American Journal of Archaeology

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Archaeology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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The Canaanite and Judean Cities of Lachish, Israel: Preliminary Report of the Fourth Expedition, 2013–201714
Online Encounters with Museum Antiquities10
Archaeobotanical Research in Classical Archaeology7
Sacrificial Status and Prestige Burials: Negotiating Life, Death, and Identity Through Personal Adornment at Early Bronze Age I Başur Höyük, Turkey7
The Archaeology of Wine Production in Roman and Pre-Roman Italy7
Coming to Light: Illuminating the House of the Greek Epigrams in Pompeii5
Merchants and Mercantile Society on Late Bronze Age Cyprus5
The Sixth-Century CE Shipwreck at Marzamemi4
Ptolemaic Berenike: Resources, Logistics, and Daily Life in a Hellenistic Fortress on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt4
Nomads Trading with Empires: Intercultural Trade in Ancient Somaliland in the First to Seventh Centuries CE4
Hellenistic Landscapes and Seleucid Control in Mesopotamia: The View from the Erbil Plain in Northern Iraq3
Negotiating Infant Personhood in Death: Interpreting Atypical Burials in the Late Roman Infant and Child Cemetery at Poggio Gramignano (Italy)3
Heterogeneous Production and Enchained Consumption: Minoan Gold in a Changing World (ca. 2000 BCE)3
Reading Visual Cues on the So-called Archive Wall at Aphrodisias: A Cognitive Approach to Monumental Documents3
Politics,Partage, and Papyri: Excavated Texts Between Cairo and Ann Arbor (1924–1953)3
Sensing Water in Roman Greece: The Villa of Herodes Atticus at Eva-Loukou and the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis3
Forging the Roman Rural Economy: A Blacksmithing Workshop and Its Tool Set at Marzuolo (Tuscany)3
The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco2
A Spatial Network Analysis of Water Distribution from Public Fountains in Pompeii2
Making The Met, 1870–2020: A Universal Museum for the 21st Century2
Lingering Tropes and Noteworthy Narratives in Recent Archaeology Exhibitions2
The Project ArAGATS Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey, Armenia: Report of the 2014–2017 Seasons2
The Early Iron Age Cemetery of Ḥorvat Tevet: Life and Death in a Rural Community in the Jezreel Valley2
Ephemeral Heritage: Boats, Migration, and the Central Mediterranean Passage2
What's in a Vessel's Name? A Relational Text-Object Approach to the Uses of Mesopotamian Pottery2
Libertas and Freedom from Financial Burdens in the Reigns of Trajan and Hadrian2
The Development and Spread of Die Sharing in the Roman Provincial Coinage of Asia Minor2
Defying Death: A New Interpretation of the Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquinia2
Sortition in Hellenistic Sicily: New Archaeological Evidence from Morgantina2
Demographic Dynamics of Publishing in the American Journal of Archaeology2
A Curious Artifact: The Changing Meaning of the Roman Oil Lamp from 17th-Century Jamestown, Virginia1
Depicting Amazons as Local Heroes in Hellenized Anatolia1
Stigmata and the Cupids of Piazza Armerina1
Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States Edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy. London: Routledge 2021. Pp. 242. $160. ISBN 9780367230265 (cloth).1
Cultural History and Memory in the Stadium-Gymnasium Complex at Messene1
Kızıldağ, Karadağ, and Sacred Peak Sites in Central Anatolia During the Late Bronze and Iron Ages1
English Landscapes1
Austerity, Communal Feasts, and the Emergence of the Cretan Polis1
Refuse and the Roman City: Determining the Formation Processes of Refuse Assemblages Using Statistical Measures of Heterogeneity1
The Empire’s Physician: Galen and Medicine in the Roman World and Reflections on Digital Exhibitions1
The Extramural Settlement at Vindolanda in the Early Second Century CE: Defining a Glocalized Environment on the Romano-British Frontier1
Against Method1
Multifunctionality and Roman Oven-to-Table Wares: Internal Red-Slip Vessels1
The Late Roman UnfinishedChaîne opératoire: A New Approach to Inscribed Glass Openwork1
Shedding Light on the Kothon: Vases with Inward Downturned Rims Revisited1
Qui carbone rudi putrique creta scribit: The Charcoal Graffiti of Herculaneum1
:The Saqqara Necropolis Through the New Kingdom: Biography of an Ancient Egyptian Cultural Landscape0
:Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean0
:The Hittites: Lost Civilizations0
Villa Estates and Malaria Risk in Roman Central Italy0
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief0
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Culti domestici in Italia meridionale ed Etruria By Aura Piccioni. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2020. Pp. 276. €45. ISBN 978-3-7954-3552-3 (cloth).0
