Oxbow Books: 346 books
Socialising Complexity
Approaches to Power and Interaction in the Archaeological Record
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Socialising Complexity introduces the concept of complexity as a tool, rather than a category, for understanding social formations. This new take on complexity moves beyond the traditional concern with what constitutes a complex society and focuses on the complexity inherent in various social forms...
Ethnozooarchaeology
The Present and Past of Human-Animal Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
This book examines how the study of human-animal relations can help us interpret archaeological evidence. An international range of contributors examines fishing, hunting and husbandry, slaughtering and butchering, ceremonial and ritual practices and techniques of deposition and disposal in traditional...
Pompeii
Art, Industry and Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Even after more than 250 years since its discovery, Pompeii continues to resonate powerfully in both academic discourse and the popular imagination. This volume brings together a collection of ten papers that advance, challenge and revise the present conceptions of the city's art, industry and infrastructure....
by George Nash, Andrew Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
What constitutes an island and the archaeology contained within? Is it the physicality of its boundary (between shoreline and sea)? Does this physical barrier extend further into a watery zone? Archaeologically, can islands be defined by cultural heritage and influence? Clearly, and based on these...
Lands of the Shamans
Archaeology, Landscape and Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
‘Shamanism’ is a term with specific anthropological roots, but which is used more generally to cover a set of interactions between a practitioner or ‘shaman’ and a spiritual or religious realm beyond the reach of most members of the community. It has often been considered from an anthropological...
The Excavations at Dura-Europos conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters 1928 to 1937. Final Report VII
The Arms and Armour and other Military Equipment
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
This is a paperback reprint of the first edition, which appeared in 2004, published by British Museum Press. The ancient city of Dura-Europos, destroyed by a Sasanian Persian siege in the AD 250s, was an important regional centre of commerce, government and military control under the Seleucid, Parthian...
Image, Memory and Monumentality
Archaeological Engagements with the Material World
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Leading scholars in these 29 commissioned papers in honour of Richard Bradley discuss key themes in prehistoric archaeology that have defined his career, such as monumentality, memory, rock art, landscape, material worlds and field practice. The scope is broad, covering both Britain and Europe, and...
Is There a British Chalcolithic?
People, Place and Polity in the later Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2012
The Chalcolithic, the phase in prehistory when the important technical development of adding tin to copper to produce bronze had not yet taken place, is not a term generally used by British prehistorians and whether there is even a definable phase is debated. Is there a British Chalcolithic? brings...
by Geoffrey Killen
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In this revised second edition Dr Killen continues his survey of Egyptian furniture-making techniques with a study of boxes, chests and footstools and traces their evolution from the earliest times. Wooden, papyrus and alabaster boxes and chests were used to hold, protect and store valuable objects,...
Current Research in Egyptology 2014
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Presents the latest research in Egyptology on the theme of Ancient Egypt in a Global World
This selection of 23 papers from the 15th annual Current Research in Egyptology symposium addreses the interregional and interdisciplinary theme of ‘Ancient Egypt in a Global World’. This theme works on...
Current Research in Egyptology 2007
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The Eighth Annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium (CRE 2007) was held at Swansea University on the 19th-21st April. The conference brought together graduate and postgraduate students of Egyptology from ten different countries, contributing to a total of 40 presentations. The range of topics...
The Language of Ramesses
Late Egyptian Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
François Neveu’s seminal work, here available in English for the first time, enables the reader to explore the Ramesside age through an understanding of Late Egyptian. This phase corresponds to the language spoken from the 17th to the 24th dynasty, which became a written language – used for private...
by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz, John M. Steele
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance. Calendars which...
Slave-Wives, Single Women and “Bastards” in the Ancient Greek World
Law and Economics Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Greek scholars have produced a vast body of evidence bearing on nuptial practices that has yet to be mined by a professional economist. By standing on their shoulders, the author proposes and tests radically new interpretations of three important status groups in Greek history: the pallakē, the nothos,...