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Oxbow Books

We publish around 50 titles a year, including monographs, edited collections of papers and excavation reports. Archaeology is our main subject area but we also publish in related historical and scientific fields. We publish series for the Prehistoric Society, the Dakhleh Oasis Project, the Neolithic Studies Research Group, The Centre for Textile Research, the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Group, The University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology, The British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology, Bournemouth University, Cardiff University, Sheffield University, Southampton University and the Council for British Research in the Levant. We also publish four journals; Childhood in the Past, Journal of Wetland Archaeology, Journal of Roman Pottery Studies and Discussions in Egyptology.

We currently have 507 books for this publisher
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CAD Guide to Good Practice
by Harrison Eiteljorg II, Kate Fernie, Jeremy Huggett, Damian Robinson
From archaeological field work to heritage organisations and museums, increasingly CAD files and three-dimensional CAD models comprise a unique component of our digital archives - and one which it may not be possible to reproduce on paper. This Guide offers a basic description of computer-aided drafting or computer-aided design (CAD) software, discussions on the use of CAD in a variety of situations, descriptions of data acquisition ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £15.00, Our Price GB £2.95

A Maritime Archaeology of Ships: Innovation and Social Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
by Jonathan Adams
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 interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central relevance in the integrated study of the human past. Within maritime archaeology the study of watercraft has been understandably prominent and yet ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price GB £25.00, Our Price GB £20.00

Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area: The History Origin and Development of Irrigated Agriculture
by B. V. Adrianov, edited by Maurizio Tosi and Simone Mantellini
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 ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price GB £20.00, Our Price GB £16.95

Peninj: A Research Project on Human Origins (1995-2005)
edited by Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, Luis Alcalá, and Luis Luque
The Early Pleistocene sediments of Peninj, west of Lake Natron (Tanzania), contain a wealth of archaeological and paleontological sites formed during the emergence of the genus Homo and the extinction of the last australopithecines. Peninj has preserved tantalizing evidence that hominids, living in an open savanna, were acquiring animal resources through predation. Evidence also suggests that hominids repeatedly visited points on the ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Coptic Documentary Texts from Kellis 1
edited by Iain Gardner, Anthony Alcock, and Wolf-Peter Funk
This volume is devoted to the publication of forty five Coptic documents written on papyri and boards, found in the ruins of houses at Kellis, the Roman predecessor of the village of Ismant el-Kharab in the Dakhleh Oasis. The documents date from the fourth century AD and relate to the domestic life of the people over at least two generations. Most of the documents are personal letters, and many of them have a Manichaean content reflecting the ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £70.00, Our Price GB £15.00

The Early Roman Empire in the East
edited by Susan Alcock
A group of essays that trace the development of Roman influence in the eastern parts of the empire. Contents include: Urbanization (Greg Woolf); Roman colonies in the province of Achaia (A Rizakis); Syrian desert (M Gawlikowski); The Syrian countryside (G Tate); Jewish rural settlement (Y Hirschfield); Roman relations with the Persicus sinus (D T Potts); The Imperial image (C B Rose); The ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.00

Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes
by Mary Allsebrook
Harriet Boyd was the first woman to lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean. At a time when few women travelled on their own, she discovered, excavated and published an account of the Minoan town of Gournia in Crete. She was the first woman to lecture to the Archaeological Instituite of America - ten times in fourteen days in January 1902. While prominent as a lecturer and teacher, archaeology was only a part of her life: in 1897 she was ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £18.00, Our Price GB £6.95

The Rhyton from Danilo: Structure and Symbolism of a Middle Neolithic Cult-Vessel
by Omer Rak, translated by Theresa Alt and Wayles Browne
The so called rhyton from Danilo, an archaeological site near the coastal town of Sibenik in Dalmatia, Croatia, is a four-legged Neolithic vessel made of fired clay that according to the consensus of archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content. "Danilo Culture" is the eponymous name bestowed on a culture flourishing in the period from about 5500-4500 BC at Danilo and at some ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00

Current and Recent Research in Osteoarchaeology 2
compiled and edited for Sue Anderson
A collection of short papers and abstracts from the 4th, 5th and 6th proceedings of the Osteological Research Group, held in April and November 1996 and June 1997. The papers cover a wide range of subjects including technical information, evidence derived ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £15.00, Our Price GB £4.95

Current Research in Egyptology 2011: Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium, Durham 2011
edited by Heba Abd El Gawad, Nathalie Andrews, Maria Correas-Amador, Veronica Tamorri and James Taylor
The twelfth annual Current Research in Egyptology symposium aimed to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of the field of Egyptology. Papers in these proceedings reflect this multidisciplinarity, with research based on Archaeology, Linguistics, Cultural Astronomy, Historiography, Botany, Religion and Law, amongst others. By means of one or several of these disciplines, contributors to this volume approach a broad range of subjects spanning from ...
Hardback. Price GB £48.00