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Food and Foodways in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Edited by Sylvie Yona Waksman (Archéologies 4). Lyon: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée 2020. Pp. 0
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:La villa dopo la villa 2: Trasformazione di un sistema insediativo ed economico nell’Italia centrale tra tarda Antichità e Medioevo0
The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill. By James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney (Nemea Valley Archaeological Project 3). Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2020. Pp. 120
:Isis in a Global Empire: Greek Identity Through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece0
Aedicula Tombs and Statues in Rome: Reconsidering the Monument of Eurysaces0
:Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice: Presentation, Teaching, and Engagement0
:Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27–31 May 20150
Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context. Edited by Erin D. Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 125). Leiden: Brill 2021. Pp. xv0
:Marginalised Populations in the Ancient Greek World: The Bioarchaeology of the Other0
:From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus: Studies in Religion and Archaeology0
Visual Experience in a Pompeian Domestic Space: Analysis Using Virtual Reality-Based Eye Tracking and GIS0
:Il Mediterraneo occidentale dalla fase fenicia all’egemonia cartaginese: Dinamiche insediative, forme rituali e cultura materiale nel V secolo a.C.0
Crossing the Alps: Early Urbanism Between Northern Italy and Central Europe (900–400 BC). Edited by Lorenzo Zamboni, Manuel Fernández-Götz, and Carola Metzner-Nebelsick. Leiden: Sidestone Press0
Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia By Gloria London. Nicosia: Astrom Editions 2020. Pp. 240. €25.44. ISBN 9789925745555 (cloth).0
Two Roman Glass Furnaces Discovered at Reşca-Romula (Romania)0
:De tornos y tornillos: Tecnologías de prensado de la uva y la aceituna en el mundo romano y tardoantiguo0
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The Presentation Scene on the Ivory Pyxis Lid from Mochlos: A Reconstruction and Reinterpretation0
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The Transition to Late Antiquity on the Lower Danube: Excavations and Survey at Dichin, a Late Roman to Early Byzantine Fort and a Roman Aqueduct By Andrew Poulter, with contributions by Michae0
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:Perspectives on Byzantine Archaeology: From Justinian to the Abbasid Age (6th–9th Centuries AD)0
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Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: Text, Context, Material Properties, and Socialization0
The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture: Technology and Society in Republican Italy. By Marcello Mogetta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. Pp. xiv + 311. $99.99. I0
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:Dying Young: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Child Health in Roman Britain0
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The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe: People, Things, and Networks Around the Southern Adriatic Sea By Francesco Iacono. Pp. xvi + 286. London: Blo0
:Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery0
:Commodus: The Public Image of a Roman Emperor0
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Figural Imagery and Society in the Postpalatial Aegean: Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery from Perati in Its Chronological and Regional Context0
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:Studies on the Urban History of Meninx (Djerba): The Meninx Archaeological Project 2015–20190
:Honors to Eileithyia at Ancient Inatos: The Sacred Cave of Eileithyia at Tsoutsouros, Crete: Highlights of the Collection0
Neolithic Spaces: Social and Sensory Landscapes of the First Farmers of Italy. By Sue Hamilton and Ruth Whitehouse (Neolithic Spaces 1, Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy 19.1). London: Accor0
:Fanum Iunonis Melitense: L’area centrale del santuario di Tas-Silġ a Malta in età tardo-repubblicana0
Hellenistic Sealings and Archives: Proceedings of The Edfu Connection, an International Conference Edited by Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter and Ronald Wallenfels. (Studies in Classical Archaeolo0
The Collecting History of an Early Christian Lead Vessel: From Carthage to the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition0
