Oxbow Books Spring 2014 Catalog

Oxbow BooksSpring 2014 Catalog

New Booksand Selected Backlist

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Oxbow Books and Windgather Press New Booksand Selected Backlist Catalog—Spring 2014


Archaeological Method & Theory

AniMAl secondAry productsArchaeological perspectives on domestic Animal exploitation in theneolithic and bronze AgeHaskel J. Greenfield

Animal Secondary Products investigates animal exploitation and the animal economy from the end of the Neolithic to the beginning of the Bronze Age in theNear East and Europe. Incorporating current zooarchaeologial theory and cutting-edge methodological developments, it critically assesses Andrew Sherratt’s highly influential concept of a Secondary Products Revolution.

The model presented here argues for a genuine shift in development with a combination of both primary (meat hide, bone) and secondary (milk, wool, traction) products. It conceptualizes changes between the Neolithic and Bronze Age that dramatically transformed the nature of animal exploitation strategies, cultivation practices, land management strategies,nature of settlement, and political and economic organization in Europe.

The 13 papers present a holistic discussion of Sherratt’s concept and investigate theoretical developmentsin our understanding of milking and the nature of Secondary Products, as well as examining contextualizedzooarchaeological analysis and harvest profiles from a wide geographical range of sites.

9781782974017, $130.00, May 2014, Hardback, 256 pages, Oxbow Books

froM these bAre bonesraw Materials and Worked osseous objectsSonia O’Connor & Alice Choyke

A fundamental component of the study of worked osseous objects is the identification of the raw materials chosen to make them. In archaeological contexts many objects become degraded to the point where identification is verydifficult and the way in which these materials decay during burial and upon excavation can vary greatly. Correct identification is crucial to the investigationof objects, their conservation and future curation. Above all, understanding rawmaterial selection aids our understanding of human-animal interaction in thepast both on pragmatic and symbolic levels since the choices made by artisansvary by cultural tradition as well as availability.

The 20 papers presented here explore a wealth of information pertaining to the use of osseous materialsover the long period of human craftsmanship and tool manufacture. Together, these papers emphasize theneed for confident and correct materials identification and demonstrate that functionality is by no meansthe only, nor necessarily the most important, factor in the selection of osseous raw materials for the fabrication of tools and other cultural objects

9781782972112, $75.00, January 2014, Paperback, 256 pages, Oxbow Books

locAting the sAcredtheoretical Approaches to the emplacement of religionCecelia Feldman & Claudia Moser

Ritual happens in distinct places–in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes–and religious activities there incorporate a diverse set of objects such as holywater, cult statues, and sacred texts.

Understanding religious ritual requires viewing it not as a disembodied event,but as emplaced, grounded in both built and natural surroundings, and integratedwith its associated material objects. Here authors examine various religious practices in the Greco-Roman world and pilgrimage routes in contemporary Israel.Other contributions focus on the East, on domestic religion in prehistoric Taiwan,and the palimpsest of ritual activity in Buddhist China.

The papers in this volume, with their disciplinary, geographic, and chronological diversity, will serve as aresource for theoretical approaches to the study of ritual practice that may have broad cross-cultural application and provide new insight into the relationship between ritual and place.

The volume is based on a conference held at Brown University.

9781782976165, $50.00, February 2014, Paperback, 144 pages, Oxbow/Joukowsky Institute Publication, Oxbow Books

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● ArchAeologicAl Method & theory 3–6● lAndscApe Archeology 7● textiles ArchAeology 8–9● MAritiMe ArchAeology 10● ZooArchAeology / Anthropology 11● Ancient egypt 12● Ancient neAr eAst 13–16● AsiAn ArchAeology / AfricAn ArchAeology 17● greece & roMe 18–19● lAte Antiquity 20● Anglo sAxon, Viking & eArly MedieVAl europe 20–21● MedieVAl europe 22–23● prehistory –british 24–25● prehistory –europeAn 26–27● british ArchAeology 27–29● oxboW books selected bAcklist 30–39● WindgAther press neW books 40–42● WindgAther press selected bAcklist 43–45

Welcome to the first Oxbow Books catalog specially produced for the US market, which showcases newtitles up to August 2014, and also includes a selected backlist of Oxbow and Windgather Press titles.

There are many highlights to pick out in the Oxbow list; Dictionary of Classical Mythology (page19) is a superb compendium of information on Greek and Roman legends, brought vividly to life by beautifulline-drawings of vase-paintings. A Maritime Archaeology of Ships (page 10) is a highly original study thatlooks at the social practice behind ship-building and its impact on technological innovation. Constantinople:Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis (page 20) is a unique record of the archaeology of the inter-muralarea of the historic city, a zone which comprises over half of the walled area, but which is little known. Withits artifacts and monuments constantly being damaged, destroyed by development or looted, this reportwill be of great importance to archaeologists and historians. Not to mention Bosworth 1485 which sets outthe detailed research that re-located the battlefield of Bosworth, and Celtic Art in Europe (page 20), abenchmark publication by pre-eminent specialists in 37 papers.

Oxbow’s imprint Windgather Press publishes books on landscape history and archaeology, includ-ing garden history. In 2014 we are delighted to be publishing a biography of Laurence Johnston and EdithWharton which views their gardens and their influential work including the world famous Hidcote throughthe lens of their friendship. An Author and A Gardener by Allan Ruff (page 42) will be published in July 2014.

We are also delighted to be including the first announcement in this catalog of a new Oxbow series: American Landscapes. This beautifully illustrated series will explore the landscape history of theNorth American continent, presenting accessible overviews of the latest research from archaeology, anthropology and historical studies. The first volumes launching in late 2014, will explore the Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio and the Ancient Effigy Mounds of the Upper Midwest. Future volumes include the archaeology of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska and Mississippian rock art.

Finally, we are always pleased to look at proposals for new publications, or to discuss a projectprior to a proposal being submitted. Guidelines for submitting proposals are on our website. Queries orproposals should be directed to me—[email protected]—so do come and join our substantial andever-growing list.

With best wishes

Clare LittPublishing Director

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cAring for digitAl dAtA inArchAeologyA guide to good practiceThe Archaeology DataService and Digital Antiquity

A wide variety of organi-zations are both creatingand retaining digital data

from archaeological projects. While current methodsfor preservation and access to data vary widely,nearly all of these organizations agree that carefulmanagement of digital archaeological resources isan important aspect of responsible archaeologicalstewardship. The Archaeology Data Service and Digital Antiquity have produced this guide to provideinformation on the best way to create, manage, anddocument digital data files produced during thecourse of an archaeological project. This guide aimsto improve the practice of depositing and preservingdigital information safely within an archive for futureuse. The accompanying online Guides to Good Practice take these elements further and address thepreservation of data resulting from common datacollection, processing and analysis techniques.

9781782972495, $30.00, Recently Published, Paperback, 122 pages, ADS Guides, Oxbow Books

experiMentAl ArchAeologyAnd theoryrecent Approaches to Archaeological hypothesesFrederick W. F. Foulds

This short collection of papers reflects thecontinued diversity ofwork that experimental

archaeology is able to produce and demonstratehow experimentation can be integrated with theoryto substantiate a variety of hypotheses, whether validating information gathered from classicalsources or testing the inferences of more recent theoretical ideology. Experimentation should beviewed as a method of interlinking objective and humanistic approaches to understanding the material record by allowing researchers to explorethe myriad hypotheses that are continually developed and expanded upon during the practicingof the archaeological discipline. Showing how techniques from varied schools of thought can becombined, this volume aims to set a new precedentfor the role of experimentation in the future of archaeology.

9781842177662, $70.00, Recently Published, Paperback, 144 pages, Oxbow Books

the ArchAeology of householdMarco Madella, Gabriella Kovacs, B. Berzsenyi & Ivan Briz i. Godino

From the simplest hunter-gatherer society to themost powerful Empire, allsocieties are built on basic

daily life, developed day to day with its specific material conditions. Household archaeology looks atthe detail of the living domain, exploring the mostessential elements of any social dynamic, the archaeology of the small scale. The Archaeology ofHousehold looks at this important aspect of archaeological investigation in a variety of differentways using a range of theoretical and methodologicalperspectives, deep thinking about the mathematicalnature of household space, and how societies worldview was reflected in domestic space.

Case studies include hunter-gatherer societies in America, Neolithic and Bronze Age lakeside settlements in Switzerland and the Alpine region,Bronze Age sites in Hungary and northern Europeand Archaic period Sicily.

9781842175170, $100.00, Recently Published, Hardback, 248 pages, Oxbow Books

Mobility, MeAning AndtrAnsforMAtionsof thingsshifting contexts of Material culturethrough time andspaceHans Peter Hahn & Hadas Weis

This book investigates themobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Material objects are characterized by temporal continuity, embodying aprior existence with lingering effects. Yet the material continuity disguises the transformationsthey may undergo, which only become evident uponcloser examination. Objects are in perpetual flux,leaving visible traces of their age, usage, and previous life. While travelling through time, objectsalso circulate through space, and their spatial mobility alters their meaning and use with respectto new cultural horizons. This edited volume bringstogether studies of material culture, materiality andvalue, with regard to the mobility of objects, withthe aim of tracing the ways in which societies constitute their valued objects and how the realm ofthe material reflects upon society.



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MAteriAlity And sociAl prActicetransformative capacities of intercultural encountersJoseph Maran & Philipp W. Stockhammer

Newly available in paperback, Materiality and Social Practice investigates thetransformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, socialpractices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach thattakes a transcultural perspective as a fundamental methodology and, then abroader understanding of the inter-relationship between humans and objects.

Adopting a transcultural approach forces us to change archaeology’s approachtowards items coming from the outside. By using them mostly for reconstructingsystems of exchange or for chronology, archaeology has for a long time reducedthem to their properties as objects and as being foreign. This volume explores the notion that the significance of such items does not derive from the transfer from one place to another as such but, rather,from the ways in which they were used and contextualized.

The main question is how, through their integration into discourses and practices, new frameworks of meaning were created conforming neither with what had existed in the receiving society nor in the area oforigin of the objects.

9781782975410, $50.00, February 2014, Paperback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books

pAst bodiesbody-centered research in ArchaeologyDusan Boric & John Robb

Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Such a fragmentation of past subjects and their bodies,if analytically necessary, is hardly satisfactory. While material culture is the mainarchaeological proxy to real people in the past, the absence of past bodies hasbeen chronic in archaeological writings. At the same time, these past bodies inarchaeology are omnipresent. Bodily matters are tangible in the archaeologicalrecord in a way most other theoretical centralities never appear to be. Ancientbodies surround us, in representations, in burials, in the remains of food preparation, cooking and consumption, in hands holding tools, in joint efforts of many individual bodieswho built architecture and monuments.

This collection of papers, available now in a paperback edition, is a reaction to decades of the body’s invisibility. It raises the body as the central topic in the study of past societies, researching its appearancein a wide variety of regional contexts and across vast spans of archaeological time.


Medicine, heAling & perforMAnceEffie Gemi-Iordanou, Stephen Gordon, Robert Matthew, Ellen McInnes & Rhiannon Pettitt

Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies,human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological andanthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of the performative aspects of medicine.

The papers contained in this volume, based on a session conducted at the 2010Theoretical Archaeology Conference, take a multi-disciplinary approach to thetopic, addressing such issues as the cultural conception of disease; the impact of gender roles on healingstrategies; the possibilities afforded by syncretism; the relationship between material culture and the body;and the role played by the active agency of the sick.

9781782971580, $60.00, February 2014Paperback, 176 pages, Oxbow Books

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Landscape Archaeology

AgriculturAl AndpAstorAl lAndscApes inpre-industriAlsocietychoices, stability andchangeFèlix Retamero, IngeSchjellerup & Althea Davies

Through a series of casestudies, this third volume inthe Earth Series deals with the technological con-straints and innovations that enabled societies tosurvive and thrive across a range of environmentalconditions. The contributions are structured intothree sections to draw out particular commonalitiesand contrasts in the choices made by pre-industrialcommunities in the construction of varied landscapes and cultural heritage: Landnam, Fieldsand field systems and Agro-pastoralism.

The contributions focus on mountainous areas,where temporary migrations, in the form of transhumance, provided access to a diversity of resources based around seasonal constraints ontheir availability and productivity.

9781842173596, $80.00, July 2014, Hardback, 280 pages, Earth Series, Oxbow Books

exploring And explAining diVersity in AgriculturAltechnologyAnnelou van Gijn, PatriciaC. Anderson & John Whit-taker

This volume is the outcomeof collaborative Europeanresearch among archaeolo-gists, archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historiansand agronomists, and frequently uses experimentsin archaeology. It aims to establish new commonground for integrating different approaches and forviewing agriculture from the standpoint of thehuman actors involved. Each chapter provides an interdisciplinary overview of the skills used and thesocial context of the pursuit of agriculture, highlightingexamples of tools, technologies and processes fromland clearance to cereal processing and food preparation. This is the second of three volumes inthe Earth Series, The dynamics of non-industrial agriculture: 8,000 years of resilience and innovation,which shows the great variety of agricultural practices in human terms, in their social, political,cultural and legal contexts.

9781842175156, $80.00, March 2014, Hardback, 304 pages, Earth Series, Oxbow Books

Modelling ArchAeology AndpAlAeoenViron-Ments in WetlAndsthe hidden landscapeArchaeology of hatfieldand thorne Moors,eastern englandHenry P. Chapman

Modelling Hidden Landscapesdetails a different approach to the study of past patterns of environmental change within thebroader framework of landscape archaeology. It utilizes a range of quantitative and qualitativemethodologies and GIS modeling to investigate spatial and temporal patterns of Holocene landscapechange for two raised mires in south Yorkshire: Hatfield and Thorne Moors. Whilst concerned withspecific aspects of landscape evolution, such as peatgrowth and spread, the volume aims to illustrate thesynergy which is generated through integrating spatial models with chronological modeling and stratigraphic, cartographic, topographical, environmental and archaeological information inorder to better understand past landscapes, humanactivity and the archaeological record.

9781782971740, $60.00, February 2014, Hardback, 216 Pages, Oxbow Books

plAnts And peoplechoices and diversitythrough timeAlexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova & Leonor Pena-Chocarro

This is the first monographin the Earth Series.

The dynamics of non-industrial agriculture: 8,000years of resilience and innovation, approaches thegreat variety of agricultural practices in humanterms. It focuses on the relationship between plantsand people, the complexity of agricultural processesand their organization within particular communitiesand societies.

Collaborative European research among archaeologists,archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians andagronomists using a broad analytical scale of investigation seeks to establish new common groundfor integrating different approaches. By means of interdisciplinary examples, this book showcases therelationship between people and plants across wideranging and diverse spatial and temporal milieus, including crop diversity, the use of wild foodstuffs,social context, status and choices of food plants.

9781842175149, $100.00, January 2014, Hardback, 432 pages, Earth Series, Oxbow Books



geophysicAl dAtA in ArchAeologyA guide to good practiceArmin Schmidt

This series is a basic guide to good practice in the creation,methodology, use and storageof geophysical data for archaeologists who increasingly

use sophisticated methods for collecting and inter-preting information.

They are essential reference material for anyone interested in computer-assisted research and teaching in the arts and humanities.

9781782971443, $29.95, Paperback, 88 pages, Arts andHumanities Data Service Guides to Good Practice

shell energyMollusc shells as coastalresourcesG. N. Bailey, Karen Hardy & Abdoulaye Camara

Shell middens are ubiquitousachaeological features on coastlines throughout the world

that have been variously analyzed and interpretedas mounds of food, burial places, or simply as convenient receptacles for the preservation of stratified remains. This volume brings together information about little known, or recently discovered, concentrations of shell mounds in areasincluding Africa, the near East, South-east Asia andthe Americas as well as new work on mounds in theclassic areas including Denmark, the Pacific NWcoast and Japan.


interpreting ArchAeologicAl topogrAphylasers, 3d data, observation, Visualisationand ApplicationsDavid C. Cowley & Rachel S.Opitz

This volume addresses the implications of multi-scaled topographic data for contemporary archaeological practice in a rapidly developing field,drawing on examples of ongoing projects and reflections on best practice. Twenty papers fromacross Europe explore the implications of these digital 3D datasets for the recording and interpretation of archaeological topography,whether at the landscape, site or artifact scale.


re-presenting the pAstArchaeology through text and imageSheila Bonde & Stephen Houston

The archaeological past exists forus through intermediaries.

Some are written works, descriptions, narratives andfield notes, while others are visual - the drawings,paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualizations that allow us to re-present past formsof human existence.

This volume brings together nine papers, six of whichwere presented at a symposium hosted at BrownUniversity in March 2007.

9781782972310, $40.00, Paperback, 215 pages,Joukowsky Institute Publications, Oxbow Books

seeing lithicsA Middle-range theory for testing for cultural transmission in the pleistoceneGilbert B. Tostevin

There is substantial debate over the extent to which the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and the dispersal of anatomically modern humans fromAfrica into Eurasia at the end of the Pleistocene were the result of the sameprocess, related processes, or unrelated but coincident processes. The currentdebate shows a gap in archaeological method and theory for understanding howdifferent cultural transmission processes create patterning in the material cultureof foragers at the resolution of Paleolithic palimpsests. This research project

attempts to bridge this gap with a middle-range theory connecting cultural transmission and dual inheritance theory with the archaeological study of flintknappers’ flake-by-flake choices in the productionof lithic assemblages.

Gilbert Tostevin is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus. He is an archaeologist who specializes in human evolution, lithic technology, and Paleolithic archaeology. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University.

9781842175279, $35.00, Recently Published, Hardback, 608 pages, American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph, Oxbow Books

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Textiles Archaeology

Ancient textiles, Modern scienceHeather Hopkins

This book is the publication of a series of lectures and experiments that were undertaken at the First and Second European Textile Forum in 2009 and 2010.Each had a new approach, exploring a question of textile manufacture in a scientific way, revealing answers and outcomes that were unavailable before. TheFirst European Textile Forum hosted an experiment that found the relationship between archaeological hand spinning finds and the yarn they produce: only ameeting such as the Textilforum could generate sufficient data for analysis.

This scientific approach reflects in contributions describing the reconstruction oftablet-woven artifacts, with explorations of the method of tablet weaving and areassessment of archaeological finds and depictions.

The Second European Textile Forum explored the practical aspects of undertaking reconstructions such asStone Age fabrics, Roman dyeing or the clothing of Gunnister Man, including the deconstruction of the original artifact, allowing for the unexpected and the implication of new findings. Techniques for treatingraw materials, creating fabrics and finishing artifacts are explored.

