American Journal of Archaeology

Rose summarizes his 25-year investigation of the Graeco-Roman layers of ancient Troy/Ilion by assembling an array of archaeological results not only from his excavations at Troy but also from his survey along the Granicus River and his participation in Turkish investigations of tomb robbings. He combines these with a solid command of the historical record of all things Trojan to generate a synthetic overview of the development of Ilion and the Troad from its Bronze Age origins to the Middle Byzantine era.

The 35th volume of Études Crétoises is devoted to the publication of the area northeast of the palace of Malia, the “abords Nord-Est du palais,” where fieldwork was directed by Pascal Darcque and Claude Baurain (1981–1985, 1992). The aim of the volume—first of an announced series—is both to reconstruct, adopting a global and systemic perspective, the history of the site and to contribute to the comprehension of the life cycle of the palace and of Malia as a whole.

This monograph focuses on work carried out on the extreme southwestern tip of Euboea, in the ancient political region of the Karystia. Euboea is a huge island (3,684 km²), characterized by topographic, environmental, and political diversity; the arid Paximadi peninsula comprises just a tiny 22 km² microcosm of this landmass (less than 0.5% of the total).

The present book is the (ad hoc) culmination of De Backer’s impressive research on Neo-Assyrian warfare that started at least with his (to the best of my knowledge as yet unpublished) dissertation on the equipment of Neo-Assyrian armies from Tiglath-Pileser III through to Ashurbanipal in 2004 (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium).

Following her first monograph on second-millennium minor arts of the Ancient Near East (Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an “International Style” in the Ancient Near East, 1400–1200 BCE [Chicago 2006]), Feldman now focuses on portable luxury objects of the Iron Age Levant.

This book is a welcome continuation of the publication series of the Egyptian Exploration Society’s (EES) rescue excavations at the site of Buhen in northern Sudan/Lower Nubia directed by Walter Bryan Emery (d. 1971). It gives a detailed account of the archaeology of the Egyptian Old Kingdom (2575–2150 B.C.E.; spelling of royal names and dynastic dates follow J. Baines and J.

Vischak’s study accomplishes what far too few Egyptological volumes even attempt to do: it moves scholarly discussion away from the royal house and the pharaonic state and refocuses on community structure and identities in the provinces. This volume, a revised version of the author’s doctoral dissertation, takes as its dataset the decorative programs from 12 late Old Kingdom tombs in the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis, located southwest of the frontier settlement of Elephantine Island.

Funerary archaeology in the last decades has been developed predominantly through works focused on specific periods and scientific analysis. In 2008, an international conference at the University of Oslo sought to buck this trend, gathering a diverse group of academics to explore death and funerary ritual through comparison and contrast. This edited book presents the results of that conference.

The study of kinship deserves renewed consideration within archaeology. Kinship patterns underlie the archaeology of the household, encompassing gender roles, children, and maturation—all areas undergoing critical reexamination in recent years. Kinship also plays a significant role in trade and exchange of material objects, colonization, and travel. It is the governing principle for family tombs, their construction in the landscape, and the complexity of funerary rites.