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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.

Çatalhöyük Excavations: the 2000-2008 seasons Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781898249290
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2013
Series: British Institute at Ankara Monograph
Illustrations: 300 figures and 50 tables
Description:
The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. Çatalhöyük Excavations presents the results of the excavations that took place at the site from 2000 to 2008 when the main aim was to understand the social geography of the settlement, its layout and social organization.
RRP: £60.00
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9788857516271
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2013
Description:
The historico-technical journal was founded in 2001. Published yearly, in the course of the years the journal has entered the international stage with the name “Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage”, and it is now published in English and in Italian, both in electronic format and on print. It is featured on many websites and international databases, it has been granted the opportunity to apply the Creative Commons (CC) licence and the “seal” of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition), and it has been officially requested by EBSCO Publishing and H.
Gristhorpe Man. Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781782972075
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and col. illustrations
Description:
In July 1834 excavation of a barrow at Gristhorpe, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, recovered an intact, waterlogged, hollowed-out oak coffin containing a perfectly preserved Bronze Age skeleton that had been wrapped in an animal skin and buried with worked flints, a bronze dagger with a whalebone pommel, and a bark vessel apparently containing food residue. Gristhorpe Man became the centrepiece of the Scarborough Philosophical Society’s museum display.In 2004, planned refurbishment of the renamed Rotunda Museum provided the opportunity for a scientific re-examination of the burial and grave goods in order to eluciate the life and death of this extraordinary survival of the British Early Bronze Age.
From These Bare Bones Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781782972112
Pub Date: 19 Dec 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
A fundamental component of the study of worked osseous objects is the identification of the raw materials chosen to make them. In archaeological contexts many objects become degraded to the point where identification is very difficult and the way in which these materials decay during burial and upon excavation can vary greatly. Correct identification is crucial to the investigation of objects, their conservation and future curation.
Romano-British Communities at Colne Fen, Earith Cover
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780957559202
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2013
Imprint: Cambridge Archaeological Unit
Description:
Charting a decade of intensive fieldwork along a 2km stretch of the Colne Fen, Earith fen-edge, the scope of these books is formidable and together they include the work of 65 contributing specialists (with a foreword by Ian Hodder). The fieldwork involved innovative methodologies, and groundbreaking scientific and micro-sampling studies are presented within the volumes. Portions of text are, moreover, avowedly experimental (e.
A Maritime Archaeology of Ships Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781842172971
Pub Date: 11 Dec 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col illus
Description:
In the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central relevance in the integrated study of the human past. Within maritime archaeology the study of watercraft has been understandably prominent and yet their potential is far from exhausted.
RRP: £29.95