9781842176641, $65.00, Recently Published, Paperback, pages, Oxbow Books

textile terMinologies in the Ancient neAr eAst And MediterrAneAn froM the third to the first MillennniA bcCécile Michel & Marie-Louise Nosch

New in paperback! Written sources from the ancient Near East and easternMediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of termsfor textiles. The twenty-two chapters in the present volume offer the first comprehensive survey of this important material, with special attention to evidence for significant interconnections in textile terminology among languagesand cultures, across space and time For example, the Greek word for a long shirt,khiton, ki-to in Linear B, derives from a Semitic root, ktn. But the same root inAkkadian means linen, in Old Assyrian a garment made of wool, and perhaps cotton, in many modern languages. These and numerous other instances underscore the need for detailed studies of both individualcases and the common threads that link them. This example illustrates on the one hand how connectedsome textiles terms are across time and space, but it also shows how very carefully we must conduct theetymological and terminological enquiry with constantly changing semantics as the common thread. Thesurvey of textile terminologies in twenty two chapters presented in this volume demonstrates the interconnections between languages and cultures via textiles.

9781782973911, $60.00, Recently Published, Paperback, 326 pages, Ancient Textiles Series, Oxbow Books

MAking textiles in pre-roMAn And roMAn tiMespeople, places, identitiesMargarita Gleba & Judit Pásztókai-Szeke

While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles inparticular were traded over long-distances and this was influenced by raw mate-rial supply and costs, labor skills and costs as well as tradition. In the Mediterranean regions, the evidence for textile trade is especially abundant forthe Roman times, well documented by the archaeological finds and writtensources, which illustrate the typological and geographical diversity of textile commodities that circulated within and beyond the Roman Empire. They make itpossible to identify regional products, to locate production centers and to obtaininformation on the organization and infrastructure of production and trade.

Papers in this volume approach the investigation of textile production and trade in the Roman Empire andbeyond its borders by focusing in particular on the identity of the agents involved in these activities, i.e.,textile producers, traders and consumers: who produced and distributed textiles and clothing?; how wasproduction organized?; what was the social status of the agents involved and could it change during theirworking life?; how did their profession affect personal identity.

9781842177679, $60.00, December 2013, Hardback, 240 pages, Ancient Textiles Series, Oxbow Books



textiles And the MedieVAl econoMyproduction, trade, and consumption of textiles, 8th–16th centuriesedited by Angela Ling Huang & Carsten Jahnke

Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate theproduction, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across partsof northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period.

Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of international trade and to examine the physical characteristics of textiles andtheir distribution in order to understand who was producing, using and tradingthem and what they were being used for.

Historical evidence, mainly textual, is employed to link textile names to places, numbers and prices andthus provide an appreciation of changing economics, patterns of distribution and the organisation of trade.Different types and qualities of cloths are discussed and the social implications of their production and import/export considered against a developing background of urbanism and increasing commercial wealth.

9781782976479, $70, July 2014.Hardback, 232 pages, Ancient Textiles Series 16, Oxbow Books

fAshionAble encountersperspectives and trends in textile and dress in the early Modernnordic WorldMarie-Louise Nosch, Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen, Maj Ringgaard, Kirsten Toftegaard & Mikkel Venborg Pederson

At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervadesthe realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interiordesign; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic world withinthe time frame AD 1500–1850. This was a period of rapid and far-reaching social,political and economic change, from feudal Europe through political revolution,industrialization, development of international trade, religious upheaval

and technological innovation; changes impacting on every aspect of life and reflected in equally rapid and widespread changes in fashion at all levels of society.

These papers present a broad image of the theme of fashion as a concept and as an empirical manifestationin the Nordic countries in early modernity, exploring a variety of ways in which that world encounteredfashionable impressions in clothing and related aspects of material culture from Europe, the Russian Empire,and far beyond.

9781782973829, $76.00, May 2014, Hardback, 256 pages, Ancient Textiles Series, Oxbow Books

textile production And consuMption in the Ancient neAr eAstArchaeology, epigraphy, iconographyMarie-Louise Nosch, Henriette Koefoed & Eva Andersson Strand,

In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The AncientNear East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products.

The thirteen intriguing chapters in Textile Production and Consumption in theAncient Near East describe the developments and changes from household tostandardized, industrialized and centralized productions which take place in the

region. They discuss the economic, social and cultural impact of textiles on ancient society through the application of textile tool studies, experimental testing, context studies and epigraphical as well as iconographical sources. Together they demonstrate that the textile industries, production, technology, consumption and innovations are crucial to, and therefore provide an in-depth view of ancient societiesduring this period. Geographically the contributions cover Anatolia, the Levant, Syria, the Assyrian heartland,Sumer, and Egypt.

9781842174890, $60.00, Recently Published, Hardback, 200 pages, Ancient Textiles Series, Oxbow Books

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Zooarchaeology / Anthropology

shuffling nAgs, lAMe ducksthe Archaeology of Animal diseaseErika Gal

The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides muchvaluable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as wellas insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology canidentify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but little interest has been ex-pressed in investigating and understanding the cultural aspects of the diseasesidentified.

Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks provides an invaluable guide to the investigation oftrauma and disease in archaeozoological assemblages. It provides a clear methodological approach, and describes and explains the wide range of traumatic lesions, infections, diseases, inherited disorders and other pathological changes and anomalies that can be identified. In sodoing, it explores the impact that man-made decisions have had on animals, including special aspects ofculture that may be reflected in the treatment of diseased or injured animals that often incorporate powerful symbolic or religious roles, and seeks to enhance our understanding of the relationship betweenman and beast in the past.

9781782971894, $60.00, January 2014, Paperback, 264 Pages, Oxbow Books

Violence And ciViliZAtionstudies of social Violence in history and prehistoryRoderick Campbell

This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationshipto order, is a central element of history.

Taking a broad definition of violence, including structural and symbolic violence,the contributions move beyond the problematic of civilization’s mitigating or foundational role, instead seeing violence as inherently social, and, perhaps, socially inherent (if variable). The question then becomes what forms of harm are authorized or banned in which social orders and how they change over time. Beginning with a theoretical introduction, this interdisciplinary volume includesseven papers representing cultural anthropology, history, archaeology and international relations. The papers range from China to the Americas and from the 2nd millennium BCE to the 21st century CE.

Together, the volume aims to paint, with a few strokes, the outlines of a deep historical anthropology of social violence. The volume is based on the proceedings of a symposium hosted at Brown University.

9781782976202, $50.00, February 2014, Paperback, 160 pages, Oxbow/Joukowsky Institute Publication, Oxbow Books

globAl Ancestorsunderstanding the shared humanity of our AncestorsJelena Bekvalac, Rebecca Redfern, Margaret Clegg & Heather Bonney

The last decade or so has witnessed around the globe increasing popular awareness of, and concern about, the long-term care and management of human remains. There have been significant shifts in many countries in both archaeologicaland museum practice, including legislative changes concerning excavation, curation and repatriation and the setting-up of professional bodies within the heritage and anthropology sectors responsible for the care and management ofhuman remains in these sectors.

The papers in this volume examine professional practices in various parts of theworld, the involvement of indigenous communities, questions of ethics of repatriation, the importance of the connections between past and present societies, the impacts of legislation and implications for archaeology.

9781842175330, $60.00, Recently Published,Paperback, 168 pages, Oxbow Books


Maritime Archaeology

oceAns odyssey 3. the deep-seA tortugAs shipWreck, strAits of floridAA Merchant Vessel from spain’s 1622 tierra firme fleetGreg Stemm & Sean A. Kingsley

In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa commenced the world’s firstarchaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south of the Tortugas Islandsin the Straits of Florida. From a depth of 405 meters, 16,903 artifacts were recovered using a Remotely-Operated Vehicle.

The Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señora del Rosario was a small Portuguese-built andSpanish-operated merchant vessel from the 1622 Tierra Firme fleet returning to

Seville from Venezuela’s Pearl Coast when a hurricane struck. Oceans Odyssey 3 introduces the shipwreckand its artifact collection—today owned and curated by Odyssey Marine Exploration – ranging from goldbars to pearls, ceramics, beads, glass wares, astrolabes, tortoiseshell and seeds, including detailed studiesof the animal bones and silver coins. The Tortugas shipwreck reflects the daily life of trade with the Americasat the end of the Golden Age of Spain.

9781782971481, $39.95, Recently Published, Hardback, 201 pages, Odyssey Marine Exploration Reports, Oxbow Books

A MAritiMe ArchAeology of shipsinnovation and social change in late Medieval and early Modern europeJ. R. Adams

No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognized as having centralrelevance in the integrated study of the human past. Within maritime archaeology the study of watercraft has been understandably prominent and yettheir potential is far from exhausted. In this book Jon Adams evaluates keyepisodes of technical change in the ways that ships were conceived, designed,built, used and disposed of. As technological puzzles they have long confoundedexplanation but when viewed in the context of the societies in which they were

created, mysteries begin to dissolve. Shipbuilding is social practice and as one of the most complex artifactsmade, changes in their technology provide a lens through which to view the ideologies, strategies andagency of social change. Adams argues that the harnessing of shipbuilding was one of the ways in whichmedieval society became modern and, while the primary case studies are historical, he also demonstratesthat the relationships between ships and society have key implications for our understanding of prehistoryin which seafaring and communication had similarly profound effects on the tide of human affairs.


before the MAstlife and death Aboard the Mary roseJulie Gardiner

Before the Mast explores how the men of the Mary Rose lived, through their surviving possessions; how they were fed; their music and recreation, medicineand provision for illness and injury, as well as working practices: carpentry andmaintenance, stowage, navigation and ship’s communications. The personal possessions of the crew included religious items, books, fishing lines and weights,sewing kits, money, hair combs, jewelry, knives, musical instruments and manyitems of clothing. The Barber-surgeon, who had his own cabin, brought on boarda fine chest filled with canisters, bottles and pots of ointment and medicines, a

variety of surgical instruments and a fine set of razors. Another cabin nearby was clearly occupied by theship’s carpenters whose toolkit included planes, adzes, axes, hammers and drills, as well as pitch pots andspecial mallets for patching up leaks in the ship’s hull. The ship’s navigators had the best in sixteenth centurycompasses.

The volume also includes an analysis of the human remains providing evidence for the stature and agerange of the men most were under 30 their health, and injuries sustained.

9781842175040, $99.95, Recently Published, Hardback, 760 pages, Archaeology of the Mary Rose, Oxbow Books

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Ancient Near East

the eArliest neolithic of irAn2008 excavations at sheikh-e Abad and JaniRoger Matthews

Over a period of several millennia, from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene(c. 13,000-7000 BC), communities in south-west Asia developed from hunter-foragers to villager-farmers, bringing fundamental changes in all aspects of life.These Neolithic developments took place over vast chronological and geographicalscales, with considerable regional variability in specific trajectories of change.

Building on earlier campaigns of archaeological investigation, the current phaseof the Central Zagros Archaeological Project is designed to explore these issues inone key region, the Zagros zone including central west Iran. Two Early Neolithicmounds were excavated: Sheikh-e Abad in the high Zagros and Jani, in the foothills of the Mesopotamianplains, each comprising up to 10 m depth of deposits indicating occupation spanning over 2000 years, andproviding great scope for diachronic and spatial analyses. These two sites make major contributions toknowledge regarding the origins of sedentism and increasing resource management in Southwest Asia, andassociated developments in social, cultural and ritual practices in this formative region of human culturaldevelopment.

9781782972235, $80.00, February 2014, Hardback, 224 Pages, CZAP Report 1, Oxbow Books

neolithisAtion of irAnRoger Matthews

The period c. 10,000-5000 BC witnessed fundamental changes in the human condition with societies across the Fertile Crescent shifting their alignment frommillennia-old practices of seasonally mobile hunting and foraging to year-roundsedentism, plant cultivation and animal herding. The significant role of Iran in theearly stages of this transition was recognized more than half a century ago buthas not been to the fore of academic consciousness in recent decades. In themeantime, investigations into Neolithic transformation have proceeded apace inall other regions of the Fertile Crescent and beyond. Here, 18 studies attempt toredress that balance in reassessing the role of Iran in the early neolithization ofhuman societies.

These studies, many of them by Iranian scholars, consider patterns of change and/or continuity across avariety of topographical landscapes; investigate Neolithic settlement patterns, the use of caves, animal exploitation and environmental indicators and present new insights into some well-known and some newlyinvestigated sites.

The results reaffirm the formative role of this region in the transition to sedentary farming.9781782971900, $75.00, February 2014,

Paperback, 272 Pages, British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology, Oxbow Books

Ancient irAn And its neighbourslocal developments and long-range interactions in the 4th Millennium bcCameron A. Petrie

The fourth millennium BC was a critical period of socio-economic and political transformation in the Iranian Plateau and its surrounding zones. This period witnessed the appearance of the world’s earliest urban centers, hierarchical administrative structures, and writing systems. These developments are indicativeof significant changes in socio-political structures that have been interpreted as evidence for the rise of early states and the development of inter-regional trade,embedded in longer-term processes that began in the later fifth millennium BC.Iran was an important player in western Asia especially in the medium- to long-range trade in raw materialsand finished items throughout this period.

The 20 papers presented here illustrate forcefully how the re-evaluation of old excavation results, combinedwith much new research, has dramatically expanded our knowledge and understanding of local developments on the Iranian Plateau and of long-range interactions during the critical period of the fourthmillennium BC.

9781782972273, $120.00, February 2014, Hardback, 400 Pages, The British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monographs Series III, Oxbow Books


Ancient Egypt

coptic docuMentArytexts froM kellisVolume 2 p. kellis ViiIain Gardner, Anthony Alcock & Wolf-Peter Funk

This is the second volumeon fourth century Copticdocuments written on pa-

pyri and boards, found in the ruins of houses at Kel-lis, the Roman predecessor of the village of Ismantel-Kharab in the Dakhleh Oasis. It is concerned with75 letters and associated household accounts andlists, mostly from House 3. The documents are tran-scribed and translated with commentary.

Together, these two volumes break new ground inproviding a unique insight into the social and eco-nomic relations of a sectarian group within a late an-tique village, and the opportunity to study thatgroup’s interaction with other communities. Theygive voice to ordinary people and provide genuineinsights into literacy and the role of women, com-munications and travel, multilingual society and nor-mative forms of belief and practice.

9781782976516, $140, June 2014, Hardback, 320 pages,Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 16, Oxbow Books

the oAsis pApers 6proceedings of thesixth internationalconference of thedakhleh oasis projectColin A. Hope, Roger S.Bagnall & Paola Davoli

The Dakhleh Oasis Projectis a long-term holistic investigation of the

evolution of human populations in the changing environmental conditions of this isolated region inthe Western Desert of Egypt. The Project began in1978 and has combined survey and excavation to collect an extensive range of geological, environmental and archaeological data which covers the last 350,000 years of human occupation.

This latest volume in the Monograph series publishing the results of the Project contains 41 papers with a wealth of new research and significantdiscoveries, from Prehistory, through Pharaonic andRoman times to the Christian period.

9781842175248, $180.00, Hardback, 512 pages, DakhlehOasis Project Monograph Series, Oxbow Books

current reseArch in egyptology 2012proceedings of thethirteenth AnnualsymposiumLuke McGarrity, CarlGraves, Emily Millward,Marsia Sfakianou Bealby& Gabrielle Heffernan

The thirteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was heldfrom the 27th–30th March 2012 at the University ofBirmingham and once again provided a platform forpostgraduates and early career Egyptologists, as wellas independent researchers, to present their research. These proceedings for CREXIII representthe wide-range of themes that were offered by delegates during the conference, and cover all periods of Egyptian history; from Predynastic skeletal analysis through to Egyptology during the Islamic Middle Ages. These twelve papers includegender studies, analysis of Egyptian festivals, revisiting of chronological models, archaeological reanalysis of ancient landscapes, as well as social,historical and linguistic studies allowing a new appraisal of many aspects of Egyptian culture andhistory.

9781782971566, $76.00, Recently Published, Paperback, 170 Pages, Oxbow Books

rAdiocArbonAnd thechronologies ofAncient egyptAndrew J. Shortland & C. Bronk Ramsey

This volume presents thefindings of a major international project onthe application of radio-carbon dating to the

Egyptian historical chronology.

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford andCranfield in the UK, along with a team from France,Austria and Israel, radiocarbon dated more than 200Egyptian objects made from plant material from museum collections from all over the world. The results comprise an accurate scientifically basedchronology of the kings of ancient Egypt obtained bythe radiocarbon analysis of short-lived plant remains.

The research sheds light on one of the most important periods of Egyptian history documentingthe various rulers of Egypt’s Old, Middle and NewKingdoms.


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Ancient Near East

the proto-elAMite settleMent And its neighborstepe yaya period iVcC. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky & Benjamin Mutin

The site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran is famous, among other importantaspects, for the Proto-Elamite complex dated to around 3000 BC (Period IVC).

In addition to a synthesis of the Proto-Elamite period and the material assem-blage at Tepe Yahya, The Proto-Elamite Settlement and Its Neighbors provides anupdated review and comprehensive discussion of the Proto-Elamite sphere, itsrelations to Mesopotamia, and its eastern Middle Asian neighbors.

This innovative book illustrates that the multi-cultural situation at Tepe Yahya Period IVC was present across many sites in Middle Asia and that, in addition to the Proto-Elamite sphereand the cities of Mesopotamia, Middle Asia around 3000 BC was incorporated within an interactive multi-players network of polities.

Benjamin Mutin, is a Research Fellow for the American School of Prehistoric Research, Harvard University.C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, General Editor, and Project Director for Tepe Yahya, is the Stephen Phillips Professorof Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum (Director 1977–1990).

9781782974192, $40.00, February 2014, Hardback, pages, American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series, Oxbow Books

ArchAeology in the ‘lAnd of tells And ruins’A history of excavations in the holy land inspired by the photographs and Accounts of leo boerBart Wagemakers

Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of LeoBoer, a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française inJerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953–4 visited many archaeological sites inthe area of present-day Israel and the Palestinian Territories. These documentsinspired 20 internationally-renowned scholars—many of whom excavated at thesites they describe—to report on what we know today of nine particular siteschosen from the many that Leo Boer visited 60 years ago: Jerusalem, Khirbet et-Tell ( i?), Samaria & Sebaste, Tell Balata (Shechem), Tell es-Sultan (Jericho), Khirbet Qumran, Caesarea,Megiddo, and Bet She’an. Rather than focusing on the history of these sites, the contributors describe thehistory of the archaeological expeditions. Who excavated these sites over the years? What were the specificaims of their campaigns? What techniques and methods did they use? How did they interpret these excavations? What finds were most noteworthy? And finally, what are the major misconceptions held bythe former excavators?

