The city of Gabii was one of the main centers of ancient Latium, yet very little of the settlement is known through archaeology. The site has been the focus of only sporadic exploration, and the available evidence for the urban history and development of the city is extremely fragmentary. New fieldwork has investigated the urban area with…[Read more]

In recent decades data provided by funerary archaeology has revolutionized our understanding of the proto-urban landscapes of Latium in the early Iron Age. The data that provide a compelling argument for the emergence of fixed systems of social hierarchy contribute greatly to the study of the first wave of urbanism that transformed the Italian…[Read more]

Book review of Ancient Samnium. Settlement, Culture, and Identity between History and Archaeology
By Rafael Scopacasa. Pp. xvi + 352, figs. b&w 22, tables 12. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015. £75, $125. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-871376-0.

Book review of Borg ( B.) Crisis and Ambition. Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome. Pp. xx + 308, ills, maps, colour pls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Cased, £105, US$185. ISBN: 978-0-19-967273-8.

Review of Regter W., Imitation and Creation: Development of Early Bucchero Design at Cerveteri in the Seventh Century B.C. (Allard Pierson Series 15). Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Museum, 2003. Pp. 312, illus. ISBN 90-71211-36-3. €137.50.

This is a class on the recent budget cuts at the University of North Dakota. The class has four goals:

1. To become more familiar with the complexities of the modern university and UND, in particular.
2. To encourage critical thinking about the institutional structure of higher education in the U.S. in a historical
context and local…[Read more]

This is a preprint of an article that appeared in the Journal Contemporary Archaeology. The article summarizes the recent work of the North Dakota Man Camp Project to understand the largely undocumented migrants arriving in the Bakken Oil Patch for work. It argues that efforts to document short-term labor in the Bakken exposes particular…[Read more]

An article concerning the strategy, methods, and preliminary results of intensive archaeological surveys in Northern Etruria.