AJA 112.1 (January 2008)

Alcock, Susan E. and Robin Osborne, eds.
Classical Archaeology (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology).
Pp. xiii + 447, figs. 81. Blackwell, Malden, MA 2007. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-631-23419-7 (paper).
Reviewed by S.L. Dyson in AJA 113.2 (2009), 287.

Aldana, Gerardo.
The Apotheosis of Janaab’ Pakal: Science, History, and Religion at Classic Maya Palenque (Mesoamerican Worlds From the Olmecs to the Dazantes)
Pp. xxxiv + 230, figs. 41, tables 15. University of Colorado Press, Boulder 2007. $55. ISBN 978-0-87081-866-0 (cloth).

Andrews, Kevin, with a forward by Glen R. Bugh.
Castles of the Morea. Revised ed.
Pp. xxxii + 274, figs. 231, pls. 40. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton 2006. $75. ISBN 978-0-87661-406-8 (cloth).

Asingh, Paul, and Niels Lynnerup, eds.
Grauballe Man: An Iron Age Bog Body Revisited (Jutland Archaeological Society Publications, Vol. 49).
Pp. 351, numerous b&w and color figs. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2007. $46. ISBN 978-87-88415-29-2 (cloth).
Reviewed by F. Pryor AJA 113.3 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Åström, Paul, and Karin Nys, eds.
Hala Sultan Tekke 12: Tomb 24, Stone Anchors, Faunal Remains and Pottery Provenance (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology Vol. XLV: 12).
Pp. 63, b&w and color figs. 104, tables 5. Paul Åström, Sävedalen 2007. ISBN 978-91-7081-228-6 (paper).     

Barber, John, Ciara Clark, Mike Cressey, Anne Crone, Alex Hale, Jon Henderson, Rupert Housley, Rob Sands and Alison Sheridan, eds.
Archaeology from the Wetlands: Recent Perspectives. Proceeding s of the 11th WARP Conference, Edinburgh 2005 (WARP Occasional Paper 18).
Pp. xx + 363, figs. 156, tables 26. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2007. £25. ISBN 978-0-903903-40-0 (cloth).

Bendezu-Sarmiento, Julio, with the collaboration of Ainagul Ismagulova, Karl M. Bajpakov, and Zainullah Samashev.
De l’Âge du Bronze à l’Âge du Fer au Kazakhstan, Gestes Funéraires et Paramètres Biologiques: Identités Culturelles des Populations Andronovo et Saka (Mémoires de la Mission Archéologique Française en Asie Centrale Tome XII).
Pp. 601, figs. 32, pls. 42, tables 127. De Boccard, Paris 2007. ISSN 0989-5817;  ISBN 978-2-907431-15-6 (paper).

Betancourt, Philip P.
Introduction to Aegean Art.
Pp. xx + 212, figs. 168, pls. 21. INSTAP Academic Press, Oakville, Conn. 2007. $36. ISBN 1-931534-21-5 (paper).

Bonnet, Charles, and Dominique Valbelle, with a forward by Jean Leclant.
The Nubian Pharaohs: Black Kings on the Nile.
Pp. 215, color figs. 211. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo 2005. $49.95. ISBN 978-977-416-010-3 (cloth).
Reviewed by K. Grzymski AJA 112.2 (2008) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Bradley, James W.
Before Albany: An Archaeology of Native-Dutch Relations in the Capital Region 1600-1644.
Pp. xvii + 230, b&w and color figs. 159. New York State Museum, Albany 2007. $34.95. ISBN 1-55557-238-3 (paper).

Brecoulaki, Hariclia.
La Peinture Funeraire de Macedoine: Emplois et Fonctions de la Couleur (Μελετ?ματα 48). 2 vols. Vol. 1, Texte .
Pp. 482. Vol. 2, Planches & Tableux, Pp. 183, pls. 131, tables 33, CD-ROM 1. De Boccard, Athens 2006. €126. ISBN 978-960-7905-31-4 (paper).
Reviewed by I. Kakouli, AJA 112.2 (2008) 365-66.

Casella, Eleanor Conlin, with a foreword by Michael S. Nassaney.
The Archaeology of Institutional Confinement (The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective).
Pp. xx + 175, figs. 32, tables 3. The University Press of Florida, Gainesville 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-8130-3139 (paper).

Chacon, Richard J., and David H. Dye, eds.
The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by the Amerindians.
Pp. xvii + 680, figs. 147, tables 27. Springer, New York 2007. $149. ISBN 978-0-387-48300-9 (cloth).

Chacon, Richard J., and Ruben G. Mendoza.
Latin American Warfare and Ritual Violence.
Pp. 304, figs. 30. The University of Arizona Press, Tuscon 2007. $50. ISBN 978-0-8165-2527-0 (cloth).

Cobet, Justus, Volkmar von Graeve, Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, and Konrad Zimmerman, eds.
Milesische Forschungen 5. Frühes Ionien. Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Panionion-Symposium Güzelçaml?, 26 September – 1 Oktober 1999.
Pp. xii + 788, figs. 166, pls. 91, plans 3. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2007. €168. ISBN 978-3-8053-3770-0 (cloth).
Reviewed by A.M. Greaves in AJA 112.3 (2008), 552-53.

Cordovana, Orietta D., and Marco Galli, eds.
Arte e memorie culturale nell'età della Seconda Sofistica.
Pp. 318, figs. 119. Edizioni del Prisma, Catania 2007. €110. ISBN 978-88-86808-28-6 (paper).

Dillehay, Tom D.
Monuments, Empires, and Resistance: The Araucanian Polity and Ritual Narratives.
Pp. xix + 484, figs. 75. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge  2007. $110. ISBN 978-0-521-87262-1 (cloth).

Dunsworth, Holly M.
Human Origins 101 (Science 101).
Pp. xxiii + 192, figs. 29, tables 8. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 2007. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-313-33673-7 (cloth).

Eriksson, Niki, ed. and trans. The Fantastic Years on Cyprus: Illustrated Extracts from Alfred Westholm’s Letters to his Parents 1927-1931 (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature Pocket-Book 169).  Pp. 102, figs. 60, maps 1. Paul Åström, Sävedalen 2007. $21.90. ISSN 0283-8494; ISBN 978-91-7081-231-6 (paper).

Eschbach, Norbert.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Deutschland, 83: Göttingen 3: Göttingen, Archäologisches Institut der Universität. Attisch Schwarzfigurige Keramik. 
Pp. 166, figs. 26, pls. 86, Beilage 24. C.H. Beck, Munich 2007. €88. ISBN 978-3-406-55855-9 (cloth).

Faust, Avraham.
Israel's Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance.
Pp. xvi + 289, figs. 18. Equinox, London 2006. $115. ISBN 978-1-904768-98-2 (cloth).

Filges, Alex, with contributions by Wolfgang Günther.
Didyma III. Teil. Band 5: Skulpturen und Statuenbasen von der Klassichen Epoche bis in die Kaiserzeit (Didyma Dritter Teil: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen siet dem Jahre 1962).
Pp. x + 185, figs. 35, pls. 42. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2007. €59. ISBN 978-3-8053-3718-2 (cloth).
Reviewed by S. Skaltsa in AJA 113.4 (2009), 666-67.   

Flourentzos, Pavlos, ed.
From Evagoras I to the Ptolemies: The Transition from the Classical to the Hellenistic Period in Cyprus. Proceedings of the International Archaeological Conference, Nicosia 29-30 November 2002.
Pp. xx + 296, b&w figs. 211, color figs. 13, pls. 4. The Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, Nicosia 2007. ISBN 978-9963-36-442-8 (paper).
Reviewed by K. Winther Jacobsen AJA 112.2 (2008) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Gachet-Bizollon, Jacqueline.
Les Ivoires d'Ougarit et l'art des ivoiriers du Levant au Bronze Récent. Ras Shamra-Ougarit XVI.
Pp. 477, figs. 71, b&w pls. 119, color pls. 3, tables 18. Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, Paris 2007. €68. ISBN 978-2-86538-312-2 (paper).
Reviewed by C.E. Suter, AJA 113.2 (July 2009) 290.

Gardner Coates, Victoria C., and Jon L. Seydl, eds.
Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Pp. vii + 296, b&w figs. 62, color figs. 59, table 1. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2007. $60. ISBN 978-089236-872-3 (cloth).
Reviewed by A. Laidlaw in AJA 112.3 (2008), 557-58.

Goren-Inbar, Naama, and Gonen Sharon, eds.
Axe Age: Acheulian Toolmaking from Quarry to Discard.
Pp. xxix + 514, figs. 259, tables 64. Equinox, London 2006. $95. ISBN 978-1-84553-138-6 (cloth).

Haselgrove, Colin, and Tom Moore, eds.
The Later Iron Age in Britain and beyond.
Pp. 529, figs. 95, tables 25. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2007. $180. ISBN 978-1-84217-252-0 (cloth).

Heinz, Marlies, and Marian H. Feldman, eds.
Representations of Political Power: Case Histories from Times of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East.
Pp. xii + 210, figs. 36, table 1. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind. 2007. $39.50. ISBN 978-1-57506-135-1 (cloth).
Reviewed by M.B. Garrison in AJA 112.3 (2008), 545-46.

Hendrich, Christof, edited by Hermann J. Kienast.
Samos: Die Säulenordnung des Ersten Dipteros von Samos (Samos Band XXV).
Pp. xii + 150, figs. 28, pls. 22, Beilage 47, tables 12, plans 3. Deutches Archäologisches Institut, Bonn 2007. €78. ISBN 978-3-7749-3506-8 (cloth).

Herda, Alexander.
Milesische Forschungen 4. Der Apollo-Delphinos-Kult in Milet und die Neujahrsprozession nach Didyma: ein neuer Kommentar der sog. Molpoi-Satzung.
Pp. xiv + 543, b&w figs. 20, color figs. 2. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2006. €65. ISBN 978-3-8053-3560-7 (cloth). 
Reviewed by M. Gonzales AJA 112.3 (2008) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Insoll, Timothy.
Archaeology: The Conceptual Challenge.
Pp. 144, fig. 1. Duckworth, London 2007. $22. ISBN 978-0-7156-3457-8 (paper).

Jackson, Heather.
Jebel Kahlid on the Euphrates. Vol. 2, The Terracotta Figurines (Meditarch Suppl. 6).
Pp. xi + 255, figs. 66, b&w pls. 44, color pls. 8, tables 9. Mediterranean Archaeology, Sydney 2006. AUD 120. ISBN 978-0-9580265-2-9 (cloth).

Jansen, Maarten, and Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez.
Encounter with the Plumed Serpent: Drama and Power in the Heart of Mesoamerica (Mesoamerican Worlds from the Olmecs to the Danzantes).
Pp. xviii + 395, figs. 107. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2007. $75. ISBN 978-0-87081-868-4 (cloth).

Kepinski, Christine, Olivier Lecomte, and Aline Tenu, eds.
Studia Euphratica: Le moyen Euphrate iraquien révélé par les fouilles préventives de Haditha (Travaux de la Maison René-Ginouvès 3).
Pp. xii + 415, figs. 201, table 1, plans 2. De Boccard, Paris 2006. €80. ISBN 978-2-7018-0220-6 (paper).

Kipfer, Barbara Ann.
Dictionary of Artifacts.
Pp. viii + 346, figs. 112. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, Mass. 2007. $124.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-1887-3 (cloth).

Kling, Barbara, and James D. Muhly, with contributions by Vasiliki Kassianidou, Joanna S. Smith, Jennifer M. Webb, Nicolle Hirschfeld, Paul Croft, Sturt W. Manning and Peter Ian Kuniholm, and George Constantinou.
Joan du Plat Taylor’s Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Mining Settlement at Apliki Karamallos, Cyprus Part 1  (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology Vol. CXXXIV: 1).
Pp. xii + 355, figs. 4, pls. 91, tables 54. Paul Åström, Sävedalen 2007. ISBN 978-91-7081-226-2 (paper).

Lada-Richards, Ismene.
Silent Eloquence: Lucian and Pantomime Dancing (Classical Literature and Society Series).
Pp. 240. Duckworth, London 2007. $31. ISBN 978-0-7156-3491-2 (paper).

Laneri, Nicola, ed., with contributions by Nicola Laneri, Ellen F. Morris, Glenn M. Schwartz, Robert Chapman, Massimo Cultraro, Meredith S. Chesson, Alessandro Naso, Adam T. Smith, Dina Katz, Seth Richardson, Susan Pollock, Ian Rutherford, John Pollini, John Robb, and James A. Brown.
Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean (Oriental Institute Seminars Number 3).
Pp. xviii + 317, figs. 86, tables 5. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-885923-50-9 (paper).

Lankford, George E.
Reachable Stars: Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North
America.
Pp. xiii + 303, figs. 33, tables 23. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2007. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-5428-2 (paper). 

Lee, Christina.
Feasting the Dead: Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon Burial Rituals (Anglo-Saxon Studies 9).
Pp. xiv + 177, figs. 6, pls. 8, tables 2. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Ind. 2007. $80. ISBN 978-1-8438-3142-5 (cloth).

Lemos, Anna A.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Greece, 10: Rhodes, 1: Archaeological Museum. Attic Black Figure.
Pp. 138, figs. 51, b&w pls. 95, color pl. 1. Academy of Athens, Athens 2007. ISBN 978-960-404-098-8 (cloth).
Reviewed by T.J. Smith in AJA 112.1 (2008), 189-90.
Reviewed by D.W.J. Gill AJA 112.4 (2008) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Levy, Thomas, P.M. Michèle Daviau, Randall W. Younker, and May Shaer, eds.
Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to Archaeology in Jordan.
Pp. xxiii + 495, figs.  151, tables 5, maps 7. Equinox, London 2007. $45. ISBN 1845532694 (paper).
Reviewed by S.J. Bourke in AJA 112.4 (2008), 768-69.

Lincoln, Bruce.
Religion, Empire & Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib.
Pp. xvii + 176, figs. 20, tables 13. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2007. $30. ISBN 0-226-48196-4 (cloth).

Loten, H. Stanley.
Tikal Report 34, Part A: Additions and Alterations, A Commentary on the Architecture of the North Acropolis, Tikal Guatemala (University Monograph 128).
Pp. xviii + 92, figs. 55, CD-ROM 1. University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia 2007. $59.95. ISBN 978-1-931707-98-5 (cloth).