9781782972457, $98.95, April 2014, Hardback, 208 pages, Oxbow Books

beyond the fertile crescentlate palaeolithic and neolithic communities of the Jordanian steppe.the Azraq basin project Volume 1: project background and the latepalaeolithic (geological context and technology)Brian Byrd & Andrew Garrard

Beyond the Fertile Crescent is the first volume of the Azraq Project, a large-scalearchaeological and palaeoenvironmental survey and excavation project undertakenbetween 1982 and 1989 in the ecologically diverse sub-region of the Azraq Basinin north-central Jordan: an area rich in Palaeolithic and Neolithic archaeology.

Beginning with an overview to the Project aims, a detailed analysis of past andpresent environments and land use and the history of excavation in the Basin, Beyond the Fertile Crescent explores the geology, stratigraphy and dating of the Late Palaeolithic sites andprovides a detailed description of the technology and typology of the lithic assemblages from the sites.These are then compared with those from the wider Levant, in order to explore possible links betweentechnological traditions and social groups in order to understand the evidence for settlement strategiesacross the region.

9781842178331, $90.00, January 2014, Hardback, 448 pages, Levant Supplementary Series, Council for British Research in the Levant, Oxbow Books


Ancient Near East

lAndscApe And interAction, troodos surVey Vol 2the tAesp landscapeMichael Given, Vasiliki Kassianidou, A. Bernard Knapp, Jay Noller & Luke Sollars,

The TAESP Landscape, the second of two volumes, presents an area-by-area analysis of the fieldwork and research undertaken by the Troodos Archaeologicaland Environmental Survey Project (TAESP) in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus.Covering four regions of the survey area (The Plains, Karkotis Valley, Upper Lagoudhera Valley and The Mountains) the volume focuses on explicit researchquestions appropriate each region. Organized geographically, chronologically andthematically, each region is investigated from the Neolithic to the present day and,through ‘Intensive Survey Zones’ – selected to give a representative range of the

physical and cultural terrain – many notable new discoveries are made. These include the pattern of BronzeAge Settlement in the Plains, Archaic rural sanctuaries and cemeteries, the scope of Late Roman copper-mining and isolated Medieval mountain settlements. The TAESP Landscape provides a fully integrated and data-rich analysis of the material from a wide range of contrasting archaeological perspectives. Taken together, these wide-ranging and interdisciplinary perspectives give a nuanced and sen-sitive approach to a strikingly multi-faceted landscape.

9781782971887, $76.00, December 2013, Hardback, 296 pages, Levant Supplementary Series, Council for British Research in the Levant, Oxbow Books

lAndscApe And interAction: troodos surVey Vol 1Methodology, Analysis and interpretationMichael Given, Vasiliki Kassianidou, A. Bernard Knapp, Jay Noller & Luke Sollars

The Troodos Mountains, in central Cyprus, is a region of great physical and culturaldiversity. The landscapes range from fertile, cultivated plains to narrow, dry valleysand forested mountain regions and this physical topography is overlain a rich humancultural landscape of farming, mining, industry, settlement, burial and ritual behavior. Over six field seasons, a team of specialists and field walkers from theTroodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project (TAESP) investigated thenorthern edge of this region and explored the complex and dynamic relationshipbetween landscape and people over 12,000 years. The results of their integrated

and interpretative approach are presented here, in the first of two volumes.

Beginning with a considered overview of the context, research aims and methodology of the project, Volume 1 provides detailed accounts of the archaeology, material culture, geography and environmentalrecord of the entire survey area. This wealth of information is then bought together to produce a series of chronological and thematic analyses of the interaction between people and landscape in this region of Cyprus from the Prehistoric through to the Modern period.

9781782971870, $90.00, December 2013, Hardback, 400 pages, Levant Supplementary Series, Council for British Research in the Levant, Oxbow Books

nishApur reVisitedstratigraphy and ceramics of the qohandezRocco Rante & Annabelle Collinet

Nishapur in eastern Iran was an important Silk Road city, its position providinglinks to central Asia and China, Afghanistan and India, the Persian Gulf and thewest. Despite previous excavations there are many unresolved questions surrounding the site; when was the city founded? Is Nishapur a Sasanian city?Was it founded by the Sasanian king Shapur I or II? Excavations were conductedin different areas of the mound, in order to address these questions. After an introduction to the site and the former American and Iranian excavations, thisbook presents the stratigraphy and the pottery of the site. The difficulties

involved in establishing a precise history of the site led to a program of analysis undertaken by the ResearchCentre of French Museums (C2RMF). Chemical and petrographic analysis, thermoluminescence (TL) datingand archaeomagnetism analysis as support to the TL results were done. A pottery database has been createdregrouping the stratigraphical and laboratory analyses data, in order to manage and present an organizedcorpus of 1000 samples. The combination of the data from the stratigraphical and laboratory analyses givesan accurate and completely new chronology of the site. Moreover, the study also brought to light a new typological sequence of the ceramic, as well as new data about the pottery production at Nishapur.

9781842174944, $80.00, Recently Published, Hardback, 144 pages, Oxbow Books9781842174944, $80.00, Recently Published, Hardback, 144 pages, Oxbow Books

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Asian Archaeology / African Archaeology

9781842173855, $76.00, December 2013, Paperback,486 pages, Pupiska Series Vol 1, Oxbow Books

puspikA: trAcing Ancient indiAthrough texts And trAditionscontributions to current research in indologyVolume iNina Mirnig, Michael Williams & Peter-Daniel Szántó

contributions to current research in indologyVolume 2Giovanni Ciotti, Alastair Gornall & Paulo Visigalli

It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of theworld’s richest and most enticing cultures. One thousandyears have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first Indologist, wrote his outsider’s account of the subcontinent and two hundred years have passed since theinception of Western Indology. And yet, what this monumental scholarship has achieved is still outweighedby the huge tracts of terra incognita: thousands of works lacking scholarly attention and even more manuscripts which still await careful study whilst decaying in the unforgiving Indian climate. In September2009 young researchers and graduate students in this field came together to present their cutting-edgework at the first International Indology Graduate Research Symposium, which was held at Oxford University.This volume, the first in a new series which will publish the proceedings of the Symposium, will make important contributions to the study of the classical civilization of the Indian sub-continent. The series willcover a wide range of subjects reaching from literature, religion, philosophy, ritual and grammar to socialhistory, with the aim that the research published will not only enrich the field of classical Indology but eventuallyalso contribute to the studies of history and anthropology of India and Indianized Central and South-East Asia.

Puspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium and presentsthe results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asian cultures. Focusing on textualsources in the languages in which they were composed, different disciplinary perceptions are offered onintellectual history, linguistics, philosophy, literary criticism and religious studies.

9781782974154, $56.00, February 2014, Paperback, 224 pages, Pupiska Series Vol 2, Oxbow Books

the sociAl liVesof figurinesrecontextualizing thethird Millennium bcterracotta figurinesfrom harappa (pakistan)Sharri R. Clark

This research examinesthe figurines from theurban site of Harappa (c.3300-1700 BC) as reflections of some of the under-lying structures of Indus society and cultural change,focusing particularly on figurines from secure datedarchaeological contexts. The figurines are viewed asartifacts whose social lives can be at least partiallyreconstructed through systematic analyses of stylistic and technological attributes and spatial andtemporal contexts (usually fill or trash deposits).Comparisons with ethnographic data, historic textsand contemporary ancient societies also informthese interpretations.

Sharri Clark holds a Ph.D. and an A.M. in anthropologyfrom Harvard University. She has conducted extensive archaeological and ethnoarchaeologicalfieldwork in Pakistan, India and Israel and has authored numerous articles.

9781842174555, $40.00, February 2014, Hardback, 512pages, American School of Prehistoric Research / Oxbow

prehistory ofthe Western sAhArAA synthesis of field-work, 2002 to 2009Jo Clarke & Nick Brooks

During the last ten years,the Western Sahara Projecthas undertaken largescale archaeological andenvironmental researchthat has begun to address the gaps in our knowledgeof the archaeology and palaeoenvironments ofWestern Sahara, and to develop narratives of prehistoric cultural adaptation and change from theend of the Pleistocene to the Late Holocene andplace it within its wider Saharan context.

A detailed discussion of past environmental changeand a presentation of results from the environmentalcomponent of the extensive survey work are provided. A typology of built stone features— monuments and funerary architecture is presentedtogether with the results of the archaeological component of the extensive survey work, focusingon stone features, but also including discussion of ceramics and rock art and the analysis of lithic assemblages.

9781782971726, $110.00, January 2014, Paperback, 328 pages, Oxbow Books


Ancient Near East

Ancient irrigAtion systeMs of theArAl seA AreAthe history, origin,and development of irrigated AgricultureB. V. Adrianov & Simone Mantellini

Ancient Irrigation Systemsin the Aral Sea Area, is the

English translation of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov’swork, Drevnie Orositelnye Sistemy Priaralya, concerning the study of ancient irrigation systemsand the settlement pattern in the historical region ofKhorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan).

This work holds a special place within the Soviet archaeological school because of the results obtained through a multidisciplinary approach combining aerial survey and fieldwork, surveys, andexcavations. This translation has been enriched bythe addition of introductions written by several eminent scholars from the region regarding the importance of the Khorezm Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition and the figure of Boris V.Andrianov and his landmark study almost 50 yearsafter the original publication.

9781842173848, $35.00, February 2014, Hardback, 300 pages, Oxbow Books

souVenirs AndneW ideAsDiane Fortenberry

During the 18th and 19thcenturies, many travellersaimed to record their travels through Egypt,Mesopotamia, the Levantand Turkey by collectingsouvenirs and mementosof places they had visited.

Souvenirs and New Ideas explores the human desireto retain the memory of a journey by ‘collecting objects’ with a series of essays examining the motivation of a variety of different travellers rangingfrom intrepid female solo travellers to European royalty.

The acquisitions of these individuals ranged fromtales of folklore and academic knowledge to thewholesale looting of Egyptian antiquities.

Although the habit of ‘collecting antiquities’ is deplored and condemned today, this volume shedslight on the attitudes behind the practice and seeksto strengthen our current beliefs about the value ofcultural patrimony.


lAter prehistory ofthe bAdiAexcavation and surveys in eastern Jordan, Volume 2A. V. G. Betts, D. Cropper,L. Martin & C. McCartney,

This is the second of twovolumes to document

extensive surveys and excavations in the region fromAl-Azraq to the Iraqi border over the period 1979 -1996. Broadly, it covers the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the eastern badia. Late Epipaleolithiccampsites have been found in the north-west of theharra in the foothills of Jebel Druze, while the centralbasalt region saw a floruit of activity in the late Aceramic Neolithic, when it was used extensively forhunting.

This volume covers the following period, which wit-nessed a further spread of campsites and short-termoccupation out around the edges of the harra andacross the hamad as far as the lands bordering theEuphrates to the north and east.

9781842174739, $96.00, Recently Published, Hardback,240 pages, Levant Supplementary Series, Oxbow Books

persiA’s iMperiAlpoWer in lAte Antiquitythe great Wall of gorgan and the frontier landscapes of sasanian iranEberhard Sauer, T. J.Wilkinson, H. OmraniRekavandi & J. Nokandeh

The Gorgan Wall stretchesfor over 200km through northern Iran. Guarded byover 30 forts, it is longer than Britain’s Hadrian’s Walland Antonine Wall put together and is the mostmonumental ancient border defense system between Central Europe and China.

Until recently, dating proposals ranged over morethan a millennium. The Gorgan Wall project has shedlight on what made one of antiquity’s largest empires and earlier civilizations succeed.

9781842175194, $150.00, Hardback, 800 pages, BritishInstitute of Persian Studies Monograph, Oxbow Books

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Greece & Rome

building for eternitythe history and technology of roman concrete engineering in the seaJ.P. Oleson, R.L. Hohlfelder, C.J. Brandon & M.D. Jackson

This book explains how the Romans built so successfully in the sea with their new invention ofmaritime concrete. It breaks new ground in bridgingthe gap between science and the humanities by integrating analytical materials science, history, andarchaeology, along with underwater exploration.

9781782974208, $110.00, June 2014, Hardback, 368 pages, Oxbow Books

dictionAry of clAssicAl MythologyJennifer R. March

Jenny March’s acclaimed Dictionary of Classical Mythology, first published in 1998but long out of print, has been extensively revised and expanded including a completely new set of beautiful line-drawing illustrations for this Oxbow edition.It is a comprehensive A–Z guide to Greek and Roman mythology. All major myths,legends and fables are here, including gods and goddesses, heroes and villains,dangerous women, legendary creatures and monsters. Characters such as Achillesand Odysseus have extensive entries, as do epic journeys and heroic quests, likethat of Jason and the Argonauts to win the Golden Fleece, all alongside a plethoraof information on the creation of the cosmos, the many metamorphoses of godsand humans, and the Trojan War, plus more minor figures—nymphs, seers, kings, rivers, to name but a few.

In this superbly authoritative work the myths are brilliantly retold, along with any major variants, and withextensive translations from ancient authors that give life to the narratives and a sense of the vibrant culturesthat shaped the development of classical myth. The 172 illustrations give visual immediacy to the words,by showing how ancient artists perceived their gods and heroes.

9781782976356, $49.95, July 2014, Paperback, 432 Pages, Oxbow Books

rough ciliciAnew historical and Archaeological ApproachesMichael C. Hoff & Rhys F.Townsend

The region of Rough Cilicia (modern area thesouth-western coastal area ofTurkey), constitutes the western part of the largerarea of Cilicia. It is characterized by the ruggednessof its territory and the protection afforded by thehigh mountains combined with the rugged seacoast fostered the prolific piracy that developed in the lateHellenistic period, bringing much notoriety to thearea. It was also known as a source of timber, primarilyfor shipbuilding.


Medicine And heAling in the Ancient MediterrAneAnD. Michaelides

The 42 papers presented herecover many aspects medicine inthe Mediterranean world during Antiquity and earlyByzantine times.

The contributions are grouped under a series ofheadings: medicine and archaeology; media (onlineaccess to electronic corpus); the Aegean; medical au-thors/schools of medicine; surgery; medicamentsand cures; skeletal remains; new research in Cyprus;Asklepios and incubation; and Byzantine, Arab andmedieval sources.


neighbours Andsuccessors of roMetraditions of glass production and use in europe and the Middleeast in the later 1st Millennium Ad Caroline Jackson, JenniferPrice & Daniel Keller

Presented through 20 case studies covering Europeand the Near East, Neighbours and Successors ofRome investigates development in the production of glass and the mechanisms of the wider glass economy as part of a wider material culture in Europe and the Near East around the later first millennium AD.

9781782973973, $85.00, May 2014, Hardback, 352 pages, Oxbow Books


Greece & Rome

A test of tiMethe Volcano of thera andthe chronology and historyof the Aegean and eastMediterranean in the midsecond Millennium bcStuart Manning

A Test of Time, first published in1999. This new edition comprises the original, unrevised text, together with an appended essaywhich critically reviews the continuing debate between 1999 and 2012 and presents a raft of new scientific data, including the Bayesian modeling of radiocarbon dates relating to a range of relevant archaeological sequences from Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean.

9781782972198, $90.00, March 2014, Paperback, 672 Pages, Oxbow Books

teMples And sAnctuAries in theroMAn eAstreligious Architecture insyria, iudaea/palaestinaand provincia ArabiaArthur Segal

This lavishly illustrated volumepresents a comprehensive architectural study of 87individual temples and sanctuaries built in theRoman East between the end of the 1st century BCEand the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria,Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. The individual descriptionspresented focus solely upon the analysis of the external and internal space of the temples and donot involve any cultural or ethnic discussion.


trAc 2012proceedings of the twenty-second Annual theoreticalroman Archaeology conference, frankfurt 2012Annabel Bokern, Marion Bolder-Boos, Stefan Krmnicek, DominikMaschek & Sven Page

An wide selection of subjectswas presented and are covered here: sessionslooked at Greek art and philhellenism in the Romanworld, the validity of the concept of ‘Romanization’,change and continuity in Roman religion, urbanneighborhood relations in Pompeii and Ostia, thetransformation of objects in and from the Romanworld, frontier markets and Roman archaeology inthe Provinces.

9781782971979, $70.00, Recently Published, Paperback, 220 pages, TRAC, Oxbow Books

After AlexAnderthe time of the diadochi(323-281 bc)Victor Alonso Troncoso & Edward M. Anson

When Alexander the Great diedin 323 BC without a chosen successor he left behind a hugeempire and ushered in a turbulent

period, as his generals fought for control of vast territories. The time of the Successors (Diadochi) is usually defined as beginning in 323 BC and endingwith the deaths of the last two Successors in 281 BC.

This is a major publication devoted to the Successorsand contains eighteen papers reflecting current research.


butrint 4the Archaeology and histories of an ionian townInge Lyse Hansen, Richard Hodges & Sarah Leppard,

This richly illustrated volume discusses the histories of the port city of Butrint, andits intimate connection to the wider conditions of the Adriatic. In so doing it is areading, and re-reading, of the site that adds significantly to the study of Mediterranean urban history over the longue durée.

Firstly, the book proposes a new paradigm for the development-history of Butrint- based on discussions of the latest archaeological, historical and landscape studiesfrom approximately 20 new excavations and surveys, together covering a temporal

arch from prehistory to the early modern period.

Secondly, it examines how the perception of the city influenced the archaeological methodology of 20th-century studies of the site, where iteration and reversal were often being applied in equal measure. In thisit asks important questions on the management of heritage sites and the contemporary role of archaeological practice.

9781842174623, $90.00, Recently Published, Hardback, 250 pages, Butrint Archaeological Monographs Series, Oxbow Books

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Late Antiquity / Anglo Saxon, Viking & Early Medieval Europe

constAntinopleArchaeology of a byzantine MegapolisKen Dark

Constantinople: Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis is a major archaeologicalassessment of a key period in the development of this historic city. It uses materialevidence, contemporary developments in urban archaeology and archaeologicaltheory to explore over a thousand years of the city’s development. Moving awayfrom the scholarly emphasis on the monumental core or city defenses, the volumeinvestigates the inter-mural area between the fifth-century land walls and the Constantinian city wall—a zone which encompasses half of the walled area butwhich has received little archaeological attention. Utilizing data from a variety of

sources, including the ‘Istanbul Rescue Archaeology Project’ created to record material threatened withdestruction, the analysis proposes a new model of Byzantine Constantinople. A range of themes are explored including the social, economic and cognitive development, Byzantine perceptions of the city, theconsequences of imperial ideology and the impact of ‘self-organization’ brought about by many minor decisions. Constantinople: Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis casts new light on the transformation ofan ancient Roman capital to an Orthodox Christian holy city and will be of great importance to archaeologistsand historians.

