bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Assessment of agro-morphological traits and yield-based tolerance indices in sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) genotypes under drought stress
Authors: Baghery Mohammad Amin , Kazemitabar Seyed Kamal , Dehestani Ali , Mehrabanjoubani Pooyan , Zarrini Hamid Najaf
Published: November 2022

Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is one of the most important oilseed crops of the world, particularly tropical areas. Its production issignificantly affected by drought stress. The present study was performed to assess the efficiency of existing criteria for the selectionof tolerant cultivars while evaluating sesame genotypes under drought conditions. Various agro-morphological traits along with somedrought tolerance indices were used to evaluate 15 sesame genotypes under drought conditions. A moderate to high heritability wasestimated for plant height (0.55), no. of capsules (0.72), capsule diameter (0.60), no. of seeds per capsule (0.43) and seed yield (0.53).On average, the seed yield of genotypes was reduced by 45% under water stress. Seed yield was significantly positively correlatedwith the no. of capsules, capsule diameter, and no. of seeds per capsule under both normal and drought conditions. The number ofcapsules and capsule diameter were suggested as potential criteria for indirect yield selection under drought stress. Chinese (G01), Naz Chand Shakhe (G05), and Darab1 (G04) genotypes were identified as the most tolerant based on the average ranking of indices. Stress/non-stress production index (SNPI), yield index (YI), and drought resistance index (DI) were suggested as the most efficient drought tolerance indices according to principal component analysis and correlations. The evaluation criteria proposed in this study can be used for efficient selection of drought-tolerant genotypes in sesame. Moreover, reported tolerant and sensitive genotypes can be used in future studies and breeding programs in sesame under drought stress.
Investing in social and behavior change is cost-effective for improving malaria behaviors in Côte d’Ivoire
Authors:   Breakthrough RESEARCH
Published: November 2022

Social and behavior change (SBC) interventions are considered an essential part of malaria prevention and treatment interventions, yet gaps in information on the cost and impact of SBC mean decisionmakers have underappreciated the value of SBC for contributing to improved health outcomes. To address this issue, Breakthrough RESEARCH has leveraged evidence from 112 studies on the impact of SBC interventions on malaria health behaviors and 70 studies on general SBC intervention costs to model the cost-effectiveness of SBC programming for malaria in the Business Case for Investing in Social and Behavior Change for Malaria.
Breakthrough RESEARCH—Social and Behavior Change Costing Community of Practice Series Brief #3: Capturing the start-up costs associated with social and behavior change interventions
Authors:   Breakthrough RESEARCH
Published: November 2022

A successful social and behavior change (SBC) intervention requires the investment of time and resources in the intervention’s start-up phase, which is defined as the time from the project initiation until the project begins broad implementation. When conducting a costing study of an SBC intervention, it is useful to capture these initial costs separately and allocate them appropriately over the life of the intervention. By examining start-up costs separately, the post-start-up implementation costs can be forecasted more accurately for future budgeting purposes and for determining the appropriate costs for scaling-up interventions. This is the third in a series of briefs intended to complement the Guidelines for the Costing of Social and Behavior Change Health Interventions and support a Community of Practice around SBC costing by highlighting important issues and practices for SBC costing.
Quels sont les principaux obstacles et facteurs de facilitation associés à la communication intergénérationnelle sur la SSR au Niger et en Côte d’Ivoire?
Authors:   Breakthrough RESEARCH
Published: November 2022

When parents communicate with their youth on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) issues, they have a greater influence on youth SRH behaviors. But parents’ lack of knowledge of SRH, low self-efficacy in engaging young people, and unfavorable social norms about communication and youth access to SRH information are barriers to open intergenerational communication. Breakthrough RESEARCH conducted a qualitative study in Niger and Côte d’Ivoire to better understand the specific barriers to intergenerational communication about SRH, and ways in which adult allies can be supported to engage young people and encourage them to lead a healthy life. This research contributes to a nascent body of literature that is specific to the context of francophone West African countries, which have among the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy in the world.
GIRL Center Roadmap to 2030
Authors:   GIRL Center
Published: November 2022

Today’s rising generation of 1.3 billion adolescents are tomorrow’s future. Yet, adolescent girls fare worse than boys in many ways, including education and experiences with violence. Furthermore, the implications of key experiences for girls in adolescence—school dropout, early marriage, motherhood, sexual and gender-based violence—are irreversible. The GIRL Center Roadmap to 2030 outlines the strategy of the Population Council’s GIRL Center—generating and communicating evidence, convening experts, and nurturing talent. Undertaking a girl-centered, evidence-driven, intersectional, and innovative approach that is grounded in low- and middle-income countries, the GIRL Center focuses on: intergenerational poverty and gender inequity; adolescents and the digital space; adolescents in humanitarian settings; adolescent sexual and reproductive health; adolescent economic empowerment; and adolescents and climate. These focus areas aim to advance the GIRL Center’s vision of a gender-equitable world where girls and boys make a healthy and safe transition into adulthood and reach their full potential.
STRATEGI PENGELOLAAN SAMPAH RUMAH TANGGA DENGAN MODEL SIRKULAR DI WILAYAH PERKOTAAN PURWOKERTO
Authors: Purwono Purwono , Adawiyah Wiwiek Rabiatul , Suyanto Edy
Published: November 2022

