Ancient West & East

Gocha R. Tsetskhladze works in the University of Melbourne. He has excavated for many years in the eastern and northern Pontus, has organised several international conferences, and has published extensively on the archaeology of Greek colonisation and on the Black Sea region, including Ancient Greeks West and East (Leiden, 1999), Die Griechen in der Kolchis (Amsterdam, 1998), and Pichvnari and its Environs (Paris, 1999). He recently co-edited North Pontic Archaeology. Recent Discoveries and Studies (Leiden, 2001).

Classical and Ancient Near Eastern archaeologists and historians.

'This new journal from Brill makes many important promises to all scholars interested in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean and the Near East and the interactions between them. ... By opening a regular avenue for cooperation and conversation among scholars from many disciplines and countries, AWE has a real potential for fulfilling the promises it makes. ‘
BMCR, 2003.

Volume I, No 2
Articles
S. Dönmez, The 2nd Millennium BC Settlements in Samsun and Amasya Provinces, Central Black Sea Region, Turkey, H. Pamir and S. Nishiyama, The Orontes Delta Survey: Archaeological Investigation of Ancient Trade Stations/Settlements, J. Boardman, Al Mina: The Study of a Site, J. Davis-Kimball, Statuses of Eastern Early Iron Age Nomads, M. Treister, Jewellery and Related Finds from a Rich 1st Century AD Sarmatian Burial from the Crimea, M. Kazanski, Les antiquités germaniques de l’époque romaine tardive en Crimée dans la région de la Mer d’Azov
Notes
J.G. de Boer, A Bronze Age “Metal-Road” to Eastern Thrace? , I. Demetradze, The Bronze Finger-Rings from Atskuri (Georgia)
Book Reviews
G.R. Tsetskhladze, West and East: A Review Article (2), S.L. Solovyov, New Publications on the Archaeology and Ancient History of the Cimmerian Bosporus, P.M. Barford, The Early Slavs (P. Dolukhanov), P. Bienkowski and A. Millard, British Museum Dictionary of the Ancient Near East (C. Burney), E. Bispham and C. Smith (eds.), Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy (E. Fantham), J. Boardman, Cyprus between East and West (V.A. Tatton-Brown), R. Brock and S. Hodkinson (eds.), Alternatives to Athens (R. Osborne), M. Brunet (ed.), Territoires des cités grecques (A. Moreno), B. Cohen (ed.), Not the Classical Ideal ( J. Boardman), A. Fantalkin, Mezad Hashavyahu ( J. Boardman), G.A. Fedorov-Davydov, The Silk Road and the Cities of the Golden Horde ( J. Hargrave), O. Lordkipanidze, Phasis ( J. Hind), I. Malkin (ed.), Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity (A.M. Snodgrass), A.A. Maslennikov, Οι αρχαίοι έλληυες στο ορειο Εύζειυο Πουτο (S.L. Solovyov), I. Morris, Archaeology as Cultural History ( J. Boardman), A. Ramage and P. Craddock, King Croesus’ Gold (M. Treister), W. Scheidel and S. von Reden (eds.), The Ancient Economy (R. Osborne), H. Thrane, Excavations at Tepe Guran in Luristan.