Oxbow Books: 346 books
by Margarita Gleba, Helle W. Horsnaes
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Recent archaeological work has shown that South Italy was densely occupied at least from the Late Bronze Age, with a marked process of the development of proto-urban centres, accompanied by important technological transformations. The archaeological exploration of indigenous South Italy is a relatively...
by Margarita Gleba
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Older than both ceramics and metallurgy, textile production is a technology which reveals much about prehistoric social and economic development. This book examines the archaeological evidence for textile production in Italy from the transition between the Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages until the...
Care in the Past
Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As such, care-giving, and the form it takes, is a central experience of being...
The North Through its Names
A Phenomenology of Medieval and Early-Modern Northern England
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The North of England and northern-ness are elusive concepts, both academically and in popular perception. This volume in the English Surnames Survey series looks at what can be learned about the idea of the 'North' of England as a distinct identity from its surnames. The personal names from the north...
by Akiri Tsuneki, Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Stuart Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Over the past fifty years or so early pottery complexes in the wider region of West Asia have hardly ever been investigated in their own right. Early ceramics have often been unexpected by-products of projects focussing upon much earlier aceramic or later prehistoric periods. In recent years, however,...
The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Southern Britain AD 450-650
Beneath the Tribal Hidage
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their lands and surpluses. Whilst providing some indication of relative wealth and its distribution, rather little can be deduced from the Hidage concerning...
Celtic from the West 3
Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages — questions of shared language
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. ‘Celts’) emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is to explore from the perspectives of three disciplines—archaeology, genetics, and linguistics—the background in later European prehistory to these...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age and Beaker Period of the people who emerge...
Empire State
How the Roman Military Built an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
The armed forces of Rome, particularly those of the later Republic and Principate, are rightly regarded as some of the finest military formations ever to engage in warfare. Less well known however is their use by the State as tools for such nonmilitary activities in political, economic and social...
The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires
adaptation and expansion
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Although much of the primary information about the Parthian period comes from coins, there has been much new research undertaken over the past few decades into wider aspects of both the Parthian and Sassanian Empires including the Arsacid Parthians, and their material culture. Despite a change of...
Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe
Defended Communities of the 8th-10th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases,...
On the Fascination of Objects
Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The Shefton Collection in Newcastle upon Tyne contains a fine array of Greek and Etruscan objects and takes its name from its founder Professor Brian Shefton (1919 – 2012). In spite of the importance of this collection it has not been widely published and remains something of a hidden gem. Brian...
The Macedonians in Athens, 322-229 B.C.
Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Athens, May 24-26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
For a century following the end of the Lamian War in 322 B.C., Athens' harbour at Pireus was almost constantly occupied by a Macedonian garrison. The Macedonian presence dealt a crucial blow to Athenian independence and Athenian democracy, initiating the first in a long and intermittent series of...
Antiquarianisms
Contact, Conflict, Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. Scholars have made significant progress in the documentation...