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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Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume I [Paperback]
Nina Mirnig (Editor); Peter-Daniel Szanto (Editor); Michael Williams (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781842173855
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: PUSPIKA
Volume: 1
It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world's richest and most enticing cultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first "Indologist", wrote his outsider's account of the subcontinent and two hundr... .... 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
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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 -
Materiality and Social Practice: Transformative Capacities of Intercultural Encounters [Paperback]
Joseph Maran (Editor); Philipp W. Stockhammer (Editor)
£28.00ISBN: 9781782975410
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Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcul... .... Learn More -
Past Bodies: Body-Centered Research in Archaeology [Paperback]
Dusan Boric (Author); John Robb (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781782975427
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Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation o... .... 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 -
Traditional Buildings in the Oxford Region [Hardback]
John Steane (Author); James Ayres (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £34.00
ISBN: 9781842174791
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The pivotal position of the Oxford region in the geological and therefore building history of England is of fundamental importance to the study of traditional construction. Oxford occupies a central position on the ancient route b... .... Learn More -
Counting People: A DIY Manual for Local and Family Historians [Paperback]
John Moore (Author)
Regular Price: £17.95
Special Price: £13.50
ISBN: 9781842174807
Published by : Oxbow Books
Local and family historians are often afraid to use numerical data (Statistics) in their research and writing. Yet numbers are an essential part of much historical work, obviously in population history but also in local studies of... .... 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
Published by : Oxbow Books
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
