OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Archaeology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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Lingering Tropes and Noteworthy Narratives in Recent Archaeology Exhibitions	12
Online-Only Content	7
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Coupoles, voûtes et plafonds peints d’époque romaine: Ier–IVe siècle apr. J.-C. By Alix Barbet. Paris: Éditions Hermann 2021. Pp. 350. €64. ISBN 9791037006806 (cloth).	5
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, 1936–2022	5
:Minoische Bild-Räume: Neue Untersuchungen zu den Wandbildern des spätbronzezeitlichen Palastes von Knossos	4
Demographic Dynamics of Publishing in the American Journal of Archaeology	3
R. Ross Holloway, 1934–2022	3
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Foodways in Roman Republican Italy By Laura M. Banducci. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2021. Pp. 366. $85. ISBN 9780472132300 (cloth).	3
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Finding Fairness: From Pleistocene Foragers to Contemporary Capitalists By Justin Jennings. Gainesville: University Press of Florida 2021. Pp. 332. $90. ISBN 9780813066745 (cloth).	2
:The Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete. Vol. 1, The Egyptian-Type Artifacts	2
A Letter from the Editor-in-Chief	2
From the Editor-in-Chief: New Statement of Purpose for the AJA	2
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Delos and the Late Hellenistic Art Trade: Archaeological Directions	2
Roman Clavus Decoration on Gallic Dress: A Reevaluation Based on New Discoveries	2
:Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine	2
:Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery	2
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:Roman Animals in Ritual and Funerary Contexts: Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel 1st–4th February 2018	1

Ecocriticism on the Wall: Roman Landscapes at the San Antonio Museum of Art	1
:Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice: Presentation, Teaching, and Engagement	1
A Ptolemaic Hoard from Patara	1
:De tornos y tornillos: Tecnologías de prensado de la uva y la aceituna en el mundo romano y tardoantiguo	1
Books Available for Review	1
The Transition to Late Antiquity on the Lower Danube: Excavations and Survey at Dichin, a Late Roman to Early Byzantine Fort and a Roman Aqueduct By Andrew Poulter, with contributions by Michae	1
Neolithic Spaces: Social and Sensory Landscapes of the First Farmers of Italy. By Sue Hamilton and Ruth Whitehouse (Neolithic Spaces 1, Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy 19.1). London: Accor	1
:Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches	1
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Libertas and Freedom from Financial Burdens in the Reigns of Trajan and Hadrian	1
:Palmyrene Sarcophagi	1
List of Books Received	1
Toward a More Dynamic Modeling of Ancient Domestic Space: An Example from First-Millennium BCE Greece	1
Colossus at the Crossroads: Reexamining a Hellenistic Cult Statue of Herakles from Kleonai	1
Poteri e strategie familiari di Volterra: Il caso di una comunità etrusca nel mondo romano By Valentina Limina (BAR-IS 3041). Oxford: BAR 2021. Pp. 194. £48. ISBN 9781407357881 (paper).	1
The Archaeology of Wine Production in Roman and Pre-Roman Italy	1
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:Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens	1
Hacımusalar Höyük in the Early Bronze Age	0
:Musarna 4: La céramique à paroi fine	0
:Ancient Methone, 2003–2013	0
:The Ingholt Archive: The Palmyrene Material, Transcribed with Commentary and Bibliography	0
List of Books Received	0
:Roman Funerary Rituals in Mutina (Modena, Italy): A Multidisciplinary Approach	0
:The Connected Iron Age: Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900–600 BCE	0
Books Available for Review	0
Pottery from Tell Khaiber: A Craft Tradition of the First Sealand Dynasty By Daniel Calderbank (Archaeology of Ancient Iraq 1). Ludlow: Moonrise Press 2021. Pp. xii + 282. £ 35. ISBN 978-1-9101	0
Volume 128 (2024) Index	0
:Il Mediterraneo occidentale dalla fase fenicia all’egemonia cartaginese: Dinamiche insediative, forme rituali e cultura materiale nel V secolo a.C.	0
Books Available for Review	0
George Fletcher Bass (1932–2021)	0
:The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World: Integrating the Archaeological and Literary Evidence	0
