American Journal of Archaeology Online Reviews (October 2011)
The American Journal of Archaeology publishes quarterly open access book and museum reviews. 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 website (
www.ajaonline.org).
Below is a list of book reviews published in tandem with our printed October 2011 issue (volume 115, number 4). See the Current Table of Contents (
www.ajaonline.org/toc/1154) or click the links below to access the free PDFs.
We hope you enjoy.
The Editors
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Book Reviews
Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies
Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert
Reviewed by Peter S. Allen
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/985Body Parts and Bodies Whole: Changing Relations and Meanings
Edited by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, and Jessica Hughes
Reviewed by Lynne A. Schepartz
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/986
Dawn of the Metal Age: Technology and Society During the Levantine Chalcolithic
By Jonathan M. Golden
Reviewed by Graham Philip
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/987
Gräber und Grüfte in Assur. Vol. 1, Von der zweiten Hälfte des 3. bis zur Mitte des 2. Jahrtausends v. Chr.
By Daniel Hockmann
Reviewed by Augusta McMahon
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/988
Aramaic and Figural Stamp Impressions on Bricks of the Sixth Century B.C. from Babylon
By Benjamin Sass and Joachim Marzahn
Reviewed by Christopher Rollston
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/989
Flexible Stones: Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave
By Anna Stroulia
Reviewed by Erella Hovers
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/990
Death Management and Virtual Pursuits: A Virtual Reconstruction of the Minoan Cemetery at Phourni, Archanes
By Constantinos Papadopoulos
Reviewed by Emily Miller Bonney
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/991
Orchomenos IV: Orchomenos in der mittleren Bronzezeit
By Kalliope Sarri
Reviewed by Michael B. Cosmopoulos
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/992
Crete in Transition: The Pottery Styles and Island History in the Archaic and Classical Periods
By Brice L. Erickson
Reviewed by Antonis Kotsonas
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/993
How to Read Greek Vases
By Joan Mertens
Reviewed by T.H. Carpenter
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/994
La céramique grecque d'Italie méridionale et de Sicile: Productions coloniales et apparentées du VIIIe au IIIe
siècle av. J.-C.
By Martine Denoyelle and Mario Iozzo
Reviewed by Robin Osborne
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/995
Hermeneutik der Bilder: Beiträge zur Ikonographie und Interpretation griechischer Vasenmalerei
Edited by Stefan Schmidt and John H. Oakley
Reviewed by Robin Osborne
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/996
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain 25. The British Museum 11: Greek Geometric Pottery
By J. Nicolas Coldstream
Reviewed by Susan Langdon
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/997
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Germany 87. Munich, Antikensammlungen ehemals Museum Antiker Kleinkunst 15: Attisch
Wiessgrundige Lekythen
By Erika Kunze-Götte
Reviewed by Timothy J. McNiven
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/998
L'architecture grecque. Vol. 3, Habitat, urbanisme et fortifications
By M.C. Hellmann
Reviewed by Lisa Nevett
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/999
Delphi and Olympia: The Spatial Politics of Panhellenism in the Archaic and Classical Periods
By Michael Scott
Reviewed by Mary Voyatzis
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1000
Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Paradigms of Manhood and Their Cultural Traditions
By Ada Cohen
Reviewed by Sheila Dillon
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1001
The Necropolis of Poggio Civitate (Murlo): Burials from Poggio Aguzzo
By Anthony Tuck
Reviewed by Lisa C. Pieraccini
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1002
Early Roman Thrace: New Evidence from Bulgaria
Edited by Ian P. Haynes
Reviewed by Emil Nankov
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1003
Patrasso colonia di Augusto e le trasformazioni culturali, politiche ed economiche della provincia di Acaia agli
inizi dell'età imperiale romana: Atti del convegno internazionale, Patrasso 23–24 marzo 2006
Edited by Emanuele Greco
Reviewed by Amelia Robertson Brown
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1004
Houses and Society in the Later Roman Empire
By Kim Bowes
Reviewed by Shelley Hales
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1005
Fréjus (Forum Julii): Le Port Antique/ The Ancient Harbour
By Chérine Gébara and Christophe Morhange
Reviewed by R. Scott Moore
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1006
Roman Art
By Paul Zanker
Reviewed by Ellen Perry
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1018
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges. Vol. 4, Le Macellum
By Georges Fabre and Jean-Louis Paillet
Reviewed by Julian Richard
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1019
