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The Guatemalan rainforest has kept its secrets well. Maya monuments like the world-famous pyramids at Tikal may seem hard to miss, but until recently surveying the dense jungle posed a formidable challenge. Now extensive aerial survey using lasers…

HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA—According to a report in The Indian Express, two bones marked with engravings highlighted with ochre have been discovered among thousands of bone fragments at the Lingjing site in central China, in an archaeological layer dated…

CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND—A site occupied during the Iron Age, Roman, and Saxon periods has been discovered in eastern England, BBC News reports. Among the oldest finds are eight Iron Age roundhouses, some dating to 100 B.C., according to…

NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA—CBC News reports that petroglyphs carved with a metal knife have been discovered in a subterranean crevice in eastern Newfoundland's Conception Bay North by a local resident. The Roman-style letters and images, thought to be the…

123.4 By Angeliki Katsioti. Pp. ii + 669. Archaeopress, Oxford 2017. £80. ISBN 978-1-78491-746-3 (paper). Reviewed by Hector WilliamsKaren GarnettThis large publication of mostly Late Antique lamps in the collection of the Archaeological…

123.4 Edited by Nuccia Negroni Catacchio, Massimo Cardosa, and Andrea Dolfini (Ricerche e scavi del Centro studi di preistoria e archeologia 3). Pp. 441. Centro studi di preistoria e archeologia, Milan 2017. €60 ISBN 9788894035551 (paper).…

123.4 By Antonella Coralini (Studi e Scavi n.s. 40). Pp. 806. Ante Quem, Bologna 2017. €70. ISBN 978-88-7849-115-1 (paper). Reviewed by Michael A. AndersonThis volume is the second in a series that will publish 19 years of archaeological…

123.4 By Glenys Davies. Pp. xii + 357. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018. $120. ISBN 978-0-521-84273-0 (cloth). Reviewed by Judith Lynn SebestaIn December 2018, a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst was dedicated in St. Peter’s Square,…

123.4 By Sarah A. James (Corinth 7.7). Pp. xxiv + 240. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton 2018. $150. ISBN 978-0-87661-077-0 (cloth). Reviewed by Peter J. StoneIn this volume, James seeks to address a problem posed and…

123.4 By Maria A. Liston, Susan I. Rotroff, and Lynn M. Snyder (Hesperia Suppl. 50). Pp. xiii + 185. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton 2018. $75. ISBN 978-0-87661-550-8 (paper). Reviewed by W. Flint DibbleThe Agora…

123.4 By Gonca Cankardeş-Şenol. Centre d’Études Alexandrines, Alexandria. Vol. 1, Eponyms Α (Études Alexandrines 33, Amphor Alex 3). Pp. 608, figs. 4,356. 2015. €40. ISBN 978-2-11-139022-5 (cloth). Vol. 2, Eponyms Β to Κ…

123.4 By D. Graham J. Shipley. Pp. xxxii + 355. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2018. $120. ISBN 978-0-521-87369-7 (cloth). Reviewed by Jan P. StronkThough we possess a general picture regarding the Peloponnesian peninsula for the…

123.4 By William A.P. Childs. Pp. 516. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2018. $65. ISBN 9781400890514 (paper). Reviewed by Beryl Barr-SharrarScholarly books dedicated exclusively to Greek art of the fourth century B.C.E. are few in…

123.4 By Clemens Voigts (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom, Sonderschrift 21). Pp. 190. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2017. €78. ISBN 978-3-95490-213-2 (cloth). Reviewed by Clemente MarconiVoigts’ book, the revision of a dissertation…

123.4 Edited by Anna Margherita Jasink, Judith Weingarten, and Silvia Ferrara. Pp. 270. Florence, Firenze University Press, 2018. €19.90. ISBN 9788864536361 (paper). Reviewed by Nicolle Hirschfeld“We live our lives surrounded by text,”…

123.4 Edited by Apostolos Sarris, Evita Kalogiropoulou, Tuna Kalayci, and Evagelia Karimali (International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series 20). Pp. xxxii + 480. Berghahn, New York 2017. $39. ISBN 9781879621473 (paper).…

African rock art Rock art is the practice of engraving, drawing, or painting images onto immovable rock surfaces, and is one of the oldest material forms of human expression in the world, dating back 30,000 years in Africa. Rock art researchers…

A fundraising campaign is underway to save, preserve and display ‘Southend’s Mary Rose’ – the London shipwreck No-one knows the cause of the explosion that sank Cromwellian warship the London at its mooring near the mouth of the River Thames off…

A fundraising campaign is underway to save, preserve and display ‘Southend’s Mary Rose’ – the London shipwreck No-one knows the cause of the explosion that sank Cromwellian warship the London at its mooring near the mouth of the River Thames off…

Archaeologists have pieced together a Roman mystery to identify a shard of glass found at Chedworth Roman Villa Sometimes in archaeology it’s the smallest finds that reveal the biggest insights – the grain of corn, the finger ring, the arrowhead. At…