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ARCHAEOLOGY & ANCIENT HISTORY
TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF INEQUALITY
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The Archaeology of Wealth Differences
Edited by Timothy A. Kohler & Michael E. Smith
Amerind Studies in Archaeology
The University of Arizona Press
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ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY AND DISSONANCE
Contexts for a Brave New World
Edited by Diane F. George & Bernice Kurchin
University Press of Florida
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COSA
The Roman and Greek Amphoras
Elizabeth Lyding Will & Kathleen Warner Slane
Supplements to The Memoirs Of The American Academy In Rome
University of Michigan Press
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LANGUAGE AND AUTHORITY IN DE LINGUA LATINA
Varro’s Guide to Being Roman
Diana Spencer
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
The University of Wisconsin Press
Academic Studies Press
GEOARCHAEOLOGY OF ISRAEL
Edited by Howard R. Feldman Aug 2019 400pp, 28 illustrations 9781644690178 Hardback £105.00 / €116.00 Touro College Press Books Includes an analysis of the Jehoash Inscription Tablet, which describes renovations made to the First Temple and is considered the only written evidence of its existence. At the same time, a new technique for authenticating artefacts is described - especially important in determining the authenticity of artefacts collected from unprovenanced sites.
Touro College Press
The University of Alabama Press
THE RITUAL LANDSCAPE OF LATE PRECONTACT EASTERN OKLAHOMA
Archaeology from the WPA Era until Today
Amanda L. Regnier, Scott W. Hammerstedt & Sheila Bobalik Savage Aug 2019 408pp, 105 b&w figures, 3 maps, 25 tables 9780817320256 Hardback £74.95 / €84.00 As part of Great Depression relief projects started in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored massive archaeological projects across Oklahoma. This book revisits and updates WPA-funded archaeological research on key Oklahoma mound sites.
The University of Arizona Press
THE CONTINUOUS PATH
Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Becoming
Edited by Samuel Duwe & Robert W. Preucel May 2019 312pp, 39 b&w illustrations 9780816539284 Hardback £67.50 / €73.00 Amerind Studies in Archaeology Archaeologists, anthropologists, and Native community members weave multiple perspectives together to write histories of Pueblo peoples in this volume. Within these histories are stories of the movements of people, materials, and ideas, as well as the interconnectedness of all as the Pueblo people find, leave, and return to their middle places.
THE DAVIS RANCH SITE
A Kayenta Immigrant Enclave in Southeastern Arizona
Rex E. Gerald Edited by Patrick D. Lyons May 2019 760pp, 272 colour illustrations, 158 tables 9780816538546 Hardback £84.95 / €96.00 Amerind Studies in Archaeology The results of Rex Gerald’s excavations and Archaeology Southwest’s San Pedro Preservation Project (1990-2001) indicate that the people of the Davis Ranch Site were part of a network of dispersed immigrant enclaves responsible for the origin and spread of Roosevelt Red Ware pottery, the key material marker of the Salado phenomenon.
HOMOL’OVI
An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster
E. Charles Adams Apr 2019 304pp 9780816540105 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 A rich work of synthesis and interpretation that will be important for anyone with an interest in Southwest archaeology, Arizona history, or Hopi culture. By considering the settlement trajectory of an entire cluster of sites, it will also prove valuable to archaeologists worldwide.
PAINTING THE SKIN
Pigments on Bodies and Codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Edited by Élodie Dupey García & María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual Apr 2019 384pp, 81 b&w illustrations, 2 16-page colour inserts 9780816538447 Hardback £79.95 / €90.00 Brings together exciting research on painted skins - human, animal, and vegetal - in Mesoamerica. Contributors explore the materiality, uses, and cultural meanings of the colours applied on a multitude of skins, including bodies, codices made of hide and vegetal paper, and even building ‘skins’.
REFRAMING THE NORTHERN RIO GRANDE PUEBLO ECONOMY
Edited by Scott Ortman May 2019 176pp, 37 b&w illustrations 9780816539314 Paperback £21.50 / €24.00 Anthropological Papers, Vol. 80 Argues that ideas from economics and complexity science, when suitably adapted, provide a compelling approach to the archaeological record. Contributors consider what we can learn about socioeconomic development through archaeology and explore how Pueblo culture and institutions supported improvements in the material conditions of life over time.
TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF INEQUALITY
The Archaeology of Wealth Differences
Edited by Timothy A. Kohler & Michael E. Smith Mar 2019 352pp, 49 b&w illustrations 9780816539444 Paperback £42.95 / €48.00 Amerind Studies in Archaeology For more information on this title, see page 2.
University Press of Florida
ANDEAN ONTOLOGIES
New Archaeological Perspectives
Edited by María Cecilia Lozada & Henry Tantaleán Jul 2019 400pp, 65 b&w illustrations, 7 tables 9780813056371 Hardback £117.00 / €132.00 Offers a fascinating interdisciplinary investigation of how ancient Andean people understood their world and the nature of being. Exploring pre-Hispanic ideas of time, space, and the human body, these essays highlight a range of beliefs across the region’s different cultures, emphasising the relational aspects of identity in Andean worldviews.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORICAL ECOLOGY OF SMALL SCALE ECONOMIES
Edited by Victor D. Thompson & James C. Waggoner Jr. Jan 2019 246pp, 46 b&w illustrations, 15 tables 9780813064154 Paperback £21.50 / €24.00 Most research into humans’ impact on the environment has focused on large-scale societies; a corollary assumption has been that small scale economies are sustainable and in harmony with nature. The contributors to this volume challenge this notion, revealing how such communities shaped their environment - not always in a positive way.
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ABUNDANCE
Re-evaluating the Marginality of California’s Islands
Edited by Kristina M. Gill, Mikael Fauvelle & Jon M. Earlandson Nov 2018 320pp 9780813056166 Hardback £106.00 / €120.00 Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology The Alta and Baja California islands changed dramatically in the centuries after Spanish colonists arrived. Modern scientists have assumed the islands were sparse before European contact, but this book reassesses this belief, analysing new lines of evidence showing that the California Islands were rich in resources important to human populations.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF AMERICAN MINING
Paul J. White Aug 2019 216pp 9780813068046 Paperback £23.50 / €27.00 The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective Synthesizing fifty years of research on American mining sites that date from colonial times to the present, Paul White provides an ideal overview of the field for both students and professionals.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CITIZENSHIP
Stacey Lynn Camp Jan 2019 194pp, 19 b&w photos 9780813064192 Paperback £23.50 / €27.00 The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective While the subject of citizenship has often been examined from a sociological, historical, or legal perspective, historical archaeologists have yet to fully explore the material aspects of these social boundaries. The Archaeology of Citizenship uses the material record to explore what it means to be an American.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CLANDESTINE ACTIVITIES
Rebecca Yamin & Donna J. Seifert Aug 2019 208pp, 32 b&w illustrations 9780813056456 Hardback £89.95 / €102.00 The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective Synthesizes case studies from various nineteenthcentury sites where material culture reveals evidence of prostitution, including a brothel in Five Points, New York City’s most notorious neighbourhood, and parlor houses a few blocks from the White House and Capitol Hill.
ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY AND DISSONANCE
Contexts for a Brave New World
Edited by Diane F. George & Bernice Kurchin Nov 2018 320pp 9780813056197 Hardback £89.95 / €102.00 For more information on this title, see page 2.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTHERN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
James A. Delle Apr 2019 256pp, 30 b&w illustrations 9780813056364 Hardback £85.50 / €96.00 The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective Investigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, James Delle presents the first overview of archaeological research on the topic.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF REMOVAL IN NORTH AMERICA
Edited by Terrance Weik May 2019 308pp, 2 tables, 49 b&w illustrations 9780813056395 Hardback £101.00 / €114.00 Exploring a wide range of settings and circumstances in which individuals or groups of people have been forced to move from one geographical location to another, the case studies in this volume demonstrate what archaeology can reveal about the agents, causes, processes, and effects of human removal.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTHEASTERN NATIVE AMERICAN LANDSCAPES OF THE COLONIAL ERA
Charles R. Cobb Dec 2019 288pp 9780813066196 Hardback £96.50 / €108.00 The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective Describes the ways Native American populations accommodated and resisted the encroachment of European powers in southeastern North America from the arrival of Spaniards in the sixteenth century to the first decades of the American Republic.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE COLD WAR
Todd A. Hanson Jul 2019 208pp 9780813068053 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective Examines the Cold War’s secret sites through three theoretical frameworks: conflict archaeology, the archaeology of the recent past, and the archaeology of science.
