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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.

Past and Present Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 282
ISBN: 9780954482442
Pub Date: 06 Dec 2007
Imprint: Cambridge Archaeological Unit
Illustrations: col illus t/out, tabs, CD-ROM
Description:
Documenting the results of some ten years of fieldwork, this volume explores the prehistoric occupation of a small valley near Broom, on the Bedfordshire gravels. It traces a biography of the landscape from the later Mesolithic through to the Iron Age, a sequence that saw profound changes in the character, scale and temporality of occupation. Undertaken in advance of gravel extraction, the scale of the fieldwork reported here made it possibe to track not only the sequence of occupation, but also how prehistoric communities encountered, appropriated or ignored the 'archaeology' of their time.
Image and Imagination Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 346
ISBN: 9781902937489
Pub Date: 05 Dec 2007
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
The dawn of art is sometimes equated with the birth of the human spirit. But when and how did figuration - sculpture, painting, drawing - actually begin? And did these first figurative creations coincide with the emergence of our own species, Homo sapiens ?
RRP: £30.00
Clarendon Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781905119103
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2007
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: col and b/w illus
Description:
Extensively illustrated with colour and black and white images, this book tells Clarendon's story, from the Neolithic through to the present day. It focuses in particular on the palace and deer park's medieval heyday. Soon after the Norman conquest, Clarendon in Wiltshire became the country retreat of the kings and queens of England.
Water Meadows Cover
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781905119127
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2007
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: 149 b/w illus
Description:
This book brings to public attention some of the most evocative and threatened features of the landscape of southern England. Water meadows work with nature to improve agricultural productivity, whilst providing rich habitats for wildlife such as water voles, waders and grass snakes. They are areas of low-lying grassland which are regularly 'drowned' - artificially irrigated - at certain times of the year, to stimulate the early growth of grass in the spring.
William Morris's Kelmscott Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 221
ISBN: 9781905119141
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2007
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: col and b/w illus
Description:
Kelmscott Manor is forever linked with the name of William Morris, pioneer conservationist and utopian socialist, designer and father of the Arts and Crafts tradition. The manor played a crucial role in shaping his thought: at the climactic moment of his futuristic novel, News from Nowhere, Morris lifts the latch of the Manor's garden gate and finds his personal holy grail. Morris was drawn by the organic relationship between Kelmscott and its landscape: the linkage of stone walls and roof tiles to the geology and the soil, and the honest toil of the people to the agricultural cycle.
Excavations at Kilise Tepe, 1994-98 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9781902937403
Pub Date: 22 Nov 2007
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Illustrations: 527 b/w illus, 58 col illus, 43 tabs
Description:
These two volumes report on five season's excavation and four millennia of occupation at Kilise Tepe, from the Early Bronze Age through the rise and fall of the Hittite Empire and into the Byzantine era when the mound was crowned by a substantial church. The site takes its importance from its position guarding the Göksu Valley, one of the two main routes from the interior of Anatolia to the Mediterranean opposite Cyprus, so that it gives a record of relations between the interior and the seaboard. Of particular interest are the sequence from the Hittite Empire through the end of the Bronze Age and into the classical world, and the Byzantine levels associated with the church.
RRP: £95.00
Prehistoric Metal Artefacts from Italy (3500-720 BC) in the British Museum Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 356
ISBN: 9780861591596
Pub Date: 16 Nov 2007
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 800 b/w illus
Description:
The current conception of the absolute chronology of the Italian Copper Age to the end of the Early Iron Age is set out in this new title from the British Museum. Some 850 objects have been arranged chronologically from the Copper Age, through the Bronze Age, to the Early Iron Age. Within these headings, the objects are organised typologically e.
Development on Roman London's Western Hill Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9781901992663
Pub Date: 30 Oct 2007
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Illustrations: 116 illus, 28 tabs
Description:
Redevelopment of Paternoster Square in 2000-2001 provided the opportunity to reassess 1960s work at the site and review Roman activity on the western hill, south of the main east-west road from London to Silchester. Natural stream channels recorded at Paternoster and nearby sites drained south-westwards towards the Fleet river, rather than to the Thames as had been previously thought. The earliest Roman activity was associated with the c.
