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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.

The Economy of a Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 608
ISBN: 9781789255386
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Bornais
Illustrations: colour and b/w
Description:
This book explores the economic evidence for the settlement at Bornais on South Uist. It reports in detail on the large assemblages of material found during the excavations at mounds 2 and 2A. There is important evidence for craft activity, such as bone and antler working and this includes the only comb making workshop from a rural settlement in Britain.
RRP: £35.00
Exploring Celtic Origins Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781789255508
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age and Beaker Period of the people who emerge as Celts and speakers of Celtic languages documented in the Iron Age and later times. Led by Sir Barry Cunliffe and John Koch, the contributors present multidisciplinary chapters in a lively user-friendly style, aimed at accessibility for workers in the other fields, as well as general readers.
The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781789253849
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour illustrations
Description:
Could the circulation of objects or ideas and the mobility of artisans explain the unprecedented uniformity of the material culture observed throughout the whole of Europe? The 17 papers presented here offer a range of new and different perspectives on the Beaker phenomenon across Europe. The focus is not on Bell Beaker pottery but on social groups (craft specialists, warriors, chiefs, extended or nuclear families), using technological studies and physical anthropology to understand mobility patterns during the 3rd millennium BC.
RRP: £35.00
The Dyer's Handbook Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781789255492
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Description:
Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten olive, modest plum, agate, rich French gray, gunpowder of the English..
Archaeology and the Early Church in Southern Greece Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781789255751
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w and colour
Description:
A study of archaeology and the early Church in Greece is long overdue. So far, no book has been published in English that examines the growth of Christianity in southern Greece from New Testament times until the medieval period, taking into account both contemporary theological expertise and a detailed knowledge of the numerous and exciting current archaeological excavations. Situated between Israel and Italy, Greece is now yielding vital evidence of the development of early Christianity.
RRP: £55.00
Britannia Romana Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9781789255485
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Britannia Romana: Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain is based on the author’s 40 years’ experience of the epigraphy of Roman Britain. It collects 487 inscriptions (mostly on stone, but also on metal, wood, tile and ceramic), the majority from Britain but many from other Roman provinces and Italy, so as to illustrate the history and character of Roman Britain (AD 43–410). Each inscription is presented in the original (in Latin, except for eight in Greek), followed by a translation and informal commentary; they are linked by the narrative which they illustrate, and more than half (236) are accompanied by photographs.
Current Approaches to Tells in the Prehistoric Old World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781789254860
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Deeply stratified settlements are a distinctive site type featuring prominently in diverse later prehistoric landscapes of the Old World. Their massive materiality has attracted the curiosity of lay people and archaeologists alike. Nowadays a wide variety of archaeological projects are tracking the lifestyles and social practices that led to the building-up of such superimposed artificial hills.
RRP: £38.00
Monumentalising Life in the Neolithic Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781789254945
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: colour and b/w
Description:
One of the principal characteristics of the European Neolithic is the development of monumentality in association with innovations in material culture and changes in subsistence from hunting and gathering to farming and pastoralism. The papers in this volume discuss the latest insights into why monumental architecture became an integral part of early farming societies in Europe and beyond. One of the topics is how we define monuments and how our arguments and recent research on temporality impacts on our interpretation of the Neolithic period.
RRP: £50.00
Prehistoric Ukraine Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781789254587
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
This volume covers the Prehistory of Ukraine from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the end of the Neolithic periods. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of Ukrainian Prehistory from earliest times through until the Neolithic Period undertaken by researchers who are currently investigating the Prehistory of Ukraine. At present there are no other English language books on this subject that provide a current synthesis for these periods.
The Oasis Papers 8 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781789255713
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Dakhleh Oasis Papers
Illustrations: B/w
Description:
This is the only volume to present significant results of research into the Pleistocene of the Western Desert of Egypt. Research on Pleistocene prehistoric remains in Dakhleh Oasis began during survey in the 1978 Dakhleh Oasis Project (DOP) season, with discovery of the ubiquity of stone artefacts. Dedicated work by both prehistorians and environmentalists continued until 2011.
RRP: £45.00
Silk Roads Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781789254709
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of its subject, the field has moved out of the narrow niches of particular disciplines to become a truly interdisciplinary endeavor.
RRP: £55.00
Continuity and Rupture in Roman Mediterranean Gaul Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789255669
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: Colour and B/W
Description:
With the decline in popularity of the term “Romanization” as a way of analyzing the changes in the archaeological record visible throughout the conquered provinces of the Roman Empire, scholars have increasingly turned to the important concept of “identity” to understand the experiences of local peoples living under Roman rule. Studies of identity in the Roman Empire have thus emphasized how local peoples, rather than simply passively copying Roman culture, actively created and recreated complex and multi-faceted identities that incorporated local traditions within the increasingly connected and “globalized” world of the empire. How did the violent nature of Roman rule in the provinces impact local communities and the ways in which individuals interacted with one another?
RRP: £50.00
Kale Akte, the Fair Promontory Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781789252507
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: University of British Columbia Studies in the Ancient World
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
This volume investigates the interaction between the natural environment, market forces and political entities in an ancient Sicilian town and its surrounding micro-region over the time-span of a thousand years. Focusing on the ancient polis of Kale Akte (Caronia) and the surrounding Nebrodi area on the north coast of Sicily, the book examines the city’s archaeology and history from a broad geographical and cultural viewpoint, suggesting that Kale Akte may have had a greater economic importance for Sicily and the wider Mediterranean world than its size and lowly political status would suggest. Also discussed is the gradual population shift away from the hill-top down to a growing harbour settlement at Caronia Marina, at the foot of the rock.
RRP: £60.00
Material Cultures in Public Engagement Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781789253689
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
The Material Cultures in Public Engagement volume seeks to document and explore the significant change in the relationship of Museums with collections of the Ancient World and their audiences. The volume establishes a new approach to the study of public archaeology as a discipline and application within Museums, by bringing together the voices and experiences of museum professionals (curators, conservators and researchers) and public engagement professionals. Chapters in this volume present clear case-studies of the variety and diversity of public engagement projects conducted currently within European Museums and beyond.
RRP: £25.00
The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 720
ISBN: 9781789255263
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Central Zagros Archaeological Project
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within the scope of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, excavations have been conducted since 2012 at two Early Neolithic sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Bestansur and Shimshara. Bestansur represents an early stage in the transition to sedentary, farming life, where the inhabitants pursued a mixed strategy of hunting, foraging, herding and cultivating, maximising the new opportunities afforded by the warmer, wetter climate of the Early Holocene.
A Globalised Visual Culture? Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9781789254464
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: Colour illustrations
Description:
Late Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca. 300 to 800 C.E.
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