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In September 2022 Oxbow's bookshop and distribution buisness merged with Pen & Sword Books, a family run independent publisher of history books. The  book distribution aspect of our business will continue to bring you some of the best books in the field of archaeology and related disciplines as Casemate UK. The Oxbow Books publishing imprint remains as a separate entity, still sold and distributed exclusively by us.

Gilded Flesh Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781789252620
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
Egyptian coffins stand out in museums’ collections for their lively and radiant appearance. As an involucre of the mummy, coffins played a key-role by protecting the body and at the same time, integrating the deceased in the afterlife. The paramount importance of these objects and their purpose is detected in the ways they changed through time.
RRP: £60.00
Julius Caesar Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781612007090
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2019
Series: Casemate Short History
Illustrations: 30 black and white photos and diagrams
Description:
Julius Caesar has been the inspiration to countless military commanders over the last two millennia. Born into an aristocratic family, his early military campaigns, part of his progression along the cursus honorum, included campaigning in the east, Spain and in the early Roman civil wars. His participation in the Gallic Wars is known mainly through the commentary on the wars that he wrote and published, along with his incursions into Britain.
Medieval to Modern Suburban Material Culture and Sequence at Grand Arcade, Cambridge Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 495
ISBN: 9781902937786
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2019
Series: Cambridge Archaeological Unit Urban Archaeology Series
Description:
This is the first volume describing the results of the CAUs excavations in Cambridge and it is also the first monograph ever published on the archaeology of the town. At 1.5 hectares the Grand Arcade investigations represent the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Cambridge, significantly enhanced by detailed standing building recording and documentary research.
Nairi Lands Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781789252781
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
This study analyses the social and symbolic value of the material culture, in particular the pottery production and the architecture, and the social structure of the local communities of a broad area encompassing Eastern Anatolia, the South Caucasus and North-western Iran during the last phase of the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. This broad area is known from the Assyrian texts as ‘Nairi lands’. The second part of the study, furnishes a reassessment of pottery production characteristics and theories, as well as of the socio-economic structure and issues, tied to the sedentary and mobile local communities of the Nairi lands.
RRP: £60.00
Sark Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781905905461
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2019
Series: Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
Sark came briefly to prominence in 1719 when the Sark hoard was found – a pot containing Gaulish coins and embossed silver plaques. It was brought to England and disappeared. The Archaeological Survey of Sark began in 2004 with a view to studying the island in the context of Atlantic maritime networks to explore the themes of remoteness and connectivity.
Wild Things 2 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781785709463
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Building on the first Wild Things volume (Oxbow Books 2014) which aimed to showcase the research putting archaeologists researching the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic at the cutting edge of understanding humanity’s past, this collection of contributions presents recent research from an international group of both early career and established scientists.Covering aspects of both Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research in order to encourage dialogue between practitioners of archaeology of both periods, contributions are also geographically diverse, touching on British, European, North American and Asian archaeology. Topics covered include transitional periods, deer and people, stone tool technologies, pottery, land-use, antler frontlets, and the development of prehistoric archaeology an 'age of wonder'.
Rest in Mesopotamian and Israelite Literature Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 329
ISBN: 9781463207090
Pub Date: 29 Oct 2019
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
Description:
Rest in Mesopotamian and Israelite Literature studies the concept of rest in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern literature. Through close examination of Mesopotamian texts and selections from the Deuteronomistic History and Chronicles, Kim delineates a concept of rest for each body of literature, and employs a comparative approach to illuminate the rest motif in the Hebrew Bible in light of Mesopotamian literature.
Created for Eternity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 387
ISBN: 9788073089276
Pub Date: 24 Oct 2019
Description:
In 2019 Charles University, its Faculty of Arts, and the Czech Institute of Egyptology are celebrating the hundredth birthday of Czech Egyptology. It is an important centenary not only for us, but for archaeology globally. For many years now Czech Egyptologists have been among world leaders in the field, making major breakthroughs (most recently the discovery of the tomb of the priest Kaires) – and helping to set new international research trends.