Perkotaan Purwokerto tahun 2020 menghasilkan sampah 106.845 m3/ hari. Diperlukan upaya pengelolaan yang serius yang berwawasan lingkungan agar sampah tidak menimbulkan dampak negatif terhadap lingkungan dan kesehatan lingkungan. Pemberdayaan skala rumah tangga telah dilakukan oleh Pemerintah Daerah maupun Kelompok Swadaya Masyarakat dalam pengelolaan sampah dengan pendekatan sikular, yaitu sampah dihasilkan dari rumah tangga dikumpulkan , dimanfaatkan atau diadaur ulang. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui implementasi pemberdayaan pengelolaan sampah model sirkular dan strategi pengembangannya skala rumah tangga di perkotaan Purwokerto. Menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan pengambilan data purposive sampling . Hasil penelitian menujukan bahwa pengelolaan sampah rumah tangga dengan model sirkular lebih efektif dan efesian karena sampah telah dipilah dan dimanfaatkan dari sumber nya, sampah yang terbuang ke TPA menurun jumlahnya. Strategi pengembangan dihasilkan  dari analisis SWOT dengan membandingkan faktor internal dan ekstenal yang mempengaruhi pengelolaan sampah skala rumah tangga di wilayah perkotaan Purwokerto. Strategi yang dihasilkan yaitu optimalisasi peran masyarakat untuk melakukan pengurangan sampah dengan pemanfaatan dan pendaur ulang sampah, pemenuhan sarana penunjang dari Pemerintah Daerah dan pemberdayaan masyarakat terkait pengelolaan sampah model sirkular.
KOMPARASI BERBAGAI ATRAKTAN TERHADAP JUMLAH LALAT TERTANGKAP DALAM FLY TRAP MODIFIKASI BOTOL PLASTIK DI RUMAH PEMOTONGAN AYAM DI DESA KARANGPUCUNG KECAMATAN PURWOKERTO SELATAN KABUPATEN BANYUMAS TAHUN 2022
Authors: Yani Serly Aprili , Santjaka Aris , Utomo Budi
Published: November 2022

Latar Belakang, Lalat hidup dan berkembangbiak disekitar tempat tinggal manusia terutama di lingkungan yang memiliki sanitasi buruk yang dapat menularkan penyakit bagi manusia. Rumah Pemotongan Ayam (RPA) di Desa Karangpucung Kecamatan Purwokerto Selatan Kabupaten Banyumas memiliki populasi kepadatan lalat sebesar 4,5 ekor/block grill yang artinya tingkat kepadatan lalat masuk dalam kategori sedang, sedangkan baku mutu kepadatan lalat berdasarkan Permenkes No 50 Tahun 2017 2 maka diperlukan adanya upaya pengendalian populasi kepadatan lalat. Jenis penelitian ini adalah Pra Experiment dengan rancangan The Static Group Comparation untuk mengetahui efektifitas berbagai jenis atraktan limbah ikan, udang dan jeroan ayam dalam fly trap (RPA). Teknik sampel menggunakan simple random sampling, penelitian dilakukan selama 6 hari dari jam 09.00-12.00 WIB. Variabel yang diteliti meliputi jenis atraktan limbah ikan, udang jeroan ayam. Analisis data penelitian ini menggunakan uji ANOVA One-Way. Hasil penelitian dari berbagai jenis atraktan diperoleh jumlah lalat yang tertangkap paling banyak dan paling efektif  yaitu pada atraktan udang sebesar 1.635 ekor dengan rata-rata 271 ekor. Hasil uji statistik uji One-way Anova analisi bivariat nilai P (sig) yaitu sebesar 0,00 0,05 ada perbedaan jenis atraktan limbah ikan, udang, dan jeroan ayam terhadap jumlah lalat yang tertangkap di Rumah Pemotongan Ayam (RPA). Simpulan dari penelitian ini adalah ada perbedaan jenis atraktan limbah ikan, udang, dan jeroan ayam terhadap jumlah lalat yang tertangkap di RPA. Serta saran untuk peneliti selanjutnya melakukan penelitian dengan variasi warna.
Pengaruh Ketebalan Media Filtrasi sebagai Pengolahan Air terhadap Kekeruhan dan Bau Air Sumur Gali di Desa Kragilan Kecamatan Kragilan Kabupaten Serang Tahun 2022
Authors: Nurhady Muhammad Fauzan , Ramlan Djamaluddin , Suparmin Suparmin
Published: November 2022

