Oxbow Books: 346 books
Preserved in the Peat
an extraordinary Bronze Age burial on Whitehose Hill, Dartmoor, and its wider context
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of Early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed within a bearskin pelt and provided with a basketry...
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic
New discoveries at the edge of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. The substantial Early Neolithic timber house was a short-lived...
by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The transition between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC was an era of deep economic changes in the ancient Near East. An increasing monetization of transactions, a broader use of silver, the management of the resources of temples through “entrepreneurs”, the development of new trade circuits...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Senneferi was the chancellor of the king in Thebes (modern Luxor) in the reign of Thutmose III (c. 1430 BC). His large but badly damaged tomb lies in the hill of Sheikh Abdel Qurna on the West Bank at Luxor. This first of two volumes focuses on the use of the tomb complex during the New Kingdom, especially...
Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times
Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC – AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from...
A Lake Dwelling in its Landscape
Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Cults Loch, at Castle Kennedy in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, loch lies within a landscape rich in prehistoric cropmark sites and within the loch itself are two crannogs, one of which has been the focus of this study. A palisaded enclosure and a promontory fort on the shores of the loch have...
by Geoffrey Killen
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In this third volume Dr Killen investigates how woodworking in ancient Egypt developed in the 19th and 20th dynasties. It establishes the range of wooden furniture manufactured during this period by surveying examples depicted in Ramesside Theban and Memphite tombs. Ancient records show how the procurement...
Understanding Ancient Fortifications
Between Regionality and Connectivity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In many regions of Europe and beyond fortifications belong to the most impressive of archaeological remains. Their study has a long tradition and today a multitude of aspects about architecture, function or symbolism has been explored. However, fortifications are generally examined in a temporally,...
KOINE
Mediterranean Studies in Honor of R. Ross Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups' . This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles...
by Ben Jervis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
How can pottery studies contribute to the study of medieval archaeology? How do pots relate to documents, landscapes and identities? These are the questions addressed in this book which develops a new approach to the study of pottery in medieval archaeology. Utilising an interpretive framework which...
The Wealth of England
The Medieval Wool trade and Its Political Importance 1100–1600
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The wool trade was undoubtedly one of the most important elements of the British economy throughout the medieval period - even the seat occupied by the speaker of the House of lords rests on a woolsack. In The Wealth of England Susan Rose brings together the social, economic and political strands...
by Nat Alcock, Dan Miles
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The aim of this lavishly illustrated book is to provide an in-depth study of the many medieval peasant houses still standing in Midland villages, and of their historical context. In particular, the combination of tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, detailed architectural study and documentary research...
Violence and Civilization
Studies of Social Violence in History and Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history. Taking a broad definition of violence, including structural and symbolic violence, the contributions move beyond the problematic of civilization’s mitigating or foundational...
Continental Connections
Exploring cross-channel relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The prehistories of Britain and Ireland are inescapably entwined with continental European narratives. The central aim here is to explore ‘cross-channel’ relationships throughout later prehistory, investigating the archaeological links (material, social, cultural) between the areas we now call...