Oxbow Books Autumn 2017 Trade Catalogue: Archaeology

PUBLICATIONS & DISTRIBUTED TITLES Autumn 2017

Archaeology • Ancient Near East Anglo-Saxon & Viking • Greece & Rome Landscape • Prehistory • The Medieval World

Welcome to the Autumn 2017 Catalogue from Oxbow Books We are very pleased to present to you books for the Autumn 2017 season in this catalogue.

Specialising in Archaeology, Ancient History and the Middle Ages, we bring you books from our own imprints alongside our distributed publishers. Autumn sees the publication of the latest in Oxbow’s Insights in Archaeology series offering an accessible exploration of a year in the life of our early ancestors (p. 2). The Historic Towns Trust also bring us the latest in their popular Historic Towns Atlas series – focusing on Winchester, a city which has played an important part in English history from Roman times onwards (p. 13).

In addition we are delighted to welcome new distributed client Spink Books (p. 26).

Supplying and publishing numismatic reference works for collectors for over 100 years, Spink Books have a worldwide reputation as the leader in their field.

Finally, turn to page 29 for a selection of highlights out now, including some of our most popular new and recently reviewed books. We always like hearing from you at Oxbow Books – please do get in touch if you have any feedback on the service we offer.

Prehistory ...............................................................................1 Egyptology & Ancient Near East ...............................5 Greece & the Hellenistic World .................................9 Roman Archaeology ...................................................... 10 Medieval Europe .............................................................. 12 British Archaeology ....................................................... 13 Islamic & Middle Eastern History ............................15 World History & Archaeology.................................... 16 Ancient Texts & Epigraphy ..........................................17 Archaeological Method & Theory ......................... 18 Landscape & Nature....................................................... 23 Textiles .................................................................................. 24 Numismatics & Philately ............................................. 25 Oxbow Recent Highlights & Coming Soon ....... 29 Trade Ordering Information ...................................... 33

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H OW T H E RO M A N M I L I TA RY B U I LT A N E M P I R E

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Front cover: from Tom Dawson, Courtney Nimura, Elías López-Romero and Marie-Yvane Daire (eds) Public Archaeology and Climate Change (p. 18).

Back cover: from Susan W. Katsev and Helena W. Swiney (eds) The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation Report, Volume I (p. 9).

The Circum-Aegean Area During the 5th and 4th Millennia BC Edited by Søren Dietz, Fanis Mavridis, Žarko Tankosić and Turan Takaoğlu Comprehensive exploration of transformation by geographical region around the eastern Mediterranean.

PREHISTORY

COMMUNITIES IN TRANSITION

This volume brings together scholars from different countries and backgrounds to present a tour de force examination of many multifaceted aspects of the social, cultural, technological, economic and ideological transformations that mark the transition from Neolithic to Early Bronze Age societies in the lands around the Aegean during the 5th and 4th millennium BC. Most of the papers are multifaceted and complex, in that they do not deal with only one topic or narrowly focus on a single line of reasoning or dataset.

Oxbow Books • November 2017 • 9781785707209 • £70.00 Hardback • 280 x 220 • 616 pages • b/w and colour illus.

MOVEMENT, EXCHANGE AND IDENTITY IN EUROPE IN THE 2ND AND 1ST MILLENNIA BC Beyond Frontiers Edited by Anne Lehoërff and Marc Talon

Aims to tranform our view of cross-channel connections in later prehistory.

This collection of papers brings together leading scholars from the UK and northern Europe in a thought-provoking and revealing new examination of the relationship between communities in the ‘Transmanche Zone’ in the Bronze and Iron Ages. The premise is that the English Channel was a conduit for connectivity and exchange of ideas, artefacts and social practices, rather than a barrier or frontier that had to be overcome before such connections could be fostered.

Oxbow Books • September 2017 • 9781785707162 • £48.00 Hardback • 280 x 220 • 256 pages • b/w illus.

THE TIMES OF THEIR LIVES

Hunting History in the Archaeology of Neolithic Europe

By Alasdair Whittle A new history of Neolithic Europe using Bayesian statistical analysis to bring dating down from the long-term to the span of lifetimes.

