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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.

Bahriya Oasis Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 314
ISBN: 9788073084578
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2013
Illustrations: 8 pages of colour plates
Description:
Through its 14 chapters, this book presents the outcomes of the recent exploration of Bahriya, an Egyptian oasis located in the Western Desert about 350 km south-west of Cairo. Part I of the volume is devoted to the southern part of the Oasis (also known as El-Hayz) and the exploration carried out there by the team led by the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague.Part II concentrates on the northern part of the same oasis bringing forth the results of scholarly research by the French team led by Université de Strasbourg.
RRP: £73.00
Çatalhöyük excavations: Humans and Landscapes of Çatalhöyük excavations Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781898249306
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2013
Series: British Institute at Ankara Monograph
Illustrations: 250 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. The present volume reports on the results of excavations in 2000-2008 that have provided a wealth of new data on the ways in which the Çatalhöyük settlement and environment were dwelled in.
Engendering Objects Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 386
ISBN: 9789088901454
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Engendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths that are used as male and female garments, gifts, and commodities, it explores the relationships between these cloths and Maisin people. The main question is how barkcloth, as an object made by women, engenders people’s identities, such as gender, personhood, clan and tribe, through its manufacturing and use.
European Archaeology Abroad Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 422
ISBN: 9789088901065
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 36 colour, 27 b/w illustrations
Description:
What are European archaeologists doing abroad? What have they been doing there for the past three to four centuries? Are they doing things differently nowadays?
Martinique, terre amérindienne Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 262
ISBN: 9789088901584
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Aujourd’hui, les traces de la présence amérindienne en Martinique constituent, en dehors des pétroglyphes de la forêt de Montravail et des pièces exposées dans les musées de l’île, un patrimoine invisible. Cependant, avant son invasion par les européens cette île a bien été pendant au moins 1500 ans terre amérindienne.Pendant dix années, entre 1995 et 2005, une équipe pluridisciplinaire internationale a ainsi travaillée à étudier l’occupation précolombienne de la Martinique.
The Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol. 4 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 700
ISBN: 9781900971188
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2013
Imprint: Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Description:
This is the concluding volume of the Archaeology of Fazzān series, bringing to press the combined results of two Anglo-Libyan projects in southern Libya: the pioneering work of Charles Daniels between 1958 and 1977 and the Fazzān Project directed by David Mattingly between 1997 and 2001. The investigations carried out by these two projects allow an entirely new reconstruction and understanding of the historic desert societies of the Libyan Sahara. In particular, the work has shed light on the ancient people known to Greco-Roman writers as the Garamantes, who are now revealed to have been a sophisticated state, with permanent towns and villages and an economy based on oasis agriculture and Saharan trade.
Diachronic Trends in Ancient Egyptian History Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 221
ISBN: 9788073084448
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2013
Description:
The book includes contributions of the following authors: Hartwig Altenmüller, Ladislav Bareš, Miroslav Bárta, Andreas Effland, Martin Fitzenreiter, Hans Goedicke, Peter Jánosi, Dieter Kurth, Christian Loeben, Juan Carlos Moreno García, Jana Mynářová, Anthony Spalinger, Miroslav Verner, Hana Vymazalová, Wolfgang Waitkus.

Making and Breaking the Gods

Christian Responses to Pagan Sculpture in Late Antiquity
Format: Hardback
Pages: 350
ISBN: 9788771240894
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2013
Description:
Drawing on both textual and archaeological sources, this book discusses how Christians in Late Antiquity negotiated the sculptural environment of cities and sanctuaries in a variety of ways, ranging from creative transformations to iconoclastic performances. Their responses to pagan sculpture present a rich window into the mechanisms through which society and culture changed under the influence of Christianity. The book thus demonstrates how Christian responses to pagan sculpture rhetorically continued an old tradition of discussing visual practices and the materiality of divine representations.
Prehistoric Settlement in the Lower Kennet Valley Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9781905905294
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2013
Series: Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph
Description:
This volume presents the results of two excavations on the gravel terraces of the Lower Kennet Valley, at Green Park (Reading Business Park) Phase 3 and Moores Farm, Burghfield, Berkshire.The Green Park excavations uncovered a field system and occupation features dating to the middle to late Bronze Age. Five waterholes or wells were distributed across the field system, the waterlogged fills of which preserved wooden revetment structures and valuable environmental evidence.
Rural Capitalist Development in The Jordan Valley Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 116
ISBN: 9789088900891
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
The case of Deir Alla is a social and economic case study of developing Third World agriculture. The study is based upon historical sources, contemporary public information with statistics, and field work in the Jordanian village of Deir Alla. This fieldwork took place in 1986 and a report was prepared in 1989.
Re-Presenting the Past Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 215
ISBN: 9781782972310
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Joukowsky Institute Publication
Illustrations: 46 b/w figs, 12 col figs
Description:
The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries. Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and field notes, while others are visual: the drawings, paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualizations that allow us to re-present past forms of human existence. This volume brings together nine papers, six of which were presented at a symposium hosted at Brown University.
RRP: £25.00
Claimed by the Sea Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781902771953
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2013
Description:
First discovered by sport divers in the 1970s, the two remarkable seabed finds of prehistoric bronze metalwork described here quickly became a testing ground for the new discipline of underwater archaeology, initially under the leadership of the pioneering maritime archaeologist Keith Muckelroy. A haul of 361 bronzes from Langdon Bay, Kent, represents one of the largest deposits from Bronze Age Europe. Dating to the thirteenth century BC, the collection is diverse in character and originates in various parts of western Europe and the British Isles.
Roman and medieval development south of Cheapside Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9781907586170
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2013
Series: MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series
Description:
Excavations on the south side of Cheapside found evidence for Roman timber buildings and pits dating to the later 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and a masonry building constructed after c AD 125. The main west–east road through Londinium lay immediately north of the site. Evidence for later Roman occupation was limited by modern truncation.
Souvenirs and New Ideas Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781842178157
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: ASTENE Publications
Description:
During the 18th and 19th centuries, many travellers aimed to record their travels through Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and Turkey by collecting souvenirs and mementos of places they had visited. This natural inclination took many different guises: from innocent activities such as making diaries and sketches, gathering academic knowledge or taking photographs, to acquiring souvenirs, very often antiquities. Other, more unscrupulous, travellers undertook journeys specifically to ‘collect’ antiquities to form the basis of museum collections or to profit by re-selling them.
Behind the Scenes Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9780856688607
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2013
Series: ACE Studies
Description:
Scenes from the Old Kingdom tombs represent our main sources for the study of daily life of private individuals. Written by a number of specialists with years of research, this monograph deals with various aspects of life in ancient Egypt, presented in an accessible manner to the scholar and lay-person alike. Richly illustrated with an excellent selection of photographs and drawings, the book aims to bring the reader as close as possible to the Egyptian sources, allowing them to delve into the world behind the scenes.
Caring for Digital Data in Archaeology Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 122
ISBN: 9781782972495
Pub Date: 31 May 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illustrations, 1 col.
Description:
A wide variety of organizations are both creating and retaining digital data from archaeological projects. While current methods for preservation and access to data vary widely, nearly all of these organizations agree that careful management of digital archaeological resources is an important aspect of responsible archaeological stewardship. The Archaeology Data Service and Digital Antiquity have produced this guide to provide information on the best way to create, manage, and document digital data files produced during the course of an archaeological project.