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List of Books Received

January 2015 (119.1)

Books Received

List of Books Received

Altmayer, Klaus. Die Herrschaft des Carus, Carinus und Numerianus als Vorläufer der Tetrarchie (Historia Einzelschriften 230). Pp. 506, b&w pls. 28. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014. €82. ISBN 978-3-515-10621-4 (cloth).

Azoulay, Vincent. Janet Lloyd, trans. Pericles of Athens. Pp. xviii + 291, figs. 16. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2014. $35. ISBN 978-0-691-15459-6 (cloth).

Baughan, Elizabeth P. Couched in Death: Klinai and Identity in Anatolia and Beyond. Pp. xvii + 487, figs. 168, color pls. 11, tables 2. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2013. $65. ISBN 978-0-299-29180-8 (cloth).

Beard, Mary. Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (Sather Classical Lectures 71). Pp. x + 319, figs. 6. University of California Press, Berkeley 2014. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-520-27716-8 (cloth).

Birk, Stine, Troels Myrup Kristensen, and Birte Poulsen, eds. Using Images in Late Antiquity. Pp. viii + 312, figs. 65, color pls. 32, tables 4. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2014. $65. ISBN 978-1-78297-261-7 (paper).

Bishop, M.C. The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain. Pp. xiv + 210, figs. 33, b&w pls. 19. Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, England 2014. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-84884-615-9 (cloth).

Borbonus, Dorian. Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome. Pp. xvi + 294, figs. 71, tables 17. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-03140-1 (cloth).

Braswell, Geoffrey E., ed. The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors: Settlement Patterns, Architecture, Hieroglyphic Texts, and Ceramics. Pp. xx + 437, figs. 136, tables 11. Routledge, New York 2014. $160. ISBN 978-0-415-74486-7 (cloth).

Bruseth, James E., ed. La Belle: The Ship that Changed History. Pp. 116, figs. 150. Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2014. $19.95. ISBN 978-1-62349-033-1 (paper).

Byrne, Denis. Counterheritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage Conservation in Asia (Routledge Studies in Heritage 5). Pp. x + 244, figs. 20. Routledge, New York 2014. $125. ISBN 978-0-415-74406-5 (cloth).

Collins, Rob, and Frances McIntosh, eds. Life in the Limes: Studies of the People and Objects of the Roman Frontiers. Pp. x + 238, figs. 79, color pls. 29, tables 7. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2014. $80. ISBN 978-1-78297-253-2 (cloth).

Creekmore III, Andrew T., and Kevin D. Fisher, eds. Making Ancient Cities: Space and Place in Early Urban Societies. Pp. xxii + 419, figs. 86, tables 4. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-04652-8 (cloth).

Cullen, Tracey, Lauren E. Talalay, Donald R. Keller, Lia Karimali, and William R. Farrand. The Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula, Euboea (Prehistory Monographs 40). Pp. xxvi + 161, figs. 37, b&w pls. 47, tables 22. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2013. $70. ISBN 978-1-931534-70-3 (cloth).

Cummings, Vicki, Peter Jordan, and Marek Zvelebil, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers. Pp. xxviii + 1,330, figs. 123, tables 33. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $199. ISBN 978-0-19-955122-4 (cloth).

Damaskos, Dimitris. Κατάλογος γλυπτών του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Καβάλας (Δημοσιεύματα Αρχαιολογικού Ινστιτούτου Μακεδονικών και Θρακικών Σπουδών 15). Pp. 159, b&w pls. 372. Αρχαιολογικο Ινστιτούτο Μακεδονικών και Θρακικών Σπουδών, Thessaloniki 2013. Price not available. ISBN 978-960-9726-04-7 (paper).

Day, Leslie Preston, and Kevin T. Glowacki. Kavousi IIB: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. The Buildings on the Periphery (Prehistory Monographs 39). Pp. xxxii + 195, figs. 136, b&w pls. 30, charts 70, tables 28. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2012. $80. ISBN 978-1-931534-69-7 (cloth).

de Vos Raaijmakers, Mariette, Redha Attoui, and Alessandro Battisti. Rus Africum. Vol. 2, Le paysage rural antique autour de Dougga: L’aqueduc Aïn Hammam-Thugga, cartograhie et relevés (Bibliotheca Archaeologica 34). Pp. 304, figs. 55, b&w pls. 229, Beilagen 3. Edipuglia, Bari 2013. €70. ISBN 978-88-7228-728-6 (paper).

