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List of Books Received

July 2015 (119.3)

Books Received

List of Books Received

Alberti, Benjamin, Andrew Meirion Jones, and Joshua Pollard, eds. Archaeology After Interpretation: Returning Materials to Archaeological Theory. Pp. 417, figs. 74, tables 2. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Calif. 2013. $94. ISBN 978-1-61132-341-2 (cloth).

Algrain, Isabelle. L’alabastre attique: Origine, forme et usages (Études d’archéologie 7). Pp. 320, figs. 103, tables 11. CReA-Patrimoine, Brussels 2014. €80. ISBN 978-94-6136-042-7 (paper).

Ambrosini, Laura, and Vincent Jolivet, eds. Les potiers d’Étrurie et leur monde: Contacts, échanges, transferts. Hommages à Mario A. Del Chiaro. Pp. 488, figs. 117, color pls. 8. Armand Colin, Paris 2014. €40. ISBN 978-2-200-28769-6 (paper).

Arbuckle, Benjamin S., and Sue Ann McCarty, eds. Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World. Pp. xxii + 388, figs. 74, tables 17, maps 12. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2014. $70. ISBN 978-1-60732-285-6 (cloth).

Arnold, Dean E. The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community. Pp. xxxiv + 323, figs. 150. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2015. $70. ISBN 978-1-60732-313-6 (cloth).

Banks, Kimball M., and Jon S. Czaplicki, eds. Dam Projects and the Growth of American Archaeology: The River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program. Pp. 318, figs. 36, tables 7. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Calif. 2014. $79. ISBN 978-1-61132-174-6 (cloth).

Baquedano, Elizabeth, ed. Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity. Pp. xiv + 239, figs. 103, tables 6, map 1. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2014. $65. ISBN 978-1-60732-287-0 (cloth).

Beckmann, Martin. Diva Faustina: Coinage and Cult in Rome and the Provinces (Numismatic Studies 26). Pp. xii + 170, figs 73, b&w pls. 33, charts 18. The American Numismatic Society, New York 2012. $95. ISBN 978-0-89722-322-5 (cloth).

Betancourt, Philip P. Hagios Charalambos: A Minoan Burial Cave in Crete. Vol. 1, Excavation and Portable Objects (Prehistory Monographs 47). Pp. xviii + 120, figs. 43, b&w pls. 24, color pls. 2. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2014. $60. ISBN 978-1-931534-80-2 (cloth).

Blackburn, Thomas, and John R. Johnson, eds. Treasures from Native California: The Legacy of Russian Exploration. Pp. 213, figs. 113, tables 3. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Calif. 2015. $84. ISBN 978-1-61132-982-7 (cloth).

Bouzek, Jan, Lidia Domaradzka, Alexey Gotzev, and Zosia Halina Archibald, eds. Pistiros V: Excavations and Studies. Pp. 288, figs. 158, color pls. 72. Charles University, Prague 2013. Price not available. ISBN 978-80-7308-460-8 (paper).

Brandt, J. Rasmus, Marina Prusac, and Håkon Roland, eds. Death and Changing Rituals: Function and Meaning in Ancient Funerary Practices (Studies in Funerary Archaeology 7). Pp. xx + 456, figs. 105, tables 12. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2015. $70. ISBN 978-1-78297-639-4 (cloth).

Bray, Tamara L., ed. The Archaeology of Wak’as: Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes. Pp. xviii + 403, figs. 73. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. $70. ISBN 978-1-60732-317-4 (cloth).

Briant, Pierre. Translated by Jan Marie Todd. Darius in the Shadow of Alexander. Pp. xx + 579, figs. 55. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2015. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-674-49309-4 (cloth).

Brittenham, Claudia. The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico. Pp. xx + 295, figs. 52, maps 13. University of Texas Press, Austin 2015. $70. ISBN 978-0-292-76089-9 (cloth).

Caraher, William, R. Scott Moore, and David K. Pettegrew. Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of an Ancient Coastal Town (American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports 21). Pp. xvi + 330, figs. 137, tables 56. American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston 2014. $79.95. ISBN 978-0-89757-069-5 (cloth).

Catti, Elisa Lanza, and Keith Swift. The Chora of Metaponto 5: A Greek Farmhouse at Ponte Fabrizio. Pp. xxviii + 479, figs. 503, graphs 45, maps 43. University Press of Texas, Austin 2014. $75. ISBN 978-0-292-75864-3 (cloth).

Corbet, Elena D. Competitive Archaeology in Jordan: Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites. Pp. xx + 292, figs. 11, maps 2. University of Texas Press, Austin 2014. $55. ISBN 978-0-292-76080-6 (cloth).

