Oxbow Books imprint: 344 books

Archaeology and Anthropology

Understanding Similarity, Exploring Difference

by Duncan Garrow, Thomas Yarrow
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010

This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and cultural diversity. However, in recent years, archaeologys interest in anthropology has remained largely unreciprocated....

Painting Pots – Painting People

Late Neolithic Ceramics in Ancient Mesopotamia

by Walter Cruell, Inna Mateiciucova, Olivier Nieuwenhuyse
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017

Archaeologists have recently made tremendous advances in understanding the early ceramic traditions of the prehistoric Near East. Over the past decade there has been a huge increase in research focusing on various aspects of ceramic production, its origins and evolution, distribution and consumption...

From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Archaeology

Studies in Honour of Professor Keith Branigan

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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018

This is a book about an extraordinarily rich and varied culture - a culture in which 'most of the religio-political movements of the world are to be found epitomised in some form'. In tracing the Jamaican people's search for an identity through these movements, this book places the modern cult of...
by Willem Willems
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007

Quality Management in Archaeology deals with the effects of the profound changes that have had an impact on the discipline of archaeology all over the world. In North America, in Europe and increasingly in other parts of the world, new legislation and international treaties have changed its position...

Beyond Thalassocracies

Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean

by Evi Gorogianni, Peter Pavuk, Luca Girella
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

Beyond Thalassocracies aims to evaluate and rethink the manner in which archaeologists approach, understand, and analyze the various processes associated with culture change connected to interregional contact, using as a test case the world of the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600–1100...
by Maria Mina, Sevi Triantaphyllou, Yiannis Papadatos
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016

In the long tradition of the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean bodies have held a prominent role in the form of figurines, frescos, or skeletal remains, and have even been responsible for sparking captivating portrayals of the Mother-Goddess cult, the elegant women of Minoan Crete or the deeds...

Of Odysseys and Oddities

Scales and Modes of Interaction Between Prehistoric Aegean Societies and their Neighbours

by Barry Molloy
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

Of Odysses and Oddities is about scales and modes of interaction in prehistory, specifically between societies on both sides of the Aegean and with their nearest neighbours overland to the north and east. The 17 contributions reflect on tensions at the core of how we consider interaction in archaeology,...

Side-by-Side Survey

Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World

by Susan Alcock, John Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016

Twenty years ago one of the editors of this volume, John Cherry of the University of Michigan, looked forward to a day when the 'Frogs round the Pond' (active intensive survey projects working around the Mediterranean) could produce real insights into the development of human societies by comparing...

Forces of Transformation

The End of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean

by Christoph Bachhuber, Gareth Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012

The volume is the first in nearly a decade to focus a wide range of scholarship on one of the most compelling periods in the antiquity of the Mediterranean and Near East. It presents new interpretive approaches to the problems of the Bronze Age to Iron Age transformation, as well as re-assessments...
by Andrea Vianello
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011

This book examines how exotic materials were exchanged and used across the Mediterranean from the Neolithic era to the Iron Age, focusing on the Bronze Age. A variety of materials and interpretative approaches are presented through several case studies. These emphasise how the value of exotic materials...
by Paul Halstead, John C. Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016

Food and drink, along with the material culture involved in their consumption, can signify a variety of social distinctions, identities and values. Thus, in Early Minoan Knossos, tableware was used to emphasize the difference between the host and the guests, and at Mycenaean Pylos the status of banqueters...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

This collection of papers by an international chort of contributors explores the nature of the maritime connections that appear to have existed in the Transmanche/English Channel Zone during later prehistory. Organised into three themes, ‘Movement and Identity in the Transmanche Zone’; ‘Travel...
by Kenneth A. Sheedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017

These papers examine the on-going relationship between numismatic research and archaeology in Greece; they are based on a 1995 conference organised by the Athens National Museum and the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in honour of Dr Mando O

Community Archaeology

Themes, Methods and Practices

by Gabriel Moshenska, Sarah Dhanjal
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011

Community Archaeology is an assessment of the aims, results and validity of the broad spectrum of community archaeology initiatives taking place today. The project arose from a shared belief in cooperation between professional and non-professional archaeologists and the belief that archaeology does...
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