American Journal of Archaeology Online Reviews (October 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 October 2010 issue (volume 114, number 4). We hope you enjoy.
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The Editors
Book Reviews
Statistics for Archaeologists: A Common Sense Approach
By Robert D. Drennan
Reviewed by Gianmarco Alberti
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/01_Alberti.pdf
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq
Edited by Peter G. Stone and Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly
Reviewed by Susan B. Downey
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/02_Downey.pdf
Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material and Spiritual Culture
Edited by Colin Renfrew and Iain Morley
Reviewed by Fiona Coward
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/03_Coward.pdf
L’archive des Fortifications de Persépolis: État des questions et perspectives de recherches. Actes du colloque organisé au Collège de France, 3–4 novembre 2006
Edited by Pierre Briant, Wouter F.M. Henkelman, and Matthew W. Stolper
Reviewed by Bruno Jacobs
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/04_Jacobs.pdf
Love for Lydia: A Sardis Anniversary Volume Presented to Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr.
Edited by Nicholas D. Cahill
Reviewed by Lynn E. Roller
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/05_L.Roller.pdf
The Archaeology of Lydia: From Gyges to Alexander
By Christopher H. Roosevelt
Reviewed by Alan M. Greaves
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/06_Greaves.pdf
The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age
Edited by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Reviewed by Jennifer Moody
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/07_Moody.pdf
Aegyptiaca on the Island of Crete in Their Chronological Context: A Critical Review. 2 vols.
By Jacqueline Phillips,
Reviewed by Eric H. Cline
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/08_Cline.pdf
The LMIII Cemetery at Tourloti, Siteia: The “Xanthoudias Master” and the Octopus Style in East Crete
By Constantinos Paschalidis
Reviewed by Jeremy B. Rutter
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/09_Rutter.pdf
Melissa: Archeologia delle api e del miele nella Grecia antica
By Marco Giuman
Reviewed by Jane Francis
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/10_Francis.pdf
Meetings of Cultures: Between Conflict and Coexistence
Edited by Pia Guldager Bilde and Jane Hjarl Petersen
Reviewed by Peter S. Allen
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/11_Allen.pdf
Terracotta Statues and Figurines of Cypriote Type Found in the Aegean: Provenance Studies
Edited by Vassos Karageorghis, Nota Kourou, Vassilis Kilikoglou, and Michael D. Glascock
Reviewed by Sabine Fourrier
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/12_Fourrier.pdf
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Deutschland 86. Berlin 11: Antiken-sammlung (ehemals Antiquarium). Attisch rotfigurige Mischgefässe, böotisch rotfigurige Kratere
By Angelika Schöne-Denkinger
Reviewed by Helene Blinkenberg Hastrup
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/13_Blinkenberg Hastrup.pdf
Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom
Edited by Jakob Munk Højte
Reviewed by Christopher Tuplin
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/14_Tuplin.pdf
Les céramiques d’usage quotidien à Thasos au IVe siècle avant J.-C. 2 vols.
By Francine Blondé
Reviewed by Justin St. P. Walsh
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/15_Walsh.pdf
Blood and Entertainments: Sports and Gladiatorial Games in Hellenistic and Roman Thrace
By Lyudmil F. Vagalinski (in Bulgarian)
Reviewed by Nora Dimitrova
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/16_Dimitrova.pdf
La tomba Bruschi di Tarquinia
By Valentina Vincenti
Reviewed by Marshall J. Becker
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/17_Becker.pdf
Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C.–A.D. 250
By John R. Clarke
Reviewed by Matthew Roller
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/18_M.Roller.pdf
The Roman Garden: Space, Sense, and Society
By Katharine T. von Stackelberg
Reviewed by Mark Grahame
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/19_Grahame.pdf
Musarna. Vol. 3, La nécropole impériale
By Éric Rebillard
Reviewed by Maureen Carroll
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/20_Carroll.pdf
Staging the World: Spoils, Captives, and Representations in the Roman Triumphal Procession
By Ida Östenberg
Reviewed by Catilin Pavel
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/21_Pavel.pdf
Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie. Vol. 11, Mont Hermon (Liban et Syrie)
By Julien Aliquot
Reviewed by Paul Kimball
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/22_Kimball.pdf
Les graffiti sur céramique d’Augusta Raurica
By Gaële Féret and Richard Sylvestre
Reviewed by Ralph Häussler
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/23_Haussler.pdf
Excavations at Mucking. Vol. 3, The Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries. Pt. 1, Introduction, Catalogues and Specialist Reports. Pt. 2, Analysis and Discussion
By Sue Hirst and Dido Clark
Reviewed by Catherine Hills
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.4/24_Hills.pdf
Museum Review
Learning from the Iraq Museum
By Donny George Youkhanna
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/museum_reviews/AJA1144_Youkhanna.pdf
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