Air bersih yang digunakan untuk kebutuhan sehari-hari harus memiliki persyaratan kualitas air. Adapun persyaratan yang dimaksud adalah persyaratan dari segi kualitas air yang meliputi fisik, kimia, dan biologi, sehingga apabila dikonsumsi tidak menimbulkan efek samping. Air yang tidak memenuhi syarat fisik dapat dilihat dari bau dan tingkat kekeruhan. Berbagai metode pengolahan air dapat dilakukan untuk menurunkan kekeruhan dan bau pada air salah satunya adalah metode filtrasi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memeriksa pengaruh ketebalan media filtrasi sebagai pengolahan air terhadap kekeruhan dan bau air sumur gali di Desa Kragilan Kecamatan Kragilan Kabupaten Serang. Metode penelitian ini adalah pre experiment dengan rancangan penelitian pre test and post design, air sebelum diberi perlakuan sebagai pre test dan setelah diberi perlakuan sebagai post test, terdapat 4 replikasi dan 4 perlakuan, menggunakan uji Paired T-Test dan Anova One Way. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan ketebalan 21 cm, ketebalan 31 cm, ketebalan 41 cm dan ketebalan 51 cm belum mampu menurunkan bau dan kekeruhan air sumur, dengan rata-rata persentase peningkatan kekeruhan pada ketebalan 21 cm adalah 44%, rata-rata persentase peningkatan kekeruhan pada ketebalan 31 cm adalah 71%, rata-rata persentase peningkatan kekeruhan pada ketebalan 41 cm adalah 54,4%, rata-rata persentase peningkatan kekeruhan pada ketebalan 51 cm adalah 85,89%. Simpulan tidak didapatkan ketebalan media yang efisien untuk menurunkan kekeruhan dan menghilangkan bau. Penelitian serupa disarankan untuk menggunakan metode pengukuran level bau menggunakan metode Threshold Odor Number (TON), menggunakan media filtrasi lain sebagai alternatif untuk menurunkan kekeruhan dan menghilangkan bau air.
The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’
Authors: Llewelyn Morgan , Luca Maria Oliveri
Published: November 2022

The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’ presents an edition with introductions and extensive commentary of a manuscript, discovered by Luca M. Olivieri in the fort at Malakand, Swat, Pakistan, of a seminal and pioneering account of the antiquities of Swat and Peshawar by Harold Deane. The article of which this manuscript is an earlier draft, the first significant contribution to the archaeology of Swat, was published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society (1896), and the manuscript contains interesting additional information that did not make the final text. The book presents and transcribes the manuscript, also including introductory material on its discovery and the life and significance of Deane, and (most importantly) extended notes identifying and describing the places that Deane discusses in his article. The book thus doubles as a gazetteer of this immensely rich archaeological space, and a history of its archaeological discovery. The book includes images of the original article, the manuscript, some of the artefacts referred to by Deane in his article, and an appendix publishing a manuscript by J. W. McCrindle, ‘Alexander’s Campaign in Afghanistan’, found among a small number of Deane’s papers in the possession of his great-grandson in England, which is directly relevant to the composition of his article.
The medieval towers in the landscape of Euboea: landmarks of feudalism
Authors: Loizou Chrystalla
Published: November 2022

The long and narrow island of Euboea lies along the east coast of Central Greece, from the Pagasetic Gulf up to the coasts of Attica. In the hinterland of Euboea occurs an astonishing alternation of landscapes, combining extremely high mountains, low hills with a wide range of geological formations and flat fertile plains, creating scenery suitable for interaction between humans and the natural environment. The central part of the island is dominated by a mountain range with the highest peaks being Mount Dirfi and Olympus. The northern part of Euboea is largely isolated from the rest of the island and encompasses a hilly landscape dominated by the lush mountain of Kantili and the coastal plain of Histiaia. The southern part of the island is characterized by a hilly and rocky landscape with the highest peak being Mount Ochi, in the region of Karystos.
Elizabeth C. Banks. Lerna, a preclassical site in the Argolid, Volume VII, the Neolithic settlement
Authors: Kotsakis Kostas
Published: November 2022

Among field archaeologists and excavators there has always been a firm opinion that publication of old excavations presents a real challenge requiring considerable reserves of skill and dedication. Such is the nature of research that, despite the care with which the original project has been carried out, the methodology adopted and the goals set are always intimately related to the concepts and ideas current at the time of the project. Rarely methods, which once looked cutting edge, and goals considered at their time groundbreaking will remain up to the standards of the present or preserve some of the original sophistication. Advances in the discipline and shifts of debate to other directions favour the application of a more intensive retrieval and documentation regime on a scale inconceivable even a few decades ago. Needless to say, the difficulties increase considerably when the original mastermind is not around anymore.
Philip P. Betancourt (ed.). Temple University Aegean Symposium: a compendium
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This work forms a compilation of the typewritten texts prepared by the speakers and copied, to be bound into volumes for distribution to attendees at the Aegean Symposium held annually at Temple University, Philadelphia, from 1976 to 1985. Thus they vary somewhat in font and spacing on the page, and since the texts could not be edited minor errors like typos are noticeable, but they are not common. Some are the equivalent of articles, but others are so short that one imagines they can only have been intended as guides to what the speaker was going to say. Usually there are bibliographies, and often footnotes, and some are illustrated with line drawings, which may be reproductions of previously published illustrations and plans, or prepared for the seminar paper.
John Boardman, Andrew Parkin and Sally Waite (eds) On the fascination of objects: Greek and Etruscan art in the Shefton Collection
Authors: Osborne Robin
Published: November 2022

