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Volcanic Stone, Renaissance Fun Houses

Katherine Coty reimagines Italian villa gardens as experiments with the local landscape

Tracking Ancient Immigration through Teeth

Gina Buckley looks for skeletal traces of elite and working-class immigration at Teotihuacan

Surveying the Borderland

Patrick Mullins sees diversity, conflict, politics, and coca in an ancient frontier landscape

A New History of Byzantium

Anthony Kaldellis rethinks a thousand years of history from the Persian occupation to Byzantine society as the law in motion

Bringing Heaven Into the Church

Warren Woodfin presents six centuries of cross-referencing Orthodox ritual and heavenly iconography

Monuments, Hieroglyphs, and Native Fauna

Stephanie Strauss conducts the first art historical assessment of Epi-Olmec elite visual culture

Revolutionary Churches Hewn from Rock

Mikael Muehlbauer identifies medieval churches in Ethiopia that evoke a lost Byzantium

Peripheral Lands, Contested Histories

Zeynep Kezer studies Elazığ, Tunceli, and the making of modern Turkey from the margins

Trees That Heal and Fly

Thomas Arentzen searches for Byzantine trees that interacted with humans and the divine

Globalization in Guinea Pig Bones

Sarah Kennedy establishes why food is key to understanding power, identity, and status in colonial Peru