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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.

EAA 63: Illington Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 114
ISBN: 9780905594095
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1993
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: with 15 plates, 59 figs, 15 tables and microfiche.
Description:
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EAA 65: Settlements on Hill-tops Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 67
ISBN: 9780860552147
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1993
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: with 8 plates, 43 figs and 3 tables.
Description:
Report on excavations and discussion of artefacts and zoological evidence from seven prehistoric sites in Suffolk: an Iron Age enclosure at Barnham; two first millennium BC settlements at Barnham; three prehistoric hill-top settlements in south-east Suffolk; an Early Iron Age hill-top site at Framlingham.

Abu Salabikh Excavations Vol 4

The 6G Ash-Tip and its Contents: cultic and administrative discard from the temple?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 234
ISBN: 9780903472135
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1993
Illustrations: 98pls
Description:
Volume four in the British School of Archaeology in Iraq's study of the city of Abu Salabikh. Volume Four is a two-volume set, with the first book containing the text and the second book containing the plates.
Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies, Volume 3, 1992 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 122
ISBN: 9780946897742
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1993
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: JRMES
Illustrations: with text-figs & illus.
Description:
This edition of this journal contains eight articles.
RRP: £35.00
San Vincenzo al Volturno 1 Cover
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780904152241
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1993
Series: Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome
Illustrations: xxi, 236 including 215 b/w illus and 23 col plates.
Description:
This is the first of a number of volumes describing the 1980-86 excavations at the early medieval Benedictine abbey of San Vincenzo al Volturno in central Italy. This volume gives a general introduction to this important project, a description of the archaeological remains, and then detailed accounts of the excavation of the Carolingian Crypt Church, the `South Church', the Refectory, the Garden Court and the Entrance Hall. Also included is a reappraisal of the cycle of paintings in the crypt in the light of the excavations.
RRP: £35.00
Tille Hoyuk 1 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 205
ISBN: 9781898249009
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1993
Illustrations: with 93 figs and 8 plates.
Description:
Tille Hoyuk was excavated between 1979 and 1990 by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara as part of the Turkish Lower Euphrates Rescue Project. The site revealed important remains of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages, and of the Achaemenid, and Hellenistic periods, as well as a Medieval phase. Between the 12th and 15th centuries the prehistoric mound was occupied by the fortified residence of a local chieftain.
RRP: £45.00
Sculpture in the Parthian Empire Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 231
ISBN: 9788772883113
Pub Date: 31 Aug 1993
Description:
A study on the chronology of the sculpture, primarily large-scale, of the Parthian Empire. The catalogue describes individual sculptural monuments and enumerates results and proposals of previous research. The text volume attempts to date the monuments according to their style and other criteria (such as iconographical traits, historical identifications or the contents of accompanying inscriptions and technical details).
Respiratory Control Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780813117881
Pub Date: 04 Dec 1992
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Understanding of the respiratory control system has been greatly improved by technological and methodological advances. This volume integrates results from many perspectives, brings together diverse approaches to the investigations, and represents important additions to the field of neural control of breathing.Topics include membrane properties of respiratory neurons, in vitro studies of respiratory control, chemical neuroanatomy, central integration of respiratory afferents, modulation of respiratory pattern by peripheral afferents, respiratory chemoreception, development of respiratory control, behavioral control of breathing, and human ventilatory control.

East Roman Foreign Policy

formation and conduct from Diocletian to Anastasius
Format: Hardback
Pages: 283
ISBN: 9780905205830
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1992
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Illustrations: with 4 maps.
Description:
The early Roman empire took a militaristic attitude towards its neighbours, but by the reign of Justinian a complex stance had evolved in which military force was tempered by diplomacy. Covering the period from the Peace of Nisibis in 299 to the death of Anastasius in 518, the author traces the development of the diplomatic element in late East Roman foreign policy from a mere adjunct or epilogue to war, into something with the capacity of being an alternative for war. Offers a detailed narrative history of the military and diplomatic activity in this field.
Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 27 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 44
ISBN: 9780946897353
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1992
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Well Built Mycenae
Illustrations: with figs and photo
Description:
This fascicule describes the ground stone objects from the 1959-69 excavations at Mycenae. Don Evely describes the vases (36 complete and fragmentary pieces including `Minoan' birds' nest bowls and Mycenaean piriform jars,, fragments of rhyta and legged mortars) and other objects (inlays in valuable stones such as lapis lazuli and lapis lacedaemonius , mushroom shaped pommels, a steatite jewellery mould and other items). Curtis Runnels discusses sixteen domestic millstones.
RRP: £24.00
Ritual & Desire Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 324
ISBN: 9788772882888
Pub Date: 30 Jun 1992
Description:
Catullus' two wedding poems contain important statements regarding the poet's personality, Roman sexual morality, attitudes to love and marriage, and the practice and psychology of ancient religion. This work subjects the two poems to detailed analysis, and yields new insights into the ritual drama enacted, the mythical and erotic dimensions, and the depiction of male and female. The poems are shown to be more provocative than is usually recognised; marriage is conceived as eternal wedding night.
The Maussolleion at Halikarnassos Cover
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9788772885636
Pub Date: 31 Mar 1992
Description:
This third report of the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Bodrum is devoted to study of the terrace on which the Maussolleion was built. Seventy five trenches were dug in gardens and orchards to examine the extent and nature of the perimeter revetment and its facing wall, the surfacing of the terrace platform, and the foundation of the building that stood at its entrance, at the centre of the east side. Also included is a transcript of G M A Biliotti's diary recording excavations on behalf of the British Museum at the site of the Mausoleum in 1865 (with transcripts of inscriptions) and an account of the early history of marginally drafted masonry.
Architecture and Archaeology Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 60
ISBN: 9780614218152
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1991

EAA 52: The Fenland Project No.4

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780905594040
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1991
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: p, 75figs, 12pls, microfiche.
Description:
The second Norfolk volume covers a substantial tract of peat fen defined by three rivers, and incorporates the only island of any size in the Norfolk Fens. The rapid shrinkage of peat on the upland edge has revealed a densely-occupied zone that was settled from the Mesolithic through to the Bronze Age. Human settlement is viewed against changing environmental conditions as the Embayment became waterlogged and the fen edge was deserted in historic times.
Building a Longboat Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 147
ISBN: 9788785180162
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1991
Description:
The craftsmanship of longboat-building is not something we can draw on today, so when the Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde wanted to look into this ancient skill, they needed to track down people who still had the tradition of boat-building in their culture. This book looks at the boat-building and culture of the Punan Bah people of Borneo and then puts the longboat in its wider cultural-historical perspective.

Future Currents in Aqueduct Studies

Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780905205809
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1991
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Illustrations: 8 pl.
Description:
A secure supply of safe water is essential for the development of civilised life. The great aqueducts of the Roman period are lasting and visible symbols of ancient achievements in this area, while other, less spectacular but equally well adapted water storage and distribution systems served communities of different types. All of these systems are of interest to archaeologists and to historians of engineering and technology.