Oxbow Books imprint: 344 books
Representations and Communications
Creating an Archaeological Matrix of Late Prehistoric Rock Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
In this volume, which is the outcome of the four-year long collaboration project SARA (Scandinavian and Atlantic Rock Art) between the archaeology department at University of Gothenburg and the Laboratory of Heritage of Spanish National Research Council, nine papers summarize new excavation and survey...
by Bill Finlayson, Graeme Warren
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This thought provoking collection of new research papers explores the extent of variation amongst hunting and gathering peoples past and present and the considerable analytical challenges presented by this diversity. This problem is especially important in archaeology, where increasing empirical evidence...
The Panathenaic Games
Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Athens, May 11-12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The papers in this volume were presented at an international conference organised in Athens (May 11-14, 2004) and focus on the study of the Panathenaic Games, a Panhellenic athletic event that lasted for nearly a millennium. An international assembly of archaeologists, art historians, ancient historians,...
by John Bintliff, Kostas Sbonias
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Archaeology of Populus Monograph in Archaeology of
Mediterranean Landscapes Series. Population trends and
demographics in general are discussed through a variety of case
studies based in Mediterranean Europe. The range of
archaeological techniques and methods of analysis includes
reginal field surveys,...
Archaeological Sciences 1995
Proceesings of a conference on the application of scientific techniques to the study of archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
A huge collection of papers on scientific analysis in archaeology from a conference held in Liverpool in 1995. Papers are grouped under ten headings: Scientific analysis of Petrology ( 3 papers ); of Glass ( five papers ); of Ceramics ( 7 papers ); Metallurgy ( 9 papers ); Chronological Studies (...
Prehistoric rock art in Scandinavia
Agency and Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Scandinavia is home to prolific and varied rock art images among which the ship motif is prominent. Because of this, the rock art of Scandinavia has often been interpreted in terms of social ritual, cosmology, and religion associated with the maritime sphere. This comprehensive review is based on...
Art in England
The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive,...
Elevated Rock Art
Towards a maritime understanding of Bronze Age rock art in northern Bohuslän, Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
How may Bohuslän rock art and landscape be perceived and understood? Since the Bronze Age, the landscape has been transformed by shore displacement but, largely due to misunderstanding and certain ideas about the character of Bronze Age society, rock art research in Tanum has drawn much of its inspiration...
by Jim Leary, Timothy Darvill, David Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
This volume, the tenth published collection of seminar papers from the Neolithic Studies Group, is based upon a conference that took place at the British Museum in November 2008. The meeting aimed to consider the chronology and development of Neolithic round mounds; their changing form and use; their...
Winchester: Swithun’s ‘City of Happiness and Good Fortune’
An Archaeological Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This critical assessment of the archaeology of the historic city of Winchester and its immediate environs from earliest times to the present day is the first published comprehensive review of the archaeological resource for the city, which as seen many major programmes of archaeological investigation.There...
Shadowland
Wales 3000-1500 BC
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
This is the story of life in Wales over a period of 1,500 years, as gleaned from the remains its inhabitants left behind. These people had no writing so they have left us no names and no records of their deeds. Instead we have the possessions they treasured in life, the broken remains of their bodies...
Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain
Essays in honour of Rosemary Cramp
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Rosemary Cramp's influence on the archaeology of early Medieval Britain is nowhere more apparent than in these essays in her honour by her former students. Monastic sites, Lindisfarne and Whithorn, are the inspiration for Deirdre O'Sullivan's and Peter Hill's papers; Chris Loveluck discusses the implications...
Roman Finds
Context and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Studies on finds in Roman Britain and the Western Provinces have come to greater prominence in the literature of recent years. The quality of such work has also improved, and is now theoretically informed, and based on rich data-sets. Work on finds over the last decade or two has changed our understanding...
by Rachel Pope
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
The Earlier Iron Age (c. 800-400 BC) has often eluded attention in British Iron Age studies. Traditionally, we have been enticed by the wealth of material from the later part of the millennium and by developments in southern England in particular, culminating in the arrival of the Romans. The result...