British Prehistory: Tracing the Isles’ Earliest Inhabitants
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Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the Dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age
Part 2: Material Culture, Subsistence, Skeletons and Synthesis
Full Price: £39.95
Discount Price: £31.95
ISBN: 9798888571163
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2025-06-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
464 Pages
Full report on the enormous, excellently preserved, non-ceramic finds and environmental data from the Cladh Hallan settlement, Western Isles of Scotland (c. 2000–500 cal BC).
Animating the Dead
An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney
Full Price: £40.00
Discount Price: £32.00
ISBN: 9798888571439
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
480 Pages
Presents the results of an extensive re-examination of Orkney Bronze Age barrows, their chronological development and the changing nature of mortuary and burial practices.
High Pasture Cave
Ritual, Memory and Identity in the Iron Age of Skye
Full Price: £48.00
Discount Price: £36.00
ISBN: 9781785709500
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-11-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
688 Pages
Details excavations at High Pasture Cave Complex, Skye, Scotland, challenging our current understanding of Iron Age cave use and function.
A Date with the Two Cerne Giants
Reinvestigating an Iconic British Hill Figure (The National Trust Excavations 2020)
Full Price: £24.95
Discount Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9781914427374
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-08-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
224 Pages
Recent fieldwork provided new, unexpected Anglo-Saxon, dates for the Cerne Giant which are discussed in the wider context of British hill figures and early medieval iconography.
The Beaker People
Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain
Price: £42.00
ISBN: 9798888571545
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-04-10
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
616 Pages
The Beaker People: isotopes, mobility and diet in prehistoric Britain presents the results of a major project that sought to address a century-old question about the people who were buried with Beakers a – the distinctive pottery of Continental origin that was current, predominantly in equally distinctive burials, in Britain from around 2450 BC.
An Examination of Prehistoric Stone Bracers from Britain
Price: £42.00
ISBN: 9798888570616
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-11-03
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
192 Pages
This volume present a detailed study of the thin, usually rectangular, pieces of pierced fine stone that occur in inhumation graves of Beaker date mainly of the second half of the third millennium cal BC. These objects are considered to be archer's bracers or wristguards.
Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia
The Place-Name Evidence
Price: £39.95
ISBN: 9781914427251
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-09-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages
Reassesses the traditional interpretations of how Scandinavian place-names in England came into being and offers a new model of place-name formation that incorporates the hypothesis of a substantial migration of settlers from Scandinavia.
Repeopling La Manche
New Perspectives on Neanderthal Lifeways from La Cotte de St Brelade
Price: £35.00
ISBN: 9781789251524
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-05-10
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
216 Pages
The current geography of north-west Europe, from the perspective of long term Pleistocene climate change, is temporary. The seaways that separate southern Britain from northern France comprise a flooded landscape open to occupation by hunter-gatherers for large parts of the 0.5 million years since the English Channel’s formation.
Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the Dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age
Part 2: Material Culture, Subsistence, Skeletons and Synthesis
Full Price: £39.95
Discount Price: £31.95
ISBN: 9798888571163
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2025-06-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
464 Pages
Animating the Dead
An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney
Full Price: £40.00
Discount Price: £32.00
ISBN: 9798888571439
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
480 Pages
High Pasture Cave
Ritual, Memory and Identity in the Iron Age of Skye
Full Price: £48.00
Discount Price: £36.00
ISBN: 9781785709500
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-11-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
688 Pages
A Date with the Two Cerne Giants
Reinvestigating an Iconic British Hill Figure (The National Trust Excavations 2020)
Full Price: £24.95
Discount Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9781914427374
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-08-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
224 Pages
The Beaker People
Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain
Price: £42.00
ISBN: 9798888571545
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-04-10
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
616 Pages
An Examination of Prehistoric Stone Bracers from Britain
Price: £42.00
ISBN: 9798888570616
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-11-03
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
192 Pages
Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia
The Place-Name Evidence
Price: £39.95
ISBN: 9781914427251
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-09-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages
Repeopling La Manche
New Perspectives on Neanderthal Lifeways from La Cotte de St Brelade
Price: £35.00
ISBN: 9781789251524
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-05-10
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
216 Pages