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Episode Date
Tyrants and Traders: Tintagel, Arthur and the Lost Kings with Ken Dark (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Oct 09, 2026
Avraham Faust and Zev I. Farber, "The Bible’s First Kings: Uncovering the Story of Saul, David, and Solomon" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Sep 14, 2026
Stuart McHardy, "Scotland's Geomythography: Myth, Landscape and the Roots of Culture" (Luath Press, 2025)
Sep 06, 2026
Elizabeth Anne Davis, "Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 02, 2026
Jane Draycott, "Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome" (Yale UP, 2025)
Aug 22, 2026
Amihai Mazar and Nava Panitz-Cohen, "Tel Rehov: A Bronze and Iron Age City in the Beth-Shean Valle" (The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, 2020)
Aug 17, 2026
Stefan Al, "Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home" (Norton, 2026)
Aug 09, 2026
Kyle H. Keimer and George A. Pierce eds., "The Ancient Israelite World" (Routledge, 2024)
Jul 31, 2026
Patrick Nunn, "Whispers from Celtic Seas: The True Meanings of Ancient Stories from Northwest Europe" (Reaktion, 2026)
Jul 26, 2026
Ian J. McNiven, "Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals" (UP Florida, 2026)
Jul 20, 2026
Dougald O’Reilly, "Empires of the Southern Ocean: Early Civilizations of Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)
Jun 01, 2026
Patrick Wyman, "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World" (HarperCollins, 2026)
May 26, 2026
John Waddell, "The Celtic World: A History" (Four Courts Press, 2026)
May 23, 2026
Kristin LaFollette, "Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade" (SUNY Press, 2026)
May 20, 2026
Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa, "War and Community in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Apr 27, 2026
Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
Mar 13, 2026
Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 12, 2026
Mike Pitts, "Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 11, 2026
Margaret S. Graves, "Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Feb 27, 2026
Himanshu Prabha Ray ed., "Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections" (Routledge, 2026)
Feb 15, 2026
Samuel Holley-Kline, "In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
Feb 03, 2026
Jerry Moore, "Cat Tales: A History" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
Dec 14, 2025
Charles Higham, "Early Southeast Asia: From First Humans to First Civilizations" (NUS Press, 2024)
Dec 01, 2025
Stephen Murphy, "Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries (NUS Press, 2024)
Dec 01, 2025
Paulette F. C. Steeves, "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Nov 30, 2025
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Nov 29, 2025
Max Adams and Colm O’Brien, "Northumbria AD 367-867: Earth Hall, Ring Gift and Heaven’s Field" (Birlinn, 2025)
Nov 18, 2025
Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Nov 12, 2025
Sarah Griswold, "Resurrecting the Past: France's Forgotten Heritage Mandate" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Nov 03, 2025
John Blair, "Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Oct 30, 2025
Joe Watkins, "Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Oct 26, 2025
Michael B. Cosmopoulos, "The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Oct 24, 2025
Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Oct 19, 2025
Moudhy Al-Rashid, "Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
Oct 16, 2025
Michelle Wang, "The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Oct 14, 2025
Daniel J. Sherman, "Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Oct 09, 2025
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP of Colorado, 2025)
Sep 04, 2025
Walter Scheidel, "What Is Ancient History?" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Aug 25, 2025
Kirin Narayan, "Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 11, 2025
Lizzie Wade, "Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures" (Harper, 2025)
Aug 04, 2025
Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)
Jul 09, 2025
J. P. Mallory, "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
Jun 26, 2025
Emily Hauser, "Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It" (Univ of Chicago Press, 2025)
Jun 19, 2025
Andrew Smith, "First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan" (Jonathan Ball, 2022)
Jun 03, 2025
Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 02, 2025
Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)
May 24, 2025
Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
Apr 27, 2025
Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts
Apr 17, 2025
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 16, 2025
Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 07, 2025
Rune Nyord, "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 29, 2025
Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 23, 2025
Selena Wisnom, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 13, 2025
Vera Tiesler, "Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Mar 05, 2025
Ashish Avikunthak, "Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 21, 2025
Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 08, 2025
Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
Dec 31, 2024
A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024
Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar
Dec 07, 2024
Jeffrey M. Pilcher, "Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 06, 2024
Andrew Fleming, "The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda" (Birlinn, 2024)
Nov 24, 2024
Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 2020)
Sep 30, 2024
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
Sep 29, 2024
John Schofield, "Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 15, 2024
Theodore Papakostas, "How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator" (William Collins, 2024)
Sep 14, 2024
Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 07, 2024
Richard D. Oram, "Where Men No More May Reap Or Sow: The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400-1850" (Birlinn, 2024)
Jul 30, 2024
