Archaeological Mission of Chieti University in Libya: Reports 2006–2008. Res I (Reports, Excavations and Studies of the Archaeological Unit of the University G. D'Annunzio of Chieti – Pescara) By Oliva Menozzi. Archaeopress, Oxford, n.d. ISBN 978-1-78969-446-8 and ISBN 978-1-78969-447-5 (ePdf).

forms of colonial landscape created by the Mediterranean powers. The second section is concerned with ‘The Transformation of Peripheral Societies and Landscapes’. In the first article Lauren Ristvet provides a thoughtful interpretation of the violent landscape of the southern Caucasus in the iron age, framed in terms of almost fractal relationships with the military fringes of wider empires – principally Urartu and of Assyria. Anna Boozer (on Dakhla/Kharga and Lower Nubia) and Lidewijde de Jong and Rocco Palermo (on the north Mesopotamian steppe) examine the Roman imperial impact on some relatively neglected regions, and offer helpful overviews to the archaeology of each. The strongest article in this section is perhaps Joanita Vroom’s discussion of Butrint in the middle Byzantine period. This is an exemplary use of a relatively small site to examine the wider processes of imperialism – in this case the fluctuating Balkan frontier of the Byzantine empire from the ninth century. The final section contains just two articles: J. Daniel Rogers’s discussion of ‘repertoires of empire’, which takes as its starting point discussion of the steppe empires of Inner Asian pastoral groups – a helpful reminder that not all empires were founded by settled societies, or revolved around focal capitals. Finally Bradley J. Parker adopts a consciously comparative and broad-brush approach, using material from Incan imperialism in the Andes to illuminate his understanding of his own principal area of study in the Neo-Assyrian empire. The editors are to be commended for gathering together such a wide-ranging volume, and particularly for their introduction. This sets out the scope of this shared enquiry very well, and places all the contributions within a developing scholarly field. As a clear introduction to the changing archaeology of empire (and where the field might go from here), this is a welcome book indeed.