Oxbow Books: 346 books
Invention and Innovation
The Social Context of Technological Change 2: Egypt, the Aegean and the Near East, 1650-1150 B.C.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
In September 2002, a second workshop on the theme of the social context of technological change was held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Discussion has been the core of these meetings so far, with the aim being to relate the results of the specialist...
A City from the Dawn of History
Erbil in the Cuneiform Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The city of Erbil, which now claims to be one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, lies on the rich alluvial plains at the foot of the piedmont of the Zagros mountains in a strategic position which from the earliest times made it a natural gateway between Iran and Mesopotamia....
Art, Artisans and Apprentices
Apprentice Painters & Sculptors in the Early Modern British Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Before the foundation of academies of art in London in 1758 and Philadelphia in 1805, most individuals who were to emerge as artists trained in workshops of varying degrees of relevance. Easel painters began their careers apprenticed to carriage, house, sign or ship painters, whilst a few were placed...
House of the Surgeon, Pompeii
Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo (VI 1, 9-10.23)
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most important...
Archaeologies of Text
Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Scholars working in a number of disciplines – archaeologists, classicists, epigraphers, papyrologists, Assyriologists, Egyptologists, Mayanists, philologists, and ancient historians of all stripes – routinely engage with ancient textual sources that are either material remains from the archaeological...
Of Rocks and Water
An Archaeology of Place
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 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 Steven Willis
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The Journal of Roman Pottery Studies continues to present a cross-section of recent research not just from the UK but also Europe. Volume 16 carries papers on a variety of subjects from Britain and the Continent, ranging from papers dealing with production sites to those looking at the distribution...
Form and Fabric
Studies in Rome's material past in honour of B R Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Colleagues, friends and students pay tribute to Brian Hartley's contribution to Roman archaeology and particularly to samian studies with essays on: Stanwick and Melsonby ( L Fitts ); Tacitus on Agricola ( R H Martin ); Agricola and Roman Scotland ( G Maxwell ); Cameleon and Flavian troop-movements...
by Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes, Richard K. Morriss
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The cathedral city of Hereford is one of the best-kept historical secrets of the Welsh Marches. Although its Anglo-Saxon development is well known from a series of classic excavations in the 1960s and ’70s, what is less widely known is that the city boasts an astonishingly well-preserved medieval...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the human-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. This book explores new perspectives to understand this Roman ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. In particular, the book’s...
The Ritual Killing and Burial of Animals
European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The killing and burial of animals in ritualistic contexts is encountered across Europe from Prehistory through to the historical period. This volume presents the state of research across Europe to illustrate how comparable interpretative frameworks are used by archaeologists working with both prehistoric...
Death and Changing Rituals
Function and meaning in ancient funerary practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Caves and rockshelters in Europe have traditionally been associated with prehistory, and in some regions cave archaeology has become synonymous with the Palaeolithic. However, there is abundant evidence that caves and rockshelters were important foci for activities in historic times. During the medieval...