Rubina Raja, "Shaping Archaeological Archives: Dialogues Between Fieldwork, Museum Collections, and Private Archives" (Brepols, 2023)
May 19, 2024
Bryan K. Miller, "Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 01, 2024
Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)
Mar 31, 2024
Whitney Nell Stewart, "This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
Mpho Ngoepe and Sindiso Bhebhe, "Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts: Recalling the Pasts" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 02, 2024
What Can We Learn From A Pottery Shard? Uncovering the Ancient Past Through Biblical Archeology with Professor Aren Maeir
Jan 17, 2024
Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jan 07, 2024
Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Jan 05, 2024
Douglas Hunter, "Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
Dec 30, 2023
Yaron Eliav, "A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023
Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Nov 05, 2023
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)
Nov 03, 2023
Christopher P. Barton, "The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Oct 25, 2023
Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 23, 2023
Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)
Oct 15, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Jason Thompson, "Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology" (AU of Cairo, 2018)
Aug 14, 2023
Jack Green and Ros Henry, "Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey': Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean" (UCL Press, 2021)
Aug 02, 2023
Marnie Feneley, "Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
Aug 01, 2023
Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
Jul 29, 2023
Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire: An interview with Ismael Biyashev
Jul 29, 2023
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Jun 29, 2023
Timothy R. Pauketat, "Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America" (Oxford UP,
Apr 27, 2023
John Soderberg, "Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Mar 24, 2023
Claudia Brittenham, "Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Mar 24, 2023
Mark Axel Tveskov and Ashley Ann Bissonnette, "Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War: Beyond the Battlefield" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Mar 10, 2023
William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Mar 05, 2023
Amanda Podany, "Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 25, 2023
Digging for Answers: The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology
Feb 23, 2023
Why Should Cultural Heritage Be Protected?
Feb 20, 2023
Brian Lander, "The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire" (Yale UP, 2022)
Feb 15, 2023
Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
Feb 01, 2023
Walking the Via Dolorosa: An Archaeologist Follows Jesus from His Trial to His Crucifixion
Jan 31, 2023
Padma Kaimal, "Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Jan 26, 2023
Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert
Jan 04, 2023
Iraqi Bedouin and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Jan 02, 2023
Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022
Fintan Walsh, "The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3, Navan to Kells and N52, Kells Bypass Road Project" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
Dec 13, 2022
Victoria Hoyle, "The Remaking of Archival Values" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 11, 2022
Ahmad Al-Jallad, "The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions" (Brill, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022
Natali Pearson, "Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Nov 15, 2022
Sara Rich, "Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Nov 14, 2022
John Darnell and Colleen Darnell, "Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Cynthia Kros et al., "Archives of Times Past: Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History" ( Wits UP, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Morgan Pitelka, "Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 08, 2022
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Oct 27, 2022
Gerald Lalonde, "Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess" (Brill, 2019)
Oct 17, 2022
Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 03, 2022
Kathryn Lomas, "The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 23, 2022
Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf, "Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink" (U Alabama Press, 2018)
Jul 14, 2022
John Gillis, "The Fadden More Psalter: The Discovery and Conservation of a Medieval Treasure" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
Jun 28, 2022
Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse, "When Art Isn’t Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation" (Leuven UP, 2022)
Jun 03, 2022
Emma Natalya Stein, "Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
May 19, 2022
David Lunt, "The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes" (U Arkansas Press, 2022)
May 19, 2022
Greater Angkor and Global Urbanism
Apr 14, 2022
On Middle Eastern Archaeology and the Historical Jesus
Apr 11, 2022
Adrian J. Pearce et al., "Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide. A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration" (UCL Press, 2020)
Apr 11, 2022
Andrew Lawler, "Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City" (Doubleday, 2021)
Mar 28, 2022
Ellen Baumler, "The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana's Cemeteries" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Mar 28, 2022
Jason De Leon, "The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail" (U California Press, 2015)
Mar 22, 2022
John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 21, 2022
77* Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
Mar 17, 2022
Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss, "Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Mar 16, 2022
Carolina López-Ruiz, "Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 14, 2022
