Oxbow: 348 books
by Vicki Cummings, Chris Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This collection of 24 papers aims to reconsider the nature and significance of the Irish Sea as an area of cultural interaction during the Neolithic period. The traditional character of work across this region has emphasised the existence of prehistoric contact, with sea routes criss-crossing between...
Places of Special Virtue
Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This volume explores the landscape settings of megalithic chambered monuments in Wales. Set against a broader theoretical discussion on the significance of the landscape, the authors consider the role of visual landscapes in prehistory, meanings attached to the landscape, and the values and beliefs...
by Jane R. Timby
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Report on the rescue excavations of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered during 1974/5. Full catalogue of some 150 graves - mostly of the sixth century AD - and of the jewellery, weapons and other objects found with them. Fully illustrated catalogue of the finds and a discussion of them and their significance. Numerous specialist reports.
by Manuel Fernández-Götz, Holger Wendling, Katja Winger
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Exploring the origins of urbanism – the emergence and development of the first cities, has long constituted one of the main challenges of archaeological and ancient historical research. Studying cities in a long-term and cross-cultural perspective links the past with the present, allowing a better...
Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies
Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2007
An important human trait is our inclination to develop complex relationships with numerous other species. In the great majority of cases, however, these mutualistic relationships involve a pair of species whose co-evolution has been achieved through behavioural adaptation driving positive selection...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
As a result of recent methodological and theoretical developments in approaches to the human body in archaeological contexts, the theme has recently become a particularly dynamic research area. This volume, building on the Neolithic Studies Group conference 2014, captures the variety of debates developing...
by Mats Larsson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Over the last 20 years a vast number of new and important Swedish Mesolithic sites have been excavated and published in different ways as articles, books and site reports. As yet there has been no study that tries to bring the loose ends together and so the main task of this important new work by...
The Bull Ring Uncovered
Excavations at Edgbaston Street, Moor Street, Park Street and The Row, Birmingham City Centre, 1997-2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
The excavations in the centre of Birmingham uncovered evidence of habitation from prehistoric and Roman times, but the 12th to 19th centuries presented by far the most evidence, from artefacts, environmental samples and structural remains. The medieval industrial past was of particular interest, with...
Deliciae Fictiles IV
Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy. Images of Gods, Monsters and Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
In Ancient Italy, temples were adorned with full-figure architectural terracotta images such as acroteria, statuary groups and high reliefs. These terracottas mostly show complex scenes of gods and heroes, legendary battles and mythical animals, as well as large volutes and palmettes. The fourth edition...
by Karina Gerdau-Radonić, Kathleen McSweeney
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This first volume in the series Trends in Biological Anthropology presents 11 papers. The study of modern baboons as proxies to understand extinct hominin species’ diet and the interpretation of skeletal degenerative joint disease on the skeletal remains of extant primates are presented as case...
Offa's Dyke
Landscape and Hegemony in Eighth Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The massive ancient earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary national walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a century of study, we still do not fully understand how or why Britain's...
The Romano-British Peasant
Towards a Study of People, Landscapes and Work during the Roman Occupation of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This important and significant volume examines, for the first time, the ordinary people of Roman Britain. This overlooked group – the farmers, shopkeepers, labourers and others – fed the country, made the clothes, mined the ores, built the villas and towns and got their hands dirty in the fields...