Dronehenge Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9780995792791
Pub Date: 18 Oct 2019
Imprint: Liffey Press
Illustrations: 75 colour photographs
Description:
In July 2018, Anthony Murphy and Ken Williams discovered a giant previously unknown monument close to Newgrange while flying their drones over the Boyne Valley. They found what archaeologists believe to be a Late Neolithic henge monument, measuring 154 metres (just over 500 feet) in diameter, and a number of other mysterious and intriguing features. Their discoveries became an internet and media sensation and made headlines all around the world.
Looking Closely Cover Looking Closely Cover
Format: 
Pages: 500
ISBN: 9789088907678
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 195fc/117bw
Pages: 500
ISBN: 9789088907654
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 195fc/117bw
Description:
Soviet archaeological research in southern Turkmenistan revealed a series of small Late Neolithic and Aeneolithic villages strung along the streams that emerge from the Kopet Dag and water the narrow foothill zone separating the mountains from the Kara Kum desert. A commonly accepted premise of their work was that these communities garnered their technological knowledge if not their populations from regions to the south and west in present-day Iran.Since 2010 we have reinvestigated one of these sites, the small Late Neolithic (ca.
Matters of Belonging Cover Matters of Belonging Cover
Format: 
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088907784
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 25fc/16bw
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088907777
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 25fc/16bw
Description:
Matters of Belonging foregrounds critical practices within ethnographic museums in relation to their diverse stakeholders, with a special focus on collaboration with artists and differently constituted, self-identified communities. The book emerges from the EU-funded project SWICH (Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage) that places ethnographic museums at the centre of ongoing debates about Europe’s shifting polity and questions around heritage, citizenship and belonging. Addressing diverse political climates and citizenship regimes, legal frameworks and colonial/migratory histories, the articles seek to question the role of ethnographic and world cultures museums within contemporary negotiations of how to define Europe, Europeans, and European heritage, especially mindful of the region’s colonial and migratory pasts.
The Persistence of Memory in Kush Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9788073089160
Pub Date: 05 Oct 2019
Description:
A Report concerned with military reliefs in the Great Temple at Gebel Barkal in Nubia, the present Sudan (B 500), important battle scenes in the Great Temple's inner hall (B 502) and the outer one (B 501).
Ancient Egyptian Warfare Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781612007250
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2019
Series: Casemate Short History
Illustrations: 30 black and white photos and diagrams
Description:
A concise introduction to Ancient Egyptian warfare from the Neolithic period through to the Iron Age, covering everything from battle tactics to weaponry and battle injuries. The excellent preservation of Egyptian artefacts including bows, axes and chariots, means that it is possible to track the changing nature of Egyptian military technology, as well as the equipment and ideas that were adopted from other civilisations of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East. As well as discussing such crucial issues as military strategy, martial ideology, construction of fortresses and waging of siege warfare, this book includes the study of practical ques­tions of life, death and survival of individual soldiers on the battlefield.
RRP: £9.99
The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789251449
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embroideries and their context within the British Isles. The book brings together and analyses for the first time all 43 embroideries believed to have been made in the British Isles and Ireland in the early medieval period. New research carried out on those embroideries that are accessible today, involving the collection of technical data, stitch analysis, observations of condition and wear-marks and microscopic photography supplements a survey of existing published and archival sources.
The Material Origin of Numbers Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 310
ISBN: 9781463207434
Pub Date: 25 Sep 2019
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The Material Origin of Numbers examines how number concepts are realized, represented, manipulated, and elaborated. Utilizing the cognitive archaeological framework of Material Engagement Theory and culling data from disciplines including neuroscience, ethnography, linguistics, and archaeology, Overmann offers a methodologically rich study of numbers and number concepts in the ancient Near East from the late Upper Paleolithic Period through the Bronze Age.
In die Töpfe geschaut Cover In die Töpfe geschaut Cover
Format: 
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789088907708
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: BEFIM
Illustrations: 100fc/10bw
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789088907685
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: BEFIM
Illustrations: 100fc/10bw
Description:
Abstract German: Band 2 der BEFIM-Reihe enthält sieben Beiträge des BEFIM-Teams und enger Kooperationspartner. Die Zwischenberichte aus Band 1 werden darin vertieft, abgeschlossen und in Gesamtinterpretationen eingebettet. Ein einleitender Artikel befasst sich einführungs- und überblicksartig mit der Aussagekraft von Biomarkern und Isotopenanalysen bei der Untersuchung alter organischer Reste.