Oxbow Books: 346 books
The Dyer's Handbook
Memoirs of an 18th Century Master Colourist
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten olive, modest plum, agate, rich French gray, gunpowder of the English……..just some of the colour names of old fabric to fire the imagination. Memoirs on Dyeing concerns...
Woven Threads
Patterned Textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Woven textiles are produced by nearly all human societies. This volume investigates evidence for patterned textiles (that is, textiles woven with elaborate designs) that were produced by two early Mediterranean civilizations: the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece, that prospered...
The Emergence of Civilisation
The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Unavailable for too long, this new edition reprints the original text of Renfrew's groundbreaking study, supplemented with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry, in order to make this landmark publication available once again to the scholarly community.
by J. H. Crouwel
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Chariots and Other Wheeled Vehicles in Italy before the Roman Empire presents evidence for transport by wheeled vehicle in Italy before the Roman Imperial period, the beginning of which is often thought to be marked by Augustuss conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. The study begins with a glossary of technical...
Bosworth 1485
A Battlefield Rediscovered
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Bosworth stands alongside Naseby and Hastings as one of the three most iconic battles ever fought on English soil. The action on 22 August 1485 brought to an end the dynastic struggle known as the Wars of the Roses and heralded the dawn of the Tudor dynasty. However, Bosworth was also the most famous...
Textiles and the Medieval Economy
Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th–16th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
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. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The articles included in this volume were all presented at the 15th annual British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) conference held at the University of York on the 13th and 15th of September 2013. Ten papers are presented, on a range of topics and themes, including...
Bristol: A Worshipful Town and Famous City
An Archaeological Assessment from Prehistory to 1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Bristol is a major city and port in the south-west of England. In medieval times, it became the third largest city in the kingdom, behind London and York. Bristol was founded in the late Saxon period and grew rapidly in the 12th and 13th centuries. Initially, seaborne trading links with Ireland and...
Roman Imperial Armour
The production of early imperial military armour
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms...
The Lost Dark Age Kingdom of Rheged
the Discovery of a Royal Stronghold at Trusty’s Hill, Galloway
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Trusty's Hill is an early medieval fort at Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway. The hillfort comprises a fortified citadel defined by a vitrified rampart around its summit, with a number of enclosures looping out along lower-lying terraces and crags. The approach to its summit is flanked on...
Snails
Archaeology and Landscape Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
The remains of snails in ancient soils and sediments are one of the most important biological indicators of past landscapes, and have attracted study for well over a century. In spite of this, the only English-language textbook was published in 1972 and is long since out of print. Snails provides...
by Marissa Marthari, Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
The sculpture of the early bronze age Cyclades has been systematically studied since the time of Christos Tsountas at the end of the 19th century. But that study has been hampered by the circumstance that so many of the subsequent finds come from unauthorised excavations, where the archaeological...
Plants and People
Choices and Diversity through Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
This first monograph in the EARTH series, The dynamics of non-industrial agriculture: 8,000 years of resilience and innovation, approaches the great variety of agricultural practices in human terms. It focuses on the relationship between plants and people, the complexity of agricultural processes...
Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions
Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world's richest and most enticing cultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first "Indologist", wrote his outsider's account of the subcontinent and two hundred years have passed since the inception of...