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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.

Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781842174890
Pub Date: 11 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Illustrations: 8 colour & 82 b/w illustrations
Description:
In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products. The thirteen intriguing chapters in Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East describe the developments and changes from household to standardised, industrialised and centralised productions which take place in the region.
RRP: £38.00
Butrint 4 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9781842174623
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Illustrations: c.50 col & c.325 b/w illus
Description:
This richly illustrated volume discusses the histories of the port city of Butrint, and its intimate connection to the wider conditions of the Adriatic. In so doing it is a reading, and re-reading, of the site that adds significantly to the study of Mediterranean urban history over the longue durée . Firstly, the book proposes a new paradigm for the development-history of Butrint - based on discussions of the latest archaeological, historical and landscape studies from approximately 20 new excavations and surveys, together covering a temporal arch from prehistory to the early modern period.
RRP: £55.00
Exchange Networks and Local Transformations Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781842174852
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Throughout the local Bronze and Iron Age, European and Mediterranean societies appear to have been involved in complex systems of exchange networks which invariably affected local customs and historical developments. Archaeological evidence suggests social and economic phenomena, cultural expressions and technological skills stemmed from multifaceted encounters between local traditions and external influences. Examples of cultural openness and transcultural hybridisation seem to be more of a norm than an exception.
RRP: £38.00
Interpreting Archaeological Topography Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842175163
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 185 col illus
Description:
Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS), or lidar, is an enormously important innovation for data collection and interpretation in archaeology. The application of archaeological 3D data deriving from sources including ALS, close-range photogrammetry and terrestrial and photogrammetric scanners has grown exponentially over the last decade. Such data present numerous possibilities and challenges, from ensuring that applications remain archaeologically relevant, to developing practices that integrate the manipulation and interrogation of complex digital datasets with the skills of archaeological observation and interpretation.
Nishapur Revisited Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781842174944
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 105 col illus.
Description:
Nishapur in eastern Iran was an important Silk Road city, its position providing links to central Asia and China, Afghanistan and India, the Persian Gulf and the west. Despite previous excavations there are many unresolved questions surrounding the site; when was the city founded? Is Nishapur a Sasanian city?
RRP: £50.00
The Oasis Papers 6 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9781842175248
Pub Date: 08 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Dakhleh Oasis Papers
Description:
The Dakhleh Oasis Project is a long-term holistic investigation of the evolution of human populations in the changing environmental conditions of this isolated region in the Western Desert of Egypt. The Project began in 1978 and has combined survey and excavation to collect an extensive range of geological, environmental and archaeological data which covers the last 350,000 years of human occupation. This latest volume in the Monograph series publishing the results of the Project contains 41 papers with a wealth of new research and significant discoveries, from Prehistory, through Pharaonic and Roman times to the Christian period.
RRP: £90.00
An Examination of Late Assyrian Metalwork Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9781842175071
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Although the Assyrian kingdom that dominated the Ancient Near East between the ninth and seventh centuries BC had a rich material culture, attested particularly by the distinctive stone wall reliefs and colossal gateway figures, practically nothing is known about Assyrian metalwork. There has been no previous survey of this subject, largely because most of the material was not accessible. This volume makes available for the first time a vast amount of previously unpublished metalwork, much of it from the Assyrian capital city of Nimrud, excavated first by Sir Henry Layard between 1845 and 1851 and then by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq between 1949 and 1963.
Archaeological Survey and the City Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842175095
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology Monographs
Illustrations: 275 illus.
Description:
In the past 30 years archaeological field survey has become central to the practice of Classical Archaeology. During this time, approaches have developed from the systematic collection of artefacts to include the routine deployment of various geophysical and remote sensing techniques. The ability of archaeologists to reveal the topography of buried urban sites without excavation has now been demonstrated through a wide range of projects across the ancient world.