Margueron, Jean-Claude, Olivier Rouault, and Pierre Lombard, eds.
Akh Purattim 1 (Akh Purattim – Les Rives de l'Euphrate).
Pp. 337, figs. 86, b&w pls. 35, tables 5. Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée – Ministère des Affaires étrangères, Lyons 2007. €35. ISBN 978-2-903264-88-8 (paper).

McCarter, Susan Foster, with illustrations by Catherine E. Weaver.
Neolithic.
Pp. xvii + 221, figs. 93. Routledge, New York 2007. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-415-36414-0 (paper).

McMahon, Augusta, with contributions by McGuire Gibson, Robert D. Biggs, David Reese, Pamela Vandiver, and K. Aslihan Yener.
The Early Dynastic to Akkadian Transition: The Area WF Sounding at Nippur (Nippur V).
Pp. xxxiii + 173, figs. 12, pls. 193, tables 78. The Oriental Institute, Chicago 2006. $95. ISSN 0069-3367; ISBN 1-885923-38-4 (cloth).

Means, Bernard K.
Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition.
Pp. vii + 196, figs. 34, tables 5. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2007. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-5438-1 (paper).

Milner, Nicky, Oliver E. Craig and Geoffrey N. Bailey.
Shell Middens in Atlantic Europe.
Pp. vi + 202, figs. 147, tables 21. Oxbow Books, Oakville, Conn. 2007. $70. ISBN 978-1-84217-243-8 (paper).

Munby, Julian, Richard Barber, and Richard Brown.
Edward III's Round Table at Windsor: The House of the Round Table and the Windsor Festival of 1344.
Pp. xiv + 282, figs. 10, b&w pls. 14, color pls. 16, tables 8. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Ind. 2007. $65. ISBN 978-1-84383-313-0 (cloth).

Nielson, Inge, ed.
Zwischen Kult und Gesellschaft: Kosmopolitische Zentren des antiken Mittelmeerraumes als Aktionsraum von Kultvereinen und Religionsgemeinschaften. Akten eines Symposiums des Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg, 12-14 Oktober 2005 (Hephaistos 24).
Pp. 278, figs. 118, tables 10. Camelion-Verlag, Augsburg 2007. ISSN 0174-2086 (paper).

Niku, Maria.
The Official Status of the Foreign Residents in Athens 322-120 B.C. (Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens XII).
Pp. ii + 181. Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens, Helsinki 2007. €25. ISBN 951-98806-7-9 (paper).

Niles, John D.
Beowulf and Lejre (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Stories 323).
Pp. xiv + 495, figs. 119, pls. 48. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe 2007. $89. ISBN 978-0-86698-368-6 (cloth).

Orser Jr., Charles E., with a foreword by Michael S. Nassaney.
The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America (The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective).
Pp. xiii + 214, figs. 33, tables 10. The University Press of Florida, Gainesville 2007. $25. ISBN 978-0-8130-3143-9 (paper).

Pakkanen, Petra.
August Myhrberg and North-European Philhellenism: Building the Myth of a Hero (Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens X).
Pp. ix + 260, figs. 21. Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens, Helsinki 2006. €30. ISBN 951-98806-5-8 (paper).

Papadopoulos, John K., with contributions by John McK. Camp, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Walter Gauss, Anne Hooton, Jessica Langenbucher, Carol Lawton, Kathleen M. Lynch, Camilla MacKay, Carol C. Mattusch, Margaret Rothman, Susan I. Rotroff, James P. Sickinger, E. Marianne Stern, and Barbara Tsakirgis. The Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora.
Pp. xxii + 334, b&w and color figs. 241, tables 2. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Athens 2007. $75. ISBN 978-0-87661-960-5 (paper).

Pauketat, Timothy R.
Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions (Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology).
Pp. xii + 257, figs. 43. AltaMira Press, Plymouth, UK 2007. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-7591-0829-5 (paper).

Peltenburg, Edgar, with contributions by Demos Christou, Diane Bolger, Paul Croft, Elizabeth Goring, Adam Jackson, Dorothy A. Lunt, Carole McCartney, Zissis Parras, Janet Ridout-Sharpe, Andrew Shortland, Mike Tite and Marie E. Watt.
The Chalcolithic Cemetery of Souskiou-Vathyrkakas, Cyprus. Investigations of Four Missions from 1950 to 1997.
Pp. xii + 221, figs. 18, b&w pls. 3, color pls. 2, tables. The Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, Nicosia 2006. £16.80. ISBN 9963-36-435-7 (cloth).
Reviewed by P. Schuster Keswani, AJA 112.2 (2008) 357-59.

Peltenburg, Edgar, ed.
Euphrates River Valley Settlement: The Carchemish Sector in the Third Millennium BC (Levant Supplementary Series 5).
Pp. x + 285, figs. 144, tables 22. Oxbow Books, Oakeville, Conn. 2007. $120. ISBN 978-1-84217-272-8 (cloth).

Peña, J. Theodore.
Roman Pottery in the Archaeological Record.
Pp. xviii + 430, b&w figs. 81, tables 12, maps 9. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007. $95. ISBN 978-0-521-86541-8 (cloth).
Reviewed by J. Freed, AJA 112.2 (2008), 368-69.

Pietilä-Castrén, Leena.
The Graeco-Roman Terracotta Figurines of Finland and their Collectors (Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens XI).
Pp. i + 100, figs. 76. Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens, Helsinki 2007. €20. ISBN 978-951-98806-6-2 (paper).

Pinon, Pierre.
Pierre-Adrien Pâris (1745-1819), Architecte, et les Monuments Antiques de Rome et de la Campanie.
Pp. 446, figs. 32, color pls. 16. École Française de Rome, Rome 2007. €60. ISBN 978-2-7283-0664-0 (paper).

Rainbird, Paul.
The Archaeology of Islands (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology).
Pp. xvi + 200, figs. 18. Cambridge University Press, New York 2007. $25.99. ISBN 978-0-521-61961-5 (paper).

Ramsby, Teresa R.
Textual Permanence: Roman Elegists and the Epigraphic Tradition.
Pp. ix + 197. Duckworth, London 2007. $81. ISBN 978-0-7156-3632 (cloth).

Rasch, Jürgen J., and Achim Arbeiter, with contributions by Friedrich Wilhelm Deichmann and Jens Rohmann.
Spätantike Zentralbauten in Rom und Latium 4. Das Mausoleum der Constantina in Rom.
Pp. xii + 352, figs. 38, b&w pls. 173, color pls. 8, plans 39. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2007. €149. ISBN 978-3-8053-3514-0 (cloth).
Reviewed by M.J. Johnson AJA 113.1 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Richet, Pascal, translated by John Venerella.
A Natural History of Time.
Pp. xiv + 471, figs. 35. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2007. $29. ISBN 978-0-226-71287-1 (cloth).

Riva, Corinna, and Nicholas C. Vella, eds.
Debating Orientalization: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 10)
Pp. ix + 170. figs. 25. Equinox Publishing, Oakville, Conn. 2006. $95. ISBN 1-84553-192-2 (cloth).
Reviewed by G.L. Hoffman in AJA 112.3 (2008), 551-52.

Robb, John.
The Early Mediterranean Village: Agency, Material Culture and Social Change in Neolithic Italy.
Pp. xxiii + 382, figs. 58, tables 25. Cambridge University Press, New York 2007. $90. ISBN 978-0-521-84241-9 (cloth).

Saitta, Dean J., with a forward by Michael S. Nassaney.
The Archaeology of Collective Action.
Pp. xx + 140, figs. 18, maps 5. University Press of Florida, Gainesville 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-8130-3070-8 (paper).

Santley, Robert S.
The Prehistory of the Tuxtlas. 
Pp. xiv + 258, figs. 118, tables 7. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2007. $60. ISBN 978-0-8263-4069-6 (cloth).

Seeher, Jürgen, with contributions by Ay?e Baykal-Seeher, Hermann Genz, and Suzanne Herb
ordt. Bo?azköy-Berichte 8. Ergebnisse der Grabungen an den Ostteichen und am mittleren Büyükkale-Nordwesthang in den Jahren 1996-2000.
Pp. ix + 163, figs. 133, pl. 1, plans 3. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2006. €45.50. ISBN 978-3-8053-3649-9 (cloth).
Reviewed by G. Beckman in AJA 112.1 (2008), 184-85.

Spence, Sarah.
Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers (Classical Inter/Faces).
Pp. 144. Duckworth, London 2007. $23.50. ISBN 978-0-7156-3513-1 (paper).

Stanley, Jean-Daniel, with contributions by Alessio Bandelli, Maria Pia Bernasconi, Thomas Jorstad, Romana Melis, Nevio Pugliese, Gérard Schnepp and Andrew G. Warne.
Geoarchaeology: Underwater Archaeology in the Canopic Region in Egypt (Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology 2).
Pp. xiv + 128, figs. 47, tables 8. Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Oxford 2007. $100. ISBN 978-0-9549627-4-6 (cloth).

Stern, Wilma Olch, and Danae Hadjilazaro Thimme.
Kenchreai, Eastern Port of Corinth VI: Ivory, Bone, and Related Wood Finds.
Pp. xxxvi + 364, figs. 317, pls. 80, plans 3. Brill, Leiden 2007. $237. ISBN 978–90-04-1581-4 (cloth).
Reviewed by R.B. Ulrich AJA 112.3 (2008) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Stutz, Rainer.
Thugga II. Drei Hanghäuser in Thugga: Maison des trios Masques, Maison du Labyrinthe, Maison de Dionysos et d'Ulysse.
Pp. 94, figs. 14, b&w pls. 25, color pls. 11. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2007. €65.50. ISBN 978-3-8053-3758-8 (cloth).
Reviewed by S. Ellis AJA 112.2 (2008) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Tarlow, Sarah.
The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750-1850.
Pp. xi + 222, figs. 30. Cambridge University Press, New York 2007. $80. ISBN 978-0-521-86419-0 (cloth).

Vogeikoff-Brogan, Natalia.
Triumph over Time (1947): The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Post-War Greece.
Pp. 24, DVD-Video 1. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Athens 2007. $14.95. ISBN 978-0-87661-963-6 (paper).

Walberg, Gisela, with appendices by Julie Hruby, Anne Ingvarsson-Sundström, James Newhard, and David S. Reese, and contributions by Michael Baumann, Susan M. Fisher, Rodney Fitzsimons, Karen L. Giering, Mats Johnson, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, Jeffrey L. Kramer, Michael Lindblom, Amy Ostenso, and Jan Verstraete.
Midea: The Megaron Complex and Shrine Area: Excavations on the Lower Terraces 1994-1997 (Prehistory Monographs 20). 2 vols. Vol. 1, Text.
Pp. xx + 518. figs. 25, tables 57; Vol. 2, Figures and Plates. figs. 257, b&w  pls. 35, color pls. 3, plans 4. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2007. $130. ISBN 978-1-931534-19-2 (cloth).

Walmsley, Alan.
Early Islamic Syria: An Archaeological Assessment (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology).
Pp. 176, figs. 12. Duckworth, London 2007. $22. ISBN 0-7156-3570-0 (paper).

Welsh, Frances.
Tutankhamun’s Egypt, Second Edition.
Pp. 80, b&w figs. 37, color figs. 28. Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, UK 2007. £6.99. ISBN 978-0-7478-0665-3 (paper).

Wilmut, Ian, and Roger Highfield.
After Dolly: The Promise and Perils of Human Cloning.
Pp. 336, figs. 17. W.W. Norton and Co. Ltd., New York 2006. $15.95. ISBN 978-0-393-330260-7 (paper).

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Abadie-Reynal, Catherine.
La Céramique Romaine d’Argos: fin du IIe siècle avant J.-C. – fin du IVe siècle après J.-C. (Études Péloponnésiennes XIII).
Pp. 342, b&w pls. 76, color pls. 2. De Boccard, Paris 2007. €110. ISBN 2-86958-200-5 (cloth).

Ahler, Stanley A., and Marvin Kay, eds.
Plains Village Archaeology: Bison-hunting Farmers in the Central and Northern Plains.
Pp. xxi + 321, figs. 87, tables 31. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City 2007. $50. ISBN 978-0-87480-905-2 (cloth).

Antoniadou, Sophia, and Anthony Pace, eds.
Mediterranean Crossroads.
Pp. 784, figs. 92. Pierides Foundation, Athens 2007. $80. ISBN 978-9963-9071-6-8 (paper).

Ashdown, Richard, and James Morwood.
Writing Latin: An Introduction to Writing in the Language of Cicero and Caesar.
Pp. vi + 186. Duckworth, London 2007. $23.50. ISBN 98-1-85399-701-3 (paper).

Bernheimer, G. Max.
Ancient Gems from the Borowski Collection.
Pp. 120, numerous color images, pls. 13. Franz Philipp Rutzen, Ruhpolding und Mainz 2007. €48. ISBN 978-3-938646-08-3 (cloth).

Bianchi, Lorenzo.
Ne Scelse dodici: dove sono sepolti gli apostoli di Gesù e alcuni loro amici.
Pp. 95, numerous color figures. 30 Giorni, Rome 2007.

Bizyinou, Ourania.
Αρχε?ον των Μνημε?ων των Αθην?ν και της Αττικης 4. Ευρετ?ρια του Βιβλ?ου του Alexander Conze: Die Attischen Grabreliefs (Berlin 1893-1922) (Βιβλιοθ?κη τ?ς ?ν ?Αθ?ναις  ?Αρχαιολογικ?ς ?Εταιρε?ας Αρ. 247).
Pp. 404. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2007. ISBN 978-960-8145-61-0 (paper).

Bjerregaard, Lena, ed., with the assistance of Adriana von Hagen.
Chachapoya Textiles: The Laguna de los Cóndores Textiles in the Museo Leymebamba, Chachapoyas, Peru.
Pp. 119, numerous color figs. Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2007. $54. ISBN 978-87-635-0499-7 (cloth).

Borbein, Adolf H., Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Johannes Irmscher, and Max Kunze, eds., with contributions by Max Kunze, Marianne Kreikenbom, Brice Maucolin, and Axel Rügler.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Geschicthe der Kunst des Alterthums. Allgemeiner Kommentar.
Pp. 574. Phillip von Zabern, Mainz 2007. €72. ISBN 978-3-8053-3746-5 (cloth).