9781782971719, $99.95, Recently Published, Hardback, 208 Pages, Oxbow Books

using iMAges in lAte AntiquityBirte Poulsen, Stine Birk & Troels Myrup Kristensen

Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the firstmillennium AD. They bring together an international group of scholars who situate the period’s visual practices within their political, religious, and social contexts.

The contributors present a diverse range of evidence, including mosaics, sculpture, and architecture from all parts of the Mediterranean, from Spain inthe west to Jordan in the east.

Contributions span from the depiction of individuals on funerary monumentsthrough monumental epigraphy, Constantine’s expropriation and symbolic

re-use of earlier monuments, late antique collections of Classical statuary, and city personifications in mosaics to the topic of civic prosperity during the Theodosian period and dynastic representation duringthe Umayyad dynasty. Together they provide new insights into the central role of visual culture in the constitution of late antique societies.

9781782972617, $90.00, April 2014, Paperback, 288 pages, Oxbow Books

the Anglo-sAxon church of All sAints, brixWorth,northAMptonshiresurvey, excavation and Analysis, 1972-2010David Parsons & Diana Sutherland

The church of All Saints, Brixworth, is an historic building of outstanding importancenationally and internationally. Built in a number of stages during the late 8th andearly 9th centuries, it is one of a small number of churches in England survivingabove ground from that relatively remote period and is one of the most complete—and is still in use. Its layout and general appearance are strikingly different from others in the region and its unique features, complexity of structure and striking variety of its building materials have been explained by the suggestion that it is

Roman in origin rather than early medieval.

Drawing on the results of extensive documentary research, excavation, geophysical and detailed structuralsurveys, and extensive fabric analysis of building materials, this beautifully illustrated volume presents acomprehensive description and account of one of the most important surviving early churches in the countryand its architectural history.



Anglo Saxon, Viking & Early Medieval Europe

eVerydAy life in Viking-Age toWnssocial Approaches to towns in england and ireland, c. 800-1100D. M. Hadley & Letty ten Harkel

The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristicsand the chronological development of towns. Far less attention has been paid tothe experience of living in towns.

The thirteen chapters in this book bring together the current state of knowledgeabout Viking-Age towns (c. 800–1100) from both sides of the Irish Sea, focusingon everyday life in and around these emerging settlements. What was it really liketo grow up, live, and die in these towns? What did people eat, what did they wear,and how did they make a living for themselves?

Although historical sources are addressed, the emphasis of the volume is overwhelmingly archaeological,paying homage to the wealth of new material that has become available since the advent of urban archaeology in the 1960s.

9781842175323, $65.00, December 2013, Hardback, 272 pages, Oxbow Books

silk for the VikingsMarianne Vedeler

The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusingon the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the traderoutes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk duringthe Viking Age.

Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richestViking burial find ever discovered, the other silk finds from high status graves inScandinavia are discussed along with an introduction to the techniques used toproduce raw silk and fabrics. Later chapters concentrate on trade and exchange,considering the role of silk items both as trade objects and precious gifts, and inthe light of coin finds. The main trade routes of silk to Scandinavia along the Russian rivers, and comparableRussian finds are described and the production and regulation of silk in Persia, early Islamic productionareas and the Byzantine Empire discussed. The final chapter considers silk as a social actor in various contexts in Viking societies compared to the Christian west.

9781782972150, $50.00, April 2014, Paperback, 120 pages, Ancient Textiles Series, Oxbow Books

the eArly Anglo-sAxon kingdoMs of southernbritAin Ad 450-650beneath the tribal hidageMartin Welch & Sue Harrington

The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups andpolities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their landsand surpluses. Whilst providing some indication of relative wealth and its distribution, rather little can be deduced from the Hidage concerning the underlying economic and social realities of the communities documented. SueHarrington and the late Martin Welch have adopted a new approach to these issues, based on archaeological information from 12,000 burials and 28,000 objects of the period AD 450–650. The nature, distribution and spatial relationships of settlement and burialevidence are examined over time against a background of the productive capabilities of the environmentin which they are set, the availability of raw materials, evidence for metalworking and other industrial/craftactivities, and communication and trade routes. This has enabled the identification of central areas of wealththat influenced places around them.

9781782976127, $120.00, June 2014, Hardback, 240 pages, Oxbow Books

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Medieval Europe

bosWorth 1485A battlefield rediscoveredGlenn Foard

Bosworth stands alongside Naseby and Hastings as one of the three most iconicbattles ever fought on English soil. Fought on 22 August 1485, it bought to an endthe dynastic struggle known as the Wars of the Roses and heralded the dawn ofthe Tudor dynasty. However, the actual site of the battlefield itself was uncertainand, between 2005 and 2010, an intensive program of research was undertakenutilizing, for the first time, a wide range of academic disciplines in a single large-scale systematic investigation. Bosworth 1485: A Battlefield Rediscovered isthe result.

Utilizing data gained from a range of sources including historical documents, landscape archaeology, historical geography and metal detecting, the volume explores in detail each aspect of the investigation—from the size of the both armies, their weaponry and the use of early gunpowder weapons to the physicaland tactical landscape of the battlefield—in order to identify where the fighting took place. Bosworth 1485provides a fascinating and intricately researched new perspective on the event which, perhaps more thanany other, marked the transition between medieval and early modern England.


A glorious eMpireArchaeology and the tudor-stuart Atlantic WorldEric C. Klingelhofer

Fifteen papers present the results of new research into various aspects of materialculture and historical archaeology that reflect culture, trade and social interactionshared by Britain and Colonial America during the Tudor and Stuart periods.

Recurrent themes include the use, significance and, in some cases, trade in specific types of pottery, including the ubiquitous stoneware flasks or canteensfor sailors and solders on both sides of the Atlantic, and commodities such aswine and copper objects; the architectural history of manor houses and archaeology of plantations; aspects of the historical archaeology of Jamestownand Martins Hundred; the role of specific individuals in the development of Tudor-Stuart life and our newunderstanding of a London destroyed by the Great Fire based on Noel Hume’s rescue digs in a London destroyed by the Blitz.

Overall the papers reflect the wide-ranging interests of Ivor Noël Hume, to whom the volume is dedicated.


stAirWAy to heAVenthe functions of Medieval upper spacesToby Huitson

Medieval stairs, galleries and upper chambers in cathedrals, abbeys, and parishchurches have been an enduring source of fascination to historians and archaeologists since the eighteenth century, but their practical purposes havelong been shrouded in mystery and speculation.

From libraries to lights, clocks to dovecotes, from secret games of skittles playedover the vaults to the daring exploits of the twelfth-century Flying Monk, TobyHuitson explores the lofty spaces, nooks and crannies of medieval upper spacesthough the interrogation of a wide range of documentary, visual and archaeologicalmaterials. Evidence is revealed for over 30 different functions during the period from around AD

1000 to 1550. Generously illustrated and fully-referenced, the text is accompanied by a set of special features and a quick-reference section, making it indispensable to all those interested in medieval historyand architecture.



Medieval Europe

the MedieVAl kirk, ceMetery And hospice At kirk ness,north berWickthe scottish seabird centre excavations 1999-2006Alasdair Ross, Tanja Romankiewicz, Thomas Addyman, Kenneth Macfadyen & Nicholas Uglow

Kirk Ness has long been considered likely to be an early Christian center, whosededication to St Andrew may perhaps be linked with the 8th century translation ofthe relics of St Andrew to Fife. Such early dating was confirmed by a new sequenceof radiocarbon dates from excavations carried out in 1999–2006.

In the medieval period Kirk Ness and its harbor appears to have been an importantstaging point for pilgrims on route to the shrine of St Andrew in Fife, providing the

principal revenue for the nearby nunnery of North Berwick. Finds include a number of items of particularsignificance—coarse stone tools, lead objects, ceramic fragments and a bone of a great auk from early medieval deposits. The associated medium-sized cemetery population of 12th–17th century date displaysnotable contrasts in burial practice and osteological analysis established that one individual met with a violent death. Grave goods included a 12th century hairpin and a 17th century silk-covered tunic buttonwith silver wire embroidery found together in the grave of a young female.


the coronAtion chAir And stone of sconehistory, Archaeology and conservationWarwick Rodwell

Constructed in 1297 for England’s King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranksamongst the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from theMiddle Ages. It incorporated in its seat a block of sandstone, which the kingseized at Scone, following his victory over the Scots in 1296. For centuries, Scottish kings had been inaugurated on this symbolic ‘Stone of Scone’, to whicha copious mythology had also become attached. Edward I presented the Chair,as a holy relic, to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey,and most English monarchs since the fourteenth century have been crowned in

it, the last being HM Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953.

Now somewhat battered through age, the Chair was once highly ornate, being embellished with gilding,painting and colored glass. Yet, despite its profound historical significance, until now it has never been thesubject of detailed archaeological recording. Moreover, the remaining fragile decoration was in need of urgent conservation, which was carried out in 2010 12, accompanied by the first holistic study of the

Chair and Stone. 9781782971528, $39.95, Recently Published,Hardback, 320 pages, Oxbow Books

trAditionAl buildings in the oxford regionJohn Steane & James Ayres

Oxford occupies a central position on the ancient route between Northamptonand Southampton and on the east - west road between London, The West Country,Wales and Ireland. For this reason, unusually for vernacular architecture, the buildings of the region were subject to a wide range of influences.

This book, the fruit of twenty years research provides an account of vernacular architecture in the Oxford region from Anglo-Saxon times to the 19th century. It begins with a discussion of methods and procedures followed by a descriptionof building materials, stone, brick, slate and thatch. This serves as an introductionto the heart of the book, eleven chapters dealing with surveys of cruck buildings,

manorial and moated sites, town hours with particular emphasis on Abingdon, and houses in the countryside from farmhouses to cottages. There are then chapters on fire hazards, public houses and publicbuildings. Distributed through the book are special sections devoted to wall paintings, ferramenta,apotropaic marks, carpentry details, secrets under the floorboards, fireplaces, staircases and windows. The book is richly and profusely illustration with over 500 illustrations, photographs, maps, and a particularstrength, a large number of drawings of architectural details and sketch perspectives.

9781842174791, $90.00, December 2013, Hardback, pages, Oxbow Books

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Prehistory—British

celtic Art in europeMaking connectionsChristopher Gosden, Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider

The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history. Of these disciplines, art history offers the most direct message to a wideraudience. This volume of 37 papers brings together a truly international groupof pre-eminent specialists in the field of Celtic art and Celtic studies. It is a benchmarkvolume the like of which has not been seen since the publication of Paul Jacobsthal’s Early Celtic Art in 1944.

The papers chart the history of attempts to understand Celtic art and argue fornovel approaches in discussions spanning the whole of Continental Europe andthe British Isles. This new body of international scholarship will give the reader a sense of the richness ofthe material and current debates. Artefacts of rich form and decoration, which we might call art, provide amost sensitive set of indicators of key areas of past societies, their power, politics and transformations.With its broad geographical scope, this volume offers a timely opportunity to re-assess contacts, context,transmission and meaning in Celtic art for understanding the development of European cultures, identitiesand economies in pre- and proto-history.

9781782976554, $120, June 2014Hardback, 400 pages, Oxbow Books

excAVAtions At cill donnAinA bronze Age settlement and iron Age Wheelhouse in south uistMarek Zvelebil

The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in theHebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.

The first major excavation on South Uist discovered that what was thought to be ashell midden at Cill Donnain was in fact a wheelhouse, a type of dwelling used inthe period c.300 BC–AD 500; under which lay the remains of a Bronze Age settlement.The site itself is situated at the foot of a high steep-sided dune on the eastern edgeof a large sand valley, close to the western shore of Loch Cill Donnain. The archaeological report of the excavation shows that, in comparison with contempo-rary neighboring settlements, it was unlikely that each was an independent unit and that they were linkedby social and economic inter-dependency. The wheelhouse thus provides striking new evidence that contributes to developing theories about the social, material and economic life in the period.

This volume presents the extensive archaeological evidence found at the site, including pottery, faunal remains and a variety of bone and metal tools, illustrating that the Cill Donnain landscape is rich in archaeological sites of all periods from the Beaker to the post-Medieval.

9781782976271, $90.00, July 2014, Hardback, 272 pages, Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides, Oxbow Books

settleMent in the irish neolithicJessica Smyth

The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but thedefining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Ne-olithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last tenyears. The substantial Early Neolithic timber house was a short-lived architecturalphenomenon of as little as 90 years, perhaps like short-lived Early Neolithic longbarrows and causewayed enclosures.

This book explores the wealth of evidence for settlement and houses throughoutthe Irish Neolithic, in relation to Britain and continental Europe. More importantlyit incorporates the wealth of new, and often unpublished, evidence from developer-led archaeological excavations and large grey-literature resources. The settlement evidence scattered across the landscape,and found as a result of developer-funded work, provides the social context for the more famous stonemonuments that have traditionally shaped our views of the Neolithic in Ireland. It provides the first comprehensive review of the Neolithic settlement of Ireland, which enables a more holistic and meaningfulunderstanding of the Irish Neolithic.

9781842174975, $65.00, April 2014, Hardback, 208 pages, Prehistoric Society Research Papers, Oxbow Books


Prehistory—British

celtic froM the West 2rethinking the bronze Ageand the Arrival of indo-european in Atlantic europeBarry Cunliffe & John T. Koch

Until recently the idea that Atlantic Europe was a wholly pre-Indo-European world throughout

the Bronze Age remained plausible. Rapidly expandingevidence for the later prehistory and the pre-Romanlanguages of the West increasingly exclude that possibility.

This reconsideration inevitably throws penetratingnew light on the formation of later prehistoric Atlantic Europe and the implications of new evidence for inter-regional connections.

9781842175293, $70.00, Hardback, 237 pages, Celtic Studies Publications, Oxbow Book

gristhorpe MAnA life and death in thebronze AgeChristopher Knusel

Gristhorpe Man is a Research report on an early discovery of avery well-preserved British BronzeAge bog body.

A log-coffin excavated in the early 19th centuryproved to be well enough preserved in the earlytwenty-first century for the full armory of modernscientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date.Gristhorpe is on the North Yorkshire coast.

9781782972075, $90.00, February 2014, Hardback, 256 Pages, Oxbow Books

quAternAry historyAnd pAlAeolithic ArchAeology in theAxe VAlley AtbrooM, south WestenglAndRobert Hosfield & C.P. Green

This investigation highlights thehuge potential of old sites and the importance of thearchaeological and geological legacy resulting frommore than 150 years of field investigations.

The site, which has produced large numbers ofPalaeolithic artifacts and is located in Middle Pleistocene fluvial sediments approximately 300,000years old, is generally regarded as the most important open-air archaeological site of earlier Palaeolithic age in south-western Britain.


iMAge, MeMory AndMonuMentAlityArchaeological engagements with theMaterial WorldLeading scholars in these 29commissioned papers in honourof Richard Bradley discuss keythemes in prehistoric archaeology

that have defined his career, such as monumentality,memory, rock art, landscape, material worlds andfield practice. The scope is broad, covering bothBritain and Europe, and while the focus is very muchon the archaeology of later prehistory, papers alsoaddress the interconnection between prehistory andhistoric and contemporary archaeology. The result isa rich and varied tribute to Richard's energy and intellectual inspiration.

9781782973928, $60.00, Paperback reprint, 366 pages,Prehistoric Society Research Papers, Oxbow Books

quAternAry of the trentDavid R. Bridgland, Andy J. Howard, Mark J. White & Tom S. White

This volume is an integrated overview and synthesis of available data relating tothe Quaternary evolution of the River Trent in England. It provides detailed descriptions of the Pleistocene sedimentary records from the Trent, its tributariesand related drainage systems - a sedimentary record that spans a period of approximately half a million years—and the biostratigraphical and archaeologicalmaterial preserved therein. Significant new data are presented from recently discovered sites of geological and archaeological importance, including previouslyunrecognized fluvial deposits, as well as novel analyses, such as mathematicalmodeling of fluvial incision as recorded by the river terrace deposits.

In combination with a thorough review of the literature on the Trent, these new data have contributed to revised chronostratigraphical and palaeogeographical frameworks for central England and revealed thecomplexity of the Pleistocene fluvial and glacial records in this region.

The findings add a significant strand to the growing understanding of Pleistocene fluvial sequences, the nature and technological attributes of Palaeolithic assemblages and highlights the value of the data thatcan still be extracted from such assemblages across the Acheulean world.

9781842174616, $60.00, March 2014, Hardback, 416 pages, Oxbow Books

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Prehistory—European / British Archaeology

exploring prehistoric identity in north-West europeVictoria Ginn, Rebecca Enlander & Rebecca Crozier

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 manipulatedby humans in a prehistoric context in order to construct personal and group identities. Artifacts were often from or reminiscent of far-flung places and wereused to demonstrate membership of an (imagined) regional, or European community.Earthworks frequently archive maximum visual impact through elaborate ramparts and entrances with the minimum amount of effort, indicating that theconstruction of identities were as much in the eye of the perceiver, as of the perceived. Variations in domestic architectural style also demonstrate the malleability of identity, and theprolonged, intermittent use of particular places for specific functions indicates that the identity of place isjust as important in our archaeological understanding as the identity of people.

By using a wide range of case studies, both temporally and spatially, these thought processes may be explored further and diachronic and geographic patterns in expressions of identity investigated.

9781842178133, $60.00, March 2014, Paperback, 176 pages, Oxbow Books

coMMunicAting With the World of beingsthe World heritage rock Art site in Alta, Arctic norwayKnut Helskog & Tim Challman

The rock art found in the World Cultural Heritage site of the Alta area, Norway,comprises thousands of images including vast panels depicting many animals including reindeer and elk as well as fish, birds, boats, humans and geometric patterns. Their discovery, study and interpretation has led to renewed interest inSami prehistory. They provide much information about the people who lived inthis northern area from about 5000 BC up until the birth of Christ; about their social organization, hunting and trapping, beliefs, rituals, stories, legends, mythsand culture, changes, continuity and history.

In this beautifully illustrated book Knut Helskog provides a lyrical and personal interpretation of the chronology,patterning and possible meanings behind this extraordinary landscape of prehistoric rock art.


MeMory, Myth And long-terM lAndscApe inhAbitAtionAdrian M. Chadwick & Catriona D. Gibson

In recent years in archaeology there has been increasing acknowledgement ofthe ‘afterlife’ of monuments and other features in the landscape, and the role ofthe past in the past, along with discussions of the spatial and chronological linksmanifested in monument complexes and ritual landscapes. However this booktakes the approach that memory studies are not at an advanced stage within archaeology; to date there has been little specific theoretical discussion of howsuch long-term persistence of place and practice was possible; and why this wasthe case. Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation explicitly seeksto use the evidence from recent large-scale developer-funded commercial archaeological excavation projects in the United Kingdom to address these questions, and to connect these new discoveries, as wellas those from large-scale research projects, with current theoretical approaches. The volume also showcasessome excellent examples of more ‘everyday’ memory practices that took place on settlements and acrosslandscapes in the past. There is a focus on British archaeology from the Neolithic to the Roman periods,but other contributions deal with the Neolithic of Central Europe, Etruscan landscapes, prehistoric Egyptand historic Native American practices.