BEYOND THE WALLS
New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Historical Households
Edited by Kevin R. Fogle, James A. Nyman & Mary C. Beaudry Jan 2019 232pp, 5 b&w illustrations, 7 b&w photos 9780813064178 Paperback £21.50 / €24.00 This innovative volume examines historical homes and their wider landscapes to more fully address social issues of the past. The contributors analyse households across time periods and diverse cultures in North America, offering a new avenue for archaeological study of domestic sites.
BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF FRONTIERS AND BORDERLANDS
Edited by Cristina I. Tica & Debra L. Martin Sep 2019 320pp 9781683400844 Hardback £117.00 / €132.00 Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives Using bioanthropological case studies from around the world, this volume explores how people in the past created, maintained, or changed their identities while living on the edge between two or more different spheres of influence.
CAHOKIA IN CONTEXT
Hegemony and Diaspora
Edited by Charles H. McNutt & Ryan Parish Sep 2019 448pp, 132 b&w illustrations 9781683400820 Hardback £106.00 / €120.00 Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series This close look at Cahokia’s influence offers new insights into the movement of people and ideas in prehistoric America and demonstrates that the city’s cultural developments during its heyday, and the impact of its demise, produced profound and lasting effects on many regional cultures.
CAPTAIN KIDD’S LOST SHIP
The Wreck of the Quedagh Merchant
Frederick H. Hanselmann Aug 2019 224pp, 45 b&w illustrations 9780813056227 Hardback £89.95 / €102.00 Captain Kidd’s shipwreck reveals insights into life aboard a pirate ship, as well as the forces of world-scale economies in the 17th century. Frederick Hanselmann deconstructs the tales of the nefarious captain, and what emerges is the story of an adventurer and privateer contextualized by issues of economics, politics, empire, and ambition.
THE CUMBERLAND RIVER ARCHAIC OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
Edited by Tanya M. Peres & Aaron Deter-Wolf Nov 2018 256pp 9781683400837 Hardback £96.50 / €108.00 Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series Very little research has been published on the Archaic period shell mounds in the Middle Cumberland River Valley. Demonstrating that nearly forty such sites exist, this volume presents the results of recent surveys, excavations, and laboratory work as well as fresh examinations of past investigations that have been difficult for scholars to access.
DISEASE AND DISCRIMINATION
Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America
Dale L. Hutchinson Jan 2019 304pp, 5 tables, 7 maps, 29 b&w illustrations 9780813064345 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Disease and discrimination are processes linked to class in the early American colonies. Dale Hutchinson argues that most colonists, slaves, servants, and nearby Native Americans suffered health risks due to their lower economic and social status. He posits that poverty and living conditions, more than microbes, were at the root of epidemics.
EARLY AND MIDDLE WOODLAND LANDSCAPES OF THE SOUTHEAST
Edited by Alice P. Wright & Edward R. Henry Aug 2019 336pp 9780813064468 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series Presents fourteen in-depth case studies that incorporate empirical data with theoretical concepts such as ritual, aggregation, and place-making, highlighting the variability and common themes in the relationships between people, landscapes, and the built environment that characterize this period of North American native life in the Southeast.
FORT ST. JOSEPH REVEALED
The Historical Archaeology of a Fur Trading Post
Edited by Michael S. Nassaney Sep 2019 256pp 9780813056425 Hardback £95.95 / €108.00 The first synthesis of archaeological and documentary data on one of the most important French colonial outposts in the western Great Lakes region.
HISTORY AND APPROACHES IN HERITAGE STUDIES
Edited by Phyllis M. Messenger & Susan J. Bender Nov 2018 256pp 9780813056180 Hardback £101.00 / €114.00 Cultural Heritage Studies Heritage studies is emerging as an important program of study in universities. These two collections are timely and valuable resources on the theory and practice of heritage education and its relationship to the discipline of archaeology.
ICONOGRAPHY AND WETSITE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FLORIDA’S WATERY REALMS
Edited by Ryan Wheeler & Joanna Ostapkowicz Feb 2019 208pp, 51 b&w illustrations, 6 maps 9781683400783 Hardback £95.95 / €108.00 Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series Beginning with Frank Hamilton Cushing’s excavations at Key Marco, a diverse collection of animal carvings, dugout canoes, and other wooden objects has been uncovered from Florida’s watery landscapes. This volume explores new discoveries and re-examines existing artefacts to reveal the role of water in the lives of Florida’s early inhabitants.