Oplontis: Villa A (“of Poppaea”) at Torre Annunziata, Italy. Volume 2, The Decorations: Painting, Stucco, Pavements, Sculptures Edited by John R. Clarke and Nayla K. Muntasser (ACLS Humanities	0
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:The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia: Uncovering the Colourful Life of Diocletian’s Forgotten Capital	0
Daya Cave: A Place of Worship of Mesopotamian and Persian Gods in the West Central Zagros Mountains, Iran	0
Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States Edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy. London: Routledge 2021. Pp. 242. $160. ISBN 9780367230265 (cloth).	0
Qui carbone rudi putrique creta scribit: The Charcoal Graffiti of Herculaneum	0
:Pots and Graves: The Lost Centuries of Early Iron Age Tenos	0
:Ayia Irini: Area B	0
Multifunctionality and Roman Oven-to-Table Wares: Internal Red-Slip Vessels	0
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Elizabeth B. French, 1931–2021	0
Cultural History and Memory in the Stadium-Gymnasium Complex at Messene	0
List of Books Received	0
Figural Imagery and Society in the Postpalatial Aegean: Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery from Perati in Its Chronological and Regional Context	0
:Ancient Naples: A Documentary History Origins to c. 350 CE	0
Making The Met, 1870–2020: A Universal Museum for the 21st Century	0
:Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers: The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean	0
:The Making of a Roman Imperial Estate: Archaeology in the Vicus at Vagnari, Puglia	0

Revisiting the Archaeobotany of Prehistoric Crete	0
Heterogeneous Production and Enchained Consumption: Minoan Gold in a Changing World (ca. 2000 BCE)	0
:Women in Ancient Egypt: Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy	0
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: Text, Context, Material Properties, and Socialization	0
Syrian Fashion, Assyrian Style: Clothing Syro-Anatolia in Ninth-Century BCE Assyrian Art	0
Negotiating Infant Personhood in Death: Interpreting Atypical Burials in the Late Roman Infant and Child Cemetery at Poggio Gramignano (Italy)	0
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Classical to Late Roman Sites at Diros Bay in the Mani Peninsula, Greece	0
Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery By Sheramy D. Bundrick (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 2019. Pp. xv + 330. $119.95. ISBN 978	0
:Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth: Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes	0
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:Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27–31 May 2015	0
Books Available for Review	0
:The Hittites: Lost Civilizations	0
The Colossal Archaic Naxian Statues in the Sanctuary of Apollo on Delos	0
Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire’s Souvenirs By Kimberly Cassibry. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021. Pp. xvii + 278. $99. ISBN 9780190921897 (cloth).	0
:The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe	0
:Relitti dall’Italia tirrenica nel Mediterraneo occidentale (fine IV secolo a.C.–I d.C.): Archeologia e archeometria delle anfore	0
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:Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age: Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies	0
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:The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Vol. 3, Metal Objects from Gournia	0
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A Community Empowerment Approach to Heritage Management: From Values Assessment to Local Engagement. By Evangelos Kyriakidis. London: Routledge 2021. Pp. 144. $128. ISBN 9781032083124 (cloth).	0
The Design and Reception of the Roman Arch at Orange	0
A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House. By Peter Stewart, with new photography by Guido Petruccioli. Oxford: Archaeopress 2020. Pp. ix + 421. $160. ISBN 9781789696554 (cloth).	0
:Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity	0
Merchants and Mercantile Society on Late Bronze Age Cyprus	0
The Cult of Castor and Pollux in Ancient Rome: Myth, Ritual, and Society. By Amber Gartrell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. Pp. 268. $99. ISBN 9781108477550 (cloth).	0
:Imperial Colors: The Roman Portrait Busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna	0
