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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.

Current Research in Egyptology 11 (2010) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781842174296
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Current Research in Egyptology
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
After having been held in the UK for the past 10 years, the 11th edition of the annual Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) graduate conference was held at Leiden University, The Netherlands in January 2010. As always, the main aim of the conference was to provide graduate and postgraduate students of Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology with the opportunity to present their research. The proceedings of this year's conference cover a wide range of topics from the Predynastic Period to modern Egypt.
Ethnozooarchaeology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842179970
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This book examines how the study of human-animal relations can help us interpret archaeological evidence. An international range of contributors examines fishing, hunting and husbandry, slaughtering and butchering, ceremonial and ritual practices and techniques of deposition and disposal in traditional societies. Topics covered include the theoretical potential of ethnographic research for zooarchaeology, the use of comparative analogies in the ethnographic and zooarchaeological records, the historical developments of ethnozooarchaeology and specific case studies selected from across the world.
RRP: £48.00
Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution of the Swale-Ure Washlands, North Yorkshire Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781842173749
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 16 pages of col illus, CD
Description:
Reporting on a multi-disciplinary project this book seeks to reconstruct the history since the last glaciation of the area between and including the middle reaches of the Rivers Swale and Ure in Yorkshire. Included in this history are both natural changes, determined from studies of landforms and sediments, and human-induced changes, recorded in archaeological and geo-archaeological records. The work is set in the context of previous research and pre-existing knowledge, outlined in an introductory chapter.
Pompeii Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781842179840
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 99 illus
Description:
Even after more than 250 years since its discovery, Pompeii continues to resonate powerfully in both academic discourse and the popular imagination. This volume brings together a collection of ten papers that advance, challenge and revise the present conceptions of the city's art, industry and infrastructure. The discussions of domestic art in this book, a perennial topic for Pompeian scholars, engage previously neglected subjects such as wall ornaments in domestic decoration, the sculpture collection in the house of Octavius Quartio, and the role of the covered walkways in luxury villa architecture.
TRAC 2010 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781842174524
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This volume contains ten papers reflecting current aspects of the debate in theoretical Roman archaeology. They include papers on what the pottery finds from the Nepi Survey Project can tell us about how the local landscape was used and inhabited, poliadic deities in Roman colonies in Italy, Pompeii, the practice of the recycling of architectural materials and personal adornment concerning textile remains and brooches.
RRP: £36.00
Well Built Mycenae, Fasc 16/17 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 102
ISBN: 9781842179963
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Well Built Mycenae
Illustrations: DVD
Description:
The post-palatial period - Late Helladic IIIC - is often seen as the twilight years of Mycenean civilisation, a period of economic decline with few achievements in terms of architecture, materials or technology. Excavation in the Citadel House area at Mycenae afforded unique opportunities to explore stratified remains of this period and to define and describe its character. In this fascicule, Dr.
Becoming Neanderthals Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781842179734
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 124 illus
Description:
It is now widely accepted that by the later Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthals possessed a wide range of social and practical skills. More recently, researchers have become interested in how these skills actually emerged; in effect, the challenge now is to document the process by which Middle Pleistocene hominids "became Neanderthals". This book explores the development of classically Neanderthal behaviours in Europe between MIS 9-6, focusing on the British record, especially stone tools as durable residues of human action.
Culture, Chronology and the Chalcolithic Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842179932
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Illustrations: 87 b/w & col illus
Description:
To some, the Chalcolithic (4700/4500-3700/3600 BC cal.), as the first period with metallurgy, large sprawling villages, rich mortuary offerings, and cult centres, represents a developmental stage on the road to the urban Bronze Age, the "dawn of history". Others have called it 'the end of prehistory'.
RRP: £40.00
Living Through the Dead Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842173763
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations and maps
Description:
This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and burial have tended to concentrate on period- or regionally-specific sets of data, this volume instead focuses on a series of topical connections that highlight important facets of death and commemoration significant to the larger Classical world.
Comparative Archaeologies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781935488262
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Comparative Archaeologies scrutinises current thinking on the dynamics and historical trajectories of complex societies in the American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and the Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC) through a focused comparison of five themes: Histories, Landscapes, Bodies, Gender, and Art. Leading archaeologists from North America and Europe - drawing on diverse intellectual traditions - engage in this innovative form of comparative archaeology which recognizes both the historicities of past societies of similar forms and the social embeddedness of archaeological practice and theory.
RRP: £45.00
Stone Axe Studies III Cover Stone Axe Studies III Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9781842174210
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: col and b/w illus
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9781789258080
Pub Date: 15 May 2022
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w and colour
Description:
This volume builds upon the model of the first Stone Axe Studies volume published in 1979. It explores how scholars from various parts of the world currently approach these distinctive items. Some papers are united by specific material, such as those working on Jadeite axe blades in western and Central Europe.
RRP: £29.50
Wellington Quarry, Herefordshire (1986-96) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842173664
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 57 tabs, 79 b/w & col illus
Description:
This volume presents the results of the first 10 years of archaeological investigation at Wellington Quarry, Herefordshire. During this time a regionally unique archaeological and palaeoenvironmental sequence was recorded covering nearly 8000 years of interrelated human activity and landscape change in the Lower Lugg Valley. Starting with use by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, the heavily wooded floodplain witnessed periods of sporadic occupation and activity throughout early prehistory.
RRP: £30.00
The Dark Side of Childhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9781842174173
Pub Date: 14 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world. The authors investigate the long-term attitudes of people, as well as ruptures in habits and customs. The book is divided into three parts.
The Rhyton from Danilo Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842179772
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The so called rhyton from Danilo, an archaeological site near the coastal town of Sibenik in Dalmatia, Croatia, is a four-legged Neolithic vessel made of fired clay that according to the consensus of archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content. "Danilo Culture" is the eponymous name bestowed on a culture flourishing in the period from about 5500-4500 BC at Danilo and at some neighbouring sites. This culture had great influence along the eastern Adriatic coast and its hinterland and produced a significant number of these vessels.
RRP: £50.00
State Formation in Italy and Greece Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842179673
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
State Formation in Italy and Greece offers an up-to-date and comprehensive sampler of the current discourse concerning state formation in the central Mediterranean. While comparative approaches to the emergence of political complexity have been applied since the 1950s to Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, Peru, Egypt and many other contexts, Classical Archaeology as a whole has not played a particularly active role in this debate. Here, for the first time, state formation processes occurring in the Bronze Age Aegean as well as in Iron Age Greece and Italy are explicitly juxtaposed, revealing a complex interplay between similar dynamics and differing local factors.
Roman Colonies in the First Century of Their Foundation Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781842179741
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Research on the nature of cultural change in the Roman Empire has traditionally been divided between the Western and Eastern provinces. Papers in this volume aim to reunite the provinces by approaching the question of cultural change across the Empire through a range of material culture and historical sources focusing on the first 100 years of the foundation of a colony.
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