THE MARKET FOR MESOAMERICA
Reflections on the Sale of Pre-Columbian Antiquities
Edited by Cara G. Tremain & Donna Yates Sep 2019 208pp, 3 tables, 31 b&w illustrations 9780813056449 Hardback £95.95 / €108.00 Maya Studies The theft of cultural heritage items from their places of origin is a topic of intense contemporary discussion, and The Market for Mesoamerica updates our knowledge of this issue by presenting undocumented and illicit antiquities within a regional and global context.
MAYA SALT WORKS
Heather McKillop Apr 2019 288pp, 81 b&w illustrations, 18 tables 9780813056333 Hardback £101.00 / €114.00 Maya Studies Details Heather McKillop’s archaeological team’s groundbreaking discovery of a unique and massive salt production complex submerged in a lagoon in southern Belize. Exploring the organisation of production and trade at the Paynes Creek Salt Works, McKillop offers a fascinating new look at the role of salt in the ancient Maya economy.
MIGRATIONS IN LATE MESOAMERICA
Edited by Christopher S. Beekman Nov 2019 384pp, 16 colour and 25 b&w illustrations 9780813066103 Hardback £89.95 / €102.00 Maya Studies Bringing the often-neglected topic of migration to the forefront of ancient Mesoamerican studies, this volume uses an illuminating multidisciplinary approach to address the role of population movements in Mexico and Central America from AD 500 to 1500, the tumultuous centuries before European contact.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE SEARCH FOR THE FIRST FLORIDIANS
Edited by David K. Thulman & Ervan G. Garrison Apr 2019 304pp, 45 b&w illustrations, 12 tables 9781683400738 Hardback £101.00 / €114.00 Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series Presenting the most current research and thinking on prehistoric archaeology in the Southeast, this volume reexamines some of Florida’s most important Paleoindian sites and discusses emerging technologies and methods that are necessary knowledge for archaeologists working in the region today.
PALEOINDIAN SOCIETIES OF THE COASTAL SOUTHEAST
James S. Dunbar Aug 2019 344pp 9780813068008 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series Building a case for the wealth of information yet to be unearthed, Dunbar provides a fresh perspective on the distant past and an original way of thinking about early life on the land mass called Florida.
PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE IN HERITAGE STUDIES
Edited by Phyllis M. Messenger & Susan J. Bender Nov 2018 256pp 9780813056142 Hardback £101.00 / €114.00 Cultural Heritage Studies Presents teaching strategies for helping students think critically about the meanings of the past today. In these case studies, experienced teachers discuss ways to integrate heritage studies values into archaeology curricula, illustrating how the fields enrich each other.
RETHINKING COLONIALISM
Comparative Archaeological Approaches
Edited by Craig N. Cipolla & Katherine Howlett Hayes Aug 2019 266pp 9780813068022 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Inciting a critical examination of the lasting consequences of ancient and modern colonialism on descendant communities, this wide-ranging volume includes essays on Roman Britain, slavery in Brazil, and contemporary Native Americans.
RETHINKING MOUNDVILLE AND ITS HINTERLAND
Edited by Vincas P. Steponaitis & C. Margaret Scarry Jul 2019 344pp 9780813068039 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series A much-needed synthesis of the rapidly expanding archaeological work that has taken place in the Moundville region over the past two decades, this volume presents the results of multifaceted research and new excavations.
THE SEA THEIR GRAVES
An Archaeology of Death and Remembrance in Maritime Culture
David J. Stewart Feb 2019 278pp, 50 b&w illustrations 9780813064208 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology Based on a study of gravestones and monuments in North America and the UK erected between the 17th and 20th centuries, David Stewart expands the use of nautical archaeology into terrestrial environments. He focuses on those who make their living at sea to examine their folkloric traditions, beliefs, and customs regarding death and remembrance.
