Oxbow Books

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.

Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of Ancient Egypt Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781842175224
Pub Date: 31 May 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 80 b/w + col illus.
Description:
This volume presents the findings of a major international project on the application of radiocarbon dating to the Egyptian historical chronology. Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Cranfield in the UK, along with a team from France, Austria and Israel, radiocarbon dated more than 200 Egyptian objects made from plant material from museum collections from all over the world. The results comprise an accurate scientifically based chronology of the kings of ancient Egypt obtained by the radiocarbon analysis of short-lived plant remains.
Somerset's Peatland Archaeology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781842174883
Pub Date: 31 May 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & colour illus
Description:
The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments. The importance of Somerset's prehistoric wetland heritage is shown by the fact that twenty-five percent of all the prehistoric waterlogged sites thought still to exist in England are from the Somerset moors, the County Museum in Taunton Castle holds the largest collection of conserved prehistoric worked wood in the UK, possibly in the whole of Europe, the Sweet Track (the oldest known wooden trackway in the UK) and Glastonbury Lake Village have produced the most complete record of Neolithic and Iron Age material culture in the UK and Glastonbury Lake Village was the best preserved prehistoric settlement ever discovered in the UK.
RRP: £40.00
Later Prehistory of the Badia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842174739
Pub Date: 03 May 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Description:
The Jordanian badia is an arid region that has been largely protected from modern development by its extreme climate and has preserved a remarkably rich record of its prehistoric past. This is the second of two volumes to document extensive surveys and excavations in the region from Al-Azraq to the Iraqi border over the period 1979-1996. Broadly, it covers the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the eastern badia.
RRP: £48.00
Rough Cilicia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781842175187
Pub Date: 03 May 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 260 col illus.
Description:
The region of Rough Cilicia (modern area the south-western coastal area of Turkey), known in antiquity as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the western part of the larger area of Cilicia. It is characterised by the ruggedness of its territory and the protection afforded by the high mountains combined with the rugged seacoast fostered the prolific piracy that developed in the late Hellenistic period, bringing much notoriety to the area. It was also known as a source of timber, primarily for shipbuilding.
Oceans Odyssey 3. The Deep-Sea Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 201
ISBN: 9781782971481
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa, Florida, commenced the world’s first robotic archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south of the Tortugas Islands in the Straits of Florida. At a depth of 405 meters, 16,903 artefacts were recovered using a Remotely-Operated Vehicle. The wreck is interpreted as the Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señora del Rosario, a small Portuguese-built and Spanish-operated merchant vessel from the 1622 Tierra Firme fleet returning to Seville from Venezuela’s Pearl Coast when lost in a hurricane.
RRP: £30.00
TRAC 2012 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781782971979
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC
Description:
The twenty-second Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) was held at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main in spring 2012. During the three-day conference fifty papers were delivered, discussing issues from a wide range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire, and applying various theoretical and methodological approaches. An equally wide selection of subjects was presented: sessions looked at Greek art and philhellenism in the Roman world, the validity of the concept of ‘Romanisation’, change and continuity in Roman religion, urban neighbourhood relations in Pompeii and Ostia, the transformation of objects in and from the Roman world, frontier markets and Roman archaeology in the Provinces.
Current Research in Egyptology 13 (2012) Cover
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781782971566
Pub Date: 19 Mar 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Current Research in Egyptology
Description:
The thirteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was held from the 27th – 30th March 2012 at the University of Birmingham and once again provided a platform for postgraduates and early career Egyptologists, as well as independent researchers, to present their research. These proceedings for CREXIII represent the wide-range of themes that were offered by delegates during the conference, and cover all periods of Egyptian history; from Predynastic skeletal analysis through to Egyptology during the Islamic Middle Ages. These twelve papers include gender studies, analysis of Egyptian festivals, revisiting of chronological models, archaeological reanalysis of ancient landscapes, as well as social, historical and linguistic studies allowing a new appraisal of many aspects of Egyptian culture and history.
