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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.

Journal of Roman Pottery Studies Volume 9 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 82
ISBN: 9781842170496
Pub Date: 31 May 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Journal of Roman Pottery Studies
Illustrations: b/w pls
Description:
Rossington Bridge lies next to the Roman road between Doncaster and Lincoln. Excavations between 1956-1961 discovered eight pottery kilns, a site of considerable significance. The kilns and material from the waster heaps excavated lie on a site with at least fifteen other unexcavated kilns and ancillary structures lying either side of the Roman road.
Gestures Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9781785707834
Pub Date: 31 May 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
These thirty essays were presented to Alan L Boegehold, a distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributions fall into two categories, each one reflecting Boegehold's diverse interests in classical studies: the first section includes essays on literary and philosophical topics, several of which pick up on the theme of "gestures"; the second section is representative of Boegehold's more specialised research in Greek epigraphy, history and law.
Experimentation and Reconstruction in Environmental Archaeology Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 278
ISBN: 9780946897230
Pub Date: 31 May 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: figs and photos. ISBN 0 946897 22 0. Pb
Description:
Eighteen papers and six abstracts from the ninth symposium of the Association of Environmental Archaeology held at Roskilde, Denmark, in 1988.
Childhood and Violence in the Western Tradition Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781785707964
Pub Date: 31 May 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 37 b/w illus
Description:
The violence and neglect suffered by children today is a common subject of media attention and much political hand-wringing, not just in Britain but in other parts of the western world. As yet, however, there has been no attempt to explore this concern historically and look at how the boundary between good and bad parenting may have changed across time. This book attempts to fill the gap by examining the role of violence and neglect in the relations between parents/carers and children from the Bronze Age to the present.
Caddo Landscapes in the East Texas Forests Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781785705762
Pub Date: 31 May 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
In this major, highly illustrated, new study Tim Perttula explores the cultural and social landscape of the Caddo Indian peoples (hayaanuh) for about 1000 years between ca. A.D.
Antiquarianisms Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9781785706844
Pub Date: 26 May 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Joukowsky Institute Publication
Description:
Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. Scholars have made significant progress in the documentation and analysis of indigenous antiquarian traditions, but the clear-cut distinction between “indigenous” and “colonial” archaeologies has obscured the intense and dynamic interaction between these seemingly different endeavours. This book concerns the divide between local and foreign antiquarianisms focusing on case studies drawn primarily from the Mediterranean and the Americas.
RRP: £35.00
Economic Zooarchaeology Cover Economic Zooarchaeology Cover
Format: 
Hardback Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9781785704451
Pub Date: 26 May 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781789253405
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is that their ultimate aim is to find out about human behaviour – the animal and plant remains are a means to this end.
Death as a Process Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781785703232
Pub Date: 25 May 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
The study of funerary practice has become one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of Roman archaeology in recent decades. This volume draws on large-scale fieldwork from across Europe, methodological advances and conceptual innovations to explore new insights from analysis of the Roman dead, concerning both the rituals which saw them to their tombs and the communities who buried them. In particular the volume seeks to establish how the ritual sequence, from laying out the dead to the pyre and tomb, and from placing the dead in the earth to the return of the living to commemorate them, may be studied from archaeological evidence.
RRP: £38.00
Crossing Boundaries Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781785703072
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
Interdisciplinary studies are increasingly widely recognised as being among the most fruitful approaches to generating original perspectives on the medieval past. In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new approaches to a number of themes ranging in time from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The main focus is on material culture, but also includes insights into the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, and the strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to record information in unfamiliar languages.
RRP: £55.00
Treasures from the Sea Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781785704352
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
This interdisciplinary volume presents a collection of 17 papers which treat the current state of research on two marine resources used in ancient textile manufacture, shellfish purple dye and sea silk. Purple dye is extracted from the glands of the molluscs Hexaplex trunculus, Bolinus Brandaris and Stramonita Haemastoma which through a chemical reaction of photosynthesis produces hues ranging from dark red to bluish purple colour. The importance of purple dye since ancient times as a status symbol, a sign of royal and religious power is well documented.
RRP: £38.00
The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9781785705267
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
Over the past fifty years or so early pottery complexes in the wider region of West Asia have hardly ever been investigated in their own right. Early ceramics have often been unexpected by-products of projects focusing upon much earlier aceramic or later prehistoric periods. In recent years, however, there has been a tremendous increase in research in various parts of West Asia focusing explicitly on this theme.
RRP: £70.00
Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 282
ISBN: 9781785705199
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best known as a fieldworker, often venturing into dangerous regions such as Kurdistan. Her first and highly successful excavation revealed fragments of Neanderthal fossils in Gibraltar.
Painting Pots – Painting People Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781785704390
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
Archaeologists have recently made tremendous advances in understanding the early ceramic traditions of the prehistoric Near East. Over the past decade there has been a huge increase in research focusing on various aspects of ceramic production, its origins and evolution, distribution and consumption in the Late Neolithic (ca. 7000–5000 cal.
RRP: £45.00
Romans and Barbarians Beyond the Frontiers Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 164
ISBN: 9781785706042
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC Themes in Archaeology
Illustrations: b/w
Description:
This first thematic volume of the new series TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology brings renowned international experts to discuss different aspects of interactions between Romans and ‘barbarians’ in the north-western regions of Europe. Northern Europe has become an interesting arena of academic debate around the topics of Roman imperialism and Roman–‘barbarian’ interactions, as these areas comprised Roman provincial territories, the northern frontier system of the Roman Empire (limes), the vorlimes (or buffer zone), and the distant barbaricum. This area is, today, host to several modern European nations with very different historical and academic discourses on their Roman past, a factor in the recent tendency towards the fragmentation of approaches and the application of post-colonial theories that have favoured the advent of a varied range of theoretical alternatives.
RRP: £40.00
With Alexander in India and Central Asia Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781785705847
Pub Date: 29 Mar 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
Alexander conquered most parts of the Western World, but there is a great deal of controversy over his invasion of India, the least known of his campaigns. In BC 327 Alexander came to India, and tried to cross the Jhelum river for the invasion, but was then confronted by King Porus who ruled an area in what is now the Punjab. According to Indian history he was stopped by Porus at his entry into the country, but most of the world still believes that Alexander won the battle.
RRP: £40.00
Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961–1967, Volume VI Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 324
ISBN: 9781785706530
Pub Date: 27 Mar 2017
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Description:
In this volume the principal focus is on the presence/absence of the city walls on the east side of the city from the Iron Age onwards. The evidence for major walls and their structure from Iron Age II to the Byzantine periods in Sites S.II and R.
RRP: £50.00
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