Borbein, Adolf H., Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Johannes Irmscher, and Max Kunze, eds., with contributions by Mathias René Hofter, Axel Rügler, and Adolf H. Borbein.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums. Katalog der Denkmäler.
Pp. 614, figs. 1402. Phillip von Zabern, Mainz 2007. €82. ISBN 978-3-8053-3745-8 (cloth).

Boudreaux, Edmond A.
The Archaeology of Town Creek.
Pp. xii + 134, figs. 42, tables 3. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-5455-8 (paper). 

Breeze, David J.
Roman Frontiers in Britain (Classical World Series).
Pp. 103, figs. 25. Duckworth, London 2007. $20. ISBN 978-185399-6986 (paper).

Bretschneider, J., J. Driessen and K. Van Lerberghe, eds.
Power and Architecture: Monumental Public Architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 156).
Pp. x + 236, b&w figs. 88, color figs. 4. Peeters, Leuven 2007. €75. ISBN 978-90-429-1831-1 (cloth).

Budge, E.A. Wallis.
Annals of the Kings of Assyria: The Cuneiform Texts with Translations and Transliterations from Original Documents.
Pp. lxxv + 391, figs. 14. Kegan Paul, London 2007. $382.50. ISBN 978-0-7103-1033-0 (cloth).

Butler, Anne M., and Michael J. Lansing.
The American West: A Concise History (Problems in American History).
Pp. 242, figs. 12. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2008. $32.95. ISBN 978-0-631-21086-3 (paper).

Butler, Lawrence, ed.
The Yorkshire Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874) (YAS Record Series CLIX).
Pp. xxiv + 520, figs. 230, pls. 32. Yorkshire Archaeological Society with Boydell & Brewer Ltd., Rochester, N.Y. 2007. $55. ISBN 978-1-9035-6480-6 (cloth).

Carrasco, David, and John H. Coatsworth, eds.
Cave, City, and Eagle’s Nest: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2.
Pp. xxi + 479, figs. 210, tables 8, maps 17. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2007. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-8263-4283-6 (cloth).

Casal, L. Abad, S. Keay, and S. Ramallo Asensio, eds., with contributions by L. Abad Casal, J.M. Abascal et al., X. Aquilué et al., C. Aranegui Gascó, F. Burillo Mozota, L. Chasseigne et al., J. Guitart i Duran, A. Jimeno, S. Keay, M. Martins, A. Morillo Cerdán, J.M. Nolla i Brufau, M. H. Olcina Domènech, M. Orfila et al., S.F. Ramallo Asensio, A. Ribera i Lacomba, and J. Ruiz de Arbulo.
Early Roman Towns in Hispania Tarraconensis (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series Number 62).
Pp. 237, figs. 120. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, R.I. 2006. $84.50. ISBN 1-887829-62-8 (cloth).

Cherpion, N., J.-P. Corteggiani, and J.-Fr. Gout.
Le tombeau de Pétosiris à Touna el-Gebel: Relevé photographique.
Pp. v + 197, figs. 154, plans 2. Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, Cairo 2007. €82. ISBN 978-2-7247-0426-6 (paper).

Constantakopoulou, Christy.
Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World (Oxford Classical Monographs).
Pp. xiii + 330, figs. 13. Oxford University Press, Oxford. $120. ISBN 978-0-19-921595-9 (cloth).

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., edited by William Wroth, with an introduction by Roger Lipsey.
Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought? The Traditional View of Art: Revised Edition with Previously Unpublished Author’s Notes (The Perennial Philosophy Series).
Pp. xxii + 255, figs. 5. World Wisdom Inc., Bloomington, Ind. 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-933316-34-5 (paper).

Cox, Margaret, Ambika Flavel, Ian Hanson, Joanna Laver, and Roland Wessling.
The Scientific Investigation of Mass Graves: Towards Protocols and Standard Operating Procedures.
Pp. xxx + 562, figs. 107, tables 120, CD-ROM 1. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008. $175. ISBN 978-0-521-86587-6 (cloth).

Davies, Siriol, and Jack L. Davis, eds.
Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Lands in Early Modern Greece (Hesperia Supplement 40).
Pp. xii + 260, figs. 57, tables 20, maps 2. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Athens 2007. $75. ISBN 978-0-87661-540-9 (paper).

Davis, Jack L., ed., with a new preface by Jack L. Davis and John Bennet.
Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (Second Edition).
Pp. lix + 342, figs. 135. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Athens 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-87661-961-2 (paper).

Doumas, Christos, ed., with contributions by Anticleias Moundrea-Agraphioti, Anastasias Devetzi, Annas Michailidou, Christinas A. Televantou, and Iridos Tzachili.
Ακρωτηρι Θηρας Δυτικη Οικια: Τραπεζες – Λιθινα – Μεταλλινα - Ποικιλα (Βιβλιοθηκη τ?ς ?ν ?Αθ?ναις  ?Αρχαιολογικ?ς ?Εταιρε?ας Αρ. 246).
Pp. 311, figs. 129, pls. 15, tables 20. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2007. ISBN 978-960-8145-59-7 (paper).
Reviewed by E. Hatzaki in AJA 113.4 (2009), 661-62.

Erdkamp, Paul, ed.
A Companion to the Roman Army (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World).
Pp. 574, figs. 25, tables 3, maps 4. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2007. $174.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-2153-8 (cloth).

Fennell, Christopher C., with a foreword by Robert Farris Thompson.
Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World (Cultural Heritage Series).
Pp. xxii +168, figs. 16, maps 3. University Press of Florida, Gainesville 2007. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8130-3141-5 (cloth).

Foxhall, Lin.
Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy.
Pp. xvii + 294, figs. 66, tables 8. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007. $117. ISBN 978-0-19-815288-0 (cloth).

Fraisse, Philippe, and Jean-Charles Moretti.
Le Théâtre (Exploration Archéologique de Délos XLII). 2 vols. Vol. 1, Texte. Pp. xxi + 282, tables 32. Vol. 2, Planches.
Pp. 16, pls. 112, plan 1. École française d’Athènes, Athens 2007. €150. ISBN 2-86958-235-8 (paper).
Reviewed by F. Sear AJA 112.4 (2008) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Gaffney, V.L., R.H. White, and H. Goodchild, with contributions by L. Bevan, N. Cassidy, H.E.M. Cool, C.J. Evans, R. Ixer, M. van Leusen, E. Macaey-Bracken, P.C. Mackie, D. Mackreth, A. Maguire, W.A. McCann, D.S. Neal, S. Willis, and M. Wright.
Wroxeter, the Cornovii, and the Urban Process: Final Report on the Wroxeter Hinterland Project 1994-1997. Vol. 1: Researching the Hinterland (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series Number 68).
Pp. 304, figs. 108, tables 75. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, R.I. 2007. $99.50. ISBN 978-1-887829-68-7 (cloth).
Reviewed by W. Bowden in AJA 112.4 (2008), 779-80.

Galinier, Martin.
La Colonne Trajane et les Forums Impériaux (Collection de l’École française de Rome 382).
Pp. viii + 303, figs. 50, pls. 81. École française de Rome, Rome 2007. €77. ISBN 978-2-7283-0775-3 (paper).

Giesecke, Annette Lucia.
The Epic City: Urbanism, Utopia, and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome (Hellenic Studies 21).
Pp. xiv + 204, figs. 19. Center for Hellenic Studies, Cambridge, Mass. 2007. $18.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02374-1 (paper).

Gigli, Rossella, ed.
Μεγαλλαι Νησοι: Studi Dedicati a Giovanni Rizza per il suo Ottantesimo Compleanno (Studi e Materiali di Archeologia Mediterranea 2 & 3). 2 vols. Vol 1.
Pp. 327, figs. 174. Vol. 2. Pp. 394, figs. 247. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Catania 2007. ISBN 88-89375-01-9 (cloth).
Reviewed by H. Fracchia in AJA 112.4 (2008), 769-71.

Goffer, Zvi.
Archaeological Chemistry: Second Edition (Chemical Analysis Vol. 170).
Pp. xxii + 623, figs. 88, tables 101. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken 2007. $110. ISBN 978-0-471-25288-7 (cloth).

Graham-Campbell, James, and Gareth Williams, eds.
Silver Economy in the Viking Age.
Pp. xvi + 228, figs. 60. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $89. ISBN 978-1-59874-222-0 (cloth).

Grammenos, Dimitrios V., and Elias K. Petropoulos, eds.
Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea 2 (BAR International Series 1675). 2 vols. Vol. 1.
Pp. viii + 675, figs. 245, pls. 5, maps 4. Vol. 2. Pp. vi + 588, figs. 312, maps 3. Archaeopress, Oxford 2007. £140. ISBN 978-1-4073-0110-5 (paper).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Grundon, Imogen, with a foreword  by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury.
Pp. xv + 383, figs. 48, maps 17. Libri Publications, London 2007. $55. ISBN 1-901965-06-6 (cloth).

Guérin-Beauvois, Marie, and Jean-Marie Martin, eds.
Bains Curatifs et Bains Hygiéniques en Italie de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge (Collection de l’École française de Rome 383).
Pp. 428, figs. 66, pls. 43, tables 4. École française de Rome, Rome 2007. €65. ISBN 978-2-7283-0782-1 (cloth).

Haeussler, R. and A.C. King, eds., with contributions by P. Andrews, J.A. Arenas Esteban, G. Burleigh, I. Fauduet, N. Gavrilovic, E. Ghey, R. Haeussler, R. Jackson, E. Jerem, P. Kiernan, A.C. King, F. Marco Simón, W. Spickermann, H. Valk, and S. Yeates.
Continuity and Innovation in Religion in the Roman West, Vol. 1 (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series Number 67).
Pp. 212, figs. 107. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, R.I. 2007. $89. ISBN 978-1-887829-67-0 (cloth).

Hamilakis, Yannis.
The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece (Classical Presences).
Pp. xxii + 352, figs. 51. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007. £60. ISBN 978-0-19-923038-9 (cloth).
Reviewed by G. Nordquist AJA 113.3 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Hamilton, Sue, Ruth D. Whitehouse, and Katherine I. Wright, eds.
Archaeology and Women: Ancient and Modern Issues.
Pp. 416, figs. 73, tables 31. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-59874-224-4 (paper).

Harding, Anthony.
Warriors and Weapons in Bronze Age Europe (Archaeolingua Series Minor 25).
Pp. 228, figs. 26, tables 11. Archaeolingua Foundation, Budapest 2007. €36. ISBN 978-963-8046-86-4 (paper).

Harlow, Mary and Ray Laurence, eds., with contributions by A. Asa Eger, K. Cokayne, R. Gowland, M. Harlow, V.M. Hope, J. Huskinson, C. Laes, R. Laurence, D. Noy, R. Redfern, and H. Sigismund-Nielsen.
Age and Ageing in the Roman Empire (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series Number 65).
Pp. 220, figs. 29. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, R.I. 2007. $84.50. ISBN 978-1-887829-65-6 (cloth).

Haselberger, Lothar, translated by Alexander Thein.
Urbem Adornare: Die Stadt Rom und Ihre Gestaltumwandlung unter Augustus (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series Number 64).
Pp. 288. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, R.I. 2007. $99. ISBN 978-1-887829-64-9 (cloth).

Haselberger, Lothar, and John Humphrey, eds., with contributions by D. Abernathy, A. J. Ammerman, H.-J. Beste, F. Cairoli Giuliani, A. Capuano, C. Cecamore, M. Davison, E. A. Dumser, D. Favro, B. Frischer, N. Gelfand, C. Häuber, D. Koller, E. La Rocca, M. Levoy, R. Meneghini, T. Najbjerg, C. F. Noreña, J. E. Packer, D. Palombi, S. Panunzi, U. Pappalardo, P. Pensabene, A. Riedel, D. G. Romano, F. X. Schütz, R. T. Scott, N. L. Stapp, J. Trimble, P.L. Tucci, L. Ungaro, A. Viscogliosi, A. Wallace-Hadrill, T. P. Wiseman, U. Wulf and H. Ziemssen, et al.
Imaging Ancient Rome: Documentation – Visualization – Imagination. Proceedings of the Third Williams Symposium on Classical Architecture held at the American Academy in Rome, the British School at Rome, and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome, on May 20-23, 2004 (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series Number 61).
Pp. 337, b&w figs. 163, color figs. 51. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, R.I. 2006. $125. ISBN 1-887829-61-X (cloth).
Reviewed by P. Stinson AJA 112.1 (2008) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Hedman, Matthew.
The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past.
Pp. vii + 249, figs. 99. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2007. $25. ISBN 978-0-226-32292-6 (cloth).

Hodske, Jürgen.
Mythologische Bildthemen in den Häusern Pompejis: Die Bedeutung der zentralen Mythenbilder für die Bewohner Pompejis.
Pp. 328, figs. 213, b&w pls. 204, color pls. 8. CD-ROM 1. Franz Philipp Rutzen, Ruhpolding und Mainz 2007. €65. ISBN 978-3-938646-13-7 (cloth).
Reviewed by K. Lorenz in AJA 112.4 (2008), 777-78.

Hölscher, Fernande, and Tonio Hölscher, eds.
Römische Bilderwelten. Von der Wirklichkeit zum Bild und zurück: Kolloquium der Gerda Henkel Stiftung am Deutschen Arcahäologischen Institut Rom 15.-17. März 2004 (Archäologie und Geschichte Band12).
Pp. 270, figs. 142. Archäologie und Geschichte, Heidelberg 2007. €48. ISBN 978-3-935289-34-4 (cloth).

Holtorf, Cornelius, illustrated by Quentin Drew.
Archaeology is a Brand! The Meaning of Archaeology in Contemporary Popular Culture.
Pp. ix + 183, numerous figs. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-59874-179-7 (paper).

Hornborg, Alf, and Carole Crumley, eds.
The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic.
Pp. xii + 395, figs. 77, tables 10. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-59874-101-8 (paper).

King, Adam, ed.
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Chronology, Content, Context.
Pp. xiv + 305, figs. 98, tables 18. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2006. $42.50. ISBN 978-0-8173-5409-1 (paper).

Klinger, Jörg.
Die Hethiter.
Pp. 128, figs. 9. C.H. Beck, München 2007. €7.90. ISBN 978-3-406-53625-0 (paper).

Kunze, Max.
Meisterwerke Antiker Bronzen und Metallarbeiten aus der Sammlung Borowski, Bd. 1: Griechische und römische Bronzen.
Pp. 325, numerous color images. Franz Philipp Rutzen, Ruhpolding und Mainz 2007. €80.  ISBN 978-3-938646-06-9 (cloth).

