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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.

Casting the Net Wide Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781842174548
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph
Description:
This collection of essays and tributes to Glynn Isaac marks the 26th anniversary of Glynns premature death on October 5th, 1985. These contributions document the work of many of Glynns colleagues students and collaborators, and reflect their continuing respect for a great scholar
RRP: £35.00
Development-led Archaeology in North-West Europe Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781842174661
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Many countries in northern Europe have seen a huge expansion in development-led archaeology over the past few decades. Legislation, frameworks for heritage management and codes of practice have developed along similar but different lines. The Valetta Convention has had considerable impact on spatial planning and new legislation on archaeological heritage management within EC countries as well as on the funding, nature and distribution of archaeological fieldwork.
RRP: £38.00
Landscape, Ethnicity and Identity in the archaic Mediterranean Area Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781842174333
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 120 illus
Description:
The main concern of this volume is the multi-layered concept of ethnicity. Contributors examine and contextualise contrasting definitions of ethnicity and identity as implicit in two perspectives, one from the classical tradition and another from the prehistoric and anthropological tradition. They look at the role of textual sources in reconstructing ethnicity and introduce fresh and innovative archaeological data in reconstructing ethnicity, either from fieldwork or from new combinations of old data.
Materiality and Social Practice Cover Materiality and Social Practice Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781842174586
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781782975410
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcultural perspective as a fundamental methodology and, then a broader understanding of the inter-relationship between humans and objects. Adopting a transcultural approach forces us to change archaeology's approach towards items coming from the outside.
The Archaeology of Medieval Novgorod in Context Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 528
ISBN: 9781842172780
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour illus and accompanying CD with supporting data
Description:
Novgorod is one of the most intensively and continuously studied urban sites in northern Europe. The excellent preservation of organic and inorganic material in its anaerobic soils, including the structural remains of streets, properties and buildings, has made it possible to study entire quarters of the town as well as the activities of its inhabitants. With deposits up to 8 m deep in places and with well-dated sequences from the early to mid-10th century, its importance to the study of both medieval Russia and the development of Europe cannot be over emphasised.
Trireme Olympias Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842174340
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 83 b/w illus
Description:
This volume represents the final publication of the Olympias project, which saw the building of a full-scale reconstruction of a 170-oared Athenian trireme of the 4th century BC and its operation in five series of sea-trials in the Aegean Sea. The first three sea-trials in 1987, 1988 and 1990 have already been published in separate volumes (the last two by Oxbow) and this completes the series with reports of the 1992 and 1994 trials. The 1992 report by Paul Lipke of Trireme Trust USA, which collaborated with the Trireme Trust in the operation of the ship, offers an alternative view of the project as a whole from that presented in previous reports.
Community Archaeology Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781842174326
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Community Archaeology is an assessment of the aims, results and validity of the broad spectrum of community archaeology initiatives taking place today. The project arose from a shared belief in cooperation between professional and non-professional archaeologists and the belief that archaeology does not have to take place in private between consenting companies. The 15 papers presented here are startlingly and pleasingly diverse, drawing on the expertise and experience of student archaeologists, academics, professionals, amateurs, educators and independent practitioners.
An Examination of Prehistoric Stone Bracers from Britain Cover An Examination of Prehistoric Stone Bracers from Britain Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781842174388
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: col & b/w illus
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9798888570616
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2023
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: color and B&W illustrations
Description:
This volume present a detailed study of the thin, usually rectangular, pieces of pierced fine stone that occur in inhumation graves of Beaker date mainly of the second half of the third millennium cal BC. These objects are considered to be archer's bracers or wristguards. The study forms part of a more wide-ranging research project to identify more accurately the significance of burial assemblages from Beaker and Early Bronze Age contexts in England and Wales.
Corrstown Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9781842174647
Pub Date: 14 Dec 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 137 illus, 15 in colour
Description:
Corrstown in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, is a highly important Bronze Age site. This came to light during excavations carried out by Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in 2002-2003, the results of which are detailed here. A total of 74 Middle Bronze Age roundhouse platforms was identified and organised into pairs or short rows, the majority of which appeared to be contemporary.
RRP: £36.00
Regional Perspectives on Neolithic Pit Deposition Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9781842174685
Pub Date: 14 Dec 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers
Illustrations: 74 b/w illus
Description:
The rise to prominence of pits within narratives of the British and Irish Neolithic is well-documented in recent literature. Pits have been cropping up in excavations for centuries, resulting in a very broad spectrum of interpretations but three main factors have led to the recent change in our perception and representation of these features: a broad shift in people's expectations as to what a Neolithic settlement should be; the development of the concept of 'structured deposition', within which pits have played a key role; and a dramatic rise in the number of pits actually known about. Development-led archaeology, and the often very large areas its excavations expose, has simply revealed many more pits.
Becoming European Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842174500
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: col & b/w illus
Description:
It can be argued that elements of European heritage can be identified not only as a national strategy of the present but also as a process in prehistory - the cultural and political transformations of the third millennium BC in European prehistory sparking off this process. These transformations initiated the processes and mechanisms that led up to the complex political, social and cultural institutions of the first half of the second millennium BC. From this time on, an authentic historical continuum leading towards present-day society can be identified.
Heritage Transformed Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781842174579
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
How does "heritage" become objectified within public institutions and representative of a national past? This book proposes a model for this process and contains five case studies that explore variety in the transformation of heritage. The model proposes that heritage is transformed from concept to object and the agency of change is "management".
RRP: £40.00
Pilgrimage in Early Christian Jordan Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780977409495
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
An interest in places of pilgrimage is very much a part of the life of many people in the modern world. For Christians, it is the Holy Land that holds specific interest - the area where the events described in the Bible, in both the Old and the New Testament, are located. This volume focuses on early Christian pilgrimage in Jordan, the region east of the Jordan River which has so far been little explored by pilgrims and tourists to the Holy Land.
RRP: £26.00
Roman Imperial Armour Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781842174357
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 148 b/w & colour illus, 27 tables
Description:
The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms and armour available at that time. This is the story of the production of that armour.
RRP: £25.00
Dynamics of Neolithisation in Europe Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842179994
Pub Date: 04 Oct 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Dynamics of Neolithisation examines the development of early agriculture in Neolithic Europe, drawing on the work of the late Professor Andrew Sherratt. His untimely death coincided with an important period of research that moved beyond searching for singular causal mechanisms behind the "neolithisation" of Europe in favour of developing a better understanding of the complex interrelationships of cultural, ecological, economic and social factors. Andrew Sherratt's work is significant because it developed models for integrating the different evidential components and analytical scales involved in the prehistoric development of European agriculture.
Bringing Carthage Home Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781842179925
Pub Date: 04 Oct 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: UBC Studies in the Ancient World
Illustrations: 137 b/w & 9 colour illus
Description:
Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis; the work was funded by the Foreign Office of the British Government. This book recounts for the first time the extraordinary story behind this pioneering enterprise and the political and cultural rivalry between representatives of the colonial powers as they asserted their rights to explore the buried remains of one of the ancient world's greatest cities.
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