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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Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in Bronze Age Aegean [Hardback]
Philippa M. Steele(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789259018
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Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Volume: 7
Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practiced by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how... .... Learn More -
The Marriage Bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York: A Masterpiece of Tudor Craftsmanship [Hardback]
Peter N. Lindfield(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789257922
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The Henry VII and Elizabeth of York marriage bed, rediscovered in 2010, is an exceptional piece of late medieval English royal furniture: no other equivalent example of secular domestic furniture is known to have survived, and, indeed, precious li... .... Learn More -
The Bronze Age Collective Graves of Qarn al-Harf, Ras al-Khaimah (UAE): Southeast Arabia at the Dawn of the Second Millennium [Hardback]
Derek Kennet(Author); Alyson Caine(Author); Anna Hilton(Author); Lloyd Weeks(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789257953
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The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in south-east Arabia (the United Arab Emirates and northern Oman). The cultural homogeneity of the preceding Early Bronze Age, Umm an-Nar period (c. 2700-2000 BC) came to an en... .... Learn More -
Prehistory and Protohistory in the Occidental Mediterranean [Hardback]
Eva Alarcón García(Editor); Antoni Ferrer(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258226
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The development of several cultural phenomena dating back to the Copper Age took place in Europe throughout the second and first millennia BC. It can be especially analyzed within the archaeological record of western Mediterranean sites, where sev... .... Learn More -
The Submerged Site of La Marmotta (Rome, Italy): Decrypting a Neolithic Society: Woodworking, Basketry, Textiles and Other Crafts [Paperback]
Mario Mineo(Editor); Juan Gibaja(Editor); Niccolò Mazzucco(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258714
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The shift from a hunting and gathering economy to a productive economy, based on the domestication of plants and animals, is one of the most important changes in human history. This change, which manifested itself in different forms and at differe... .... Learn More -
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic: New discoveries at the edge of Europe [Paperback]
Jessica Smyth(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789258820
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Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Volume: 6
The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. T... .... Learn More -
Art, Image, Power and Place: Contextualising the Stone Sculpture of Anglo-Saxon England [Hardback]
Sarah Semple(Editor); Jane Hawkes(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789258981
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Early medieval stone sculptures survive across Europe: at waysides, in architectural settings and in churches and graveyards, and provide an exceptional source for understanding the aesthetics and beliefs of early medieval communities. England is ... .... Learn More -
The Excavations at Ismant al-Kharab in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: Volume 1 - Roman Period Cartonnage from the Kellis 1 Cemetery [Hardback]
Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo(Author); Colin A. Hope(Editor); Gillian E. Bowen(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789259049
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Excavations by the Dakhleh Oasis Project at Ismant al-Kharab, ancient Kellis in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, revealed the presence of an extensive necropolis dating to the Roman Period, with hundreds of rock-cut tombs containing multiple burials. Ter... .... Learn More -
Ancient DNA and the European Neolithic: Relations and descent [Paperback]
Alasdair Whittle(Editor); Joshua Pollard(Editor); Susan Greaney(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789259100
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A current paradigm-changing aDNA revolution is offering unparalleled insights into central questions within archaeology relating to the movement of populations and individuals; patterns of descent; relationships; and aspects of identity – at... .... Learn More -
Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines [Hardback]
Gianluca Miniaci(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789259148
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Series: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies
Volume: 2
Fragmented and chipped artifacts have usually been associated with the idea of refuse, discard, abandonment, decay, pillaging or reshuffling, as opposed to objects preserved in their entirety which have been imagined as synonymous with intact, ori... .... Learn More
