Oxbow Books: 346 books
Places in Between
The Archaeology of Social, Cultural and Geographical Borders and Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The concept of the border as a metaphor has been widely exploited across the Arts and Humanities and a body of Border Theory has been developed, critiqued and "rethought". It is remarkable that this body of theory has largely been ignored by archaeologists, who have instead preferred to...
by Graham Keevill, Mick Aston, Teresa Hall
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The study of monasteries has come a long way since late the late 19th century. The emphasis has shifted away from reconstructing the layouts of monastic buildings to a better understanding of the wider monastic environment. The papers in this volume, partly based on a conference held in Oxford in...
The Materiality of Magic
An artifactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
The subject of ‘magic’ has long been considered peripheral and sensationalist, the word itself having become something of an academic taboo. However, beliefs in magic and the rituals that surround them are extensive – as are their material manifestations – and to avoid them is to ignore a...
by Tom Moore, Elizabeth Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
The nature and causes of the transformation in settlement, social structure, and material culture that occurred in Britain during the Later Iron Age (c. 400-300 BC to the Roman conquest) have long been a focus of research. In the past, however, there was a tendency for attention to be directed mostly...
Clash of Cultures?
The Romano-British Period in the West Midlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
The general perception of the west midlands region in the Roman period is that it was a backwater compared to the militarized frontier zone of the north, or the south of Britain where Roman culture took root early – in cities like Colchester, London ,and St Albans – and lingered late at cities...
by Stine Birk, Troels Myrup Kristensen, Birte Poulsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD. They bring together an international group of scholars who situate the period’s visual practices within their political, religious, and social contexts. The contributors present a diverse range of evidence,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. Recent scholarship has illustrated...
by Marjan Mashkour, Mark Beech
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This two part volume brings together over 60 specialists to present 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near East. The papers are wide-ranging in terms of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic rock shelter assemblages in Syria to Byzantine remains in Palestine...
TRAC 2014
Proceedings of the Twenty Fourth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Reading 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at TRAC 2014, as well as some invited contributions. In keeping with the aims of TRAC, several papers make make innovative use of interdisciplinary theory: in humanistic geography, philosophy and archaeology; social psychology; and the cognitive...
Building for Eternity
the History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
One marker of the majesty of ancient Rome is its surviving architectural legacy, the stunning remains of which are scattered throughout the circum-Mediterranean landscape. Surprisingly, one truly remarkable aspect of this heritage remains relatively unknown. There exists beneath the waters of the...
by Francesco Menotti
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
After more than 3500 years of occupation in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, the many lake-dwellings around the Circum-Alpine region ‘suddenly’ came to an end. Throughout that period alternating phases of occupation and abandonment illustrate how resilient lacustrine populations were against change:...
Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress
An Interdisciplinary Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to...
Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions
Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Puṣpikā 3 is the outcome of the third and fourth International Indology Graduate Research Symposiums held in Paris and Edinburgh in 2011 and 2012. This volume presents the results of recent research by early-career scholars into the texts, languages and literary, philosophical and religious traditions...
Death embodied
Archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
In April 1485, a marble sarcophagus was found on the outskirts of Rome. It contained the remains of a young Roman woman so well-preserved that she appeared to have only just died and the sarcophagus was placed on public view, attracting great crowds. Such a find reminds us of the power of the dead...