Explains how archaeologists can now think about history in terms of lifetimes and generations, rather than in terms of thousands of years. This book will show how much more precise accounts of the past can be achieved across a broad range of contexts and situations. It offers a series of case studies to provide more precise timings of key features and trends in the European Neolithic sequence, and to construct much more precise estimates of the duration of events and phenomena.

Oxbow Books • December 2017 • 9781785706684 • £40.00 Hardback • 240 x 170 • 240 pages

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OXBOW INSIGHTS IN ARCHAEOLOGY PREHISTORY

HAEOLOGY

The Earliest Europeans

The Earliest Europeans A Year in the Life: Survival strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic

THE EARLIEST EUROPEANS – A YEAR IN THE LIFE

Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic

By R. T. Hosfield An accessible exploration of a year in the life of our early ancestors.

The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of ‘a year in the life’: how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude Europe with its distinctive temperatures, seasonality patterns, and available resources.

R. T. Hosfield

Using a season-by-season chapter structure to explore, for example, the contrasting demands and opportunities of winter versus summer survival, Hosfield explores how foods and other resources would vary across the four seasons in quantity and quality, and the resulting implications for hominin behaviours.

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Text boxes provide the background on key issues, and the book draws on a range of supporting Oxbow Books • December 2017 evidence including technology, hominin life 9781785707612 • £15.99 • Paperback history, cognitive studies and potential bias in the 210 x 146 • 160 pages • b/w illus. archaeological record. By testing the likelihood of different scenarios by comparing short-term, site-based insights with long-term, regional trends, Hosfield is able to out forward ideas on how our earliest European ancestors survived and what their lives were like.

Oxbow Insights in Archaeology is a peer-reviewed series which aims to give authors the chance to address a wide audience in an accessible way, to a high academic standard.

With a distinguished editorial board headed by Richard Bradley, the series is designed to provoke lively debate on any aspect of archaeology: be it period, landscape or artefact based, or theoretical, historiographical, social, or phenomenological.

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On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery Edited by Heiner Schwarzberg and Valeska Becker Since the earliest use of pottery, vessels have been associated with both the general shape and specific parts of the human body. The idea of studying anthropomorphic pottery and the return of human beings into a body made of clay, which forms the core theme of this collection of 12 papers, stems from work on anthropomorphic features of Neolithic communities between the Near East and Europe.

PREHISTORY

BODIES OF CLAY

Oxbow Books • August 2017 • 9781785706967 • £38.00 Paperback • 240 x 170 • 160 pages • b/w illus.

DWELLING ON THE EDGE OF THE NEOLITHIC

Investigating Human Behaviour through the Spatial Analysis of Corded Ware Settlement Material in the Dutch Coastal Wetlands (2900-2300 calBc)

By Gary Robert Nobles This volume presents a detailed spatial analysis of the sites of Keinsmerbrug, Mienakker, and Zeewijk, the Late Neolithic settlement sites that define the westernmost edge of the Corded Ware Culture (c. 2900-2300 cal BC). The biographical perspective underlines the ephemeral nature of the divide between the place of the living and the place of the ancestors.

Barkhuis • December 2016 • 9789492444073 • £70.00 Paperback • 210 x 297 • 355 pages

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SWIFTERBANT

Pionieren in Flevoland 6500 jaar geleden Edited by W. Prummel, J.P. de Roever and A.F.L. van Holk This book, written for a broad audience, brings together a total of ten chapters written by six experts on the Mesolithic Swifterbant culture in the Netherlands. It examines the tombs, the pottery, flint and stone tools, ornaments, wooden artefacts and wildlife to illustrate at a day in the life of Swifterbanters in Flevoland.

Barkhuis • December 2016 • 9789492444097 • £15.00 Paperback • 235 x 165 • 139 pages

THE BEAKER PHENOMENON?

Understanding the character and context of social practices in Ireland 2500-2000 BC

By Neil Carlin Using an innovative approach, this book interlinks the study of the pottery and various object types (that have traditionally been studied in isolation) with their context of discovery and depositional treatment to characterise social practices within settlements, funerary monuments, ceremonial settings and natural places to deliver rich new understandings of the Beaker-related period in Europe, beginning in the mid-third millennium BC. Sidestone Press • December 2017 • 280 x 210 • 500 pages • b/w and colour illus.

