Archaeology

Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists edited by Getzel M. Cohen and Martha Sharp Joukowsky

Cosa V by Elizabeth Fentress

Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists

Getzel M. Cohen and Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Editors

Rights: World
For more info, contact Michael Kehoe at mkehoe@umich.edu

Breaking Ground examines the lives of twelve pioneer archaeologists—women such as Jane Dieulafoy, Gertrude Bell, and Dorothy Garrod, for example—in the early days of the discipline, tracing their paths from education in the classics to travel and exploration and ultimately to international recognition in the field. The intended readership for this book is broad: it will include those interested in the history of archaeology, European social history as well as gender studies. But the interest inherent in these biographies will reach well beyond defined disciplines and subdisciplines—for the life of each one of these exciting and accomplished individuals is an adventure story in itself.

Getzel M. Cohen is Professor of Classics and History at the University of Cincinnati.

Martha Sharp Joukowsky is Professor of Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University.

June 2004
616 pages

Cosa V: An Intermittent Town, Excavations 1991-1997

Elizabeth Fentress

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For more info, contact Michael Kehoe at mkehoe@umich.edu

Since excavation began in 1948, the site of Cosa has become one of our most important sources on Roman colonization, urbanism, and daily life. These excavations illuminate every phase of the site's history, from the Republican and early imperial period, to a medieval castle destroyed in the 14th century.

This book includes a narrative account of the history of the town seen in the light of the excavations, as well as the publication of all the medieval finds from the site. Illustrated with 150 figures and plates, including numerous reconstruction drawings and an important sequence of Roman pottery, it will be useful to all those interested in Roman and Medieval archaeology and history.

An innovative aspect of this publication is the simultaneous web publication of the site's stratigraphy. In this manner, the detailed site information will be available to specialists and those of the general public who closely follow new directions in Roman archaeology.

Elizabeth Fentress is an independent scholar and archaeologist working in Rome. She served as Mellon Professor at the American Academy in Rome between 1996 and 1999.

January 2004
428 pages