List of Books Received

Alcock, Susan E., Mariana Egri, and James F.D. Frakes, eds. Beyond Boundaries: Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome. Pp. viii + 386, figs. 140, tables 2, maps 6. Getty Publications, Los Angeles 2016. $69.95. ISBN 978-1-60606-471-9 (cloth).

Alram-Stern, Eva, and Angelika Dousougli-Zachos. Die Deutschen Ausgrabungen 1941 auf der Visviki-Magula/Velestino: Die neolithischen Befunde und Funde (Beiträge zur ur- und frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie des Mittelmeer-Kulturraumes 36). Pp. xi + 578, figs. 100, b&w pls. 250, color pls. 32. Dr. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 2015. €135. ISBN 978-3-7749-3876-2 (cloth).

Augenti, Andrea. Archeologia dell’Italia medievale. Pp. vi + 332, figs. 187. Editori Laterza, Bari 2016. €35. ISBN 978-88-581-2230-3 (paper).

Bagnall, Roger S., Nicola Aravecchia, Raffaella Cribiore, Paola Davoli, Olaf E. Kaper, and Susanna McFadden. An Oasis City. Pp. xvi + 240, figs. 144. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University Press, New York 2015. $55. ISBN 978-1-4798-8922-8 (cloth).

Baitinger, Holger, ed. Materielle Kultur und Identität im Spannungsfeld zwischen mediterraner Welt und Mitteleuropa: Akten der Internationalen Tagung am Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum Mainz 22.–24. Oktober 2014. Pp. x + 292, figs. 212, tables 3. Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz 2016. €40. ISBN 978-3-88467-262-4 (paper).

Booms, Dirk. Latin Inscriptions: Ancient Scripts. Pp. 112, figs. 18. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2016. $18.95. ISBN 978-1-60606-466-5 (paper).

Boozer, Anna Lucille. Amheida II: A Late Romano-Egyptian House in the Dakhla Oasis. Amheida House B2. Pp. 460, figs. 116, b&w pls. 44, tables 19. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University Press, New York 2015. $55. ISBN 978-1-4798-8034-8 (cloth).

Brier, Bob. Cleopatra’s Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt. Pp. x + 238, figs. 84. Bloomsbury Academic, London 2016. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-4742-4293-6 (cloth).

Broekaert, Wim, Robin Nadeau, and John Wilkins, eds. Food, Identity and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Ancient World (Collection Latomus 354). Pp. 106, fig. 10. Éditions Latomus, Brussels 2016. €22. ISBN 978-90-429-3304-0 (paper).  

Boulogne, Jacques, Marion Muller-Dufeu, and Maud Picouet-de Crémoux. Choses vues et entendues par Pausanias: Guide de croyances de la Grèce antique. Pp. 437, figs. 76. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq 2015. €40. ISBN 978-2-75740-0886-5 (paper).

Capriles, José M., and Nicholas Tripcevich, eds. The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism. Pp. xii + 268, figs. 77, tables 25. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2016. $85. ISBN 978-0-8263-5702-1 (cloth).

Chandrasekaran, Sujatha, and Anna Kouremenos, eds. Continuity and Destruction in the Greek East: The Transformation of Monumental Space from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity (BAR-IS 2765). Pp. 102, figs. 63, table 1, maps 5. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford 2015. ₤28. ISBN 978-14-073-1429-7 (paper).

Cooper, Lisa. In Search of Kings and Conquerors: Gertrude Bell and the Archaeology of the Middle East. Pp. xxii + 314, figs. 102. I.B. Tauris, London 2016. $29.50. ISBN 978-1-84885-498-7 (cloth).

Crown, Patricia L., ed. The Pueblo Bonito Mounds of Chaco Canyon: Material Culture and Fauna. Pp. xiv + 274, figs. 71, tables 119. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2016. $85. ISBN 978-0-8263-5650-5 (cloth).

Damm-Meinhardt, Ursula. Baubefunde und Stratigraphie der Unterburg (Kampagnen 1976 bis 1983): Die mykenische Palastzeit (SH III B2) und beginnende Nachpalastzeit (Beginn SH III C) (Tiryns, Forschungen und Berichte 17). Pp. xiv + 303, figs. 11. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2015. €58. ISBN 978-3-95490-091-6 (cloth).

de Bellefonds, Pascale Linant, Évelyne Prioux, and Agnès Rouveret, eds. D’Alexandre à Auguste: Dynamiques de la création dans les arts visuels et la poésie. Pp. 319, figs. 56, color pls. 24. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2015. €29. ISBN 978-2-7535-4080-4 (paper).

Denti, Mario, and Clément Bellamy, eds. La céramique des espaces archéologiques “mixtes”: Autour de la Méditerranée antique. Pp. 222, figs. 149, color pls. 20. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2016. €27. IBSN 978-2-7535-4781-0 (paper).

