Oxbow Books imprint: 344 books
Slave-Wives, Single Women and “Bastards” in the Ancient Greek World
Law and Economics Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Greek scholars have produced a vast body of evidence bearing on nuptial practices that has yet to be mined by a professional economist. By standing on their shoulders, the author proposes and tests radically new interpretations of three important status groups in Greek history: the pallakē, the nothos,...
TRAC 2013
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, London 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The twenty-third Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) was held at King’s College, London in Spring 2013. During the three-day conference nearly papers were delivered, discussing issues from a wide range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire, and applying various theoretical and...
Understanding Relations Between Scripts
The Aegean Writing Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Understanding Relations Between Scripts examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and first millennia BC, principally Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary. These scripts, of which some are deciphered and others are...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
In recent decades, study of the ancient Egyptian natural world and its classification has adopted innovative approaches involving new technologies of analysis and a multidisciplinary general view (ethnolinguistics, geobotanics). This collection of papers focuses on one particularly important aspect...
The Rhyton from Danilo
Structure and Symbolism of a Middle Neolithic Cult-Vessel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
The so called rhyton from Danilo, an archaeological site near the coastal town of Sibenik in Dalmatia, Croatia, is a four-legged Neolithic vessel made of fired clay that according to the consensus of archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content....
by David Bird
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure. The area is, however, comparatively neglected in discussion of Roman Britain, where it is often...
Communicating with the World of Beings
The World Heritage rock art sites in Alta, Arctic Norway
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The rock art found in the World Heritage sites in the Alta area, Arctic Norway, comprise thousands of images including reindeer and elk as well as fish, birds, boats, humans and geometric patterns. They contain information about peoples who lived in this northern area from about 5000 BC up until the...
by Marion Dowd, Robert Hensey
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore Palaeolithic use of deep...
TRAC 2000
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Theoretical Archaeology Conference. London 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Thirteen papers on Roman archaeology from the 10th annual TRAC conference.
Contents: Representing the Romans in the Museum of Scotland (David Clarke and Fraser Hunter); Representing Londinium (Francis Grew); Writing colonial conflict, acknowledging colonial weakness (Garrick Fincham); Identities...
Hunters, Fishers and Foragers in Wales
Towards a Social Narrative of Mesolithic Lifeways
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Malcolm Lillie presents a major new holistic appraisal of the evidence for the Mesolithic occupation of Wales. The story begins with a discourse on the Palaeolithic background. In order to set the entire Mesolithic period into its context, subsequent chapters follow a sequence from the palaeoenvironmental...
Exploring Prehistoric Identity in Europe
Our Construct or Theirs?
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Identity is relational and a construct, and is expressed in a myriad of ways. For example, material culture and its pluralist meanings have been readily manipulated by humans in a prehistoric context in order to construct personal and group identities. Artefacts were often from or reminiscent of far-flung...
Gestures
Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy presented to Alan L Boegehold
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
These thirty essays were presented to Alan L Boegehold, a distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributions fall into two categories, each one reflecting Boegehold's diverse interests in classical studies: the...
by Margarita Sánchez Romero, Eva Alarcón Garcia, Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists from archaeology, history, literature, architecture, didactics, museology...
Butrint 3
Excavations at the Triconch Palace
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
This engaging and well-illustrated volume describes the excavations of a large urban sector, the so-called Triconch Palace, of the Adriatic seaport of Butrint. In so doing it adds to the new paradigm for the development of Roman towns in the Mediterranean. The book traces the changing nature of this...