Environmental Archaeology in Ireland Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 306
ISBN: 9781842172742
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: illus and tables
Description:
This edited volume of 16 papers provides an introduction to the techniques and methodologies, approaches and potential of environmental archaeology within Ireland. Each of the 16 invited contributions focuses on a particular aspect of environmental archaeology and include such specialist areas as radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology, palaeoentomology, human osteoarchaeology, palynology and geoarchaeology, thereby providing a comprehensive overview of environmental archaeology within an Irish context. The inclusion of pertinent case studies within each chapter will heighten awareness of the profusion of high standard environmental archaeological research that is currently being undertaken on Irish material.
The Augustinian Priory of St Mary Merton, Surrey Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9781901992700
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2007
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Description:
Excavations 1976-90 at the priory of St Mary Merton revealed much about the layout and development of this monastery from the 12th century to the Dissolution. Founded on its present site beside the Wandle river, c 11.3km south-west of London, in 1117, Merton was one of the most influential of all the English houses of regular canons, and was much favoured by Henry III.
Calendars and Years Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781842173022
Pub Date: 08 Oct 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world.
Dungeness and Romney Marsh Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842172889
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 135 b/w illus, 29 tabs
Description:
The Romney Marsh / Dungeness Foreland depositional complex comprises an extensive tract of marshland and associated sand and gravel barrier deposits, located in the eastern English Channel. This monograph presents the results of a programme of palaeoenvironmental investigation aimed at improving our understanding of this internationally-significant coastal landform. The focus is on the evidence for landscape change during the late Holocene, from c.
Art of the Middle Ages Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9780955339318
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2007
Imprint: Sam Fogg
Illustrations: 140 col. illustrations
Description:
This is the catalogue to an outstanding collection of Medieval art from a private collection. Ranging from paintings and sculpture to stained glass, manuscripts and caskets, many of the objects presented here are of absolute rarity, some are previously unpublished and - until recently - unknown.Of particular interest are: the recently discovered Anglo-Saxon Chrismatory, the first significant piece of its kind to come to light in well over a century; the walnut Casket painted with Illustrations of the Prise d'Orange, uniquely dating from the thirteenth century and a miracle of survival; the beautiful, ninth-century Byzantine Silk Samite of Confronting Birds; and the panel of The Dream of Joseph which formed part of the programme of stained glass installed at the Abbey of St-Denis in the twelfth century - considered one of the most important of all monuments of medieval art.
RRP: £20.00
Visions of Antiquity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 463
ISBN: 9780854312870
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2007
Series: Archaeologia
Description:
This fascinating portrait of the Society of Antiquaries of London, founded in 1707, assesses the impact that individual Fellows and the Society as a whole have had in influencing the way we visualise and understand the past. There are, for example, essays on the Society's pioneering role in recording monuments and antiquities for posterity, in establishing the scientific and empirical basis of archaeological studies, in replacing Biblically based timeframes with a clearer understanding of deep time measured in millions of years, in drawing up the first legislation protecting ancient monuments, and in funding and publishing the great excavations of the last one hundred years, from Stonehenge, Maiden Castle, Richborough and Sutton Hoo to Aksum (Ethiopia) and Mons Porphyrites (Egypt). All the papers represent fresh and original scholarship and they tell us much about the Society's achievements (and some of the accompanying conflicts between personalities and ideas) over three hundred years.
RRP: £75.00
Crossing Frontiers Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780954962777
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2007
Series: Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
It is difficult to imagine modern archaeology without radio-carbon dating, geophysics, analytical chemistry, or the input of the social and historical sources. Archaeology is inevitably an interdisciplinary enterprise, perhaps more so than any other field. But with the ever-increasing specialisation of modern research in general, it becomes more and more difficult to communicate across disciplinary doundaries; this is one of the major challenges modern archaeology faces today.
RRP: £30.00
Black Sea Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781898249214
Pub Date: 23 Aug 2007
Series: British Institute at Ankara Monograph
Description:
The papers in this book result from a conference held in Istanbul in 2004, and are the product of collaboration between the British Academy Black Sea Initiative (BABSI) and the City and Regional Planning Department of Istanbul Technical University. They cover a period from the first appearance of human settlers in the Black Sea region to the present day, and all emphasize the significance of the Black Sea itself as a source of unity, linking communities and histories in a wider regional context, extending westward along the Danube basin, northward into the Ukraine and south Russia, east into the Caucasus and southward over the Anatolian hinterland. A major introductory paper re-examines the evidence for the Black Sea flood hypothesis.
RRP: £30.00