CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

This work is intended by editors Alcock (director, Institute for Archeology and the Ancient World, Brown U., US) and Osborn (ancient history, U. of Cambridge, UK) to serve as an introduction to the material archaeology of the "Classical World;" the world of the Greeks and the Romans between the eighth century BC and the fourth century AD. Following an overview of the field's scope and range and an introduction to its standard methodological tools and modes of analysis, chapters introduce current understandings of classical rural, urban, and household archaeology. Remaining chapters summarize archaeological knowledge of civic religion, commemorative statuary as an expression of political self-presentation, the projection of community identities, and processes and impacts of cultural interchange. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Susan E. Alcock is Director of the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and Professor of Classics at Brown University. Her recent books include Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments and Memory (2001) and Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Analysis in the Mediterranean Region (with John F. Cherry, 2004).

Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. His recent books include Archaic and Classical Greek Art (with P. J. Rhodes, 1998), Greek Historical Inscriptions from the end of the Peloponnesian War to the death of Alexander (2003), and Greek History (2004).