9789088904639 • £65.00 • Paperback 9789088904646 • £195.00 • Hardback

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PREHISTORY

AYIA SOTIRA

A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece

By R. Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, Evangelia Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou and James C. Wright This volume is the final publication of the results of excavation of six Mycenaean chamber tombs in the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Ayia Sotira within the Nemea Valley of the Argolid region of Greece. This richly illustrated book includes artefactual and ecofactual remains such as pottery, jewellery, figurines, metal objects, human skeletons, and botanical remains.

INSTAP • July 2017 • 9781931534901 • £55.00 Hardback • 280 x 216 • 368 pages

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HOUSE X AT KOMMOS: A MINOAN MANSION NEAR THE SEA Part 2. The Pottery

By Jeremy Rutter

This, the second of two volumes, completes the publication of House X, a large Minoan house at Kommos situated not far from the sea in South-Central Crete. Complementing the first volume, which published the architecture, stratigraphy and small finds, this volume presents the Late Bronze Age pottery from in and around House X.

INSTAP • October 2017 • 9781931534918 • £55.00 Hardback • 280 x 216 • 554 pages

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THE ALATZOMOURI ROCK SHELTER

An Early Minoan III Deposit in Eastern Crete Edited by Vili Apostolakou, Thomas M. Brogan and Philip P. Betancourt This handsome volume describes and illustrates the excavation of an artificial rock shelter in Crete, Greece. Minoan pottery and small finds such as stone tools, loomweights, and ecofactual remains were recovered. The ceramics elucidate the style and chronology of East Cretan White-on-Dark Ware, which dates to the end of the Early Bronze Age.

INSTAP • July 2017 • 9781931534932 • £55.00 Hardback • 280 x 216 • 226 pages

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MYCENAEAN MESSENIA AND THE KINGDOM OF PYLOS

By Richard Hope Simpson This study outlines present knowledge concerning the Mycenaean settlements in Messenia, and examines the evidence for reconstructing the political geography of the “Kingdom” of Pylos. The progress of archaeological exploration in Messenia is reviewed, and the data from excavations and surveys summarised. The author attempts to determine the extent of the “Kingdom”, and to identify the locations of its main districts.

INSTAP • March 2017 • 9781931534925 • £25.00 Paperback • 115 pages • b/w illus.

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Sites on the edge of the Ophel

By Kay Prag

Important record of excavations containing significant and unpublished datasets.

In this, the sixth volume in the major CBRL series publishing the final reports on the work of the Joint Expedition to Jerusalem in the 1960s, the principal focus is on the the city walls on the east side of the city. The evidence for major walls and their structure from the Iron Age to the Byzantine periods is described, and substantial revisions are suggested. There is also a catalogue of all Late Roman pottery from unpublished sites excavated by the Joint Expedition.

Oxbow Books • March 2017 • 9781785706530 • £50.00 Hardback • 297 x 210 • 324 pages

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EGYPTOLOGY & ANCIENT NEAR EAST

EXCAVATIONS BY K.M. KENYON IN JERUSALEM 1961–1967, VOLUME VI

A WAYSIDE SHRINE IN NORTHERN MOAB

Excavations in the Wadi ath-Thamad Edited by P. M. Michèle Daviau and Margreet L. Steiner Detailed analysis of a complex assemblage of Iron Age cultic objects from the Palestine region.

Major recent excavations have shed much light on the complexity of Iron Age society and religion in southern Palestine. However, it is not clear whether the religious practices attested at these sites were a reflection of localised customs or were common rituals for peoples of Cisjordan. The assemblage of cultic Iron Age finds from an isolated shrine site at Wadi ath-Thamad Site WT-13 in northern Moab, described in this book, has been the subject of detailed excavation, and provides evidence for repeated cultic activities.

Oxbow Books • August 2107 • 9781785707087 • £50.00 Hardback • 280 x 220 • 272 pages • b/w illus.

KONINGINNEN VAN DE NIJL

Macht en schoonheid in het Nieuwe Rijk (1539-1077 v. Chr.) Edited by Olaf E. Kaper A richly illustrated, Dutch-language book focusing on the Queens of Ancient Egypt.