Dyson, Stephen L. The Last Amateur: The Life of William J. Stillman. Pp. x + 379, figs. 31. State University of New York Press, Albany 2014. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-4384-5261-6 (cloth).

Efstratiou, Nikos, Alexandra Karetsou, and Maria Ntinou, eds. The Neolithic Settlement of Knossos in Crete: New Evidence for the Early Occupation of Crete and the Aegean Islands (Prehistory Monographs 42). Pp. xxviii + 217, figs. 85, tables 46. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2013. $80. ISBN 978-1-931534-72-7 (cloth).

Emerick, Keith. Conserving and Managing Ancient Monuments: Heritage, Democracy, and Inclusion (Heritage Matters 14). Pp. xii + 282, figs. 20. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, England 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-84383-909-5 (cloth).

Fries-Knoblach, Janine, Heiko Steuer, and John Hines, eds. The Baiuvarii and Thuringi: An Ethnographic Perspective (Studies in Historical Archaeology 9). Pp. viii + 388, figs. 99. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, England 2014. $120. ISBN 978-1-84383-915-6 (cloth).

Frood, Elizabeth, and Rubina Raja, eds. Redefining the Sacred: Religious Architecture and Text in the Near East and Egypt 1000 BC–AD 300 (Contextualizing the Sacred 1). Pp. xx + 260, figs. 48, color pls. 9, maps 4. Brepols, Turnhout 2014. €80. ISBN 978-2-503-54104-4 (cloth).

Galinsky, Karl, ed. Memoria Romana: Memory in Rome and Rome in Memory (MAAR Suppl. 10). Pp. xiv + 193, figs. 39. The American Academy in Rome, Rome 2014. $85. ISBN 978-0-472-11943-1 (cloth).

Graells, Raimon, Alberto J. Lorrio, and Fernando Quesada. Cascos hispano-calcídicos: Símbolo de las élites guerreras celtibéricas (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Kataloge vor- und frühgeschichtlicher Altertümer 46). Pp. xxiv + 315, figs. 210, b&w pls. 5, tables 3. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 2014. €70. ISBN 978-3-88467-230-3 (cloth).

Graf, Kelly E., Caroline V. Ketron, and Michael R. Waters, eds. Paleoamerican Odyssey. Pp. viii + 573, figs. 168, graphs 58, maps 56. Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2014. $45. ISBN 978-1-62349-192-5 (paper).

Greve, Anika. Sepulkrale hofarchitekturen im Hellenismus: Alexandria, Nea Paphos, Kyrene (Contextualizing the Sacred 3). Pp. xiv + 328, figs. 144. Brepols, Turnhout 2014. €120. ISBN 978-2-503-54409-0 (paper).

Hall, David. The Open Fields of England (Medieval History and Archaeology). Pp. xiv + 381, figs. 22, color pls. 16, tables 22. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $150. ISBN 978-0-19-870295-5 (cloth).

Harris, William V., ed. The Ancient Mediterranean Environment Between Science and History (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 39). Pp. xxii + 332, figs. 57, tables 7. Brill, Leiden 2013. $145. ISBN 978-90-04-25343-8 (cloth).

Hermary, Antoine, and Joan R. Mertens. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Stone Sculpture. Pp. 436, figs. 949. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2014. $175. ISBN 978-0-300-20671-5 (paper).

Herrero, Borja Legarra. Mortuary Behavior and Social Trajectories in Pre- and Protopalatial Crete (Prehistory Monographs 44). Pp. xviii + 359, figs. 141, tables 8. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2014. $80. ISBN 978-1-931534-74-1 (cloth).

Huckell, Bruce B., and J. David Kilby, eds. Clovis Caches: Recent Discoveries and New Research. Pp. x + 254, figs. 100, tables 49. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2014. $75. ISBN 978-0-8263-5482-2 (cloth).

Hurcombe, Linda M. Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory: Investigating the Missing Majority. Pp. xvi + 211, figs. 9, color pls. 60, table 1. Routledge, New York 2014. $130. ISBN 978-0-415-53792-6 (cloth).

Keller, Daniel, Jennifer Price, and Caroline Jackson, eds. Neighbours and Successors of Rome: Traditions of Glass Production and Use in Europe and the Middle East in the Later First Millennium AD. Pp. viii + 231, figs. 176. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2014. $85. ISBN 978-1-78297-397-5 (cloth).

Kennedy, Rebecca Futo. Immigrant Women in Athens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City (Routledge Studies in Ancient History 6). Pp. ix + 177, figs. 14. Routledge, New York 2014. $125. ISBN 978-0-415-73786-9 (cloth).