Il diritto alla sepoltura nel Mediterraneo antico Edited by Reine-Marie Bérard (Collection de l’École française de Rome 582). Rome: École française de Rome 2021. Pp. 366. €37. ISBN 978-2-7283-10
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Late Fifth-Century CE Wall Mosaics from the Tetrapylon Street in Aphrodisias: Evidence for a Wall Mosaic Habit in Late Antiquity0
Martha Sharp Joukowsky, 1936–20220
“Probably Alexandria”: Gold-Glass Portraiture and the Allure of Egypt0
:Egyptian Name Scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty: Geography and Chronology of Production0
Becoming Human: The Archaeology of John C. Barrett0
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The Canadian Excavations at Anemurium in Cilicia. By James Russell, with contributions from C.W.J. Eliot, Hector Williams, Sheila Campbell, Nigel Kennell, and Thomas Boyd (Archéologie et Histoi0
A Letter from the Museum Reviews Editor0
:Roman Animals in Ritual and Funerary Contexts: Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel 1st–4th February 20180
:Old Age in Greek and Roman Art0
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Burying the Alabaster Goddess in Hellenistic Babylonia: Religious Power, Sexual Agency, and Accessing the Afterlife Through Ishtar-Aphrodite Figurines from Seleucid-Parthian Iraq0
:Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture: Aesthetics, Semantics and Function0
Telling a Story of Two Lands: Perspectives on Ancient Kush, Egypt, and Africa0
A Letter from the Editor-in-Chief0
Domitian: An Innovative Emperor?0
:Ritratti privati greci nell’Egitto tolemaico0
The Gallery Enhancements Project at the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago: Everything Old Is New Again0
The Christian Building at Dura-Europos: Rethinking the Archaeology of the World’s Oldest House Church0
:Metal Finds and Coins: Final Publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project II0
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:Numidia Romana? Die Auswirkungen der römischen Präsenz in Numidien (2. Jh. v. Chr.–1. Jh. n. Chr.)0
Central Places and Un-Central Landscapes: Political Economies and Natural Resources in the Longue Durée. Edited by Giorgos Papantoniou and Athanasios Vionis. Land special issue. Pp. 314.0
Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery By Sheramy D. Bundrick (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 2019. Pp. xv + 330. $119.95. ISBN 9780
Visualizing Votive Practice: Exploring Limestone and Terracotta Sculpture from Athienou-Malloura Through 3D Models By Derek B. Counts, Erin Walcek Averett, Kevin Garstki, and Michael K. Toumazo0
A Letter from the Book Review Editor0
Foodways in Roman Republican Italy By Laura M. Banducci. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2021. Pp. 366. $85. ISBN 9780472132300 (cloth).0
:Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome0
A Ptolemaic Hoard from Patara0
The Boxing Writer Paul Gallico on the Terme Boxer0
:Musarna 4: La céramique à paroi fine0
:Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches0
:Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria: Research and Field Papers0
Hellenistic and Roman Gerasa: The Archaeology and History of a Decapolis City. Edited by Achim Lichtenberger and Rubina Raja. Turnhout: Brepols 2020. Pp. xviii + 390. €110. ISBN 978-2-503-585040
:Ausgrabungen in der frühbronzezeitlichen Siedlung im Heraion von Samos 19660
Oplontis: Villa A (“of Poppaea”) at Torre Annunziata, Italy. Volume 2, The Decorations: Painting, Stucco, Pavements, Sculptures Edited by John R. Clarke and Nayla K. Muntasser (ACLS Humanities 0
:Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens0
Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture By Anthony J. Barbieri-Low. Seattle: University of Washington Press 2021. Pp. xiv + 316. $50. ISBN 9780295748900 (e-book).0
Les arrière-pays des cités phéniciennes à l’époque hellénistique (IVe–Ier s. av. N.È.): Approches historique et spatiale d’une aire géoculturelle By Élodie Guillon (Collezione di Studi Fenici 50
Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art By Kristen Seaman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020. Pp. 206. $99.99. ISBN 9781108490917 (cloth).0
The Suburbs of the Early Mesopotamian City of Ur (Tell al-Muqayyar, Iraq)0
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:Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos0
The Granite Quarry at Xobourgo, Tenos: Patterns of Extraction and Exploitation Through Time0
Ecocriticism on the Wall: Roman Landscapes at the San Antonio Museum of Art0
:Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World0