RRP: £36.00
Living with the Dead Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842174937
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Illustrations: 75 colour & b/w illustrations,
Description:
Living with the Dead presents a detailed analysis of ancestor worship in Egypt, using a diverse range of material, both archaeological and anthropological, to examine the relationship between the living and the dead. Iconography and terminology associated with the deceased reveal indistinct differences between the blessedness and malevolence and that the potent spirit of the dead required constant propitiation in the form of worship and offerings. A range of evidence is presented for mortuary cults that were in operation throughout Egyptian history and for the various places, such as the house, shrines, chapels and tomb doorways, where the living could interact with the dead.
Well Built Mycenae Fascicule 34.1 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 65
ISBN: 9781842175286
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Well Built Mycenae
Description:
Since 1890 when Sir Flinders Petrie first realised the importance of the Aegean pottery he had found in Egypt further discoveries of these wares have been noted with more than superficial interest. Early studies, however, right up to the mid 20th century, had to be based on stylistic, and thus often subjective, criteria. It is only more recently with the development of a range of scientific techniques that it has become possible to make serious attempts to ascertain the exact sources of this imported pottery.
RRP: £30.00
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies Volume 15 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842175002
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Journal of Roman Pottery Studies
Illustrations: 165 b/w + col illus.
Description:
This volume of JRPS carries a broad range of papers reflecting the detailed ongoing scholarship in the field of Roman pottery studies. There is a marked international dimension to the eleven papers. In part, this simply follows from the extensive geography of the Roman Empire and its influence, yet it also reflects the identification of the Journal of Roman Pottery Studies as a leading vehicle for the publication of quality research in Roman ceramics not only from Roman Britain but from the whole of the Roman Empire.
Rock Art Studies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 398
ISBN: 9781842174821
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: A4, b/w illustrations
Description:
This is the fourth in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. The aims are to present a synthesis of the status of rock art research in different regions of the world, provide information about recent projects, publications, prevailing research objectives and methods, and enable rock art researchers to relate their findings in a specific region to mainstream research results. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions, presenting examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the New World.
Myth and History Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
ISBN: 9781842174784
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus throughout
Description:
Our recent understanding of British history has been slowly unravelling thanks to new techniques such as DNA analysis, new archaeological data and reassessment of the literary evidence. There are considerable problems in understanding the early history of Britain; sources for the centuries from the first Roman invasion to 1000 AD are few and contradictory, the archaeological record complex and there is little collaboration or agreement between archaeologists, Roman and Anglo-Saxon historians. A common assumption concerning the development of the English language and, therefore British history, is that there was an invasion from northern Europe in the 5th century, the so-called Anglo-Saxon migration; a model based on the writings of Bede.
RRP: £29.95
Rock Art and Seascapes in Uppland Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 124
ISBN: 9781842175132
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Swedish Rock Art Research
Illustrations: col illus
Description:
Rock Art and Seascapes in Uppland presents a fresh approach to the detailed study of a selection of over 80 rock art panels located close to the present coastline of Uppland, Sweden, which include some 2000 ship depictions among the varied figurative art. Using GPS measurement combined with detailed study of the terrain, topography and relative sea level data in order to present accurate maps of the panels, the location and significance of the original positioning of rock art images in relation to their contemporaneous coastline is demonstrated and modelled. The implications in terms of chronology, typology, landscape, social practice and iconography are discussed and new interpretations for the relationship between Bronze Age rock art, shore displacement, settlement and burial sites presented.
RRP: £25.00
Embodied Knowledge Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781842174906
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 42 b/w illus
Description:
The body is the main forum for learning about how to do, think and believe and it is a starting point for the granting and forming of many forms of meaning. Fourteen papers explore the relationship between knowledge and the body through a series of historical and archaeological case studies. More specifically, it considers the concept of embodied knowledge by exploring some of the apparent diverse and yet shared forms of what may be called embodied knowledge.
RRP: £36.00
Stories from Ancient Egypt Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9781842175057
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from Ancient Egypt are given a lively re-telling by Joyce Tyldesley. These include stories about the gods, such as The Creation of the World, Hathor and the Red Beer, and the myths about Osiris, Isis and Horus. Fairy stories and incredible adventures are represented by The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, The Adventures of Sinuhe and The Prince, the Dog, the Snake and the Crocodile, while good and bad behaviour are to be found in Three Magical Stories and The Story of Truth and Falsehood.
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