Oxbow Books imprint: 344 books
Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area
Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area, is the English translation of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov's work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy priaralya , concerning the study of ancient irrigation systems and the settlement pattern in the historical region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan)....
The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe
Mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Could the circulation of objects or ideas and the mobility of artisans explain the unprecedented uniformity of the material culture observed throughout the whole of Europe? The 17 papers presented here offer a range of new and different perspectives on the Beaker phenomenon across Europe. The focus...
Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Pre-Industrial Society
Choices, Stability and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Through a series of case studies, this third volume in the Earth series deals with the technological constraints and innovations that enabled societies to survive and thrive across a range of environmental conditions. The contributions are structured into three sections to draw out particular commonalities...
Archaeology in the 'Land of Tells and Ruins'
A History of Excavations in the Holy Land Inspired by the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boer
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953–4 visited many archaeological sites in the area of present-day Israel and the Palestinian Territories....
Burial and Social Change in First Millennium BC Italy
Approaching Social Agents
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In the first millennium BC, communities in Italy underwent crucial transformations which scholars have often subsumed under the heading of ‘state formation’, namely increased social stratification, the centralization of political power and, in some cases, urbanisation. Most research has tended...
Bodies of Clay
On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Since the earliest use of pottery, vessels have been associated with both the general shape and specific parts of the human body. The production of human-shaped pottery might be understood as one element of the spectrum of figural art in prehistoric communities. The idea of studying anthropomorphic...
North Meets South
Theoretical Aspects on the Northern and Southern Rock Art Traditions in Scandinavia
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This latest volume in the Swedish Rock Art series bridges the gap between analysis and interpretation of rock art imagery, location and chronology in the northern and southern regions of Scandinavia. Long viewed as belonging to distinctive regional traditions, there are many underlying similarities,...
Forms of Dwelling
20 years of Taskscapes in archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The concept of a socially constructed space of human activity in areas of everyday actions, as initially proposed in the field of anthropology by Tim Ingold, has actually been much more applied in archaeology. In this wide-ranging collection of 13 papers, including a re-assessment by Ingold himself,...
by Andrew S. Fairbairn
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Plant-centred issues are fundamental in the definitions and explanations of the Neolithic as a phenomenon.The meeting of the Neolithic Studies Group from which this volume developed aimed to provide a forum for the wide range of approaches now applied to Neolithic archaeobotany at site and landscape scales of resolution.
by Naama Goren-Inbar, John D. Speth
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Few areas of the world have played as prominent a role in human evolution as the Levantine Corridor, a comparatively narrow strip of land sandwiched between the Mediterranean Sea on the west and the expanse of inhospitable desert to the east. The first hominids to leave Africa, over 1.5 million years...
Connected by the Sea
Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Denmark 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The 10th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology was held in Roskilde, Denmark in 2003. The theme of the meeting was "Connected by the Sea", and was designed to emphasize the role of the sea, seafaring and watercraft as bridges rather than barriers. Maritime archaeology tends...
Boats, Ships and Shipyards
Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Venice 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
From sewn planked boats in Early Dynastic Egypt to Late Roman wrecks in Italy, and the design of Venetian Merchant Galleys, this huge volume gathers together fifty-three papers presenting new research on the archaeology and history of ancient ships and shipbuilding traditions. The papers have been...
Rock Art Through Time
Scanian rock carvings in the Bronze Age and Earliest Iron Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
As in many other areas in south Scandinavia, the region surrounding the city of Simrishamn in south-east Scania has a great many Bronze Age mounds that are still visible in the landscape, and records from the museums demonstrate that the area is rich in bronze metalwork. Nevertheless, it is the figurative...
Celtic Art in Europe
Making Connections
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. On the one hand it represents a specialist area of archaeological interest, on the other, it has a wide general appeal. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history. Of these...