Daly, Kevin F., and Lee Ann Riccardi, eds. Cities Called Athens: Studies Honoring John McK. Camp II. Pp. xxxvi + 457, figs. 51, tables 9. Bucknell University Press, Lanham, Md. 2015. $105. ISBN 978-1-61148-617-9 (cloth).

Empereur, Jean-Yves, ed. Alexandrina 4 (Études Alexandrines 32). Pp. 396, figs. 210. Centre d’Études Alexandrines, Alexandria 2014. €40. ISBN 978-2-11-129855-2 (cloth).

Gaignerot-Driessen, Florence, and Jan Driessen, eds. Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation (AEGIS 7). Pp. 187, figs. 123. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Louvain 2014. €40. ISBN 978-2-87558-328-4 (paper).

Giorgi, Enrico, and Julian Bogdani. Il territorio di Phoinike in Caonia: Archeologia del paesaggio in Albania meridionale (Scavi di Phoinike 1). Pp. 450, figs. 523. Ante Quem, Bologna 2012. €42. ISBN 978-88-7849-079-6 (paper).

Glowacki, Donna M. Living and Learning: A Social History of Regional Depopulation in Thirteenth-Century Mesa Verde. Pp. xiv + 296, figs. 38, tables 13. University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2015. $60. ISBN 978-0-8165-3133-2 (cloth).

Hakulin, Lena. Metals in LBA Minoan and Mycenaean Societies on Crete: A Quantitative Approach. Pp. xviii + 253, figs. 52, tables 7, maps 7. University of Helsinki, Helsinki 2013. €35. ISBN 978-952-10-9268-8 (paper).

Harris, Susanna, and Laurence Douny, eds. Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives. Pp. 245, figs. 59, table 1. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Calif. 2014. $79. ISBN 978-1-61132-887-5 (cloth).

Hawes, Harriet Boyd, Blanche E. Williams, Richard B. Seager, and Edith H. Hall. Gournia, Vasiliki, and Other Prehistoric Sites on the Isthmus of Hierapetra, Crete: Excavations of the Wells-Houston-Cramp Expeditions 1901, 1903, 1904. Pp. vii + 60, figs. 42, color pls. 11. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2014. $50. ISBN 978-1-931534-79-6 (cloth).

Hicks, Dan, and Alice Stevenson, eds. World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization. Pp. xii + 572, figs. 153, tables 32. Archaeopress, Oxford 2013. £39.50. ISBN 978-1-9057396-58-5 (paper).

Hollinshead, Mary B. Shaping Ceremony: Monumental Steps in Greek Architecture. Pp. xiv + 233, figs. 12, b&w pls. 101. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2015. $50. ISBN 978-0-299-30110-1 (cloth).

Kadıoğlu, Musa. Das Gerontikon von Nysa am Mäander (Forschungen in Nysa am Mäander 3). Pp. viii + 211, figs. 84, b&w pls. 68, color pls. 13, plans 13. Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2014. €89. ISBN 978-3-8053-4851-5 (cloth).

Karageorghis, Vassos, and Athanasia Kanta. Pyla-Kokkinokremos: A Late 13th Century BC Fortified Settlement in Cyprus. Excavations 2010–2011 (SIMA 141). Pp. xxvi + 260, figs. 251, b&w pls. 22, color pls. 9, tables 11, plans 5. Åströms Förlag, Uppsala 2014. €80. ISBN 978-91-981535-0-7 (cloth).

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome). Pp. xxvi + 286, figs. 100. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 2015. $69.95. ISBN 978-1-4696-2128-9 (cloth).

Lane, Melissa. The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Pp. xii + 382, figs. 4, maps 3. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2014. $26.95. ISBN 978-0-691-16647-6 (cloth).

Lazerow, Herbert. Mastering Art Law. Pp. lx + 511. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N.C. $42. ISBN 978-1-59460-917-6 (paper).

Lee, Mireille M. Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece. Pp. xvi + 365, figs. 108. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-05536-0 (cloth).

Levy, Thomas E., Mohammad Najjar, and Erez Ben-Yosef. New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan. Surveys, Excavations, and Research from the University of California, San Diego–Department of Antiquities of Jordan, Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeological Project (ELRAP). 2 vols. Pp. 1,090, figs. 861. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles 2014. $169. ISBN 978-1-931745-99-4 (cloth).

Lynott, Mark J. Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio: More Than Mounds and Geometric Earthworks (American Landscapes 1). Pp. xii + 287, figs. 137. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2014. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-78297-754-4 (paper).

Marston, John M., Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, and Christina Warinner, eds. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany. Pp. xxiv + 548, figs. 87. University Press of Colorado, Boulder 2014. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-60732-315-0 (paper).

