The Archaeology of Time

In the latest book in the Themes in Archaeology series from Routledge, Gavin Lucas questions how archaeologists conceive of and use the concept of time, and how this has influenced the discipline. Highly readable, interesting throughout, and a must for all of those who think that time is all about chronology and dating.

Up Pompeii ... or Melting the Frozen Moment

Pompeii holds a fascination for scholar and tourist alike. In a new book, Pompeian Households, Penelope Allison investigates the city frozen in time.

Nero's Killing Machine

For thirty years Stephen Dando-Collins has immersed himself in the history of Rome’s legions, choosing to access the military history of the Empire by focusing on the career of specific legions. Slipping naturally between the techniques of military history and historical fiction, these enthusiastic and dramatic studies cannot fail to get your attention.

Who needs a List of Illustrations?

Why do books have Lists of Figures and Lists of Plates and Lists of Tables and pages of Acknowledgements and Picture Credits. Who needs all this stuff at the start of a book? It’s not what the reader wants – of that I’m sure.

January Sales

Here is a selection of books at prices that you will not have seen before...Now's your chance!

Of all the new books that have passed over the desks of the Oxbow staff this month, these, for whatever reason, are the ones that grabbed their attention.

Choice magazine has nominated Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation and the Horse as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles, 2004.

New Releases

The cultural landscape of prehistoric mines
edited by Peter Topping and Mark Lynott

The papers in this volume look at the wider implications of the archaeology of mining and examine the case for a symbolic association between raw materials and cultural behaviour.

Current Research in Egyptology 2003
Kathryn Piquette and Serena Love
Paperback. GB £28.00, GB £6.95

The fourth annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium (CRE 2003) was held on 18-19 January 2003, at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, and brought together graduate students of Egyptology from a range of institutions.In total, 27 papers were presented, 13 of which are published here. These illustrate a range of subject areas and approaches; an underlying theme, though, is apparent; a greater degree of reflexivity and a wider engagement with interdisciplinary research.

Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Greece
edited by Paul Halstead and John C Barrett

Food and drink, along with the material culture involved in their consumption, can signify a variety of social distinctions, identities and values. Thus, in Early Minoan Knossos, tableware was used to emphasize the difference between the host and the guests, and at Mycenaean Pylos the status of banqueters was declared as much by the places assigned to them as by the quality of the vessels from which they ate and drank. The ten contributions to this volume highlight the extraordinary opportunity for multi-disciplinary research in this area.