Oxbow Books: 346 books
by Andrew Cochrane, Andrew Meirion Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Prehistoric imagery is enigmatic and has been largely overlooked by archaeologists; it is only in the last two decades that it has garnered serious academic attention. This volume addresses this lacuna and discusses visual expression across Neolithic Europe. The papers in this volume result from a...
Material Mnemonics
Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
How did ancient Europeans materialise memory? Material Mnemonics: Everyday Practices in Prehistoric Europe provides a fresh approach to the archaeological study of memory. Drawing on case studies from the British Isles, Scandinavia, central Europe, Greece, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula that date...
Care or Neglect?
Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
"The method of Formgeschichte seeks to help in answering the historical questions as to the nature and trustworthiness of our knowledge of Jesus, and also in solving a theological problem properly so-called. It shows in what way the earliest testimony about Jesus was interwoven with the earliest...
Treasures from the Sea
Purple Dye and Sea Silk
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Purple dye is extracted from the glands of the molluscs Hexaplex trunculus, Bolinus Brandaris and Stramonita Haemastoma which, through a chemical reaction of photosynthesis, produces hues ranging from dark red to bluish purple colour. The importance of purple dye since ancient times as a status symbol,...
by Catherine Breniquet, Cécile Michel
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The history of the Ancient Near East covers a huge chronological frame, from the first pictographic texts of the late 4th millennium to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333 BC. During these millennia, different societies developed in a changing landscape where sheep (and their wool) always played...
The Southern Transjordan Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley
The Bronze Age to the Islamic Period (3800/3700 BC–AD 1917)
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Burton MacDonald presents an in-depth study of the archaeology and history of human presence over the past five-six thousand years in the southern segment of the Transjordan/Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley to the west. The evidence from archaeology for the area spans the entire period...
Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions
Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Puṣpikā Volume 4 contains the proceedings of the seventh International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Leiden 2015). The fourteen papers included here cover a rich variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of South Asia such as grammar, poetry and philosophy, examined from...
by James C. R. Gill
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Through an analysis of recently discovered Ptolemaic pottery from Mut al-Kharab, as well as a reexamination of pottery collected by the Dakhleh Oasis Project during the survey of the oasis from 1978–1987, this book challenges the common perception that Dakhleh Oasis experienced a sudden increase...
A Maritime Archaeology of Ships
Innovation and Social Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
In the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central...
Caves in Context
The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Caves in Context provides the thriving inter-disciplinary field of cave studies with a European-scale survey of current research in cave archaeology. It is unified by a contemporary theoretical emphasis on the cultural significance and diversity of caves over space and time. Caves and rockshelters...
Wild Harvest
Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Plants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. Yet access to plant use before the Neolithic can be challenging. In some places, plant remains rarely survive and...
Sveti Pavao Shipwreck
A 16th century Venetian merchantman from Mljet, Croatia
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Between 2007 and 2012 the Department for Underwater Archaeology of the Croatian Conservation Institute from Zagreb and the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice collaborated in the recording, underwater excavation and analysis of the unusually well-preserved wreck...
Segedunum
Excavations By Charles Daniels In The Roman Fort At Wallsend (1975-1984)
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Between 1975 and 1984 almost the entire area of the Roman fort of Segedunum in Wallsend was excavated under the direction of Charles Daniels, senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Newcastle University. It is these excavations which form the subject of this publication. This comprehensive...
Locating the Sacred
Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Ritual happens in distinct places – in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes – and religious activities there incorporate a diverse set of objects such as holy water, cult statues, and sacred texts. Understanding religious ritual requires viewing it not as a disembodied event, but as emplaced,...