Long before Cleopatra ruled over the land of the Nile, there were already powerful Queens in Ancient Egypt. They assisted the Pharaoh with all his activities and sometimes were surprisingly autonomous. This books sheds light on the many sides of the lives of the Queens of Ancient Egypt. What was their relationship with the Pharaoh, her family, the court, and the harem.

How did the queen live her life, how was she buried, and how did she relate to the Goddesses of Egypt?

Sidestone Press • November 2016 • 9789088903991 • £30.00 Hardback • 280 x 210 • 152 pages • 150 illus.

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EGYPTOLOGY & ANCIENT NEAR EAST

JJP SUPPLEMENT 29 (2016) JOURNAL OF JURISTIC PAPYROLOGY Mater Familias, Scritti Romanistici per Maria Zabłocka Issue 29 of the JJP supplement.

JJP is one of the leading specialist journals publishing articles and essays on papyrology and epigraphy and devoted to the history of the Nile Valley in Graeco-Roman and Byzantine periods. The Journal has also launched this book series, JJP Supplements, offering more extensive studies and catalogues.

Journal of Juristic Papyrology • March 2017 • 9788393842599 • £40.00 Hardback • 230 x 160 • 1250 pages

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FROM ASWAN TO KHARTOUM

Czech Archaeological Explorations Between the Nile Cataracts

By Lenka Varadzinova Activities of The Czech Institute of Egyptology between the Nile cataracts.

This book is concerned with the field research carried out in the Middle Nile region by the expeditions of the Czech (former Czechoslovak) Institute of Egyptology (Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague).

The overview of the field projects is set into a broader context of the civilizational developments in the Middle Nile region and the history of its uncovering from the 19th century onwards. In that way, this richly illustrated book serves as an introduction into the archaeology and cultural heritage of the Middle Nile.

Czech Institute of Egyptology • June 2016 • 9788073086725 • £13.00 Paperback • 280 x 220 • 55 pages • colour illus.

RICH AND GREAT

Studies in Honour of Anthony J. Spalinger on the Occasion of His 70th Feast of Thoth Edited by Renata Landgrafova and Jana Mynarova 27 authors and friends of Professor Anthony Spalinger contribute papers in his honour.

Professor Spalinger’s scholarship spans from the Old Kingdom down to the Late Period. The subjects on which he has published range from problems connected with the Egyptian army and military documents to literature, narrative strategies in royal inscriptions and monumental relief decoration.

He has studied Egyptian calendrics and rituals connected with feasts in great detail. The articles assembled in the present volume reflect Professor Spalinger’s wide range of interests in celebration of his 70th birthday.

Czech Institute of Egyptology • December 2016 • 9788073086688 • £70.00 Hardback • 270 x 200 • 346 pages • b/w and colour illus.

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Volume II: Two Old Kingdom Tombs

By Miral Lashien, Anna-Latifa Mourad and Ashraf Senussi Exploration of the only two decorated Old Kingdom tombs at Beni Hassan.

The second volume of the Beni Hassan series is devoted to the recording and study of the only decorated Old Kingdom tombs at the site. The tombs of Ipi and Bebi have never been completely recorded in drawing and photographs since their publication by J. Garstang in 1907. The examination comprises detailed coloured plates, complete line drawings as well as the translation and interpretation of all the scenes and inscriptions in the tomb. The commentary additionally includes a report on the tombs’ architecture as well as a study of a large amount of pottery discovered in the shafts and dating to the period from the Sixth to the Twelfth Dynasty.

Australian Centre for Egyptology • November 2016 • 9780856688614 • £60.00 Paperback • 290 x 217 • 52 pages • 32 colour plates, 15 b/w folded plates

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BENI HASSAN

Volume III: The Tomb of Amenemhat

By Naguib Kanawati, Linda Evans and Anna-Latifa Mourad A fresh record of one of the best preserved Middle Kingdom tombs.

