Srinivas Reddy, Raya: Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara. (Juggernaut, 2020)

Srinivas Reddy is presently Visiting Assistant Professor in Religious Studies.

Edited by Nicholas Carter, Stephen D. Houston, and Franco D. Rossi. The Adorned Body: Mapping Ancient Maya Dress. (University of Texas Press, 2020)

The Adorned Body is the first truly comprehensive book on what the ancient Maya wore, a systematic survey of dress and ornaments, from head to toe and everything in between.

Kelly Nguyen (Classics, PhD '21) was awarded the Eric Gruen Prize by the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) for her essay, "What's in a Natio: Negotiating Ethnic Identity in the Roman Empire." The Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus, of which Nguyen is a co-founder, also received the prestigious 2021 Professional Equity Award from the Women's Classical Caucus.

Published in Magdalena de Cao Viejo: An Early Colonial Town in Northern Peru, ed. J. Quilter.

During the early Colonial Period in the Americas, as an ancient way of life ended and the modern world began, indigenous peoples and European invaders confronted, resisted, and compromised with one another. Yet archaeological investigations of this complex era are rare. Magdalena de Cao is an exception: the first in-depth and heavily illustrated examination of what life was like at one culturally mixed town and church complex during the early Colonial Period in Peru.

Published in "The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World."

This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record.

Rodríguez, Gretel. (History of Art & Architecture.) “Before and After Rome: The Incised Contours Technique in the Art of Gallia Narbonensis”, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 3(1). (2020) p.3.

Published in "Defining Shugendō: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion," eds. Andrea Castiglioni, Carina Roth, and Fabio Rambelli.

Defining Shugendo brings together leading international experts on Japanese mountain asceticism to discuss what has been an essential component of Japanese religions for more than a thousand years.

Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History.

Chaco Canyon (850–1130 CE) served as the regional center for Ancestral Puebloan communities in the northern U.S. Southwest. Pueblo ethnographic traditions and the archaeological record demonstrate the importance of cosmological beliefs with origins at Chaco.

Sustainable resource management is of central importance among agrarian societies in marginal drylands. In the Negev Desert, Israel, research on agropastoral resource management during Late Antiquity emphasizes intramural settlement contexts and landscape features.

Published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

by Stephen Houston, Anthropology. Maya Decipherment: Ideas on Ancient Maya Writing and Iconography, 2020.

Houston, Stephen. (Anthropology.) “All the Small Things.” Maya Decipherment: Ideas on Ancient Maya Writing and Iconography. 2020.

Published in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

Caribbean plantation landscapes were designed to mediate interactions between planters and enslaved laborers. In this paper, wind-powered sugar mills on the island of Montserrat are singled out as being prominent components of the plantation environment that were not only economically productive, but also served as markers of planter power and control.

Parker VanValkenburgh (Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of Social Sciences) and Andy Dufton (PhD, '17, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World) recently visited the Archaeotech podcast ("Archaeology and Big Data," Episode 133) to discuss a supplement about digital archaeology and ethical considerations they brought to the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Quoting a psalm, Carl Linnæus began a major treatise on classification with words of praise for his Creator: “How great are your works! … how filled the Earth with your possessions!”

Nguyen, Kelly. (PhD ‘21, Classics.) "Phạm Duy Khiêm, classical reception, and colonial subversion in early 20th century Vietnam and France," Classical Receptions Journal, Volume 12, Issue 3, July 2020, Pages 340–356

Houston, Stephen. (Anthropology.) A Sacrificial Sign in Maya Writing (Dmitri Beliaev and Stephen Houston) Maya Decipherment: Ideas on Ancient Maya Writing and Iconography. 2020.

Published in Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde.

The role of women in the processes of fertilization and procreation in ancient Egypt has been tradition-ally regarded as passive. This article sets out to challenge this view, by introducing the new evidence that the study of the Hemusets provide.

Published in the Journal of Human Palaeoecology.

This paper explores the concept of suitability within applications of Ideal Distribution Models (IDMs). Specifically, we investigate the effectiveness of single measures of suitability in contexts where diverse local populations practised a range of subsistence strategies with different environmental requirements and sociocultural consequences.

History of Art and Architecture Professor Sheila Bonde is quoted in a National Geographic article about Covid-19's impact on Cathedral of Notre Dame reconstruction.

Warm congratulations to our colleague Ross Kraemer, Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies Emerita, on the publication of her latest book: The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews (Oxford, 2020).

Published in Past Global Changes (PAGES) Magazine.

We seek to highlight how paleoecology, archaeology, and geoecology can add to the repertoires of ecotourism guides in Peru's Chachapoya region, providing informed portraits of the history of cloud forest ecology in Peru's northeastern Andes and raising concerns about the future conservation of these mountainscapes under human impact.

Published in Antiquity.

Excavation at nuraghe S'Urachi has yielded a wide range of archaeobotanical materials preserved through charring and waterlogging. This unusual evidence allows us to study the agricultural practices and diet of this community in the first millennium BC and to understand better the economic and cultural interactions between Sardinia and the wider Phoenician and Mediterranean world.