American Journal of Archaeology Online Reviews (April
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 April 2010 issue (volume 114, number 2). We hope you enjoy.
Visit our new blog to discuss the reviews: http://www.ajaonline.org/blog/
The Editors
Book Reviews
>From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of
Archaeology
By Göran Blix
Reviewed by Walter Berry
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/01_Berry.pdf
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives:Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
By Rosemary A. Joyce
Reviewed by Karina Croucher
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/02_Croucher.pdf
Palaeopathology
By Tony Waldron
Reviewed by Mary Lewis
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/03_Lewis.pdf
New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece
Edited by Lynne A. Schepartz, Sherry C. Fox, and Chryssi Bourbou
Reviewed by Anne Ingvarsson-Sundström
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/04_Ingvarsson-Sundstrom.pdf
Lessons Learned: Reflecting on the Theory and Practice of Mosaic Conservation.
Proceedings of the 9th ICCM Conference, Hammamet, Tunisia, November 29–December
3, 2005
Edited by Aïcha Ben Abed, Martha Demas, and Thomas Roby
Reviewed by Jean Ann Dabb
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/05_Dabb.pdf
Mensch und Umwelt im Spiegel der Zeit: Aspekte Geoarchäologischer Forschungen
im östlichen Mittelmeergebiet
By Torsten Mattern and Andreas Vött
Reviewed by Eberhard Zangger
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/06_Zangger.pdf
Bene Israel: Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant During the
Bronze and Iron Ages in Honour of Israel Finkelstein
Edited by Alexander Fantalkin and Assaf Yasur-Landau
Reviewed by Jorrit M. Kelder
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/07_Kelder.pdf
Egyptian Games and Sports
By Joyce Tyldesley
Reviewed by Peter A. Piccione
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/08_Piccione.pdf
Warriors and Weapons in Bronze Age Europe
By Anthony Harding
Reviewed by Nick Thorpe
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/09_Thorpe.pdf
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
By Cathy Gere
Reviewed by Nanno Marinatos
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/10_Marinatos.pdf
The People of Knossos: Prosopographical Studies in the Knossos Linear B
Archives
By Hedvig Landenius Enegren
Reviewed by Michael Franklin Lane
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/11_Lane.pdf
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. France 41. Louvre 27: Céramique attique archaïque,
goblets “mastoids” à figures noires et rouges
By Nassi Malagardis and Athéna Tsingarida
Reviewed by Regina Attula
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/12_Attula.pdf
Ayios Stephanos: Excavations at a Bronze Age and Medieval Settlement in
Southern Laconia
By W.D. Taylour and R. Janko
Reviewed by Chrysanthi Gallou
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/13_Gallou.pdf
Thracians and Their Neighbours: Their Destiny, Art and Heritage
By Jan Bouzek
Reviewed by Nikola Theodossiev
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/14_Theodossiev.pdf
Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy
By Margarita Gleba
Reviewed by Brian E. McConnell
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/15_McConnell.pdf
Votives, Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion: Studies in Honor of Jean
MacIntosh Turfa
Edited by Margarita Gleba and Hilary Becker
Reviewed by Ingrid Krauskopf
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/16_Krauskopf.pdf
Rome’s Cultural Revolution
By Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Reviewed by Regina Gee
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/17_Gee.pdf
La céramique romaine d’Argos: Fin du IIe siècle avant J.-C.–fin du IVe siècle
après J.-C.
By Catherine Abadie-Reynal
Reviewed by Phillip Kenrick
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/18_Kenrick.pdf
Poseidonia–Paestum. Vol. 5, Les maisons romaines de l’îlot nord
By Irene Bragantini, Rosa De Bonis, Anca Lemaire, and Renaud Robert.
Reviewed by Kathryn Lomas
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/114.2/19_Lomas.pdf
Museum Reviews
Unearthing the Truth: Egypt's Pagan and Coptic Sculpture
Brooklyn Museum
Reviewed by Alexander V. Kruglov
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/museum_reviews/AJA1142_Kruglov.pdf
Roma: La Pittura di un Impero
Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
Reviewed by Eleanor Winsor Leach
http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/museum_reviews/AJA1142_Leach.pdf
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Dean of Academic Life
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