This, the third volume of the Beni Hassan series, is devoted to the recording and study of the Twelfth Dynasty tomb of Amenemhat, great overlord of the Oryx nome. It presents a new and complete record of the tomb’s scenes in both drawings and coloured photographs, and comprises the translation and interpretation of all scenes and inscriptions that were found in the tomb, including that of Amenemhat’s biography. The biography recounts in detail his career and his participation in military campaigns. The volume additionally includes new architectural drawings and an architectural report on one of the most impressive and complete tombs of Middle Kingdom Egypt.

Australian Centre for Egyptology • February 2017 • 9780856688669 • £85.00 Paperback • 290 x 217 • 60 pages • 30 b/w folded plates and 80 colour plates

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EGYPTOLOGY & ANCIENT NEAR EAST

BULLETIN OF THE EGYPTOLOGICAL SEMINAR, VOLUME 19 (2015)

The Art and Culture of Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Dorothea Arnold Edited by Ogden Goelet Articles in honour of egyptologist Dorothea Arnold.

Dorothea Arnold’s career in Egyptology is distinguished by the scope of her scholarship and by her understanding its detailed messages, as well as her keen sense of observation and meticulous archaeological reflection. This volume published in her honour reflects her wide-ranging interests. It contains seventy articles by sixty-four Egyptologists, conservators, and scientists, who examine aspects of art history, archaeology, burial customs, language, chronology, conservation, and museum studies covering all periods of ancient Egypt.

Egyptological Seminar of New York • October 2016 • 9780981612027 • £80.00 Paperback • 279 x 203 • 696 pages • b/w Illus.

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BORDERED PLACES – BOUNDED TIMES

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Turkey Edited by Emma L. Baysal and Leonidas Karakatsanis Seeks to utilise the archaeology of Turkey in border studies of the region.

Building on similarities and exploring differences in the way scholars undertake their research, this volume presents cross-disciplinary communication on the study of borders, frontiers and boundaries through time, with a focus on Turkey.

Amidst proliferating interdisciplinary collaborations for the study of borders between social anthropology, geography, political science and history, this book aims to contribute to a nascent but growing direction in border studies by including archaeology as a collocutor and using Turkey as a case study.

British Institute at Ankara • March 2017 • 9781898249382 • £45.00 Hardback • 297 x 210 • 224 pages

THE ARCHAEOBOTANY OF AŞVAN

Environment & Cultivation in Eastern Anatolia from the Chalcolithic to the Medieval Period

By Mark Nesbitt, Jennifer Bates, Gordon Hillman and Stephen Mitchell Publication of the extensive programme of archaeobotanical research at Aşvan, eastern Turkey.

Contains the final publication of the archaeobotanical remains from four sites at the village of Aşvan in eastern Turkey, excavated between 1968 and 1973 as part of the archaeological rescue project in the Keban Dam region. The report traces the evolution of cultivation in the region from the Chalcolithic to the Medieval period, charting the dominance of emmer and hulled barley in the Chalcolithic period, the emergence of free-threshing wheats in the Early Bronze Age and the introduction of irrigated summer crops by the Hellenistic period.

British Institute at Ankara • March 2017 • 9781898249177 • £45.00 Hardback • 297 x 210 • 244 pages

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By Joyce Tyldesley and illustrations by Julian Heath In a companion book to the best-selling Stories from Ancient Egypt, Joyce Tyldesley retells some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from the Classical world. These stories tell us how the spider spun the first web, how a simple ball of string defeated the fearsome Minotaur, and how Romulus founded the mighty city of Rome.

Oxbow Books • October 2017 • 9781785707650 • £8.95 Paperback • 210 x 148 • 108 pages

THE KYRENIA SHIP FINAL EXCAVATION REPORT, VOLUME I

History of the Excavation, Amphoras, Pottery and Coins as Evidence for Dating Edited by Susan W. Katsev and Helena W. Swiney

GREECE & THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

STORIES FROM ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

The Kyrenia ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC and sunk off the north coast of Cyprus 294-291 BC, was excavated between 1967 and 1972. This volume includes a detailed history of the excavation of the ship, as well as discussion of the most important objects for determining the date of its sinking.

Oxbow Books • January 2018 • 9781785707520 • £60.00 Hardback • 297 x 210 • 464 pages • b/w and colour illus. with additional plans

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GESTURES

Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy presented to Alan L. Boegehold Edited by Geoffrey W. Bakewell and James P. Sickinger These thirty essays were presented to Alan L. Boegehold, a distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday.