University of Hawai’i Press
ANCIENT RYUKYU
An Archaeological Study of Island Communities
Richard Pearson Feb 2019 336pp, 36 illustrations, 20 maps 9780824873783 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00 Explores 30,000 years of human occupation in the Ryukyu Islands, from the earliest human presence in the region up to AD 1609 and the emergence of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It focuses on the unique geopolitical position of the islands, their environment, and the many human communities whose historical activities can be discerned.
McFarland
ANCIENT ROMAN SPORTS, A–Z
Athletes, Venues, Events and Terms
David Matz Aug 2019 215pp 9781476671697 Paperback £53.50 / €60.00 Chariot races. Gladiatorial combat. Fishing. Hunting. Swimming. The ancient Romans enjoyed these sports - sometimes with fanatical enthusiasm. This reference book contains more than 100 entries covering sporting events and activities of the era, and the Romans who sponsored, competed in and attended them.
SECONDARY BURIAL AND THE AFTERLIFE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, EUROPE AND ANATOLIA
Robin Melrose Jan 2020 244pp, 15 photos 9781476679921 Paperback £73.50 / €79.00 Cremation and inhumation are the two most common forms of burial. But in the ancient world there was another: secondary burial, involving the de-fleshing of the body, followed by another funeral.
University of Michigan Press
COSA AND THE COLONIAL LANDSCAPE OF REPUBLICAN ITALY
Third and Second Centuries BCE
Andrea De Giorgi Nov 2019 312pp, 62 illustrations, 2 tables 9780472131549 Hardback £59.50 / €68.00 Examines archaeological evidence of Roman colonisation of the Middle Republican period. In delving deeply into the uniqueness of select colonial contexts, these essays invite a novel discussion on the phenomenon of colonialism in the political landscape of Rome’s early expansion.
COSA
The Roman and Greek Amphoras
Elizabeth Lyding Will & Kathleen Warner Slane Feb 2019 277pp 9780472131433 Hardback £76.50 / €87.00 For more information on this title, see page 2.
CUEVA BLANCA
Social Change in the Archaic of the Valley of Oaxaca
Kent V. Flannery & Frank Hole Mar 2019 224pp 9780915703913 Paperback £38.50 / €44.00 Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, Vol. 60 Archaeologists Kent Flannery and Frank Hole report on their excavations at the famous Oaxacan site of Cueva Blanca, where humans lived more than 12,000 years ago
University of Michigan Museum Anthropological Archaeology
OSTRAKA AND OTHER INSCRIBED MATERIAL FROM A LATE ANTIQUE SETTLEMENT AT BĪR SHAWĪSH, SMALL OASIS
Marek Dospel Nov 2019 304pp, 96 illustrations, 15 tables 9780472131617 Hardback £72.50 / €82.00 American Studies in Papyrology Informal documents and remains of material culture offer a unique window into the daily lives and workings of ancient civilizations. Published here in their archaeological context, the documents and inscriptions excavated in Egypt’s Western Desert represent a valuable addition to our documentation of the Bahriya Oasis in the first centuries CE.
REMEMBERING ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK IN MEXICO AND PERU, 1961-2003
A Photographic Essay
Jeffrey R. Parsons Oct 2019 400pp, illustrated throughout 9780915703920 Hardback £76.50 / €87.00 Special Publications, Vol. 3 Hundreds of black-and-white photographs taken by archaeologist Jeffrey R. Parsons during decades of fieldwork illustrate now-vanished landscapes and archaeological sites of Mexico and Peru.
University of Michigan Museum Anthropological Archaeology
University of New Mexico Press
CERAMICS OF THE INDIGENOUS CULTURES OF SOUTH AMERICA
Studies of Production and Exchange through Compositional Analysis
Edited by Michael D. Glascock, Hector Neff & Kevin J. Vaughn Mar 2019 320pp 9780826360281 Hardback £101.00 / €114.00 Showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artefacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America. Covering a time span from 900 BC to AD 1500, these essays illustrate the diversity of ceramic provenance investigations taking place in seven different countries.
SPOOKY ARCHAEOLOGY
Myth and the Science of the Past
Jeb J. Card Mar 2019 424pp, 28 illustrations 9780826359148 Paperback £42.95 / €48.00 Follows a trail of clues left by adventurers and professional archaeologists that guides the reader through haunted museums, mysterious hieroglyphic inscriptions, fragments of a lost continent that never existed, and deep into an investigation of magic and murder.
