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Jeffrey Becker deposited A New Plan for an Ancient Italian City: Gabii Revealed in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe 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]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited A New Plan for an Ancient Italian City: Gabii Revealed in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe 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]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Orientalizing infant burials from Gabii, Italy in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoIn 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]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Orientalizing infant burials from Gabii, Italy in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoIn 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]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Ancient Samnium. Settlement, Culture, and Identity between History and Archaeology in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoBook 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. -
Jeffrey Becker deposited Ancient Samnium. Settlement, Culture, and Identity between History and Archaeology in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoBook 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. -
Jeffrey Becker deposited Ancient Samnium. Settlement, Culture, and Identity between History and Archaeology in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years agoBook 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. -
Jeffrey Becker deposited THIRD-CENTURY BURIALS. B. Borg 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. in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoBook 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.
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Jeffrey Becker deposited THIRD-CENTURY BURIALS. B. Borg 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. in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoBook 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.
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Imitation and Creation: Development of Early Bucchero Design at Cerveteri in the Seventh Century B.C in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoReview 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.
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Imitation and Creation: Development of Early Bucchero Design at Cerveteri in the Seventh Century B.C in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoReview 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.
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Jeffrey Becker deposited The Republican Aventine and Rome’s Social Order, by Lisa Marie Mignone, 2016. Ann Arbor (MI): University of Michigan Press; ISBN 978-0-472-11988-2 hardback $70.00; 264pp., 12 figures, 2 tables on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
Book review of The Republican Aventine and Rome’s Social Order, by Lisa Marie Mignone , 2016. Ann Arbor (MI): University of Michigan Press; ISBN 978-0-472-11988-2 hardback $70.00; 264pp., 12 figures, 2 tables
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Villas and Agriculture in Republican Italy on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
The scholarly approach to the Roman villa finds itself at something of a crossroads, particularly with respect to the villas of the Republican period in Italy. This chapter explains the archaeology of villas in Republican Italy, highlighting debates that center on questions related to the origins of villa architecture, the morphology of villas,…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Italic Architecture of the Earlier First Millennium BCE on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
This chapter examines the underpinnings of Roman architecture by exploring some critical issues related to the architecture of central Italy primarily during the first half of the first millennium BCE. Four categories of buildings are considered, namely domestic architecture, civic architecture, defensive architecture, and sacred architecture. It…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Archaeological Research at Gabii, Italy: The Gabii Project Excavations, 2009–2011 on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
Since the summer of 2009, the ancient site of Gabii has been the focus of excavations conducted by the University of Michigan. Stratigraphic investigations near the urban core are revealing the complex sequence of occupation in this Latin city, which emerged in the Early Iron Age. The spatial distribution of intramural burials of the Orientalizing…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited A New Plan for an Ancient Italian City: Gabii Revealed on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Orientalizing infant burials from Gabii, Italy on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Ancient Samnium. Settlement, Culture, and Identity between History and Archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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. -
Jeffrey Becker deposited THIRD-CENTURY BURIALS. B. Borg 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. on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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.
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Imitation and Creation: Development of Early Bucchero Design at Cerveteri in the Seventh Century B.C on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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.
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