9781782973935, $70.00, December 2013, Hardback, 336 pages, Celtic Studies Publications 17, Oxbow Books


Prehistory—European

the first fArMers of centrAl europediversity in lbk lifewaysAlasdair Whittle & Penny Bickle

From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first farmersof central Europe, the LBK (Linearbandkeramik or Linienbandkeramik), are seenin distinctive practices of longhouse use, settlement forms and location, landscapechoice, subsistence, material culture and mortuary rites.

Within the five or more centuries of LBK existence a dynamic sequence of changescan be seen in, for instance, the expansion and density of settlement, increasedregionalization in pottery decoration, and some signs of stress or even crisis. However the LBK phenomenon was not one of uniformity and its internal

chronology is not well understood.

This major study takes a large regional sample, from northern Hungary westwards along the Danube to Alsace in the upper Rhine valley and addresses the lifeways of developed and late LBK people through aspects of diet, lifetime mobility, health and physical condition and the presentation of bodies in mortuaryritual using a combination of isotopic, osteological and archaeological analysis coupled with a detailed program of radiocarbon dating.

9781842175309, $110.00, Recently Published, Hardback, 608 pages, Cardiff Studies in Archaeology, Oxbow Books

pAths toWArds A neW WorldMats Larsson & Geoffrey Lemdahl

Covering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the Late Mesolithicto the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes the reader on a journeythrough the development of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set againstthe backdrop of climatic and landscape change. Using examples selected from awealth of archaeological sites, artifacts and palaeo-environmental studies he explores a series of chronological themes: such as how the relationship betweenland and water influenced people’s lives in many ways and the development ofoften long-distance cultural and exchange networks, as reflected in the occurrenceof ‘foreign’ stone axes, flint, copper and pottery. He describes how innovations,such as the introduction of agriculture, spread rapidly during the Neolithic,

incorporating characteristics of extensive northern European cultural groups, beginning with the FunnelBeaker Culture with its array of distinctive objects, settlements and burial monuments, while retaining somespecific regional and local expressions in material culture. Towards the end of the Stone Age the battle axewas replaced by the dagger as a symbol of the male warrior as a more stable society emerged in many partsof the country, concentrated around large farms with longhouses. It was only at this late stage that agricultureand the raising of livestock gained a firm hold, and the landscape was opened up permanently.


exchAnge netWorks And locAl trAnsforMAtionsMaria Emanuela Alberti & Serena Sabatini

Throughout the local Bronze and Iron Age, European and Mediterranean soci-eties appear to have been involved in complex systems of exchange networkswhich invariably affected local customs and historical developments.

Archaeological evidence suggests social and economic phenomena, cultural expressions and technological skills stemmed from multifaceted encounters between local traditions and external influences. Examples of cultural opennessand transcultural hybridization seem to be more of a norm than an exception.The articles in the volume explore the dynamic relationship between regionallycontextualized transformations and inter-regional exchange networks. Particular

effort has been put in approaching the issue in a multi-disciplinary perspective. Continental Europe and theMediterranean may be characterised by specific development and patterns of relations, but the authorsdraw attention to how those worlds were not alien to each other and illustrate how common interpretativetools can be successfully applied and a comprehensive approach including both zones adopted.


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British Archaeology

colchester, fortress of the WAr godan Archaeological AssessmentAdrian Gascoyne, David Radford & Philip Wise

The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since the late 16th centuryand the first modern archaeological excavations occurred in 1845 close to Colchester Castle, the towns most prominent historic site. The earliest significanthuman occupation recorded from Colchester dates to the late Neolithic, but itwas only towards the end of the 1st century BC that an oppidum was establishedin the area. This was superseded initially by a Roman legionary fortress and thenthe colonia of Camulodunum on a hilltop bounded on the north and east by theriver Colne. There is little evidence for continuing occupation here in the earlypost-Roman period, but in 917 the town was re-established as a burgh and gradually grew in importance.After the Norman Conquest, a castle was built on the foundations of the ruined Roman Temple of Claudius,and a priory and an abbey were established just to the south of the walled town. Although the town, aselsewhere, was affected by the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the English Civil War it remained essentially medieval in character until the 18th century. During the 19th century this process of change wasaccelerated by the arrival of the railway, industrialization and the establishment of the military garrison.


neWcAstle upon tyne, the eye of the northAn Archaeological AssessmentD. H. Heslop & C.P. Graves

Newcastle’s long and proud history began in Roman times when Hadrian’s Wallmarked the northernmost point of the Roman Empire. The first suitable bridgingpoint the Romans found was 10 miles inland from the North Sea. They builtPons Aelius close to where the Tyne Bridge is today and it marks the birth ofNewcastle upon Tyne as a settlement.

The exact significance of the early Roman occupation remains poorly understood,but recent development-led excavation has complimented the publicly-fundedresearch of the late 20th century. The Wall itself passed through the heart ofmodern Newcastle, but its course has been lost either side of the fort. Following the withdrawal of theRoman army, the local inhabitants employed the decaying fort as a cemetery, eventually with its own Anglo-Saxon church. After the Norman Conquest, the same strategic site was used to plant a castle of nationalsignificance, as the town became the King’s northern bulwark against Scottish Aggression, and termed the‘Eye of the North’. Prosperity followed the erection of a new bridge and as a result of its advantageous position as a port, the town developed an active waterfront, marketplaces and guilds.

9781842178140, $90.00, Recently Published, Hardback, pages, Oxbow Books

soMerset’s peAtlAnd ArchAeologyManaging and investigating a fragile resourceRichard Brunning

The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains thatfringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments. The importance of Somerset’s prehistoricwetland heritage is shown by the fact that twenty-five percent of all the prehistoric waterlogged sites thought still to exist in England are from the Somerset moors. The County Museum holds the largest collection of conservedprehistoric worked wood in the UK, possibly in the whole of Europe. The SweetTrack (the oldest known wooden trackway in the UK) and Glastonbury Lake Village have produced the mostcomplete record of Neolithic and Iron Age material culture in the UK and Glastonbury Lake Village was thebest preserved prehistoric settlement ever discovered in the UK. This substantial monograph presents theresults of the Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands which thoroughly assessed the condition of thewetland monuments and the ongoing threats to their survival and aimed to answer key research questionsabout the sites through the use of minimally invasive excavation and to inform the development of futurenational and county wetland strategies.



British Archaeology

A corpus ofroMAn potteryfroM lincolnMargaret Darling & Barbara Precious

This is the first majoranalysis of the Roman pottery from excavationsin Lincoln (comprisingmore than 150,000 sherds).

The pottery is presented inseven major ware groups. Fine wares include a mod-est range of imports and are dominated by Nene Val-ley products. Oxidized wares are mostly localproducts with a few imports as are the shell and calcite-tempered wares and reduced wares.

The final three are the standard specialized wares:mortaria, mostly of German and Mancetter-Hartshillmanufacture; amphorae (80% Spanish Dressel 20)and samian, mostly from Les Martres/Lezoux and75% undecorated! The discussion explores thechronological range of the entire ceramic assemblage across the three discrete parts of theRoman fortress and later colonia.

9781842174876, $70.00, February 2014, Hardback, 544 pages, Lincoln Archaeology Studies, Oxbow Books

counting peopleA diy Manual for localand family historiansJohn Moore

Local and family historiansare often afraid to use numerical data (Statistics)in their research and writing. Yet numbers are anessential part of much historical work, obviously in

population history but also in local studies of agriculture, industry and social history.

Counting People shows how amateur historians canuse computers with appropriate programs to provide numerical illustrations of various historicaltopics as well as easing their researches. A finalchapter covers research and publishing in local history.

The Bibliography provides advice on local historicalstudies in England and Wales and a full list of sourcesfor population history in England and Wales as wellas guidance on the use of computers in local studies.


life in the liMesstudies of the peopleand objects of theroman frontiersFrances McIntosh & Rob Collins

Divided into thematicsections the contribu-tions presented here to celebrate her manyachievements all represent

at least one aspect of Lindsay Allason-Jones’s research interests.

These encompass social and industrial aspects ofnorthern frontier forts; new insights into inscribedand sculptural stones specific to military communi-ties; religious, cultural and economic connotationsof Roman armor finds; the economic and ideologicalpenetration of romanitas in the frontiers as reflectedby individual objects and classes of finds; evidenceof trans-frontier interactions and invisible people;the role of John Clayton in the exploration andpreservation of Hadrian’s Wall and its material culture; the detailed consideration of individual objects of significant interest; and a discussion of thewidespread occurrence of mice in Roman art.


An AtlAs ofnorthAMpton-shirethe Medieval andearly-Modern landscapeDavid Hall, Tracey Partida& Glenn Foard

An Atlas of Northampton-shire presents an histori-cal atlas of the greater

part of Northamptonshire (the first quarter havingbeen published as An Atlas of Rockingham Forest).It presents in map form the results of fieldwork anddocumentary research undertaken since the mid-1960s to map the landscape of the whole ofNorthamptonshire prior to enclosure by ParliamentaryAct. This is the first time a whole county has beencompletely studied in this way, and the first time awhole county has had an accurate view of its medieval landscape with details of the medievalfields, woods, pastures and meadows which havebeen mapped by ground-survey of archaeological remains confirmed where possible from aerial photographs and early maps. The clearly laid outmaps in full color throughout contain an immenseamount of data which together provide a fascinatingnew portrait of this historic county.


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DEVELOPMENT-LED ARCHAEOLOGY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPEEdited by Richard Bradley, Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander Linden, Leo Webley9781842174661, $76.00, February 2012, Paperback, 200 pages, Oxbow Books

DEVIANT BURIAL IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDBy Eileen M. Murphy9781842173381, $60.00, August 2008, Paperback, 244 pages, Oxbow Books

DIGITAL ARCHIVES FROM EXCAVATION AND FIELDWORKA Guide to Good PracticeBy Julian Richards, Damian Robinson9781900188739, $24.00, December 2000, Paperback, 76 pages, Oxbow Books

EMBODIED KNOWLEDGEHistorical Perspectives on Belief and TechnologyEdited by Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury9781842174906, $60.00, November 2012, Hardback, 176 pages, Oxbow Books

ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN IRELANDBy Eileen M. Murphy, Nicki J. Whitehouse9781842172742, $80.00, October 2007, Paperback, 306 pages, Oxbow Books

EXPERIMENTATION AND INTERPRETATIONThe Use of Experimental Archaeology in the Study of the PastEdited by Dana C. E. Millson9781842173992, $60.00, July 2010, Paperback, 144 pages, Oxbow Books

HERITAGE TRANSFORMEDBy Ian Baxter9781842174579, $80.00, November 2011, Paperback,128 pages, Oxbow Books

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF POLITICS AND POWERWhere, When and Why the First States FormedBy Charles Keith Maisels9781842173527, $65.00, May 2010, Paperback, 440 pages, Oxbow Books

THE SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF FUNERARY REMAINSBy Rebecca Gowland, Christopher Knusel9781842173657, $84.00, April 2009, Paperback, 320 pages, Oxbow Books, Studies in Funerary Archaeology 1

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE DEADLectures in ArchaeothanatologyBy Henri Duday, Anna Maria Cipriani, John Pearce9781842173565, $60.00, December 2009, Paperback, 230 pages, Oxbow Books, Studies in FuneraryArchaeology 3

THE DEATH OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY?Edited by John Bintliff, Mark Pearce9781842174463, $26.00, September 2011, Paperback, 96 pages, Oxbow Books

TREE-RINGSPapers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian KuniholmStuart W. Manning and Mary Jaye Bruce9781842173862, $100.00, January 2010, Hardback,336 pages, Oxbow Books


Oxbow Books: Selected Backlist

LANDSCAPES THROUGH THE LENSAerial Photographs and the Historic EnvironmentEdited by David C. Cowley, Robin A. Standring, Matthew J. Abicht9781842179819, $90.00, November 2010, Paperback,288 pages, Oxbow Books

PLACES IN BETWEENThe Archaeology of Social, Cultural and Geographical Borders and BorderlandsEdited by David Mullin9781842179833, $60.00, May 2011, Paperback, 120 pages, Oxbow Books

SNAILSArchaeology and Landscape ChangeBy Paul Davies9781842173176, $80.00, September 2008, Hardback, 208 pages, Oxbow Books

DRESSING THE PASTBy Margarita Gleba, Cherine Munkholt, Marie-Louise Nosch9781842172698, $50.00, March 2008, Paperback, 167 pages, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series 3

THE MEDIEVAL BROADCLOTHChanging Trends in Fashions, Manufacturing and Consumptionby Kathrine Vestergard Pedersen and Marie-Louise Nosch9781842173817, $50.00, November 2009, Paperback,160 pages, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series 6

FROM MINOS TO MIDASAncient Cloth Production in the Aegean and in AnatoliaBy Brendan Burke9781842174067, $60.00, May 2010, Hardback, 240 pages, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series 7

WAR AND WORSHIPTextiles from 3rd to 4th-century AD Weapon Deposits in Denmark and Northern GermanyBy Susan Möller-Wiering9781842174289, $60.00, August 2011, Hardback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series 9

WEARING THE CLOAKDressing the Soldier in Roman TimesEdited by Marie-Louise Nosch, Henriette Koefoed9781842174371, $50.00, December 2011, Hardback, 144 pages, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series 10

TEXTILES AND TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN EUROPEFrom Prehistory to AD 400Edited by Margarita Gleba, Ulla Mannering9781842174630, $96.00, February 2012, Hardback, 512 pages, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series 11

CONNECTED BY THE SEAProceedings of the Tenth International Symposium onBoat and Ship Archaeology, Denmark 2003Lucy Blue, Frederick M. Hopper, Anton Englert9781842172285, $150.00, November 2006, Hardback384 pages, Oxbow Books

THE FIRST HMS INVINCIBLE (1747-58)Her Excavations (1980-1991)By John M. Bingeman9781842173930, $80.00, January 2010, Hardback, 208 pages, Oxbow Books

OCEANS ODYSSEY 1Deep-Sea Shipwrecks in the English Channel, the Straitsof Gibraltar and the Atlantic OceanSean Kingsley and Greg Stemm9781842174159, $50.00, February 2010, Hardback,288 pages, Oxbow Books, Odyssey Marine ExplorationReports

OCEAN’S ODYSSEY 2Underwater Heritage Management & Deep-Sea Ship-wrecks in the English Channel & Atlantic OceanSean Kingsley and Greg Stemm9781842174425, $50.00, Auguast 2011, Hardback,354 pages, Oxbow Books, Odyssey Marine ExplorationReports

ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ZOOARCHAEOLOGYColonialism, Complexity and Animal TransformationsEdited by Douglas V. Campana, Pamela Crabtree, S. D. deFrance, Justin Lev-Tov, A. M. Choyke9781842173909, $160.00, December 2010, Hardback,320 pages, Oxbow Books

ETHNOZOOARCHAEOLOGYThe Present and Past of Human-Animal RelationshipsEdited by Umberto Albarella, Angela Trentacoste9781842179970, $90.00, April 2011, Hardback, 208 pages, Oxbow Books

THE RITUAL KILLING AND BURIAL OF ANIMALSEuropean PerspectivesEdited by Aleksander Pluskowski9781842174449, $96.00, November 2011, Hardback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books,

CURRENT RESEARCH IN EGYPTOLOGY 2005Proceedings of the Sixth Annual SymposiumBy Rachel Mairs, Alice Stevenson9781842172292, $56.00, March 2007, Paperback, 192 pages, Oxbow Books

CURRENT RESEARCH IN EGYPTOLOGY 2006Proceedings of the Seventh Annual SymposiumBy Maria Cannata9781842172629, $56.00, July 2007, Paperback, 191 pages, Oxbow Books

CURRENT RESEARCH IN EGYPTOLOGY 2007Proceedings of the Eighth Annual ConferenceBy Ken Griffin9781842173299, $56.00, May 2008, Paperback, 158 pages, Oxbow Books

CURRENT RESEARCH IN EGYPTOLOGY 2009Proceedings of the Tenth Annual SymposiumEdited by Dan Boatright, Judith Corbelli, Claire Malleson9781842174128, $60.00, January 2011, Paperback, 190 pages, Oxbow Books



ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGYUnderstanding Similarity, Exploring DifferenceBy Duncan Garrow, Thomas Yarrow9781842173879, $70.00, April 2010, Paperback, 200 pages, Oxbow Books

ARCHAEOLOGY AND MEMORYEdited by Dusan Boric9781842173633, $110.00, March 2010, Hardback, 272 pages, Oxbow Books

ARCHAEOMALACOLOGYMolluscs in Former Environments of Human BehaviourBy D. Bar-Yosef9781842171202, $90.00, October 2005, Hardback, 192 pages, Oxbow Books

ARCHAEOMALACOLOGY REVISITEDNon-dietary Use of Molluscs in Archaeological SettingsEdited by Canan Cakirlar9781842174364, $60.00, June 2011, Paperback, 104 pages, Oxbow Books

BEYOND THE DEAD HORIZONStudies in Modern Conflict ArchaeologyEdited by Nicholas J. Saunders9781842174715, $70.00, September 2012, Paperback,240 pages, Oxbow Books

BIOSPHERE TO LITHOSPHERENew Studies In Vertebrate TaphonomyBy Terry O’Connor9781842171189, $90.00, February 2005, Hardback, 176 pages, Oxbow Books

CADA Guide to Good PracticeBy Harrison Eiteljorg, Kate Fernie, Jeremy Huggett,Damian Robinson9781900188722, $30.00, April 2003, Paperback, 104 pages, Oxbow Books

COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGYThemes, Methods and PracticesEdited by Gabriel Moshenska, Sarah Dhanjal9781842174326, $50.00, December 2011, Paperback,128 pages, Oxbow Books

COMPARATIVE ARCHAEOLOGIESThe American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and the IberianPeninsula (3000-1500 BC)Edited by Katina T. Lillios9781935488262, $60.00, March 2011, Hardback, 312 pages, Oxbow Books

CREATING AND DOCUMENTING ELECTRONIC TEXTSBy Alan Morrison, Michael Popham, Karen Wikander9781842170120, $24.00, February 2001, Paperback, 71 pages, Oxbow Books

CREATING DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE VISUAL ARTSStandards and Good PracticeBy Catherine Grout, Phil Purdy, Janine Rymer9781842170137, $36.00, February 2001, Paperback, 160 pages, Oxbow Books

