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124.1 By Sarah Levin-Richardson. Pp. xx + 243. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019. $99.99. ISBN 9781108496872 (cloth). Reviewed by John R. ClarkeLevin-Richardson’s book fills a gap in the scholarship, since—as the author’s careful…

124.1 By Zbigniew T. Fiema, Jaakko Frösen, and Maija Holappa. Pp. viii + 601, DVD of virtual tour. Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Helsinki 2016. €140. ISBN 978-951-653-410-0 (cloth). Reviewed by S. Thomas ParkerFor many years, the fabulous…

124.1 By Brent Nongbri. Pp. xi + 403. Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2018. $35. ISBN 978-0-300-21541-0 (cloth). Reviewed by Steven M. StannishThe collecting of early Christianity’s remnants has an extraordinary history. In the…

124.1 By Touatia Amraoui (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 26). Pp. xx + 425. Archaeopress, Oxford 2017. £50. ISBN 978-1-78491-667-1 (paper). Reviewed by Matthew S. HobsonWhen considering the subject of urban workshops and Roman North Africa,…

124.1 Vol. 1, Architecture and History By Jean-Yves Empereur and Tony Koželj, with Olivier Picard and Manuela Wurch-Koželj (Études chypriotes 19). Pp. 169. École Française d’Athènes, Athens 2017. €40. ISBN 978-2-86958-293…

124.1 By Delphine Tonglet (Études d’Archéologie 13). 2 vols.: vol. 1, pp. 371; vol. 2, pp. 204. Centre de Recherches en Archéologie et Patrimoine, Brussels 2018. $71.81. ISBN 9782960202908 (paper).   Reviewed by Sheramy D. BundrickIn this…

124.1 By Seth Bernard. Pp. xvi + 315. Oxford University Press, New York 2018. $85. ISBN 978-0-19-087878-8 (cloth). Reviewed by John North HopkinsOur image of Rome in the Middle Republic is filling out quickly. In recent years, a flood of…

124.1 By Monica L. Smith. Pp. 283. Viking, New York 2019. $30. ISBN 978-0-7352-2367-7 (paper). Reviewed by Nicola TerrenatoCities: The First 6,000 Years is a lively romp that takes the reader through a rich landscape of urban scenarios and…

124.1 Edited by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, Kathryn L. Gleason, Kim J. Hartswick, and Amina-Aïcha Malek. Pp. xxxvi + 617. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018. $275. ISBN 978-1-13903-302-2 (cloth).  Reviewed by Nicole G. BrownIt is a…

124.1 Edited by Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean 3). Pp. xxiii + 256. Brill, Leiden 2018. $148. ISBN 978-90-04-37340-2 (cloth). Reviewed by Linda R. GosnerStrabo famously praised the southern Spanish region…

124.1 By Alessandra Batty (BAR-IS 2909). Pp. xiv + 238. BAR Publishing, Oxford 2018. £57.50. ISBN 978-1407-31614-7 (paper).  Reviewed by Margaret M. AndrewsBatty’s monograph on Ostia’s Domus del Ninfeo—an Imperial-period insula turned Late…

124.1 By Anne-Zahra Chemsseddoha (Scripta Antiqua 121). Pp. 533. Ausonius Éditions, Pessac, France 2019. €30. ISBN 9782356132499 (paper). Reviewed by Elina M. SalminenChemsseddoha has written a book that would not have been possible even a…

124.1 Edited by Diana Y. Ng and Molly Swetnam-Burland, eds. Pp. xv + 275. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018. $105. ISBN 978-1-108-47389-7 (cloth). Reviewed by Maryl B. GensheimerThis volume explores diachronic histories of Roman…

ÇANAKKALE, TURKEY—Two pendants carved from bone some 1,600 years ago have been unearthed in western Turkey at the site of a bone workshop near the agora in the ancient city of Assos, according to a Hürriyet Daily News report. Nurettin Arslan of…

LEUVEN, BELGIUM—According to a New York Times report, a team of researchers led by Harco Willems of the University of Leuven examined high-resolution images of 4,000-year-old wood fragments recovered from a burial shaft in the necropolis at Deir el-…

BEIJING, CHINA—According to a report in The Asahi Shimbun, a Chinese epitaph at China’s Shenzhen Wangye Museum may have been written by Kibi no Makibi, a powerful Japanese scholar and official, while he was a student in China in the early eighth…

YAVNE, ISRAEL—The Times of Israel reports that seven gold coins dated to the Early Islamic period were discovered in a small, broken jug near the entrance to a kiln in central Israel. A large number of kilns have been uncovered in the area,…

The latest excavations at Street House, near Loftus, have explored an Early Neolithic monument dating to c.3700 BC. The post Excavating the Neolithic at Street House appeared first on Current Archaeology.

COVENTRY, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that artifacts and graves dating to the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods were unearthed ahead of a construction project in England’s West Midlands. In the cremation burial of a young Roman girl, a team of…

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS—According to a Discover Magazine report, symptoms of atherosclerosis, or hardening and narrowing of the arteries, have been detected in the mummified remains of four Inuit adults who lived in Greenland some 500 years ago. It…