Leahy, Kevin.
‘Interrupting the Pots’: The Excavation of Cleatham Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (CBA Research Reports 155).
Pp. xviii + 278, figs. 117, pls. 39, tables 106. Council for British Archaeology, York 2007. $60. ISBN 978-1-902771-717 (paper).
Reviewed by J. Huggett AJA 113.3 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Lewis, John David.
Early Greek Lawgivers (Classical World Series).
Pp. 100, figs. 5. Duckworth, London 2007. $20. ISBN 978-1-85399-697-9 (paper).

Malfitana, Daniele, Jeroen Poblome, and John Lund, eds.
Old Pottery in a New Century: Innovative Perspectives on Roman Pottery Studies (Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi Catania, 22-24 Aprile 2004).
Pp. 589, figs. 188, tables 31. Monografie Dell’Istituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali, Catania 2006. €100. ISBN 888937503-5 (paper).
Reviewed by C. Abadie-Reynal in AJA 112.4 (2008), 776-77.

Marchand, Sylvie, and Antigone Marangou, eds.
Amphores d’Égypte de la Basse Époque à l’époque arabe (Cahiers de la Céramique Égyptienne 8). 2 vols. Vol. 1.
Pp. x + 417, figs. 522, pls. 4, tables 4, maps 5. Vol. 2. Pp. x + 370, figs. 199, pls. 4, tables 3, maps 6. Institut français d’Archéologie Orientale, Cairo 2007. €108. ISBN 978-2-7247-0457-0 (paper).

Mattingly, David J., ed., with contributions by D.J. Mattingly, C.M. Daniels, J.N. Dore, D. Edwards, J. Hawthorne, and others.  The Archaeology of Fazz?n Volume 2: Site Gazetteer, Pottery, and Other Survey Finds (Society for Libyan Studies Monograph 7). Pp. xxix + 522, figs. 760, tables 37. Society for Libyan Studies, London 2007. £50. ISBN 978-1-900971-05-4 (cloth).  
Reviewed by M. Liverani in AJA 112.4 (2008), 778-79.           

McKeown, Niall.
The Invention of Ancient Slavery? (Duckworth Classical Essays).
Pp. 174. Duckworth, London 2007. $22. ISBN 978-0-7156-3185-0 (paper).

Melfi, Milena.
I Santuari di Asclepio in Grecia. I (Studia Archaeologica 157).
Pp. 578, figs. 71, tables 16. L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome 2007. €330. ISBN 88-8265-347-1 (cloth).
Reviewed by J.W. Riethmüller AJA 113.1 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Mertz, Barbara.
Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt.
Pp. xxvi + 324, b&w figs. 24, color figs. 17, maps 5. William Morrow, New York 2007. $26.95. ISBN 978-0-06-125276-1 (cloth).

Miller, Donald.
Legacies of the Ten Found Tribes of Israel.
Pp. viii + 253, maps 6. Different Perspectives Publishing,Wyomissing, Penn. 2006. $27.50. ISBN 978-0-9797050-0-7 (paper).

Moreno, Alfonso.
Feeding the Democracy: The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC (Oxford Classical Monographs).
Pp. xix + 420, figs. 10, tables 5, maps 3.  Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007. $130. ISBN 978-0-19-922840-9 (cloth).

Nielsen, Thomas Heine.
Olympia and the Classical Hellenic City-State Culture (Historiske-filosofiske Meddelelser 96).
Pp. 139, tables 3, map 1. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen 2007. ISBN 978-87-7304-309-7 (paper).

Oliver, G.J. War,
Food, and Politics in Early Hellenistic Athens.
Pp. xxi + 360, figs. 8, tables 4, maps 7. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007. $115. ISBN 978-1-19-928350-7 (cloth).

Oswald, Al, Stewart Ainsworth, and Trevor Pearson, with a contribution by Paul Frodsham.
Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park.
Pp. vii + 131, figs. 162. English Heritage, Swindon 2007. $39.95. ISBN 1-905624-09-3 (paper).

Patterson, Don.
Journey to Xibalba: A Life in Archaeology.
Pp. vii + 304, figs. 25. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-4294-8 (cloth).

Petrakos, Basil.
Τα 170 Χρ?νια της Αρχαιολογικ?ς Εταιρε?ας 1837 – 2007 (Βιβλιοθ?κη τ?ς ?ν ?Αθ?ναις  ?Αρχαιολογικ?ς ?Εταιρε?ας Αρ. 248).
Pp. 80, numerous color figs. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2007. ISBN 978-960-8145-62-7 (paper).

Petrakos, Vasileios et al.
Great Moments in Greek Archaeology.
Pp. 379, figs. 658. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2007. $75. ISBN 978-0-89236-910-2  (cloth).

Der Pfälzer Apoll: Kurfürst Carl Theodor und die Antike an Rhein und Neckar.
Pp. 231, figs. 271. Franz Philipp Rutzen, Ruhpolding und Mainz 2007. €38. ISBN 978-3-938646-23-6 (paper).

Phrizilas, Stamatis.
Ο Ζωγρ?φος του Θησ?α? Η Αττικ? Αγγειογραφ?α στην Εποχη της Νεοσ?στατης Αθηνα?κ?ς Δημοκρατ?ας (Βιβλιοθ?κη τ?ς ?ν ?Αθ?ναις  ?Αρχαιολογικ?ς ?Εταιρε?ας Αρ. 245).
Pp. xii + 340, figs. 126, pls. 134. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2006. ISBN 978-960-8145-60-3 (paper).

Raftopoulou, Elliana.
Μελ?τες Αρχ?ας Γλυπτικ?ς και Εικονογρα?ας (Βιβλιοθ?κη τ?ς ?ν ?Αθ?ναις  ?Αρχαιολογικ?ς ?Εταιρε?ας Αρ. 249).
Pp. 451, figs. 234, pls. 55. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2007. ISBN 978-960-8145-63-4 (paper).

Rea, Jennifer A.
Legendary Rome: Myth, Monuments, and Memory on the Palatine and Capitoline.
Pp. xi + 180, figs. 3. Duckworth, London 2007. $81. ISBN 978-0-7156-3646-6 (cloth).

Reed, Jonathan L.
The HarperCollins Visual Guide to the New Testament: What Archaeology Reveals about the First Christians.
Pp. vi + 169, numerous color figs. HarperOne, San Francisco 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-06-084249-9 (paper).

Rice, Prudence M.
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere).
Pp. xviii + 268, figs. 76, tables 20. University of Texas Press, Austin 2007. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-292-71692-6 (paper).

Roth, Roman.
Styling Romanisation: Pottery and Society in Central Italy (Cambridge Classical Studies).
Pp. 237, figs. 14. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007. $99. ISBN 978-0-521-87567-7 (cloth).

Roth, Roman and Johannes Keller, eds., with contributions by E. Flaig, A. Gardner, E. Herring, J. Keller, M.J. Millett, R. Pfeilschifter, and R.E. Roth.
Roman by Integration: Dimensions of Group Identity in Material Culture and Text (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series Number 66).
Pp. 103, figs. 10. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, R.I. 2007. $37.50. ISBN 978-1-887829-66-3 (cloth).

Ruck, Brigitte.
Die Grossen Dieser Welt: Kolossalporträts im Antiken Rom (Archäologie und Geschichte, Band11).
Pp. 343, figs. 3, pls. 50, tables 8. Archäologie und Geschichte, Heidelberg 2007. €90. ISBN 978-935289-32-0 (cloth).

Satchell, J., and P. Palma, eds., with contributions by Francisco J. S. Alves, Justin Dix, Christopher Dobbs, Sarah Dromgoole, Connie Kelleher, Thijs J. Maarleveld, Ian Oxley, Ian Panter, Mark Staniforth, Jeremy Weirich, and Keith Wijkander.
Managing the Marine Cultural Heritage: Defining, Accessing, and Managing the Resource (CBA Research Reports 153).
Pp. xiii + 114, figs. 34. Council for British Archaeology, York 2007. $56. ISBN 978-1-902-771-68-7 (paper).

Schablitsky, Julie M., ed.
Box Office Archaeology: Refining Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past.
Pp. 256, figs. 21. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-59874-056-1 (paper).

Schofield, John, and Wayne Cocroft, eds.
A Fearsome Heritage: Diverse Legacies of the Cold War (One World Archaeology 50).
Pp. 333, figs. 93, tables 4. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $79. ISBN 978-1-59874-258-9 (cloth).

Shanower, Eric.
Age of Bronze: Betrayal Part One (Age of Bronze vol. 3A).
Pp. 176, numerous images. Image Comics, Berkeley, Cal. 2008. $27.99. ISBN 978-58240-845-3 (cloth).

Sidebotham, Steven E., and Willeke Wendrich, eds.
Berenike 1999/2000: Report on the Excavations at Berenike, Including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region. Pp. xix + 404, figs. 171, pls. 208, tables 30, plan 1. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Los Angeles 2007. $40. ISBN 978-1-931745-28-4 (paper).

Sofaer, Anna, and Contributers to the Solstice Project.
Chaco Astronomy: An Ancient American Cosmology.
Pp. 173, figs. 59, table 1. Ocean Tree Books, Sante Fe 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-943734-46-0 (paper).

Söldner, Magdalene.
Βιος Ευδαιμων: Zur Ikonographie des Menschen in der rotfigurigen Vasenmalerei Unteritaliens Die Bilder aus Lukanien.
Pp. 248, figs. 283. Bibliopolis, Ingelheim am Rhein 2007. ISBN 978-3-933925-80-0 (cloth).
Reviewed by E. Moignard AJA 113.1 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Southern, Pat.
The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History.
Pp. x + 383, numerous figures, maps 3. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007. £14.99. ISBN 978-0-19-532878-3 (paper).

Swigart, Rob.
Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic.
Pp. 256. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $21.95. ISBN 978-1-59874-017-2 (paper).

Taplin, Oliver.
Pots & Plays: Interaction Between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century B.C.
Pp. x + 309, b&w figs. 85, color figs. 94, maps 1. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2007. $75. ISBN 978-0-89236-807-5 (cloth).
Reviewed by T.H. Carpenter in AJA 112.4 (2008), 773-74.

Torrance, Isabelle.
Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes (Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy).
Pp. 174, figs. 6. Duckworth, London 2007. $22. ISBN 978-0-7156-3466-0 (paper).

van Dommelen, P., and N. Terrenato, eds., with contributions by B. Costa Ríbas, A. Gallone, V.M. Guerrero Ayuso with M. Calvo Trias and B. Salvà Simone, J. L. López Castro, P. Perkins, D.L. Stone, N. Terrenato, and P. van Dommelen.
Articulating Local Cultures: Power and Identity Under the Expanding Roman Republic (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series Number 63).
Pp. 144 , figs. 43. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, R.I. 2007. $59.50. ISBN 978-1-887829-63-2 (cloth).

Waldherr, Gerhard H., and Anselm Smolka, eds.
Antike Erdbeben im alpinen und zirkumalpinen Raum: Befunde und Probleme in archäologischer, historischer und seismologischer Sicht. Beitrage des Interdiszciplinären Workshops, Schloss Hohenkammer, 14/15 Mai 2004 (Alte Geschichte: Geographica Historica 24).
Pp. 189, figs. 123, tables 3. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2007. €39. ISBN 978-3-515-09030-8 (paper).
Reviewed by M. Sintubin in AJA 112.4 (2008), 763-64.

Weiberg, Erika.
Thinking the Bronze Age: Life and Death in Early Helladic Greece (Boreas. Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations 29).
Pp. xiv + 406, figs. 80, tables 10. Uppsala University, Uppsala 2007. SEK 314. ISBN 978-91-554-6782-1 (paper).
Reviewed by D.J. Pullen, AJA 113.2 (April 2009) 292-93.

White, Leslie A., with an introduction by Robert L. Carneiro and Burton J. Brown.
The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome.
Pp. xxii + 378. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-59874-144-5 (paper).

Willems, Willem J.H., and Monique H. van den Dries, eds.
Quality Management in Archaeology.
Pp. vii + 159, figs. 54. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2007. $56. ISBN 978-1-84217-275-9 (paper).

Zachos, Konstantinos L., ed.
Νικοπολις Β??Πρακτικ? του Δευτ?ρου Διεθνο?ς Συμποσ?ου για τη Νικ?πολη (11-15 Σεπτεμβρ?ου 2002). 2 vols. Vol. 1, Text.
Pp. xxv + 749. Vol. 2, Figures. Pp. xii + 549, figs. 697, tables 6, plans 158, CD-ROM 1. Actia Nicopolis Foundation, Preveza, Greece 2007. €150. ISBN 978-960-7660-16-9 (cloth).

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Andreiomenou, Angeliki K.
Ταν?γρα. Η ανασκαφ? του Νεκροτφε?ου (1976-77, 1989) (Βιβλιοθηκη της εν Αθηναις Αρχαιολογικης Εταιρειας Αρ. 252).
Pp. xxii + 291, figs. 73, color pls. 5, b&w pls. 164, plans 64.
Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2007. No Price Listed. ISBN 978-960-8145-66-5 (paper).

Bamforth, Douglas B., ed.
The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska.
Pp. xvi + 284, figs. 108, tables 69. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. $55. ISBN 978-0-8263-4295-9 (cloth).

Barbieri-Low, Anthony J.
Artisans in Early Imperial China.
Pp. x + 394, figs. 67, tables 7, maps 2. University of Washington Press, Seattle 2007. $60. ISBN 978-0-295-98713-2 (cloth).

Bard, Katherine A.
An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt.
Pp. xx + 400, figs. 98, pls. 33, maps 23. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2007. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-1148-5 (paper).

Batty, Roger.
Rome and the Nomads: The Pontic-Danubian Realm in Antiquity.
Pp. xxiv + 652, figs. 81, tables 10, b&w pls. 16, color pls. 16. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007. $190. ISBN 978-0-19-814936-1 (cloth).