TECHNOLOGY AND TRADITION IN MESOAMERICA AFTER THE SPANISH INVASION
Archaeological Perspectives
Edited by Rani T. Alexander Mar 2019 304pp 9780826360151 Hardback £89.95 / €102.00 This impressive collection features the work of archaeologists who systematically explore the material and social consequences of new technological systems introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion in Mesoamerica.
University of Tennessee Press
ARCHAEOLOGICAL ADAPTATION
Case Studies of Cultural Transformation from the Southeast and Caribbean
Edited by C. Clifford Boyd Oct 2019 277pp 9781621905226 Hardback £84.95 / €96.00 Presents essays around the disciplinary theme of documentation and analysis of change. Contributors study excavations in Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, wider southern Appalachia, and the Caribbean, providing insight into Native American, African American, and English civilisations.
Texas A&M University Press
GHOST GALLEON
The Discovery and Archaeology of the San Juanillo on the Shores of Baja California
Edward Von der Porten Aug 2019 240pp, 240 colour photos, 6 maps 9781623497675 Hardback £63.95 / €72.00
Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series Tells the story of archaeologists’ twenty-year search on a desolate beach in Baja California for the enigmatic remains of a Spanish galleon that disappeared without a trace more than four centuries ago.
SECRETS IN THE DIRT
Uncovering the Ancient People of Gault
Mary S. Black Feb 2019 132pp, 40 colour photos 9781623497491 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00 The Gault archaeological complex in Central Texas is one of the most important and extensive sites for the study of Clovis culture in North America. Indeed, according to author Mary Black, recent discoveries at the site by archaeologist Michael Collins may suggest that Texas has been a good place for people to live for as much as 20,000 years
UCT Press
An Archaeological Perspective
Yusuf Juwayeyi Dec 2019 256pp 9781775822493 Paperback £36.50 / €40.00 This book uses oral history, documents written by early Portuguese explorers, traders and government officials, and archaeology findings to piece together the early history of the Chewa.
The University of Utah Press
CHACO’S NORTHERN PRODIGIES
Salmon, Aztec, and the Ascendancy of the Middle San Juan Region after AD 1100
Paul F. Reed May 2019 456pp 9781607816683 Paperback £42.95 / €48.00 Work by two groups of contributors resulted in this synthetic volume, which interprets thirty-five years of research at Salmon Ruins. Chaco’s Northern Prodigies also puts recent work at Salmon Ruins in the context of Middle San Juan archaeological research. It is a timely synopsis of the archaeology of this region of the Southwest.
COLOR IN THE ANCESTRAL PUEBLO SOUTHWEST
Edited by Marit K. Munson & Kelley Hays-Gilpin Nov 2019 192pp, 72 illustrations 9781607817208 Hardback £56.50 / €61.00 Explores more than a century of archaeological research to create the first systematic understanding of the many ways Ancestral Pueblo people chose specific colours through time and space to add meaning and visual appeal to their lives.
EARLY FARMING AND WARFARE IN NORTHWEST MEXICO
Robert J. Hard & John R. Roney Jul 2019 440pp, 231 illustrations, 23 maps 9781607816782 Hardback £79.95 / €90.00 Presents the archaeological investigations of Cerro Juanaqueña and related sites in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico.
The University of Wisconsin Press
LANGUAGE AND AUTHORITY IN DE LINGUA LATINA
Varro’s Guide to Being Roman
Diana Spencer Apr 2019 424pp, 1 map 9780299323202 Hardback £118.00 / €134.00 Wisconsin Studies in Classics For more information on this title, see page 2.
SPEAR-WON LAND
Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea
Edited by Andrea M. Berlin & Paul J. Kosmin Jun 2019 272pp, 17 maps, 62 colour illustrations, 79 b&w illustrations 9780299321307 Hardback £128.00 / €145.00 Wisconsin Studies in Classics The contributors to this volume are members of the Hellenistic Sardis Project, a research collaboration between long-standing expedition members and scholars keenly interested in the site. These new discussions on the pre-Roman history of Sardis restore the city in the scholarship of the Hellenistic East.
