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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Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approaches to Archaeological Hypotheses [Paperback]
Frederick W. F. Foulds (Editor)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £26.00
ISBN: 9781842177662
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Experimental Archaeology is a volume which aims to bridge the gap in archaeology between empirical testing and humanistic approaches to understanding the material record. The contributors explore a wide variety of different fields... .... Learn More -
Global Ancestors: Understanding the Shared Humanity of our Ancestors [Paperback]
Rebecca Redfern (Editor); Jelena Bekvalac (Editor); Heather Bonney (Editor); Margaret Clegg (Editor)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £22.00
ISBN: 9781842175330
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Global Ancestors is a collection of papers which reflect on modern museological responses to the often complex and emotive relationship that people have with the ancestors and objects which they created. Set out in three broad the... .... Learn More -
Stairway to Heaven: The Functions of Medieval Upper Spaces [Hardback]
Toby Huitson (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £26.00
ISBN: 9781842176658
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Medieval stairs, galleries and upper chambers in cathedrals, abbeys, and parish churches have been an enduring source of fascination to historians and archaeologists since the eighteenth century, but their practical purposes have ... .... Learn More -
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: £28.00
Special Price: £21.95
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 Archaeology of Household [Hardback]
Gabriella Kovacs (Editor); Marco Madella (Editor); Ivan Briz i. Godino (Editor); B. Kulcsarne-Berzsenyi (Editor)
Regular Price: £49.95
Special Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9781842175170
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From the simplest hunter-gatherer society to the most powerful Empire, all societies are built on basic daily life, developed day to day with its specific material conditions. Household archaeology looks at the detail of the livin... .... Learn More -
Quaternary History and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Axe Valley at Broom, South West England [Hardback]
C. P. Green (Editor); Robert Hosfield (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781842175200
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This investigation of the Lower Palaeolithic site at Broom, Devon, highlights the huge potential of old sites and the importance of the archaeological and geological legacy resulting from more than 150 years of field investigation... .... Learn More -
Shell Energy: Mollusc Shells as Coastal Resources [Hardback]
G. N. Bailey (Editor); Karen Hardy (Editor); Abdoulaye Camara (Editor)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9781842177655
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Shell middens are ubiquitous archaeological features on coastlines throughout the world that have been variously analysed and interpreted as mounds of food, burial places, or simply as convenient receptacles for the preservation o... .... Learn More -
Temples and Sanctuaries in the Roman East: Religious Architecture in Syria, Iudaea/Palaestina and Provincia Arabia [Hardback]
Arthur Segal (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £44.95
ISBN: 9781842175262
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This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broa... .... Learn More -
Ancient Textiles, Modern Science [Paperback]
Heather Hopkins (Editor)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £26.00
ISBN: 9781842176641
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The European Textile Forum was founded as an annual meeting for academics, craftspeople, re-enactors and enthusiasts to share their experiences and compare notes. With varied day workshops and evening lectures, the ‘Textilfo... .... Learn More -
Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennnia BC [Paperback]
Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor); C. Michel (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9781782973911
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: ANCIENT TEXTILES SERIES
Volume: 8
Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles. The twenty-two chapters in the present volume offer the first comprehensive su... .... Learn More