This beautifully produced book is a celebration of Brian Shefton’s activities in collecting antiquities for the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Thirteen scholars have collaborated to produce a series of discussions of particular objects or groups of objects in the collection, and these are prefaced by a short memoir of Brian Shefton by John Prag, and a short account of the development of the collection by Antony Spawforth and Andrew Parkin. The book not only does what it says on the can (the title was in fact supplied by Brian Shefton himself), by revealing the fascination of the objects in the collection, but reveals much of the fascination of the man behind the collection. The hundreds of classical archaeologists in whom Brian took an interest will find their memories warmly revived by this book; those who never knew him will acquire at least something of the flavour of the man, or perhaps better something of his accent.
Erich Kistler et al. (eds). Sanctuaries and the power of consumption. Networking and the formation of elites in the Archaic western Mediterranean world / Gocha R. Tsetskhladze et al. (eds). The Danubian lands between the Black, Aegean, and Adriatic Seas (7th centuries BC–10th century AD).
Authors: Donnellan Lieve
Published: November 2022

Last year saw the appearance of the eagerly-expected acts of two conferences on the archaeology of seas, or connected seascapes: physical spaces joined together by interaction and exchange over sea, rather than over land. The first volume’s aim is more narrow, with a focus on sanctuaries as a stage and instrument of elite interaction and the maintenance of power in the Archaic western Mediterranean, whereas the second book’s much broader theme is the Danube region and its wider geographical context, of the Black Sea between the 7th centuries BC–10th century AD.
Janett Morgan. Greek perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire: Persia through the looking glass
Authors: Koparal Elif
Published: November 2022

Janette Morgan’s ‘Greek Perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire: Persia through the Looking Glass’ is the last book published as part of the series of Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia. Almost twenty years after Margaret C. Miller’s ‘Athenians and Persians in the Fifth century BC: A Study in Cultural Receptivity’ was published, one is still in awe of the way that Miller contributed to the debate on cultural receptivity within the context of Greek and Persian engagement.
Gerald Brisch (ed). The Dodecanese: further travels among the insular Greeks. Selected writings of J. Theodore and Mabel V.A. Bent, 1885-1888
Authors: Tzortzopoulou-Gregory Lita
Published: November 2022

Brisch’s edition of a collection of selective travel writings of J. Theodore and Mabel V.A. Bent during their tour of the Dodecanese (1885–1888), is an interesting introduction to the couple’s rather eccentric and bemusing view of this part of the eastern Mediterranean. While the short preface by Marc Dubin and the introduction to the volume by Gerald Brisch provide the necessary background to the uninitiated reader of the importance of this genre of travelogues of the late 19th century, they are limited in their offering of a clear motive or logic behind the selection of the specific writings presented in this book. In other words, it is unclear as to how this selection of mostly already published articles came to be, and for what audience it is intended. While the editor refrains from interfering with the original writings by providing only a limited number of footnotes, the near absence of a detailed commentary makes it at times a tedious and rather repetitive read, providing hardly a historical or cultural context for the ordinary reader.
Mary Harlow and Marie-Louise Nosch (eds). Greek and Roman textiles and dress. An interdisciplinary anthology
Authors: Davies Glenys
Published: November 2022

The twenty papers in this volume represent a rather diverse set of themes, approaches and types of evidence: the meagre amount of surviving textiles and garments from the Classical world means that in-depth study of what does survive is supplemented by a range of other sources of information, which also need to be used with ingenuity, to expand our knowledge of ancient textiles and dress. Whether or not this can truly be called a coherent discipline (p. 1), it has certainly seen considerable growth in recent scholarship.
Cutting down the tallest ears of grain: archaeological evidence for tyranny and sumptuary law in ‘wealthy’ Corinth
Authors: Ziskowski Angela
Published: November 2022

In one of his few references to the city of Ancient Corinth, Homer described it as wealthy, ‘aphneios.’ Yet archaeological investigation has exposed a city lacking great numbers of lavish offerings and monumental temples in the Greek periods. Explanations for this anomaly have included the Mummian destruction of the city in 146 BC, when Roman looting could have removed evidence for wealth, or the argument that the agora of Corinth has yet to be located. In a 1996 article Elizabeth Pemberton argued that the lack of opulent dedications in Corinth was because the early community made the choice to offer only goods made from that which they had. Local resources were primarily limited to wood, clay, and limestone. Since resources for marble, gold, and other metals are lacking in the Corinthia, she proposed that the city chose not to make offerings from such materials.
Ancient magic artefacts and people: interpreting symbols, tracking personal experiences in Greek archaeological museums
Authors: Mouliou Marlen
Published: November 2022

In addition to the basic existential issues related to lived human experience, such as life, death, peace, war, love and memory, something that unites people through the ages is the desire to attract good fortune or repel the bad, resulting in superstitions and practices related to the mysterious power of ‘magic’ and its impact on human beings.
Florence Gaignerot-Driessen and Jan Driessen. Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation
Authors: Iacovou Maria
Published: November 2022

