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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.

The Tundzha Regional Archaeology Project Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781789250541
Pub Date: 26 Oct 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
This volume presents the results of diachronic archaeological and palaeoecological research conducted in two study areas: the intermontane Kazanlak Valley along the Upper Tundzha River of central Bulgaria, and the Thracian Plain along the Middle Tundzha River south of the city of Yambol in southeastern Bulgaria. The Tundzha Regional Archaeology Project (TRAP), a cooperative effort including Australian, Bulgarian, and Czech investigators, undertook archaeological survey and environmental sampling between 2009-2011. Major field activities of the project included over 100 sq km of systematic pedestrian survey, legacy data verification and mapping, trial excavations, artefact processing, and environmental sampling in and around the study areas.
RRP: £60.00
Landscape Beneath the Waves Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789250725
Pub Date: 23 Oct 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
At the end of the last Ice Age, sea level around the world was lower, coastal lands stretched further and the continents were bigger, in some cases landmasses were joined by dry land that has now disappeared beneath the waves. The study of the now submerged landscapes that our ancestors knew represents one of the last barriers for archaeology. Only recently have advances in underwater technology reached the stage where a wealth of procedures is available to explore this lost undersea world.
Alexander the Great Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781612006819
Pub Date: 18 Oct 2018
Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations and 4 maps
Description:
Alexander was perhaps the greatest conquering general in history. In just over a generation, his northern Greek state of Macedon rose to control the whole of the vast Persian Empire. It was the legacy of his father, Philip, that launched Alexander on a spectacular career of conquest that planted Hellenic culture across most of Asia.
RRP: £7.99
Imprint of Action Cover Imprint of Action Cover
Format: 
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789088907005
Pub Date: 16 Oct 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 61fc/40bw
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789088906992
Pub Date: 16 Oct 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 61fc/40bw
Description:
Cultural heritage, which includes archaeology, is recognized as serving an increasingly important role in European societal development. But what exactly is the relevance of archaeology to present day citizens? Imprint of Action investigates the sociocultural impact of archaeology through public activities.
Transfer between Sea and Land Cover Transfer between Sea and Land Cover
Format: 
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088906213
Pub Date: 09 Oct 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 39fc/14bw
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9789088906206
Pub Date: 09 Oct 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 39fc/14bw
Description:
Questions about the cultural exchange of both knowledge and material goods are just as topical today as in years gone by. These questions have gained increasing attention from scholars since the 1980s when the term ‘transfers cultures’ by historians arose. However, this book provides a completely new approach in this context by interdisciplinary investigation of cultural exchanges based on chosen objects from shipwrecks and land, significant written documents and verifiable transfer of knowledge.
Embracing the Provinces Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 226
ISBN: 9781789250152
Pub Date: 27 Sep 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Embracing the Provinces is a collection of essays focused on people and their daily lives living in the Roman provinces, c. 27 BC-AD 476. The main aim is to showcase the vibrancy of Roman provincial studies and suggest new directions, or new emphasis, for future investigation of Roman provincial world.
Footprints from the Past Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 298
ISBN: 9780904220827
Pub Date: 25 Sep 2018
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 72 tables
Description:
Excavations by Oxford Archaeology in advance of a programme of improvements to the railway between Bicester and Oxford investigated part of the south-eastern extramural settlement associated with the Roman fortress and subsequent town at Alchester, Oxfordshire, as well as rural settlements in its rural hinterland. The investigations at Alchester extended across two successive routes south to Dorchester-on-Thames, the earlier of which by-passed the eastern side of Otmoor and was superseded by a more direct route across the moor at the end of the 1st century AD. Settlement beside the earlier road may have been a successor to a pre-Roman settlement and appears from artefactual evidence to have been of quite high status during the initial, military phase, although no contemporary structural evidence was found.
Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Cover Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Cover
Format: 
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088905551
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 20fc/40bw
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789088905544
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 20fc/40bw
Description:
Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas — communicating and sharing knowledge across the sea and between different lands. Seagoing ships under sail were operating between the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus and Anatolia by the mid-third millennium BC and within the Aegean by the end of that millennium. By the Late Bronze Age (after ca.
