Western Satrapies 546–330 BC. Proceedings of an International Symposium at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 7–8 September 2017. Uppsala: Uppsala University Publications 2020. Pp. 267. $41.88. ISBN 978-91-513-0794-7 (cloth).

Delfino, Davide, Fernando Coimbra, Daniela Cardoso, and Gonçalo Cruz, eds. Late Prehistoric Fortifications in Europe: Defensive, Symbolic and Territorial Aspects from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age. Proceedings of the International Colloquium ‘FortMetalAges,’ Guimarães, Portugal. Oxford: Archaeopress 2020. Pp. 256. ₤45. ISBN 978-1-78969-254-9 (cloth).

Dessales, Hélène. Receuils de William Gell: Pompéi publiée et inédite (1801–1829). Paris: Hermann 2020. Pp. 436. €32. ISBN 979-1037002129 (paper).

De Stefano, Francesco. L’immagine e il contesto: Produzioni figurative e immaginario sociale nelle comunità della Siritide e del Metapontino (VIII–VI secolo a.C.) (ASAtene 4). Florence: Scuola Archeologica di Atene 2019. Pp. 251. €34. ISBN 978-060-9559-14-0 (e-book).

Donev, Damjan. The Busy Periphery: Urban Systems of the Balkan and Danube Provinces (2nd–3rd c. AD). Oxford: Archaeopress 2019. Pp. viii + 380. ₤54. ISBN 978-1-78969-349-2 (e-book).

Emanuelsson-Paulson, Therese. “Polygonal Columns in Greek Architecture.” Ph.D. diss. Stockholm University 2020. Pp. 485. Price not available. ISBN 978-91-7797-762-9 (paper).

Fenwick, Corisande. Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective. New York: Bloomsbury Academic 2020. Pp. xiv + 210. $26.95. ISBN 9781350075191 (e-book).

Ferrara, Francesco Maria. Basileus e Basileia: Forme e luoghi della regalità macedone (Thiasos Monograph 14). Rome: Quasar 2020. Pp. 438. €50. ISBN 978-88-5491-047-8 (paper).

Godart, Louis, and Anna Sacconi. Les archives du roi Nestor: Corpus des inscriptions en Linéaire B de Pylos. Vol. 2, Series Gn-Xn (Pasiphae 14). Rome: Fabrizio Serra 2020. Pp. 420. €945. ISBN 978-88-3315-191-5 (cloth).

Grawehr, Matthias, Christina Leypold, Martin Mohr, and Ellen Thiermann, eds. Klassik—Kunst der Könige: Kings and Greek Art in the Fourth Century BC. Tagung an der Universität Zürich vom 18–20 Januar 2018 (Zürcher Archäologische Forschungen 7). Rahden, Germany: Marie Leidorf 2020. Pp. 224. €54.80. ISBN 9783867576673 (cloth).

Gürsu, Işilay, ed. Public Archaeology: Theoretical Approaches and Current Practices. Oxford: Oxbow 2019. Pp. vi + 102. ₤30. ISBN 9781912090792 (cloth).

Guttmann-Bond, Erika. Reinventing Sustainability: How Archaeology Can Save the Planet. Oxford: Oxbow 2019. Pp. x + 181. ₤25. ISBN 978-1-78570-992-0 (paper).

Hannestad, Lise. Nicator: Seleucus I and His Empire. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press 2020. Pp. 182. $41.66. ISBN 9788772191737 (paper).

Hirth, Kenneth, and Ann Cyphers. Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo. Louisville: University Press of Colorado 2020. Pp. 480. $76. ISBN 978-1-64642-057-5 (e-book).

Hodder, Ian, ed. Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020. Pp. 304. $99.99. ISBN 9781108753616 (cloth).

Ilan, David. Dan IV: The Iron Age I Settlement. The Avraham Biran Excavations (1966–1999). Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press 2020. Pp. 654. $125. ISBN 9780878201822 (cloth).

Jacobs, Justin M. The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2020. Pp. 348. $27.50. ISBN 9780226712017 (paper).

Jonasch, Melanie, ed. The Fight for Greek Sicily: Society, Politics, and Landscape. Oxford: Oxbow 2020. Pp. x + 400. ₤45. ISBN 978-1-78925-356-6 (cloth).

Kiernan, Philip. Roman Cult Images: The Lives and Worship of Idols from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020. Pp. 358. $120. ISBN 978-1-108-48734-4 (cloth).

Klinkott, Manfred. Das Fundament des Pergamonaltars und die Aufnahme seiner Fassadenfragmente (AvP 3.3). Berlin: De Gruyter 2020. Pp. x + 232. €119.95. ISBN 978-3-11-059814-8 (cloth).

Kouremenos, Anna, and Jody Michael Gordon, eds. Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in an Age of Globalization. Oxford: Oxbow 2020. Pp. xv + 284. $55. ISBN 9781789253443 (e-book).

Kurt, Andrew. Mining, State, and Economy in the Visigothic Kingdom: From Settlement in Aquitaine Through the First Decade of the Muslim Conquest of Spain. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2020. Pp. 422. €129. ISBN 9789462981645 (cloth).

Langner, Martin, and Stefan Schmidt, eds. Die Materialität Griechischer Vasen Mikrohistorische Perspektiven in der Vasenforschung (Beihefte zum CVA Deutschland 9). Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2020. Pp. 127. €59. ISBN 978-3-7696-3780-9 (cloth).

Lemos, Irene, and Antonis Kotsonas, eds. A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean. 2 vols. Medford: Wiley-Blackwell 2019. Pp. 1464. $420. ISBN 978-1-118-77019-1 (cloth).

