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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.

Cultural Interactions & Social Strategies on the Pontic Shores Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 362
ISBN: 9788779345201
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2010
Illustrations: illus
Description:
In Antiquity the Black Sea region was a meeting point for several different population groups with diverse cultural backgrounds. The present monograph takes its point of departure in burial data from four coastal localities in the northern region of the Black Sea. The mortuary practices are decoded and interpreted within a framework mainly based on concepts of cultural interaction rather than cultural polarisation.
Lower City of Olbia (Sector NGS) in the 6th Century BC to the 4th Century AD Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 1064
ISBN: 9788779345232
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2010
Illustrations: illus
Description:
This book is a publication of an entire city quarter of one of the most important ancient Greek Black Sea cities, Olbia. The publication is a result of collaboration between Danish, Ukrainian, Canadian and Russian scholars. It includes a study of the architecture and finds made during excavations between 1985 and 2002.
Core of the Legion: The Roman Imperial Centuria Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 82
ISBN: 9789490258023
Pub Date: 30 Jul 2010
Illustrations: 58
Description:
Ancient Warfare Special 2: 'Core of the Legion' examines the history, structure, and tactics of the centuria, a fundmanetal building block of the ancient Roman army. This special contains the following articles: - Paul McDonnell-Staff, 'Core of the legion - Historical introduction' - Jona Lendering, 'Hadrian and his soldiers - The Lambaesis Inscription' - Duncan B. Campbell, 'Backbone of the legions - Some centurions and their careers' - Graham Sumner, 'The centurio from Colchester - Reconstructing Marcus Favonius Facilis' - Philip Matyszak, 'Learning on the job and in camp - Training the centuria' - Ross Cowan, 'The centuria in battle - Tactical organisation and combat' - Michael J.
RRP: £11.99
Les Héritiers De Guillaume Le Conquérant Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9782815100182
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2010
Imprint: OREP
Illustrations: Fully illustrated throughout
Description:
Having become king of England at the battle of Hastings in 1066, William of Normandy would go on to found a genuine empire. His reign lasted 21 years. Amongst his children were two kings, a Duke, an Abbess, and two Countesses.
Richard The Lionheart Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9782815100335
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2010
Imprint: OREP
Illustrations: Full-colour illustrations throughout
Description:
The name of Richard the Lionheart is familiar to us all. Curiously, this legendary figure is more often associated with Aquitaine and the Holy Land than with Normandy. A worthy descendant of William the Conqueror, Richard I maintained Normandy within the Plantagenet Empire, by countering the ambitious plans of the King of France, Philip Augustus.
Body Parts and Bodies Whole Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781842174029
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 89 b/w illus
Description:
This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods. Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation.
Fear of Farming Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781905119325
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2010
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: 3 illus
Description:
The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing concerns to face the population of the world today. The debate centres on the way in which our current problems are of recent making and how we might fix them. But in reality the issue is far more fundamental and stretches back further in time than many of us might think.
Onomatologos Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 680
ISBN: 9781842179826
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
onomatologos is a term used in later antiquity to describe eminent lexicographers such as Hesychius and Pollux as 'collectors of words', but here it is used as the title for a major volume of papers prepared in honour of Elaine Matthews, recently retired long-serving editor of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names ( LGPN ): a 'collector of names'. The LGPN , conceived by Peter Fraser, has had as its primary aim the documentation on a geographical basis of the personal names attested between the earliest use of the Greek alphabet (c. 750 BC) and the early seventh century AD throughout the Hellenic and hellenized world, wherever the Greek language and script was used.
RRP: £90.00
South-Eastern Mediterranean Peoples Between 130,000 and 10,000 Years Ago Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781842174036
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 86 b/w illus, 8 tables
Description:
The Upper Pleistocene era encompassed a period of dramatic cultural developments in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. This book highlights and synthesizes the latest research and current scientific debate on the archaeology of this time period in North Africa and the Near East. Recent archaeological research in North Africa has meant this region now plays a decisive role in scientific debate.
Your Praise is Sweet Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 472
ISBN: 9780903472289
Pub Date: 25 Jun 2010
Description:
This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase zà-mí-zu dug-ga-àm 'Your praise is sweet' is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature. The scope of the thirty contributions, from Sumerology to the nineteenth-century rediscovery of Mesopotamia, is testament to Jeremy's own wide-ranging interests and to his ability to forge scholarly connections and friendships among all who shared his interest in ancient Iraq.
Roman Cameo Glass in the British Museum Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780714122670
Pub Date: 21 Jun 2010
Description:
Cameo glass represents the ultimate achievement in Roman luxury glass, and the British Museum has the world's largest and finest collection. This comprises over seventy pieces, including two of only a dozen surviving complete cameo glass vessels: the celebrated Portland Vase, the greatest surviving example of Roman cameo glass, and the Auldjo Jug, each with its complex and intriguing history. The catalogue, begun by Veronica Tatton-Brown and William Gudenrath of the Corning Museum of Glass, has been revisited and enhanced by Paul Roberts of the British Museum and David Whitehouse and William Gudenrath of the Corning Museum of Glass.
Alexandria and the North-Western Delta Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781905905140
Pub Date: 16 Jun 2010
Illustrations: over 200 b/w & col illus
Description:
This monograph contains the joint proceedings of the first two conferences organised by the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology. It contains 23 papers that cover land-based and underwater excavation and survey in the area of the North-Western Nile Delta, principally concerning the cities of Alexandria and Heracleion-Thonis, as well as studies of aspects of the material culture from these sites.
Extinctions and Invasions Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781905119318
Pub Date: 31 May 2010
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: 43 b/w illus, 10 tables
Description:
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, whilst others, now extinct, were abundant. Over the course of millennia humans have manipulated Britain's fauna. For reasons of fear, suspicion, desire, or simply inadvertently, certain species were brought to extinction.
Carving a Future for British Rock Art Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842173640
Pub Date: 04 May 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 111 b/w & colour illus, 15 tables
Description:
Over the last few years, the ways in which we perceive and document rock art have shifted irreversibly. Prehistoric rock art played little part in the development of British and Irish archaeology and was not recognised until the 19th century, when its equivalents in Scandinavia and the Iberian Peninsula were already well known. Previously considered a fringe activity and the work of amateur archaeologists, over the last 30 years the situation has improved considerably, and the appearance of books such as this signify the change.
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Fourteenth Volume, 2010 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 393
ISBN: 9780905205533
Pub Date: 04 May 2010
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Description:
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 contains (in revised, usually enlarged, and annotated form) papers presented at Langford Seminars of the Department of Classics of The Florida State University over the years 2004 to 2008, together with supplementary articles contributed at the request of the editors. The papers in the section Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome mostly derive from the Spring 2008 Conference organised by Miriam Griffin as Visiting Professor and holder of the George R. Langford Family Eminent Scholar Chair at The Florida State University.
The Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781842174074
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: BANEA monograph Series
Illustrations: 79 b/w illus, 19 tables
Description:
This book explores the dynamics of small-scale societies in the ancient Near East by examining the ways in which particular communities functioned and interacted and by moving beyond the broad neo-evolutionary models of social change which have characterised many earlier approaches. By focusing on issues of diversity, scale, and context, it considers the ways in which economy, crafts, technology, and ritual were organised; the roles played by mortuary practices and households in the structure and development of ancient societies; and the importance of agency, identity, ethnicity, gender, community and cultural interaction for the rise of socio-economic complexity. The contributors to this volume are well-known archaeologists in the field of Near Eastern studies; all are currently engaged in fieldwork or research in Cyprus, the Levant, or Turkey.