How often does one read a review volume from cover to cover? Cretan cities was one of those rare experiences. It felt almost like reading a well-written novel where one’s interest is escalating from chapter to chapter, only in this case there were not one but altogether ten authors: six chapters were written by a single author (E. Tegou; D. Lefèvre-Novaro; A. Pautasso; S. Wallace; D. Haggis; J. Whitley) and two by a pair of authors (V. Zographaki and A. Farnoux; D. Viviers and A. Tsingarida).
Lieve Donnellan, Valentino Nizzo, Gert-Jan Burgers (eds) Contexts of Early Colonization
Authors: Fitzjohn Matthew
Published: November 2022

One of the most significant phenomena of early Greek history was the growth in the number of settlements around the Mediterranean that have been identified as Greek poleis. The subject of early Greek colonisation, which includes the processes of migration, the foundation of settlements, and the relationships between migrants and indigenous populations, has undergone fundamental reappraisal in the past 35 years.
Josiah Ober. The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece.
Authors: Bintliff John
Published: November 2022

This book has already achieved major publicity both within Ancient History and also with a wider educated public, since it clearly takes a different tack from preceding summaries of Classical Greek history. Its historiography helps to account for this. Josiah Ober was well-known for research into the fortifications and defence of Classical Attica and also for studies of Athenian democracy. However when he came under the influence of a particular trend in Economic History, especially moving from the east of the States to Stanford, this source of inspiration grew into an ideological flood. Ober now significantly possesses a Chair in Political Science and Classics at Stanford and works closely with luminaries such as Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel. These latter colleagues have favoured the approach known as the New Institutional Economic History on the one hand, and on the other a broadening out into high-profile Global History (notably in books such as Morris’ Why the West Rules of 2010, and Scheidel’s Rome and China of 2009).
Donald C. Haggis and Carla M. Antonaccio (eds). Classical Archaeology in Context: Theory and Practice in Excavation in the Greek World.
Authors: Gaignerot-Driessen Florence
Published: November 2022

This volume is a collective, multi-regional, multi-period, and multi-disciplinary reflexion on what is and what should be classical archaeology. The 13 contributions collected are organised in four chapters, respectively paying attention to ‘historical contexts and intellectual traditions’, ‘mortuary’, ‘urban and rural’, and ‘sanctuary contexts’. The study cases presented come from Crete (Praisos, Azoria, and Arkalochori), Rhodes (Kymissaleis), Lycia (Çaltılar Höyük), Macedonia (Platania, Kompoloi, Douvari, Krania, and Vergina), the Peloponnese (Argos, Elis, Megalopolis and the island of Poros), Attica (Athens, Vourva, Marathon), and Sicily (Morgantina). The papers consider archaeological contexts dated from the Geometric to the Hellenistic period. A wide range of archaeological specializations, such as ceramology or bioarcheology (paleobotany, archeozoology, physical anthropology), and technologies (photogrammetry, interrelational database, tomography, geophysical survey, INAA, petrography, pXRF), is represented and discussed by the different contributors.
John Boardman. The Greeks in Asia.
Authors: Erskine Andrew
Published: November 2022

These two books are underpinned by the same essential theme, Greek influence in Asia, but they are very different. John Boardman is one of the leading historians of Greek art with a record of publication going back over fifty years, Elisabeth Katzy is at the other end of her academic career with this, her first book, a lightly-revised version of her Tübingen PhD thesis. Where Boardman covers the vast expanse from Turkey to China over the course of many centuries, Katzy’s focus is much narrower, a particular region of North Mesopotamia during the last three centuries BC. Both, however, make valuable contributions to our understanding of cultural interaction in the East.
Pierre Leriche (ed). Art & Civilisations de l’Orient Hellénisé: rencontres et échanges culturels d’Alexandre aux Sassanides.
Authors: Moodie Meg
Published: November 2022

The growing interest in the eastern part of the Hellenistic world has resulted in a number of recent papers, conferences, and books discussing the ebb and flow of cultural contact in previously under-explored regions. Developed from an international colloquium held in September 2009, this edited volume attempts to give an overview of as well as introduce new approaches to understanding the cultural engagement in the Hellenistic East ‘from Alexander to the Sassanids’. No mean feat, the book covers a variety of topics in 30 short chapters in both French and English, giving a true impression of the internationality of this work.
Michael Dekker. The Byzantine Dark Ages.
Authors: Bintliff John
Published: November 2022

This is one of a series of small volumes in the Debates in Archaeology series from this publisher, a very useful production focussing on special foci of scholarship at the present day. As this volume covers the Early Medieval period in the Byzantine Eastern Mediterranean, it is a useful complement to the magisterial overview of Italy over the same but also a longer period by Francovich and Hodges, Villa to Village (2003) in the same series. Michael Dekker has already published extensively on Late Antiquity and Byzantium but this slim but rich volume allows him to concentrate on issues and problems of the pathway from the unified Roman Empire to the smaller and weaker successor state of Byzantium which reached its heyday at the end of the 1st millennium AD.
Ruth M. Léger. Artemis and her cult.
Authors: Donnellan Lieve
Published: November 2022

Artemis and Aphrodite occupied an important place in ancient Greek society and despite a very long tradition of scholarship into Greek beliefs, the divine world of the Greeks has lost nothing of its attraction for contemporary scholars, as testify two recently published books, both the result of the respective author’s PhD research.
Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 3: Editorial
Authors: Bintliff John
Published: November 2022