DEVELOPING LINGUISTIC CORPORAA Guide to Good PracticeEdited by Martin Wynne9781842172056, $30.00, September 2005, Paperback, 96 pages, Oxbow Books

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-STATE COMMUNITIES INTHE ANCIENT NEAR EASTStudies in Honour of Edgar PeltenburgEdited by Diane Bolger, Louise C. Maguire9781842174074, $76.00, April 2010, Hardback, 256 pages, Oxbow Books, Banea Monograph 2

AFRICAN POTTERY ROULETTES PAST AND PRESENTTechniques, Identification and DistributionBy Anne Haour, K. Manning, N. Arazi, O. Gosselain9781842179680, $50.00, July 2010, Paperback, 180 pages, Oxbow Books

PENINJA Research Project on Human Origins (1995-2005)By Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, Luis Alcalá, Luis Luque9781842173824, $35.00, December 2009, Hardback, 284 pages, Oxbow Books, American School Of Prehistoric Research Monograph

SOUTH-EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN PEOPLES BETWEEN130,000 AND 10,000 YEARS AGOEdited by Elena A. A. Garcea9781842174036, $96.00, June 2010, Hardback, 192 pages, Oxbow Books

EPIGRAPHIC APPROACHES TO INDUS WRITINGBy Bryan Wells9781842179949, $35.00, January 2011, Hardback, 272 pages, Oxbow Books, American School Of Prehistoric Research Monograph

EXOTICA IN THE PREHISTORIC MEDITERRANEANEdited by Andrea Vianello9781842174241, $50.00, May 2011, Paperback, 216 pages, Oxbow Books

FORCES OF TRANSFORMATIONThe End of the Bronze Age in the MediterraneanEdited by Christoph Bachhuber, Gareth Roberts9781842175033, $70.00, April 2012, Paperback, 236 pages, Oxbow Books, Banea Monograph 1

KOINEMediterranean Studies in Honor of R. Ross HollowayEdited by Derek Counts, Anthony Tuck9781842173794, $80.00, November 2009, Hardback, 288pages, Oxbow Books, Joukowsky Institute Publications 1

LABYRINTH REVISITEDRethinking ‘Minoan’ ArchaeologyBy Yannis Hamilakis9781842170618, $60.00, July 2009, Paperback, 248 pages, Oxbow Books

POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF THE AEGEAN BRONZE AGEBy Daniel J. Pullen9781842173923, $60.00, March 2010, Paperback, 256 pages, Oxbow Books

THE EMERGENCE OF CIVILISATIONThe Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BCBy Colin Renfrew, John Cherry9780977409471, $100.00, February 2011, Hardback, 650 pages, Oxbow Books

VITREOUS MATERIALS IN THE LATE BRONZE AGEAEGEANA Window to the East Mediterranean WorldBy Caroline Jackson, C. Jackson, Emma C. Wager9781842172612, $64.00, November 2008, Paperback,240 pages, Oxbow Books, Sheffield Studies In Aegean Archaeology 9

WELL BUILT MYCENAEFasc. 36: The Hellenistic Dye-WorksBy L. C. Bowkett9780946897841, $30.00, December 1995, Paperback, 55 pages, Oxbow Books

WELL BUILT MYCENAE, FASC 16/17The Post-Palatial LevelsBy Gordon Hillman, E. B. French, Susan Sherratt9781842179963, $52.00, April 2011, Paperback, 102 pages, Oxbow Books

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND THE CITYEdited by Paul Johnson, Martin Millett9781842175095, $72.00, December 2012, Paperback,288 pages, Oxbow Books, University Of Cambridge Museum Of Classical Archaeology Monographs 2

ATHENIAN POTTERS AND PAINTERS VOLUME IIBy John H. Oakley, Francis Oakley, Olga Palagia9781842173503, $140.00, May 2009, Hardback, 416 pages, Oxbow Books

COLLOQUIA PONTICA 1New Studies on the Black Sea LittoralBy Gocha R. Tsetskhladze9781900188012, $50.00, December 1995, Paperback,160 pages, Oxbow Books

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN METALLURGY IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BCEdited by Vasiliki Kassianidou, George Papasavvas9781842174531, $120.00, May 2012, Hardback, 304 pages, Oxbow Books

LANDSCAPE, ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY IN THE ARCHAIC MEDITERRANEAN AREAEdited by Gabriele Cifani, Simon Stoddart9781842174333, $70.00, February 2012, Paperback, 336 pages, Oxbow Books

ONOMATOLOGOSStudies in Greek Personal Names presented to ElaineMatthewsEdited by R. W. V. Catling, F. Marchand, M. Sasanow9781842179826, $180.00, June 2010, Hardback, 680 pages, Oxbow Books

SAILING TO CLASSICAL GREECEPapers on Greek Art, Archaeology and Epigraphy presented to Petros ThemelisEdited by Olga Palagia, Hans Rupprecht Goette9781842174227, $50.00, May 2011, Paperback, 120 pages, Oxbow Books



CURRENT RESEARCH IN EGYPTOLOGY 2010Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual SymposiumEdited by Maarten Horn, Joost Kramer, Daniel Soliman,Nico Staring, Carina van den Hoven, Lara Weiss9781842174296, $60.00, April 2011, Paperback, 216 pages, Oxbow Books

CURRENT RESEARCH IN EGYPTOLOGY 2011Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual SymposiumEdited by Heba Abd El Gawad, Nathalie Andrews, MariaCorreas-Amador, Veronica Tamorri9781842174982, $96.00, March 2012, Hardback, 232 pages, Oxbow Books

DISCUSSIONS IN EGYPTOLOGY 64By Maria Cannata$80.00, December 2009, Paperback, 124 pages,Oxbow Books

LIVING WITH THE DEADAncestor Worship and Mortuary Ritual in Ancient EgyptBy Nicola Harrington9781842174937, $76.00, December 2012, Paperback,208 pages, Oxbow Books, Studies In Funerary Archaeology 6

OLD KINGDOM, NEW PERSPECTIVESEgyptian Art and Archaeology 2750-2150 BCEdited by Nigel Strudwick, Helen Strudwick9781842174302, $120.00, May 2011, Hardback, 344 pages, Oxbow Books

STORIES FROM ANCIENT EGYPTBy Joyce A. Tyldesley, Julian Heath9781842175057, $9.95, October 2012, Paperback, 112 pages, Oxbow Books

THE CROWN OF ARSINOë IIThe Creation of an Image of AuthorityBy Maria Nilsson9781842174920, $110.00, August 2012, Paperback, 272 pages, Oxbow Books

AN EXAMINATION OF LATE ASSYRIAN METALWORKBy John Curtis9781842175071, $96.00, December 2012, Hardback, 330 pages, Oxbow Books

ANATOLIAN INTERFACESHittites, Greeks and their NeighboursBy Billie Jean Collins, Mary R. Bachvarova, Ian Rutherford9781842179635, $70.00, March 2010, Paperback, 216 pages, Oxbow Books

ASSYRIAN STONE VESSELS AND RELATED MATERIAL INTHE BRITISH MUSEUMBy Ann Searight, Julian Reade, Irving Finkel9781842173121, $130.00, July 2008, Hardback, 192 pages, Oxbow Books

BACK TO THE BEGINNINGReassessing Social and Political Complexity on Crete during the Early and Middle Bronze AgeBy Ilse Schoep, I. Schoep, P. Tomkins, J. M. Driessen9781842174319, $80.00, November 2011, Paperback,352 pages, Oxbow Books

CALENDARS AND YEARSAstronomy and Time in the Ancient Near EastBy John M. Steele9781842173022, $50.00, October 2007, Paperback, 176 pages, Oxbow Books

CALENDARS AND YEARS IIAstronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval WorldEdited by John M. Steele9781842179871, $60.00, February 2011, Paperback, 176 pages, Oxbow Books

CYPRUS: AN ISLAND CULTURESociety and Social Relations from the Bronze Age to theVenetian PeriodEdited by Artemis Georgiou9781842174401, $89.95, August 2012, Hardback, 256 pages, Oxbow Books, Proceedings Of The 9th AnnualMeeting Of Young Researchers In Cypriot Archaeology

GILGALEarly Neolithic Occupations in the Lower Jordan Valley.The Excavations of Tamar NoyEdited by Ofer Bar-Yosef, A. Nigel Goring-Morris, Avi Gopher9781842174135, $35.00, February 2010, Hardback, 300 pages, Oxbow Books, American School Of Prehistoric Research Monograph

INTERWEAVING WORLDSSystemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to the 1st Millennia BCEdited by Toby C. Wilkinson, Susan Sherratt, John Bennet9781842179987, $110.00, December 2011, Hardback,308 pages, Oxbow Books

KNOWLEDGE IS LIGHTTravellers in the Near EastEdited by Katherine Salahi9781842174487, $40.00, July 2011, Paperback, 128 pages, Oxbow Books

LIVING THE LUNAR CALENDAREdited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz, John M. Steele9781842174814, $60.00, April 2012, Paperback, 350 pages, Oxbow Books

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYEStudies on Upper Palaeolithic Diversity in the Near EastBy A. Nigel Goring-Morris, Anna Belfer-Cohen9781842170823, $110.00, November 2003, Hardback,315 pages, Oxbow Books

PILGRIMAGE IN EARLY CHRISTIAN JORDANA Literary and Archaeological GuideBy Burton MacDonald9780977409495, $29.95, February 2011, Paperback, 263 pages, Oxbow Books

TELL KOSAK SHAMALI VOL IThe Archaeological Investigations on the Upper Euphrates, SyriaBy Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Toshio Matsutani9781842170526, $60.00, December 2001, Hardback, 233 pages, Oxbow Books

TELL KOSAK SHAMALI VOL 2The Archaeological Investigations on the Upper Eu-phrates, Syria. Chalcolithic Technology and SubsistenceBy Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Toshio Matsutani9781842171387, $80.00, December 2004, Hardback, 318 pages, Oxbow Books

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF DEATH IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EASTProceedings of the Manchester Conference, 16th-20th December 1992Edited by Stuart Campbell, Anthony Green9780946897933, $80.00, January 1995, Paperback, 298pages, Oxbow Books, Oxbow Monographs 51

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ROMAN COLONIES IN THE FIRST CENTURY OF THEIR FOUNDATIONEdited by Rebecca J. Sweetman9781842179741, $70.00, February 2011, Paperback, 128 pages, Oxbow Books

ROMAN IMPERIAL ARMOURThe production of early imperial military armourBy David Sim, J. Kaminski9781842174357, $50.00, November 2011, Paperback,180 pages, Oxbow Books

ROMAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT FROM THE PUNIC WARSTO THE FALL OF ROME, SECOND EDITIONBy M. C. Bishop, J. C. Coulston9781842171592, $40.00, April 2006, Paperback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books

ROMAN WORKING LIVES AND URBAN LIVINGBy Ardle Mac Mahon, Jennifer Price9781842171868, $50.00, August 2005, Paperback, 232 pages, Oxbow Books

THE ARMY OF THE ROMAN REPUBLICThe Second Century BC, Polybius and the Camps at Numantia, SpainBy Mike Dobson9781842172414, $80.00, February 2007, Hardback, 436 pages, Oxbow Books

THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE EASTBy Susan Alcock9781900188524, $40.00, January 2010, Paperback, 160 pages, Oxbow Books

THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WESTBy T. F. C. Blagg, Martin Millett9781842170694, $56.00, December 2002, Paperback,250 pages, Oxbow Books

THE JOURNAL OF ROMAN POTTERY STUDIES 14Edited by Pamela Irving, Steven Willis9781842173244, $48.00, July 2009, Paperback, 200 pages, Oxbow Books

TRAC 1996Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology ConferenceBy Karen Meadows, Chris Lemke, Jo Heron9781900188296, $24.00, December-97, Paperback, 172 pages, Oxbow Books

TRAC 2006Edited by Ben Croxford, Fred Eugene Ray, Roman Roth,Peter J. White9781842172643, $56.00, March 2007, Paperback, 192 pages, Oxbow Books

TRAC 2007Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual TheoreticalRoman Archaeology Conference, London 2007By Corisande Fenwick, Meredith Wiggins, Dave Wythe9781842173220, $56.00, April 2008, Paperback, 162 pages, Oxbow Books

TRAC 2008Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Amsterdam 2008Edited by Joep Hendriks9781842173510, $70.00, April 2009, Paperback, 200 pages, Oxbow Books

TRAC 2009Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology ConferenceBy Alison Moore, Geoff Taylor, Emily Harris, Peter Girdwood9781842179727, $60.00, March 2010, Paperback, 152 pages, Oxbow Books

TRAC 2010Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Theoretical RomanArchaeology ConferenceEdited by Dragana Mladenovic, Ben Russell9781842174524, $64.00, April 2011, Paperback, 160 pages, Oxbow Books

TRAC 2011Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual TheoreticalRoman Archaeology ConferenceEdited by Maria Duggan, Frances McIntosh, Darrell J. Rohl9781842174999, $60.00, March 2012, Paperback, 134 pages, Oxbow Books

URBAN LANDSCAPE SURVEY IN ITALY AND THE MEDITERRANEANEdited by F. Vermeulen, Gert-Jan Burgers, Simon Keay,Cristina Corsi9781842174869, $96.00, June 2012, Hardback, 288 pages, Oxbow Books

BUTRINT 3Excavations at the Triconch PalaceEdited by William Bowden, Richard Hodges9781842179802, $90.00, September 2011, Hardback, 374 pages, Oxbow Books, Butrint Archaeological Monographs

THE DARK SIDE OF CHILDHOOD IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGESEdited by Katariina Mustakallio, Christian Laes9781842174173, $56.00, March 2011, Paperback, 104 pages, Oxbow Books, Childhood In Archaeology 2

THROUGH A GLASS BRIGHTLYStudies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and ArchaeologyPresented to David BucktonBy Chris Entwistle9781842170908, $120.00, July 2003, Hardback, 256 pages, Oxbow Books

ALDHELM AND SHERBORNEEssays to Celebrate the Founding of the BishopricEdited by Katherine Barker, Nicholas Brooks9781842173572, $70.00, February 2010, Paperback, 208 pages, Oxbow Books

ANGLO-SAXON SOMERSETBy Michael Costen9781842179888, $70.00, March 2011, Paperback, 288 pages, Oxbow Books

BURIAL IN LATER ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, C.650-1100 ADBy Jo Buckberry, Annia Cherryson9781842179659, $60.00, July 2010, Hardback, 156 pages,Oxbow Books, Studies In Funerary Archaeology 4



SAMOTHRACIAN CONNECTIONSEssays in Honor of James R. McCredieBy Olga Palagia, Bonna Daix Wescoat9781842179703, $80.00, October 2010, Hardback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books

STRUCTURE, IMAGE, ORNAMENTArchitectural Sculpture in the Greek WorldEdited by Peter Schultz, Ralf Von den Hoff9781842173442, $80.00, October 2009, Hardback, 248 pages, Oxbow Books

WELL BUILT MYCENAE FASCICULE 34.1Technical Reports. The Results of Neutron ActivationAnalysis of Mycenaean PotteryBy E. B. French, J.E. Tomlinson9781842175286, $50.00, December 2012, Paperback,pages, Oxbow Books

ABBREVIATED LAYSBy A. T. Reyes9781842171110, $14.95, November 2003, Paperback,105 pages, Oxbow Books

AN ATLAS OF ROMAN BRITAINBy Barri Jones, David J. Mattingly9781842170670, $90.00, March 2007, Hardback, 342 pages, Oxbow Books

BRINGING CARTHAGE HOMEthe Excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859By J. Freed9781842179925, $96.00, October 2011, Hardback, 264 pages, Oxbow Books, UBC Studies in the AncientWorld 2

BROOCHES IN LATE IRON AGE AND ROMAN BRITAINBy D. F. Mackreth9781842174111, $140.00, August 2011, Hardback,448 pages, Oxbow Books

CHARIOTS AND OTHER WHEELED VEHICLES IN ITALY BEFORE THE ROMAN EMPIREBy J. H. Crouwel9781842174678, $80.00, June 2012, Hardback, 248 pages, Oxbow Books

DATING AND INTERPRETING THE PAST IN THE WESTERNROMAN EMPIREEssays in honour of Brenda DickinsonEdited by David Bird9781842174432, $130.00, March 2012, Hardback, 384 pages, Oxbow Books

DELICIAE FICTILES IVArchitectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy. Images of Gods,Monsters and HeroesEdited by Patricia S. Lulof, Carlo Rescigno9781842174265, $80.00, May 2011, Hardback, 672 pages

FEEDING THE ROMAN ARMYThe Archaeology of Production and Supply in NW EuropeEdited by Sue Stallibrass, Richard Thomas9781842173237, $60.00, April 2008, Paperback, 169 pages, Oxbow Books

ITALY AND THE WESTComparative Issues in RomanizationBy Simon Keay, Nicola Terrenato9781842170427, $39.95, July 2009, Paperback, 233 pages, Oxbow Books

JOURNAL OF ROMAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT STUDIES 3 By M. C. Bishop9780946897742, $60.00, December 1993, Paperback, 122 pages, Oxbow Books

JOURNAL OF ROMAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT STUDIES 4 By M. C. Bishop9780946897957, $60.00, December 1995 , Paperback, 103 pages, Oxbow Books

JOURNAL OF ROMAN POTTERY STUDIES 7A Corpus of Relief-Patterned Tiles in Roman BritainBy I. M. Betts9781900188258, $27.00, December 1997, Paperback,167 pages, Oxbow Books

JOURNAL OF ROMAN POTTERY STUDIES 8Roman Pottery from Excavations at and near to theRoman Small Town of Durobrivae, Water Newton, Cambridgeshire, 1956-58By J. Rob Perrin9781900188845, $36.00, December 1999, Paperback,145 pages, Oxbow Books

JOURNAL OF ROMAN POTTERY STUDIES 9The Roman Pottery Kilns at Rossington Bridge Excavations 1956-1961By P. C. Buckland, K. F. Hartley, Valery Rigby9781842170496, $36.00, December 2001, Paperback, 82 pages, Oxbow Books

JOURNAL OF ROMAN POTTERY STUDIES 10Amphorae in Britain and the Western EmpireBy J. Plouviez9781842170953, $45.00, March 2003, Paperback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books

JOURNAL OF ROMAN POTTERY STUDIES 12By G. B. Dannell, Pamela Irving9781842171851, $50.00, February 2006, Paperback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books

JOURNAL OF ROMAN POTTERY STUDIES 13A Mortarium Bibliography for Roman BritainBy Roberta Tomber, K. F. Hartley9781842172636, $48.00, April 2007, Paperback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books

JOURNAL OF ROMAN POTTERY STUDIES 15By Steven Willis9781842175002, $90.00, December 2012, Paperback,288 pages, Oxbow Books

