American Journal of Archaeology

One of the most anticipated books in the archaeological panorama appears extremely well structured at a first sight, and with the clear intention of providing the reader a diachronic vision of the Tiber Valley. Just by reading the table of contents, in fact, one gets the idea that the volume will inform readers about the dramatic changes that this part of central Italy experienced between prehistory and the Early Medieval era. 

Since the late 19th century, Maresha has stood apart from most other Hellenistic sites in the southern Levant for its cosmopolitan character and the labyrinthine subterranean complexes quarried out of the local chalk and used as basements for the structures above. Subterranean Complex 169 (hereafter SC169) is distinctive even at Maresha for its size and the quantity and variety of its finds.

It is well understood that war was an integral part of Greek Sicily; to what extent this impacted Greek culture and the Sicilian landscape, however, is still being explored. Jonasch has assembled a book with its origins in a workshop on warfare held at the University of British Columbia (“War and Society in Colonial Sicily,” 27–29 April 2018) that chronologically spans the Archaic and Classical periods and geographically encompasses the entire island.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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