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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.

Landscape Community and Colonisation Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 317
ISBN: 9781902771670
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2006
Illustrations: b/w figs and pls
Description:
Oxbow says: From 1993, the North Somerset Levels Project sought to investigate the origins and development of this area of reclaimed coastal marshland during the first and second millennia AD. The inter-disciplinary approach taken has added archaeological (survey and excavation) data, palaeoenvironmental evidence, studies of documentary sources, architecture, cartography and field- and place-names, to what was already known about the historic landscape. This report, which publishes the findings of the project, examines local and regional changes and variations in the landscape, focusing on two major phases of exploitation, modification and transformation during the Roman and medieval periods.
RRP: £38.00
Common Ground Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 640
ISBN: 9781842171837
Pub Date: 21 Dec 2006
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w line drawings and photographs
Description:
This volume contains over 150 papers presented at the Classical Congress held in Boston, Massachussetts in August 2003.
Literature and Visual Culture Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 437
ISBN: 9789979546696
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2006
Imprint: University of Iceland Press
Description:
These days the written word is coming under a great deal of pressure from visual media. Increasingly we feel we have to refer to films "which everyone knows" or contemporary mass culture in order to explain theories and discuss the pattern of a text. Photography, television and films have taken over a large share of information exchange, education and entertainment.
Mathematical Educational in Iceland in Historical Context Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9789979547266
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2006
Imprint: University of Iceland Press
Description:
This book surveys mathematical education in Iceland from medieval times to the present. Its main focus is on the international "modern" mathematics reform movement in the 1960s, promoted by the OECD. At that time mathematics education in Iceland had drifted into stagnation, characterized by a shortage of teachers, curricula and textbooks.
Medieval Devon and Cornwall Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781905119073
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2006
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: b/w and col illus
Description:
The countryside of Devon and Cornwall preserves an unusually rich legacy from its medieval past. This book explores the different elements which go to make up this historic landscape - the chapels, crosses, castles and mines; the tinworks and strip fields; and above all, the intricately worked counterpane of hedgebanks and winding lanes. Between AD 500 and 1700, a series of revolutions transformed the structure of the South West Peninsula's rural landscape.
Reclaiming the Marsh Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 179
ISBN: 9780954293857
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2006
Imprint: Pre-Construct Archaeology
Illustrations: b/w and col illus
Description:
A report on fieldwork carried out in a little investigated area of London just outside the city wall. The area known as Moorfields was waterlogged throughout the Middle Ages, only being reclaimed in the 16th century. Finds include evidence of Roman settlement up to the construction of the wall in the 3rd century, and evidence of the medieval use of the area for leisure activities, including ice-skating and for dumping waste.
RRP: £22.50
The Latin Alexander Trallianus Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780907764328
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2006
Series: JRS Monograph
Illustrations: 12 pls.
Description:
The present work offers an extensive introduction to the text and transmission of the ancient Latin version of the medical works "Therapeutica" and "On Fevers" of the great sixth-century Greek doctor Alexander of Tralles. The importance of the Latin Alexander in medieval medicine in the West is seen in the richness of both mainstream and secondary, excerpting manuscript-traditions. The tradition is such that the reconstructed Latin text promises to be a much more important witness to the Greek text than the Greek is to the Latin, and of course a reliable edition is a prerequisite for any systematic work on questions such as the provenance of the translation and the Latinity of the translator(s).
RRP: £65.00
The Renaissance Shipwrecks from Christianshavn Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 371
ISBN: 9788785180346
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2006
Series: Ships & Boats of the North
Illustrations: many illus
Description:
This is volume 6 in the Ships and Boats of the North series and comprises an archaeological and architectural study of north west European shipbuilding between 1580 and 1640. The main aim of the research leading up to this publication has been to discover the specific carvel shipbuilding methods used in north west Europe in the Renaissance period. The study is based on the analysis of a group of finds excavated under the direction of the author in Copenhagen in 1996 and 1997.
JJP Supplement 6 (2006) Journal of Juristic Papyrology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 2
ISBN: 9788391825051
Pub Date: 21 Nov 2006
Imprint: Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Description:
When tracing the course of development of ancient Greek historiography, one comes upon an astounding time gap of about 150 years, stretching from around the middle of the 3rd century to the end of the 4th century AD. In the first half of the 3rd century a rather numerous line-up of historians writing in Greek came to an end with Dio Cassius and Herodian. The lack of well-known Greek historians and extant works from this period is all the more surprising that in the history of Imperium Romanum this was a clearly defined, significant period of great political, economic, religious and cultural changes and breakthroughs.
Greeks on Greekness Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 194
ISBN: 9780906014288
Pub Date: 18 Oct 2006
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Karl Marx observed that "just when people seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves..
RRP: £45.00
Rome & the Black Sea Region Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 183
ISBN: 9788779341746
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2006
Series: Black Sea Studies
Illustrations: b/w photos & maps
Description:
In 89 BC, Roman legionaries intervened in the Black Sea region to curb the ambitions of Mithridates VI of Pontos. Over the next two centuries, the Roman presence on the Black Sea coast was slowly, but steadily increased. This volume deals with the Roman impact on the indigenous population in the Black Sea region and touches on the theme of romanisation of that area.
Surveying the Greek Chora Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 346
ISBN: 9788779342385
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2006
Series: Black Sea Studies
Illustrations: b/w photos & maps
Description:
This volume is the outcome of an international conference on landscape archaeology. It includes 15 contributions from participants from six different countries, who analyse the territories of the main ancient cities of the west, north and south coasts of the Black Sea region, discussing them also in a comparative, Mediterranean perspective. The particular aim of the conference was to join the forces of Eastern as well as Western researchers in establishing an overview of the relationship between the larger ancient cities and their territories.
Anastasius I Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 351
ISBN: 9780905205434
Pub Date: 22 Aug 2006
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Description:
When Anastasius I came to the throne in 491, the Late Roman Empire was in severe difficulty. Internal instability, exacerbated by the dominance of the unpopular Isaurians in Constantinople, resulted in a struggling economy, hostile relations with Persia, the abandonment of Italy to a barbarian king, and doctrinal schisms. Anastasius, an elderly statesman with long experience as an administrator and economist, turned his attention first to the Isaurians, ousting them from the imperial capital and defeating them in their homeland; he could then focus on streamlining the administration, improving the economy, and securing peace and stability on the borders.
Researcher's Guide to the Lachish Collection in the British Museum Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9780861591619
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2006
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Description:
This volume contains basic information about 17,500 items from Lachish in Israel that were acquired by the British Museum in 1980. This handlist will be widely consulted by all those wanting to use this important resource, as well as scholars with an interest in near eastern archaeology.
Deliciae Fictiles III Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 434
ISBN: 9781842172087
Pub Date: 11 Jul 2006
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 16p col plates, b/w illus
Description:
This edited volume of forty-four papers on terracottas opens with a section on New Research , followed by five geographical sections on: Etruria; Umbria and Abruzzo; The Faliscans, Rome and Latium; Campania and Magna Graecia; and Sicily. The terracottas in question are the various parts of roofing systems used by the ancient Italians Italic, Etruscan and colonial Greek and cover both domestic and temple architecture. Thirty-three papers are in Italian, nine in English and two in German.
Who Owns Objects? Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 156
ISBN: 9781842172339
Pub Date: 11 Jul 2006
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Who owns cultural objects? and who has the right to own them? The contributors to this book have thought long and hard about the ethics and politics of collecting, from a variety of professional perspectives: archaeologist, museum curator, antiquities dealer, collector, legislator.