The Citadel of Gordion and the Dating of the Midas Monument at Midas City	0
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief	0
:The Saqqara Necropolis Through the New Kingdom: Biography of an Ancient Egyptian Cultural Landscape	0
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Visual Experience in a Pompeian Domestic Space: Analysis Using Virtual Reality-Based Eye Tracking and GIS	0
Refuse and the Roman City: Determining the Formation Processes of Refuse Assemblages Using Statistical Measures of Heterogeneity	0
Domitian: An Innovative Emperor?	0
:Obsidian Across the Americas: Compositional Studies Conducted in the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum of Natural History	0
Cursing Theophrastos in Paros	0
Aedicula Tombs and Statues in Rome: Reconsidering the Monument of Eurysaces	0
:The Roman Municipia of Malta and Gozo: The Epigraphic Evidence	0
The Sanctuary of Apollo Hyperteleatas in Laconia: A Central Perioikic Cult in the Malea Peninsula	0
Samothrace: Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Vol. 9, The Monuments of the Eastern Hill By Bonna D. Wescoat, with contributions by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi,	0
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief	0
Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals for the 21st Century: The Reinstallation of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection of Ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art	0
The Empire’s Physician: Galen and Medicine in the Roman World and Reflections on Digital Exhibitions	0
:Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome	0
Theater and Dionysiac Cult on Samothrace and Its Peraia	0
A Possible Amphora Second at Sikyon, Greece	0
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief	0
:Old Age in Greek and Roman Art	0
:The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia: Money, Culture, and State Power	0
Reading Visual Cues on the So-called Archive Wall at Aphrodisias: A Cognitive Approach to Monumental Documents	0
Coming to Light: Illuminating the House of the Greek Epigrams in Pompeii	0
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“Probably Alexandria”: Gold-Glass Portraiture and the Allure of Egypt	0
Books Available for Review	0
:Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic	0
The Late Roman UnfinishedChaîne opératoire: A New Approach to Inscribed Glass Openwork	0
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Das Heiligtum des Jupiter Optimus Maximus auf dem Pfaffenberg/Carnuntum 3: Ausgrabungen und Funde im Spannungsfeld der Interessen. By Werner Jobst (Der römische Limes in Österreich 41.3). 3 vol	0
:Fanum Iunonis Melitense: L’area centrale del santuario di Tas-Silġ a Malta in età tardo-repubblicana	0
Bringing Roman Light to Life	0
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief	0
Late Fifth-Century CE Wall Mosaics from the Tetrapylon Street in Aphrodisias: Evidence for a Wall Mosaic Habit in Late Antiquity	0
Culti domestici in Italia meridionale ed Etruria By Aura Piccioni. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2020. Pp. 276. €45. ISBN 978-3-7954-3552-3 (cloth).	0
Heroics of Dress: Exekias and Ornament in Greek Vase Painting	0
A Mason’s Mark from the Stelida Peak Sanctuary, Naxos	0
The First Koinon Temple of Roman Sardis: A Sanctuary from the First Century Through Late Antiquity	0
The Materiality of Hellenistic Ruler Cults Edited by Stefano G. Caneva (Kernos Supplement 36). Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège 2020. Pp. 299. €30. ISBN 978-2-87562-242-6 (paper).	0
:Honors to Eileithyia at Ancient Inatos: The Sacred Cave of Eileithyia at Tsoutsouros, Crete: Highlights of the Collection	0
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Central Places and Un-Central Landscapes: Political Economies and Natural Resources in the Longue Durée. Edited by Giorgos Papantoniou and Athanasios Vionis. Land special issue. Pp. 314.	0
:Hunde in der römischen Antike: Rassen/Typen - Zucht - Haltung und Verwendung	0
:The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History	0
The Project ArAGATS Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey, Armenia: Report of the 2014–2017 Seasons	0
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The Temple of Artemis at Sardis By Fikret K. Yegül. (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports 7). 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2020. Pp. 336. $150. ISBN 9780674248564 (cloth)	0
