James R. Wiseman Book Award

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2018     The Roman Forum : a reconstruction and architectural guide by Gilbert J. Gorski and James E. Packer
2017     Art and empire : the Roman frescoes and Imperial cult chamber in Luxor Temple, edited by Michael Jones and Susanna McFadden
2016     Maritime networks in the Mycenaean world by Thomas Tartaron
2015     Empire, authority, and autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia by Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre
2014     Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean commerce, and the formation of identity by Bryan Burns
2013     The symposium in context : pottery from a late Archaic house in the Athenian Agora by Kathleen Lynch
2012     Archaeologies of colonialism : consumption, entanglement, and violence in ancient Mediterranean France by Michael Dietler
2011     The destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq by Peter G. Stone and Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly
2010     The architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, c. 300 B.C. to A.D. 700 by Judith McKenzie
2009     Portrait of a priestess : women and ritual in ancient Greece by Joan Breton Connelly
2008     Ancient Greek portrait sculpture : contexts, subjects, and styles by Sheila Dillon
2007     Concrete vaulted construction in Imperial Rome : innovations in context by Lynne C. Lancaster
2006     Understanding early civilizations : a comparative study by Bruce G. Trigger
2005     Archaeological landscapes of the Near East by Tony Wilkinson
2004     Figures of speech : men and maidens in ancient Greece by Gloria Ferrari Pinney
2003     An island archaeology of the early Cyclades by Cyprian Broodbank
2002     In search of god the mother : the cult of Anatolian Cybele by Lynn Roller
2001     Farming the desert : the UNESCO Libyan valleys archaeological survey, Vol. 1 : Synthesis, edited by Graeme Barker and Vol. 2 : Gazetteer and pottery, edited by David Mattingly.
1999     The chora of Metaponto : the necropoleis by Joseph Coleman Carter
1998     The baths of Caracalla : a study in the design, construction, and economics of large-scale building projects in Imperial Rome by Janet DeLaine
1997     Classical bronzes : the art and craft of Greek and Roman statuary by Carol C. Mattusch
1996     Ancient Mesopotamian materials and industries : the archaeological evidence by P. R. S. Moorey
1995     Houses and society in Pompeii and Herculaneum by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
1994     Codex Mendoza by Patricia Anawalt and Frances Berdan
1993     Daidalos and the origins of Greek art by Sarah P. Morris
1992     Emerging complexity : the later prehistory of South-east Spain, Iberia, and the West Mediterranean by Robert Chapman; Sennacherib's palace without rival at Nineveh by John Malcolm Russell
1991     A history of archaeological thought by Bruce Graham Trigger (2d ed, 2006, here); The frieze from the Hera I temple at Foce del Sele by Frances Dodds Van Keuren
1990     Bronze and iron : ancient Near Eastern artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Oscar White Muscarella
1989     The Roman port and fishery of Cosa : a center of ancient trade by Anna Marguerite McCann