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Oxbow Books is a leading publisher in the fields of archaeology, ancient history and medieval studies, with an international reputation for quality and affordability. Oxbow's archaeology publishing covers all periods from earliest prehistory through classical archaeology, the ancient Near East, Egyptology, the Middle Ages and post-medieval archaeology. They publish a wide variety of books including scholarly monographs, edited collections of papers, and excavation and research reports in related fields such as archaeological practice and theory, archaeozoology, and environmental, landscape and maritime archaeology.

Founded in Oxford in 1983 by academic and museum archaeologist, David Brown, Oxbow Books has evolved and expanded significantly over the years. Now celebrating their 40th anniversary, Oxbow remains dedicated to the quality of their publishing for readers, and the contribution their books bring to the scholarly and professional communities more broadly.

Ritual in Early Bronze Age Grave Goods Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 616
ISBN: 9781782976943
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: Fully colour illustrated, includes CD
Description:
The exotic and impressive grave goods from burials of the ‘Wessex Culture’ in Early Bronze Age Britain are well known and have inspired influential social and economic hypotheses, invoking the former existence of chiefs, warriors and merchants and high-ranking pastoralists. Alternative theories have sought to explain how display of such objects was related to religious and ritual activity rather than to economic status, and that groups of artefacts found in certain graves may have belonged to religious specialists. This volume is the result of a major research project that aimed to investigate Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age grave goods in relation to their possible use as special dress accessories or as equipment employed within ritual activities and ceremonies.
RRP: £90.00
The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland Cover The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9781782978138
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour illustrations
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781789255706
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour illustrations
Description:
The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland is a ground-breaking and unique study of the enigmatic, unseen and dark silent world of caves. People have engaged with caves for the duration of human occupation of the island, spanning 10,000 years. In prehistory, subterranean landscapes were associated with the dead and the spirit world, with evidence for burials, funerary rituals and votive deposition.
The Language of Ramesses Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 282
ISBN: 9781782978688
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
François Neveu enables the reader to explore the Ramesside age through an understanding of Late Egyptian. This phase corresponds to the language spoken from the 17th to the 24th dynasty, which became a written language – used for private letters, administrative, legal and literary texts, as well as some official inscriptions – during the Amarna period (circa 1364 BC). The first part of the book covers the basics of the grammar, the morphology, while the second part is devoted to the syntax, covering first the verbal system and then the nominal forms.
Current Research in Egyptology 15 (2014) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781785700460
Pub Date: 17 Apr 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Current Research in Egyptology
Illustrations: black/white illustrations
Description:
This selection of 23 papers from the 15th annual Current Research in Egyptology symposium addreses the interregional and interdisciplinary theme of‘Ancient Egypt in a Global World’. This theme works on a number of levels highlighting the current global nature of Egyptological research and it places ancient Egypt in the wider ancient world. The first section presents the results of recent excavations, including in the western Valley of the Kings and analysis of the structures, construction techniques, food production and consumption remains at Tell Timai (Thmuis) in the Delta.
Excavations at Tell Nebi Mend, Syria Volume I Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9781782977865
Pub Date: 02 Apr 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Description:
The archaeological site of Tell Nebi Mend, a tell on the Homs plain in present-day Syria, is universally recognised as the location, first, of Qadesh (or Kadesh), where, in c. 1286 BC, the armies of Ramesses II of Egypt and Muwatalli II of Great Hatti fought the most famous battle of pre-classical antiquity, and, second, of Laodicea ad Libanum, founded most probably in the 3rd century BC as the capital of a district of the Seleucid empire. Collaborative excavations undertaken over 12 seasons aimed to fill a major gap in archaeological knowledge between the northern and southern Levant and to develop an understanding of the archaeology and early history of the Levantine Corridor independent of, and supplementing, that based on Palestinian and Biblical research.
RRP: £48.00
TRAC 2014 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 158
ISBN: 9781785700026
Pub Date: 02 Apr 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC
Illustrations: black/white illustrations
Description:
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at TRAC 2014, as well as some invited contributions. In keeping with the aims of TRAC, several papers make make innovative use of interdisciplinary theory: in humanistic geography, philosophy and archaeology; social psychology; and the cognitive science of religion in the study of Roman monuments, military social history and religion. Other papers share a common theme: the critical interpretation of archaeological evidence.
Burial, Society and Context in the Roman World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781842170342
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: many b/w illus
Description:
Although a large number of cemeteries have been explored in Roman Britain they have never been seen as central to the study of the province. This collection of twenty-eight papers, from a symposium held at the University of Durham in 1997, explores different approaches to examine the contribution that cemeteries can make to our wider understanding of Roman society. The papers are grouped under five headings: The reconstruction of mortuary rituals; Burial and social status; The dead in the landscape; Burial and ethnicity and society; Religion and Burial in late Roman Britain and Italy.
