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.

Calendars and Years Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781842173022
Pub Date: 08 Oct 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world.
Dungeness and Romney Marsh Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842172889
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 135 b/w illus, 29 tabs
Description:
The Romney Marsh / Dungeness Foreland depositional complex comprises an extensive tract of marshland and associated sand and gravel barrier deposits, located in the eastern English Channel. This monograph presents the results of a programme of palaeoenvironmental investigation aimed at improving our understanding of this internationally-significant coastal landform. The focus is on the evidence for landscape change during the late Holocene, from c.
On the Margins of Southwest Asia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781842172810
Pub Date: 07 Sep 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 33 b/w illus & tables
Description:
This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as one of prolonged cultural continuity and isolation from the mainland. Through the documentation and integration of technological practice and up-to-date climatic, ecological and environmental data, it is proposed that many of the observable differences between mainland southwest Asia and Cyprus during this period are the result of divergent adaptive strategies in response to different environmental conditions, low population density and low resource stress. The book draws upon theories in ecological and evolutionary biology and adapts it to cultural change in general.
Shell Middens in Atlantic Europe Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781842172438
Pub Date: 03 Aug 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 150 illus, 21 tabs
Description:
The archaeological investigation of shell middens has a long and rich history. By the mid 1830s, the presence of artefacts found with large accumulations of shell along the Danish coast had successfully demonstrated that these sites were the result of human activity rather than natural processes. At about the same time in other parts of Europe, shell middens were also being discovered and written about - a process which continued throughout Europe as time went on.
Who Travels Sees More Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781842172735
Pub Date: 18 Jul 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: ASTENE Publications
Illustrations: 75 b/w illus, 16p col pls
Description:
"Who lives sees much, who travels sees more" . The Arab proverb is an appropriate title for this latest collection of essays published by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East on its tenth anniversary. The desire to see what lay beyond the familiar landscapes of home shaped the lives of all the travellers discussed here.
Euphrates River Valley Settlement Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 286
ISBN: 9781842172728
Pub Date: 11 Jul 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Illustrations: 152 illus, 22 tabs
Description:
Pre-state ceremonial monuments, rich mortuary arrangements, forts, walled settlements and temples: all these occur in a narrow stretch of the Euphrates River valley prior to the rise of Carchemish, one of the major capital cities of the Ancient Near East. This well-illustrated book examines recently discovered evidence from the hinterlands of archaeologically inaccessible Carchemish in its regional context. Amongst the 18 contributors Tony Wilkinson characterizes the neighbouring regions of Carchemish, Guy Bunnens elaborates on a site hierarchy within the valley and Gioacchino Falsone appraises unpublished records from excavations at Carchemish itself.
Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East Cover Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East Cover
Format: 
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781842172490
Pub Date: 11 Jul 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Leicester Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781785705502
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Leicester Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
Description:
This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement with other cultures, and representation of homelands. Also of import is the study of ancient geographical knowledge, as well as ancient travel writing (an increasingly popular genre today), its popularity and purpose.
People and Places Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842172513
Pub Date: 01 Jun 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This volume of thirteen essays came out of a conference in December 2004 at Bristol University, to celebrate the career of Mick Aston on the occasion of his retirement. They reflect his enthusiam for landscape and monastic archaeology in particular, and range in time from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Mick's ability to communicate archaeology to the masses has rightly seen him earn the title of 'The Ambassador of British Archaeology'.
St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire - A Parish Church and its Community Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781842172834
Pub Date: 29 May 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The excavations at St Peter's church, Barton-upon-Humber, between 1978 and 1984 have yielded the largest collection of human remains in the UK, dating from the late tenth century to the mid-nineteenth. The twin aims of the project were to understand the architectural history and setting of this complex, multi-period building (Volume 1), and to recover a substantial sample of the population for palaeopathological study (Volume 2). An extensive programme of historical and topographical research also took place in order to set the archaeological evidence firmly in context.
RRP: £30.00
Place and Memory Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781842172476
Pub Date: 20 Apr 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 182 b/w illus, 69 b/w pls, 8 col pls, 16 tabs
Description:
This volume is concerned with the investigation of three complexes of prehistoric ceremonial monuments in the immediate environs of Dumfries in the south-west of Scotland, conducted between 1994 and 1998. These were the Pict's Knowe henge, the Holywood cursus complex, and the post alignments/cursus at Holm. The field research was designed in such a way as to recognise that prehistoric monuments often have complex and individual sequences of construction and use, while also acknowledging that detailed studies of particular sites and local contexts will ultimately advance our understanding of monumentality in prehistoric Europe.
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies Volume 13 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 148
ISBN: 9781842172636
Pub Date: 05 Apr 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Journal of Roman Pottery Studies
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Mortarium studies have enormous value in addressing a variety of themes including source, chronology, function, distribution, and as an index to trade and Romanisation. This comprehensive volume, commissioned by English Heritage, provides an over-view of mortarium studies for England, Scotland and Wales. Presented in twelve regional chapters designated by modern county boundaries, each comprises a bibliography, synthesis and recommendations for future research.
RRP: £24.00
Current Research in Egyptology 6 (2005) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781842172292
Pub Date: 30 Mar 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Current Research in Egyptology
Description:
The sixth annual Current Research in Egyptology symposium took place from 6th-8th January 2005 at the University of Cambridge. Although the topics covered by the papers were many and varied, if there is a general theme it would be that of exploring the borders and parameters of the discipline of Egyptology.
TRAC 2006 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781842172643
Pub Date: 27 Mar 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
The sixteenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference was held in Cambridge in March 2006. Sixty papers were given during the two-day conference and covered the breadth and length of the Roman world. The issues of identity, its expression and recognition, were at the forefront of consideration.
RRP: £30.00
The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 640
ISBN: 9781842172124
Pub Date: 22 Mar 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Illustrations: 374 b/w illus, 133 tables,
Description:
This edited volume provides a full report on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of WF16, southern Jordan. Very few sites of PPNA date have been excavated using modern methods, so this report makes a very significant contribution to our understanding of this period. Excavations have shown that the site contains a highly dynamic use of architecture, and the faunal assemblage reveals new information on the processes that lead to the domestication of the goat.
RRP: £75.00
Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842172186
Pub Date: 24 Jan 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
An important human trait is our inclination to develop complex relationships with numerous other species. In the great majority of cases however, these mutualistic relationships involve a pair of species, whose co-evolution has been achieved through behavioural adaptation driving positive selection pressures. Humans go a step further, opportunistically and, it sometimes seems, almost arbitrarily elaborating relationships with many other species, whether through domestication, pet-keeping, taming for menageries, deifying, pest-control, conserving iconic species, or recruiting as mascots.
Roman Butrint Cover Roman Butrint Cover
Format: 
Pages: 214
ISBN: 9781842172346
Pub Date: 12 Jan 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Illustrations: b/w illus, tbs, 16p col section
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781789257335
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2021
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Description:
Butrint, ancient Buthrotum , has taken many forms in different ages, shaped by the near-constant interaction between the place, its lagoonal landscape and the Mediterranean. Though Butrint does not appear on any of the records of early Greek colonisation to identify it as a Corcyrean settlement, strong links must have existed between it and the metropolitan Corinthian colony of Corfu. Blessed with springs that possessed healing qualities, a small polis was created - extended to incorporate a healing sanctuary dedicated to Asclepius.
RRP: £30.00