True to our initial aims, this volume runs the whole chronological range of Greek Archaeology, while including every kind of material culture. We start with an overview of the major project of Nena Galanidou and her colleagues, investigating Palaeolithic environments, human settlement and other activities in the Ionian Islands.
The Greeks West of the Rhone (F). Genesis, Evolution and End of a Greek Area
Authors: Ugolini Daniela
Published: November 2022

According to ancient texts, all several centuries more recent than the city’s beginning, ancient historians claimed that Agde (Agàthe) was a ‘city of Marseille’, with an uncertain foundation date, while the Hérault river was the border between the Massalian domain and that of the Greek city of Empòrion. The western natives were seen as turned towards Iberia and it was assumed they developed an ‘Ibero-Languedocian civilisation’.
Religious Architecture in Crete: Materiality and Identities between the Venetian and the Ottoman Rule
Authors: Lorenzon Marta
Published: November 2022

In archaeology, the concept of identity is investigated with a clear focus on material culture, while architecture has often been excluded from this narrative, or when included, the general outlook gravitates towards more contemporary case studies. This article argues that iconoclasm, cultural appropriation and architectural destruction are not issues only concerning the recent past, but they are a diachronic phenomenon present endemically in a variety of case studies that pertain to archaeological contexts.
Maria C. Shaw and Anne P. Chapin (with contributions by E.W. Barber, G. Bianco, B. Burke, E. C. Egan and S. Peterson Murray). Woven Threads. Patterned textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age (Ancient Textile Series 22).
Authors: Sarri Kalliope
Published: November 2022

Aegean studies and textile research welcome a new book with an original and highly specialized topic. Contrary to previous research that was orientated more to weaving technologies, this volume is devoted to textile design and connects fabric technologies with different expressions of the visual arts. The book focuses first and foremost on a detailed analysis of patterns and in this way it upgrades patterning from a simple decorative medium to an important key for understanding the applied thread technologies, the evolution of design and a series of craft transfers during the Late Bronze Age. Furthermore, it postulates a new research area supplying evidence for intercultural relations between people of the Aegean and the East Mediterranean.
Quentin Letesson and Carl Knappett (eds). Minoan Architecture and Urbanism. New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment.
Authors: Wiersma Corien
Published: November 2022

The volume under discussion arises from a workshop held at the University of Toronto in 2015, entitled ‘From Static Data to Dynamic Processes: New Perspectives on Minoan Architecture and Urbanism’. It consists of 15 chapters, which are preceded by a list of figures, tables and contributors. A brief index can be found at the back. References are listed at the end of each individual chapter.
Coulié, Anne 2013. La céramique grecque aux époques géometrique et orientalisante (XIe–VIe siècles av.J.-C.).
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This is a finely produced volume, but the title of the series to which it belongs is significant. It is a manual, written in clear, uncomplicated French, which provides information in a succinct way, but includes more detail than most people will need about these interesting phases of Greek pottery, even (from the reviewer’s experience) if they are teaching them as part of a university course in Greek art. But it will be generally useful as an up-to-date source of information and comment and should be of considerable value to PhD students specialising in the field.
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (ed.). Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings.
Authors: Osborne Robin
Published: November 2022

The preface of this collection of papers sets out its aim as ‘foregrounding the urgency of establishing a thorough and epigraphically accurate database of ancient Greek vase-inscriptions’ (p.xi), and proceeds, after some general remarks about what gets inscribed, to the cautionary tale of the pyxis in the Metropolitan Museum on which the label for one of the figures, which reads ευνομια, had been misread απονια.
François Queyrel. La Sculpture hellénistique I: forms, themes et fonctions.
Authors: Barringer Judith
Published: November 2022

Queyrel’s latest tome is a big, richly-illustrated one: the first of two dedicated to Hellenistic sculpture projected for Picard’s Les Manuels d’art et d’archéologie antiques. The series, which already includes volumes on the Bronze Age, on Classical Greek sculpture (by †Claude Rolley, one of the persons to whom this volume is dedicated), and on Greek architecture, has become an essential tool for scholars, teachers, and students.
Dimitris N. Karidis. Athens from 1456 to 1920. The Town under Ottoman Rule and the 19th-Century Capital City / Dimitris N. Karidis. Athens from 1920 to 1940. A true and just account of how History was enveloped by a modern City and the Place became an Event
Authors: Bintliff John
Published: November 2022

Dimitris Karidis has given us a veritable feast in these two volumes, while opening us up to a sustained barrage of iconoclastic opinions, definitively backed up by the most impressive research, that rewrite our handed-down narratives about the post-Classical city of Athens and its fate up to the 20th century AD. To do this he does not confine himself to the city itself, but lets us know what was happening in the contemporary Attic countryside.
Rui Morais. Greek Art from Oxford to Portugal and Back Again: Tribute to Maria Helena Da Rocha-Pereira, with a foreword by Delfim Leão.
Authors: Osborne Robin
Published: November 2022

