The David Brown Book Company

New From Oxbow Books, The David Brown Book Company

The Romano-British Peasant
$60.00
Unlike many other volumes on Roman Britain, this book focuses on the ordinary people - the farmers, shopkeepers, labourers and others - who are rarely given centre-stage.
Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of Ancient Egypt
$96.00
This volume presents the findings of a major international project on the application of radiocarbon dating to the Egyptian historical chronology.
The Historic Landscape of Devon
$76.00
This book discusses the 19th-century historic landscape of Devon though the creation, manipulation and querying of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database to examine physical evidence of change and development through field and settlement patterns.
Somerset's Peatland Archaeology
$80.00
The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments.
The Anglo-Saxon Church of All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire
$180.00
This beautifully illustrated volume presents a comprehensive description and account of one of the most important surviving early churches in the country and its architectural history.
Rough Cilicia
$130.00
The region of Rough Cilicia (modern area the south-western coastal area of Turkey), known in antiquity as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the western part of the larger area of Cilicia.
Caring for Digital Data in Archaeology
$30.00
A wide variety of organizations are both creating and retaining digital data from archaeological projects. While current methods for preservation and access to data vary widely, nearly all of these organizations agree that careful management of digital archaeological resources is an important aspect of responsible archaeological stewardship.
Oceans Odyssey 3. The Deep-Sea Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida
$39.95
In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa commenced the world’s first archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south of the Tortugas Islands in the Straits of Florida. From a depth of 405 meters, 16,903 artifacts were recovered using a Remotely-Operated Vehicle.
Later Prehistory of the Badia
$96.00
The Jordanian badia is an arid region that has been largely protected from modern development by its extreme climate and has preserved a remarkably rich record of its prehistoric past. This is the second of two volumes to document extensive surveys and excavations in the region from Al-Azraq to the Iraqi border over the period 1979-1996.

New From Our Featured Publishers

Extraordinary Inundations of the Sea
$24.00
This publication describes a relatively small excavation (by CAM ARC, now Oxford Archaeology East), whose size belies its significance. Incredibly, this is the first properly documented archaeological excavation in the core of Wisbech - an historic town long suspected to have preserved interesting medieval deposits.
The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination
$89.50
The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as copies of reality. He was a celebrity who found himself subservient to publishers and the public, in a newly-industrialised literary marketplace.
The Fascination of the Unfinished Work
$30.00
Leonardo's fame is bound up in great works whose background is obscure.
Rock of Ages?
$40.00
Far from being the immutable ‘Rock of Ages’ He is often assumed to be, the God of Christian history and tradition has had many different and often conflicting faces.
The Decree of Sais
$90.00
von Bomhard presents an edition of the stela found during underwater excavations in the Abukir Bay, at the site of ancient Thonis-Heracleion, and inscribed with the Decree of Sais. The text is a parallel to that inscribed on another stela found at Naucratis at the turn of last century.
Blake Book
$99.95
The Blake Prize for religious art has now withstood 60 years of controversy as critics from many walks of life have argued as to what, in these decades of Australias history, constitutes religious art. Rosemary Crumlins richly illustrated book traces the changing styles of the literally thousands of entries to the Prize over six decades.
Going out in Daylight – prt m hrw
$140.00
First full illustrated translation with Egyptian transliteration, aiming to present with their individual histories all the compositions on prt m hrw "Book of the Dead" papyri from the New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period.
Das Gräberfeld auf dem Donderberg bei Rhenen
$130.00
German Description: Im Fruehjahr 1951 berichteten alle Zeitungen in den Niederlanden von einer international bedeutenden archäologischen Entdeckung: der Ausgrabung eines groáen fruehmittelalterlichen Gräberfeldes bei Rhenen in der Provinz Utrecht.

Latest Bargains

War, Politics and Finance in Late Medieval English Towns

Regular Price: $90.00

Special Price: $24.98

Haltonchesters

Regular Price: $40.00

Special Price: $14.98

Portrait of a Priestess

Regular Price: $52.50

Special Price: $24.98

Defining Acts

Regular Price: $23.00

Special Price: $6.98

Music in the Odes of Horace

Regular Price: $80.00

Special Price: $14.98

Civic Rites

Regular Price: $28.95

Special Price: $7.98

Archaeology and Memory

Regular Price: $110.00

Special Price: $24.98

The Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East

Regular Price: $76.00

Special Price: $19.98