Pratik Chakrabarti, "Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Mar 10, 2022
Kimberly Cassibry, "Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire's Souvenirs" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 04, 2022
Tracy Collins, "Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland: An Archaeology" (Cork UP, 2021)
Feb 04, 2022
Paulette F. C. Steeves, "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Jan 27, 2022
Aleksandra Prica, "Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jan 21, 2022
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, “Herculaneum Uncovered” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Nov 30, 2021
Carolyn L. White, "The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
Nov 17, 2021
War Stories: The Military Tactics of Ancient Egyptian Rulers As Illustrated by War Records
Nov 03, 2021
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Sep 23, 2021
Edmund Richardson, "Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Sep 09, 2021
Jamie Kreiner, "Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2021
Marianne Hem Eriksen, "The Valkyries' Loom: The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic" (UP of Florida, 2020)
Jun 01, 2021
Allison Mickel, "Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor" (UP Colorado, 2021)
May 04, 2021
Dan Hicks, "The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution" (Pluto Books, 2020)
Mar 26, 2021
Fiona Greenland, "Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy" (U of Chicago Press, 2021)
Feb 26, 2021
R. Alan Covey, "Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 11, 2021
C. Burnett, "Studying the New Testament Through Inscriptions: An Introduction" (Hendrickson Publishers, 2020)
Dec 21, 2020
Audrey J. Horning, "Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic" (UNC Press, 2017)
Nov 13, 2020
Lost Temples of the Jungle: A History of Mrauk-U with Dr. Bob Hudson
Oct 22, 2020
François-Xavier Fauvelle, "The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Sep 25, 2020
David Carballo, "Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 03, 2020
Kathryn M. De Luna, "Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa" (Yale UP, 2016)
Jun 04, 2020
James C. Scott, "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" (Yale UP, 2017)
Jun 03, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Adrian Currie, "Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences" (MIT Press, 2018)
Mar 27, 2020
Adrian J. Boas, "The Crusader World" (Routledge, 2015)
Mar 25, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Kathleen Sheppard, "The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology" (Lexington, 2017)
Nov 29, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
John D. Hawks, "Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story" (National Geographic, 2017)
Jul 19, 2019
Ashley Thompson, "Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor" (Routledge, 2016)
Jul 04, 2019
PJ Capelotti, "Adventures in Archaeology: The Wreck of the Orca II and Other Explorations" (U Florida Press, 2018)
Jun 14, 2019
Adrian Goldsworthy, "Hadrian's Wall" (Basic Books, 2018)
May 24, 2019
Gregory Smits, "Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650" (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
May 20, 2019
Chip Colwell, "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Apr 19, 2019
Richard Hingley, "Londinium: A Biography" (Routledge, 2018)
Apr 18, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Fred S. Naiden, "Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Feb 08, 2019
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis. "Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham" (Empire States Editions, 2018)
Jan 30, 2019
William Kelso, "Jamestown: The Truth Revealed" (U Virginia Press, 2017)
Jan 18, 2019
Christopher Gerrard, "Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar, 1650" (Oxbow Books, 2018)
Jan 11, 2019
Mark Rice, "Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru" (UNC Press, 2018)
Dec 11, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 06, 2018
Kathleen Hull and John Douglass, "Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California" (U Arizona Press, 2018)
Nov 28, 2018
G. Mitman, M. Armiero and R. S. Emmett (eds.), “Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Aug 29, 2018
Andrew Frank, “Before the Pioneers: Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami” (UP of Florida, 2017)
Feb 14, 2018
Sam White, “A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Dec 15, 2017
James F. Brooks, “Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre” (W.W. Norton and Co., 2016)
Dec 05, 2017
Paul Irish, “Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney” (NewSouth Publishing, 2017)
Dec 01, 2017
Douglas Hunter, “The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America’s Indigenous Past (UNC, 2017)
Oct 30, 2017
Marilyn Palmer and Ian West, “Technology and the Country House” (Historic England Publishing/U.Chicago, 2016)
May 26, 2017
Rebe Taylor, “Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Apr 30, 2017
David Rohl, “Exodus: Myth or History? (Thinking Man Media, 2015)
Feb 27, 2017
Stephen Dupont, “Piksa Niugini” (Peabody Press/Radius Books, 2013)
Oct 18, 2016
Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Oct 07, 2015
Bruce A. Bradley, et al., “Clovis Technology” (International Monographs in Prehistory, 2010)
Sep 12, 2015
Douglas B. Bamforth et al., “The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska” (U of New Mexico Press, 2015)
Aug 25, 2015
Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Jul 21, 2015
J. Laurence Hare, “Excavating Nations: Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands” (U of Toronto Press, 2015)
Jun 28, 2015
Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, “The Archaeology of Tibetan Books” (Brill, 2014)
Mar 21, 2015
Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen, “Ancient Central China” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Oct 19, 2013
Mark Byington, ed., “Early Korea: The Rediscovery of Kaya in History and Archaeology” (University of Hawaii Press, 2012)
Jul 01, 2013
Rowan K. Flad, "Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China" (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Apr 27, 2012