This is really a book about the transmission of motifs in ancient art, and essentially consists of a series of examples linked by a very brief and somewhat idiosyncratic text which appears to have had no editing; the penultimate sentence reads ‘The theme of the migration and circulation of images, subject to certain coordinates and the complexities of historical times, manifests in an anachronistic manner, lost in the collective memory’.
The Ayios Vasileios Survey Project (Laconia, Greece): questions, aims and methods
Authors: Voutsaki Sofia , Wiersma Corien , De Neef Wieke , Vasilogamvrou Adamantia
Published: November 2022

This article presents the research design, i.e. the main aims, questions and methods of the Ayios Vasileios Survey Project. This ongoing project combines field walking, geophysical prospection and ethnographic interviews in order to place more firmly the Mycenaean Palatial Complex of Ayios Vasileios (Laconia, Greece) in its physical, regional and historical context.
The formation and development of political territory and borders in Ionia from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods: A GIS analysis of regional space
Authors: Hill David
Published: November 2022

The purpose of this article is to present a set of geopolitical maps of Ionia from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods using a range of sources and by applying comparative models drawn from a number of Greek regions. The maps represent the first attempt to visualise geopolitical Ionia. The borders and territories of the Ionian poleis have been identified and drawn on two maps to represent the geopolitical situation at the time of polis formation in the 8th century BC, and again in the 2nd century BC during the Hellenistic period when considerable changes to the political landscape were made. The motivation behind creating a geopolitical map of Ionia that plots the territories and borders of the Ionian poleis is to open discussion. Ionian and regional research has traditionally been carried out on a polis by polis basis.
Pietra Ollare: Alpine soapstone vessels in Byzantine Corinth
Authors: Valente Rossana
Published: November 2022

Pietra ollare is the Italian nomenclature for a grouping of different lithotypes of basic and ultrabasic metamorphic rocks, related to green schist facies, and used in the production of ollae (Latin for ‘cooking pots’). The label pietra ollare is not related to a petrographic stone type classification, but rather encompasses, in archaeological literature, a variety of commodities made in a range of stone types, from soft grey soapstone to pale green coloured lithotypes that are medium to fine in grain, such as serpentinine, chlorite and amphibole schists rocks.
Anastasia Papathanasiou, William A. Parkinson, Daniel J. Pullen, Michael L. Galaty and Panagiotis Karkanas (eds). Neolithic Alepotrypa cave in the Mani, Greece. In honor of George Papathanassopoulos
Authors: Perlès Catherine
Published: November 2022

Since the occupation of caves became recognised as a specific feature of the Late and Final Neolithic in Greece, widely differing interpretations have been offered. Schematically, the balance shifted from a purely pragmatic interpretation – caves were used as domestic places in the context of increasing pastoralism – to a mostly or purely ritual interpretation. However, as illustrated by a recent publication devoted to the use of caves, the question is far from settled. Yet, to better understand the status of LN/FN caves, or, more precisely, to better grasp how difficult it is to understand it, a key element was missing: the detailed publication of Alepotrypa Cave, in the Mani. More than any other cave site, Alepotrypa, with its apparently domestic occupations, wealth of human remains and exceptional deposits, epitomises the impossibility to draw a clear-cut opposition between the mundane and the ritual, the polis and the necropolis. Paradoxically, Alepotrypa raises not such much the question of the definition of rituals as the definition of what is domestic.
Søren Dietz, Fanis Mavridis, Žarko Tankosić and Turan Takaoğlu (eds). Communities in transition. The circum-Aegean area during the 5th and 4th millennia BC
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This is a massive book, deriving from a multi-paper conference held in Athens, and really there is too much material for a single hardback volume, which seems to have affected the quality of the binding (on the reviewer’s copy the front cover split from the spine at the top quite quickly). The conference was intended to focus on the social changes that occurred during the development from Neolithic to Early Bronze Age in the later 5th and 4th millennia BC, the period widely defined as Final Neolithic in Aegean terminology, in the ‘circum-Aegean area’. After an explanatory preface by the editors, an Introduction contains the editors’ summary presentation of their view of the content and value of the papers, arranged first by significant themes, then by survey and site reports within the regions between which the papers have been distributed.
Philippa M. Steele. 2019. Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus
Authors: Iacovou Maria
Published: November 2022

Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus is the edited version of the Evans-Pritchard Lectures, which the author, Philippa Steele (PS), delivered at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2014, under the title, Society and Writing in Ancient Cyprus. The decision to reverse the order of the two main terms on the book’s title suggests that the primacy of Writing over Society had become obvious when the lectures were presented. PS achieved a fascinating synthesis of the written evidence, which would have, undoubtedly, steered her audience towards new venues regarding the interpretation of society in Ancient Cyprus.
A. Bernard Knapp and Stella Demesticha. Mediterranean connections: maritime transport containers and seaborne trade in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages.
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This is a fairly short but important book that focuses on the part played in seaborne trade by the ‘maritime transport containers’ of the title (hereafter MTCs). It is packed with data; it is particularly useful to have authoritative accounts of the east Mediterranean material and of the great quantities of information now available from provenance studies and organic residue analysis. Almost inevitably some more recent studies like Stockhammer 2015 (which must have come out as it went to press) have been missed, but in general the coverage of the mass of accounts and studies of the material seems close to comprehensive.
Emily S.K. Anderson. Seals, craft and community in Bronze Age Crete.
Authors: Younger John G.
Published: November 2022