Moretti, Jean-Charles, and Liliane Rabatel, eds. Le sanctuaire de Claros et son oracle: Actes du colloque international de Lyon, 13–14 janvier 2012 (Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée 65). Pp. 258, figs. 149, tables 5. Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée–Jean Pouilloux, Lyon 2014. €31. ISBN 978-2-35668-047-1 (paper).

Nakassis, Dimitri, Joann Gulizio, and Sarah A. James, eds. KE-RA-ME-JA: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine (Prehistory Monographs 46). Pp. xx + 314, figs. 31, tables 23. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2014. $80. ISBN 978-1-931534-76-5 (cloth).

Olivier-Trottenberg, Yasmin. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Germany 96. Munich 17. Antikensammlung Etruskisch schwarzfigurige Keramik. Pp. 164, figs. 9, color pls. 87, Beilagen 16. C.H. Beck, Munich 2014. €98. ISBN 978-3-406-66656-8 (cloth).

Papadopoulos, Thanasis, and Litsa Kontorli-Papadopoulou. Vravron: The Mycenaean Cemetery (SIMA 142). Pp. xiv + 284, figs. 325, b&w pls. 100, color pls. 4. Åströms Förlag, Uppsala 2014. €76. ISBN 978-91-7081-255-2 (cloth).

Pitts, Martin, and Miguel John Versluys, eds. Globalisation and the Roman World: World History, Connectivity and Material Culture. Pp. x + 296, figs. 20, maps 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-04374-9 (cloth).

Renfrew, Colin, and Paul Bahn. Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods, Practice. Pp. 352, figs. 295. Thames & Hudson, London 2015. $68.75. ISBN 978-0-500-29159-7 (paper).

Riess, Warren C. The Ship that Held Up Wall Street: The Ronson Ship Wreck. Pp. xii + 100, figs. 54. Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2015. $29. ISBN 978-1-62349-188-8 (cloth).

Ristvet, Lauren. Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East. Pp. xiv + 317, figs. 52. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-06521-5 (cloth).

Sasaki, Randall J. The Origins of the Lost Fleet of the Mongol Empire (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series). Pp. xiv + 201, figs. 68, maps 2. Texas A&M University Press, College Station 2015. $50. ISBN 978-1-62349-194-9 (cloth).

Shipman, Pat. The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction. Pp. xvi + 266, figs. 23, tables 2. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2015. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-73676-4 (cloth).

Shott, Michael J., ed. Works in Stone: Contemporary Perspectives on Lithic Analysis. Pp. xii + 223, figs. 110, tables 27. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City 2015. $65. ISBN 978-1-60781-382-8 (cloth).

Taylor, R.E., and Ofer Bar-Yosef. Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. Pp. 404, figs. 76, tables 38. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, Calif. 2014. $129. ISBN 978-1-59874-590-0 (cloth).

Tzavella-Evjen, Hara. Mycenaean Pottery and Figurines: Keramopoullos Excavations from the Cemeteries of Thebes (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 294). Pp. 154, figs. 186, tables 6. The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens 2014. €50. ISBN 978-618-5047-14-6 (paper).

Vischak, Deborah. Community and Identity in Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom Cemetery at Qubbet el-Hawa. Pp. xviii + 328, figs. 61, color pls. 19, tables 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-02760-2 (cloth).

Vogeikoff-Brogan, Natalia. Mochlos III: The Late Hellenistic Settlement. The Beam-Press Complex (Prehistory Monographs 48). Pp. xx + 143, figs. 45, b&w pls. 14, color pls. 4, tables 7. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia 2014. $80. ISBN 978-1-931534-78-9 (cloth).

Vogeikoff-Brogan, Natalia, Jack L. Davis, and Vasiliki Florou, eds. Carl W. Blegen: Personal and Archaeological Narratives. Pp. xii + 240, figs. 85. Lockwood Press, Atlanta 2015. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-937040-22-2 (cloth).

Webb, Jennifer M., ed. Structure, Measurement and Meaning: Studies on Prehistoric Cyprus in Honour of David Frankel (SIMA 143). Pp. xx + 271, figs. 83, tables 7. Åströms Förlag, Uppsala 2014. €80. ISBN 978-91-981535-1-4 (cloth).

Wiersema, Juliet B. Architectural Vessels of the Moche: Ceramic Diagrams of Sacred Space in Ancient Peru. Pp. xiv + 189, figs. 259. University of Texas Press, Austin 2015. $60. ISBN 978-0-292-76125-4 (cloth).

List of Books Received

American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 119, No. 3 (July 2015)

Published online at www.ajaonline.org/books-received/2188

DOI: 10.3764/ajaonline1193.BooksReceived