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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.
Global Ancestors Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781842175330
Pub Date: 07 Oct 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col. illus
Description:
Global Ancestors is a collection of papers which reflect on modern museological responses to the often complex and emotive relationship that people have with the ancestors and objects which they created. Set out in three broad themes, the first collection of papers explore how indigenous peoples are represented in museums in Panama and China and how more can be gained by working with indigenous communities to further our understanding of the ancestors. The second section examines changes in British and American museological thinking regarding the repatriation of human remains and objects to indigenous peoples, focusing in particular on the impact of legislation on western institutions and the expectations of indigenous communities and alternative religious groups.
RRP: £32.00
Counting People Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9781842174807
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Local and family historians are often afraid to use numerical data (Statistics) in their research and writing. Yet numbers are an essential part of much historical work, obviously in population history but also in local studies of agriculture, industry and social history. Counting People shows how amateur historians can use computers with appropriate programs to provide numerical illustrations of various historical topics as well as easing their researches.
Ancient Textiles, Modern Science Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 133
ISBN: 9781842176641
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
The European Textile Forum was founded as an annual meeting for academics, craftspeople, re-enactors and enthusiasts to share their experiences and compare notes. With varied day workshops and evening lectures, the ‘Textilforum’ has something for everyone. The conference takes place over a week, which not only allows time to learn new techniques and discuss new findings, but to also undertake lengthy experiments that require a large number of experienced specialists.
Bosworth 1485 Cover Bosworth 1485 Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781782971733
Pub Date: 22 Aug 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: colour throughout
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781789258776
Pub Date: 25 Jun 2022
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: Colour
Description:
Bosworth stands alongside Naseby and Hastings as one of the three most iconic battles ever fought on English soil. The action on 22 August 1485 brought to an end the dynastic struggle known as the Wars of the Roses and heralded the dawn of the Tudor dynasty. However, Bosworth was also the most famous lost battlefield in England.
The First Farmers of Central Europe Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 608
ISBN: 9781842175309
Pub Date: 09 Jul 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Cardiff Studies in Archaeology
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first farmers of central Europe, the LBK culture (Linearbandkeramik), are seen in distinctive practices of longhouse use, settlement forms, landscape choice, subsistence, material culture and mortuary rites. Within the five or more centuries of LBK existence a dynamic sequence of changes can be seen in, for instance, the expansion and increasing density of settlement, progressive regionalisation in pottery decoration, and at the end some signs of stress or even localised crisis. Although showing many features in common across its very broad distribution, however, the LBK phenomenon was not everywhere the same, and there is a complicated mixture of uniformity and diversity.
Re-Presenting the Past Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 215
ISBN: 9781782972310
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Joukowsky Institute Publication
Illustrations: 46 b/w figs, 12 col figs
Description:
The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries. Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and field notes, while others are visual: the drawings, paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualizations that allow us to re-present past forms of human existence. This volume brings together nine papers, six of which were presented at a symposium hosted at Brown University.
RRP: £25.00
Souvenirs and New Ideas Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781842178157
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: ASTENE Publications
Description:
During the 18th and 19th centuries, many travellers aimed to record their travels through Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and Turkey by collecting souvenirs and mementos of places they had visited. This natural inclination took many different guises: from innocent activities such as making diaries and sketches, gathering academic knowledge or taking photographs, to acquiring souvenirs, very often antiquities. Other, more unscrupulous, travellers undertook journeys specifically to ‘collect’ antiquities to form the basis of museum collections or to profit by re-selling them.
Caring for Digital Data in Archaeology Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 122
ISBN: 9781782972495
Pub Date: 31 May 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illustrations, 1 col.
Description:
A wide variety of organizations are both creating and retaining digital data from archaeological projects. While current methods for preservation and access to data vary widely, nearly all of these organizations agree that careful management of digital archaeological resources is an important aspect of responsible archaeological stewardship. The Archaeology Data Service and Digital Antiquity have produced this guide to provide information on the best way to create, manage, and document digital data files produced during the course of an archaeological project.
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
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