American Journal of Archaeology Online Reviews (April 2009)
The American Journal of Archaeology (AJA) 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 reviews published in tandem with our printed April 2009 issue (volume 113, number 2). We hope you enjoy. The Editors ********** Book Reviews Negotiating the Past in the Past: Identity, Memory and Landscape in Archaeological Research By Norman Yoffee Reviewed by Hamish Forbes http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/01_Forbes.pdf The Human Fossil Record. Vol. 4, Craniodental Morphology of Early Hominids (Genera Australopithecus, Parathropus, Orrorin): an Overview By Jeffery H. Schwartz and Ian Tattersall Reviewed by Janet Monge http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/02_Monge.pdf Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East By Diane Bolger Reviewed by Susan Pollock http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/03_Pollock.pdf Arslantepe Cretulae: An Early Centralised Administrative System Before Writing By M. Fragipane, P. Ferioli, E. Fiandra, R. Laurito, and H. Pittman Reviewed by Judith Weingarten http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/04_Weingarten.pdf The Urals and Western Siberia in the Bronze and Iron Ages By Ludmila Vladimirovich Koryakova and Andrej Epimakhov Reviewed by Alison Betts http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/05_Betts.pdf Mummies and Death in Egypt By Françoise Dunand and Roger Lichtenberg Reviewed by Rosalie David http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/06_David.pdf Excavations at Kadesh Barnea (Tell El-Qudeirat) 1976-1982. 2 vols. By Rudolph Cohen and Hannah Bernick-Greenberg Reviewed by Avraham Faust http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/07_Faust.pdf People of the Red Sea: Proceedings of Red Sea Project II Held in the British Museum October 2004 By Janet C.M. Starkey Reviewed by Cheryl Ward http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/08_Ward.pdf Stone Vessels in the Levant By Rachael Thyrza Sparks Reviewed by James A. Harrell http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/09_Harrell.pdf Economics of Religion in the Mycenaean World: Resources Dedicated to Religion in the Mycenaean Palace Economy By Lisa Marie Bendall Reviewed by Michael L. Galaty http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/10_Galaty.pdf La Céramique Grecque à Reliefs: Ateliers insulaires du VIIe au VIe siècle avant J.-C. By Eva Simantoni-Bournia Reviewed by Miriam Caskey http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/11_Caskey.pdf Literacy and the State in the Ancient Mediterranean By Kathryn Lomas Reviewed by James Whitley http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/12_Whitley.pdf La distribución de cerámica griega en la Contestania ibérica: El puerto comercial de La Illeta dels Banyets By Josep Miguel García Martín Reviewed by Adolfo J. Domínguez http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/13_Dominguez.pdf L'archéologie du Fars à l'époque hellénistique: Quatre leçons au Collège de France 8, 15, 22 et 29 mars 2007 By Pierfrancesco Callieri Reviewed by Daniel T. Potts http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/14_Potts.pdf Early Roman Towns in Hispania Tarraconensis By L. Abad Casal, S. Keay, and S. Ramallo Asensio Reviewed by Jonathan Edmondson http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/15_Edmondson.pdf Museum Review War and Peace: Housing the Ara Pacis in the Eternal City. Museo dell'Ara Pacis, Rome Reviewed by Maria José Strazzulla http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/museum_reviews/AJA1132_Strazzulla.pdf --------------------- Vanessa Lord Assistant Editor American Journal of Archaeology [email protected] www.ajaonline.org