A Glorious Empire Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781842175101
Pub Date: 08 Mar 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Fifteen papers present the results of new research into various aspects of material culture and historical archaeology that reflect culture, trade and social interaction shared by Britain and Colonial America during the Tudor and Stuart periods. Recurrent themes include the use, significance and, in some cases, trade in specific types of pottery, including the ubiquitous stoneware flasks or canteens for sailors and solders on both sides of the Atlantic, and commodities such as wine and copper objects; the architectural history of manor houses and archaeology of plantations; aspects of the historical archaeology of Jamestown and Martins Hundred; the role of specific individuals in the development of Tudor-Stuart life and our new understand of a London destroyed the Great Fire based on Noel Humes rescue digs in a London destroyed by the Blitz. Overall the papers reflect the wide-ranging interests of Ivor Noël Hume, to whom the volume is dedicated.
RRP: £45.00
Geophysical Data in Archaeology Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9781782971443
Pub Date: 07 Mar 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Archaeology Data Service & Digital Antiquity Guides to Good Practice
Description:
Anyone who has tried to archive archaeological geophysics data will have wondered what might be the most comprehensive and practical approach. This question is addressed by this Guide’s extensively revised 2nd edition, which systematically explores what should be included in an Archive, illustrated with relevant examples. A conceptual framework is developed that allows assembling data and meta-data so that they can be deposited with an Archiving Body.
Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781842175255
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives.
Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781842174890
Pub Date: 11 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 8 colour & 82 b/w illustrations
Description:
In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products. The thirteen intriguing chapters in Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East describe the developments and changes from household to standardised, industrialised and centralised productions which take place in the region.
RRP: £38.00
The Oasis Papers 6 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9781842175248
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Dakhleh Oasis Papers
Description:
The Dakhleh Oasis Project is a long-term holistic investigation of the evolution of human populations in the changing environmental conditions of this isolated region in the Western Desert of Egypt. The Project began in 1978 and has combined survey and excavation to collect an extensive range of geological, environmental and archaeological data which covers the last 350,000 years of human occupation. This latest volume in the Monograph series publishing the results of the Project contains 41 papers with a wealth of new research and significant discoveries, from Prehistory, through Pharaonic and Roman times to the Christian period.
RRP: £90.00
Nishapur Revisited Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781842174944
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 105 col illus.
Description:
Nishapur in eastern Iran was an important Silk Road city, its position providing links to central Asia and China, Afghanistan and India, the Persian Gulf and the west. Despite previous excavations there are many unresolved questions surrounding the site; when was the city founded? Is Nishapur a Sasanian city?
RRP: £50.00
Interpreting Archaeological Topography Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842175163
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 185 col illus
Description:
Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS), or lidar, is an enormously important innovation for data collection and interpretation in archaeology. The application of archaeological 3D data deriving from sources including ALS, close-range photogrammetry and terrestrial and photogrammetric scanners has grown exponentially over the last decade. Such data present numerous possibilities and challenges, from ensuring that applications remain archaeologically relevant, to developing practices that integrate the manipulation and interrogation of complex digital datasets with the skills of archaeological observation and interpretation.
Butrint 4 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9781842174623
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Illustrations: c.50 col & c.325 b/w illus
Description:
This richly illustrated volume discusses the histories of the port city of Butrint, and its intimate connection to the wider conditions of the Adriatic. In so doing it is a reading, and re-reading, of the site that adds significantly to the study of Mediterranean urban history over the longue durée . Firstly, the book proposes a new paradigm for the development-history of Butrint - based on discussions of the latest archaeological, historical and landscape studies from approximately 20 new excavations and surveys, together covering a temporal arch from prehistory to the early modern period.
RRP: £55.00
Exchange Networks and Local Transformations Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781842174852
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Throughout the local Bronze and Iron Age, European and Mediterranean societies appear to have been involved in complex systems of exchange networks which invariably affected local customs and historical developments. Archaeological evidence suggests social and economic phenomena, cultural expressions and technological skills stemmed from multifaceted encounters between local traditions and external influences. Examples of cultural openness and transcultural hybridisation seem to be more of a norm than an exception.
RRP: £38.00