Open Access to all AJA Book Reviews

In an email announcement distributed today, the American Journal of Archaeology gives us this good news:

Beginning with the January 2010 issue, our book reviews are now all posted on our Web site for free download (www.ajaonline.org). A museum exhibition review by Megan Cifarelli (Manhattenville College) is also available for free download via our Web site. Downloadable supplementary materials include an appendix to Elizabeth Woflram Thill's article and additional figures from Maria Bonghi Jovino's field report (available in our Image Gallery).

Reviews from AJA 114:1 are:

Debbie Challis, From the Harpy Tomb to the Wonders of Ephesus: British Archaeologists in the Ottoman Empire 1840-1880 Reviewed by Deborah Harlan

Lucia Patrizio Gunning, The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the Collection of Antiquities for the British Museum Reviewed by Deborah Harlan

Elizabeth J. Reitz and Elizabeth S. Wing, Zooarchaeology Reviewed by Michael MacKinnon

R. Lee Lyman, Quantitative Paleozoology Reviewed by Michael MacKinnon

John W. Humphrey, Ancient Technology Reviewed by Thilio Rehren

Alysia Fischer, Hot Pursuit: Integrating Anthropology in Search of Ancient Glass-Blowers Reviewed by Janet Duncan Jones

Yorke M. Rowan and Jennie R. Ebeling, New Approaches to Old Stones: recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts Reviewed by Andrew Bevan

Ann Searight, Julian Reade, and Irving Finkel, Assyrian Stone Vessels and Related Material in the British Museum Reviewed by Andrew Bevan

Jean-Claude Margueron, Olivier Rouault, and Pierre Lombard, Akh Purattim. Vol. 2, Les rives de l'Euphrate Reviewed by Edgar Peltenburg

Russell B. Adams, Jordan: An Archaeological Reader Reviewed by Peter M. Fischer

Kathlyn M. Cooney, The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Rameside Period Reviewed by Karen Exell

Adamantios Sampson, The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. 1, Intra-Site Analysis, Local Industries, and Regional Site Distribution Reviewed by Nikos Efstratiou

Robert James Cromarty, Burning Bulls, Broken Bones: Sacrificial Ritual in the Context of Palace Period Minoan Religion Reviewed by Nanno Marinatos

Krzysztof Nowicki, Monastiraki Katalimata: Excavation of a Cretan Refuge Site, 1993-2000 Reviewed by Barbara J. Hayden

John Bintliff, Phil Howard, and Anthony Snodgrass, Testing the Hinterland: The Work of the Boeotia Survey (1989-1991) in the Southern Approaches to the City of Thespiai Reviewed by David K. Pettigrew

Olga Palagia, Greek Sculpture: Function, Materials, and Techniques in the Archaic and Classical Periods Reviewed by Hilda E. Westervelt

Valia Schild-Xenidou, Corpus der boiotischen Grab- und Weihreliefs des 6. Bis 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Reviewed by Geoff Adams

David Walsh, Distorted Ideals in Greek Vase-Painting: The World of Mythological Burlesque Reviewed by Tyler Jo Smith

Klaus Fittschen, Historische Landeskunde und Epigraphik in Griechenland: Akten des Symposiums veranstaltet aus Anlass des 100. Todestages von H.G. Lolling (1848-1894) in Athen vom 28. Bis 30.9.1994 Reviewed by Gerald V. Lalonde

Nora M. Dimitrova, Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace: The Epigraphical Evidence Reviewed by Kathryn Simonsen

, Gisèle Hadji-Minaglou Reviewed by Nicola Aravecchia

Ada Cohen and Jeremy B. Rutter, Constructions of Childhood in Anceitn Greece and Italy Reviewed by Barbara A. Olsen

John W. Hayes, Roman Pottery: Fine Ware Imports Reviewed by George W.M. Harrison

Pierre Gros, La Gaule narbonnaise: De la conquête romaine au III siècle apr. J.-C. Reviewed by Caroline Downing

Gabriel Mazor and Arfan Najjar, Bet She'an. Vol. 1, Nysa-Scythopolis: The Caesareum and the Odeum Reviewed by Moshe Fischer

Marylinda Govaars, Marie Spiro, and L. Michael White, Field O: The "Synagogue" Site Reviewed by Jodi Magness

Zbigniew T. Fiema and Jaakko Frösén, Petra, The Mountain of Aaron: The Finnish Archaeological Project in Jordan. Vol. 1, The Church and the Chapel Reviewed by Bert de Vries