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.
See some of our latest and forthcoming titles below or browse our full catalogue here.
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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: £48.00
Special Price: £38.95
ISBN: 9781842174722
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: ANCIENT TEXTILES SERIES
Volume: 13
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 -
Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Late Palaeolithic and Neolithic Communities of the Jordanian Steppe. The Azraq Basin Project Volume 1: Project Background and the Late Palaeolithic (Geological Context and Technology) [Hardback]
Andrew Garrard (Author); Brian Byrd (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £36.00
ISBN: 9781842178331
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Volume: 13
The natural arc of resource-rich land which forms the ‘Fertile Crescent’ of South-West Asia is regarded as the earliest centre of village-based farming in the world and has been the focus of much of our understanding o... .... Learn More -
A Maritime Archaeology of Ships: Innovation and Social Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe [Paperback]
J. R. Adams (Author)
Regular Price: £29.95
Special Price: £22.50
ISBN: 9781842172971
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In the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche int... .... Learn More -
The Medieval Kirk, Cemetery and Hospice at Kirk Ness, North Berwick: the Scottish Seabird centre Excavations 1999-2006 [Hardback]
Thomas Addyman (Author); Kenneth Macfadyen (Author); Tanja Romankiewicz (Author); Alasdair Ross (Author); Nicholas Uglow (Author)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £22.00
ISBN: 9781842176634
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Kirk Ness has long been considered likely to be an early Christian centre, whose dedication to St Andrew may perhaps be linked with the 8th century translation of the relics of St Andrew’s to Fife. Such early dating was conf... .... Learn More -
Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times: People, Places, Identities [Hardback]
Margarita Gleba (Editor); Judit Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke (Editor)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £22.00
ISBN: 9781842177679
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Volume: 14
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 i... .... Learn More -
Newcastle upon Tyne, the Eye of the North: An Archaeological Assessment [Hardback]
David Heslop (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £36.00
ISBN: 9781842178140
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Newcastle upon Tyne is one of England’s great cities. Many think of it simply as a product of the Industrial Revolution when abundant natural resources of coal, iron ore and water came together to create a Victorian industri... .... Learn More -
Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area: The History, Origin, and Development of Irrigated Agriculture [Hardback]
B. V. Adrianov (Author); Simone Mantellini (Editor)
Regular Price: £20.00
Special Price: £16.95
ISBN: 9781842173848
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Series: AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PREHISTORIC RESEARCH MONOGRAPH
Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area , is the English translation of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov's work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy priaralya , concerning the study of ancient irrigation systems and the settlement pattern in the histor... .... Learn More -
The Social Lives of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third Millennium BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa (Pakistan) [Hardback]
Sharri R. Clark (Author)
Regular Price: £20.00
Special Price: £16.95
ISBN: 9781842174555
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Series: AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PREHISTORIC RESEARCH MONOGRAPH
After more than 80 years of research, the Indus Civilization (ca. 2600–1900 BC) remains largely enigmatic. In this geographically extensive civilization, which still has no known monumental art and undeciphered texts, the la... .... Learn More -
A Corpus of Roman Pottery from Lincoln [Hardback]
Margaret Darling (Author); Barbara Precious (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £26.00
ISBN: 9781842174876
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Series: Lincoln Archaeology Studies
Volume: 6
This is the first major analysis of the Roman pottery from excavations in Lincoln (comprising more than 150,000 sherds). The pottery is presented in seven major ware groups. Fine wares include a modest range of imports and are dominated by Nene... .... Learn More -
Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns: Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, c. 800-1100 [Hardback]
Letty ten Harkel (Editor); D.M. Hadley (Editor)
Regular Price: £42.00
Special Price: £32.00
ISBN: 9781842175323
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The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. Far less attention has been pai... .... Learn More
