Oxbow Books imprint: 344 books
Locating the Sacred
Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Ritual happens in distinct places – in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes – and religious activities there incorporate a diverse set of objects such as holy water, cult statues, and sacred texts. Understanding religious ritual requires viewing it not as a disembodied event, but as emplaced,...
by Timothy Howe, Erin Garvin, Graham Wrightson Editor
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Greece, Macedon and Persia contains a collection of papers related to the history and historiography of warfare, politics and power in the Ancient Mediterranean world. The contributions, written by 19 recognized experts from a variety of methodological and evidentiary perspectives, show how ancient...
Made for Trade
A New View of Icenian Coinage
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The Late Iron Age coinage of England has long been recognized as an invaluable potential source of information about pre-Roman Britain, although its purpose has been much debated and never clearly established. Most research using this source material has been either detailed numismatic studies, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Public Archaeology and Climate Change promotes new approaches to studying and managing sites threatened by climate change, specifically actions that engage communities or employ ‘citizen science’ initiatives. Researchers and heritage managers around the world are witnessing severe challenges and...
London Under Ground
the archaeology of a city
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
London's archaeology is as complex and varied as the city is today. These seventeen papers survey twenty-five years of London archaeology in the city and its environs from prehistory to 1800. Contents: Introduction ( H Sheldon and I Haynes ); Towards the development of a settled landscape in London...
Living with the Flood
Mesolithic to post-medieval archaeological remains at Mill Lane, Sawston, Cambridgeshire – a wetland/dryland interface
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The site at Mill Lane, Sawston, represents millennia of human activity within a dynamic and changing landscape setting. River valleys have been a focus for human activity since the early Holocene and, in addition to providing abundant archaeological evidence for this activity, the proximity to water...
Pathways and Ceremonies
The Cursus Monuments of Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
A review of the most recent evidence from cursuses, and ideas on their interpretation, with contributions as follows: Introduction (J Harding and A Barclay) , the radiocarbon problem (A Barclay and A Bayliss) , symbolic territories (J Harding) , processions, memories and the Dorset cursus (R Johnston)...
Ariconium, Herefordshire
an Iron Age settlement and Romano-British 'small town'
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
The Roman 'small town' of Ariconium in southern Herefordshire has long been known as an important iron production centre but has remained very poorly understood. The town is suggested to have developed from a late Iron Age Dobunnic tribal centre, which owed its evident status and wide range of contacts...
Creating Material Worlds
The Uses of Identity in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Despite a growing literature on identity theory in the last two decades, much of its current use in archaeology is still driven toward locating and dating static categories such as ‘Phoenician’, ‘Christian’ or ‘native’. Previous studies have highlighted the various problems and challenges...
by Roger Matthews, Hassan Fazeli Nashli
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
The period c. 10,000-5000 BC witnessed fundamental changes in the human condition with societies across the Fertile Crescent shifting their alignment from millennia-old practices of seasonally mobile hunting and foraging to year-round sedentism, plant cultivation and animal herding. The significant...
Skyscapes
The Role and Importance of the Sky in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Eleven papers extend discussion of the role and importance of the landscape and the wider environment to past societies, and to the understanding and interpretation of their material remains, into consideration of the significance of the celestial environment: the skyscape. The role of the sky for...
Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas
A Zooarchaeological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported, others move by accident. This volume of 12 papers offers a zooarchaeological approach to questions surrounding the nature and extent of human colonisation...
Behaviour Behind Bones
The Zooarchaeology of Ritual, Religion, Status and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
This book is the first in a series of volumes which form the published proceedings of the 9th meeting of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Durham in 2002. The 35 papers present a series of case studies from around the world. They stretch beyond the standard zooarchaeological...
Engaging with the Dead
Exploring Changing Human Beliefs about Death, Mortality and the Human Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Engaging with the Dead adopts a cross-disciplinary, archaeologically focused, approach to explore a variety of themes linked to the interpretation of mortuary traditions, death and the ways of disposing of the dead. Nineteen papers highlight the current vitality of ‘death studies’ and the potential...