ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY, HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION ARCHAEOLOGIES OF TEXT
Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics Edited by Matthew T. Rutz & Morag Kersel Scholars working in a number of disciplines routinely engage with ancient textual sources that are either material remains from the archaeological record or historical products of other connections between the ancient world and our own. Examining the archaeologytext nexus from multiple perspectives, contributors to this volume discuss current theoretical and practical problems that have grown out of their work at the boundary of the division between archaeology and the study of early inscriptions in twelve representative case-studies drawn from research in Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and Mesoamerica. Joukowsky Institute Publication 6
9781782977667, $45, PB, b/w illus, 278p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $36 9781782977674, $27, ePub 9781782977698, $27, pdf
ARCHAEOLOGY AND LAND-USE OF SOUTHEAST ENGLAND TO 1066 Edited by Michael J. Allen & David Rudling In this textbook on the archaeology of South-East England over 30 leading authors provide a comprehensive overview of the South-East as an informed narrative and interpretation of the prehistory and history of the region. Chronological chapters tell the story of the development of the SouthEast by period from the Palaeolithic to the Norman Conquest. Others focus on either specific areas within the region, or aspects of material culture and the economy.
9781782979623, $70, HB, b/w & col illus, NYP - due Dec 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $56
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CAVES IN IRELAND By Marion Dowd
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CREMATION
CERAMICS, CUISINE AND CULTURE
Burned Human Remains in Funerary Studies Edited by Tim Thompson Human societies have disposed of their dead in a variety of ways. However comparatively little work has been devoted to understanding the nature of cremated remains, despite their visibility through time. This volume draws together the inventive methodology that has been developed for this material and combines it with a fuller interpretation of the archaeological funerary context. It demonstrates how an innovative methodology, when applied to a challenging material, can produce new and exciting interpretations of archaeological sites and funerary contexts. The reader is introduced to the nature of burned human remains and the destructive effect that fire can have on the body. Studies in Funerary Archaeology 8
9781782978480, $76, PB, b/w & col illus, 256p, NYP due June 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $60.80
The archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient mediterranean world Edited by Michela Spataro & Alexandra Villing
The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socio-economic practice; and changing tastes, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution.
9781782979470, $100, HB, b/w illus, 304p, NYP due July 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $80
CHILDREN, SPACES AND IDENTITY
ARCHAEOZOOLOGY OF THE NEAR EAST 9
Edited by Margarita Sánchez Romero, Eva Alarcón García & Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez
Edited by Marjan Mashkour & Mark Beech This two part volume brings together over 60 specialists to present 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near East. Papers are grouped into thematic sections examining patterns of Palaeolithic and Neolithic subsistence in northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Iranian plateau; Palaeolithic to Neolithic faunal remains from Armenia; animal exploitation in Bronze Age urban sites; new evidence concerning pastoralism, nomadism and mobility; aspects of domestication and animal exploitation in the Arabian peninsula; several case studies on ritual animal deposits; and specific analyses of patterns of animal exploitation at urban sites in Turkey, Palestine and Jordan.
9781782978442, $100, HB, b/w & col illus, 464p, NYP due December 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $80
BATH: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
Caves are one of the most enduring natural features in the Irish landscape. Approximately 980 are documented across limestone regions of the country, and 91 of these are registered archaeological sites. Until recently they have tended to remain neglected for archaeological study, being the haunt of cavers and palaeontologists who have historically been largely responsible for the recovery of cultural material. This is a synthesis of what we currently know about how caves were used and perceived by communities spanning the 10,000 years of human occupation of Ireland.
This volume provides a collection and rigorous assessment of accumulated information, much of which has to date been either unpublished or available only in obscure sources, and offers a synthesis of what this information tells us of Bath’s past.
9781782978138, $85, HB, b/w & col illus, 320p, NYP due May 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $68
9781782979982, $80, HB, b/w illus, NYP - due Sep 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $64
A study of settlement around the sacred hot springs from the Mesolithic to the 17th century AD By Emily La Trobe-Bateman & Rosalind Niblett
How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists build a body of theoretical and methodological approaches about how space is articulated and organized around children and how this disposition affects the creation and maintenance of social identities. Childhood in the Past
Monograph 4 9781782979357, $90, PB, b/w illus, 336p, NYP - due Aug 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $72
CONTINENTAL CONNECTIONS
Exploring cross-channel relationships Edited by Hugo AndersonWhymark, Duncan Garrow & Fraser Sturt The prehistories of Britain and Ireland are inescapably entwined with continental European narratives. The central aim here is to explore ‘cross-channel’ relationships throughout later prehistory, investigating the archaeological links between the areas we now call Britain and Ireland, and continental Europe, from the Mesolithic through to the end of the Iron Age.
9781782978091, $60, PB, b/w illus, 176p, 2015, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $48 9781782978107, $36, ePub 9781782978121, $36, pdf
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