Levy, Janet. The Genesis of the Textile Industry from Adorned Nudity to Ritual Regalia: The Changing Role of Fibre Crafts and Their Evolving Techniques of Manufacture in the Ancient Near East from the Natufian to the Ghassulian. Oxford: Archaeopress 2020. Pp. x + 323. ₤52. ISBN 978-1-78969-448-2 (paper).

Locicero, Mark A. Liquid Footprints: Water, Urbanism, and Sustainability in Roman Ostia. Leiden: Leiden University Press 2020. Pp. 442. $69.50. ISBN 9789087283230 (cloth).

Lo Monaco, Annalisa. L’Artemide venuta da lontano: Artemide taurica, la tauropolos, e le altre. (MemLinc 9.38.3). Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 2018. Pp. 340. €29. ISBN 978-88-218-1174-6 (paper).

López-Ruiz, Carolina, and Brian R. Doak, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019. Pp. 792. $150. ISBN 9780190499341 (cloth).

Massa, Morella. Efestia (Lemno), una città tra Anatolia NO Tracia e Grecia: Riflessioni sui risultati delle indagini 1929–2010 nell’area santuariale. Pisa: Edizioni ETS 2020. Pp. 148. €25. ISBN 9788846756930 (paper).

Middleton, Guy D., ed. Collapse and Transformation: The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean. Oxford: Oxbow 2020. Pp. xiv + 258. ₤60. ISBN 978-1-78925-425-9 (cloth).

Mizoguchi, Koji, and Claire Smith. Global Social Archaeologies: Making a Difference in a World of Strangers. New York: Routledge 2019. Pp. 297. $62.99. ISBN 978-1-62958-307-5 (paper).

Müller, Frank G.J.M. The So-Called Aldobrandini Wedding: Research from the Years 1990 to 2016. Translated by Gary P. Vos. Amsterdam: FM Art Publications 2019. Pp. xii + 187. €140. ISBN 9789090319186 (e-book).

Nantet, Emmanuel, ed. Sailing from Polis to Empire: Ships in the Eastern Mediterranean During the Hellenistic Period. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers 2020. Pp. 148. Open access at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/978. ISBN 9781783746958 (PDF).

Oakley, John H. A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 2020. Pp. 272. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-299-32724-8 (paper).

Patterson, Helen, Robert Witcher, and Helga Di Giuseppe. The Changing Landscapes of Rome’s Northern Hinterland: The British School at Rome’s Tiber Valley Project (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 70). Oxford: Archaeopress 2020. Pp. 372. £55.00. ISBN 9781789696158 (paper).

Peng, Peng. Metalworking in Bronze Age China: The Lost-Wax Process. Amherst: Cambria Press 2020. Pp. xxxiv + 477. $139.99. ISBN 9781604979626 (cloth).

Piesker, Katja, and Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt, eds. Umgebaut: Umbau-, Umnutzungs- und Umwertungsprozesse in der antiken Architektur (Diskussionen zur Archäologischen Bauforschung 13). Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2020. Pp. 448. €86. ISBN 978-3795435783 (cloth).

Pitts, Martin, ed. The Roman Object Revolution: Objectscapes and Intra-cultural Connectivity in Northwest Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2019. Pp. xv + 244. €99. ISBN 9789463728201 (e-book).

Queyrel, François. La sculpture hellénistique. Vol. 2, Royaumes et cités. Paris: Hermann 2020. Pp. 436. €62. ISBN 979-1-0370-0162-7 (e-book).

Richard, Suzanne, ed. New Horizons in the Study of the Early Bronze III and Early Bronze IV of the Levant. University Park: Penn State University Press 2020. Pp. 480. $124.95. ISBN 978-1-57506-740-7 (cloth).

Rohmer, Jérôme. Hauran VI d’Aram à Rome: La Syrie du Sud de l’âge du Fer à l’annexion romaine (XIIe siècle av. J.-C.–Ier siècle apr. J.-C.) (BAHBeyrouth 217). Beirut: Institut français du Proche-Orient 2020. Pp. 650. €70. ISBN 978-2-35159-763-7 (e-book).

Rouillard, Pierre, Laurent Costa, and Jesús Moratalla, eds. Des carrières en archipel: Au pays de la Dame d’Elche (Alicante, Espagne) (Collection de la Casa de Velázquez 178). Madrid: Casa de Velázquez 2020. Pp. viii + 221. €41. ISBN 9788490963142 (paper).

Stanton, Travis W., and Kenichiro Tsukamoto. The Past in the Present: An Introduction to Archaeology. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt 2019. Pp. 250. $99.50. ISBN 9781524980009 (paper).

Stern, Ian. Excavations at Maresha Subterranean Complex 169: Final Report, Seasons 2000–2016 (Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology 11). Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press 2019. Pp. 407. $100. ISBN 9780878201792 (cloth).

Sterry, Martin, and David J. Mattingly, eds. Urbanisation and State Formation in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020. Pp. 764. $175. ISBN 9781108637978 (cloth).

Thomas, Ariane, and Timothy Potts, eds. Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins. Los Angeles: Getty Publications 2020. Pp. 236. $65. ISBN 978-1-60606-649-2 (cloth).

Verner, Miroslav. The Pyramids (New and Revised): The Archaeology and History of Egypt's Iconic Monuments. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press 2021. Pp. 480. $79.95. ISBN 9789774169885 (cloth).

Williams, Howard, Caroline Pudney, and Afnan Ezzeldin, eds. Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement. Oxford: Archaeopress 2019. Pp. xiv + 270. ₤58. ISBN 978-1-78969-373-7 (e-book).

List of Books Received

American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 125, No. 1 (January 2021)

DOI: 10.3764/ajaonline1251.BooksReceived

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