After a list of illustrations (191 b/w), acknowledgements, and an introduction, five chapters and a lengthy appendix constitute the core of the book. There then follow references (bibliography), (end)notes, and an index. The book’s introduction and five chapters mostly present anthropological theories and constructions of Cretan society in the late PrePalatial period (ca. 2300–1900 BCE) seen through the lenses of other, presumably similar societies, cultures, and ethnologies as studied by a variety of quoted scholars. The chapter titles give an indication of themes, sometimes promising archaeological data (e.g., ‘Identity and Relation through Early Cretan Glyptic’ [ch. 2], ‘In the Hands of the Craftsperson: Innovation and Repetition across Cretan Communities’ [ch. 4]), sometimes teasing the reader with poetic playfulness (e.g., ‘Rethinking Prepalatial Crete: Social Innovation on an Island of Persistence’ [ch. 1], ‘Distance and Nearness: Fundamental Changes to the Dynamics of Seal Use in Late Prepalatial Crete’ [ch. 3]).
Mary Emerson. Greek Sanctuaries and Temple Architecture. An Introduction
Authors: Spawforth Tony
Published: November 2022

In her preface the author explains what is new in this second edition: chapters on Paestum and the temple of Zeus at Akragas, commentary on architectural sculpture, and an expanded bibliography. The book is avowedly introductory, the emphasis is on buildings, and a glossary explains the technical terms used in the text, which the reader had best get used to since – as Emerson says – they litter the further reading. Other than the new sites (above), the content focuses on Delphi, Olympia, Athens (Acropolis and the Hephaisteion) and Bassae. These being the core sites (‘classics’ as Emerson says) for the study of Greek sacred architecture, this is a sensible approach for an introduction (one might quibble about the omission of any structures specifically built for initiation rites from the Archaic and Classical periods, the timespan to which the book confines itself).
Walter Scheidel (ed.). The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past.
Authors: Russell Ben
Published: November 2022

Human history and natural history are intrinsically connected and new scientific advances are increasingly re-shaping our understanding of the Roman environment, which has significant implications for Roman historians. This is the premise laid out in the introduction of this volume. Despite its title, it does not seek to explore all of the numerous and varied ways in which scientific approaches have informed scholarship on antiquity; there is no discussion of new archaeometric techniques now applied to archaeological materials as standard, or indeed of remote sensing or dating techniques. Climate and biology, as the sub-title explains, are the focus here. The broader aim is to test the fertility of the intersection between archaeo-historical research on the one hand and natural-scientific studies on the other.
Matthew P. Maher. The fortifications of Arkadian city states in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Authors: Müth Silke
Published: November 2022

Matthew Maher’s monograph on the fortifications of Arkadian city states is (although not mentioned in the book) based on a PhD dissertation at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) in 2012. It is a very welcome volume, because it supplies the growing interest in both the history and archaeology of Arkadia as a central Greek region and in ancient fortifications in a regional scope. As Maher writes in his introduction, he sees his study in the light of the ‘move away from traditional stereotypical interpretations of a poor and isolated Arkadia towards a view of a moderately prosperous region whose inhabitants generally followed the same patterns of social, political, and cultural development seen elsewhere in ancient Greece’ (p. 1) – a move that only can be appreciated.
Manolis Manoledakis (ed.). The Black Sea in the Light of New Archaeological Data and Theoretical Approaches. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity held in Thessaloniki, 18–20 September 2015.
Authors: Donnellan Lieve
Published: November 2022

That Black Sea studies have become a dynamic field over the last few years is demonstrated by this new volume, edited by Manolis Manoledakis. The book results from a workshop, organised in Thessaloniki in 2015. The title clearly states the book’s ambition: collect more data and shed a critical light on them. While the book successfully achieves the first ambition of collecting new data, the second aim – introducing new theoretical frameworks – has only been achieved to a moderate extent throughout the volume. Most of the contributions remain firmly within the established interpretative boundaries and contribute little to ongoing discussions of, for example, globalisation processes in the Ancient World, to name just one omission. Only a few papers adopt more challenging perspectives on (ethnic) identity or economic production.
Maria Relaki and Yiannis Papadatos (eds) From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Archaeology. pp. 331, 69 b/w ills, 9 tables. 2018. Oxford: Oxbow Books (Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology). ISBN 978-1-78570-926-5, paperback £38.
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This volume contains final versions of the majority of papers given at the 14th Sheffield Round Table in Aegean Archaeology, 29-31 January 2010, so it has taken a long time to arrive, but it can be said straight away that specialists in Minoan archaeology should find it worth the wait. The Round Table was held to honour Keith Branigan, founder of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology, and its topics were evidently chosen to reflect the areas in which he has made particularly significant contributions. Thus, the papers published here are concerned principally with different aspects of the rich field of funerary activity, especially in the Prepalatial period, but also with patterns of settlement and land exploitation, and with the processes of development that brought the Minoan civilisation into being. The contribution by Relaki, the co-editor (Ch. 2), stands out in focusing on another field in which Branigan was active at an early stage, that of developments in technology, their spread within Crete, and their links with the outside world, notably the Cyclades and Egypt.