Barako, Tristan J., with contributions by Donald T. Ariel, Baruch Brandl, Jennie R. Ebeling, Nicolle Hirschfeld, Robert Maddin, Edward F. Maher, Mario A.S. Martin, James D. Muhly, David S. Reese, Steven A. Rosen, Tamara Stech, and Jacob Vardi.
Tel Mor: The Moshe Dothan Excavations, 1959-1960 (Israel Antiquities Authority Report 32).
Pp. vii + 268, figs. 129, pl. 1, tables 45, plans 8. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem 2007. $28. ISBN 978-965-406-202-2 (paper).
Reviewed by E.H. Cline and A. Yasur-Landau AJA 113.1 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Barnish, Sam J., and Federico Marazzi, eds.
The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective (Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology Vol. 7).
Pp. 497, figs. 19, maps 2. Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK 2007. $105. ISBN 978-1843830740 (cloth).

Bell, Martin, with contributions by J.R.L. Allen, M. Armour-Chelu, R.N.E. Barton, H. Burg, B. Brayshay, W.J. Britnell, C. Bronk Ramsey, A. Brown, R.  Brunning, S. Buckley, A.E. Caseldine, M.N. Cameron, P. Dark, P.Q. Dresser, E. Fancourt, J. Foster, R. Gale,  S. Gonzalez, E. Healey, C. Ingrem, S. Johnson, B. Kromer, S. Manning, N. Nayling, J. Norris-Hill, C. Pearson, R. Scales, S. Tatomo, R. Schulting, E. Tetlow, D. Thomas, S. Timpany, A. van Gijn, and V. Yendell.
Prehistoric Coastal Communities: The Mesolithic in Western Britain (Council for British Archaeology Research Report 149).
Pp. xlvii + 381, figs. 152, tables 15, CD-ROM 1. Council for British Archaeology, York 2007. $80. ISBN 978-1-902771-64-9 (paper).

Bender, Barbara, Sue Hamilton, and Chris Tilley.
Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology.
Pp. 464, figs. 104, pls. 12, tables 3. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2008. $39.95. ISBN 978-1-59874-219-0 (paper).

Bentley, R. Alexander, Herbert D. G. Maschner, and Christopher Chippindale, eds.
Handbook of Archaeological Theories.
Pp. vi + 590, figs. 40, tables 12. AltaMira Press, Lanham, Md. 2008. $179.95. ISBN 978-0-7591-0032-9 (cloth).

Berdan, Frances F., John K. Chance, Alan R. Sandstrom, Barbara L. Stark, James M. Taggart, and Emily Umberger.
Ethnic Identity in Nahua Mesoamerica: The View from Archaeology, Art History, Ethnohistory, and Contemporary Ethnography.
Pp. xiii + 266, figs. 51, tables 3. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City 2008. $50. ISBN 978-0-87480-917-6 (cloth).

Betancourt, Philip, Michael C. Nelson, and Hector Williams, eds.
Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Prehistory Monographs 22).
Pp. xxxvi + 314, figs. 206, color pls. 43, tables 4. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2007. $80. ISBN 1-931534-22-5 (cloth).
Reviewed by I. Schoep AJA 113.3 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Bohrer, Vorsila L.
Preceramic Subsistence in Two Rock Shelters in Fresnal Canyon, South Central New Mexico (Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 199).
Pp. viii + 252, figs. 7, tables 34. Arizona State Museum, Tucson 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-889747-81-1 (paper).

Brunswig, Robert H., and Bonnie L. Pitblado, eds., with an afterword by George C. Frison.
Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology: From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains.
Pp. xviii + 364, figs. 57, tables 29, maps 19. The University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2007. $60. ISBN 978-0-87081-890-5 (cloth).

Burger, Richard L., Craig Morris, and Ramiro Matos Mendieta, eds.
Variations in the Expression of Inka Power (A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 18 and 19 October 1997).
Pp. xi + 449, figs. 173, maps 30. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C. 2007. $55. ISBN 978-0-88402-351-7 (cloth).

Clack, Timothy, and Marcus Brittain, eds.
Archaeology and the Media.
Pp. 323, figs. 47, table 1. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-59874-234-3 (paper).

Cleuziou, Serge, and Maurizio Tosi.
In the Shadow of the Ancestors: The Prehistoric Foundations of the Early Arabian Civilization in Oman.
Pp. 334, figs. 349. Ministry of Heritage & Culture, Oman 2007. No price listed.
Reviewed by P. Magee in AJA 112.4 (2008), 764-65.

Cohen, Ada, and Jeremy B. Rutter, eds.
Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Hesperia Supplement 41).
Pp. xxiii + 430, figs. 178, tables 8. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, N.J. 2007. $75 ISBN 978-0-87661-541-6 (paper).

Cohen, Mark Nathan and Gillian M.M. Crane-Kramer, eds.
Ancient Health: Skeletal Indicators of Agricultural and Economic Intensification.
Pp. 512, figs. 80, tables 130. University Press of Florida, Gainesville 2007. $75. ISBN 978-0-8130-3082-1 (cloth).

Cohen, Rudolph, and Hannah Bernick-Greenberg, with contributions by Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Israel Carmi, Michal Druk, Iris Eldar-Nir, Avivit Gera, Mordechai Haiman, Dalia Hakker-Orion, Yshayahu Lender, Stefan Münger, Dov Nahlieli, Dror Segal, Orit Shamir, and Pnina Shor.
Excavations at Kadesh Barnea (Tell El-Qudeirat) 1976-1982 (Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 34/1-2).
2 vols. Vol. 1, Text. Pp. xiv + 397, figs. 544, tables 27, plans 35, maps 6. Vol. 2, Plates, Plans, and Sections. Pp. 326, pls. 183, plans 11. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem 2007. Vol.1, $28. Vol. 2, $55. ISBN 978-406-204-6 (paper).
Reviewed by A. Faust AJA 113.2 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Colla, Elliott.
Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity.
Pp. 345, figs. 14. Duke University Press, Durham 2008. $22.95. 978-0-8223-3992-2 (paper).

Cooney, Kathlyn M.
The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Ramesside Period (Egyptologische Uitgaven XXII).
Pp. xv + 509, CD-ROM 1. Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden 2007. €56. ISBN 978-90-6258-222-8 (paper).

Cordovana, Orietta Dora.
Segni e Immagini del Potere Tra Antico e Tardoantico: I Severi e la Provincia Africa Proconsularis (Testi e Studi di Storia Antica 17).
Pp. ix + 538, figs. 61. Edizioni del Prisma, Catania 2007. €60. ISBN 978-88-86808-32-3 (paper).

Daehner, Jens, ed., with texts by Jens Daehner, Kordelia Knoll, Christiane Vorster, and Moritz Woelk.
The Herculaneum Women: History, Context, Identities.
Pp. xiii + 178, b&w figs. 40, color figs. 60, pls. 20, map 1. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2008. $50. ISBN 978-0-89236-882-2 (cloth).

Denham, Tim, José Iriarte, and Luc Vrydaghs, eds.
Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives (One World Archaeology 51).
Pp. vi + 468, figs. 60, tables 47. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $99. ISBN 978-1-59874-260-2 (cloth).

Dietrich, William.
The Rosetta Key.
Pp. 339. HarperCollins, New York 2008.  $25.95. ISBN 978-0-06-123955-7 (paper).

Dobbins, John J., and Pedar W. Foss, eds.
The World of Pompeii (Routledge Worlds).
Pp. xl + 662, figs. 261, tables 3, maps 4, CD-ROM 1. Routledge, New York 2007. $240. ISBN 978-0-415-17324-7 (cloth).

Donnan, Christopher B.
Moche Tombs at Dos Cabezas (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Monograph 59).
Pp. xii + 241, figs. 309, tables 3. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Los Angeles 2007. $85. ISBN 978-1-931745-51-2 (paper).  

Duke, Philip.
The Tourists Gaze, the Cretans Glance: Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island (Heritage, Tourism, and Community).
Pp. 154, figs. 9, tables 3. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-59874-143-8 (paper).  

Dyson, Stephen L., and Robert J. Roland Jr.
Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages: Shepherds, Sailors, & Conquerors.
Pp. 248, figs. 89, maps 2. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia 2007. $49.95. ISBN 978-1-934536-01-8 (cloth).
Reviewed by R.H. Tykot in AJA 113.4 (2009), 662-63.

Edwards, Douglas R., and C. Thomas McCollough, eds.
The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the “Other” in Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers (The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research Volume 60/61).
Pp. xiii + 416, figs. 135, tables 6. American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston 2007. $124.95. ISBN 978-0-89757-070-1 (cloth).
Reviewd by R. Hallote in AJA 113.2 (2009), 287-88.

Evans, Jane DeRose, with a preface by Robert J. Bull.
The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Economy of Palestine (The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports Vol. VI).
Pp. xxiv + 229, figs. 25, pls. 8, tables 11. The American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston 2006. $84.95. ISBN 0-89757-074-X (cloth).
Reviewed by L. Houghtalin AJA 113.4 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Fittschen, Klaus.
Historische Landeskunde und Epigraphik in Griechenland: Akten des Symposiums veranstaltet aus Anlaß des 100. Todestages von H.G. Lolling (1848-1894) in Athen vom 28. bis 30.9. 1994.
Pp. vii + 468, figs. 148. Scriptorium, Münster 2007. €50. ISBN 978-3-932610-38-7 (paper).  

Forbes, Hamish.
Meaning and Identity in a Greek Landscape: An Archaeological Ethnography.
Pp. xxii + 438, figs. 39, tables 10. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007. $99. ISBN 978-0-521-86699-6 (cloth).
Reviewed by C. MacKay, AJA 113.2 (2009) 304-05.

Frangipane, M. (ed.), P. Ferioli, E. Fiandra, R. Laurito, H. Pittman, with contributions by J. Blackman, E. Cristiani, M.B. D’Anna, C. Lemorini, P. Morbidelli, A.M. Palmieri, C. Simonetti.
Arslantepe Cretulae: An Early Centralised Administrative System Before Writing (Missione Archeologica Italiana nell’Anatolia Orientale: Arslantepe vol. V).
Pp. 528, figs. 212, b&w pls. 21, color pls. 5, tables 10, CD-ROM 1. Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome 2007. €175. ISBN 88-901701-7-4 (cloth).
Reviewed by J. Weingarten AJA 113.2 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Freeman, P.W.M.
The Best Training-Ground for Archaeologists: Francis Haverfield and the Invention of Romano-British Archaeology.
Pp. xvii + 688. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2007. $40. ISBN 978-1-84217-280-3 (paper).
Reviewed by S.L. Dyson in AJA 113.4 (2009), 658-59.

Galaty, Michael L., and William A. Parkinson, eds.
Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II: Revised and Expanded Second Edition (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Monograph 60).
Pp. x + 254, figs. 54, tables 6. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Los Angeles 2007. $40. ISBN 978-1-931745-42-0 (paper).
Reviewed by G. Walberg, AJA 113.2 (2009) 293-94.

Gardner, Andrew.
An Archaeology of Identity: Soldiers & Society in Late Roman Britain.
Pp. 309, figs. 66. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $34.95. ISBN 978-59874-227-5 (paper).

Garfinkel, Yosef, and Susan Cohen, eds.
The Middle Bronze Age IIA Cemetery at Gesher: Final Report (The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research Volume 62).
Pp. xvii + 149, figs. 173, tables 18. American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston 2007. $74.95. ISBN 978-0-89757-075-6 (cloth).

Gray, Martin, with a foreword by Graham Hancock.
Sacred Earth: Places of Peace and Power.
Pp. xi + 275, numerous figs. Sterling Publishing, New York 2008. $35. ISBN 978-1-4027-4737-3 (cloth).

Greenfield, Jeanette.
The Return of Cultural Treasures (Third Edition).
Pp. xxii + 500, figs. 139. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007. $125. 978-0-521-80216-1 (cloth).
Reviewed by J. Hollowell AJA 113.1 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Guderjan, Thomas H.
The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory).
Pp. x + 169, figs. 40, tables 5. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2007. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-5426-8 (paper). 

Hicks, Dan, Laura McAtackney, and Graham Fairclough, eds.
Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage (One World Archaeology 52).
Pp. 400, figs. 48, tables 3. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $79. ISBN 978-1-59874-281-7 (cloth).

Hodos, Tamar.
Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean.
Pp. x + 264, figs. 97. Routledge, New York 2006. $130. ISBN 0-415-37836-2 (cloth).
Reviewed by A.J. Domínguez, AJA 113.2 (2009), 294-95.

Howgego, Christopher, Volker Heuchert, and Andrew Burnett, eds.
Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces.
Pp. xv + 228, pls. 32, maps 9. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007.  $70. ISBN 978-0-19-923784-5 (paper).

Ioannitis, Christos.
Le Vase des Ibères: Un lécythe du Peintre de Darius.
Pp. 59, fig. 1, pls. 15. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 2007. €29.90. ISBN 978-3-8053-3806-6 (cloth).

I?ik, Fahri.
Girlanden-Sarkophage aus Aphrodisias (Sarkophag-Studien Band 5).
Pp. xv + 202, pls. 112. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 2007. €94. ISBN 978-3-8053-3729-8 (cloth).

Jacobson, David M.
The Hellenistic Paintings of Marisa (The Palestinian Exploration Fund Annual VII 2007).
Pp. xi + 140, figs. 13, pls. 32. Maney Publishing, Leeds 2007. $120. ISBN 978-1-904350-98-9 (cloth).

Jones, Andrew.
Memory and Material Culture (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology).
Pp. xiii + 257, b&w figs. 38. Cambridge University Press, Cambirdge 2007. $25.99. ISBN 978-0-521-54551-8 (paper).

Kohl, Philip L.
The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia (Cambridge World Archaeology).
Pp. xxiii + 296, figs. 112. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007. $85. ISBN 978-0-521-84780-3 (cloth).

Kokkinos, Nikos, ed.
The World of the Herods: Volume 1 of the International Conference “The World of the Herods and the Nabataeans” held at the British Museum, 17-19 April 2001 (Oriens and Occidens 14).
Pp. 323, figs. 88, tables 6. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2007. €62. ISBN 978-3-515-08817-6 (paper).
Reviewed by A.M. Smith II, AJA 113.2 (2009) 300-01.

Kuzima, E. E., edited by Victory H. Mair.
The Prehistory of the Silk Road (Encounters with Asia).
Pp. xii + 248, figs. 73. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2007. $65. ISBN 978-0-8122-4041-2 (cloth).

Kuzucuo?lu, Catherine, and Catherine Marro, eds.
Sociétés Humaines et Changement Climatique à la fin du troisième millénaire: Une Crise a-t-elle eu lieu en Haute Mésopotamie?Actes du Colloque de Lyon, 5-8 décembre 2005 (Varia Anatolica XIX).
Pp. 590, figs. 217, tables 44. De Boccard, Paris 2007. €95. ISBN 2-906053-94-5 (paper).

