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Journal of Roman Archaeology - Annual Issues Since 1988An international journal printing contributions in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish; specializing in synthetic articles and in long reviews.


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S88. COMPARATIVE ISSUES IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ROMAN RURAL LANDSCAPE. SITE CLASSIFICATION BETWEEN SURVEY, EXCAVATION AND HISTORICAL CATEGORIES,  edited by Peter. A. J. Attema and Günther Schörner (International Roman Archaeology Conference Series). Cloth, 8 1/2 x 11 inch. 135 pages, 34 figs. ISBN-13: 978-1-887829-88-5  Published on May 3, 2012. List price $69. Price to individual subscribers $49. Web price to other individuals $55.

JRA 24 (2011) was mailed out in the first half of November 2011. It contains 938 pages in the  two fascicules (Articles and Reviews), with 20 pages of colour and reviews of 93 works.
Click here for complete TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Highlights among the articles include:    
A. Wallace-Hadrill,  The monumental centre of Herculaneum;    
L. Haselberger and four other scholars, A debate on the Horologium of Augustus;    
E. Fentress & M. Maiuro, Villa Magna near Anagni: the emperor, his winery and the wine of Signia
W. Bowden, Architectural innovation in the land of the Iceni: a new complex near Venta Icenorum

Click here for list of BOOKS REVIEWED in JRA 24.
We have  posted  all the BOOKS FOR REVIEW received  up to July 31, 2011

PUBLISHED IN SECOND HALF OF 2011:

S87. LEPTIMINUS (LAMTA), REPORT No. 3. THE FIELD SURVEY. by D. L. Stone, D. J. Mattingly and N. Ben Lazreg. Cloth, 8 1/2 x 11 inch. 493 pages, 234 figs., 8 pages of colour, 4 folding maps in endpocket, DVD containing gazetteers and amphora stamps.  ISBN-13: 978-1-887829-87-8. Published on September 25, 2011. List price $149. Web price to individuals $119.  Click here for summary.

S86. DYING ON FOREIGN SHORES. TRAVEL AND MOBILITY IN THE LATE-ANTIQUE  WEST, by Mark Handley. Cloth, 7 x 10 inch. 167 pages, 25 tables, 8 graphs, 11 maps, 6  figs. ISBN-13: 978-1-887829-86-1. Published on July 25, 2011. List price $69. Web price to individuals $55.

S85. THE MAKING OF POMPEII. STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF AN ANCIENT TOWN, edited by Steven J. R. Ellis. Cloth, 7 x 10 inch. 196 pages, 76 black-and-white figs, 18 colour figs. ISBN-13: 978-1-887829-85-4. Published on June 16, 2011. List price $99. Web price to other individuals $79.

S84. MARITIME TECHNOLOGY IN THE ANCIENT ECONOMY: SHIP-DESIGN AND NAVIGATION, edited by W. V. Harris and K. Iara. Contributors: P. Arnaud, G. Boetto, J. P. Cooper, P. Dell’Amico, W. V. Harris, S. Martino, A. Marzano, S. Medas, P. Pomey, W. Scheidel, L. Taub, A. Tchernia, J. Whitewright, & A. Wilson. (14 chapters, of which 8 in English, 4 in Italian, 2 in French). Cloth, 7 x 10 inch. 264 pages, 67 figs., tables. ISBN-13: 978-1-887829-84-7. Published on July 15, 2011. List price $99. Web price to individuals $79

S83. LOCAL CULTURES OF SOUTH ITALY AND SICILY IN THE LATE REPUBLICAN PERIOD: BETWEEN HELLENISM AND ROME, edited by Fabio Colivicchi. Cloth, 8 and a half x 11 inch. 224 pages, 111  figs, ISBN-13: 978-1-887829-83-0. (Roman Archaeology Conference series) Published on  June 16, 2011. List price $99. Web price to individuals $79.

Click here for an index of all ARTICLES ever published in the annual JRA.
Click here for an index of all REVIEWS ever published in the annual JRA.

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The following full text reviews and an obituary from JRA 24 (2011) are presently available:

D. Ridgway, Etrusco-Italic progress [a review article on S. Bell & H. Nagy, New perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome; F. Lo Schiavo & A. Romualdi (edd.), I complessi archeologici di Trestina e di Fabbrecce ... ; A. Tuck, The necropolis of Poggio Civitate (Murlo); R. Gabrielli, Ceramica etrusco-corinzia  ... di Tarquinia; and C. Riva, The urbanisation of Etruria: funerary practices and social change]

E. M. Stern, A new window on ancient glass technology, including cameo glass and cage cups [a review of R. Lierke, Die nicht-geblasenen antike Glasgefässe]

L. Campagna, Le fontane nelle città dell'impero romano: " a monument indelibly associated with the emperor?" [a review of B. Longfellow, Roman imperialism and civic patronage .... monumental fountain complexes]

A. R. Birley, RIB III in its historical context [a review of R S O Tomlin et al., The Roman inscriptions of Britain vol. III]

J. Dieleman, A guide to Greco-Roman Hawara in the Fayum and its death industry [a review of S. Uytterhoeven, Hawara in the Greco-Roman period]

S. Esmonde Cleary, Late Romano-British towns: a real rethink? [a review of A. Rogers, Late Roman towns in Britain: rethinking change and decline]

A. Cutler, Intention and interpretation at Ctesiphon and Constantinople [a review of M. Canepa, The two eyes of the earth: art and ritual of kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran]

Obituary of Ehud Netzer by Barbara Burrell

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