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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.

Towns and Topography Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9781782977025
Pub Date: 27 Oct 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and col. illustrations
Description:
Fifteen papers examine a variety of aspects of medieval towns and their topography. The first part of the volume comprises essays on the excavations in the Frankish emporium of Quentovic, directed by David Hill; London; Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian mints; the burhs of Somerset; and urban perspectives in literature. The second part concentrates on topographical subjects including an examination of the significance of the distribution through trade of Mayen Lava quernstones in early medieval north-west Europe and the evidence of a charter for the topography of late Anglo-Saxon Worcester which reveals that standing crosses were, by then, considered old fashioned.
RRP: £60.00
Structure, Image, Ornament Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781782977391
Pub Date: 16 Oct 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens in 2004. There are additional contributions from Patricia Butz, Robin Osborne, Katherine Schwab, Justin St. P.
The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9781782977414
Pub Date: 16 Oct 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus.
Description:
This book brings together a selection of twenty-eight previously disparate articles by Nicholas Postgate that represent some thirty years of engagement with the nature of Assyrian society and government. Most are broadly synthetic and deal with general issues; they are a tremendous body of work, and this will be an invaluable collection for everyone interested in Assyria.
Experiments Past Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 275
ISBN: 9789088902512
Pub Date: 13 Oct 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
With Experiments Past the important role that experimental archaeology has played in the development of archaeology is finally uncovered and understood. Experimental archaeology is a method to attempt to replicate archaeological artefacts and/or processes to test certain hypotheses or discover information about those artefacts and/or processes. It has been a key part of archaeology for well over a century, but such experiments are often embedded in wider research, conducted in isolation or never published or reported.
Tell Dafana Reconsidered Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9780861591992
Pub Date: 08 Oct 2014
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 70 maps
Description:
A comprehensive re-evaluation of the objects discovered in the 1886 excavation at Tell Dafana and a new assessment of the site’s significance from the seventh to the fifth century BC.
Ancient Textiles Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781782978305
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and col illus
Description:
An understanding of textiles and the role they played in the past is important for anyone interested in past societies. Textiles served and in fact still do as both functional and symbolic items. The evidence for ancient textiles in Europe is split quite definitely along a north-south divide, with an abundance of actual examples in the north, but precious little in the south, where indirect evidence comes from such things as vase painting and frescoes.
Celtic Art in Europe Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9781782976554
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illustrations, 32pp colour illustrations
Description:
The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. On the one hand it represents a specialist area of archaeological interest, on the other, it has a wide general appeal. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history.
Animal Secondary Products Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781782974017
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
Animal Secondary Products investigates domestic animal exploitation and the animal economy from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze and Iron Ages across Eurasia (Europe, Near East, Siberia and China). Incorporating current zooarchaeological theory and cutting-edge methodological developments, it critically assesses Andrew Sherratt’s concept of a Secondary Products Revolution that proposed that a package of new subsistence practices and technologies swept across much of Eurasia at the end of the Neolithic, which triggered large-scale changes in economies and settlement across the landscape. This model argues that these changes were associated with a genuine shift from an emphasis upon domestic animals for their primary (meat hide, bone) products to a more diversified exploitation pattern which included their secondary (milk, wool, traction) products.
RRP: £65.00
Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 446
ISBN: 9781782972358
Pub Date: 16 Sep 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources. The 42 papers presented here cover many aspects medicine in the Mediterranean world during Antiquity and early Byzantine times, bringing together both internationally established specialists on the history of medicine and researchers in the early stages of their career. The contributions are grouped under a series of headings: medicine and archaeology; media (online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean; medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery; medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; new research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources.
RRP: £65.00
Excavations at Cill Donnain Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781782976271
Pub Date: 09 Sep 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
Illustrations: 190 images, 63 tables
Description:
The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The aim of the project is to investigate how human societies adapted in the long-term to the isolated environment of the Outer Hebrides. The first major excavation on South Uist discovered that what was thought to be a shell midden at Cill Donnain was in fact a wheelhouse, a type of dwelling used in the period c.
RRP: £25.00
The Roman Textile Industry and its influence Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781782977407
Pub Date: 29 Aug 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 4 col pls, illus
Description:
Textiles were a hugely important Roman industry yet, because of their perishable nature, only fragments remain. These twenty-two essays provide a detailed study of surviving fragments from across the Roman world, from the dry sands of Egypt to the Atlantic coast and the northern frontiers and beyond. The result is a comprehensive reconstruction of both everyday and exotic Roman clothing with information about the influences of fashion and of Roman weaving techniques.
Animals in Saxon and Scandinavian England Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789088902666
Pub Date: 22 Aug 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
In this book an analysis of over 300 animal bone assemblages from English Saxon and Scandinavian sites is presented. The data set is summarised in extensive tables for use as comparanda for future archaeozoological studies.Animals in Saxon and Scandinavian England takes as its core four broad areas of analysis.
Traditions techniques et production céramique au Néolithique ancien Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 420
ISBN: 9789088902468
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2014
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
La présente étude propose une approche technologique de la céramique rubanée, au travers de l’étude de huit sites localisés dans le quart nord-est de la France et en Belgique (5300-4900 av. J.C.
Of Rocks and Water Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9781782976714
Pub Date: 11 Aug 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Joukowsky Institute Publication
Description:
People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices. This volume presents a series of archaeological landscapes from the Iranian highlands to the Anatolian Plateau, and from the Mediterranean borderlands to Mesoamerica. Contributors all have a deep interest in the making and the long-term history of unorthodox places of human interaction with the mineral world, specifically the landscapes of rocks and water.
Archaeoastronomy and the Maya Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781782976431
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour illustrations
Description:
Archaeoastronomy and the Maya illustrates archaeoastronomical approaches to ancient Mayan cultural production. The book is contextualized through a history of archaeoastronomical investigations into Mayan sites, originating in the 19th century discovery of astronomical tables within hieroglyphic books. Early 20th century archaeological excavations revealed inscriptions carved into stone that also preserved astronomical records, along with architecture that was built to reflect astronomical orientations.
Oceans Odyssey 4. Pottery from the Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781782977100
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The Tortugas shipwreck excavated at a depth of 405 meters in the Straits of Florida contained a major collection of 3,800 intact and fragmentary olive jars, tablewares, cooking vessels and tobacco pipes. Identified as the Portuguese-built and Spanish-operated 117-ton Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señora del Rosario, the ship’s Seville dominated tablewares are a revealing index of unchanged cultural tastes and continued production at the end of Spain’s Golden Age. For cooking the crew relied on Afro-Caribbean colonoware, possibly the first recorded archaeological evidence of maritime slavery in the Americas fleets.
RRP: £30.00