American Journal of Archaeology

Until recently, scholarship on Roman Anatolia has focused primarily on its wealth of material remains. Rojas’ book examines aspects of the embodied experience with the region’s past during the Roman period, and he does this adeptly by combining archaeological, literary, and epigraphic sources.

As the title suggests, Hodos sets out to present the archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age within the analytical framework of globalization. In using globalization as an analytical armature, Hodos argues that there are at least eight traits that are amenable to social analysis. The first is time-space compression, where interaction often results in a temporal and spatial collapse between different communities. Deterritorialization comes next.

Rara avis may be an infrequently used epithet in book reviews, but Zuchtriegel has written an unusual book that might just warrant classification under this heading. As readily signaled by its very title, the volume investigates a long-standing major topic of Greek and indeed classical archaeology (colonization) from an innovative and unusual perspective (subalternity).

As a point of departure, this comprehensive volume asks how maritime contacts influenced the economic and social development of ancient Mediterranean communities. Leidwanger draws inspiration in the overlapping and contrasting traditions of F. Braudel, P. Horden, N. Purcell, and C. Broodbank: can the ancient Mediterranean be conceived as a singular unifying sea, one of “intense fragmentation” and “microregions,” or perhaps connected through interdependent seas (1–6)?

This short and low-cost monograph documents a unified fill found at Kamarina in southeastern Sicily, a region from which little Hellenistic material has been published. Masci presents the fill found in a 5.8 m deep cistern that was excavated in 1961–62 by Paola Pelagatti, who provides the introduction for this monograph. The cistern was filled with pottery apparently deposited at one time, since similar fragments were found throughout the deposit. He assigns a date of ca.

Yegül and Favro have delivered a major reappraisal of the exceptionally rich record left by builders and city planners from the Early Republic to the end of the Roman empire—the first to appear in the English-speaking scholarship since the early 1980s.

Gorzelany’s 2019 volume (see contents here) offers an English-language audience access to her groundbreaking Polish monograph Macedonia–Aleksandria: Analiza monumentalnych założeń grobowych z okresu późnoklasycznego i hellenistycznego (Muzeum Narodowe 2014), itself the revised publication of her 2005 Jagiellonian University doctoral thesis.

Brown’s volume is an impressive compilation of the available evidence for the fate of the Greek and Roman versions of the city of Corinth. The city, poised on the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece, has attracted travelers, scholars, and tourists consistently since antiquity. Early excavations, as at so many sites, began with efforts to reach Greek levels, but Corinth was blessed all along with more than a few archaeologists with an interest in things Byzantine and Roman.

In the second sentence of the acknowledgments to Pollard’s volume, the author makes a surprising admission: “Long ago I swore I would never undertake research related to Pompeii” (xi). Although an odd beginning given the book’s title, to his credit Pollard has largely kept his word. This work is not concerned with the archaeological impact of dropping more than 160 bombs on the ancient city but rather with the place of those events within the history of cultural property protection during the Second World War.

The idea for this volume sprang from the international conference Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas: Mediterranean Networks and Cyprus held at the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 3–5 June 2013. The editors did not, however, conceive it as a traditional conference publication but rather as a “reference work for the study and analysis of Hellenistic and Roman terracottas” (ix), which is why they added a number of freshly written contributions.