Oxbow Books: 346 books
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 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...
A Medieval Woman's Companion
Women's Lives in the European Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous...
by Phillipp Schofield, Nicholas Mayhew
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2002
The essays in this volume look at the mechanics of debt, the legal process, and its economics in early medieval England. Beneath the elevated plane of high politics, affairs of the Crown and international finance of the Middle Ages, lurked huge numbers of credit and debt transactions. The transactions...
Silk
Trade & Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
"Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinents along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa...
Palmyra after Zenobia AD 273-750
An Archaeological and Historical Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This book casts light on a much neglected phase of the UNESCO world heritage site of Palmyra, namely the period between the fall of the Palmyrene ‘Empire’ (AD 272) and the end of the Umayyad dominion (AD 750). The goal of the book is to fill a substantial hole in modern scholarship - the late...
Cypriot Cultural Details
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of Young Researchers in Cypriot Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
There are countless references to Cyprus in Venice: in palaces, primarily that of Queen Caterina Corner, in the church of Saints Giovanni e Paolo, where the skin of Mark Antonius Bragadin (the staunch defender of Famagusta) is guarded, in the spices, and especially in the wine of Cyprus (Commandaria),...
by Joyce Tyldesley
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In a companion book to the best-selling Stories from Ancient Egypt, Joyce Tyldesley re-tells some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from the Classical world. These stories tell us how the spider spun the first web, how a simple ball of string defeated the fearsome minotaur,...
by Susan Sherratt, John Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable...
Sailing to Classical Greece
Papers on Greek Art, Archaeology and Epigraphy presented to Petros Themelis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation to the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of scholars has contributed essays on a wide range of subjects...
Life in the Limes
Studies of the people and objects of the Roman frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic sections the contributions presented...
Autopsy in Athens
Recent Archaeological Research on Athens and Attica
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This is an exciting time to study in Athens. The “rescue” excavations of recent years, conducted during construction of the Metro system and in preparation for the 2004 Olympics Games, combined with major restoration projects and a new enthusiasm for fresh examination of old material, using new...
by Marie-Louise Nosch, Cécile Michel, Mary Harlow
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconographical...