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.
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All the Emperor's Men: Roman Soldiers and Barbarians on Trajan's Column [Hardback]
J. C. Coulston(Author)
Regular Price: $49.99
Special Price: $37.50
ISBN: 9781842173008
Published by : Oxbow Books
Trajan's Column, set up in the heart of Rome, was completed in 113 CE to commemorate the emperor Trajan's wars across the Danube. Its reliefs provide a uniquely detailed picture of the army at war in perfect harmony with Trajan wh... .... Learn More -
Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and its Region [Hardback]
Mark Maltby(Editor)
Regular Price: $99.00
Special Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781842172773
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This is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is di... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and Land-use of South-East England to 1066: A Tribute to Peter Drewett [Hardback]
Michael J. Allen(Editor); David Rudling(Editor)
$70.00ISBN: 9781782979623
Published by : Oxbow Books
This new authoritative textbook on the archaeology of Southeast England (principally Kent, Sussex and Surrey) comprises contributions by over 30 leading authorities to provide a comprehensive overview as an informed narrative and ... .... Learn More -
Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America [Paperback]
Robert A. Birmingham(Author)
Regular Price: $34.95
Special Price: $25.95
ISBN: 9781785700873
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Series: American Landscapes
Between c. AD 700 and 1100, Late Woodland people of the Upper Midwest of North America used the topography and other features of the natural landscape to create vast ceremonial landscapes consisting of thousands of earthen mounds... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Household [Paperback]
Gabriella Kovacs(Editor); Ivan Briz i. Godino(Editor); B. Berzsenyi(Editor)
Regular Price: $55.00
Special Price: $41.25
ISBN: 9781789252125
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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 living... .... Learn More -
Towards Skyscape Archaeology [Paperback]
Fabio Silva(Author)
$26.00ISBN: 9781782979555
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Oxbow Insights in Archaeology
Volume: 7
The study of beliefs and practices concerning the sky in the past and the uses to which people’s understanding of the sky was put has long been of great interest to archaeologists and the wider public, but also controversial... .... Learn More -
Everyday Products in the Middle Ages: Crafts, Consumption and the individual in Northern Europe c. AD 800-1600 [Paperback]
Gitte Hansen(Editor); Steven Ashby(Editor); Irene Baug(Editor)
Regular Price: $55.00
Special Price: $41.25
ISBN: 9781789252118
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The medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts of the Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the people involved in the transactions that took place there, how their lives were influenc... .... Learn More -
The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia [Hardback]
Neil Price(Author)
Regular Price: $49.99
Special Price: $37.50
ISBN: 9781842172605
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Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to descr... .... Learn More -
Textiles and the Medieval Economy: Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th–16th Centuries [Paperback]
Angela Ling Huang(Editor); Carsten Jahnke(Editor)
Regular Price: $55.00
Special Price: $41.25
ISBN: 9781789252095
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Series: Ancient Textiles
Volume: 16
Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Ar... .... Learn More -
Viking Worlds: Things, Spaces and Movement [Paperback]
Marianne Hem Eriksen(Editor); Unn Pedersen(Editor); Bernt Rundberget(Editor); Irmelin Axelsen(Editor); Heidi Lund Berg(Editor)
Regular Price: $50.00
Special Price: $37.50
ISBN: 9781789252101
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Fourteen papers explore a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the Viking past, both in Scandinavia and in the Viking diaspora. Contributions employ both traditional inter- or multi-disciplinarian perspectives ... .... Learn More