Filges, Axel. Münzbild und Gemeinschaft: Die Prägungen der römischen Kolonien in Kleinasien (Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften 29). Pp. xii + 404, figs. 558, CD 1. Dr. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 2015. €90. ISBN 978-3-7749-3947-9 (cloth).

Gagarin, Michael, and Paula Perlman. The Laws of Ancient Crete c. 650–400 BCE. Pp. xxiv + 566, figs. 71. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016. $199. ISBN 978-0-19-920482-3 (cloth).

Gallaga, Emiliano, and Marc G. Blainey, eds. Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm. Pp. xi + 324, figs. 84, tables 5. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2016. $65. ISBN 978-1-60732-407-2 (cloth).

Glazebrook, Allison, and Barbara Tsakirgis, eds. House of Ill Repute: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World. Pp. viii + 256, figs. 53, tables 4. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2016. $69.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-4756-5 (cloth).

Gogou, Alexandra, Adam Izdebski, and Karin Holmgren, eds. Mediterranean Holocene Climate, Environment and Human Societies (Special Issue, Quaternary Science Reviews: The International Multidisciplinary Research and Review Journal 136). Pp. 252, figs. 116, tables 23. Elsevier, New York 2016. Price not available. ISSN 0277-3791 (paper).  

Hamdoune, Christine, ed. Parure monumentale et paysage dans la poésie épigraphique de l’Afrique romaine: Recueil de carmina latina epigraphica (Scripta Antiqua 85). Pp. 312, figs. 43, tables 5. Ausonius Éditions, Bordeaux 2016. €25. ISBN 978-2-35613-154-6 (paper).

Harris, Graham. The Destruction of Sodom: A Scientific Commentary. Pp. xxiv + 191, figs. 50, tables 7. The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge 2015. $40. ISBN 978-0-7188-9368-2 (paper).

Herhahn, Cynthia L., and Ann F. Ramenofsky, eds. Exploring Cause and Explanation: Historical Ecology, Demography, and Movement in the American Southwest. Pp. xvi + 398, figs. 25, tables 15, maps 24. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2016. $65. ISBN 978-1-60732-472-0 (cloth). 

Holt, Frank L. The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man’s Wealth Shaped the World (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture). Pp. xvii + 295, fig. 22. Oxford University Press, New York 2016. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-19-995096-6 (cloth).

Iversen, Rune. The Transformation of Neolithic Societies: An Eastern Danish Perspective on the 3rd Millennium BC. Pp. 228, figs. 97. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2015. kr. 387. ISBN 978-87-88415-99-5 (cloth).

Jenkins, Tiffany. Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended up in Museums … and Why They Should Stay There. Pp. ix + 369, figs. 17. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-19-965759-9 (cloth).

Jennings, Justin. Killing Civilization: A Reassessment of Early Urbanism and Its Consequences. Pp. xiv + 360, figs. 34. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2016. $75. ISBN 978-0-8263-5660-4 (cloth).

Jones, Michael, and Susanna McFadden, eds. Art of Empire: The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple. Pp. xi + 227, figs. 157. Yale University Press, New Haven 2015. $75. ISBN 978-0-300-16912-6 (cloth).

Kelp, Ute. Grabdenkmal und lokale Identität: Ein Bild der Landschaft Phrygien in der römischen Kaiserzeit (Asia Minor Studien Band 74). Pp. x + 318, b&w pls. 70, color pls. 3. Dr. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 2015. €89. ISBN 978-3-7749-3809-0 (cloth).

Komnick, Holger. Die Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit aus dem Bereich der Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xantener Berichte 29). Pp. xii + 638, tables 73. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2015. €86. ISBN 978-3-8053-4972-7 (cloth).

Kurnick, Sarah, and Joanne Baron, eds. Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Pp. xi + 291, figs. 36, maps 3. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2016. $60. ISBN 978-1-60732-415-7 (cloth).

Mulliez, Maud. Le luxe de l’imitation: Les trompe-l’œil de la fin de la République romaine, mémoire des artisans de la couleur (Collection du Centre Jean Bérard 44, Archéologie de l’artisanat antique 8). Pp. 236, figs. 103, graphs 19, tables 14. CNRS, Naples 2014. €49. ISBN 978-2-918887-68-3 (paper). 

Papagianni, Eleni. Attische Sarkophage mit Eroten und Girlanden (Sarkophag-Studien 9). Pp. xxi + 195, figs. 8, b&w pls. 64, table 1. Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen, Ruhpolding 2016. €88. ISBN 978-3-447-10437-1 (cloth).

Patay-Horváth, András, ed. New Approaches to the Temple of Zeus at Olympia: Proceedings of the First Olympia-Seminar 8th–10th May 2014. Pp. xxi + 282, figs. 77, tables 3. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2015. £52.99. ISBN 978-1-4438-7816-6 (cloth).