LIVING THROUGH THE DEADBurial and commemoration in the Classical worldEdited by Maureen Carroll, Jane Rempel9781842173763, $60.00, March 2011, Paperback, 208 pages, Oxbow Books, Studies in Funerary Archaeology 5

MEMORY AND MOURNINGStudies on Roman DeathEdited by Valerie Hope, Janet Huskinson9781842179901, $50.00, February 2011, Paperback, 144 pages, Oxbow Books

NUMISMATIC ARCHAEOLOGY/ARCHAEOLOGICAL NUMISMATICSBy Kenneth A. Sheedy9781900188234, $50.00, December 1997, Paperback,180 pages, Oxbow Books

POMPEIIArt, Industry and InfrastructureEdited by Kevin Cole, Miko Flohr, Eric Poehler9781842179840, $70.00, April 2011, Paperback, 200 pages, Oxbow Books

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BEYOND THE GRAVENew Perspectives on BarrowsEdited by Jonathan Last9781842172582, $70.00, November 2007, Paperback,180 pages, Oxbow Books

CARVING A FUTURE FOR BRITISH ROCK ARTNew Directions for Research, Management and PresentationEdited by Tertia Barnett, K. Sharpe9781842173640, $130.00, May 2010, Hardback, 240 pages, Oxbow Books

CORRSTOWNA Coastal Community. Excavations of a Bronze Age Villagein Northern IrelandBy Victoria Ginn, Stuart Rathbone9781842174647, $70.00, December 2011, Paperback,232 pages, Oxbow Books

ENVIRONMENT AND AGGREGATE-RELATED ARCHAEOLOGYBy Tony Brown9781905223022, $70.00, January 2009, Paperback, 232 pages, Oxbow Books

FLAG FEN, PETERBOROUGHExcavation and Research 1995-2007By Francis Pryor, Michael Bamforth9781842174142, $50.00, April 2010, Hardback, 160 pages, Oxbow Books

FROM MACHAIR TO MOUNTAINSArchaeological Survey And Excavation in South UistBy Michael Parker Pearson9781842174517, $70.00, January 2012, Hardback, 480 pages, Oxbow Books

GATHERING TIMEDating the Early Neolithic Enclosures of Southern Britain and IrelandBy Alasdair Whittle, Frances Healy, Alex Bayliss9781842174258, $90.00, June 2011, Hardback, 992 pages, Oxbow Books

IS THERE A BRITISH CHALCOLITHIC?People, Place and Polity in the later Third MillenniumEdited by Michael J. Allen, Julie Gardiner, Alison Sheridan9781842174968, $80.00, June 2012, Hardback, 336pages, Oxbow Books, Prehistoric Society Research Papers 4

LANDSCAPE OF THE MEGALITHSExcavation and Fieldwork on the Avebury Monuments,1997-2003By Mark Gillings, Joshua Pollard, Rick Peterson, DavidWheatley9781842179710, $70.00, March 2010, Paperback, 402 pages, Oxbow Books

LATE QUATERNARY LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF THE SWALE-URE WASHLANDS, NORTH YORKSHIREEdited by David Bridgland, Jim Innes, Antony Long,Wishart Mitchell9781842173749, $64.00, April 2011, Hardback, 336 pages, Oxbow Books

MESOLITHIC SETTLEMENT IN THE NORTH SEA BASINA Case Study from Howick, North-East EnglandEdited by Clive Waddington9781842172469, $40.00, December 2007, Hardback, 236 pages, Oxbow Books

NEANDERTHALS IN WALESPontnewydd and the Elwy Valley CavesEdited by Stephen Aldhouse-Green, Rick Peterson, Elizabeth A. Walker9781842174609, $90.00, April 2012, Hardback, 360 pages, Oxbow Books

PLACES OF SPECIAL VIRTUEMegaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of WalesBy Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle9781842171080, $80.00, June 2004, Paperback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books, Cardiff Studies In Archaeology

REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON NEOLITHIC PIT DEPOSITIONBeyond the MundaneEdited by Julian Thomas, Hugo Anderson-Whymark9781842174685, $70.00, December 2011, Paperback,184 pages, Oxbow Books, Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 12

RETHINKING CELTIC ARTEdited by Duncan Garrow9781842173183, $70.00, October 2008, Paperback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books

ROUND MOUNDS AND MONUMENTALITY IN THE BRITISH NEOLITHIC AND BEYONDEdited by Jim Leary, Timothy Darvill, David Field9781842174043, $70.00, July 2010, Paperback, 256 pages, Oxbow Books, Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 10

SHADOWLANDWales 3000-1500 BCBy Stephen Burrow9781842174593, $40.00, November 2011, Paperback,176 pages, Oxbow Books

STONE AXE STUDIES IIIEdited by Vin Davis, Mark Edmonds9781842174210, $96.00, March 2011, Hardback, 448 pages, Oxbow Books

VISUALISING THE NEOLITHICEdited by Andrew Cochrane, Andrew Meirion Jones9781842174777, $70.00, September 2012, Paperback,304 pages, Oxbow Books, Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 10

AN ENQUIRING MINDStudies in Honor of Alexander MarshackBy Paul Bahn9781842173831, $35.00, March 2010, Hardback, 352 pages, Oxbow Books, American School Of Prehistoric Research Monograph

ANCIENT MINES AND QUARRIESA Trans-Atlantic PerspectiveEdited by Margaret Brewer-LaPorta, Adrian Burke, DavidField9781842174012, $60.00, April 2010, Paperback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books

ANIMALS IN THE NEOLITHIC OF BRITAIN AND EUROPEBy Dale Serjeantson, David Field9781842172148, $60.00, May 2006, Paperback, 192 pages, Oxbow Books, Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 7

BECOMING EUROPEANThe transformation of third millennium Northern andWestern EuropeEdited by Christopher Prescott, Håkon Glorstad9781842174500, $70.00, November 2011, Paperback,208 pages, Oxbow Books



LANDSCAPES, DOCUMENTS AND MAPSVillages in Northern England and Beyond, AD 900-1250By Brian K. Roberts9781842172377, $80.00, October 2008, Hardback, 336 pages, Oxbow Books

LIFE AND ECONOMY AT EARLY MEDIEVAL FLIXBOROUGH,C. AD 600-1000The Artefact EvidenceBy D. H. Evans, Christopher Loveluck9781842173107, $60.00, August 2009, Hardback, 534 pages, Oxbow Books, Excavations At Flixborough 2

SUMMONING ST MICHAELEarly Romanesque Towers in LincolnshireBy David Stocker, Paul Everson9781842172131, $120.00, September 2006, Hardback,208 pages, Oxbow Books

A VISUAL CATALOGUE OF RICHARD HATTATT’S ANCIENTBROOCHESBy Richard Hattatt9781842170267, $30.00, December 2000, Paperback,128 pages, Oxbow Books

BEYOND PILGRIM SOUVENIRS AND SECULAR BADGESEssays in Honour of Brian SpencerEdited by Sarah Blick9781842172353, $80.00, July 2007, Hardback, 208 pages,Oxbow Books

BLOOD RED ROSESThe Archaeology of a Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton AD 1461, second editionBy Veronica Fiorato, Anthea Boylston, Christopher Knusel9781842172896, $50.00, December 2007, Paperback,294 pages, Oxbow Books

DISCOVER MEDIEVAL SANDWICHA Guide to its History and BuildingsBy Helen Clarke9781842174760, $19.95, December 2011, Paperback,120 pages, Oxbow Books

DORCHESTER ABBEY, OXFORDSHIREThe Archaeology and Architecture of a Cathedral,Monastery and Parish ChurchBy Warwick Rodwell9781842173886, $76.00, November 2009, Hardback, 256 pages, Oxbow Books

SANDWICH—THE ‘COMPLETEST MEDIEVAL TOWN INENGLAND’A Study of the Town and Port from its Origins to 1600By Helen Clarke, Sarah Pearson, Mavis E. Mate, Keith Parfitt9781842174005, $70.00, March 2010, Hardback, 352 pages, Oxbow Books

ST PETER’S, BARTON-UPON-HUMBER, LINCOLNSHIREVolume 1, History, Archaeology and ArchitectureBy Warwick Rodwell9781842173251, $150.00, August 2011, Hardback, 944pages, Oxbow Books

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL NOVGOROD IN CONTEXTA Study of Centre/Periphery RelationsEdited by Mark A. Brisbane, Nikolaj Makarov, EvgenijNosov9781842172780, $120.00, January 2012, Hardback, 528 pages, Oxbow Books

THE BAYEUX TAPESTRYNew ApproachesEdited by Michael J. Lewis, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Dan Terkla9781842179765, $90.00, January 2011, Hardback, 196 pages, Oxbow Books

THE LANTERN TOWER OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1060-2010Reconstructing its History and ArchitectureBy Warwick Rodwell9781842179796, $30.00, May 2010, Paperback, 112 pages, Oxbow Books

THE MEDIEVAL PEASANT HOUSE IN MIDLAND ENGLANDBy Nat Alcock, Dan Miles9781842175064, $110.00, December 2012, Hardback,272 pages, Oxbow Books

WALKS THROUGH HISTORIC SANDWICHBy Helen Clarke9781842174562, $9.95, July 2011, Paperback, 16 pages, Oxbow Books

WHISPERING REEDS, OR THE ANGLESEY CATAMANUS INSCRIPTION STRIPT BAREA Detective StoryBy Charles Thomas9781842170854, $30.00, March 2002, Paperback, 102 pages, Oxbow Books

WOMEN AND RELIGION IN MEDIEVAL ENGLANDBy Diana Wood9781842170984, $48.00, March 2003, Paperback, 200 pages, Oxbow Books

CHILDHOOD AND VIOLENCE IN THE WESTERN TRADITIONBy Laurence Brockliss, Heather Montgomery9781842179789, $80.00, September 2010, Hardback, 352 pages, Oxbow Books, Childhood In The Past 1

RUSSIAN CLOTH SEALS IN BRITAINA Guide to Identification, Usage and Anglo-Russian Tradein the 18th and 19th CenturiesBy John Sullivan9781842174654, $170.00, June 2012, Hardback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books

A LATE IRON AGE FARMSTEAD IN THE OUTER HEBRIDESExcavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South UistEdited by Niall Sharples9781842174692, $96.00, June 2012, Hardback, 280 pages, Oxbow Books, Cardiff Studies In Archaeology

AN EXAMINATION OF PREHISTORIC STONE BRACERSFROM BRITAINBy Ann Woodward, John Hunter, David Bukach, Fiona Roe9781842174388, $90.00, December 2011, Hardback, 192 pages, Oxbow Books

BECOMING NEANDERTHALSThe Earlier British Middle PalaeolithicBy Rebecca Scott9781842179734, $100.00, March 2011, Hardback, 248 pages, Oxbow Books

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Medieval Europe

Medieval Europe

Post-Medieval Europe

Prehistory–British

Prehistory–British Prehistory–British

Prehistory–European




512 pages, Oxbow Books

THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM 50,000 TO 25,000 BPTurning Points and New DirectionsEdited by Marta Camps, Carolyn Szmidt9781842173145, $160.00, June 2009, Hardback, 376 pages, Oxbow Books

THE RHYTON FROM DANILOStructure and Symbolism of a Middle Neolithic Cult-VesselBy Omer Rak, Theresa Alt, Wayles Browne9781842179772, $100.00, February 2011, Hardback, 208 pages, Oxbow Books

THE TRIPOLYE CULTURE GIANT-SETTLEMENTS IN UKRAINEFormation, development and declineEdited by Francesco Menotti, Aleksey G. Korvin-Piotrovskiy9781842174838, $80.00, August 2012, Paperback, 174 pages, Oxbow Books

A CORRIDOR THROUGH TIMEthe Archaeology of the A55 Anglesey Road SchemeBy Richard Cuttler, Andrew Davidson, Gwilym Hughes9781842174234, $70.00, September 2012, Hardback, 304 pages, Oxbow Books

ARCHAEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT IN NORTHUMBERLANDTill-Tweed Studies Volume 2By D. G. Passmore, Clive Waddington, Tim Gates, Peter Marshall9781842174470, $80.00, April 2012, Hardback, 368 pages, Oxbow Books

ARICONIUM, HEREFORDSHIREan Iron Age settlement and Romano-British ‘small town’By Robin Jackson9781842174494, $50.00, July 2012, Hardback, 304 pages,Oxbow Books

BEYOND THE COREReflections on Regionality in PrehistoryEdited by Graeme Kirkham, Andy M. Jones9781842179895, $80.00, April 2011, Paperback, 120 pages, Oxbow Books

CELTIC FROM THE WESTAlternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Lan-guage and LiteratureEdited by Barry Cunliffe, John T. Koch9781842174753, $72.00, January 2012, Paperback, 384pages, Oxbow Books, Celtic Studies Publications 15

FISKERTONIron Age Timber Causeway with Iron Age and Roman Votive OfferingsBy Michael Parker Pearson, N. Field, Mike Parker Pearson9781842170649, $59.95, December 2003, Hardback, 250 pages, Oxbow Books

GREAT EXCAVATIONSShaping the Archaeological ProfessionEdited by John Schofield9781842174098, $72.00, January 2011, Paperback, 368pages, Oxbow Books

HALTONCHESTERSExcavations Directed by J. P. Gillam at the Roman Fort,1960-61By J. N. Dore9781842173602, $40.00, March 2010, Hardback, 128 pages, Oxbow Books

IRON AGE RITUAL, A HILLFORT AND EVIDENCE FOR A MINSTER AT AYLESBURY, BUCKINGHAMSHIREBy Mike Farley, Gillian Jones9781842174845, $60.00, September 2012, Hardback, 184 pages, Oxbow Books

MYTH AND HISTORYEthnicity & Politics in the First Millennium British IslesBy Stephen James Yeates9781842174784, $49.95, November 2012, Paperback,496 pages, Oxbow Books

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE WEST MIDLANDSA Framework for ResearchEdited by Sarah Watt9781842174272, $50.00, February 2011, Hardback, 272 pages, Oxbow Books

WELLINGTON QUARRY, HEREFORDSHIRE (1986-96)Investigations of a Landscape in the Lower Lugg ValleyBy Robin Jackson, Darren Miller9781842173664, $60.00, March 2011, Hardback, 208 pages, Oxbow Books, WHEAS Monograph 1

WEST COTTON, RAUNDSA Study of Medieval Settlement Dynamics AD 450-1450.Excavation of a Deserted Medieval Hamlet in Northamptonshire, 1985-89By Andy Chapman9781842173893, $96.00, May 2010, Hardback, 280 pages, Oxbow Books



BRONZE AGE CONNECTIONSCultural Contact in Prehistoric EuropeEdited by Peter Clark9781842173480, $80.00, September 2009, Paperback,224 pages, Oxbow Books

BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENTS IN THE LOW COUNTRIESEdited by Stijn Arnoldussen, Harry Fokkens9781842173077, $80.00, June 2008, Hardback, 200 pages, Oxbow Books

CASTING THE NET WIDEPapers in Honor of Glynn Isaac and His Approach to Human Origins ResearchEdited by Jeanne Sept, David Pilbeam9781842174548, $35.00, February 2012, Hardback, 304 pages, Oxbow Books, American School Of Prehistoric Research Monograph

CAVES IN CONTEXTThe Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in EuropeEdited by Knut Andreas Bergsvik, Robin Skeates9781842174746, $90.00, May 2012, Hardback, 304 pages, Oxbow Books

CHANGING PICTURESRock Art Traditions and Visions in the Northernmost EuropeEdited by Joakim Goldhahn, Ingrid Fuglestvedt, AndrewMeirion Jones9781842174050, $76.00, June 2010, Paperback, 272 pages, Oxbow Books

COMMUNICATING IDENTITY IN ITALIC IRON AGE COMMUNITIESEdited by Margarita Gleba, Helle W. Horsnaes9781842179918, $60.00, June 2011, Hardback, 228 pages, Oxbow Books

CULT IN CONTEXTReconsidering Ritual in ArchaeologyBy Caroline Malone, David Barrowclough9781842179642, $80.00, April 2010, Paperback, 368 pages, Oxbow Books

DYNAMICS OF NEOLITHISATION IN EUROPEStudies in honour of Andrew SherrattEdited by Angelos Hadjikoumis, Erick Robinson, Sarah Viner9781842179994, $80.00, October 2011, Hardback, 208 pages, Oxbow Books

FLINT AND STONE IN THE NEOLITHIC PERIODEdited by Alan Saville9781842174203, $70.00, August 2011, Paperback, 328 pages, Oxbow Books, Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 11

FROM SURFACE COLLECTION TO PREHISTORIC LIFEWAYSMaking Sense of the Multi-Period Site of Orlovo, SouthEast BulgariaBy John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska9781842173916, $110.00, March 2010, Hardback, 208pages, Oxbow Books

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNERFeasting Rituals in the Prehistoric Societies of Europe and the Near EastEdited by Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez, Sandra Montón-Subias, Margarita Sánchez Romero9781842179857, $80.00, August 2011, Paperback, 192 pages, Oxbow Books

LIVING WELL TOGETHER? Settlement and Materiality in the Neolithic of South-East and Central EuropeBy Alasdair Whittle, Daniela Hofmann, Douglass W. Bailey9781842172674, $76.00, March 2008, Paperback, 178 pages, Oxbow Books

MATERIAL MNEMONICSEveryday Memory in Prehistoric EuropeBy Katina T. Lillios, Vasileios Tsamis9781842179666, $70.00, September 2010, Paperback,192 pages, Oxbow Books

MATERIALITASWorking Stone, Carving IdentityEdited by Blaze O’Connor, Gabriel Cooney, John Chapman9781842173770, $70.00, December 2009, Hardback, 208 pages, Oxbow Books, Prehistoric Society Research Papers 3

MESOLITHIC STUDIES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURYEdited by Nicky Milner, Peter Woodman9781842172001, $60.00, August 2005, Paperback, 224 pages, Oxbow Books

PLANTS IN NEOLITHIC BRITAIN AND BEYONDBy Andrew S. Fairbairn9781842170274, $56.00, December 2000, Paperback,210 pages, Oxbow Books, Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 5

PREHISTORIC JOURNEYSEdited by Vicki Cummings9781842172506, $70.00, November 2007, Paperback,152 pages, Oxbow Books

REPRESENTATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONSCreating an Archaeological Matrix of Late Prehistoric Rock ArtEdited by Asa C. Fredell, Kristian Kristiansen, Felipe Criado Boado9781842173978, $50.00, March 2010, Paperback, 160 pages, Oxbow Books

ROCK ART AND SEASCAPES IN UPPLANDBy Johan Ling9781842175132, $40.00, November 2012, Paperback,124 pages, Oxbow Books, Swedish Rock Art Research Series 1

ROCK ART STUDIESNews of the World IVEdited by Paul Bahn, Natalie R. Franklin, MatthiasStrecker9781842174821, $150.00, November 2012, Hardback,Oxbow Books

SHELL MIDDENS IN ATLANTIC EUROPEEdited by Nicky Milner, Oliver E. Craig, G. N. Bailey9781842172438, $70.00, August 2007, Paperback, 336 pages, Oxbow Books

THE EARLIER IRON AGE IN BRITAIN AND THE NEAR CONTINENTBy Rachel Pope, Colin Haselgrove9781842172537, $150.00, December 2006, Hardback,416 pages, Oxbow BooksTHE LATER IRON AGE IN BRITAIN AND BEYONDBy Tom Moore, Colin Haselgrove, Elizabeth Moore9781842172520, $180.00, December 2006, Hardback,

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Windgather Press: Prehistory–British / Landscape Archaeology

betWeen the Wind And the WAterWorld heritage orkneyCaroline Wickham-Jones

The Archaeological sites of Orkney give us an unparalleled glimpse into prehistory.Inscribed as the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney’ World Heritage Site in 1999, four greatmonuments—the village of Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of Stennessand the burial mound of Maeshowe—are also at the center of the archipelago’sstory.

