American Journal of Archaeology Online Reviews (July 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 and museum exhibition reviews published in tandem with our printed July 2010 issue (volume 114, number 3). We hope you enjoy.
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The Editors
Book Reviews
Archaeology and Nationalism in Eretz-Israel
Edited by Michael Feige and Zvi Shiloni (in Hebrew)
Reviewed by Assaf Yasur-Landau
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/01_Yasur-Landau.pdf
Le tombeau de Pétosiris à Touna el-Gebel: Relevé photographique
By Nadine Cherpion, Jean-Pierre Corteggiani, and Jean-François Gout
Reviewed by Mariam Ayad
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/02_Ayad.pdf
Ancient Turkey
By Antonio Sagona and Paul Zimansky
Reviewed by Hermann Genz
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/03_Genz.pdf
Tombes de Carie: Architecture funéraire et culture Carienne VIe–IIe siècle av. J.-C.
By Olivier Henry
Reviewed by Anne Marie Carstens
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/04_Carstens.pdf
Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross Cultural Encounters. 1st International Conference, Athens, 11–13 November 2006
Edited by Seyed Mohammad Reza Darbandi and Antigoni Zournatzi.
Reviewed by Mark B. Garrison
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/05_Garrison.pdf
Observations on the Amphora Repertoire of Middle Punic Carthage
By Babette Bechtold
Reviewed by Joann Freed
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/06_Freed.pdf
Asine III: Supplementary Studies on the Swedish Investigations 1922–1930. Fasc. 2, Children Lost and Found: A Bioarchaeological Study of Middle Helladic Children in Asine with a Comparison to Lerna
By Anne Ingvarsson-Sundström
Reviewed by Marshall Joseph Becker
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/07_Becker.pdf
The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster
By Ann Brysbaert
Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/08_Maeir.pdf
Contacto cultural entre el Mediterráneo y el Atlántico (siglos XII–VIII ane): La precolonización a debate
Edited by S. Celestino, N. Rafel, and X.-L. Armada
Reviewed by Joan Sanmartí
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/09_Sanmarti.pdf
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640–510 B.C.
By Nancy A. Winter
Reviewed by Barbara A. Barletta
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/10_Barletta.pdf
La stipe del Santuario di Alaimo a Lentini: Un’area sacra tra la chora e il mare
Edited by Lorenza Grasso
Reviewed by Giancarlo Germanà Bozza
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/11_Bozza.pdf
Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum
By Luciana Gallo
Reviewed by Debbie Challis
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/12_Challis.pdf
Art in Athens During the Peloponnesian War
Edited by Olga Palagia
Reviewed by Cynthia K. Kosso
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/13_Kosso.pdf
New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome: In Honor of Richard Daniel De Puma
Edited by Sinclair Bell and Helen Nagy
Reviewed by Simon Stoddart
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/14_Stoddart.pdf
Style and Function in Roman Decoration: Living with Objects and Interiors
By Ellen Swift
Reviewed by John R. Clarke
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/15_Clarke.pdf
Family Fictions in Roman Art
By Natalie Boymel Kampen
Reviewed by Lauren Hackworth Petersen
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/16_Petersen.pdf
Αθήνα κατά τὴ Ρωμαϊκή Εποχή´: Πρόσφατες ανακαλύψεις, νέες έρευνες
By Stavros Vlizos
Reviewed by Mary Sturgeon
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/17_Sturgeon.pdf
The Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople
By James Crow, Jonathan Bardill, and Richard Bayliss
Reviewed by John Peter Oleson
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/18_Oleson.pdf
Çanak: Late Antique and Medieval Pottery and Tiles in Mediterranean Archaeological Contexts. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Late Antique, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman Pottery and Tiles in Archaeological Context, Çanakkale, 1–3 June 2005
Edited by Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan, Ali Osman Uysal, and Johanna Witte-Orr
Reviewed by Billur Tekkök
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/19_Tekkok.pdf
Serçe Limani. Vol. 2, The Glass of an Eleventh-Century Shipwreck
By George F. Bass, Robert H. Brill, Bera Lledó, and Sheila D. Matthews
Reviewed by Sylvia Fünfschilling
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.3/20_Funfschilling.pdf
Museum Reviews
The Chimaera of Arezzo
J. Paul Getty Museum
Reviewed by Beth Cohen
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/museum_reviews/AJA1143_Cohen.pdf
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