Coupoles, voûtes et plafonds peints d’époque romaine: Ier–IVe siècle apr. J.-C. By Alix Barbet. Paris: Éditions Hermann 2021. Pp. 350. €64. ISBN 9791037006806 (cloth).0
Pottery from Tell Khaiber: A Craft Tradition of the First Sealand Dynasty By Daniel Calderbank (Archaeology of Ancient Iraq 1). Ludlow: Moonrise Press 2021. Pp. xii + 282. £ 35. ISBN 978-1-91010
Hermes Psychopompos in an Anatolian Grave: The White-Ground Cup from Daskyleion0
Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire’s Souvenirs By Kimberly Cassibry. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021. Pp. xvii + 278. $99. ISBN 9780190921897 (cloth).0
:The Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete. Vol. 1, The Egyptian-Type Artifacts0
:The Roman Municipia of Malta and Gozo: The Epigraphic Evidence0
Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece By Tyler Jo Smith. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2021. Pp. 476. $89.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-5281-1 (cloth).0
:Shifting Horizons: Observations from a Ride Through the Syrian Desert and Asia Minor. A Translation of Johannes Elith Østrup’s “Skiftende horizonter”0
:Women in Ancient Egypt: Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy0
All’s Well That Ends Well: Sardis at the Victoria and Albert Museum0
Classical to Late Roman Sites at Diros Bay in the Mani Peninsula, Greece0
R. Ross Holloway, 1934–20220
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A Possible Amphora Second at Sikyon, Greece0
:The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia: Uncovering the Colourful Life of Diocletian’s Forgotten Capital0
Domestic Space, Access Analysis, and Social Transformations: Houses in Iron Age and Roman Mediterranean Gaul0
Revisiting the Archaeobotany of Prehistoric Crete0
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:The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History0
An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology: Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence By Shawn Graham (Digital Archaeology 1). New York: Berghahn Books 20200
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Olympia: A Cultural History By Judith M. Barringer. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2021. Pp. 335. $35. ISBN 9780691210476 (cloth).0
:The Connected Iron Age: Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900–600 BCE0
Sacrificial Ritual and the Palace of Nestor: A Reanalysis of the Ta Tablets0
:Hippos: The Horse in Ancient Athens0
Roman Clavus Decoration on Gallic Dress: A Reevaluation Based on New Discoveries0
Daya Cave: A Place of Worship of Mesopotamian and Persian Gods in the West Central Zagros Mountains, Iran0
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Cursing Theophrastos in Paros0
Nancy C. Wilkie, 1942–20210
:Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity0
Finding Fairness: From Pleistocene Foragers to Contemporary Capitalists By Justin Jennings. Gainesville: University Press of Florida 2021. Pp. 332. $90. ISBN 9780813066745 (cloth).0
Volume 127 (2023) Index0
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The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300–525 CE By Robin Fleming. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2021. Pp. 303. $45. ISBN 978-0-8122-5244-6 (cloth).0
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:A Social Archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Egypt: Artefacts of Everyday Life0
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:Labouring with Large Stones: A Study into the Investment and Impact of Construction Projects on Mycenaean Communities in Late Bronze Age Greece0
Societies in Transition in Early Greece: An Archaeological History By Alex R. Knodell. Berkeley: University of California Press 2021. Pp. 382. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-520-38053-0 (paper), and open a0
Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals for the 21st Century: The Reinstallation of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection of Ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art0
:Etruscan Literacy in Its Social Context0
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J.J. Coulton, 1940–20200
George Fletcher Bass (1932–2021)0
A Community Empowerment Approach to Heritage Management: From Values Assessment to Local Engagement. By Evangelos Kyriakidis. London: Routledge 2021. Pp. 144. $128. ISBN 9781032083124 (cloth).0
The Cult of Castor and Pollux in Ancient Rome: Myth, Ritual, and Society. By Amber Gartrell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. Pp. 268. $99. ISBN 9781108477550 (cloth).0
Opening Horizons Between Antiquity and Today at Melbourne Museum0