:Hippos: The Horse in Ancient Athens	0
The Granite Quarry at Xobourgo, Tenos: Patterns of Extraction and Exploitation Through Time	0

:Shifting Horizons: Observations from a Ride Through the Syrian Desert and Asia Minor. A Translation of Johannes Elith Østrup’s “Skiftende horizonter”	0
:Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt: Culture, Religion, and Medicine	0
:Eastern Mediterranean Economic Networks in the Age of the Crusades: The Case of the Peloponnese	0
:Trench Warfare at Enkomi: Personalities, Politics and Science in Cypriot Archaeology	0
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:Bramiana: Salvaging Information from a Destroyed Minoan Settlement in Southeast Crete	0
Les arrière-pays des cités phéniciennes à l’époque hellénistique (IVe–Ier s. av. N.È.): Approches historique et spatiale d’une aire géoculturelle By Élodie Guillon (Collezione di Studi Fenici 5	0
:Archaeology of the Roman Conquest: Tracing the Legions, Reclaiming the Conquered	0
:Legion: Life in the Roman Army	0
Enheduanna and Her World: Individual Women in Ancient Western Asia	0
Defying Death: A New Interpretation of the Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquinia	0
:The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra	0
Hellenistic and Roman Gerasa: The Archaeology and History of a Decapolis City. Edited by Achim Lichtenberger and Rubina Raja. Turnhout: Brepols 2020. Pp. xviii + 390. €110. ISBN 978-2-503-58504	0
Asserting Control Through Water in the Roman Period: The Evidence from Southern Jordan and the Case of Khirbet al-Khalde	0
:Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World	0
Ptolemaic Berenike: Resources, Logistics, and Daily Life in a Hellenistic Fortress on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt	0
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:Architecture as Sacred Space: Shaping the Holy in Late Antiquity and Byzantium	0
The Early Iron Age Cemetery of Ḥorvat Tevet: Life and Death in a Rural Community in the Jezreel Valley	0
:Variability in the Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts	0
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:Labouring with Large Stones: A Study into the Investment and Impact of Construction Projects on Mycenaean Communities in Late Bronze Age Greece	0
Burying the Alabaster Goddess in Hellenistic Babylonia: Religious Power, Sexual Agency, and Accessing the Afterlife Through Ishtar-Aphrodite Figurines from Seleucid-Parthian Iraq	0
:The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy	0
Nomads Trading with Empires: Intercultural Trade in Ancient Somaliland in the First to Seventh Centuries CE	0
Bone Objects as Offerings of Animal Bodies in Archaic Greek Sanctuaries	0
Volume 127 (2023) Index	0
Sir John Boardman, 1927–2024	0
Online-Only Content	0
Urban Transformation in Ancient Molise: The Integration of Larinum into the Roman State By Elizabeth C. Robinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021. Pp. 368. $99. ISBN 9780190641436 (	0
:Dying Young: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Child Health in Roman Britain	0
Byzantium in “Africa”	0
Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture By Anthony J. Barbieri-Low. Seattle: University of Washington Press 2021. Pp. xiv + 316. $50. ISBN 9780295748900 (e-book).	0
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:La villa dopo la villa 2: Trasformazione di un sistema insediativo ed economico nell’Italia centrale tra tarda Antichità e Medioevo	0
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:Towards A Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period: A Biocultural Analysis of Human Remains from the Voudeni Cemetery, Achaea, Greece	0
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Il diritto alla sepoltura nel Mediterraneo antico Edited by Reine-Marie Bérard (Collection de l’École française de Rome 582). Rome: École française de Rome 2021. Pp. 366. €37. ISBN 978-2-7283-1	0
:The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 3, From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC	0
:Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding	0
:From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus: Studies in Religion and Archaeology	0
:Narrating Heritage: Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance	0
:The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome—and Back	0
