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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.

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'.
From Foragers to Farmers Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 298
ISBN: 9781842173541
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus & tbls throughout
Description:
This volume celebrates the career of archaebotanist Professor Gordon C. Hillman. Twenty-eight papers cover a wide range of topics reflecting the great influence that Hillman has had in the field of archaeobotany.
Italy and the West Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 233
ISBN: 9781842170427
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: many b/w illus
Description:
Nineteen papers examining varied responses to Romanization, and how this affects our view of the development of the Roman Empire. The traditional view of Romanization is as the triumph of a superior and more advanced culture over primitive communities, brought about by military expansion and resulting in the creation of a uniform political and cultural entity. It is only in the last twenty years that the variety of responses that Romanization elicited among the various ethnic groups, social classes, genders, spheres, and even within the same person in different conjunctures of his or her life, has begun to be appreciated.
Labyrinth Revisited Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781842170618
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: many b/w illus
Description:
Minoan' Crete is one of the most intensively investigated archaeological cultures in the world, and one that has often captured the public imagination. It is a Bronze Age Aegean society, but it has been intimately connected with the Classical Greek myth of King Minos and his Labyrinth since Sir Arthur Evans excavated and restored (some would say rebuilt') the important site of Knossos, more than a century ago. Yet many archaeological interpretations of this fascinating culture are still largely traditional in focus and often anachronistic.
Saddling the Dogs Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9781842173671
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: ASTENE Publications
Description:
In the absence of horses, saddle the dogs. This Arab proverb, suggesting the uncompromising determination of nomads to keep moving, whatever the obstacles, epitomizes also the travelling ethos of many early visitors to the 'exotic East'. The journeys examined here are linked by the light they shed on the experience of travel in Egypt, Greece and the Ottoman Balkans, and the Near East from the 17th to the early 20th century not so much what was seen as how one got there and how one got around once arrived; the vicissitudes and travails, both expected and strange that characterised the passage.
RRP: £20.00
Creating Communities Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 271
ISBN: 9781842173534
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 118 b/w illus, 16 tbls
Description:
The aim of this book is to raise questions about the investigation of identity, community and change in prehistory, and to challenge the current state of debate in Central European Neolithic archaeology. Although the LBK is one of the best researched Neolithic cultures in Europe, here the material is used in order to further explore the interconnection between individuals, households, settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions of Neolithic society and lived experience. By embracing a variety of approaches and voices, this volume draws out some of the cross-cutting concerns which unite LBK studies in their different regional research contexts and paves the way for further debate on the subject.
RRP: £40.00
Inside the City in the Greek World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781842173497
Pub Date: 09 Jun 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology Monographs
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
The publication of the papers presented in this volume marks an important step in the study of ancient cities. Despite having long been a focus of archaeological investigation and analysis, until relatively recently they have tended to be described rather than analysed. These eleven papers concentrate on analysing ancient urban centres from within, exploring some of the ways in which people lived in, perceived and modified their built environments.
From Bann Flakes to Bushmills Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781842173558
Pub Date: 01 Jun 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
This volume of papers is dedicated to Peter Woodman in celebration of his contribution to archaeology, providing a glimpse of the many ways in which he has touched the lives of so many. The twenty-one contributions cover many aspects of predominantly Mesolithic archaeology in Ireland, mainland Britain and North-west Europe, reflecting the range and breadth of Peters own interests and the international esteem in which his work is held. His particular interest in antiquarians and the material they collected began early in his career and Part 1 presents papers which deal with artefacts and finds by antiquarians.
Mesolithic Horizons Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 980
ISBN: 9781842173114
Pub Date: 30 May 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Mesolithic Horizons marks the publication of the proceedings of the seventh international conference on 'The Mesolithic in Europe' (Belfast 2005). The numbers attending these five-yearly conferences continue to grow - testimony to the growing interest in a period that less than fifty years ago was seen by many as either a 'hiatus' between two more interesting periods, or as a poorly understood phase of little consequence. This is an enormous compendium of research published in two volumes with over 140 papers drawn from the whole of Europe, ranging from the European Arctic to many parts of the Mediterranean, and from the British Isles to Russia.
RRP: £150.00
Defining a Regional Neolithic Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 138
ISBN: 9781842173336
Pub Date: 29 May 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers
Illustrations: 60 b/w illus
Description:
This book is the ninth published collection of papers from a Neolithic Studies Group day conference, and it continues the Group's aim of presenting research on the Neolithic of all parts of the British Isles. The topic - regional diversity - is an important theme in Neolithic studies today, and embraces traditions of monumentality, settlement patterns and material culture. The contributors to this volume address issues of regionality through a series of case-studies that focus not on the traditional 'cores' of Wessex and Orkney, but rather on other areas - the 'Irish Sea Zone', Ireland, Scotland, Yorkshire and the Midlands.
Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II Cover Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9781842173503
Pub Date: 01 May 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 32p of col plates, b/w illus throughout
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9781789250596
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 32p of col plates, b/w illus throughout
Description:
This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007. Together with the 1994 conference (Volume I, Oxbow 1997), these are the first of their kind - focusing purely on Athenian pottery and addressing key aspects of its study. The thirty-two papers contained here are the result not only of a large amount of new material but also the dynamic appearance of a younger generation of scholars dealing with the subject.
The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781842173657
Pub Date: 06 Apr 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Description:
Human bones form the most direct link to understanding how people lived in the past, who they were and where they came from. The interpretative value of human skeletal remains (within their burial context) in terms of past social identity and organisation is awesome, but was, for many years, underexploited by archaeologists. The nineteen papers in this edited volume are an attempt to redress this by marrying the cultural aspects of burial with the anthropology of the deceased.
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