This book looks at what makes these monuments so special. Caroline Wickham-Jones explores the Neolithic world in which they were built, how they came to bea focus through the ages, and what they mean today. Picts, saints, Vikings, antiquarians and tourists populate Orkney’s past: a history which is channeled through these ‘dances ofstones’.

9781909686502, $39.95, June 2014, Paperback, 178 pages, Windgather Press

building the greAt stone circles of the northColin Richards

Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circlesthat were built throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointedmonoliths of the Stones of Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and thesarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stone exert a magnetic fascination to thosewho venture into their sphere. In Britain today, more people visit these structuresthan any other form of prehistoric monument and visitors stand in awe at theirscale and question how and why they were erected.

Building the Great Stone Circles of the North looks at the enigmatic stone structures of Scotland and investigates the background of their construction andtheir cultural significance. Beginning with a consideration of how the stone structures of Western Scotlandcan be interpreted, the volume looks in detail at the context of the circles and cairns from Orkney and theOuter Hebrides—from quarrying the raw material to their symbolic role within the landscape—beforewidening out into a consideration of the societies who built and used them and the myth and folklore thatis now embedded within these megaliths.

9781909686120, $65.00, January 2014, Paperback, 320 pages, Windgather Press

norfolk gArdens And designed lAndscApesTom Williamson, Patsy Dallas & Roger Last

Norfolk Gardens is a celebration of the rich history of gardens and parks in thecounty of Norfolk—a kind of ‘Pevsner’s Guide’ for lovers of designed landscape.Beginning with a detailed exploration of the history of gardening in the county—from the pre-18th century ‘medicinals’, through the establishment of the greatcountry house gardens and civic spaces of the 18th and 19th centuries, to theimpact of modern ideas of ‘ecology’ and ‘minimalist’ gardening—the volumegives detailed descriptions of 330 of the most beautiful and significant gardens,parks and open spaces in Norfolk. It explores the impact gardeners with nationalreputations—such as Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, Edwin Lutyens and GertrudeJekyll—have had on the development of garden, landscape design and planting, both in the county and onthe wider national stage, and examines the influence that these landscapes have on our ideas of gardeningtoday. The volume is more than just a guide to gardens and spaces open to the public: whether large, well-known public spaces or small, private gems, all the gardens included are of particular importance inthe history of gardening. Lavishly illustrated throughout in full color, with an introduction by the distinguished landscape and garden historian Tom Williamson, Norfolk Gardens is a comprehensive anddetailed account of the history and heritage of gardening.

9781905119929, $49.95, Recently Published, Hardback, 256 pages, Windgather Press


Windgather Press: British Archaeology

interpretingthe english VillAgelandscape and community at shapwick, somersetMick Aston &Dr. Christopher Gerrard

An original and approachable account ofhow archaeology can tell

the story of the English village. The Shapwick Projectexamined the development and history of an Englishparish and village over a ten thousand-year period.This was a truly multi-disciplinary project. The resultis a fascinating study about how the community livedand prospered in Shapwick. In addition we learn howa group of enthusiastic and dedicated scholars unraveled this story. As such there is much here toinspire and enthuse others who might want to embark on a landscape study of a parish or villagearea. Seven of the ten chapters begin with a fictionalvignette to bring the story of the village to life. Text-boxes elucidate re-occurring themes and techniques.

Extensively illustrated in color including 100 full-pageimages.

9781905119455, $49.95, Recently Published, Paperback, 416 pages, Windgather Press

A forged glAMourlandscape, identityand Material culturein the iron AgeMelanie Giles

A Forged Glamourevaluates settlement and funerary evidence,analyses farming andcraftwork, and explores

what some of their ideas and beliefs might havebeen. It situates this regional material within thebroader context of Iron Age Britain, Ireland and thenear Continent, and considers what manner of society this was. In order to do this it makes use oftheoretical ideas on personhood, and relationshipswith material culture and landscape, arguing thatthe making of identity always takes work.

It is the character, scale and extent of this work (revealed through objects as small as a glass bead,or as big as a cemetery; as local as an earthen-warepot or as exotic as coral-decoration) which enablesarchaeologists to investigate the web of relationswhich made up their lives, and explore the means ofpower which distinguished their leaders.


the roMAno-british peAsAnttowards a study ofpeople, landscapesand Work during theroman occupation ofbritainMike McCarthy

Unlike many other volumes on RomanBritain, this book focuses

on the ordinary people—the farmers, shopkeepers,laborers and others—who are rarely given center-stage. Using evidence from archaeology, texts andethnography, it aims to rebalance our view of RomanBritain away from elite institutions and social classes,which are generally more archaeologically visible, towards the common man. Natural forces underlyingthe use of land for agriculture and regional variationsin agricultural practice are considered as an underlying theme for discussion of the size, healthand nutrition of the population. How people earneda living is addressed through selected examples, asare questions of family size and structure, rules ofsocial behavior, customs and taboos, the presenceand role of foreigners and non-locals. A number ofmajor themes for future consideration are identified.


the historiclAndscApe of deVonA study in changeand continuityLucy Ryder

This book studies the19th century historiclandscape of Devon thoughthe creation, manipulationand querying of a

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database to examine physical evidence of change and development through field and settlement patterns.

Making use of tithe surveys, the relationship between field and settlement morphologies and patterns of landholding is discussed for three case-study areas in Devon, developing the idea oflandscape pays and the identification of regional differences in the study of the historic landscape.

9781905119387, $76.00, June 2014, Paperback, 256 pages, Windgather Press

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cipièreslandscape and community in Alpes-Maritimes, franceAndrew Fleming, DavidAustin, Rosamond Faith& David Siddle

Cipières, in the Alpes-Maritimes, is a Frenchupland landscape rich in archaeology and

distinctive in its topography. Cipières: Communityand Landscape in the Alpes-Maritimes is a uniqueexploration which brings together a wealth of documentary sources retained in the village withmaterial evidence in the landscape to produce an interdisciplinary and holistic account of the development of one community and its lands.

Beginning with a history of the Project, the volumeexamines the village’s morphology and archaeology,including a landscape survey and investigation of theagrarian systems of the Plâteau de Calern, beforemoving on to examine settlement patterns, population, politics, social structure and the localeconomy from the fifth century through to 1900.


Windgather: Selected Backlist

THE ENGLISH MODEL FARMBuilding the Agricultural Ideal, 1700-1914By Susanna Wade Martins9780953863051, $29.95, December 2002, Paperback,250 pages, Windgather Press

OAKA British HistoryBy Esmond Harris9780953863082, $30.00, December 2003, Paperback,256 pages, Windgather Press

LANDSCAPE ENCYCLOPAEDIAA Reference to the Historic LandscapeBy Richard Muir9780954557508, $90.00, December 2004, Hardback, 297 pages, Windgather Press

SWALEDALEValley of the Wild RiverBy Andrew Fleming9781842173725, $50.00, March 2010, Paperback, 166 pages, Windgather Press

ST KILDA AND THE WIDER WORLDTales of an Iconic IslandBy Andrew Fleming9781905119004, $35.00, December 2005, Paperback,226 pages, Windgather Press

CLARENDONLandscape of KingsBy Thomas Beaumont James9781905119103, $110.00, December 2007, Hardback,256 pages, Windgather Press

WATER MEADOWSHistory, Ecology and ConservationEdited by Hadrian Cook, Tom Williamson9781905119127, $39.95, December 2007, Paperback,256 pages, Windgather Press

WILLIAM MORRIS’S KELMSCOTTLandscape and HistoryBy Tom Hassall, Peter Salway, Alan Crossley9781905119134, $100.00, June 2007, Hardback, 221 pages, Windgather Press

WILLIAM MORRIS’S KELMSCOTTLandscape and HistoryBy Tom Hassall, Peter Salway, Alan Crossley9781905119141, $49.95, December 2007, Paperback,221 pages, Windgather Press

PREHISTORIC AND ROMAN LANDSCAPESEdited by Andrew Fleming, Richard Hingley9781905119172, $49.95, December 2007, Paperback,256 pages, Windgather Press

POST-MEDIEVAL LANDSCAPESEdited by P. S. Barnwell, Marilyn Palmer9781905119196, $49.95, December 2007, Paperback,256 pages, Windgather Press

THE LINCOLNSHIRE WOLDSBy David Robinson9781905119264, $40.00, January 2010, Paperback, 160 pages, Windgather Press

ANGLESEYPast Landscapes of the CoastBy Frances Lynch, Mick Sharp, Jean Williamson9781905119295, $40.00, June 2009, Hardback, 144pages, Windgather Press

EXTINCTIONS AND INVASIONSA Social History of British FaunaEdited by Terry O’Connor, Naomi Jane Sykes9781905119318, $56.00, May 2010, Paperback, 208 pages, Windgather Press

WILLIAM FADEN AND NORFOLK’S EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LANDSCAPEA Digital Re-Assessment of his Historic MapBy Andrew Macnair, Tom Williamson9781905119349, $50.00, August 2010, Paperback, 218 pages, Windgather Press

GARDENS OF EARTHLY DELIGHTThe History of Deer ParksBy John Fletcher9781905119363, $50.00, March 2011, Paperback, 296 pages, Windgather Press

A VERITABLE EDEN’. THE MANCHESTER BOTANIC GARDENA HistoryBy Ann Brooks9781905119370, $49.95, March 2011, Paperback, 176 pages, Windgather Press

ANCIENT TREES IN THE LANDSCAPENorfolk’s arboreal heritageBy Gerry Barnes, Tom Williamson9781905119394, $50.00, October 2011, Paperback, 184 pages, Windgather Press

GARDENS IN HISTORYA Political PerspectiveBy Louise Wickham9781905119431, $49.95, June 2012, Paperback, 272 pages, Windgather Press

MEDIEVAL VILLAGES IN AN ENGLISH LANDSCAPEBy Richard Jones, Mark Page9781905119097, $39.95, December 2006, Paperback,256 pages, Windgather Press

LIFE IN MEDIEVAL LANDSCAPESPeople and Places in the Middle AgesBy Sam Turner, Bob Silvester9781905119400, $60.00, December 2011, Paperback,240 pages, Windgather Press

MEDIEVAL RURAL SETTLEMENTBritain and Ireland, AD 800-1600By Neil Christie, Paul Stamper9781905119424, $50.00, December 2011, Hardback, 304 pages, Windgather Press

FEAR OF FARMINGBy Caroline Wickham-Jones9781905119325, $33.95, June 2010, Paperback, 176 pages, Windgather Press

AN ANIMATE LANDSCAPERock Art and the Prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll, ScotlandBy Andrew Meirion Jones, Andrew Jones, Davina Freedman, Blaze O’Connor, Hugo Lamdin-Whymark9781905119417, $76.00, December 2011, Paperback,400 pages, Windgather Press

THE ROCK ART OF NORWAYBy Trond Lodoen, Gro Mandt9781905119288, $60.00, May 2010, Paperback, 304 pages, Windgather Press


Windgather Press: Landscape Archaeology

ecology And enclosurethe effect of enclosure on society,farming and the environment in southcambridgeshire,1798-1850Shirley Wittering

South Cambridgeshirehas some of the richest

arable land in England and has been cultivated formillennia. By the turn of the nineteenth century industrialisation and massive population growth hadresulted in an enormous increase in the demand forfood, which in turn led to enclosure. But this desireto plough every available piece of land resulted inthe destruction of many valuable and distinctivehabitats that had existed for centuries.

The Ecology of Enclosure breaks new ground in comparing the effect of Parliamentary Enclosurewith the findings of the enthusiastic 'Botanisers'from Cambridge; this reveals not only the effect ofenclosure on the ecology of the land but also on thepeople whose link with the land was broken.


An Author AndA gArdenerthe gardens andfriendship of edithWharton and laurence JohnstonAllan R. Ruff

Garden designer, EdithWharton, as a writer,chose to expose her innermost thoughts and

feelings and was continually in the public eye. Herfriend, Laurence Johnston, however, wrote nothingabout his gardens, hardly permitted photographs ofhimself or his gardens and, though he kept an engagement diary, these, with two exceptions, havenot survived.

As a result Johnston remains a shadowy figure uponwhom light occasionally falls from within the diarieskept by Edith Wharton. Wharton was a passionategardener—an aspect not yet fully explored in previous biographies—early in her life after she hadmade her first garden at The Mount, at Lenox, MA,she claimed she was a better landscape designerthan novelist.

9781909686465, $70.00, July 2014, Hardback, 360 pages, Windgather Press

9781905119998, $76.00, January 2014, Paperback, 432 pages, Windgather Press

offA’s dykelandscape and hegemony in eighthcentury britainIan Bapty & Keith Ray

The massive ancientearthwork that providesthe sole commemorationof an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that givesits name to one of

Britain’s most popular contemporary national walkingtrails remains an enigma.

Despite over a century of study, we still do not fullyunderstand how or why Britain’s largest linear monument was built, and in recent years, the viewsof those who have studied the Dyke have divergedeven as to such basic questions as its physical extentand date of construction.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the creation of Offa’s Dyke arising from over a decade ofstudy and of conservation practice by its two authors. It also provides a new appreciation of thespecifically Mercian and English political context ofits construction.

9781905119356, $50.00, May 2014,Paperback, 200 pages, Windgather Press

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Prehistory–British & European


Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of OhioMark LynottDuring the first five centuries of the Christian era, a remarkable soci-ety built a large and elaborate complex of earthen mounds, walls,ditches and ponds in the southern flowing drainages of the OhioRiver Valley. The number, size, and variety of forms make themsome of the most impressive earthworks in all of North America.The development of the vast Hopewell Culture earthwork complexessuch as those at Mound City, Hopewell, Fort Ancient and theNewark earthworks was accompanied by the establishment of wide-ranging cultural contacts reflected in the movement of exotic andstrikingly beautiful artifacts such as elaborate tobacco pipes, obsidianand chert spearheads, copper axes and regalia, animal figurines anddelicately carved sheets of mica. These phenomena, coupled withcomplex burial rituals, indicate the emergence of a powerful ideologyof individual and group power and prestige, and the creation of avast cultural landscape within which the monument complexes werecentral to a ritual cycle encompassing a substantial geographical area.

Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North AmericaRobert A. BirminghamBetween circa A.D. 700 and 1100, Late Woodland people of theUpper Midwest used the topography and other features of the natu-ral landscape to create vast ceremonial landscapes consisting ofthousands of earthen mounds sculpted into animals and animal spir-its that mirrored their belief and clan based social structure and thatserved an important role in mortuary ritual. In so doing, the LateWoodland people created quite visible three dimensional maps ofancient cosmology and social structures that are similar to the be-liefs and social systems of more recent Indian people. With the bene-fit of LiDAR survey, the nature of these unique effigy moundlandscapes can now been documented with unprecedented precisionand the use of topography and natural features to create the ceremo-nial landscapes examined. An interpretation put forward thatdemonstrates how these were living landscapes in which ancestral an-imals and supernatural beings were ritually brought back to life atplaces where the spirits are best evoked in a continuous cycle ofdeath and rebirth of the earth and its people.

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Archaeology, anthropology, landscape history and environmental diversity

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Transforming the Landscape: Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos

Carol Diaz-Granados, Jan Simek, George Sabo, and Mark Wagner

There is a vast repertoire of American Indian rock art spread across an expan-sive region of eastern North America created during the Mississippian Period.Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritualactivity that links ideology and place. Our focus on the widespread use of cos-mograms in Mississippian rock art imagery anchors broad distributional pat-terns of motifs and themes within a powerful framework for culturalinterpretation, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, nature,ceremonialism, religion, and a more comprehensive perspective on Mississip-pian symbolism.

Archaic Landscapes of Louisiana: Hedgepeth Mounds, Watson Brake and the Middle Ar-chaic Mounds

Joe Saunders

Middle Archaic earthen mound complexes in the lower Mississippi valley include major sites in Louisiana, of which the Hedgepeth Mounds, WatsonBreak and Frenchman’s Bend are the best known. Identified as being earlierthan many of the mound complexes further up the Mississippi, early explo-ration of the Louisiana complexes produced little in the way of material cul-ture. However, research programs involving extensive coring, stratigraphicstudies, and both radiometric and luminescence dating have identified andexamined pre-mound middens and occupation surfaces and buried soils pro-ducing a range of lithic and fired clay objects and organic materials for dat-ing. At Watson Brake, for instance, where 11 connected mounds enclose aprobable ritual space, substantial moundraising began ca. 3350 B.C. and continued in stages until some time after 3000 B.C at which point the sitewas abandoned. Year-round occupation supported by broad-spectrum forag-ing is indicated. This volume brings together the results of 25 years of re-search in order to explore the origins, cultural development and ultimatedemise of early moundbuilding traditions in the lower Mississippi region.

Battlespace 1865: Archaeology of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska

Robert Scott and Peter Bleed

In early 1865, as the Civil War was winding down and Plains Indian commu-nities were reeling in the wake of the Sand Creek massacre, combat sweptacross the Nebraska panhandle. Operating on terrain they knew well,Cheyenne warriors and other Native forces encountered the US Cavalry whooperated with a modern network of trails and stations. Archaeological consid-eration the battlefields, bases, and landscapes associated with this fighting expose how the combat developed and how the opposing forces dealt with thechallenges they encountered. This study draws on techniques of battlefield archaeology as well as historical accounts of the participants, LiDAR-in-formed terrain assessment, and theoretical consideration of the strategicthinking of the combatants. It applies a landscape approach to the archaeo-logical study of war and reveals an overlooked phase of the American CivilWar and the opening of the Indian Wars.


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