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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.

Excavations by K. M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 592
ISBN: 9781842173046
Pub Date: 06 Aug 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Description:
The fifth volume in the series of final reports on the work of the Joint Expedition to Jerusalem in the 1960s describes the discoveries made in six sites in the ancient city and places them in the archaeological and historical context of Jerusalem and the surrounding lands. Among the most debated issues are the extent of the occupation of the city during the Iron Age, the location of the southern defence line in Herodian and Roman times, and the date of the destruction of an Umayyad palatial structure. There is fresh information on the civic amenities of the southern half of the Byzantine city, and on the structure of the Ottoman city defences built under Sulaiman the Magnificent in the sixteenth century.
RRP: £75.00
Rock Art Studies - News of the World Volume 3 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781842173169
Pub Date: 05 Aug 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions. The volume presents examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the New World.
RRP: £65.00
Escaping the Labyrinth Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781842172919
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology
Illustrations: 80 b/w illus
Description:
Beneath the Bronze Age 'Palace of Minos', Neolithic Knossos is one of the earliest known farming settlements in Europe and perhaps the longest-lived. For 3000 years, Neolithic Knossos was also perhaps one of very few settlements on Crete and, for much of this time, maintained a distinctive material culture. This volume radically enhances understanding of the important, but hitherto little known, Neolithic settlement and culture of Crete.
Assyrian Stone Vessels and Related Material in the British Museum Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781842173121
Pub Date: 17 Jul 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
This catalogue makes available more than 600 complete or fragmentary stone vessels kept in the British Museum. Most of them were excavated at Nineveh and other major sites in northern Iraq and Syria, and are presented here for the first time. They range in date from prehistory down to the Persian and Hellenistic periods; the bulk belong in the eighth and seventh centuries, when the Near East under Assyrian rule grew increasingly cosmopolitan.
Time and Change Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781842173206
Pub Date: 04 Jul 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 38 b/w illus 7 tabs
Description:
This volume explores long-term behavioural patterns and processes of change in hunter-gatherer societies from the Lower Palaeolithic to the present. In doing so, this volume questions the disciplinary distinctions between fine and coarse-grain understandings of hunter-gatherer societies in anthropology and archaeology and challenges the perception that these distinctions are inherent to the two disciplines. The volume brings together studies that specifically address long-term behavioural patterns in hunter-gatherer societies past and present.
Bronze Age Settlements in the Low Countries Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781842173077
Pub Date: 04 Jun 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The Low Countries around the deltas of the river Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt have a long tradition in large scale archaeological research. This book brings together research from thirteen of the largest Bronze Age settlements described by their original excavators. These contributions are preceded by two introductory chapters written by the editors, providing a full overview of the state of Dutch Bronze Age settlement research, the key sites and the explanatory models current within it.
Feeding the Roman Army Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 169
ISBN: 9781842173237
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
These ten papers from two Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (2007) sessions bring together a growing body of new archaeological evidence in an attempt to reconsider the way in which the Roman army was provisioned. Clearly, the adequate supply of food was essential to the success of the Roman military. But what was the nature of those supply networks?
The Tribe of Witches Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 195
ISBN: 9781842173190
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Until now the old religions of Britain have only been looked at in a piecemeal way. This book presents a detailed and focused investigation of the religion of the Dobunni and the Hwicce peoples who occupied the Severn valley and the Cotswolds immediately before and after the Roman occupation. It uncovers some secrets of the old religion of Britain that have lain hidden in reams of unconnected and largely forgotten information, from a variety of sources.
TRAC 2007 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 162
ISBN: 9781842173220
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
A selection of papers from the seventeenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology conference 2007, held at University College London. Sessions included Developing Identity in Roman Studies?; The archaeology of ethnic conflict: Race, equality and power in the Roman world; Roman Archaeologies in Context; The Archaeological Potential of Londinium and Experiencing the Sacred.
Changing Perspectives on the First Millennium BC Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781842173268
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Cardiff Studies in Archaeology
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
These fifteen papers came out of the eighth annual meeting of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar (IARSS) and are loosely grouped into three topics: settlement studies, deposition and material culture, and experimental archaeology. Most of the studies are re-examinings of well known data sets, such as hillforts, small enclosures and bone assemblages, both human and animal. They are mainly focused on the British Iron Age - one of the most heterogeneous and regionally distinctive periods in British prehistory.
Living Well Together? Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 178
ISBN: 9781842172674
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Living Well Together investigates the development of the Neolithic in southeast and central Europe from 6500-3500 cal BC with special reference to the manifestations of settling down. A collection of reports and comments on recent fieldwork in the region, Living Well Together? provides 14 tightly written and targeted papers presenting interpretive discussions from important excavations and reassessments of our understanding of the Neolithic.
Dressing the Past Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 167
ISBN: 9781842172698
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Illustrations: b/w and col illus t/out
Description:
Minoan ladies, Scythian warriors, Roman and Sarmatian merchants, prehistoric weavers, gold sheet figures, Vikings, Medieval saints and sinners, Renaissance noblemen, Danish peasants, dressmakers and Hollywood stars appear in the pages of this anthology. This is not necessarily how they dressed in the past, but how the authors of this book think they dressed in the past, and why they think so. No reader of this book will ever look at a reconstructed costume in a museum or at a historical festival, or watch a film with a historic theme again without a heightened awareness of how, why, and from what sources, the costumes were reconstructed.
RRP: £35.00
Blood Red Roses Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 294
ISBN: 9781842172896
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: plus 10p of colour plates
Description:
The Battle of Towton in North Yorkshire, fought during the Wars of the Roses, was reputedly the bloodiest battle ever seen on English soil. In 1996 a mass grave of soldiers was discovered there by chance. This was the catalyst for a multi-disciplinary research project, still unique in Britain ten years after the initial discovery, which included a study of the skeletal remains, the battlefield landscape, the historical evidence and contemporary arms and armour.
Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 306
ISBN: 9781842172902
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Excavations at Flixborough
Description:
The environmental archaeological evidence from the site of Flixborough (in particular the animal bone assemblage) provides a series of unique insights into Anglo-Saxon life in England during the 8th to 10th centuries. The research reveals detailed evidence for the local and regional environment, many aspects of the local and regional agricultural economy, changing resource exploitation strategies and the extent of possible trade and exchange networks. Perhaps the most important conclusions have been gleaned from the synthesis of these various lines of evidence, viewed in a broader archaeological context.
The Best Training Ground for Archaeologists Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 688
ISBN: 9781842172803
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
To his contemporaries, Francis John Haverfield was the 'father of Romano-British studies', and his death on September 30th 1919 was greeted with widespread lamentation. In the decades immediately following his death, Haverfield's reputation survived largely undiminished, in fact his view of the Romanisation of Britain became so widely accepted that it held sway for almost a century, and is only now being re-examined by both positive and negative interpreters of his views. What is clear however, is that his immense contribution to the study of Roman Britain is worthy of attention.
The North Through its Names Cover The North Through its Names Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781842171769
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: English Surnames Survey
Illustrations: 47 b/w figs
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781785709791
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: English Surnames Survey
Illustrations: 47 b/w figs
Description:
The North of England and northern-ness are elusive concepts, both academically and in popular perception. This volume in the English Surnames Survey series looks at what can be learned about the idea of the 'North' of England as a distinct identity from its surnames. The personal names from the north during the medieval/early modern period are linguistic phenomena, incorporating dialect speech that defined a northern consciousness, and in this way are an invaluable resource in exploring a northern identity.
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