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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.
From Surface Collection to Prehistoric Lifeways Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842173916
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 8 page colour section, 80 b/w illus, 34 tables
Description:
The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal. BC have now been the focus of intensive and increasingly inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European heartlands, these communities created distinctive social formations that left enduring marks on today's landscapes.
RRP: £60.00
Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781842173923
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 42 b/w illus, 15 tables
Description:
This volume brings together an international group of researchers to address how Mycenaean and Minoan states controlled the economy. The contributions, originally delivered at the 2007 Langford Conference at the Florida State University, examine the political economies of state (and pre-state) entities within the Aegean Bronze Age, including the issues of centralization and multiple scales of production, distribution, and consumption within a polity; importance of extraregional trade; craft specialization; the role of non-elite institutions, and the political economy before the emergence of the palaces. The contributors address these issues from an explicitly comparative perspective, both within and across Minoan and Mycenaean contexts.
Representations and Communications Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781842173978
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 53 b/w illus
Description:
In this volume, which is the outcome of the four-year long collaboration project SARA (Scandinavian and Atlantic Rock Art) between the archaeology department at University of Gothenburg and the Laboratory of Heritage of Spanish National Research Council, nine papers summarize new excavation and survey results, advanced studies of iconography and intriguing landscape studies. It addresses topics such as human activities in the vicinity and surroundings of rock-art panels, movement and communication, ritual and symbolism, and finally representations and constructions of landscapes. The book is a sophisticated study of the rock art of two major regions of prehistoric Europe, but one with implications for research over a much wider area.
RRP: £25.00
Signals of Belief in Early England Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842173954
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 35 b/w illus
Description:
This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this. Previous understanding of the topic, well rooted in the ideas of its time, regarded the English as adherents of two consecutive religions: Paganism governed the settlers of the 4th-6th century, but was superseded in the 7th-10th century by Christianity. Of the two, Christianity, a religion of the book, documented itself thoroughly, while in failing to do so Paganism laid itself open to centuries of abuse, conjecture or mindless admiration.
Haltonchesters Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781842173602
Pub Date: 25 Mar 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
This report presents the results of the excavations directed, in 1960 and 1961, by Mr J. P. Gillam within the fort at Haltonchesters.
TRAC 2009 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9781842179727
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC
Description:
This volume was derived from the nineteenth annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, which took place at the University of Michigan (3-5 April 2009) and the University of Southampton (17-18 April 2009).
RRP: £36.00
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.
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