American Journal of Archaeology Online Reviews (January 2010)
The American Journal of Archaeology publishes quarterly public-access book
and museum reviews: http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=oreview.
These reviews are listed in the table of contents of the respective printed
issue of the Journal and are available for free download on the Journal’s Web
site. Below is a list of book reviews published in tandem with our printed
January 2010 issue (volume 114, number 1). We hope you enjoy.
The Editors
Book Reviews
From the Harpy Tomb to the Wonders of Ephesus: British Archaeologists in the
Ottoman Empire 1840-1880
By Debbie Challis
Reviewed by Deborah Harlan
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/01_Harlan.pdf
The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the Collection of Antiquities for
the British Museum
By Lucia Patrizio Gunning
Reviewed by Deborah Harlan
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/01_Harlan.pdf
Zooarchaeology
By Elizabeth J. Reitz and Elizabeth S. Wing
Reviewed by Michael MacKinnon
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/02_MacKinnon.pdf
Quantitative Paleozoology
By R. Lee Lyman
Reviewed by Michael MacKinnon
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/02_MacKinnon.pdf
Ancient Technology
By John W. Humphrey
Reviewed by Thilio Rehren
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/03_Rehren.pdf
Hot Pursuit: Integrating Anthropology in Search of Ancient Glass-Blowers
By Alysia Fischer
Reviewed by Janet Duncan Jones
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/04_Jones.pdf
New Approaches to Old Stones: recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts
By Yorke M. Rowan and Jennie R. Ebeling
Reviewed by Andrew Bevan
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/05_Bevan.pdf
Assyrian Stone Vessels and Related Material in the British Museum
By Ann Searight, Julian Reade, and Irving Finkel
Reviewed by Andrew Bevan
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/05_Bevan.pdf
Akh Purattim. Vol. 2, Les rives de l'Euphrate
By Jean-Claude Margueron, Olivier Rouault, and Pierre Lombard
Reviewed by Edgar Peltenburg
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/06_Peltenburg.pdf
Jordan: An Archaeological Reader
By Russell B. Adams
Reviewed by Peter M. Fischer
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/07_Fischer.pdf
The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian
Funerary Art in the Rameside Period
By Kathlyn M. Cooney
Reviewed by Karen Exell
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/08_Exell.pdf
The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern
Aegean, Greece. Vol. 1, Intra-Site Analysis, Local Industries, and Regional Site
Distribution
By Adamantios Sampson
Reviewed by Nikos Efstratiou
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/09_Efstratiou.pdf
Burning Bulls, Broken Bones: Sacrificial Ritual in the Context of Palace Period
Minoan Religion
By Robert James Cromarty
Reviewed by Nanno Marinatos
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/10_Marinatos.pdf
Monastiraki Katalimata: Excavation of a Cretan Refuge Site, 1993-2000
By Krzysztof Nowicki
Reviewed by Barbara J. Hayden
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/11_Hayden.pdf
Testing the Hinterland: The Work of the Boeotia Survey (1989-1991) in the
Southern Approaches to the City of Thespiai
By John Bintliff, Phil Howard, and Anthony Snodgrass
Reviewed by David K. Pettigrew
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/12_Pettegrew.pdf
Greek Sculpture: Function, Materials, and Techniques in the Archaic and
Classical Periods
By Olga Palagia
Reviewed by Hilda E. Westervelt
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/13_Westervelt.pdf
Corpus der boiotischen Grab- und Weihreliefs des 6. Bis 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.
By Valia Schild-Xenidou
Reviewed by Geoff Adams
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/14_Adams.pdf
Distorted Ideals in Greek Vase-Painting: The World of Mythological Burlesque
By David Walsh
Reviewed by Tyler Jo Smith
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/15_Smith.pdf
Historische Landeskunde und Epigraphik in Griechenland: Akten des
Symposiums veranstaltet aus Anlass des 100. Todestages von H.G. Lolling
(1848-1894) in Athen vom 28. Bis 30.9.1994
By Klaus Fittschen
Reviewed by Gerald V. Lalonde
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/16_Lalonde.pdf
Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace: The Epigraphical Evidence
By Nora M. Dimitrova
Reviewed by Kathryn Simonsen
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/17_Simonsen.pdf
Tebtynis IV: Les Habitations à l’est du temple de Soknebtynis
By Gisèle Hadji-Minaglou
Reviewed by Nicola Aravecchia
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/18_Aravecchia.pdf
Constructions of Childhood in Anceitn Greece and Italy
By Ada Cohen and Jeremy B. Rutter
Reviewed by Barbara A. Olsen
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/19_Olsen.pdf
Roman Pottery: Fine Ware Imports
By John W. Hayes
Reviewed by George W.M. Harrison
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/20_Harrison.pdf
La Gaule narbonnaise: De la conquête romaine au III siècle apr. J.-C.
By Pierre Gros
Reviewed by Caroline Downing
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/21_Downing.pdf
Bet She'an. Vol. 1, Nysa-Scythopolis: The Caesareum and the Odeum
By Gabriel Mazor and Arfan Najjar
Reviewed by Moshe Fischer
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/22_Fischer.pdf
Field O: The "Synagogue" Site
By Marylinda Govaars, Marie Spiro, and L. Michael White
Reviewed by Jodi Magness
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/23_Magness.pdf
Petra, The Mountain of Aaron: The Finnish Archaeological Project in Jordan.
Vol. 1, The Church and the Chapel
By Zbigniew T. Fiema and Jaakko Frösén
Reviewed by Bert de Vries
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.1/24_deVries.pdf
Museum Review
Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry: Exquisite Objects from the Cradle of
Civilization
Reviewed by Megan Cifarelli
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/museum_reviews/AJA1141_Cifarelli.pdf
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