Oxbow Books Imprint
Oxbow Books publishes about 65 titles a year in the main Oxbow imprint. These include monographs, edited collections of papers and excavation and site reports. Archaeology is our main subject area encompassing all periods from prehistory through classical archaeology, the ancient Near East, Egyptology, the Middle Ages and post-medieval archaeology. Related fields such as environmental archaeology, landscape archaeology, archaeozoology, maritime and underwater archaeology are covered as well as wider examinations of archaeological practice and theory.
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Where the Last Neanderthals Lived: A Study of Neanderthal and Modern Human Behavioural Ecology in a Glacial Refugium [Hardback]
Clive Finlayson (Editor); D. Francisco Giles Pacheco (Editor); Joaquin Rodriguez Vidal (Editor)
Regular Price: $100.00
Special Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781842172650
Published by : Oxbow Books
Gorham's Cave, at the southern end of the Rock of Gibraltar, is a large cavern that sits close to the Mediterranean coast in full view of North Africa. The cave is rich in archaeological deposits and evidence of Neanderthal occupation, dating b... .... Learn More -
Tools, Textiles and Contexts: Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age [Hardback]
Eva Andersson Strand (Editor); Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor)
Regular Price: $96.00
Special Price: $77.00
ISBN: 9781842174722
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: ANCIENT TEXTILES SERIES
Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative work offers crucial new perspectives into this field. The new and updat... .... Learn More -
Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and its Region [Hardback]
Mark Maltby (Editor)
Regular Price: $120.00
Special Price: $90.00
ISBN: 9781842172773
Published by : Oxbow Books
This is the third book in a series on Medieval Novgorod and its surrounds, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the editor and a number of... .... Learn More -
All the Emperor's Men: Roman Soldiers and Barbarians on Trajan's Column [Hardback]
J. C. Coulston (Author)
Regular Price: $70.00
Special Price: $52.95
ISBN: 9781842173008
Published by : Oxbow Books
Trajan's Column, set up in the heart of Rome, was completed in 113 CE to commemorate the emperor Trajan's wars across the Danube. Its reliefs provide a uniquely detailed picture of the army at war in perfect harmony with Trajan who in his own ... .... Learn More -
The Viking Way: Religion and War in the Later Iron Age of Scandinavia, second edition [Hardback]
Neil Price (Author)
Regular Price: $60.00
Special Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781842172605
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Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet desp... .... Learn More -
Ways of Being Roman: Discourses of Identity in the Roman West [Paperback]
Louise Revell (Author)
Regular Price: $50.00
Special Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781842172926
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This book examines the question of identity in the Roman west. Combining material and textual evidence, it takes an innovative approach in looking at the wider discourses or ideologies through which an individual sense of self was learnt and ex... .... Learn More -
Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Pre-Industrial Society: Choices, Stability and Change [Hardback]
Fèlix Retamero (Editor); Inge Schjellerup (Editor); Althea Davies (Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9781842173596
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: EARTH SERIES
Volume: 3
Through a series of case studies, this third volume in the Earth series deals with the technological constraints and innovations that enabled societies to survive and thrive across a range of environmental conditions. The contribu... .... Learn More -
Building for Eternity: the History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea [Hardback]
C.J. Brandon (Author); R.L. Hohlfelder (Author); M.D. Jackson (Author); J.P. Oleson (Author)
Regular Price: $110.00
Special Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781782974208
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One marker of the majesty of ancient Rome is its surviving architectural legacy, the stunning remains of which are scattered throughout the circum-Mediterranean landscape. Surprisingly, one truly remarkable aspect of this heritage... .... Learn More -
The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Southern Britain AD 450-650: Beneath the Tribal Hidage [Hardback]
Sue Harrington (Author); Martin Welch (Author)
Regular Price: $120.00
Special Price: $90.00
ISBN: 9781782976127
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The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their lands and surpluses. Whilst providing some indication of relative wealth ... .... Learn More -
Fashionable Encounters: Perspectives and trends in textile and dress in the Early Modern Nordic World [Hardback]
Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen (Editor); Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor); Maj Ringgaard (Editor); Kirsten Toftegaard (Editor); Mikkel Venborg Pederson (Editor)
Regular Price: $76.00
Special Price: $57.00
ISBN: 9781782973829
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades the realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic w... .... Learn More