Kyriakidis, Evangelos, ed.
The Archaeology of Ritual (Cotsen Advanced Seminar 3).
Pp. xii + 310, figs. 54. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Los Angeles 2007. $40. ISBN 978-1-931745-47-5 (paper).
Reviewed by E.M. Bonney AJA 113.3 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Lacquement, Cameron H., ed.
Architectural Variability in the Southeast.
Pp. xii + 224, figs. 64, tables 9. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2007. $32.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-5459 (paper).

Lerouge, Charlotte.
L’image des Parthes dans le monde gréco-romain: Du début du Ier siècle av. J.-C. jusqu’à la fin du Haut-Empire romain (Oriens et Occidens 17).
Pp. 427, figs. 7, maps 2. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2007. €62. ISBN 978-3-515-08530-4 (cloth).

MacMullen, Ramsay.
Romanization in the Time of Augustus.
Pp. xi + 222, figs. 19. Yale University Press, New Haven 2008. $18. ISBN 978-0-300-13753-8 (paper).

Massa-Pairault, Françoise-Hélène.
La Gigantomachie de Perhame ou L’image du Monde (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Supplément 50).
Pp. xiv + 250, pls. 106. École française d’Athenès, Athens 2007. €80. ISBN 2-86958-201-3 (paper).

Mazor, Gabriel, and Arfan Najjar, with contributions by Edna Amos, Rachel Bar-Nathan, Ariel Berman, and Débora Sandhaus. Bet She’an I: Nysa-Scythopolis. The Caesareum and The Odeum (Israel Antiquities Authority Report 33). Pp. xxii + 289, figs. 180, tables 4, plans 39. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem 2007. $28. ISBN 978-965-406-201-5 (paper).

McKenzie, Judith.
The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt c. 300 BC to AD 700.
Pp. xx + 458, b&w figs. 350, color figs. 150. The Yale University Press, New Haven 2008. $85. ISBN 978-0-300-11555-0 (cloth).

Megaw, A.H.S., with contributions by Richard Anderson, Susan Boyd, Helen Brown, Christine Kondoleon, Archibald Dunn, Michael F. Hendy, Geoffrey House, John Hayes, Rowena Loverance, D.M. Metcalf, Ino Michaelidou-Nicolaou, Kenneth S. Painter, John Rosser, and Susan H. Young. 
Kourion: Excavations in the Episcopal Precinct (Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXXVIII).
Pp. xxv + 571, figs. 1400. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C. 2008. $95. ISBN 978-0-88402-276-3 (cloth).

Mithen, Steven.
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body.
Pp. 374, figs. 19. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2007. $16.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02559-2 (paper).

Oleson, John Peter, ed.
The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World.
Pp. xviii + 865, figs. 162, tables 18. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008. $150. ISBN 978-0-19-518731-1 (cloth).
Reviewed by R.L. Hohlfelder AJA 113.3 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Ousterhout, Robert.
Master Builders of Byzantium.
Pp. ix + 320, figs. 209. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia 2008. $39.95. ISBN 978-1-934536-03-2 (cloth).

Parfitt, Tudor.
The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark.
Pp. 380. HarperCollins, Los Angeles 2008. $25.95. ISBN 978-0-06-137103-5 (paper).

Ousterhout, Robert, ed.
Studies on Istanbul and Beyond: The Freely Papers, Vol. I.
Pp. vii + 93, figs. 5, tables 6. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia 2007. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-934536-01-8 (cloth).

Parca, Maryline, and Angeliki Tzanetou, eds.
Finding Persephone: Women’s Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean (Studies in Ancient Folklore and Popular Culture).
Pp. xiv + 327, figs. 18, maps 2. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2008. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-253-21938-1 (paper).

Peacock, David, and Lucy Blue.
The Ancient Red Sea Port of Adulis, Eritrea: Results of the Eritro-British Expedition, 2004-5.
Pp. xii + 145, figs. 83, tables 3. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2007. $60. ISBN 978-1-84217-308-4 (paper).

Perkins, Philip.
Etruscan Bucchero in the British Museum (The British Museum Research Publication No. 165).
Pp. 136, pls. 47, maps 2. The British Museum Press, London 2007. $60. ISBN 978-0-86159-165-7 (paper).

Politis, Konstantinos D., ed.
The World of the Nabataeans: Volume 2 of the International Conference “The World of the Herods and the Nabataeans” held at the British Museum, 17-19 April 2001 (Oriens et Occidens 15).
Pp. 392, figs. 150, tables 3. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2007. €62. ISBN 978-3-515-08816-9 (paper). 
Reviewed by A.M. Smith II, AJA 113.2 (2009) 300-01

Polz, Daniel.
Der Beginn des Neuen Reiches: Zur Vorgeschicthe einer Zeitenwende. (Sonderschrift 31).
Pp. xvi + 445, figs. 111, pls. 35, maps 6, CD-ROM 1. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. €110.28. ISBN 978-3-11-019347-3 (cloth).

Rhodes, Robin F., ed.
The Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities: Professional, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives (A Symposium Held at the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, February 24, 2007) .
Pp. xii + 175, figs. 12. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind. 2008. $25. ISBN 978-0-268-04027-7 (paper).
Reviewed by N. Brodie AJA 113.1 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Roffey, Simon.
The Medieval Chantry Chapel: An Archaeology (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion Vol. XXXIV).
Pp. xiv + 189, figs. 76. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK 2007. $75. ISBN 9781843833345 (cloth).

Roth, Ulrike.
Thinking Tools: Agricultural Slavery Between Evidence and Models (BICS Supplement 92).
Pp. x + 170, figs. 10, tables 8. Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, London 2007. ?28. ISBN 978-1-905670-05-5 (paper).

Ruggles, Clive, and Gary Urton, eds.
Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives on Cultural Astronomy (Mesoamerican Worlds from the Olmecs to the Danzantes).
Pp. 352, figs. 123, maps 2. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2007. $65. ISBN 978-0-87081-887-5 (cloth).

Samford, Patricia M.
Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia.
Pp. ix + 231, figs. 35, tables 21. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2007. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-5454-1 (paper).

Sparks, Rachael Thyrza.
Stone Vessels in the Levant (The Palestine Exploration Fund Annual VIII).
Pp. xviii + 488, figs.100, tables 17. Maney, Leeds 2007. $198. ISBN 978-1-904350-97-2 (cloth).
Reviewed by J.A. Harrell AJA 113.2 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Stieglitz, Robert R., with contributions by Ya‘el D. Arnon, A. Asa Eger, Diane Everman,
Arlene Fradkin, Omri Lernau, John Macsai, Michal Oren-Paskal, Rachel Pollak, and Shalom Yankelevitch.
Tel Tanninim: Excavations at Krokodeilon Polis 1996-1999 (American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports Number 10).
Pp. xv + 255, figs. 168, tables 10. American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston 2006. $84.95. ISBN 0-89757-072-3 (cloth).

Striker, Cecil L., and Y. Do?an Kuban, eds., with contribution by Albrecht Berger, Nejat Göyünç, Ernest J.W. Hawkins, Y. Do?an Kuban, Urs Peschlow, Cecil L. Striker, and Giusto Traina.
Kalenderhane in Istanbul: The Buildings, Their History, Architecture, and Decoration (Final Reports on the Archaeological Exploration and Restoration at Kalenderhane Camii 1966-1978).
Pp. xv + 150, figs. 90, color pls. 35, b&w pls. 144, plans 38. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1997. €51. ISBN 3-8053-2026-4 (cloth).

Striker, Cecil L., and Y. Do?an Kuban, eds., with contribution by L. Lawrence Angel, Ibrahim Artuk, Sarah Bisel, Marsha Groves, Michael F. Hendy, Judith Herrin, John W. Nesbitt, Urs Peschlow, Gül ?i?mano?lu, Cecil L. Striker, and Ayyüz Toydemir.
Kalenderhane in Istanbul: The Excavations (Final Reports on the Archaeological Exploration and Restoration at Kalenderhane Camii 1966-1978).
Pp. x + 387, figs. 104, pls. 26. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 2007. €51. ISBN 978-3-8053-3818-9 (cloth).

Szpakowska, Kasia.
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: Recreating Lahun.
Pp. xii + 244, figs. 50. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2008. $35. ISBN 978-1-4051-1856-9 (paper).

Tattersall, Ian.
The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE (The New Oxford World History).
Pp. ix + 143, numerous figs. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-19-533315-2 (paper).

Taylor, Jeremy.
An Atlas of Roman Rural Settlement in England (CBA Research Report 151).
Pp. xviii + 134, figs. 55, tables 15. Council for British Archaeology, York 2007. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-902771-66-3 (paper).

Thomas, Edmund.
Monumentality and the Roman Empire: Architecture in the Antonine Age.
Pp. xxvi + 378, figs. 178. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007. $240. ISBN 978-0-19-928863-2 (cloth).

Todd, Ian A., with contributions by Pavlos Flourentzos, Hanne Lassen, Lucy MacLaurin, C. Jack Moyer and David Pearlman.
Vasilikos Valley Project 11: Kalavasos Village Tombs 52-79 (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology Vol. LXXI:11).
Pp. xv + 335, figs. 48, pls. 55. Paul Åströms, Sävedalen 2007. $195.50. ISBN 978-91-7081-228-6 (paper).

Travis-Henikoff, Carole A., with a foreword by Christy G. Turner II.
Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind’s Oldest Taboo.
Pp. 333. Santa Monica Press, Santa  Monica 2008. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-59580-030-5 (cloth).

Ubertini, Christian. 
Elephantine XXXIV: Restitution architecturale à partir des blocs et fragments épars d’époque ptolémaïque et romaine (Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 120).
Pp. 87, figs. 38, pls. 28. Philipp von Zabern,  Mainz am Rhein 2005. €76.80. ISBN 3-8053-3349-8 (cloth).

Vitelli, Karen D.
The Neolithic Pottery from Lerna (Lerna: A Preclassical Site in the Argolid: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Vol. V) .
Pp. xvii + 386, figs. 95, tables 10, plans 28, CD-ROM 1. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, N.J. 2007. $150. ISBN 978-0-87661-305-4 (cloth).

Von Hofsten, Sven.
The Feline-Prey Theme in Archaic Greek Art: Classification – Distribution – Origin – Iconographical context (Stockholm Studies in Classical Archaeology 13).
Pp. 102, pls. 32, tables 4.  Stockholm University, Stockholm 2007. SEK 294. ISSN 0562-1062; ISBN 978-91-85445-60-8 (paper).  

Webster, Laurie D., and Maxine E. McBrinn, eds.
Archaeology Without Borders: Contact, Commerce, and Change in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico.
Pp. xi + 420, figs. 53. The University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2008. $65. ISBN 978-0-87081-889-9 (cloth).

Williams, John H., ed.
The Archaeology of Kent to AD 800 (Kent History Project 8).
Pp. xvi + 288, figs. 178.  Kent County Council and The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK 2007. $47.95. ISBN 9780851155807 (cloth).

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Abed, Aïcha Ben, Martha Demas, and Thomas Roby, eds.
Lessons Learned: Reflecting on the Theory and Practice of Mosaic Conservation.
Pp. xx + 417, b&w figs. 150, color figs. 200. Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles 2008. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-89236-920-1 (paper).

Abramson, Tony, ed.
Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 1.
Pp. 204, b&w figs. 200. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge UK 2008. $80.00. ISBN 978-1-84383-371-0 (paper).

Anderson, Søren Fredslund.
The Tylos Period Burials in Bahrain. Volume 1: The Glass and Pottery Vessels.
Pp. 262, figs. 626, tables 362. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2007. $46.95. ISBN 978-87-7934-373-3 (cloth).

Ascalone, Enrico, translated by Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia.
Mesopotamia (Dictionaries of Civilization 1).
Pp. 368, figs. 321. University of California Press, Berkeley 2008. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25265-3 (paper).

Ashton, Sally-Ann.
Cleopatra and Egypt (Blackwell Ancient Lives).
Pp. xii + 219, figs. 3, plates 41. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2008. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-1390-8 (paper).

Atwood, Roger.
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World.
Pp. 337, figs. 27. St. Martin’s Press, New York 2004. $14.95. ISBN 0-312-32407-3 (paper).

Bailey, Geoff, and Penny Spikins, eds.
Mesolithic Europe.
Pp. xvii + 467, figs. 94, tables 27. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008. $95. ISBN 978-0-521-85503-7  (cloth).

Bevan, Andrew.
Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean.
Pp. xi + 301, figs. 66. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007. $95. ISBN 978-0-521-88080-0 (cloth).

Bietti Sestieri, Anna Maria, and Ellen Macnamara, with a scientific report by Duncan Hook.
Prehistoric Metal Artefacts from Italy (3500-720BC) in the British Museum (British Museum Research Publication Number 159).
Pp. 351, figs. 16, pls. 200, tables 2, maps 7. The British Museum, London 2007. $90. ISBN 978-0-86159-159-6 (paper).
Reviewed by D. Ridgway, AJA 113.2 ( 2009) 291.

Bingen, Jean, with introduction and edited by Roger S. Bagnall.
Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture.
Pp. xx + 305, figs. 19, maps 3. University of California Press, Berkley 2007. $24.95. ISBN 987-0-520-25142-7 (paper).

Bintliff, John, Phil Howard, and Anthony Snodgrass, with contributions from Oliver Dickinson, Mark Gillings, John Hayes, Robert Shiel, and Joanita Vroom.
Testing the Hinterland: the Work of the Boeotia Survey (1989) in the Southern Approaches to the City of Thespiai (McDonald Institute Monographs).
Pp. xviii + 320, figs 454, tables 47, CD-ROM 1. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge 2007. $130. ISBN 978-1-902937-37-3 (cloth).

Blomster, Jeffrey P., ed.
After Monte Albán: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico ( Mesoamerican Worlds: From the Olmecs to the Danzantes).
Pp. xvi + 438, figs. 104, tables 16, maps 11.  The University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2008. $65. ISBN 978-0-87081-896-7 (cloth).  

Bloom, Jonathan M.
Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt.
Pp. xvii + 236, color figs. 50, b&w figs. 100. Yale University Press, New Haven 2008. $75. ISBN 978-0-300-13542-8 (cloth).