Hadrian

Arts, Politics and Economy
Format: Paperback
Pages: 260
ISBN: 9780861591756
Pub Date: 02 Dec 2013
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 200 illus, 100 col plates, maps and tables
Description:
This book presents the proceedings of the 2009 conference relating to the 2008 exhibition at the British Museum entitled "Hadrian: Empire and Conflict" and complements and expands upon the exhibition catalogue. It covers such subjects as architecture, sculpture, archaeology, economics, numismatics and philhellenism and ranges over the Roman Empire from Britain and Spain in the West to Turkey and Georgia in the East. The original contributions by international scholars present the latest state of research and the first publication of some new material.
Chasing Chariots Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9789088902093
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 126 b/w and 89 col. illustrations
Description:
The present work is the result of the First International Chariot Conference, jointly organised by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) and the American University in Cairo (AUC) (30 November to 2 December 2012). The intention of the conference was to make a broad assessment of the current state of knowledge about chariots in Egypt and the Near East, and to provide a forum for discussion.A wide variety of papers are included, ranging from overviews to more detailed studies focusing on a specific topic.
Landscape and Interaction, Troodos Survey Vol 2 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9781782971887
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Illustrations: b/w and col. illus
Description:
The TAESP Landscape, the second of two volumes, presents an area-by-area analysis of the fieldwork and research undertaken by the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project (TAESP) in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus. Covering four regions of the survey area (The Plains, Karkotis Valley, Upper Lagoudhera Valley and The Mountains) the volume focuses on explicit research questions appropriate to each region. Organised geographically, chronologically and thematically, each region is investigated from the Neolithic to the present day and, through ‘Intensive Survey Zones’ – selected to give a representative range of the physical and cultural terrain – many notable new discoveries are made.
RRP: £38.00
Landscape and Interaction: Troodos Survey Vol 1 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9781782971870
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Illustrations: b/w and col. illus
Description:
The Troodos Mountain range in central Cyprus is a region of great physical and cultural diversity. The landscapes range from fertile, cultivated plains to narrow, dry valleys and forested mountain regions and this physical topography is overlain by a rich human cultural landscape of farming, mining, industry, settlement, burial and ritual behaviour. Over six field seasons, a team of specialists and fieldwalkers from the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project (TAESP) investigated the northern edge of this region and explored the complex and dynamic relationship between landscape and people over 12,000 years.
RRP: £48.00
The Life and Death of Querns Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 183
ISBN: 9780992633615
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2013
Imprint: The Highfield Press
Description:
Querns are special artefacts as they are concerned with subsistence and supporting life in a manner which few other artefacts can emulate: they transform raw material into a usable consumable commodity. Their association with women, the production of food and the movement of the upper stone, suggests symbolical links between querns and life cycles - agricultural, human and building. They can also be read in terms of gender relations and the turning of the heavens.
Constantinople Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781782971719
Pub Date: 29 Nov 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and col. illus
Description:
Istanbul, Europe's largest city, became an urban centre of exceptional size when it was chosen by Constantine the Great as a new Roman capital city. Named ‘Constantinople' after him, the city has been studied through its rich textual sources and surviving buildings, but its archaeology remains relatively little known compared to other great urban centres of the ancient and medieval worlds. Constantinople: Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis is a major archaeological assessment of a key period in the development of this historic city.
Opening the Wood, Making the Land Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 600
ISBN: 9781905905317
Pub Date: 26 Nov 2013
Series: Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph
Description:
Excavations at the Eton Rowing Course and along the Maidenhead, Windsor and Eton Flood Alleviation Channel revealed extensive evidence for occupation in an evolving landscape of floodplains and gravel terraces set amidst the shifting channels of the Thames.The most significant evidence was a series of early Neolithic midden deposits, preserved in hollows left by infilled palaeochannels. These deposits contained dense concentrations of pottery, worked flint, animal bone and other finds, and are put into context by other artefact scatters from the floodplain, pits on the gravel terrace and waterlogged environmental deposits from palaeochannels.
The Medieval Kirk, Cemetery and Hospice at Kirk Ness, North Berwick Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781842176634
Pub Date: 13 Nov 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col. illus
Description:
Between 1999-2006 Addyman Archaeology carried out extensive archaeological excavations on the peninsular site of Kirk Ness, North Berwick, during the building, landscaping and extension of the Scottish Seabird Centre. This book presents the results of these works but its scope is much broader. Against the background of important new discoveries made at the site it brings together and re-examines all the evidence for early North Berwick – archaeological, historical, documentary, pictorial and cartographic – and includes much previously unpublished material.
Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781782971894
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology can identify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but little interest has been expressed in investigating and understanding the cultural aspects of the diseases identified. Such assemblages represent the cumulative effects of human attitudes, decisions and influences regarding the keeping, care, treatment, neglect and exploitation of animals which result in a range of conditions, non-infectious diseases and injuries that can be recognised on ancient skeletal material.
Experimental Archaeology and Theory Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781842177662
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Experimental Archaeology is a volume which aims to bridge the gap in archaeology between empirical testing and humanistic approaches to understanding the material record. The contributors explore a wide variety of different fields including how a phenomenological methodology can be used to increase our understanding of how a Bronze Age temple was ‘experienced’ by people in the past; how experimentation in the production of materials such as rawhide, glass and wine-making can be used to test theories or written sources and the possibilities of studying the three-dimensional morphology of Acheulian handaxes to search for possible idiosyncratic indicators during the Lower Palaeolithic. The papers in the volume reflect the continued diversity of work that experimental archaeology is able to produce and show how experimentation can be integrated with theory to substantiate a variety of hypotheses, whether validating information from written sources or testing the inferences of more recent theoretical ideology.