Oxbow Books imprint: 344 books
Jerusalem Throne Games
The Battle of Bible Stories After the Death of David
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Presents an individual and thought-provoking exploration of who wrote the Bible (or, indeed Bibles), re-examining the documented evidence for possible individual authors set against the personal, religious, economic and political background of the period of its compilation.
Britannia Romana
Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Britannia Romana: Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain is based on the author’s 40 years’ experience of the epigraphy of Roman Britain. It collects 487 inscriptions (mostly on stone, but also on metal, wood, tile and ceramic), the majority from Britain but many from other Roman provinces and Italy,...
Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks
The Archaeology of Animal Disease
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology can identify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but...
St Paul's Cathedral
archaeology and history
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This is the first volume concerned solely with the archaeology of a major late 17th century building in London, and the major changes it has undergone. St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London was built in 1675–1711 to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren and has been described as an iconic building...
by Christelle Alvarez, Arto Belekdanian, Ann-Katrin Gill
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
The sixteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was held from the 15–18 April 2015 at the University of Oxford and once again provided a platform for postgraduates and early career Egyptologists, as well as independent researchers, to present their research. These proceedings for CREXVI...
by Olga Palagia
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Essays describing recent research and new discoveries of Hellenistic sculpture, based on papers presented at an international conference at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1996.
Stairway to Heaven
The Functions of Medieval Upper Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Medieval stairs, galleries and upper chambers in cathedrals, abbeys, and parish churches have been an enduring source of fascination to historians and archaeologists since the eighteenth century, but their practical purposes have long been shrouded in mystery and speculation. From libraries to lights,...
Danes in Wessex
The Scandinavian Impact on Southern England, c. 800–c. 1100
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
There have been many studies of the Scandinavians in Britain, but this is the first collection of essays to be devoted solely to their engagement with Wessex. New work on the early Middle Ages, not least the excavations of mass graves associated with the Viking Age in Dorset and Oxford, drew attention...
Ancient Egyptian Furniture Volume I
4000 – 1300 BC
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This revised second edition examines the common forms of furniture used in ancient Egypt, so much of which has been preserved by the dry Egyptian climate and has long been admired for the quality of its design and construction. The story begins with the earliest known pieces and ends with the spectacular...
Current Research in Egyptology 2006
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
The Seventh annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium (CRE 2006) was held on 6-8 April 2006, at the University of Oxford, and brought together graduate and postgraduate students of Egyptology from institutions world-wide. A total of 44 students presented their new and on-going research on a...
by Richard Bradley, Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander Linden
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Many countries in northern Europe have seen a huge expansion in development-led archaeology over the past few decades. Legislation, frameworks for heritage management and codes of practice have developed along similar but different lines. The Valetta Convention has had considerable impact on spatial...
A Geography of Offerings
Deposits of Valuables in the Landscapes of Ancient Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
More than quarter of a century ago Richard Bradley published The Passage of Arms. It was conceived as An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits, but, as the author concedes, these terms were too narrrowly focused for the complex subject of deliberate deposition and the period...
From Surface Collection to Prehistoric Lifeways
Making Sense of the Multi-Period Site of Orlovo, South East Bulgaria
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal. BC have now been the focus of intensive and increasingly inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European...
Neighbours and Successors of Rome
Traditions of Glass Production and use in Europe and the Middle East in the Later 1st Millennium AD
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Presented through 20 case studies covering Europe and the Near East, Neighbours and Successors of Rome investigates development in the production of glass and the mechanisms of the wider glass economy as part of a wider material culture in Europe and the Near East around the later first millennium...