Oxbow: 348 books
by Jennifer R. March
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Jenny March’s acclaimed Dictionary of Classical Mythology, first published in 1998 but long out of print, has been extensively revised and expanded including a completely new set of beautiful line-drawing illustrations for this Oxbow edition. It is a comprehensive A – Z guide to Greek and Roman...
Trireme Olympias
The Final Report
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This volume represents the final publication of the Olympias project, which saw the building of a full-scale reconstruction of a 170-oared Athenian trireme of the 4th century BC and its operation in five series of sea-trials in the Aegean Sea. The first three sea-trials in 1987, 1988 and 1990 have...
Ancient Fortifications
A Compendium of Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Dedicated to the investigation of fortifications as important and integral elements of ancient built space, the present volume results from the activity of the German based international research network Fokus Fortifikation. Ancient Fortifications in the Eastern Mediterranean and is intended as a...
Focus on Fortifications
New Research on Fortifications in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many years. While fortifications of the ancient cultures of the middle east and ancient...
by T. F. C. Blagg, Martin Millett
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Digital reprint of this important collection of papers which form the companion to 'Early Roman Empire in the East' (Oxbow 1997). Fourteen contributions examine the interaction of Roman and native peoples in the formative years of the Roman provinces in Italy, Gaul, Spain and Portugal, Germany and...
Molluscs in Archaeology
Methods, Approaches and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The subject of ‘Molluscs in Archaeology’ has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow’s Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of molluscs in archaeology. It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis...
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies Volume 9
The Roman Pottery Kilns at Rossington Bridge Excavations 1956-1961
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Report on the excavations of eight Roman pottery kilns at Rossington Bridge, Lincolnshire
Volume Nine of Journal of Roman Pottery Studies, published by Oxbow Books for the Study Group for Romano- British Pottery contains the long-awaited Rossington Bridge report. Rossington Bridge lies next...
The Times of Their Lives
Hunting History in the Archaeology of Neolithic Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
The hunt is on for the most detailed histories of people in the remote past that we can achieve. We can now routinely, through Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates, construct much more precise chronologies than previously, down to the scales of lifetimes and generations, and even on occasion of...
by Meredith Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
“The Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground . . .” (Gen 2:7). Made of dust, we humans are thoroughly physical beings. We are dusty earthlings. As such, we are also ecological beings, or rather eco-physical beings, firmly embedded in and dependent upon God’s earthly ecosystems that...
Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times
People, Places, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances and these trade networks were influenced by raw material supply, labour skills, costs, as well as by...
Archaeology of East Asia
The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region...
by Gerardo Aldana y V., Edwin L. Barnhart
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Archaeoastronomy and the Maya illustrates archaeoastronomical approaches to ancient Mayan cultural production. The book is contextualized through a history of archaeoastronomical investigations into Mayan sites, originating in the 19th century discovery of astronomical tables within hieroglyphic books....
by William Davies, Ruth Charles
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best known as a fieldworker, often venturing into...
by Daniel J. Pullen
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
This volume brings together an international group of researchers to address how Mycenaean and Minoan states controlled the economy. The contributions, originally delivered at the 2007 Langford Conference at the Florida State University, examine the political economies of state (and pre-state) entities...