Description:
Essays describing recent research and new discoveries of Hellenistic sculpture, based on papers presented at an international conference at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1996.
Oxbow Books
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781900188593
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1998
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC
Illustrations: many b/w illus
Description:
The proceedings of the Seventh Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference at the University of Nottinghamin April 1997.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 229
ISBN: 9781900188210
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: with numerous figures
Description:
Essays on recent developments and recent discoveries in Rock Art research around the world, based on the proceedings of the 1995 Rock Art conference held in Italy. This is the third in the five-yearly surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world, which builds upon the exciting contributions made in the first two volumes of this series. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781900188432
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Dakhleh Oasis Project Monographs
Illustrations: 30 b/w plates
Description:
This volume of the Dakhleh Oasis Project presents a first edition of the texts of three orations by or attributed to Isocrates ( Ad Demonicum , Ad Nicolem and the Nicocles ) as found in a new 4th century AD codex from Ismant el-Kharab in the Dahkleh Oasis (ancient Kellis). Isocrates himself lived in the 4th century BC; he was an Athenian orator who wrote many famous and influential speeches (although he never delivered them in public) which provide us with an extremely valuable commentary on the great political issues in the Greek world during the 4th century. This codex is immensely exciting as it is the earliest text of Isocrates ever to have been found.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781900188296
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC
Illustrations: 43 figs
Description:
Eighteen papers from the 1996 TRAC gathering. The contributions are: Theorising Roman Archaeology ( J C Barrett ); Romanization'-imperialism': What are we talking about? ( P Freeman ); Technologies of power in Roman Britain ( C Forcey ); The enemy without, the enemy within: more thoughts on the images ( I Ferris ); The role of African Red Slip ware vessel volume in Mediterranean demography ( J W J Hawthorne ); Samian: beyond dating ( S Willis ); Symbols, pottery and trade ( P Rush ); Native or Roman?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 167
ISBN: 9781900188258
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Journal of Roman Pottery Studies
Illustrations: many figs
Description:
This issue of JRPS is devoted to a comprehensive study of stamped decoration of flue tiles. There is a catalogue of the known patterns and a complete corpus of the known examples of each with their distribution. It is a volume that will be valuable for future reference as well as for an understanding of the manufacture and trade in the tiles.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 356
ISBN: 9781900188333
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: numerous illustrations
Description:
Landscape archaeology, a recent theoretical discovery in the west, has long been practised by eastern european scholars. This stimulating collection of papers ranges over the whole of central and eastern Europe and from the Neolithic to the early Medieval periods.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781900188227
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1997
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: with 21 b/w plates
Description:
Naukratis, the first city in Egypt where Greeks were permitted to settle and one of the major centres of the ancient world, is located in the West Nile Delta south of modern Alexandria, It was first excavated by Flinders Petrie in 1884; his discoveries indicated occupation from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity. The limited extent of Petrie's excavations and the erosion of the site inspired the American Ancient Naukratis Project to start new fieldwork in 1980. This volume contains details of an intensive surface survey (with selective drill-sampling) of the area surrounding Petrie's trenches, which have become waterlogged.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 162
ISBN: 9780961349134
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1996
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: with illus .
Description:
This is the first study of goldsmiths who were apprenticed and/or worked in the City of Oxford. Manuscripts in both Oxford and London reveal an enormous amount of information regarding not only their work, but also their personal lives, relationships and politics.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9781900188173
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1996
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: numerous illus
Description:
The naval history of the Lower Danube and the Black Sea in Roman and Byzantine times is here brought to light in a series of essays that look at the historical and archaeological evidence for the fleet and its role as a frontier force; the structure of the fleet; the types of ships; the ports and harbours; the activity and use of the fleet during the first to sixth centuries AD; and the epigraphic evidence for it. The text is in French throughout.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781900188012
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1995
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: with drawings and photos
Description:
A collection of papers that document some of the huge wealth of archaeological material currently being discovered around the shores of the Black Sea. Papers include: Thracia Pontica ( Alexander Fol ); The problem of Krounoi-Dionysopolis: one settlement ot two? ( Zlatozara Gocheva ); Colchis and Bosporus: two models of colonisation?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 103
ISBN: 9780946897957
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1995
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: JRMES
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Topics include: fragments of a lorica hamata from Fluitenberg; a bronze spearhead from Augusta Rauricorum; stone barracks built to replicate tents from Spain; The de munitonibus castrorum; Hedgehogs, caltrops and palisade stakes; The ownership and disposal of military equipment in the Late Roman army; decorative objects from a Roman villa at Wange; Two dolphin scabbard runers from Carlisle.
Some Challenges in Contemporary Archaeology
Format: Paperback
Description:
Archaeology is a diverse discipline, it operates through a number of institutional arrangements, each of which has a particular agenda and set of agreed working practices. Diversity might be regarded as a strength, reflecting the dynamism with which archaeological concerns have become a widely used currency in our modern world. But if we accept that diversity exists in a single discipline we might also wonder what defines the common ground; what is it that, at the end of the day, continues to make us all archaeologists?
Urban-Rural Connections
Perspectives from Environmental Archaeology
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780946897810
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1995
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology
Illustrations: with fig & illus.
Description:
The potential of environmental evidence in the archaeological record for investigating the links between towns and their rural hinterlands is the focus of this volume. Most papers use evidence from Roman and Medieval Britain but there are also case studies from Paris, medieval Holland, and Oslo. Essential reading for specialists, this book also amply demonstrates the relevance of environmental evidence to central theoretical debates in historic archaeology.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 55
ISBN: 9780946897841
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1995
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Well Built Mycenae
Illustrations: figs, 11 pls, 3 fiche, fold-out map
Description:
The structures, building techniques, distribution of finds, function of the complex and parallels with similar sites. NO FICHE LEFT
Format: Paperback
Pages: 298
ISBN: 9780946897933
Pub Date: 01 Jan 1995
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Oxbow Monographs
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
The conference in Manchester in 1992 which this book came out of was organised to raise the profile of the study of mortuary remains in the Ancient Near East. Thirty papers from the conference are published here, covering a wide variety of regions and periods, from Epipalaeolithic to modern. Many different aspects are examined: physical anthropology, burial goods, social structure, ethoarchaeology, etc.