New Books in Archaeology
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Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa, "War and Community in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge...
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Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
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Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton...
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Mike Pitts, "Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Is...
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Margaret S. Graves, "Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islam...
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Himanshu Prabha Ray ed., "Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Mar...
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Samuel Holley-Kline, "In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archae...
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Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
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Stephen Murphy, "Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau,...
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Charles Higham, "Early Southeast Asia: From First Humans to First Civilizations"...
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Paulette F. C. Steeves, "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" (...
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Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India...
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Max Adams and Colm O’Brien, "Northumbria AD 367-867: Earth Hall, Ring Gift and H...
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Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters an...
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Sarah Griswold, "Resurrecting the Past: France's Forgotten Heritage Mandate" (Co...
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John Blair, "Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New Wor...
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Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Pre...
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Michael B. Cosmopoulos, "The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the...
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Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian"...
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Moudhy Al-Rashid, "Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of Hist...
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Michelle Wang, "The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China" (U Chicago Press...
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Daniel J. Sherman, "Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle...
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Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancien...
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Walter Scheidel, "What Is Ancient History?" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Kirin Narayan, "Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora" (U...
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Lizzie Wade, "Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge Ne...
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Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philos...
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J. P. Mallory, "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is...
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Emily Hauser, "Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Wome...
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Andrew Smith, "First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan" (Jonathan Ball, 20...
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Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and t...
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Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)
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Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2...
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Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Art...
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Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resi...
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Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Rune Nyord, "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egy...
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Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Anc...
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Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the...
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Vera Tiesler, "Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Id...
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Ashish Avikunthak, "Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcol...
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Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Ga...
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Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2...
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A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Re...
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Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar
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Jeffrey M. Pilcher, "Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global...
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Andrew Fleming, "The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kild...
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Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Histo...
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Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 20...
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William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California P...
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