Oxbow: 348 books
A Neolithic Ceremonial Complex in Galloway
Excavations at Dunragit and Droughduil, 1999–2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
A complex enclosure identified by aerial photography at Dunragit Galloway, was demonstrated by excavation to have been of Late Neolithic date, and comprised three concentric timber ramped post-rings, 120–300 m in diameter. The two outer post-rings each comprised large uprights interspersed with...
Samothracian Connections
Essays in Honor of James R. McCredie
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
This volume of sixteen papers is dedicated to James R. McCredie in celebration of his outstanding contribution to the excavation and study of the sanctuary of the Great Gods on the Greek island of Samothrace. The papers focus mainly on the art and archaeology of Samothrace, while two contributions...
by Christopher Scarre, Luc Laporte
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Megalithic monuments are among the most striking remains of the Neolithic period of northern and western Europe and are scattered across landscapes from Pomerania to Portugal. Antiquarians and archaeologists early recognized the family resemblance of the different groups of tombs, attributing them...
Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture
The archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient mediterranean world
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social,...
Materiality and Social Practice
Transformative Capacities of Intercultural Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcultural perspective as a fundamental methodology and, then a broader understanding...
Incomplete Archaeologies
Assembling Knowledge in the Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Incomplete Archaeologies takes a familiar archaeological concept – assemblages – and reconsiders such groupings, collections and sets of things from the perspective of the work required to assemble them. The discussions presented here engage with the practices of collection, construction, performance...
by Kelly Accetta, Renate Fellinger, Pedro Lourenço Gonçalves
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The fourteenth Current Research in Egyptology conference, held at the University of Cambridge in March 2013 brought together speakers and attendees from six continents and hosted more than 50 presentations covering multiple aspects of Egyptology and its related fields. The aim of the conference was...
Transforming the Landscape
Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. The focus...
by Pete Wilson, Jennifer Price
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
At the frontiers of the Roman Empire, military settlements had a profound influence on local crafting traditions. Legions were not just fighting units - they contained a large number of craftsmen, and the fortress would have been a centre of manufacturing activity. A timber legionary fortress, for...
by Jane E. Francis, Anna Kouremenos
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The last several decades have seen a dramatic increase in interest in the Roman period on the island of Crete. Ongoing and some long-standing excavations and investigations of Roman sites and buildings, intensive archaeological survey of Roman areas, and intensive research on artifacts, history, and...
Textiles and Textile Production in Europe
From Prehistory to AD 400
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles express who we are - our gender, age, family affiliation, occupation, religion, ethnicity and social, political, economic and legal status. Besides expressing our identity,...
by Margarita Gleba, Helle W. Horsnaes
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Recent archaeological work has shown that South Italy was densely occupied at least from the Late Bronze Age, with a marked process of the development of proto-urban centres, accompanied by important technological transformations. The archaeological exploration of indigenous South Italy is a relatively...
by Margarita Gleba
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Older than both ceramics and metallurgy, textile production is a technology which reveals much about prehistoric social and economic development. This book examines the archaeological evidence for textile production in Italy from the transition between the Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages until the...
Care in the Past
Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As such, care-giving, and the form it takes, is a central experience of being...