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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.

Landscapes in Transition Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781842174166
Pub Date: 20 Apr 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Description:
This volume presents a collection of papers focusing on archaeological approaches to landscape in the context of the adoption of agriculture in Southwest Asia and Northwest Europe. Case studies are presented from these contrasting regions, one where the transition to farming is indigenous, and the other where the transformation is initiated externally. This allows us to consider to what extent hunter-gatherer and farmer landscapes may be different, or the degree to which apparent differences have been constructed by our expectations and traditions of interpretation.
RRP: £35.00
Graeco-Roman Slave Markets Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780977409488
Pub Date: 06 Apr 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 8 col pls, 41 b/w illus, 1 map
Description:
This book critically examines the existence and identification of purpose-built slave markets in the Graeco-Roman world from a cross-cultural perspective. It investigates whether certain ancient monuments were designed specifically for use as slave markets and whether they required special equipment and safety precautions, allowing them to be clearly distinguished from other nonspecific commercial buildings and marketplaces of the Graeco-Roman world. First, selected parallels, namely slave markets in Istanbul, Marrakesh, Cairo, Havana, Charleston, and New Orleans, are analyzed in order to: assess the possible range of locations for the sale of slaves in slave-holding cultures better known than their ancient equivalents; answer the question of whether any of these cultures constructed clearly identifiable purpose-built slave markets on a regular basis, that is, whether the slave market was ever a firmly established building type; evaluate what can be gained from such a cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient slave markets.
Haltonchesters Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781842173602
Pub Date: 25 Mar 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
This report presents the results of the excavations directed, in 1960 and 1961, by Mr J. P. Gillam within the fort at Haltonchesters.
The Hoxne Late Roman Treasure Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780714118178
Pub Date: 22 Mar 2010
Description:
The Hoxne treasure, a spectacular collection of gold and silver coins, gold jewellery and silver artefacts, was buried early in the 5th century AD, and was rediscovered in November 1992. Although the major objects have been exhibited in museums and illustrated and discussed in both popular and scholarly publications over the last fifteen years, the results of detailed research on the entire find are published here in full for the first time. This volume provides a complete, illustrated inventory of the items in the treasure other than the 15,000 coins, which have been separately published (in The Late Roman Gold and Silver Coins from the Hoxne Treasure, by P.
Archaeology and Memory Cover Archaeology and Memory Cover
Format: 
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781842173633
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 78 b/w illus
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781785704581
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Memory can be both a horrifying trauma and an empowering resource. From the Ancient Greeks to Nietzsche and Derrida, the dilemma about the relationship between history and memory has filled many pages, with one important question singled out: is the writing of history to memory a remedy or a poison? Recently, a growing interest in and preoccupation with the issue of memory, remembering and forgetting has resulted in a proliferation of published works, in various disciplines, that have memory as their focus.
Gilgal Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781842174135
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph
Description:
The Gilgal Neolithic sites are among the first sites where cultivation emerged in the Levant. This book provides the full report of the late Tamar Noy's excavations including stratigraphy, architecture, artifacts, art objects, faunal, and botanical collections.
RRP: £35.00
Oceans Odyssey Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842174159
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 339 col illus
Description:
In ten papers Odyssey Marine Exploration presents the technology, methodology and archaeological results from four deep-sea shipwrecks and one major survey conducted between 2003 and 2008. The sites lie beyond territorial waters in depths of up to 820 metres off southeastern America and in the Straits of Gibraltar and the English Channel. Exclusively recorded using robotic technology in the form of a Remotely-Operated Vehicle, the wrecks range from the major Royal Navy warships HMS Sussex (1694) and the unique, 100-gun, first-rate HMS Victory (1744)to the steamship SS Republic (1865) and a mid-19th century merchant vessel with a cargo of British porcelain.
RRP: £25.00
Once There Was a Place Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 428
ISBN: 9780903472272
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2010
Description:
This volume presents the research of the British team within the modern excavations at the northern Mesopotamian site of Chagar Bazar, resumed in 1999 after a 62-year hiatus since the excavations of Max Mallowan. It incorporates settlement archaeology approaches and theoretical ideas of "place" in exploring the site and its internal and external landscapes. The primary focus is the settlement during the early 2nd millennium BC (Old Babylonian Period, post-Samsi-Addu), its final ancient occupation.
