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Equality and Distinction within the Spartiate Community (2017)
Book Chapter
Davies, P. (2017). Equality and Distinction within the Spartiate Community. In A. Powell (Ed.), A Companion to Sparta (480-499). Malden, MA: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119072379.ch18

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. All rights reserved. Spartan society possessed a number of idiosyncratic institutions and practices, elements of which were described using specifically Spartan vocabulary. This chapter considers the extent to which th... Read More about Equality and Distinction within the Spartiate Community.

Giovanni de Matociis and the Codex Oratorianus of the De uiris illustribus urbis Romae (2017)
Journal Article
Stover, J., & Woudhuysen, G. (2017). Giovanni de Matociis and the Codex Oratorianus of the De uiris illustribus urbis Romae. Exemplaria Classica, 21, 125-148

One of the most curious manuscripts of the De uiris illustribus is Biblioteca dei Girolamini, XL pil. VI, no. XIII. This manuscript has been thought either to go back to the early Veronese humanist Giovanni de Matociis, or to contain authentic ancien... Read More about Giovanni de Matociis and the Codex Oratorianus of the De uiris illustribus urbis Romae.

Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112-41 (2017)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2017). Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112-41. In S. Hitch, & I. Rutherford (Eds.), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world (181-199). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139017886.008

Examines the methodology by which one can connect this passage to historical sacrificial practices. In particular, I critique the previous approaches of Kahn, Clay and Burkert, and argue that the passage can be taken as aetiological with special refe... Read More about Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112-41.

Using Sector-Scan Sonar for the Survey and Management of Submerged Archaeological Sites (2017)
Journal Article
Henderson, J., & Abbott, B. (2017). Using Sector-Scan Sonar for the Survey and Management of Submerged Archaeological Sites. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 46(2), 330-345. https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12240

© 2017 The Authors. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology © 2017 The Nautical Archaeology Society. This article reports the results of using a sector-scan sonar to record diverse submerged archaeological sites in shallow and deep water. The K... Read More about Using Sector-Scan Sonar for the Survey and Management of Submerged Archaeological Sites.

Tastes in the Roman provinces: an archaeobotanical approach to socio-cultural change (2017)
Book Chapter
Livarda, A. (2017). Tastes in the Roman provinces: an archaeobotanical approach to socio-cultural change. In K. Rudolph (Ed.), Taste and the ancient senses. Routledge

Taste is a complicated matter. Give a plate of Brussels sprouts to a heterogeneous group of people and you will receive a range of responses, from disgusting to delicious. What determines food preferences is subject to much scholarly research, which... Read More about Tastes in the Roman provinces: an archaeobotanical approach to socio-cultural change.

From icon of empire to national emblem: new evidence for the fallow deer of Barbuda (2017)
Journal Article
Perdikaris, S., Bain, A., Baker, K., Grouard, S., Gonzalez, E., Hoelzel, A. R., …Sykes, N. (in press). From icon of empire to national emblem: new evidence for the fallow deer of Barbuda. Environmental Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2017.1349027

Barbuda and Antigua's national animal is the fallow deer, Dama dama dama, a species native to the eastern Mediterranean that has been transported around the world by people during the last 8,000 years. The timing and circumstances by which fallow dee... Read More about From icon of empire to national emblem: new evidence for the fallow deer of Barbuda.

Ancient Greco-Roman magic and the agency of victimhood (2017)
Journal Article
Eidinow, E. (2017). Ancient Greco-Roman magic and the agency of victimhood. Numen, 64(4), https://doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341472

Scholarship on ancient Greco-Roman “magic,” over time and place, has largely focused on the role and identity of ritual practitioners, investigating the nature and source of their perceived expertise and often locating it in their linguistic skills.... Read More about Ancient Greco-Roman magic and the agency of victimhood.

Felidae from Cooper’s Cave, South Africa (Mammalia:Carnivora) (2017)
Journal Article
O'Regan, H. J., & Steininger, C. M. (2017). Felidae from Cooper’s Cave, South Africa (Mammalia:Carnivora). Geodiversitas, 39(2), https://doi.org/10.5252/g2017n2a8

The Cooper’s Cave System has produced a diverse fossil assemblage including the remains of Paranthropus robustus Broom, 1938, and early Homo. The majority of the faunal remains come from Cooper’s D, which dates to ~1.5 – 1.4 Ma. Here we describe 158... Read More about Felidae from Cooper’s Cave, South Africa (Mammalia:Carnivora).

