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The Dos and Don’ts of Digging a Bog Body

November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 oxbow_booksArchaeology

(and a warning about tasting the archaeological record!) ‘Bog bodies’ are some of the most familiar finds associated with peatland archaeology. However, they are in fact comparatively rare. In this blog Benjamin Gearey, co-author of[…]

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Mapping Oxford Through Time

January 21, 2022January 21, 2022 oxbow_booksArchaeology

NICK MILLEA, Map Curator at the Bodleian Libraries and trustee of the Historic Towns Trust reveals some of the remnants of Oxford’s forgotten past to bring the city’s past to life. No ordinary wall If[…]

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Did The Exodus Really Happen?

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 oxbow_booksArchaeology

In celebration of his new title, The Exodus, Peter Feinman discusses everything from his inspiration to the questions he seeks to answer about The Exodus, and the Bible, through this excellent new book. It’s all[…]

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Searching for Interdisciplinarity in Archaeology: A Fascinating Story

March 2, 2021 oxbow_booksArchaeology

Margarita Díaz-Andreu tells us how her personal journey inspired her most ambitious project yet: Interdisciplinarity and Archaeology, the first book to explore the relationship between archaeology and other branches of knowledge. Universities’ greed for external funds[…]

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Now You See It: Radiography on an Industrial Scale

February 10, 2020 oxbow_booksArchaeology

Oxbow Books authors GAYNOR WESTERN and JELENA BEKVALAC discuss what the analysis of human skeletal remains from the Industrial Period in Britain can tell us about ourselves and our health today. Setting off on a[…]

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Current Archaeology Award Nominations 2019

January 10, 2019 oxbow_booksArchaeology

Voting has now opened for the 11th annual Current Archaeology Awards, which celebrate the projects and publications that made the pages of the magazine over the past 12 months, and the people judged to have made outstanding[…]

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Discover a new world: Landscape Beneath the Waves

November 20, 2018 oxbow_booksArchaeology

Why does underwater archaeology matter? Is it relevant to non-specialists, other archaeologists, and even to the interested public? CAROLINE WICKHAM-JONES tells us why landscapes beneath the waves can be important to us all. You are[…]

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The Mystery of Stonehenge: Aliens, Giants, and Music?

October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 oxbow_booksArchaeology

On 26th October 1918, one hundred years ago, Cecil Chubb gave Stonehenge to the nation, ending the private ownership of the monument. To celebrate, we take a walk through some of the weirdest and wildest[…]

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Faversham in the Making: The Lesser-known History of a Small Market Town

August 14, 2018August 14, 2018 oxbow_booksAnglo-Saxon

What looks at first glance an unpretentious small market town, probably founded around AD 1200, is at second glance something more special and unusual. This extract from ‘Faversham in the Making’ begins to scratch the[…]

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