A GUIDE TO CETAMURA DEL CHIANTI: Cetamura del Chianti. Pp. xxvi + 149, ills, maps. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. Paper, US$29.95 (Cased, US$90). ISBN: 978-1-4773-1993-2 ( 978-1-4773-1910-9 hbk)

Seven distinct votive features were found here, including a likely foundation deposit (Votive Feature #1) that contained miniature cups, pouring and storage vessels, and grains (pp. 66–9). Pollens and grains indicate a diet of barley, emmer wheat, bread wheat, apples, pears, nuts and olives (p. 105), and faunal analysis suggests an increase in poultry consumption during the Roman period (p. 114). [...]thousands of cultivated grape pips were recovered, including some from fourth-century deposits, indicating the great antiquity of viticulture in the Chianti region (p. 51). [...]this volume underscores the value of rigorous palaeobotanical research. kkreindler@umass.edu