Pavúk, Peter. Troia VI Früh und Mitte: Keramik, Stratigraphie, Chronologie (Studia Troica Monographien 3). Pp. 695, figs. 171, b&w pls. 98, color pls. 21. Dr. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 2014. €109. ISBN 978-3-7749-3944-8 (cloth).

Petrakos, Vasileios. Ημερολόγιο Αρχαιολογικό: Τα χρόνια του Καποδίστρια 1828–1832. Vol. 1 (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 301). Pp. xi + 507. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2015. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-5047-19-1 (paper).

Petrakos, Vasileios. Ημερολόγιο Αρχαιολογικό: Τα χρόνια του Καποδίστρια 1828 – 1832. Vol. 2 (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 302). Pp. viii + 558. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2015. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-5047-20-7 (paper).

Petrakos, Vasileios. Ημερολόγιο Αρχαιολογικό: Τα χρόνια του Καποδίστρια 1828–1832. Vol. 3 (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 303). Pp. viii + 458. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2015. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-5047-21-4 (paper).

Pitul’ko, Vladmir V., and Elena Y. Pavlova (translated by Richard L. Bland). Geoarchaeology and Radiocarbon Chronology of Stone Age Northeast Asia (Peopling of the Americas Publications). Pp. xv + 222, figs. 54, tables 26. Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2016. $60. ISBN 978-1-62349-330-1 (cloth).

Rice, Glen E. Sending the Spirits Home: The Archaeology of Hohokam Mortuary Practices. Pp. xiv + 262, figs. 112, tables 42. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City 2016. $60. ISBN 978-1-60781-459-7 (cloth). 

Roth, Barbara J., and Maxine E. McBrinn, eds. Late Holocene Research on Foragers and Farmers in the Desert West. Pp. x + 298, figs. 32, tables 21. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City 2016. $50. ISBN 978-1-60781-446-7 (cloth).

Ruppiene, Vilma. Natursteinverkleidungen in den Bauten der Colonia Ulpia Traiana: Gesteinskundliche Analysen, Herkunftsbestimmung und Rekonstruktion (Xantener Berichte 28). Pp. x + 368, figs. 199, tables 106. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt. €59. ISBN 978-3-8053-4971-0 (cloth).

Rutherford, Ian, ed. Greco-Egyptian Interactions: Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BCE–300 CE. Pp. xiii + 393, figs. 13. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016. £80. ISBN 978-0-19-965612-7 (cloth).

Stephanidou-Tiveriou, Theodosia, and Eleni Papagianni. Ανασκαφή Νικοπόλεως: Σαρκοφάγοι Αττικής και τοπικής παραγωγής (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 305). Pp. xvii + 278, color pls. 73. The Archaeological Society, Athens 2015. €50. ISBN 978-618-5047-22-1 (paper).

Strudwick, Helen, and Julie Dawson, eds. Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt. Pp. 256, figs. 215. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 2016. $70. ISBN 978-1-907804-71-7 (cloth).

Sulosky Weaver, Carrie L. The Bioarchaeology of Classical Kamarina: Life and Death in Greek Sicily (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives). Pp. xxv + 336, figs. 61, tables 5. University of Florida Press, Gainesville 2015. $84.95. ISBN 978-0-8130-6112-2 (cloth).

Thomas, Thelma K., ed. Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity. Pp. 159, figs. 120. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2016. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-16942-2 (paper). 

Thompson, Erin L. Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present. Pp. vii + 224, figs. 17. Yale University Press, New Haven 2016. $30. ISBN 978-0-300-20852-8 (cloth).

Vagalinski, Lyudmil, and Emil Nankov, eds. Heraclea Sintica: From Hellenistic Polis to Roman Civitas (4th C. BC–6th C. AD). Proceedings of a Conference at Petrich, Bulgaria, September 19–21, 2013 (Papers of the American Research Center in Sofia 2). Pp. 303, figs. 226, color pls. 42, tables 8. The American Research Center in Sofia, Sofia 2015. 25лв. ISSN 2367-5640 (paper).

Van Schaik, Carel, and Kai Michel. The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible. Pp. vi + 472. Basic Books, New York 2016. $29.99. ISBN 978-0-465-07470-9 (cloth).

Vizyenou, Ourania. Αρχείον των Μνημείων των Αθηνών και της Αττικής 6: Τοπογραφικό Ευρετήριο του Περιοδικού Εφημερίς Αρχαιολογική` Περίοδος Β (1862–1874) (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 304). Pp. 170, figs. 3. The Archaeological Society, Athens 2015. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-5047-18-4 (paper).

Webster, Gary. The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 14). Pp. xvii + 253, figs. 86, tables 4. Equinox Publishing, Bristol, U.K. 2015. $100. ISBN 978-1-78179-135-6 (cloth).

Wilson, Andrew, and Miko Flohr, eds. Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World. Pp. xvii + 408, figs. 74, tables 8. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016. $135. ISBN 978-0-19-874848-9 (cloth).