Motherhood and Infancies in the Mediterranean in Antiquity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9781789250381
Pub Date: 12 Sep 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Childhood in the Past Monograph
Description:
Motherhood and childhood are social and cultural constructions that have their origins in prehistoric times and are visible through Greek and Roman discourses in Antiquity. This volume explores various images of maternity and infancy, and the identification of women and womanhood in prehistoric and classic societies. Aspects such as the crucial role of maintenance activities and care, the processes of socialization and learning, the impact of infant death, the figure of the mother queen, the religious discourses about motherhood, the rules on parental rights, the transgressions of traditional motherhood and the emotional aspects of the mother-child relation are analysed.
JJP Supplement 34 (2018) Journal of Juristic Papyrology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9788394684846
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2018
Imprint: Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Description:
The book explores the use of inscriptions as an instrument of the cult of saints in Asia Minor between the 4th and mid-7th c. AD. In addition to the analytical chapters, the work encompasses a catalogue of around 250 inscriptions on stone, mosaics, small objects (in particular reliquaries), and graffiti, attesting to the rise and development of the cult of saints in the discussed region and period.
From Microcosm to Macrocosm Cover From Microcosm to Macrocosm Cover
Format: 
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9789088905995
Pub Date: 05 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 82fc/59bw
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9789088905988
Pub Date: 05 Sep 2018
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 82fc/59bw
Description:
As reflected in the title From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia, both a micro-approach introducing microhistories of individual sites according to recent archaeological fieldwork incorporating interdisciplinary methods as well as general patterns and regional developments in Northeast Africa are discussed. This combination of research questions on the micro-level with the macro-level provides new information about cities and households in Ancient Egypt and Nubia and makes the book unique. Architectural studies as well as analyses of material culture and the new application of microarchaeology, here especially of micromorphology and archaeometric applications, are presented as case studies from sites primarily dating to the New Kingdom (Second Millennium BC).
Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789250114
Pub Date: 30 Aug 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
Between 2006 and 2009 Worcestershire Archaeology completed a series of investigations in advance of quarrying at Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire revealing one of the most important sequences of prehistoric to early medieval activity discovered to date from the Central Severn Valley. Well-preserved palaeoenvironmental deposits were recovered from features and associated abandoned channels of the River Severn. Analysis of this evidence is underpinned by a comprehensive programme of scientific dating, providing a record of changing patterns of landuse and activity from the Late Mesolithic onwards.
RRP: £30.00
Relentlessly Plain Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 442
ISBN: 9781789250848
Pub Date: 30 Aug 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
The prehistoric site of Tell Sabi Abyad lies in the valley of the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates in northern Syria. Between 2001 and 2008 excavations focused on the north-western, western and southwestern slopes of the main mound (Operations III, IV and V). Relentlessly Plain presents the results of detailed investigations into the 7th millennium BC ceramic assemblages recovered from those excavations by an interdisciplinary group of scholars.
RRP: £60.00
EAA 165: Conquering the Claylands Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 390
ISBN: 9781907588112
Pub Date: 21 Aug 2018
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 197
Description:
Love’s Farm, St Neots, lies on the claylands near the western boundary of Cambridgeshire. Fieldwork conducted over 60ha by the county field unit, CAM ARC (now Oxford Archaeology East), followed geophysical survey, fieldwalking and evaluation. This extensive project permitted a detailed archaeological examination of a later prehistoric and Roman agricultural landscape on a previously unprecedented scale within the county.
Lands of the Shamans Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781785709548
Pub Date: 16 Aug 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
‘Shamanism’ is a term with specific anthropological roots, but which is used more generally to cover a set of interactions between a practitioner or ‘shaman’ and a spiritual or religious realm beyond the reach of most members of the community. It has often been considered from an anthropological viewpoint, but this book gathers the most recent studies on a subject which has not been comprehensively studied by archaeologists. By putting together experts from two continents who have studied the phenomenon of shamanism, Lands of the Shamans through carefully selected case studies uses the archaeological evidence to construct the shamans’ worldview, landscape and cosmology.
RRP: £38.00
Urban Network Evolutions Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 309
ISBN: 9788771846232
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2018
Description:
For millenia, urban networks have shaped the development of human societies. Today, new archaeological approaches are unveiling the evolution of these networks in unprecedented detail. Urban Networks Evolutions reviews the new approaches to urban evolution as archaeology endeavours to characterise both the scale and pace of historical events and processes.