Kosmin, Paul J. The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire. Pp. xvi + 423, figs. 15, maps 9. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2014. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-674-72882-0 (cloth).

Kotsonas, Antonis, ed. Understanding Standardization and Variation in Mediterranean Ceramics: Mid 2nd to Late 1st Millennium BC (BABesch Suppl. 25). Pp. viii + 196, figs. 106, tables 13. Peeters, Leuven 2014. €87. ISBN 978-90-429-3091-9 (paper).

Lee, Benjamin Todd, Ellen Finkelpearl, and Luca Graverini, eds. Apuleius and Africa (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies 18). Pp. xvi + 344, figs. 43. Routledge, New York 2014. $135. ISBN 978-0-415-53309-6 (cloth).

Mair, Victor H., and Jane Hickman, eds. Reconfiguring the Silk Road: New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity. Pp. xvi + 104, figs. 39. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia 2014. $59.95. ISBN 978-1-934536-68-1 (cloth).

Martin, Debra L., and Cheryl P. Anderson, eds. Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How Violent Death is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 67). Pp. xii + 329, figs. 61, tables 17. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-04544-6 (cloth).

Mattusch, Carol C. Enduring Bronze: Ancient Art, Modern Views. Pp. 168, figs. 113. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2014. $30. ISBN 978-1-60606-326-2 (paper).

Moret, Jean-Marc. I marmi di Garaguso: Vittorio Di Cicco e l’imbroglio della loro scoperta. Pp. 348, figs. 51. Osanna Edizioni, Venosa 2014. €50. ISBN 978-88-8167-448-0 (paper).

Murray, Tim. From Antiquarian to Archaeologist: The History and Philosophy of Archaeology. Pp. 261, figs. 7. Pen & Sword, Barnsley, England 2014. £25. ISBN 978-1-78346-352-7 (cloth).

Nielsen, Inge. Housing the Chosen: The Architectural Context of Mystery Groups and Religious Associations in the Ancient World (Contextualizing the Sacred 2). Pp. xvi + 322, figs. 136, b&w pls. 62. Brepols, Turnhout 2014. €120. ISBN 978-2-503-54437-3 (paper).

Olsen, Barbara A. Women in Mycenaean Greece: The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos. Pp. x + 379, figs. 2, tables 9. Routledge, New York 2014. $130. ISBN 978-0-415-72515-6 (cloth).

Olsen, Bjørnar, and Þóra Pétursdóttir, eds. Ruin Memories: Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past (Archaeological Orientations). Pp. xviii + 492, figs. 173. Routledge, New York 2014. $205. ISBN 978-0-415-52362-2 (cloth).

Palka, Joel W. Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes: Insights from Archaeology, History, and Ethnography (Archaeologies of Landscape in the Americas Series). Pp. xvi + 374, figs. 175, table 1, maps 7. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2014. $75. ISBN 978-0-8263-5474-7 (cloth).

Papadopoulou, Ioanna, and Leonard Muellner, eds. Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus (Hellenic Studies 63). Pp. xxiv + 272, figs. 15. Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C. 2014. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-674-72676-5 (paper).

Papapostolou, Ι.Α. Το Ιερό του Θέρμου στην Αιτωλία: Περιήγηση του χώρου (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 291). Pp. 252, figs. 145. Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2014. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-5047-10-8 (paper).

Platts, Hannah, John Pearce, Caroline Barron, Jason Lundock, and Justin Yoo, eds. TRAC 2013: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Theoretical Roman Archaeological Conference, King’s College, London, 4–6 April 2013. Pp. 173, figs. 38, tables 6. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2014. $60. ISBN 978-1-78297-690-5 (paper).

Poblome, Jeroen, ed. Exempli Gratia: Sagalassos, Marc Waelkens and Interdisciplinary Archaeology. Pp. 222, figs. 34, tables 3. Leuven University Press, Leuven 2013. $89.50. ISBN 978-90-5867-979-6 (cloth).

Prignitz, Sebastian. Bauurkunden und Bauprogramm von Epidauros (400–350): Asklepiostempel, Tholos, Kultbild, Brunnenhaus (Vestigia 67). Pp. 395, b&w pls. 67. C.H. Beck, Munich 2014. €108. ISBN 978-3-406-65820-4 (cloth).

Quilter, Jeffrey. The Ancient Central Andes (Routledge Word Archaeology). Pp. xvi + 336, figs. 48. Routledge, New York 2014. $130. ISBN 978-0-415-67309-9 (cloth).

