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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.

Oceans Odyssey Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842174159
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 339 col illus
Description:
In ten papers Odyssey Marine Exploration presents the technology, methodology and archaeological results from four deep-sea shipwrecks and one major survey conducted between 2003 and 2008. The sites lie beyond territorial waters in depths of up to 820 metres off southeastern America and in the Straits of Gibraltar and the English Channel. Exclusively recorded using robotic technology in the form of a Remotely-Operated Vehicle, the wrecks range from the major Royal Navy warships HMS Sussex (1694) and the unique, 100-gun, first-rate HMS Victory (1744)to the steamship SS Republic (1865) and a mid-19th century merchant vessel with a cargo of British porcelain.
RRP: £25.00
The Early Roman Empire in the East Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781900188524
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: figs
Description:
A group of essays that trace the development of Roman influence in the eastern parts of the empire. Contents include: Urbanization ( Greg Woolf ); Roman colonies in the province of Achaia ( A Rizakis ); Syrian desert ( M Gawlikowski ); The Syrian countryside ( G Tate ); Jewish rural settlement ( Y Hirschfield ); Roman relations with the Persicus sinus ( D T Potts ); The Imperial image ( C B Rose ); The Black Sea region ( David Braund ); Funerary monuments in Asia Minor ( Sarah Cormack ); Tomb architecture at Palmyra ( A Schmidt-Colinet ); Pilgrimage, religion and visual culture in the East ( Jas Elsner ).
Peninj Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9781842173824
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph
Description:
The Early Pleistocene sediments of Peninj, west of Lake Natron (Tanzania), contain a wealth of archaeological and paleontological sites formed during the emergence of the genus Homo and the extinction of the last australopithecines. Peninj has preserved tantalizing evidence that hominids, living in an open savanna, were acquiring animal resources through predation. Evidence also suggests that hominids repeatedly visited points on the landscape to conduct specific and distinct activities, such as butchering or tool manufacture.
The Archaeology of the Dead Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9781842173565
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist course in burial archaeology given by Duday in Rome in November 2004. The primary aim of the project was to contribute to the development of common procedures for excavation, data collection and study of Roman cemeteries of the imperial period.
KOINE Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842173794
Pub Date: 23 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 137b/w illus
Description:
The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups' . This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles of R. Ross Holloways own unique perspective on ancient Mediterranean studies.
RRP: £50.00
The Medieval Broadcloth Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781842173817
Pub Date: 19 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Illustrations: b/w illus & 42 colour illustrations
Description:
The eight papers presented here provide a useful introduction to medieval broadcloth, and an up-to-date synthesis of current research. The word broadcloth is nowadays used as an overall term for the woven textiles mass-produced and exported all over Europe. It was first produced in Flanders as a luxurious cloth from the 11th century and throughout the medieval period.
Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781842173886
Pub Date: 18 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col illus
Description:
Dorchester-on-Thames and its abbey have been subjects of antiquarian interest for more than 450 years, and during that time much has been written about them. They are, however, still far from being comprehensively studied and recorded. Indeed, the most substantial architectural description of the medieval church was written as long ago as 1845, and a thoroughgoing reappraisal has long been overdue.
A View from the West Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781842173626
Pub Date: 13 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 111 figs
Description:
At the heart of this study are the early Neolithic chambered tombs of the Irish Sea zone, defined as west Wales, the west coast of northern Britain, coastal south and western Scotland, the western isles and the Isle of Man, and the eastern coast of Ireland. In order to understand these monuments, there must be a broader consideration of their landscape settings. The landscape setting of the chambered tombs is considered in detail, both overall and through a number of specific case studies, incorporating a much wider area than has been previously considered.
Tree-Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781842173862
Pub Date: 13 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The study of tree-rings (dendrochronology) provides a key resource for determining dates for archaeological and other contexts where wood/charcoal is present (and so cultural chronology), and for investigating past climate and environment. In the central and east Mediterranean region Peter Ian Kuniholm is synonymous with dendrochronology and dendroarchaeology. He led the creation of numerous tree-ring chronologies for the region (from forests, buildings, archaeological sites), and demonstrated the enormous potential and power of dendrochronology to a range of topics.
Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842173398
Pub Date: 30 Oct 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
The international conference "Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity" held in Nicosia in April 2003 filled an important gap in historical knowledge about Cyprus' relations with its neighbours. While the island's links with the Aegean and the Levant have been well documented and continue to be the subject of much archaeological attention, the exchanges between Cyprus and the Nile Valley are not as well known and have not before been comprehensively reviewed. They range in date from the mid third millennium B.
Land and People Cover Land and People Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842173732
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Illustrations: 99 b/w illus, 13 tbls
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781785707728
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Illustrations: 99 b/w illus, 13 tbls
Description:
This volume is derived, in concept, from a conference held in honour of John Evans by the School of History and Archaeology and The Prehistoric Society at Cardiff University in March 2006. It brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels. They cover geographical, methodological and thematic areas that were of interest to, and had been studied by, John Evans.
Bronze Age Connections Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781842173480
Pub Date: 03 Sep 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col illus
Description:
New and exciting discoveries on either side of the English Channel in recent years have begun to show that people living in the coastal zones of Belgium, southern Britain, northern France and the Netherlands shared a common material culture during the Bronze Age, between three and four thousand years ago. They used similar styles of pottery and metalwork, lived in the same kind of houses and buried their dead in the same kind of tombs, often quite different to those used by their neighbours further inland. The sea did not appear to be a barrier to these people but rather a highway, connecting communities in a unique cultural identity; the 'People of La Manche'.
From Foragers to Farmers Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 298
ISBN: 9781842173541
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus & tbls throughout
Description:
This volume celebrates the career of archaebotanist Professor Gordon C. Hillman. Twenty-eight papers cover a wide range of topics reflecting the great influence that Hillman has had in the field of archaeobotany.
Italy and the West Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 233
ISBN: 9781842170427
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: many b/w illus
Description:
Nineteen papers examining varied responses to Romanization, and how this affects our view of the development of the Roman Empire. The traditional view of Romanization is as the triumph of a superior and more advanced culture over primitive communities, brought about by military expansion and resulting in the creation of a uniform political and cultural entity. It is only in the last twenty years that the variety of responses that Romanization elicited among the various ethnic groups, social classes, genders, spheres, and even within the same person in different conjunctures of his or her life, has begun to be appreciated.
Labyrinth Revisited Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781842170618
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: many b/w illus
Description:
Minoan' Crete is one of the most intensively investigated archaeological cultures in the world, and one that has often captured the public imagination. It is a Bronze Age Aegean society, but it has been intimately connected with the Classical Greek myth of King Minos and his Labyrinth since Sir Arthur Evans excavated and restored (some would say rebuilt') the important site of Knossos, more than a century ago. Yet many archaeological interpretations of this fascinating culture are still largely traditional in focus and often anachronistic.
Saddling the Dogs Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9781842173671
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: ASTENE Publications
Description:
In the absence of horses, saddle the dogs. This Arab proverb, suggesting the uncompromising determination of nomads to keep moving, whatever the obstacles, epitomizes also the travelling ethos of many early visitors to the 'exotic East'. The journeys examined here are linked by the light they shed on the experience of travel in Egypt, Greece and the Ottoman Balkans, and the Near East from the 17th to the early 20th century not so much what was seen as how one got there and how one got around once arrived; the vicissitudes and travails, both expected and strange that characterised the passage.
RRP: £20.00
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