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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.

Changing Perspectives on the First Millennium BC Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781842173268
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Cardiff Studies in Archaeology
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
These fifteen papers came out of the eighth annual meeting of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar (IARSS) and are loosely grouped into three topics: settlement studies, deposition and material culture, and experimental archaeology. Most of the studies are re-examinings of well known data sets, such as hillforts, small enclosures and bone assemblages, both human and animal. They are mainly focused on the British Iron Age - one of the most heterogeneous and regionally distinctive periods in British prehistory.
Living Well Together? Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 178
ISBN: 9781842172674
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Living Well Together investigates the development of the Neolithic in southeast and central Europe from 6500-3500 cal BC with special reference to the manifestations of settling down. A collection of reports and comments on recent fieldwork in the region, Living Well Together? provides 14 tightly written and targeted papers presenting interpretive discussions from important excavations and reassessments of our understanding of the Neolithic.
Dressing the Past Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 167
ISBN: 9781842172698
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Illustrations: b/w and col illus t/out
Description:
Minoan ladies, Scythian warriors, Roman and Sarmatian merchants, prehistoric weavers, gold sheet figures, Vikings, Medieval saints and sinners, Renaissance noblemen, Danish peasants, dressmakers and Hollywood stars appear in the pages of this anthology. This is not necessarily how they dressed in the past, but how the authors of this book think they dressed in the past, and why they think so. No reader of this book will ever look at a reconstructed costume in a museum or at a historical festival, or watch a film with a historic theme again without a heightened awareness of how, why, and from what sources, the costumes were reconstructed.
RRP: £35.00
Blood Red Roses Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 294
ISBN: 9781842172896
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: plus 10p of colour plates
Description:
The Battle of Towton in North Yorkshire, fought during the Wars of the Roses, was reputedly the bloodiest battle ever seen on English soil. In 1996 a mass grave of soldiers was discovered there by chance. This was the catalyst for a multi-disciplinary research project, still unique in Britain ten years after the initial discovery, which included a study of the skeletal remains, the battlefield landscape, the historical evidence and contemporary arms and armour.
Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 306
ISBN: 9781842172902
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Excavations at Flixborough
Description:
The environmental archaeological evidence from the site of Flixborough (in particular the animal bone assemblage) provides a series of unique insights into Anglo-Saxon life in England during the 8th to 10th centuries. The research reveals detailed evidence for the local and regional environment, many aspects of the local and regional agricultural economy, changing resource exploitation strategies and the extent of possible trade and exchange networks. Perhaps the most important conclusions have been gleaned from the synthesis of these various lines of evidence, viewed in a broader archaeological context.
The Best Training Ground for Archaeologists Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 688
ISBN: 9781842172803
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
To his contemporaries, Francis John Haverfield was the 'father of Romano-British studies', and his death on September 30th 1919 was greeted with widespread lamentation. In the decades immediately following his death, Haverfield's reputation survived largely undiminished, in fact his view of the Romanisation of Britain became so widely accepted that it held sway for almost a century, and is only now being re-examined by both positive and negative interpreters of his views. What is clear however, is that his immense contribution to the study of Roman Britain is worthy of attention.
The North Through its Names Cover The North Through its Names Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781842171769
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: English Surnames Survey
Illustrations: 47 b/w figs
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781785709791
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2018
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: English Surnames Survey
Illustrations: 47 b/w figs
Description:
The North of England and northern-ness are elusive concepts, both academically and in popular perception. This volume in the English Surnames Survey series looks at what can be learned about the idea of the 'North' of England as a distinct identity from its surnames. The personal names from the north during the medieval/early modern period are linguistic phenomena, incorporating dialect speech that defined a northern consciousness, and in this way are an invaluable resource in exploring a northern identity.
Beyond the Grave Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781842172582
Pub Date: 22 Nov 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus t/out
Description:
This collection of fourteen papers presents the latest research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows of Britain.
Prehistoric Journeys Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9781842172506
Pub Date: 16 Nov 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
This collection of thirteen papers focuses on what it meant to be 'on the move' at different times in prehistory. Ideas of journeys and travel are integral to many traditions of interpreting the prehistoric archaeological record. Travel was after all the driving force behind the formation and trans formation of identity.
The Early Medieval Settlement Remains from Flixborough, Lincolnshire Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842172551
Pub Date: 12 Nov 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Excavations at Flixborough
Illustrations: 150 b/w illus, 16p col plates
Description:
Between 1989 and 1991, excavations in the parish of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones yet found on such a site. In an unprecedented occupation sequence from an Anglo-Saxon rural settlement, six main periods of occupation have been identified, dating from the seventh to the early eleventh centuries; with a further period of activity, between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries AD. The remains of approximately forty buildings and other structures were uncovered; and due to the survival of large refuse deposits, huge quantities of artefacts and faunal remains were encountered compared with most other rural settlements of the period.
Neolithic Archaeology in the Intertidal Zone Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781842172667
Pub Date: 16 Oct 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This volume is based upon a conference which took place in 1999, reflecting the developing interest in intertidal archaeology and concentrating on the Neolithic period, as well as elements of associated Mesolithic and Bronze Age archaeology. Since then, the papers have been revised to include new discoveries and reflect the increasing interest and importance attached to the intertidal zone. All papers have supporting environmental data and radiocarbon dates.
Environmental Archaeology in Ireland Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 306
ISBN: 9781842172742
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: illus and tables
Description:
This edited volume of 16 papers provides an introduction to the techniques and methodologies, approaches and potential of environmental archaeology within Ireland. Each of the 16 invited contributions focuses on a particular aspect of environmental archaeology and include such specialist areas as radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology, palaeoentomology, human osteoarchaeology, palynology and geoarchaeology, thereby providing a comprehensive overview of environmental archaeology within an Irish context. The inclusion of pertinent case studies within each chapter will heighten awareness of the profusion of high standard environmental archaeological research that is currently being undertaken on Irish material.
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.
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