Renfrew, Colin, and Paul Bahn, eds. The Cambridge World Prehistory. Vol. 1, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific; vol. 2, East Asia and the Americas; vol. 3, West and Central Asia and Europe. Pp. 2,049, figs. 659, tables 14, maps 190. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $675. ISBN 978-1-107-02377-2 (vol. 1); 978-1-107-02378-9 (vol. 2); 978-1-107-02379-6 (vol. 3) (cloth).

Roksandic, Mirjana, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Sabine Eggers, Meghan Burchell, and Daniela Klokler, eds. The Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites. Pp. xviii + 368, figs. 56, charts 38, tables 63, maps 22. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2014. $85. ISBN 978-0-8263-5456-3 (cloth).

Schaus, Gerald P. Stymphalos: The Acropolis Sanctuary. Vol. 1 (Phoenix Suppl. 54). Pp. xvi + 499, figs. 202, charts 8, tables 21. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2014. $145. ISBN 978-1-4426-4529-5 (cloth).

Schnapp, Alain, ed. World Antiquarianism: Comparative Perspectives (Getty Research Institute Issues & Debates). Pp. viii + 455, figs. 104, maps 4. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles 2013. $60. ISBN 978-1-60606-148-0 (paper).

Shinde, Vasant, Teresa P. Raczek, and Gregory L. Possehl, eds. Excavations at Gilund: The Artifacts and Other Studies (University Museum Monograph 138). Pp. xviii + 254, figs. 111, tables 68. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia 2014. $99.95. ISBN 978-1-934536-66-7 (cloth).

Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos (Prehistory Monographs 45). Pp. xviii + 84, b&w pls. 7, tables 5, maps 6. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2014. $60. ISBN 978-1-931534-75-8 (cloth).

Snape, Steven. The Complete Cities of Ancient Egypt. Pp. 240, figs. 242. Thames & Hudson, London 2014. $50. ISBN 978-0-500-05179-5 (cloth).

Sommerstein, Alan H., ed. Menander in Contexts (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies 16). Pp. xvi + 286, figs. 4. Routledge, New York 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-94371-3 (cloth).

Tournavitou, Iphigeneia. Κύθηρα. Το μινωϊκό ιερό κορυφής στον Άγιο Γεώργιο στο Βουνό 4: Κεραμεική της εποχής του χαλκού (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 289). Pp. xx + 664, b&w pls. 36, charts 19, graphs 34, tables 21. Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2014. Price not available. ISBN 978-618-8047-11-5 (paper).

Tully, John A.N.Z. The Island Standard: The Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Coinages of Paros (Numismatic Studies 28). Pp. xiv + 206, figs. 8, b&w pls. 27, tables 54, maps 2. The American Numismatic Society, New York 2013. $120. ISBN 978-0-89722-329-4 (cloth).

Waterfield, Robin. Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece. Pp. xxiv + 287, figs. 25, maps 5. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-19-991689-4 (cloth).

Whittaker, Helène. Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece. Pp. xiv + 291, figs. 14, tables 4, maps 7. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-04987-1 (cloth).

Wileman, Julie. Warfare in Northern Europe Before the Romans: Evidence from Archaeology. Pp. viii + 190, figs. 32, b&w pls. 14. Pen & Sword, Barnsley 2014. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-78159-325-7 (cloth).

Wilson, Penelope, Gregory Gilbert, and Geoffrey Tassie. Sais II: The Prehistoric Period at Sa el-Hagar (Egypt Exploration Society Excavation Memoir 107). Pp. xviii + 280, figs. 134, b&w pls. 117, tables 56. Egypt Exploration Society, London 2014. £70. ISBN 978-0-85698-218-7 (paper).

Worthington, Ian. By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire (Ancient Warfare and Civilization). Pp. xxii + 388, figs. 24, maps 10. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-19-992986-3 (cloth).

Yntema, Douwe. The Archaeology of South-East Italy in the First Millennium BC: Greek and Native Societies of Apulia and Lucania Between the 10th and the 1st Century BC (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 20). Pp. viii + 304, figs. 162, tables 5. University of Amsterdam Press, Amsterdam 2013. $99. ISBN 978-90-8964-579-1 (cloth).

List of Books Received

American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 119, No. 1 (January 2015)

Published online at www.ajaonline.org/books-received/1952

DOI: 10.3764/ajaonline1191.BooksReceived