The Neolithic of the Irish Sea Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781842171097
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Cardiff Studies in Archaeology
Illustrations: 135 b/w figs.,
Description:
This collection of 24 papers aims to reconsider the nature and significance of the Irish Sea as an area of cultural interaction during the Neolithic period. The traditional character of work across this region has emphasised the existence of prehistoric contact, with sea routes criss-crossing between Ireland, the Isle of Man, Anglesey and the British mainland. A parallel course of investigation, however, has demonstrated that the British and Irish Neolithics were in many ways different, with distinct indigenous patterns of activity and social practices.
Greece, Macedon and Persia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781782979234
Pub Date: 12 Mar 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
This book contains a collection of papers related to the history and historiography of Warfare, Politics and Power in the Ancient Mediterranean world. The contributions, written by 19 recognized experts from a variety of methodological and evidentiary perspectives, show how ancient peoples considered war and conflict at the heart of social, political and economic activity. Though focusing on a single theme – war – the papers are firmly based in the context of the wider social and literary issues of Ancient Mediterranean scholarship and as such, consider war and conflict as part of a complex matrix of culture in which historical actors articulate their relationships with society and historical authors articulate their relationships with history.
RRP: £45.00
Skyscapes Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9781782978404
Pub Date: 12 Mar 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: colour and b/w illus.
Description:
Eleven papers extend discussion of the role and importance of the landscape and the wider environment to past societies, and to the understanding and interpretation of their material remains, into consideration of the significance of the celestial environment: the skyscape. The role of the sky for past societies has been relegated to the fringes of archaeological discourse. Nevertheless archaeoastronomy has developed a new rigour in the last few decades and the evidence suggests that it can provide insights into the beliefs, practices and cosmologies of past societies.
RRP: £38.00
The Southern Transjordan Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781782978329
Pub Date: 12 Mar 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour illustrations
Description:
Burton MacDonald presents an in-depth study of the archaeology and history of human presence over the past five-six thousand years in the southern segment of the Transjordan/Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley to the west. The evidence from archaeology for the area spans the entire period though the time for which literary evidence is available is only the past 4000 years, from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BC). Once literary evidence is available, however, it complements the archaeological record and, as can be amply demonstrated, the written records can be clarified only through the archaeological data.
RRP: £60.00
Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781782979395
Pub Date: 05 Mar 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Puspika: Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
Puṣpikā 3 is the outcome of the third and fourth International Indology Graduate Research Symposiums held in Paris and Edinburgh in 2011 and 2012. This volume presents the results of recent research by early-career scholars into the texts, languages and literary, philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia. The articles offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on a wide array of subjects including classical and medieval philosophy, esoteric knowledge and practices in the Vedas, Kālidāsa's great poem Meghadūta ('The Cloud Messenger'), soteriology in a 17th century Jain text, identity, orality and the songs of the Bauls in 20th century Bengal, and Sanskrit pedagogy.
Northern Archaeological Textiles Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 138
ISBN: 9781782979784
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this important and stimulating area of archaeology. From the golden robes of a Roman burial, to the fashionable Viking in Denmark, through to the early modern period and more technological aspects of textile-research, these twenty-four papers (five of which are in German) provide a wealth of new information on the study of ancient textiles in northern Europe.
Continental Connections Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781782978091
Pub Date: 26 Feb 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
The prehistories of Britain and Ireland are inescapably entwined with continental European narratives. The central aim here is to explore ‘cross-channel’ relationships throughout later prehistory, investigating the archaeological links (material, social, cultural) between the areas we now call Britain and Ireland, and continental Europe, from the Mesolithic through to the end of the Iron Age. Since the separation from the European mainland of Ireland (c.
The Panathenaic Games Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781782979821
Pub Date: 26 Feb 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 8p col pls
Description:
The papers in this volume were presented at an international conference organised in Athens (May 11-14, 2004) and focus on the study of the Panathenaic Games, a Panhellenic athletic event that lasted for nearly a millennium. An international assembly of archaeologists, art historians, ancient historians, epigraphists and classical scholars contributed to the discussion of the origins and the historical development of the Panathenaic Games in general and of individual contests in particular. The role of royal and other patrons in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as the form and meaning of victory dedications and other monuments generated by the games were also examined, making this a truly interdisciplinary study into this fascinating event.
Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781782977544
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Illustrations: b/w and colour illustrations
Description:
Nearly 2000 years ago, people living in the river valleys of southern Ohio built earthen monuments on a scale that is unmatched in the archaeological record for small-scale societies. The period from c. 200 BC to c.
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