Tracking Color Through Time: Polychromy on Etruscan Urns from Ancient Creation to Modern Intervention	0
:Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Sending Out an S.O.S.	0
:Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder: Griffin Cauldrons in the Preclassical Mediterranean	0
Fragments of Roman Sculptures from Hadrian's Villa	0
Kitchenwares and Kitchen Work: A New Approach to the Bronze Food Preparation Implements of Pompeii and Their Uses	0
The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe: People, Things, and Networks Around the Southern Adriatic Sea By Francesco Iacono. Pp. xvi + 286. London: Blo	0
A Letter from the Museum Reviews Editor	0
Austerity, Communal Feasts, and the Emergence of the Cretan Polis	0
Books Available for Review	0
:The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia: Urban and Rural Environments	0
Entella: A Resilient Ancient Sicilian Community	0
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Becoming Human: The Archaeology of John C. Barrett	0
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Hellenistic Landscapes and Seleucid Control in Mesopotamia: The View from the Erbil Plain in Northern Iraq	0
A Letter from the Museum Reviews Editor	0
:Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building	0
:Greek Inscriptions on the East Bank	0
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The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill. By James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney (Nemea Valley Archaeological Project 3). Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2020. Pp. 12	0
:Thronos: Historical Grammar of Furniture in Mycenaean and Beyond	0
Repositioning the Sea on the Great Altar of Pergamon: A Demonstration of Hellenistic Boat Construction on the Telephos Frieze	0
The Question of Wine Consumption in Early Bronze Age Troy: Organic Residue Analysis and the Depas amphikypellon	0
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Life Histories of Theban Tombs: Transdisciplinary Investigations of a Cluster of Rock-Cut Tombs at Sheikh ‘Abd al-Qurna Edited by Andrea Loprieno-Gnirs (AUC Press Archaeological Reports). Cairo	0
The Canaanite and Judean Cities of Lachish, Israel: Preliminary Report of the Fourth Expedition, 2013–2017	0
The Presentation Scene on the Ivory Pyxis Lid from Mochlos: A Reconstruction and Reinterpretation	0
:Exploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese: Cults and Sacred Places	0
Shedding Light on the Kothon: Vases with Inward Downturned Rims Revisited	0
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Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis. By Andrew Ramage, Nancy H. Ramage, and R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir (SardisRep 8). 2 vols. Ca	0
Telling a Story of Two Lands: Perspectives on Ancient Kush, Egypt, and Africa	0
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Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire By Hérica Valladares. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. Pp. 266. $99.99. ISBN 9781108835411 (cloth).	0
The Gladiatorial Spectacles in Cyprus and the Enigma of the Amphitheater at Salamis	0
The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco	0
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:Cave Art: A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe	0
Beyceğiz Tumulus: A Middle Phrygian Cenotaph near Gordion	0
Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context. Edited by Erin D. Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 125). Leiden: Brill 2021. Pp. xv	0
Malcolm Bell III (1941–2024)	0
:The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey: From Prehistory to the Present	0
:Numidia Romana? Die Auswirkungen der römischen Präsenz in Numidien (2. Jh. v. Chr.–1. Jh. n. Chr.)	0
:Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare	0
The Christian Building at Dura-Europos: Rethinking the Archaeology of the World’s Oldest House Church	0
Mikon’s Hekatompedon: An Architectural Graffito from Attica	0
Crossing the Alps: Early Urbanism Between Northern Italy and Central Europe (900–400 BC). Edited by Lorenzo Zamboni, Manuel Fernández-Götz, and Carola Metzner-Nebelsick. Leiden: Sidestone Press	0
Villa Estates and Malaria Risk in Roman Central Italy	0
An Interdisciplinary Exhibition on Ancient Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass	0
:Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria: Research and Field Papers	0