Urban Transformation in Ancient Molise: The Integration of Larinum into the Roman State By Elizabeth C. Robinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021. Pp. 368. $99. ISBN 9780190641436 (0
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:Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Sending Out an S.O.S.0
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:The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy0
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:Eastern Mediterranean Economic Networks in the Age of the Crusades: The Case of the Peloponnese0
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Centurion: On a Bust in the Knole Collection Sculpted in Rome in the Third Century CE0
:Palmyrene Sarcophagi0
Samothrace: Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Vol. 9, The Monuments of the Eastern Hill By Bonna D. Wescoat, with contributions by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi,0
Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire By Hérica Valladares. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. Pp. 266. $99.99. ISBN 9781108835411 (cloth).0
Notes on Phrygian Architecture: A Sixth-Century BCE Date for the Midas Monument at Midas City0
The Busy Periphery: Urban Systems of the Balkan and Danube Provinces (2nd–3rd c. AD) By Damjan Donev (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 61). Oxford: Archaeopress 2019. Pp. viii + 379. $54. ISBN 970
Poteri e strategie familiari di Volterra: Il caso di una comunità etrusca nel mondo romano By Valentina Limina (BAR-IS 3041). Oxford: BAR 2021. Pp. 194. £48. ISBN 9781407357881 (paper).0
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:Becoming Neolithic: The Pivot of Human History0
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Colossus at the Crossroads: Reexamining a Hellenistic Cult Statue of Herakles from Kleonai0
Domus Pompeiana M. Lucretii IX 3, 5.24: The Inscriptions, Works of Art and Finds from the Old and New Excavations Edited by Ria Berg and Ilkka Kuivalainen (Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 10
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Repositioning the Sea on the Great Altar of Pergamon: A Demonstration of Hellenistic Boat Construction on the Telephos Frieze0
Representations of Gender: Recognizing the Role of Feminine Sacrificial Attendants in the Column of Trajan Sacrifice Scenes0
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:Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine0
:Normative, Atypical or Deviant? Interpreting Prehistoric and Protohistoric Child Burial Practices0
:Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth: Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes0
Heroics of Dress: Exekias and Ornament in Greek Vase Painting0
A Letter from the Book Reviews Editor0
:Greek Inscriptions on the East Bank0
:Minoische Bild-Räume: Neue Untersuchungen zu den Wandbildern des spätbronzezeitlichen Palastes von Knossos0
A Mason’s Mark from the Stelida Peak Sanctuary, Naxos0
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A Falcon Shrine at the Port of Berenike (Red Sea Coast, Egypt)0
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Volume 126 (2022) Index0
Entella: A Resilient Ancient Sicilian Community0
From the Editor-in-Chief: New Statement of Purpose for the AJA0
Tracking Color Through Time: Polychromy on Etruscan Urns from Ancient Creation to Modern Intervention0
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Excavating and Conserving Europe's Oldest Books: A Papyrus from Mangalia on the Black Sea (P. Callatis 1)0
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Cetamura del Chianti. By Nancy Thomson de Grummond (Cities and Communities of the Etruscans). Austin: University of Texas Press 2020. Pp. xxv + 149. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-4773-1993-2 (paper). T0
Mikon’s Hekatompedon: An Architectural Graffito from Attica0
Toward a More Dynamic Modeling of Ancient Domestic Space: An Example from First-Millennium BCE Greece0
:The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 3, From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC0
:Archeonumismatica: Analisi e studio dei reperti monetali da contesti pluristratificati0
Hacımusalar Höyük in the Early Bronze Age0
:The Roman Peasant Project 2009–2014: Excavating the Roman Rural Poor0
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Delos and the Late Hellenistic Art Trade: Archaeological Directions0
:Towards A Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period: A Biocultural Analysis of Human Remains from the Voudeni Cemetery, Achaea, Greece0
:Il Foro di Traiano nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento0
The Torlonia Marbles: Rescue, Restoration, Rehabilitation0
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