The James Henry Breasted Prize

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2018     The Roman street : urban life and society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome by Jeremy Hartnett
2017     The making of the ancient Greek economy : institutions, markets, and growth in the city-states by Alain Bresson
2016     Sexual violation in Islamic law : substance, evidence, and procedure by Hina Azam
2015     The destruction of the medieval Chinese aristocracy by Nicolas Tackett
2014     Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean : multilingualism and multiple identities in the Iron Age and Roman periods by Alex Mullen
2013     The nativist profits of early Islamic Iran : rural revolt and local Zoroastrianism by Patricia Crone
2012     Slavery in the late Roman world, AD 275-425 by Kyle Harper
2011     Public land in the Roman Republic : a social and economic history of Ager Publicus in Italy, 396–89 B.C. by Saskia T. Roselaar
2010     The two eyes of the Earth : art and ritual of kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran by Matthew P. Canepa
2009     Rituals of war : the body and violence in Mesopotamia by Zainab Bahrani
2008     Artisans in early Imperial China by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
2007     The journey of Theophanes : travel, business, and daily life in the Roman East by John Matthews
2006     Framing the early Middle Ages : Europe and the Mediterranean, 400–800 by Chris Wickham
2005     The laws of the Roman people : public law in the expansion and decline of the Roman republic by Callie Williamson
2004     The discovery of freedom in ancient Greece by Kurt Raaflaub
2003     The mind in the cave : consciousness and the origins of art by David Lewis-Williams
2002     Restraining rage : the ideology of anger control in classical antiquity by William V. Harris
2001     Facing the ocean : the Atlantic and its peoples 8000 BC–AD 1500 by Barry Cunliffe
2000     Rome in the East : the transformation of an empire by Warwick Ball
1999     The history of cartography, volume 2 book 3 : cartography in the traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies, edited  by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis
1998     No award
1997     The ancient Near East c. 3000–330 B.C. by Amélie Kuhrt
1996     Caesarius of Arles : the making of a Christian community in late antique Gaul by William E. Klingshirn
1995     Rivers of change : essays on early agriculture in eastern North America by Bruce D. Smith
1994     Passionate enlightenment : women in Tantric Buddhism by Miranda Shaw
1993     Prehistoric textiles : the development of cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean by E. J. W. Barber.
1992     Hellenism in Late Antiquity by Glen W. Bowersock
1990     Sugawara no Michizane and the early Heian court by Robert Borgen
1989     Memphis under the Ptolemies by Dorothy J. Thompson
1988     The Hellenistic world and the coming of Rome by Erich S. Gruen
1987     No award
1986     The world of thought in ancient China by Benjamin I. Schwartz
1985     In search of history : historiography in the ancient world and the origins of Biblical history by John Van Seeters