Oxbow Books: 346 books
Ancient Fortifications
A Compendium of Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Dedicated to the investigation of fortifications as important and integral elements of ancient built space, the present volume results from the activity of the German based international research network Fokus Fortifikation. Ancient Fortifications in the Eastern Mediterranean and is intended as a...
Focus on Fortifications
New Research on Fortifications in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many years. While fortifications of the ancient cultures of the middle east and ancient...
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies Volume 9
The Roman Pottery Kilns at Rossington Bridge Excavations 1956-1961
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Report on the excavations of eight Roman pottery kilns at Rossington Bridge, Lincolnshire
Volume Nine of Journal of Roman Pottery Studies, published by Oxbow Books for the Study Group for Romano- British Pottery contains the long-awaited Rossington Bridge report. Rossington Bridge lies next...
The Times of Their Lives
Hunting History in the Archaeology of Neolithic Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
The hunt is on for the most detailed histories of people in the remote past that we can achieve. We can now routinely, through Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates, construct much more precise chronologies than previously, down to the scales of lifetimes and generations, and even on occasion of...
by Jennifer R. March
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Jenny March’s acclaimed Dictionary of Classical Mythology, first published in 1998 but long out of print, has been extensively revised and expanded including a completely new set of beautiful line-drawing illustrations for this Oxbow edition. It is a comprehensive A – Z guide to Greek and Roman...
by T. F. C. Blagg, Martin Millett
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Digital reprint of this important collection of papers which form the companion to 'Early Roman Empire in the East' (Oxbow 1997). Fourteen contributions examine the interaction of Roman and native peoples in the formative years of the Roman provinces in Italy, Gaul, Spain and Portugal, Germany and...
Molluscs in Archaeology
Methods, Approaches and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The subject of ‘Molluscs in Archaeology’ has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow’s Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of molluscs in archaeology. It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis...
by Gerardo Aldana y V., Edwin L. Barnhart
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Archaeoastronomy and the Maya illustrates archaeoastronomical approaches to ancient Mayan cultural production. The book is contextualized through a history of archaeoastronomical investigations into Mayan sites, originating in the 19th century discovery of astronomical tables within hieroglyphic books....
Butrint 4
The Archaeology and Histories of an Ionian Town
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
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...
Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture
Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The five authoritive papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject areas and approaches are very different, yet all are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave through several of them. Literary text is used to interpret...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
A volume of essays on communicating archaeology by every imaginable means provides an excellent tribute to the work of Bill Putnam - always a communicator. Learning by doing (Philip Rahtz) , field archaeology in the 70s and 80s (John Hinchliffe) , ignore good communication at your peril (Andrew Lawson)...
by Mats Larsson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Over the last 20 years a vast number of new and important Swedish Mesolithic sites have been excavated and published in different ways as articles, books and site reports. As yet there has been no study that tries to bring the loose ends together and so the main task of this important new work by...
by Meredith Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
“The Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground . . .” (Gen 2:7). Made of dust, we humans are thoroughly physical beings. We are dusty earthlings. As such, we are also ecological beings, or rather eco-physical beings, firmly embedded in and dependent upon God’s earthly ecosystems that...
Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times
People, Places, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances and these trade networks were influenced by raw material supply, labour skills, costs, as well as by...