Alexandria Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9788779344914
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2010
Series: Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created and formatted a distinct Alexandrine 'culture' as well as several distinct 'cultures'. Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish observers communicated or held claim to that particular message. Hence, Arrian, Theocritus, Strabo, and Athenaeus reported their fascination of the Alexandrine melting pot to the wider world and so did Philo, Josephus and Clement.
Tylos Period Burials in Bahrain Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9788779345126
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2010
Illustrations: colour photos & illus
Description:
Tylos Period Burials in Bahrain - Volume II - The Hamad Town DS 3 & Shakhoura Cemeteries
Tracks through Time Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9781901992878
Pub Date: 22 Jan 2010
Illustrations: col illus
Description:
The East London Line Project presented a unique opportunity, as structures were demolished and cleared for London's latest railway, to discover more about some of London's earliest railways. This included previously undiscovered parts of one of the world's first operational passenger railways, the Eastern Counties of 1840. The new construction led to important archaeological discoveries, particularly at the site of Holywell Priory and beneath Bishopsgate Goods Yard in Shoreditch.
Tille Höyük 3.1. The Iron Age Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781898249207
Pub Date: 21 Jan 2010
Series: British Institute at Ankara Monograph
Illustrations: 159 b/w illus, 6 folded illus. CD with 46 plans and sections
Description:
This book presents the structures and stratigraphy of the important Iron Age sequence at Tille Höyuek, a mound at a crossing of the Euphrates in eastern Turkey. The site, which was excavated between 1979 and 1990 by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, revealed ten major structural levels of the Iron Age, spanning the period from the 11th century to the 6th-4th centuries BC, as well as earlier and later remains, and the wide exposure of architecture provides a sequence of intelligible and impressive building plans. After the initial discussion of the background and methodology of their excavation, the successive levels are carefully described and fully illustrated.
RRP: £60.00
Viking Art Of War Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781932033601
Pub Date: 04 Jan 2010
Illustrations: 16 pages b/w photos
Description:
This groundbreaking, authoritative and best-selling study of the Vikings establishes the facts behind their rise to prominence, and cuts away the myths about their military and seafaring skills, reputation, and exploits. The author applies modern military thinking to the Viking art of war and examines their tactics, seamanship, mobility, strategy, and how they exploited victories and dealt with defeats. Learn how the Vikings established colonies in hostile territory and defeated a diverse array of enemies, including the Anglo-Saxons, the Franks, the Volga Bulgars, and the wild tribes of Ireland, in three centuries of military adventure.
RRP: £25.00
EAA 128: Four Millenia of Human Activity along the A505 Baldock Bypass, Hertfordshire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780955654626
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2009
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Description:
This report presents the results of archaeological investigations undertaken in 20035 along the 6km route of the A505 Baldock bypass, Hertfordshire. The evidence spans the late Neolithic to the medieval period, although no evidence for activity from the later 5th century to the beginning of the 11th century was found. The late Neolithic evidence was dispersed across the route corridor and comprised bowl-shaped pits, shaft-like pits and a small funerary enclosure.
Historic Kirkintilloch Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 91
ISBN: 9781902771588
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2009
Series: Scottish Burgh Survey
Illustrations: b/w illus, fold out plan
Description:
This survey offers an accessible and broad-ranging synthesis of the history and archaeology of Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, and aims to inform conservation guidance for future development. Kirkintilloch lies at a key point in Scotlands central belt. Here, by accident of geography, the Antonine Wall, ancient and modern route ways and the Forth and Clyde Canal pass within yards of each other.
Where Rivers Meet Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781902771786
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2009
Illustrations: col illus
Description:
This book is the story of an area of landscape in the English Midlands from earliest prehistory to around AD 900. Although it looks like a typical rural landscape, archaeological research, much of it in advance of quarrying, has revealed that this area has a long and remarkable history of occupation stretching back to the Ice Age. In particular at Catholme the project has revealed spectacular monuments from the Neolithic and Bronze Age (including a 'woodhenge-type' monument, a 'sunburst' monument and a cursus) that represent a regional expression of the monumental traditions of the age of Stonehenge.