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.
See some of our latest and forthcoming titles below or browse our full catalogue here.
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Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America [Paperback]
Robert A. Birmingham (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785700873
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Series: American Landscapes
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Between c. AD 700 and 1100 Late Woodland people of the Upper Midwest used the topography and other features of the natural landscape to create vast ceremonial landscapes consisting of thousands of earthen mounds sculpted into animals and animal ... .... Learn More -
All the Emperor's Men: Roman Soldiers and Barbarians on Trajan's Column [Hardback]
Jon Coulston (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842173008
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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 who in his own ... .... 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)
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ISBN: 9781782979623
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In this new authoritative textbook on the archaeology of South-East England intended for students, researchers, and those working in commercial archaeology, over 30 leading authors provide a comprehensive overview of the South-East as an info... .... Learn MoreCulture of Defeat: Submission in Written Sources and the Archaeological Record of the Ancient Near East [Hardback]
Katharina Streit (Editor); Marianne Grohmann (Editor)
£95.00ISBN: 9781463239206
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East
Volume: 16
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Culture of Defeat is based on a 2017 conference focusing on conflicts from the Late Bronze and Iron Age Near East through the Babylonian period, exploring the cultural responses of defeated parties in war and conquest. .... Learn MoreUniversal Salvation and Freedom of Choice according to Origen of Alexandria [Hardback]
Lee Sytsma (Author)
£114.00ISBN: 9781463239503
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics
Volume: 74
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The 3rd century theologian Origen of Alexandria has traditionally been famous for his belief in universal salvation. Yet, Origen is also famous for his insistence on moral autonomy, the fact that God allows each creature to freely choose to move i... .... Learn MorePetition and Performance in the Apologies of Justin Martyr [Hardback]
Brandon Cline (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9781463239183
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Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics
Volume: 75
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Cline advances a suggestive reading of Justin Martyr's Apologies as a subjective appropriation of the forms and practices of the Roman system of petition and response. He offers an historical contextualization of the Apologies within both contempo... .... Learn MoreAtharvaveda Paippalāda: Kāṇḍa Fifteen: Text, translation, commentary [Hardback]
Duccio Lelli (Author)
£111.00ISBN: 9781463242046
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Series: Harvard Oriental Series - Opera Minora
Volume: 13
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Since its discovery and the initial efforts toward its critical edition, the Paippalādasaṃhitā of the Atharvaveda (PS) has attracted the attention of Vedic scholars and Indologists for several reasons. It constitutes a precious source for the stud... .... Learn MoreMother Tongue: XXII (2020) [Paperback]
Michael Witzel (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9781463242008
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Mother Tongue
Volume: 22
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Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory. .... Learn MoreTowards Skyscape Archaeology [Paperback]
Fabio Silva (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782979555
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Series: Oxbow Insights in Archaeology
Volume: 7
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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. Afte... .... Learn MoreJacob of Sarug's Homilies: On Jacob's Revelation at Bethel and on our Lord and Jacob, on the Church and Rachel and on Leah and the Synagogue [Paperback]
Mary Hansbury (Editor); Dana Miller (Editor)
£31.00ISBN: 9781463241896
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Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity
Volume: 58
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Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported 760 metrical homilies, only about half survive. ... .... Learn More