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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.

Globalization, Battlefields & Economics Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 56
ISBN: 9788779343740
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2008
Illustrations: illus
Description:
This booklet presents lectures given by professors of archaeology Helle Vandkilde, Claus von Carnap-Bornheim and James Graham-Campbell. Vandkilde on "Archaeology, Anthropology and Globalisation" touching upon her future project in Papua New Guinea combining archaeology and social anthropology. Von Carnap-Bornheim interprets the finds from the location of the battle (Kalkriese-Niewedder Basin, Germany) in 9 AD between Roman Varus and the Germanic leader Arminius.

Urban Life & Local Politics in Roman Bithynia

The Small World of Dion Chrysostomos
Format: Hardback
Pages: 211
ISBN: 9788779343504
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2008
Series: Black Sea Studies
Illustrations: b/w photos
Description:
Most studies of Roman local administration focus on the formal structures of power: provincial laws, imperial edicts, urban institutions and magistracies. This book explores the interplay of formal politics with informal factors such as social prejudice, parochialism and personal rivalries in the cities of northwestern Asia Minor from the first to the fifth centuries AD. Through a detailed analysis of the municipal speeches and career of the philosopher-politician Dion Chrysostomos, we gain new insights into the petty conflicts and lofty ambitions of an ancient provincial small-town politician and those around him.
Experiencing Archaeology by Experiment Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781842173428
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
There is a growing trend among archaeologists to re-create artefacts and actions at a 1:1 scale in order to answer questions and gain new insights into the past. In November 2007, the University of Exeter hosted a one-day conference on experimental archaeology, and it was soon discovered that experience is a key issue in understanding the use of materials and past processes. Papers presented in this volume consider both theoretical issues and practical case studies.
Finds from the Well at St Paul-in-the-Bail, Lincoln Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 106
ISBN: 9781842172575
Pub Date: 27 Aug 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Lincoln Archaeology Studies
Illustrations: 51 b/w illus, 4p col illus, 11 tabs
Description:
This report examines the finds from the 17th-century backfill of a well in the churchyard of St. Paul-in-the-Bail. Dug possibly as early as the 1st century, the well lay within the east range of the later forum , and may have been used subsequently as the baptistry of two successive early churches, built some time between the late 4th and 7th centuries.
Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9781842173381
Pub Date: 19 Aug 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: illus
Description:
This edited volume contains twelve papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic through to Post-Medieval periods and includes case studies from some ten countries. It has long been recognised by archaeologists that certain individuals in a variety of archaeological cultures from diverse periods and locations have been accorded differential treatment in burial relative to other members of their society. These individuals can include criminals, women who died during childbirth, unbaptised infants, people with disabilities, and supposed revenants, to name but a few.
Excavations by K. M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 592
ISBN: 9781842173046
Pub Date: 06 Aug 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Description:
The fifth volume in the series of final reports on the work of the Joint Expedition to Jerusalem in the 1960s describes the discoveries made in six sites in the ancient city and places them in the archaeological and historical context of Jerusalem and the surrounding lands. Among the most debated issues are the extent of the occupation of the city during the Iron Age, the location of the southern defence line in Herodian and Roman times, and the date of the destruction of an Umayyad palatial structure. There is fresh information on the civic amenities of the southern half of the Byzantine city, and on the structure of the Ottoman city defences built under Sulaiman the Magnificent in the sixteenth century.
RRP: £75.00
Simulations, Genetics and Human Prehistory Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781902937458
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2008
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Description:
Data from molecular genetics have changed our views on the origin, spread and timescale of our species across this planet. But how can we reveal more detail about the demography of ancient human populations? For example, is it possible to determine when and how many people arrived at a certain continent, and which route they took from a choice of geographically plausible options?
RRP: £25.00
Assyrian Stone Vessels and Related Material in the British Museum Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781842173121
Pub Date: 17 Jul 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
This catalogue makes available more than 600 complete or fragmentary stone vessels kept in the British Museum. Most of them were excavated at Nineveh and other major sites in northern Iraq and Syria, and are presented here for the first time. They range in date from prehistory down to the Persian and Hellenistic periods; the bulk belong in the eighth and seventh centuries, when the Near East under Assyrian rule grew increasingly cosmopolitan.
La Croisade Des Albigeois Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9782840481621
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2008
Imprint: Heimdal
Illustrations: highly illustrated in colour
Description:
In the Medieval period, the idea of the crusade (or holy war/jihad) gained favor as a way firstly of freeing the Holy Land from Muslim control, it then degenerated into a justification for imposing western domination in Asia Minor. Crusades, therefore, always took place away from western Europe. However, in 1209, for the first time on Catholic Christian soil, a crusade was undertaken which lasted for over 30 years in southern France, with Simon de Montfort at its head.

Werkzeuge aus Kaiserzeitlichen Heeresausruestungsopfern

Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788788415483
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2008
Life Of A Knight 1171-1252 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 116
ISBN: 9782352500674
Pub Date: 12 Jun 2008
Illustrations: full colour throughout
Description:
he medieval knight has a distinctive silhouette, despite the numerous legends which blur historical reality. At the turning point between the 12th and 13th centuries, while the feudal order was slowly disappearing in favor of the overwhelming royal will, some men stood apart from their contemporaries by their ability to fight on horses. They held the power and were considered little by little as the ruling class; they were the lords of the land.
Feeding the Roman Army Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 169
ISBN: 9781842173237
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
These ten papers from two Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (2007) sessions bring together a growing body of new archaeological evidence in an attempt to reconsider the way in which the Roman army was provisioned. Clearly, the adequate supply of food was essential to the success of the Roman military. But what was the nature of those supply networks?
Dressing the Past Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 167
ISBN: 9781842172698
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and col illus t/out
Description:
Minoan ladies, Scythian warriors, Roman and Sarmatian merchants, prehistoric weavers, gold sheet figures, Vikings, Medieval saints and sinners, Renaissance noblemen, Danish peasants, dressmakers and Hollywood stars appear in the pages of this anthology. This is not necessarily how they dressed in the past, but how the authors of this book think they dressed in the past, and why they think so. No reader of this book will ever look at a reconstructed costume in a museum or at a historical festival, or watch a film with a historic theme again without a heightened awareness of how, why, and from what sources, the costumes were reconstructed.
RRP: £35.00
Burial Mounds of Bahrain Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 178
ISBN: 9788788415452
Pub Date: 29 Feb 2008
Illustrations: b/w photos & maps
Description:
Burial Mounds of Bahrain - Social Complexity in Early Dilmun
Big Bone Lick Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 204
ISBN: 9780813124858
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2008
Illustrations: 33
Description:
On March 7, 1808, President Thomas Jefferson received a long-awaited shipment of approximately 300 fossils from William Clark, who had just completed his westward expedition with Meriwether Lewis. The fossils were unearthed at Big Bone Lick in northern Kentucky, and over the years they had gained the interest of such prominent figures as Daniel Boone, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin. Jefferson's receipt of the fossils was the realization of more than twenty years of the philosopherstatesman's interest in the site and its natural treasures.
JJP Supplement 10 (2008) Journal of Juristic Papyrology Cover
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9788391825099
Pub Date: 14 Feb 2008
Imprint: Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Description:
Table of Contents Préface (par Eva Cantarella) Avant-propos I. Sources du Droit 1. La loi dans lantiquité 2.