Bolger, Diane, ed.
Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East.
Pp.  xviii + 373, figs. 139, tables 8. AltaMira, Lanham, MD 2008. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-7591-1092-2 (cloth).
Reviewed by S. Pollock AJA 113.2 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Bonacossi, Daniele Morandi, ed.
Urban and Natural landscapes of an Ancient Syrian Capital: Settlement and Environment at Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna and in Central-Western Syria (Studi Archeologici su Qatna 1).
Pp. 350, figs. 170, tables 33, plates 3. Forum, Undine Italy 2008. €70. ISBN 978-88-8420-418-9 (paper).

Borgers, Olaf E.
The Theseus Painter: Style, Shapes and Iconography (Allard Pierson Series – Volume 16).
Pp. xv + 243, figs. 82, pls. 47. Allard Pierson Series, Amsterdam 2004. €220. ISBN 978-90-71211-41-6 (cloth).
Reviewed by V. Sabetai, AJA 113.2 (2009) 295-96.

Brisbane, Mark, and Jon Hather, eds.
Wood Use in Medieval Novgorod (The Archaeology of Medieval Novgorod).
Pp. xxii + 470, figs. 290, tables 9, CD-ROM 1. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2007. $120. ISBN 978-1-84217-276-6 (cloth).

Brodie, Niel, Jenny Doole, Giorgos Gavalas, and Colin Renfrew, eds.
Horizon: A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (McDonald Institute Monographs).
Pp. xxiv + 540, figs. 562, tables 35. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge 2008. $130. ISBN 978-1-90293-736-6 (cloth).

Bryce, Trevor.
Hittite Warrior.
Pp. 64, numerous color and b&w figs. Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK 2007. $17.95. ISBN 978-1-84603-081-9 (paper).

Burke, Aaron A.
“Walled Up to Heaven”: The Evolution of Middle Bronze Age Fortification Strategies in the Levant (Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 4).
Pp. xix + 362, figs. 100, tables 37. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind. 2008. $59.50. ISBN 978-1-57506-927-2 (cloth).

Callieri, Pierfrancesco.
L’archéologie du F?rs á l’époque hellénistique: Quatre leçons au Collége de France 8, 15, 22 et 29 mars 2007 (Persika 11).
Pp. 177, figs. 100. De Boccard, Paris 2007. €48. ISBN 978-2-7018-0228-2 (paper).
Reviewed by D.T. Potts AJA 113.2 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Canfora, Luciano, translated by Marian Hill and Kevin Windle.
Julius Caesar: The Life and Times of the People’s Dictator.
Pp. xvi + 392. University of California Press, Berkeley 2008. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-520-23502-1 (cloth).

Chazan, Michael, and Liora Kolska Horwitz, eds.
Holon: A Lower Paleolithic Site in Israel (American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 50).
Pp. xvii + 214, figs. 101, tables 63. Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge 2007. $75. ISBN 978-0-87365-55-2 (paper).

Clarke, John R.
Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C. – A.D. 250.
Pp. xi + 322, figs. 119. University of California Press, Berkeley 2008. $55. ISBN 978-0-520-23733-9 (cloth).

Cohen, Raymond.
Saving the Holy Sepulchre: How Rival Christians Came Together to Rescue Their Holiest Shrine.
Pp. xiv + 308, numerous b&w figs. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008. €14.99. ISBN 978-0-19-518966-7 (cloth).

Collard, David.
Function and Ethnicity: ‘Bathtubs’ from Late Bronze Age Cyprus.
Pp. 198, figs. 57. Paul Åströms, Sävedalen 2008. €29. ISBN 978-91-7081-238-5 (paper).

Cox, Margaret, Ambika Flavel, Ian Hanson, Joanna Laver, and Roland Wessling, eds.
The Scientific Investigation o f Mass Graves: Towards Protocols and Standard Operating Procedures.
Pp. xxx + 562, figs. 107, tables 122, CD-ROM 1. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008. $175. ISBN 978-0-521-86587-6 (cloth).

Crooke, Elizabeth.  
Museums and Community: Ideas, Issues and Challenges.
Pp. x + 165, figs. 11, tables 8. Routledge, London 2007. $41.95. ISBN 978-0-415-33657-4 (paper).

Cunliffe, Barry.
Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC to AD 1000.
Pp. ix + 516, figs. 285. Yale University Press, New Haven 2008. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-300-11923-7 (paper).

Cuno, James.
Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage.
Pp. xxxvii  + 228, figs. 6. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2008. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-691-13712-4 (cloth).
Reviewed by D.W.J. Gill113.1 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Cuomo, S.
Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Key Themes in Ancient History).
Pp. xi + 212, figs. 8. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007. $29.99. ISBN 978-0-521-00903-4 (paper).

Davenport, Peter, Cynthia Poole, and David Jordan, with contributions from Ian M. Betts, Ian Brooks, Lisa Brown, John Clarke, Mark Corney, Lorrain Higbee, Alice Humphrey, Andrew K.G. Jones, David Jordan, Lynne Keyes. Marek Lewcun, Ruth Pelling, Alan Vince, and Felicity Wild, with illustrations by Sophie Lamb and Lucy Martin.
Archaeology in Bath: Excavations at the New Royal Baths (the Spa), and Bellott’s Hospital 1998-1999 (Oxford Archaeology Monograph 3).
Pp. xiii + 182, figs. 75, tables 30. Oxford Archaeology, Oxford 2007. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-904220-45-2 (paper).

David, Rosalie ed.,
Egyptian Mummies and Modern Science.
Pp. xxi + 304, figs. 43, color pls. 19. Cambridge University Press, New York 2008. $100. ISBN 978-0-521-86579-1 (cloth).
Reviewed by G.M. Sanchez AJA 113.3 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Dawson, Timothy.
Byzantine Infantryman: Eastern Roman Empire c.900-1204.
Pp. 64, numerous color and b&w figs. Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK 2007. $17.95. ISBN 978-1-84603-105-1 (paper).

Day, Peter M., and Roger C.P. Doonan, eds.
Metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age Aegean (Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology, 7).
Pp. xii + 263, figs. 67, tables 17. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2007. $56. ISBN 978-1-84217-293-3 (paper).

DeSalle, Rob, and Ian Tattersall.
Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves (Texas A&M University Anthropology Series Number 13).
Pp. 216, figs. 113. Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2008. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-58544-567-7 (cloth).

di Caprio, Ninina Cuomo.
Ceramica in Archaeologia 2: Antiche tecniche di lavorazione e moderni metodi di indagine (Studia Archaeologica 144).
Pp. 752, figs. 181, pls. 11. L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome 2007. €90. ISBN 88-8265-397-8 (cloth).
Reviewed by D. Malfitana AJA 113.4 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Dobson, Michael.
The Army of the Roman Republic: The Second Century BC, Polybius and the Camps at Numantia, Spain.
Pp. xii + 436, figs. 282, tables 2. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2008. $80. ISBN 978-1-84217-241-4 (cloth).
Reviewed by A. Erskine AJA 113.3 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Eckert, Suzanne L.
Pottery and Practice: The Expression of Identity at Pottery Mound and Hummingbird Pueblo.
Pp. xi + 201, figs. 22, tables 30. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2008. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-8263-3834-1 (cloth).

Erkut, Gülden, and Stephen Mitchell.
The Black Sea: Past Present and Future.
Pp. 172, figs. 99, tables 17. British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Ankara 2007. $60. ISBN 978-1-898249-21-4 (cloth).

Fairclough, Graham, Rodney Harrison, John H. Jameson Jnr., and John Schofield, eds.
The Heritage Reader.
Pp. viii + 580, figs. 11, tables 2. Routledge, New York 2008. $44.95. ISBN 978-0-415-37286-2 (paper).

Fields, Nic.
Thermopylae 480 BC: Last Stand of the 300.
Pp. 96, numerous color and b&w figs. Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK 2007. $18.95. ISBN 978-1-84176-180-0 (paper).

Fields, Nic.
Soldier of the Pharaoh: Middle Kingdom Egypt 2055-1650 BC.
Pp. 64, numerous color and b&w figs. Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK 2007. $17.95. ISBN 978-1-84603-106-9 (paper).

Fischer, Alysia.
Hot Pursuit: Integrating Anthropology in Search of Ancient Glass-Blowers.
Pp. xii + 190, figs 42. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD 2008. $65. ISBN 978-0-7391-0960-1 (cloth).

Fish, Suzanne K., Paul R. Fish, and M. Elisa Villalpando, eds.
Trincheras Sites in Time, Space, and Society (Amerind Studies in Archaeology).
Pp. 328, pls. 11, figs. 35, tables 12. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2008. $55.95. ISBN 978-0-8165-2540-9 (cloth).

Foster, William C., with a foreword by Alston V. Thomas.
Historic Native Peoples of Texas.
Pp. xvii + 346, figs. 14, maps 18. The University of Texas Press, Austin 2008. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-292-71793-0 (paper).

Gabucci, Ada, translated by Jay Hyams.
Rome (Dictionaries of Civilization 2).
Pp. 384, figs. 367. University of California Press, Berkeley 2008. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25265-3 (paper).

Giamalakis, Sammlung.
Iraklion, Archäologisches Museum.
2 vols. Vol 1. Pp. xviii + 430, numerous b&w figs. Vol 2. Pp. xxix + 708, numerous b&w figs. Philip Von Zabern, Mainz 2007. €210 (set). Vol 1. ISBN 978-8053-3533-1 Vol 2. ISBN 978-3-8053-3533-1 (cloth).

Grattan, John, and Robin Torrence, eds.
Living Under the Shadow: The Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions.
Pp. x + 307, figs 63, tables 21. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Cal. 2007. $79. ISBN 978-1-59874-268-8 (cloth).

Gregory, David A., and David R. Wilcox, eds., with a foreword by William H. Doelle.
Zuni Origins: Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology.
Pp. xv + 517, figs. 207, tables 48. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2007. $75. ISBN 978-0-8165-2486-0 (cloth).

Hallager, Erik, and Jesper Tae Jensen.
Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens V.
Pp. 212, numerous b&w figs. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2007. $39.95. ISBN 978-8-77288-725-8 (paper).

Hess, Richard S.
Israelite Religions: an Archaeological and Biblical Survey.
Pp. 432, figs. 44. Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, Mich. 2008. $34.99. ISBN 978-0-8010-2717-8 (cloth).
Reviewed by C. Meyers AJA 113.4 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Hiscock, Peter.
Archaeology of Ancient Australia.
Pp. xi + 338, figs. 114. Routledge, London 2008. $49.95 ISBN 978-0-415-33811-0 (paper).

Hoffmann, Herbert.
Divergent Archaeology.
Pp. xvii + 304, figs. 39. Franz Philipp Rutzen, Ruhpolding und Mainz 2007. €48. ISBN 978-3-938646-12-0 (paper).

Högberg, Anders, and Deborah Olausson.
Scandinavian Flint – an Archaeological Perspective.
Pp. 158, numerous color figs. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2007. $30.95. ISBN 978-87-7934-279-8 (paper).

Hohlfelder, Robert L., ed.
The Maritime World of Ancient Rome: Proceedings of the “Maritime World of Ancient Rome” Conference held at the American Academy of Rome 27-29 March 2003 (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Vol. VI).
Pp. x + 341, figs. 154, tables 4. Published for the American Academy in Rome by The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2008. $95. ISBN 978-0-472-11581-5 (cloth).
Reviewed by E. Fentress AJA 113.1 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean.
Museums and Education: Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance (Museum Meanings).
Pp. xvii + 231, figs. 41, tables 31. Routledge, New York 2007. $42.95. ISBN 978-0-415-37936-6 (paper).

Hoselitz, Virginia.
Imagining Roman Britain: Victorian Responses to a Roman Past (Studies in History).
Pp. xii + 208, figs. 6. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, U.K. 2007. $85. ISBN 978-0-86193-293-1 (cloth).

Huntley, Deborah L.
Ancestral Zuni Glaze-Decorated Pottery: Viewing Pueblo IV Regional Organization through Ceramic Production and Exchange.
Pp. xi + 103, figs. 35, tables 27. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, US 2008. $17.95. ISBN 978-0-8165-2564-5 (paper).

Hurcombe, Linda M.
Archaeological Artefacts as Material Culture.
Pp. xvi + 286, b&w figs. 15, color figs. 49, tables 10. Routledge, London 2007. $35.95. ISBN 978-0-415-32092-4 (paper).

Janusek, John Wayne.
Ancient Tiwanaku: Case Studies in Early Societies.
Pp. xvi + 368, figs 111. Cambridge University Press, New York 2008. $24.99. ISBN 978-0-521-01662-9 (paper).

Joyce, Rosemary A.
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology.
Pp. 152, figs. 35. Thames & Hudson Inc., New York 2008. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-500-05153-5 (cloth).

Kalay, Yehuda E., Thomas Kvan, and Janice Affleck, eds.
New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage.
Pp. xv + 313, figs. 58, tables 5. Routledge, New York 2008. $43.95. ISBN 978-0-415-77356-0 (paper).

Kohl, Philip L., Mara Kozelsky, and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, eds.
Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts.
Pp. 426, figs. 23, maps 5. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2008. $26. ISBN 0-226-45059-7 (paper).
Reviewed by B. Arnold in AJA 113.4 (2009), 657-58.

Korda, Michael.
Ike: An American Hero.
Pp. xx + 780, figs. 44, maps 17. Harper Perennial, New York 2008. $17.95. ISBN 978-0-06-075666-6 (paper).

Lankford, George E.
Looking for Lost Lore: Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Iconography.
Pp. x + 245, figs. 20, tables 7. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2008. $28.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-5479-4 (paper).

Larson, Stephanie L.
Tales of Epic Ancestry: Boiotian Collective Identity in the Late Archaic and Early Classical Periods.
Pp. 238. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2007. €54. ISBN 978-3-515-09028-5 (paper).

Le Bohec, Yann.
L’Armée Romaine en Afrique et en Gaule (Mavors Roman Army Researches Vol. XIV).
Pp. 514, figs. 64, maps 8, tables 2. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2007. €96. ISBN 978-3-515-09067-4 (cloth). 

Lewis, John David.
Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens.
Pp. viii + 184. Duckworth, London 2006. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-7156-3728-9 (paper).

Linduff, Katheryn M, and Karen S. Rubinson.
Are All Warriors Male?: Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe.
Pp. xxi + 270, figs 44, tables 34. AltaMira Press, New York 2008. $36.95. ISBN 978-0-7591-1074-8 (paper).

