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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.

Archaeology and Memory Cover Archaeology and Memory Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781842173633
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 78 b/w illus
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781785704581
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Memory can be both a horrifying trauma and an empowering resource. From the Ancient Greeks to Nietzsche and Derrida, the dilemma about the relationship between history and memory has filled many pages, with one important question singled out: is the writing of history to memory a remedy or a poison? Recently, a growing interest in and preoccupation with the issue of memory, remembering and forgetting has resulted in a proliferation of published works, in various disciplines, that have memory as their focus.
Landscape of the Megaliths Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 402
ISBN: 9781842179710
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus t/out
Description:
This volume describes the results of the Longstones Project , a joint-universities programme of excavation and survey designed to develop a fuller understanding of the context and dynamics of monument construction in the later Neolithic (3rd millennium BC) of the Avebury region, Wiltshire. Several elements of this internationally important prehistoric monument complex were investigated: an early-mid 3rd millennium BC enclosure at Beckhampton; the recently re-discovered Beckhampton Avenue and Longstones Cove; a section of the West Kennet Avenue; the Falkner's stone circle; and the Cove within Avebury's Northern Inner Circle. The research sheds new light on the complexities and development of this monument rich area and consideration is given to the questions of how and why ceremonial centres such as that at Avebury came into being in the 3rd millennium BC.
Gilgal Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781842174135
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph
Description:
The Gilgal Neolithic sites are among the first sites where cultivation emerged in the Levant. This book provides the full report of the late Tamar Noy's excavations including stratigraphy, architecture, artifacts, art objects, faunal, and botanical collections.
RRP: £35.00
Aldhelm and Sherborne Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842173572
Pub Date: 10 Feb 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 4 colour plates, accompanying CD
Description:
This collection of papers follows on from a conference, held in Sherborne in June 2005, marking the thirteen-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the bishopric by Aldhelm of Malmesbury. This volume looks at the work of Aldhelm and the foundation of the see of Sherborne in the wider context of his career and his world. At the Sherborne symposium, Katherine Barker commissioned a performance of Aldhelm's Carmen rhythmicum by a rune-singer and an instrumentalist.
Oceans Odyssey Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842174159
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 339 col illus
Description:
In ten papers Odyssey Marine Exploration presents the technology, methodology and archaeological results from four deep-sea shipwrecks and one major survey conducted between 2003 and 2008. The sites lie beyond territorial waters in depths of up to 820 metres off southeastern America and in the Straits of Gibraltar and the English Channel. Exclusively recorded using robotic technology in the form of a Remotely-Operated Vehicle, the wrecks range from the major Royal Navy warships HMS Sussex (1694) and the unique, 100-gun, first-rate HMS Victory (1744)to the steamship SS Republic (1865) and a mid-19th century merchant vessel with a cargo of British porcelain.
RRP: £25.00
The Early Roman Empire in the East Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781900188524
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: figs
Description:
A group of essays that trace the development of Roman influence in the eastern parts of the empire. Contents include: Urbanization ( Greg Woolf ); Roman colonies in the province of Achaia ( A Rizakis ); Syrian desert ( M Gawlikowski ); The Syrian countryside ( G Tate ); Jewish rural settlement ( Y Hirschfield ); Roman relations with the Persicus sinus ( D T Potts ); The Imperial image ( C B Rose ); The Black Sea region ( David Braund ); Funerary monuments in Asia Minor ( Sarah Cormack ); Tomb architecture at Palmyra ( A Schmidt-Colinet ); Pilgrimage, religion and visual culture in the East ( Jas Elsner ).
Peninj Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9781842173824
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph
Description:
The Early Pleistocene sediments of Peninj, west of Lake Natron (Tanzania), contain a wealth of archaeological and paleontological sites formed during the emergence of the genus Homo and the extinction of the last australopithecines. Peninj has preserved tantalizing evidence that hominids, living in an open savanna, were acquiring animal resources through predation. Evidence also suggests that hominids repeatedly visited points on the landscape to conduct specific and distinct activities, such as butchering or tool manufacture.
The Archaeology of the Dead Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9781842173565
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist course in burial archaeology given by Duday in Rome in November 2004. The primary aim of the project was to contribute to the development of common procedures for excavation, data collection and study of Roman cemeteries of the imperial period.
KOINE Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842173794
Pub Date: 23 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 137b/w illus
Description:
The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups' . This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles of R. Ross Holloways own unique perspective on ancient Mediterranean studies.
RRP: £50.00
The Medieval Broadcloth Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781842173817
Pub Date: 19 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Illustrations: b/w illus & 42 colour illustrations
Description:
The eight papers presented here provide a useful introduction to medieval broadcloth, and an up-to-date synthesis of current research. The word broadcloth is nowadays used as an overall term for the woven textiles mass-produced and exported all over Europe. It was first produced in Flanders as a luxurious cloth from the 11th century and throughout the medieval period.
Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781842173886
Pub Date: 18 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col illus
Description:
Dorchester-on-Thames and its abbey have been subjects of antiquarian interest for more than 450 years, and during that time much has been written about them. They are, however, still far from being comprehensively studied and recorded. Indeed, the most substantial architectural description of the medieval church was written as long ago as 1845, and a thoroughgoing reappraisal has long been overdue.
A View from the West Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781842173626
Pub Date: 13 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 111 figs
Description:
At the heart of this study are the early Neolithic chambered tombs of the Irish Sea zone, defined as west Wales, the west coast of northern Britain, coastal south and western Scotland, the western isles and the Isle of Man, and the eastern coast of Ireland. In order to understand these monuments, there must be a broader consideration of their landscape settings. The landscape setting of the chambered tombs is considered in detail, both overall and through a number of specific case studies, incorporating a much wider area than has been previously considered.
Tree-Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781842173862
Pub Date: 13 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The study of tree-rings (dendrochronology) provides a key resource for determining dates for archaeological and other contexts where wood/charcoal is present (and so cultural chronology), and for investigating past climate and environment. In the central and east Mediterranean region Peter Ian Kuniholm is synonymous with dendrochronology and dendroarchaeology. He led the creation of numerous tree-ring chronologies for the region (from forests, buildings, archaeological sites), and demonstrated the enormous potential and power of dendrochronology to a range of topics.
Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842173398
Pub Date: 30 Oct 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
The international conference "Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity" held in Nicosia in April 2003 filled an important gap in historical knowledge about Cyprus' relations with its neighbours. While the island's links with the Aegean and the Levant have been well documented and continue to be the subject of much archaeological attention, the exchanges between Cyprus and the Nile Valley are not as well known and have not before been comprehensively reviewed. They range in date from the mid third millennium B.
Land and People Cover Land and People Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842173732
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Illustrations: 99 b/w illus, 13 tbls
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781785707728
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Illustrations: 99 b/w illus, 13 tbls
Description:
This volume is derived, in concept, from a conference held in honour of John Evans by the School of History and Archaeology and The Prehistoric Society at Cardiff University in March 2006. It brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels. They cover geographical, methodological and thematic areas that were of interest to, and had been studied by, John Evans.
Bronze Age Connections Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781842173480
Pub Date: 03 Sep 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col illus
Description:
New and exciting discoveries on either side of the English Channel in recent years have begun to show that people living in the coastal zones of Belgium, southern Britain, northern France and the Netherlands shared a common material culture during the Bronze Age, between three and four thousand years ago. They used similar styles of pottery and metalwork, lived in the same kind of houses and buried their dead in the same kind of tombs, often quite different to those used by their neighbours further inland. The sea did not appear to be a barrier to these people but rather a highway, connecting communities in a unique cultural identity; the 'People of La Manche'.
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