BESTSELLERS
The University of Arizona Press
AFTER COLLAPSE
The Regeneration of Complex Societies
Edited by Glenn M. Schwartz & John J. Nichols 2010 336pp 9780816529360 Paperback £39.50 / €43.00 Examines how and why early complex urban societies reappeared after periods of decentralisation and collapse. Ranging widely across the Near East, the Aegean, East Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes, these cross-cultural studies expand our understanding of social evolution by examining how societies were transformed during the period of radical change now termed ‘collapse’.
FUNDAMENTALS OF TREE RING RESEARCH
James H. Speer 2012 368pp 9780816526857 Paperback £42.95 / €48.00 A comprehensive text which addresses all of the subjects readers new to the field of dendrochronology (a method of scientific dating based on the analysis of tree-ring growth patterns) will need to know, and will be a welcome reference for practitioners at all levels.
University Press of Florida
ARCHAEOLOGY, CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND THE ANTIQUITIES TRADE
Edited by Neil Brodie et al 2008 364pp 9780813033396 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 Investigates the ways that commodifying artefacts fuels the destruction of archaeological heritage and considers what can be done to protect it.
Markus Wiener Publishers
ANCIENT SLAVERY AND MODERN IDEOLOGY
Moses I. Finley Edited by Brent D. Shaw 1998 321pp, illustrations 9781558761711 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 A study of slavery in ancient Greece and Italy. Sir Moses Finley discusses how slave societies came into being and considers the moral, social and economic underpinnings that allowed them to prosper.
University of Michigan Press
BEROSSOS AND MANETHO: INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED
Gerald P. Verbrugghe 2000 256pp, illustrations, maps 9780472086870 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00 Provides a general introduction to the cultural history of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. It then presents a translation of the only known native narratives, written in Greek, of the histories of these two civilizations.
RITUAL MATTERS
Material Remains and Ancient Religion
Jennifer Knust & Claudia Moser 2017 152pp, 49 figures, 7 tables 9780472130573 Hardback £54.95 / €62.00 Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Takes a new approach to the study of archaeological remains of ancient religions. Focusing on the materiality of ritual allows for a novel vantage point from which to consider ancient religious practices, as well as an important counterbalance to more traditional conceptual perspectives.
The University of North Carolina Press
THE ART OF FORGETTING
Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture
Harriet I. Flower 2011 424pp 9780807871881 Paperback £42.95 / €48.00 Studies in the History of Greece and Rome Provides the first chronological overview of the development of the Roman practice of limiting or destroying the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community from archaic times into the second century A.D.
VIRTUS ROMANA
Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians
Catalina Balmaceda 2017 304pp, 3 halftones 9781469635125 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00 Studies in the History of Greece and Rome Tracing how virtus informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus.
Texas A&M University Press
IDENTIFYING AND INTERPRETING ANIMAL BONES
A Manual
April M. Beisaw 2013 192pp, 43 colour photos 9781623490263 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 Texas A&M University Anthropology Series, Vol. 18 Offering a field-tested analytic method for identifying faunal remains, along with helpful references, images, and examples of the most commonly encountered North American species.
The University of Utah Press
FORMATION PROCESSES OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
Michael Brian Schiffer 2002 448pp 9780874805130 Paperback £39.50 / €43.00 Argues that the cultural past is knowable, but only when the nature of the evidence is thoroughly understood. It shows how the past is accessible in practice by identifying variability introduced by the diverse effects of people and nature that in some sum, form the archaeological record.
The University of Wisconsin Press
FESTIVALS OF ATTICA
An Archaeological Commentary
Erika Simon 2002 180pp, 62 b&w photos, 19 illustrations 9780299091842 Paperback £17.95 / €20.00 The festivals of the Athenian sacred calendar constitute a vital key to classical Greek culture and religion. Erika Simon marshalls evidence from literary, historical and archaeological sources to offer a comprehensive classification of the origins and meanings of the Attic cults.
HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, 324-1453, VOLUME 1
Second Edition
Alexander A. Vasiliev 2006 382pp 9780299809256 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00 “This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early Christianity, both western and eastern, with all of its remains of the wonderful productions of art, architecture, and learning.” —Southwestern Journal of Theology
THE SLAVE IN GREECE AND ROME
Jean Andreau & Raymond Descat 2012 232pp 9780299283742 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves’ economic role in society, their crucial contributions to Greek and Roman culture, and their daily and family lives, the authors examine the different ways in which slavery evolved in the two cultures.