Lomas, Kathryn, Ruth D. Whitehouse, and John B. Williams, eds.
Literacy and the State in the Ancient Mediterranean (Accordia Specialist Studies on the Mediterranean Volume 7).
Pp. 240, figs. 60, tables 8. Accordia Research Institute, University of London, London 2007. £36. ISBN 978-1873415-34-4 (paper).
Reviewed by J. Whitley AJA 113.2 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

Loukaki, Argyro.
Living Ruins, Value Conflicts (Heritage, Culture and Identity).
Pp. xiii + 359, figs. 69, table 1, maps 3. Ashgate Publishing, Hampshire, U.K. 2008. $114.95. ISBN 978-0-7546-7228-9 (cloth).

Lulof, Patricia S.
Architectural Terracottas in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam (Allard Pierson Series: Collections of the Allard Pierson Museum Vol. 2).
Pp. viii + 117, figs. 35, color pls. 6, b&w pls. 32. Allard Pierson Series, Amsterdam 2007. PRICE? ISBN 978-90-71211-40-9 (cloth).

Lyman, R. Lee.
Quantitative Paleozoology.
Pp. xxiii + 348, figs 94, tables 75. Cambridge University Press, New York 2008. $85. ISBN 978-0-521-71536-2 (cloth).

McHardy, Fiona.
Revenge in Athenian Culture.
Pp. vii + 179. Duckworth, London 2008. $70. ISBN 978-0-7156-3569-8 (cloth).

Meagher, Robert Emmet, and Elizabeth Parker Neave.
Ancient Greece: An Explorer’s Guide (Interlink Travel).
Pp. ix + 355, numerous color figs. Interlink Publishing, Northampton, Mass. 2008. $24. ISBN 978-1-56656-682-7 (paper).

Moholy-Nagy, Hattula, and William R. Coe.
The Artifacts of Tikal: Ornamental and Ceremonial Artifacts and Unworked Material.
Pp. xv + 260, figs. 246. On CD-ROM: tables 207, charts 22, color plates 36.  University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia 2008. $100. ISBN 978-1-931707-94-7 (cloth).

Morgan, William N.
Earth Architecture from Ancient to Modern.
Pp. xvi + 186, figs. 175. University Press of Florida, Gainesville 2008. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-8130-3207-8 (cloth).

Mylona, Dimitra.
Fish-Eating in Greece from the Fifth Century B.C. to the Seventh Century A.D.: A story of impoverished fishermen or luxurious fish banquets? (BAR International Series 1754).
Pp. vii + 171, figs 45, tables 13. Archaeopress, Oxford 2008. €31. ISBN 978-1-4073-0193-8 (paper).

Nichols, Deborah L, and Patricia L. Crown eds.,
Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest.
Pp. v + 273, figs. 23, tables 11, maps 8. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ 2008. $60. ISBN 978-0-8165-2621-5 (cloth).

Northedge, Alastair.
The Historical Topography of Samarra (Samarra Studies I).
Pp. 426, figs. 116, pls. 91. British School of Archaeology in Iraq, London 2007. £40. ISBN 978-0-903472-22-7 (paper).

Nossov, Konstantin S.
Hittite Fortifications c. 1650 – 700 BC.
Pp. 64, numerous color and b&w figs.Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK 2008. $18.95. ISBN 978-1-84603-207-3 (paper).

Parry, Ross.
Recoding the Museum: Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change (Museum Meanings).
Pp. xv + 166, figs. 19. Routledge, New York 2007. $41.95. ISBN 978-0-415-35388-5 (paper).

Pearce, Mark.
Bright Blades and Red Metal: Essays on North Italian Prehistoric Metalwork (Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy Volume 14).
Pp. 144, figs. 34, tables 14. Accordia Research Institute, University of London, London 2007. 36 GBP. ISBN 978-1873415-33-7 (paper).
Reviewed by D. Ridgway, AJA 113.2 ( 2009) 291-92.

Pillsburry, Joanne.
Guide to Sources for Andean Studies 1530-190, 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Pp. xvi + 441, figs. 45. maps. 7. Vol. 2: A-L: Pp. xiii + 363, figs. 85. Vol. 3: M-Z: Pp. xi + 792, figs. 60. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 2008. $195. ISBN 978-0-906-138176 (vol. 1) 978-0-8061-3820-6 (vol. 2) 978-0-8061-3821-3 (vol. 3) (cloth).

Pomeroy, Arthur J.
Then it was Destroyed by the Volcano: The Ancient World in Film and on Television.
Pp. viii + 152, figs. 10. Duckworth, London 2008. $27. ISBN 978-0-7156-3026-6 (paper).

Pool, Christopher A., and George J. Bey III, eds.
Pottery Economics in Mesoamerica.
Pp. viii + 322, figs. 45, tables 15. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2007. $55. ISBN 978-0-8165-2577-5 (cloth).                                                                                                   

 Purdy, Barbara A., with a foreword  by James S. Dunbar
Florida’s People During the Last Ice Age.
Pp. xx + 136, figs. 64. University Press of Florida, Gainesville 2008. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-8139-3204-7 (cloth).

Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin.
Greek Tragedy (Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World).
Pp. xii + 218. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2008. $75. ISBN 978-1-4051-2160-6 (cloth).

Rafferty, Janet, and Evan Peacock, eds.
Time’s River: Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi River Valley
. Pp. xi + 552, figs. 51, tables 28. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2008. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-5489-1 (paper).

Rasmussen, Bodil Bundgaard, Jørgen Steen Jensen, John Lund, and Michael Märcher, eds.
Peter Oluf Brøndsted (1780-1842): A Danish Classicist in his European Context.
Pp. 321, figs. 135. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen 2008. PRICE?. ISBN 87-7304-331-8 (paper).

Redford, Bruce.
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-century England.
Pp. x + 220, figs. 45 b&w, 105 color. J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles 2008. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-89236-924-9 (cloth).

Reitz, Elizabeth J., and Elizabeth S. Wing.
Zooarchaeology: Second Edition (Manuals in Archaeology).
Pp. xvii + 533, figs. 117, tables 35. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008. $45. ISBN 978-0-521-67393-8 (paper). 

Rocca, Samuel, illustrated by Adam Hook.
The Forts of Judaea 168 BC-AD 73: From the Maccabees to the Fall of Masada.  
Pp. 64, numerous figs. Osprey Publishing Ltd., Oxford 2008. $18.95. ISBN 978-1-84603-1717 (paper).

Roodenberg, Jacob, and Songül Alpaslan Roodenberg, eds.
Life and Death in a Prehistoric Settlement in Northwest Anatolia: The Il?p?nar Excavations Volume III with contributions on Hac?lartepe and Mente?e.
Pp. ix + 448, figs. 324, tables 61. Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden 2008. €90.10. ISBN 978-90-6258-321-8 (paper).
Reviewed by R. Matthews, AJA 113.2 ( 2009) 289.

Ross, Dennis.
Statecraft: and How to Restore America’s Standing in the World.
Pp. xii + 370. Farrar, Straus and Grioux, New York 2007. $ 26. ISBN 978-0-374-29928-6 (cloth).

Rothe, Russel D., William K. Miller, and George (Rip) Rapp.
Pharaonic Inscriptions from the Southern Eastern Desert of Egypt.
Pp. ix + 504, figs. 56. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind. 2008. $89.95. ISBN 978-1-57506-147-4 (cloth).

Scheidel, Walter, Ian Morris, and Richard Saller, eds.
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World.
Pp. xiv + 942, figs. 28, tables 15, maps 24. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008. $225. ISBN 978-0-521-78053-7 (cloth).

Scott, Ann Reynolds.
Cosa: The Black-Glaze Pottery 2 (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Vol. V).
Pp. 221, pls. 63, tables 18. Published for the American Academy in Rome by the University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2008. $80. ISBN 978-0-472-11585-3 (cloth).

Scott, Monique.
Rethinking Evolution in the Museum: Envisioning African Origins (Museum Meanings).
Pp. xiii + 194, figs. 26. Routledge, New York 2007. $41.95. ISBN 978-0-415-40540-9 (paper).

Seeher, Jürgen.
A Mudbrick City Wall at Hattuša: Diary of a Reconstruction.
Pp. 232, figs. 201. Ege Yay?nlar?, Istanbul-Türkiye 2007. €45. ISBN 978-975-807-195-5 (cloth).

Snead, James E.
Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World.
Pp. xiii + 208, figs. 20. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2008. $45. ISBN 978-0-8165-2308-5 (cloth).

Soles, Jeffrey S.
Mochlos IIA: Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery.
Pp. xxx + 265, figs. 142, pls. 58, tables 7. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2008. $80. ISBN 978-1-931-53423-9 (cloth).

Sommer, Marianne.
Bones & Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland.
Pp. xii + 398, figs. 15, table 1. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2008. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02499-1 (cloth).

Speidel, M.A., and H. Lieb.
Militärdiplome.
Pp. 414, numerous tables. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2007. €88. ISBN 978-3-515-09144-2 (cloth).

Stallibrass, Sue, and Richard Thomas, eds.
Feeding the Roman Army: The Archaeology of Production and Supply in NW Europe.
Pp. 169, figs. 60, tables 13. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2008. $60. ISBN 978-1-84217-323-7 (paper).

Stanton, Travis W., and Aline Magnoni, eds., with a foreword by Wendy Ashmore, and an afterword by Denise Brown.
Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands (Mesoamerican Worlds from the Olmecs to the Danzantes).
Pp. xviii + 364, figs. 101. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2008. $60. ISBN 978-0-87081-888-2 (cloth).

Stone, Peter G., and Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly, eds., with a foreword by Robert Fisk.
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq (‘Heritage Matters’ Series: Vol. 1).
Pp. xii + 319, figs. 15, tables 3, pls. 16, maps 5. Boydell Press, Woodbridge, U.K. 2008. $95. ISBN 978-1-84383-384-0 (cloth).

Stray, Christopher, ed.
Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000.
Pp. xi + 153, figs. 2. Duckworth, London 2007. $70. ISBN 978-0-7156-3673-2 (cloth).

Stuart, James, and Nicholas Revett, with an introduction by Frank Salmon.
Antiquities of Athens: Measured and Delineated by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett.
Pp. xvii + 496, figs. 400. Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2008. $125. ISBN 978-1-56898-723-1 (cloth).

Suzuki, Seiichi.
Anglo-Saxon Button Brooches: Typology, Genealogy, Chronology (Anglo-Saxon Studies Vol. 10).
Pp. xxxi + 418, figs. 116, pls. 234, tables 69. Boydell Press, Woodbridge, U.K. 2008. $145. ISBN 9781843833628 (cloth).

Szpakowska, Kasia.
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: Recreating Lahun.
Pp. xii + 244, figs. 50. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, Mass. 2008. $35. ISBN 978-1-4051-1856-9 (paper).

Taylor, John.
Classics and the Bible: Hospitality and Recognition (Classical Literature and Society Series).
Pp. xi + 204. Duckworth, London 2007. $33. ISBN 978-0-7156-3481-3 (paper).

Taylor, Rabun.
The Moral Mirror of Roman Art.
Pp. xii + 274, figs 103. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008. $90. ISBN 978-0-521-86612-5 (cloth).

Tezgör, Dominique Kassab.
Tanagréennes d’Alexandrie: Figurines de terre cuite hellénistiques des necropoles orientales (Études alexandrines 12-2007).
Pp. ix + 495, color pls. 6, b&w pls. 81. Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, Cairo 2007. PRICE?. ISBN 978-2-7247-0462-4 (paper).

Tyldesley, Joyce.
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt.
Pp. xiv + 290, figs. 26. Basic Books, New York 2008. $27.50. ISBN 978-0-465-00940-4 (paper).

Sophocles, translated by John Tipton, with a foreword by Stanley Lombardo.
Ajax.
Pp. xv + 112. Flood Editions, Chicago 2008. $13.95. ISBN 978-0-9787467-5-9 (paper).

Van Dyke, Ruth M.
The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place (A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book).
Pp. xiii + 314, pls. 17, figs. 17, tables 10. School for Advanced Research Press, Sante Fe 2008. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-930618-76-3 (paper).

van de Mieroop, Marc.
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II.
Pp. xii + 297, figs. 27, maps 7. Blackwell, Malden, Mass. 2007. $105.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-6069-8 (cloth). 

Vandkilde, Helle.
Culture and Change in Central European Prehistory: 6th to 1st millennium BC.
Pp. 215, figs. 65. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2007. $33. ISBN 978-87-7934-245-3 (paper).

van Eck, Caroline.
Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe.
Pp. xii + 225, figs. 54. Cambridge University Press, New York 2007. $80. ISBN 978-0-521-84435-2 (cloth).

Wilkinson, Richard H., ed.
Egyptology Today.
Pp. xiii + 283, figs. 66. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008. $29.99. ISBN 978-0-521-68226-8 (paper).
Reviewed by K. Yamamoto AJA 113.4 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews

Wilson, Samuel M.
The Archaeology of The Caribbean.
Pp. xiv + 209, figs. 45, tables 1. Cambridge University Press, New York 2007. $27.99. ISBN 978-0-521-62622-4 (paper).

Winchester, Simon.
The Day the World Exploded: The Earthshaking Catastrophe at Krakatoa.
Pp. 96, numerous color and b&w figs. HarperCollins, New York 2008. $22.99. ISBN 978-0-06-123982-3 (cloth).

Wright, Henry T. with contributions by: Ian Baliff, David Burney, Robert Dewar, Sigrid
Gabler, Herbert Haas, Augustin F.C. Holl, Susan Kus, Andrianaivoarivony Rafolo, Victor Raharijaona, Jean-Aimé Rakotoarisoa, Solo Hilarion Rakotovololona, David Rasamuel, George Schwartz, Wilma Wetterstrom.
Early State Formation in Central Madagascar: An Archaeological Survey of Western Avaradrano.
Pp. xvi + 311, figs 37, tables 24. Ann Arbor, Michigan 2007. $38. ISBN 978-0-915703-63-0 (paper).

Yoffee, Norman, ed., with commentary by Lynn Meskell and Jack Davis.
Negotiating the Past: Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Research.
Pp. vi + 267, figs. 55, tables 2. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2008. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-8165-2670-3 (paper).
Reviewed by H. Forbes AJA 113.2 (2009) online: http://www.ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.

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