Next generation ice core technology reveals true minimum natural levels of lead (Pb) in the atmosphere: insights from the Black Death (2017)
Journal Article
More, A. F., Spaulding, N. E., Bohleber, P., Handley, M. J., Hoffmann, H., Korotkikh, E. V., …Mayewski, P. A. (2017). Next generation ice core technology reveals true minimum natural levels of lead (Pb) in the atmosphere: insights from the Black Death. GeoHealth, 1(4), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GH000064

Current policies to reduce lead pollution in the air are based on the assumption that pre-industrial levels of lead in the air were negligible, safe or non-existent. This trans-disciplinary article shows that this is not the case, using ‘next-generat... Read More about Next generation ice core technology reveals true minimum natural levels of lead (Pb) in the atmosphere: insights from the Black Death.

Roman London’s First Voices. Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010–14, by Roger S.O. Tomlin, 2016. London: Museum of London Archaeology; ISBN 978-1-907586-40-8 hardback £32; xv+309 pp., 144 b/w and colour illus. (2017)
Journal Article
Mullen, A. (in press). Roman London’s First Voices. Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010–14, by Roger S.O. Tomlin, 2016. London: Museum of London Archaeology; ISBN 978-1-907586-40-8 hardback £32; xv+309 pp., 144 b/w and colour illus. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 27(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774317000464

Greek tragedy on the move: the birth of a panhellenic art form c.500-300 BC (2017)
Book
Stewart, E. (2017). Greek tragedy on the move: the birth of a panhellenic art form c.500-300 BC. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747260.001.0001

This work is the first full-length study of the dissemination of Greek tragedy in the earliest period of the history of drama. In recent years, especially with the growth of reception studies, scholars have become increasingly interested in studying... Read More about Greek tragedy on the move: the birth of a panhellenic art form c.500-300 BC.

Book review: Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy. By Emma Blake. Pp. xiv + 325, figs. 23, tables 15, maps 18. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-06320-4 (cloth) (2017)
Journal Article
Pearce, M. (2017). Book review: Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy. By Emma Blake. Pp. xiv + 325, figs. 23, tables 15, maps 18. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. $99. ISBN 978-1-107-06320-4 (cloth). American Journal of Archaeology, 121(3), Article 3497. https://doi.org/10.3764/ajaonline1213.Pearce

Scrubbing up: multi-scale investigation of woody encroachment in a southern African savannah (2017)
Journal Article
Marston, C. G., Aplin, P., Wilkinson, D. M., Field, R., & O'Regan, H. J. (2017). Scrubbing up: multi-scale investigation of woody encroachment in a southern African savannah. Remote Sensing, 9(5), Article 419. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9050419

Changes in the extent of woody vegetation represent a major conservation question in many savannah systems around the globe. To address the problem of the current lack of broad-scale cost-effective tools for land cover monitoring in complex savannah... Read More about Scrubbing up: multi-scale investigation of woody encroachment in a southern African savannah.

Making law grip: inequality, injustice, and legal remedy in Solonian Attica and ancient Israel (2017)
Book Chapter
Lewis, D. (2017). Making law grip: inequality, injustice, and legal remedy in Solonian Attica and ancient Israel. In I. Xydopoulos, K. Vlassopoulos, & E. Tounta (Eds.), Violence and community: law, space and identity in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean world. Routledge

This study examines problems to do with social justice and class relations in two societies of the archaic eastern Mediterranean: Attica and Israel. It shows that both societies faced similar social problems (predatory lending, enslavement for debt,... Read More about Making law grip: inequality, injustice, and legal remedy in Solonian Attica and ancient Israel.

Imports and isotopes: a modern baseline study for interpreting Iron Age and Roman trade in fallow deer antlers (2017)
Journal Article
Osborne, D. (2017). Imports and isotopes: a modern baseline study for interpreting Iron Age and Roman trade in fallow deer antlers. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 27(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.5334/pia-482

The European Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) became extinct in the British Isles and most of continental Europe at the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, with the species becoming restricted to an Anatolian refugium (Masseti et al. 2008). Human-mediated... Read More about Imports and isotopes: a modern baseline study for interpreting Iron Age and Roman trade in fallow deer antlers.

The Dynamics of Portable Wealth, Social Status and Competition in the Ports, Coastal Zones and River Corridors of Northwest Europe, c. AD 650-1100 (2017)
Book Chapter
Loveluck, C. (2017). The Dynamics of Portable Wealth, Social Status and Competition in the Ports, Coastal Zones and River Corridors of Northwest Europe, c. AD 650-1100. In V. Loré, G. Bührer-Thierry, & R. Le Jan (Eds.), Acquérir, prélever, contrôler: les ressources en compétition (400-1100) (299-322). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.HAMA-EB.5.112183

Possession of portable wealth among the connected communities of ports, coasts and river valleys in early medieval northwest Europe reflected a complex web of social relationships of different kinds. It reflected competition in some circumstances, an... Read More about The Dynamics of Portable Wealth, Social Status and Competition in the Ports, Coastal Zones and River Corridors of Northwest Europe, c. AD 650-1100.