American Journal of Archaeology

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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:Ancient Methone, 2003–201313
:Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine10
:Minoische Bild-Räume: Neue Untersuchungen zu den Wandbildern des spätbronzezeitlichen Palastes von Knossos6
:Exploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese: Cults and Sacred Places5
:Imperial Colors: The Roman Portrait Busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna5
List of Books Received3
:The Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete. Vol. 1, The Egyptian-Type Artifacts3
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. 314.3
Colossus at the Crossroads: Reexamining a Hellenistic Cult Statue of Herakles from Kleonai3
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, 1936–20223
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).2
:Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Sending Out an S.O.S.2
:Ritratti privati greci nell’Egitto tolemaico2
:The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 3, From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC2
:Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27–31 May 20152
:The Roman Municipia of Malta and Gozo: The Epigraphic Evidence2
Tracking Color Through Time: Polychromy on Etruscan Urns from Ancient Creation to Modern Intervention2
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A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief2
Against Method2
Classical to Late Roman Sites at Diros Bay in the Mani Peninsula, Greece1
:Greek and Roman Small Size Sculpture1
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:Il Foro di Traiano nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento1
“The Peculiar Hellenic Alloy”: Carl Blegen’s Narrative of Greek Racial Development in Context1
A Curious Artifact: The Changing Meaning of the Roman Oil Lamp from 17th-Century Jamestown, Virginia1
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 Press1
Beyceğiz Tumulus: A Middle Phrygian Cenotaph near Gordion1
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. xv1
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. I1
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:Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity1
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The Canaanite and Judean Cities of Lachish, Israel: Preliminary Report of the Fourth Expedition, 2013–20171
:The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia: Uncovering the Colourful Life of Diocletian’s Forgotten Capital1
Kızıldağ, Karadağ, and Sacred Peak Sites in Central Anatolia During the Late Bronze and Iron Ages1
Forging the Roman Rural Economy: A Blacksmithing Workshop and Its Tool Set at Marzuolo (Tuscany)1
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 971
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:Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicine0
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Nomads Trading with Empires: Intercultural Trade in Ancient Somaliland in the First to Seventh Centuries CE0
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
Burying the Alabaster Goddess in Hellenistic Babylonia: Religious Power, Sexual Agency, and Accessing the Afterlife Through Ishtar-Aphrodite Figurines from Seleucid-Parthian Iraq0
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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: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
A Letter from the Book Reviews Editor0
:Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome0
Das Heiligtum des Jupiter Optimus Maximus auf dem Pfaffenberg/Carnuntum 3: Ausgrabungen und Funde im Spannungsfeld der Interessen. By Werner Jobst (Der römische Limes in Österreich 41.3). 3 vol0
:Marginalised Populations in the Ancient Greek World: The Bioarchaeology of the Other0
:A Social Archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Egypt: Artefacts of Everyday Life0
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
:Hunde in der römischen Antike: Rassen/Typen - Zucht - Haltung und Verwendung0
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Figural Imagery and Society in the Postpalatial Aegean: Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery from Perati in Its Chronological and Regional Context0
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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Sortition in Hellenistic Sicily: New Archaeological Evidence from Morgantina0
Depicting Amazons as Local Heroes in Hellenized Anatolia0
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The Empire’s Physician: Galen and Medicine in the Roman World and Reflections on Digital Exhibitions0
The Collecting History of an Early Christian Lead Vessel: From Carthage to the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition0
Roman Clavus Decoration on Gallic Dress: A Reevaluation Based on New Discoveries0
Enheduanna and Her World: Individual Women in Ancient Western Asia0
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Byzantium in “Africa”0
Toward a More Dynamic Modeling of Ancient Domestic Space: An Example from First-Millennium BCE Greece0
:Cave Art: A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe0
Shipwreck Assemblages and Network Analysis: Reconstructing the Furniture Trade in the Mediterranean Using First-Century BCE Shipwrecks0
:Palmyrene Sarcophagi0
Books Available for Review0
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Hacımusalar Höyük in the Early Bronze Age0
:The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe0
Volume 126 (2022) Index0
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
Fragments of Roman Sculptures from Hadrian's Villa0
The Boxing Writer Paul Gallico on the Terme Boxer0
Kitchenwares and Kitchen Work: A New Approach to the Bronze Food Preparation Implements of Pompeii and Their Uses0
:Etruscan Literacy in Its Social Context0
:Illyrian World: Architecture, Rituals, Gods and Religion0
:Thronos: Historical Grammar of Furniture in Mycenaean and Beyond0
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Heroics of Dress: Exekias and Ornament in Greek Vase Painting0
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The Archaeology of Wine Production in Roman and Pre-Roman Italy0
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
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:Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World0
Revisiting the Archaeobotany of Prehistoric Crete0
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
Cultural History and Memory in the Stadium-Gymnasium Complex at Messene0
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:Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder: Griffin Cauldrons in the Preclassical Mediterranean0
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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
:Ancient Naples: A Documentary History Origins to c. 350 CE0
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:Trench Warfare at Enkomi: Personalities, Politics and Science in Cypriot Archaeology0
:Architecture as Sacred Space: Shaping the Holy in Late Antiquity and Byzantium0
:Markers of Military Mobility: Toward an Archaeology of the Sling in Ancient Thrace (5th C. BC–4th C. AD), with a Corpus of the Inscribed Lead Sling Projectiles from Bulgaria: Glandes plumbeae insc0
Theater and Dionysiac Cult on Samothrace and Its Peraia0
:Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding0
Hermes Psychopompos in an Anatolian Grave: The White-Ground Cup from Daskyleion0
:Archaeology of the Roman Conquest: Tracing the Legions, Reclaiming the Conquered0
The Colossal Archaic Naxian Statues in the Sanctuary of Apollo on Delos0
The Citadel of Gordion and the Dating of the Midas Monument at Midas City0
:Il Mediterraneo occidentale dalla fase fenicia all’egemonia cartaginese: Dinamiche insediative, forme rituali e cultura materiale nel V secolo a.C.0
A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House. By Peter Stewart, with new photography by Guido Petruccioli. Oxford: Archaeopress 2020. Pp. ix + 421. $160. ISBN 9781789696554 (cloth).0
:De tornos y tornillos: Tecnologías de prensado de la uva y la aceituna en el mundo romano y tardoantiguo0
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
:The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra0
:The Chora of Metaponto 8: The Factory and Kiln Deposit at Pantanello0
Notes on Phrygian Architecture: A Sixth-Century BCE Date for the Midas Monument at Midas City0
:Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age: Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies0
Lingering Tropes and Noteworthy Narratives in Recent Archaeology Exhibitions0
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:The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy0
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:Perspectives on Byzantine Archaeology: From Justinian to the Abbasid Age (6th–9th Centuries AD)0
:The Roman Peasant Project 2009–2014: Excavating the Roman Rural Poor0
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An Interdisciplinary Exhibition on Ancient Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass0
:The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome—and Back0
:Numidia Romana? Die Auswirkungen der römischen Präsenz in Numidien (2. Jh. v. Chr.–1. Jh. n. Chr.)0
The Gladiatorial Spectacles in Cyprus and the Enigma of the Amphitheater at Salamis0
:Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare0
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:Musarna 4: La céramique à paroi fine0
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Finding Fairness: From Pleistocene Foragers to Contemporary Capitalists By Justin Jennings. Gainesville: University Press of Florida 2021. Pp. 332. $90. ISBN 9780813066745 (cloth).0
:From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus: Studies in Religion and Archaeology0
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: Text, Context, Material Properties, and Socialization0
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Books Available for Review0
Opening Horizons Between Antiquity and Today at Melbourne Museum0
The Design and Reception of the Roman Arch at Orange0
Ecocriticism on the Wall: Roman Landscapes at the San Antonio Museum of Art0
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 Editor-in-Chief0
:The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia: Urban and Rural Environments0
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Volume 127 (2023) Index0
Representations of Gender: Recognizing the Role of Feminine Sacrificial Attendants in the Column of Trajan Sacrifice Scenes0
Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art By Kristen Seaman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020. Pp. 206. $99.99. ISBN 9781108490917 (cloth).0
:Fanum Iunonis Melitense: L’area centrale del santuario di Tas-Silġ a Malta in età tardo-repubblicana0
Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis. By Andrew Ramage, Nancy H. Ramage, and R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir (SardisRep 8). 2 vols. Ca0
:Manufacturers and Markets: The Contribution of Hellenistic Pottery to Economies Large and Small: Proceedings of the 4th Conference of IARPotHP, Athens, November 2019, 11th–14th0
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
:Isis in a Global Empire: Greek Identity Through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece0
:The Saqqara Necropolis Through the New Kingdom: Biography of an Ancient Egyptian Cultural Landscape0
:The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World: Integrating the Archaeological and Literary Evidence0
:Ayia Irini: Area B0
:Becoming Neolithic: The Pivot of Human History0
A Letter from the Museum Reviews Editor0
:Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria: Research and Field Papers0
The Early Iron Age Cemetery of Ḥorvat Tevet: Life and Death in a Rural Community in the Jezreel Valley0
Hellenistic Landscapes and Seleucid Control in Mesopotamia: The View from the Erbil Plain in Northern Iraq0
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief0
Two Roman Glass Furnaces Discovered at Reşca-Romula (Romania)0
Domitian: An Innovative Emperor?0
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:Hippos: The Horse in Ancient Athens0
:The Ingholt Archive: The Palmyrene Material, Transcribed with Commentary and Bibliography0
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
:Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building0
The Temple of Artemis at Sardis By Fikret K. Yegül. (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports 7). 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2020. Pp. 336. $150. ISBN 9780674248564 (cloth)0
Foodways in Roman Republican Italy By Laura M. Banducci. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2021. Pp. 366. $85. ISBN 9780472132300 (cloth).0
:Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World0
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
Volume 128 (2024) Index0
:Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers: The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean0
Fieldwork at Phrygian Gordion, 2016–20230
Villa Estates and Malaria Risk in Roman Central Italy0
The Presentation Scene on the Ivory Pyxis Lid from Mochlos: A Reconstruction and Reinterpretation0
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:Honors to Eileithyia at Ancient Inatos: The Sacred Cave of Eileithyia at Tsoutsouros, Crete: Highlights of the Collection0
The Materiality of Hellenistic Ruler Cults Edited by Stefano G. Caneva (Kernos Supplement 36). Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège 2020. Pp. 299. €30. ISBN 978-2-87562-242-6 (paper).0
:Shifting Horizons: Observations from a Ride Through the Syrian Desert and Asia Minor. A Translation of Johannes Elith Østrup’s “Skiftende horizonter”0
:Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy: Archaeology, History, and the Use of the Past, 900–300 BCE0
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Refuse and the Roman City: Determining the Formation Processes of Refuse Assemblages Using Statistical Measures of Heterogeneity0
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:Bramiana: Salvaging Information from a Destroyed Minoan Settlement in Southeast Crete0
The First Koinon Temple of Roman Sardis: A Sanctuary from the First Century Through Late Antiquity0
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
Sacrificial Ritual and the Palace of Nestor: A Reanalysis of the Ta Tablets0
:Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens0
:Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth: Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes0
Ephemeral Heritage: Boats, Migration, and the Central Mediterranean Passage0
:Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture: Aesthetics, Semantics and Function0
Heterogeneous Production and Enchained Consumption: Minoan Gold in a Changing World (ca. 2000 BCE)0
:The Making of a Roman Imperial Estate: Archaeology in the Vicus at Vagnari, Puglia0
Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States Edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy. London: Routledge 2021. Pp. 242. $160. ISBN 9780367230265 (cloth).0
:The 3 Dimensions of Digitalised Archaeology: State-of-the-Art, Data Management and Current Challenges in Archaeological 3D-Documentation0
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:Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic0
:Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos0
:Archeonumismatica: Analisi e studio dei reperti monetali da contesti pluristratificati0
The Granite Quarry at Xobourgo, Tenos: Patterns of Extraction and Exploitation Through Time0
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
Centurion: On a Bust in the Knole Collection Sculpted in Rome in the Third Century CE0
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From the Editor-in-Chief: New Statement of Purpose for the AJA0
Coming to Light: Illuminating the House of the Greek Epigrams in Pompeii0
Bone Objects as Offerings of Animal Bodies in Archaic Greek Sanctuaries0
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Becoming Human: The Archaeology of John C. Barrett0
:Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery0
The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco0
:Legion: Life in the Roman Army0
Nancy C. Wilkie, 1942–20210
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:The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey: From Prehistory to the Present0
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
:The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Vol. 3, Metal Objects from Gournia0
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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
:The Hittites: Lost Civilizations0
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
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:Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice: Presentation, Teaching, and Engagement0
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The Reopening of the Museo Nazionale Jatta di Ruvo di Puglia0
Negotiating Infant Personhood in Death: Interpreting Atypical Burials in the Late Roman Infant and Child Cemetery at Poggio Gramignano (Italy)0
:Old Age in Greek and Roman Art0
:Pots and Graves: The Lost Centuries of Early Iron Age Tenos0
:Age, Gender and Status in Macedonian Society, 550–300 BCE: Intersectional Approaches to Mortuary Archaeology0
The Project ArAGATS Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey, Armenia: Report of the 2014–2017 Seasons0
Telling a Story of Two Lands: Perspectives on Ancient Kush, Egypt, and Africa0
:Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches0
:Relitti dall’Italia tirrenica nel Mediterraneo occidentale (fine IV secolo a.C.–I d.C.): Archeologia e archeometria delle anfore0
Delos and the Late Hellenistic Art Trade: Archaeological Directions0
:Narrating Heritage: Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance0
:Egyptian Name Scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty: Geography and Chronology of Production0
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
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
:Obsidian Across the Americas: Compositional Studies Conducted in the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum of Natural History0
George Fletcher Bass (1932–2021)0
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The Suburbs of the Early Mesopotamian City of Ur (Tell al-Muqayyar, Iraq)0
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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