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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.

Mapping Past Landscapes in the Lower Lea Valley Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781907586019
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2011
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Description:
Archaeological evidence is enriched when it is viewed against the backdrop of its natural landscape setting. This setting is not readily apparent in the lower Lea valley, where evidence for the natural topography has been cut away by quarrying and reservoir construction or buried by metres of alluvium and modern made ground. The Lea Valley Mapping Project, funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, has taken a geoarchaeological approach to reconstructing the past landscape and its relationship to archaeological distributions by using existing borehole information to model the buried topography and past environment of the lower Lea valley from the M25 to the confluence of the Lea and the Thames.
Well Built Mycenae, Fasc 16/17 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 102
ISBN: 9781842179963
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Well Built Mycenae
Illustrations: DVD
Description:
The post-palatial period - Late Helladic IIIC - is often seen as the twilight years of Mycenean civilisation, a period of economic decline with few achievements in terms of architecture, materials or technology. Excavation in the Citadel House area at Mycenae afforded unique opportunities to explore stratified remains of this period and to define and describe its character. In this fascicule, Dr.
Culture, Chronology and the Chalcolithic Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842179932
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Illustrations: 87 b/w & col illus
Description:
To some, the Chalcolithic (4700/4500-3700/3600 BC cal.), as the first period with metallurgy, large sprawling villages, rich mortuary offerings, and cult centres, represents a developmental stage on the road to the urban Bronze Age, the "dawn of history". Others have called it 'the end of prehistory'.
RRP: £40.00
Living Through the Dead Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842173763
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations and maps
Description:
This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and burial have tended to concentrate on period- or regionally-specific sets of data, this volume instead focuses on a series of topical connections that highlight important facets of death and commemoration significant to the larger Classical world.
Comparative Archaeologies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781935488262
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Comparative Archaeologies scrutinises current thinking on the dynamics and historical trajectories of complex societies in the American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and the Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC) through a focused comparison of five themes: Histories, Landscapes, Bodies, Gender, and Art. Leading archaeologists from North America and Europe - drawing on diverse intellectual traditions - engage in this innovative form of comparative archaeology which recognizes both the historicities of past societies of similar forms and the social embeddedness of archaeological practice and theory.
RRP: £45.00
A Veritable Eden'. The Manchester Botanic Garden Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781905119370
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2011
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: col & b/w illus 176p, colour & b/w illus
Description:
The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience "not unlike a fashionable resort". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only the former entrance gates and a street name remain. This book, illustrated with many contemporary engravings and postcards, charts the history of the Garden; its international reputation in horticultural developments and many floral triumphs; its recurrent financial crises and ultimate degeneration into a venue for cat and dog shows and final conversion to a doomed amusement park.
The Dark Side of Childhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9781842174173
Pub Date: 14 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world. The authors investigate the long-term attitudes of people, as well as ruptures in habits and customs. The book is divided into three parts.
The Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 582
ISBN: 9780954962784
Pub Date: 09 Mar 2011
Series: Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph
Description:
A review of the rich and diverse evidence for understanding past climate and environmental change in the Thames Valley, and the effects on plant and animal populations and the challenges and opportunities these presented to early humans. Part 1 of this volume covers the Pleistocene, the epoch of the Ice Ages, in an integrated review of the geological, palaeontological and archaeological data for the last half million years and more. Part 2 takes up the story from the beginning of the Holocene, the warm period in which we are still living, which began around 11,500 years ago.
RRP: £34.99
Memory and Mourning Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781842179901
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 13 b/w figs
Description:
This book explores the themes of memory and mourning from the Roman deathbed to the Roman cemetery, drawing subject matter from the literature, art, and archaeology of ancient Rome. It brings together scholarship on varied aspects of Roman death, investigating connections between ancient poetry, history and oratory and placing these alongside archaeological and textual evidence for Roman funerary and commemorative rituals. A series of case studies centred on individual authors and/or specific aspects of ritual behaviour, traces the story of Roman death: how the inhabitants of the Roman world confronted their mortality, disposed of the dead, remembered the dead and praised the dead, thereby enhancing our understanding of Roman society.
Roman Colonies in the First Century of Their Foundation Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781842179741
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Research on the nature of cultural change in the Roman Empire has traditionally been divided between the Western and Eastern provinces. Papers in this volume aim to reunite the provinces by approaching the question of cultural change across the Empire through a range of material culture and historical sources focusing on the first 100 years of the foundation of a colony.
The Archaeology of the West Midlands Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781842174272
Pub Date: 26 Feb 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: col illus throughout
Description:
The West Midlands is a region of geographical, topographical and geological contrasts, forming disparate landscapes that are reflected in the nature and diversity of its rich archaeology. This ranges from evidence of its prehistory to the important industrial heritage of its major conurbations. This book represents an attempt by the region's archaeologists to draw these varying archaeological landscapes together to produce a research framework and agenda for their future management.
Ships and Guns Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781842179697
Pub Date: 22 Feb 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Ships and Guns brings together experts from the field of historic artillery and underwater archaeologists to present a series of papers which focus on the development of naval ordnance in Europe and, especially, Venice, in the 15th17th centuries, as exemplified by the maritime archaeological resource. Subjects include Venetian ordnance in shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, the race to develop big calibres in the first war of Morea, Genoese ordnance aboard galleys in the 16th century, the strategic logistics of guns at sea during the Spanish armada of 1588 and ships and guns of the Tudor navy. Often specialists in ordnance study artefacts recovered from wrecks without a complete knowledge of the archaeological context from which they have been recovered.
Calendars and Years II Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781842179871
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Understanding the calendars used by ancient and medieval cultures is essential to the writing of history. Equally important, however, is understanding the basis upon which our current knowledge of these calendars rests. This second volume of Calendars and Years explores the calendars of ancient and medieval China, India, the ancient Jewish world, the medieval Islamic world, and the Maya.
Les Chevaliers Teutoniques Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9782840482956
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2011
Imprint: Heimdal
Illustrations: fully illustrated in colour throughout
Description:
This illustrated history presents a history of the Teutonic Order in the Middle Ages; its creation, its role in the Holy Land and on the shores of the Baltic Sea, its expansion in Prussia and the Baltic States. The Teutonic Knights were members of the order of the Teutonic Knights of the Hospital of the Blessed Virgin. They were a military-religious order of knights that restricted membership to Germans.
RRP: £16.99
Alesia, 52 BC Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9782352501237
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2011
Series: Men & Battles
Illustrations: fully illustrated throughout
Description:
The Romans had been at odds with the Gauls for a very long time indeed. Somewhere between 390 and 386 BC, a Senoni warchief called Brennus managed to capture Rome and ransom the city with his famous Vae Victis.The Urbs was then a city whose authority was only relative.
Great Excavations Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9781842174098
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 146 b/w and col illus
Description:
Great excavations inspire and capture the imagination of both the public and archaeologists alike; sites like Danebury, Sutton Hoo, Maiden Castle, Mucking and York conjure images of great discoveries and leaps in knowledge. But what was it like to participate in these excavations? What is the story of these projects, and what made them great?