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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.

Grave Disturbances Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789254426
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Description:
Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Displaced bones and artefacts, traces of pits, and damage to tombs or coffins can all provide clues about post-burial activities.
Peopling Insular Art Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781789254549
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
The International Conference on Insular Art (IIAC) is the leading forum for scholars of the visual and material culture of early medieval Ireland and Britain, including manuscript illumination, sculpture, metalwork, and textiles, and encompassing the work of Anglo-Saxon-, Celtic- and Norse-speaking artists. The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the eighth IIAC, which took place in Glasgow 11-14 July 2017. The theme of IIAC8 - Peopling Insular Art: Practice, Performance, Perception - was intended to focus attention on those who commissioned, created, and engaged with Insular art objects, and how they conceptualised, fashioned, and experienced them (with ‘engagement’ covering not only contemporary audiences, but later medieval and modern ones too).
RRP: £38.00
Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9781789253276
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behaviour while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred.
The Social Context of Technology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781789251760
Pub Date: 14 Jun 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
The Social Context of Technology explores non-ferrous metalworking in Britain and Ireland during the Bronze and Iron Ages (c. 2500 BC to 1st century AD). Bronze-working dominates the evidence, though the crafting of other non-ferrous metals – including gold, silver, tin and lead – is also considered.
Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in the Age of Globalization Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781789253443
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
Recently, complex interpretations of socio-cultural change in the ancient Mediterranean world have emerged that challenge earlier models. Influenced by today's hyper-connected age, scholars no longer perceive the Mediterranean as a static place where "Greco-Roman" culture was dominant, but rather see it as adynamic and connected sea where fragmentation and uncertainty, along with mobility and networking, were the norm. Hence, a current theoretical approach to studying ancient culture has been that of globalization.
Re-imagining Periphery Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781789254501
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
This edited volume delves into the current state of Iron Age and Early Medieval research in the North. Over the last two decades of archaeological explorations, theoretical vanguards, and introduction of new methodological strategies, together with a growing amount of critical studies in archaeology taking their stance from a multidisciplinary perspective, have dramatically changed our understanding of Northern Iron Age societies. The profound effect of 6th century climatic events on social structures in Northern Europe, a reintegration of written sources and archaeological material, genetic and isotopic studies entirely reinterpreting previously excavated grave material, are but a few examples of such land winnings.
Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789252989
Pub Date: 31 May 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
This volume examines materials produced with the use of fire and mostly by use of the kiln (metals, plasters, glass and glaze, aromatics)The technologies based on fire have been considered high-tech technologies and they have contributed to the evolution of man throughout historyPapers highlight technical innovations of the technician/artist/pyrotechnologist that lived in the Aegean (mainland Greece and the islands) during the Bronze Age, the Classical and the Byzantine periods
RRP: £40.00
The Earliest Europeans - A Year in the Life Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9781785707612
Pub Date: 01 May 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w figures
Description:
The Earliest Europeans explores a fundamental question: how did Europe’s first hominin occupants cope with the year-round practical challenges of life. To do so, the book adopts a ‘year in the life’ perspective that draws on the increasingly rich and robust archaeological and Quaternary Science records for the European Lower Palaeolithic, combined with insights from modern ethnography and zoological studies. By exploring potential survival strategies and behaviours, Hosfield offers new insights into the character of Europe’s earliest occupations across more than 1 million years, and ultimately asks: what sorts of ‘humans’ were these hominins?
City Walls in Late Antiquity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781789253641
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300–600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. City walls were the most significant construction projects of their time and they redefined the urban landscape. Their appearance and monumental scale, as well as the cost of labour and material, are easily comparable to projects from the High Empire; however, urban circuits provided late-antique towns with a new means of self-representation.
Collapse and Transformation Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781789254259
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The years c. 1250 to 1150 BC in Greece and the Aegean are often characterised as a time of crisis and collapse. A critical period in the long history of the region and its people and culture, they witnessed the end of the Mycenaean kingdoms, with their palaces and Linear B records, and, through the Postpalatial period, the transition into the Early Iron Age.
Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9781785708558
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a detailed analysis and discussion.Theories of hoarding and deposition and examined, national and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found in archaeological excavations.
The Competition of Fibres Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781789254297
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Illustrations: Colour
Description:
The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other. Technological and economic practices - for example, the strategies by which raw materials were acquired and prepared - in the production of textiles play a major role in the papers collected here. Contributions investigate the beginnings of wool use in western Asia and southeastern Europe.
The Fight for Greek Sicily Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9781789253566
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of the first millennium BCE: the Phoenicians and the Greeks. While trade and cultural exchange preceded their permanent presence, it was the colonizing movement that brought territorial competition and political power struggles on the island to a new level.
Beyond the Romans Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781789251364
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC Themes in Archaeology
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
This third volume in the TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology series offers a new encounter between posthumanism and Roman archaeology. Posthuman theoretical perspectives have had substantial impacts in various fields, including archaeology, critical studies, and feminist studies, but only recently have emerged in the study of the ancient world. Posthumanism is an umbrella term for a multiplicity of theoretical perspectives that critique humanism, de-centre the human subject, reconsider the boundaries and relations among humans and the natural world, and frame the human condition as non-fixed and variable.
RRP: £40.00
Dariali: The 'Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 1088
ISBN: 9781789251920
Pub Date: 25 Mar 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monograph Series
Illustrations: 700 black and white & colour images
Description:
The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was this the prelude to the apocalypse? Prophecies foresaw a future Hunnic onslaught, via the same mountain pass, bringing about the end of the world.
Art in the Archaeological Imagination Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781789253528
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
The present volume shows the archaeological thinking as a form of art, revealing the poetics of the archaeological imagination. It shows that, in their work, archaeologists, without being inspired by contemporary artists, use creative methods, and their analysis of the art of the Past goes beyond the material culture of the art objects, into the realm of the mental processes of creation. Consequently, the purpose of this book is to present the archaeological research functioning as a sort of artistic creation, proposing new perspectives on the archaeological imagination.
RRP: £36.00
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