The first section includes essays on literary and philosophical topics, several of which pick up on the theme of ‘gestures’. The second section is representative of Boegehold’s more specialised research in Greek epigraphy, history and law.

Oxbow Books • 9781785707834 • £36.00 New in Paperback • 242 x 170 • 368 pages

REGIONAL SCHOOLS IN HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE Edited by Olga Palagia and William Coulson This is a paperback reprint of a collection of essays describing recent research and new discoveries of Hellenistic sculpture, based on the papers presented at an international conference at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1996.

Oxbow Books • 9781785705458 • £45.00 New in Paperback • 297 x 210 • 350 pages

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ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY

MATERIALISING ROMAN HISTORIES Edited by Astrid Van Oyen and Martin Pitts A new assessment of the explosion of material culture in Roman times.

The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the human-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. This book explores new perspectives to understand this ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. The essays in this volume examine what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in history, rather than what they represent.

Oxbow Books • September 2017 • 9781785706769 • £40.00 Paperback • 240 x 170 • 232 pages

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EMPIRE STATE

How the Roman Military Built an Empire

By Simon Elliott

E M PI R E STAT E

An account of fascinating but not widely-known aspects of the Roman army.

Simon Elliott

H OW T H E RO M A N M I L I TA RY B U I LT A N E M P I R E

In this book the use of the Roman military for non-conflict related duties is considered in detail for the first time. Their contribution to running the great construction projects of the Empire in their capacity as engineers is considered, as well as the role of the Roman military in the running of industry, agriculture, administration, firefighting, and more. They also took part in agriculture, administered and policed the Empire, provided a firefighting resource and organised games in the arena.

Oxbow Books • August 2017 • 9781785706585 • £36.00 Paperback • 240 x 170 • 224 pages

THE HOUSE OF THE SURGEON, POMPEII

Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo (VI 1, 9-10.23 Edited by Michael Anderson and Damian Robinson First data from the important Anglo-American Project in Pompeii.

The first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006). This is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most important sub-surface, pre-79 AD excavations to have been undertaken at Pompeii. The results of the study of the house within its urban context not only challenge many of the conclusions of previous research, but also make it possible at last for this important property to contribute information to the full history of Pompeii’s urban development.

Oxbow Books • November 2017 • 9781785707285 • £70.00 Hardback • 210 x 197 • 528 pages

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The Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology

By Tony Wilmott and Dan Garner THE R O M A N A M P H I T H E AT R E O F

chester VOL 1

T H E P R E H I STO R I C A N D RO M A N A RC H A E O LO GY TO N Y W I L M OT T A N D DA N G A R N E R

This is the first of two volumes dealing with the major research excavations on the Chester Amphitheatre in 2004–2006. This fully integrated volume tells the story of the site from the Mesolithic to the end of the life of the amphitheatre. It contains full stratigraphic and structural detail, including CGI reconstruction of Amphitheatre 2, artefactual and ecofactual evidence, and takes account of the findings of all excavations on the site since 1929.

Oxbow Books • November 2017 • 9781785707445 • £30.00 Hardback • 297 x 210 • 496 pages • b/w and colour illus.

ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY

THE ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE OF CHESTER, VOLUME 1

THE ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE OF CHESTER 1

ALAN SORRELL

The Man Who Created Roman Britain

By Julia Sorrell and Mark Sorrell Alan Sorrell was a celebrated and accomplished artist, renowned for his meticulously researched archaeological reconstructions, especially of the towns and buildings of Roman Britain, many of which are still on display. Written by his children, this is the first book to chart his life as an artist and to examine the detailed research that led to the creation of individual paintings.

Oxbow Books • September 2017 • 9781785707407 • £29.99 Paperback • 246 x 189 • 192 pages • b/w and colour illus.

NEW VISIONS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE OF ROMAN BRITAIN

Volume 2: The Rural Economy of Roman Britain

By Martyn Allen, Lisa Lodwick, Tom Brindle, Michael Fulford and Alexander Smith Considers the rural economy of Roman Britain through the lenses of the principal occupations of agriculture and rural industry. It has two main concerns, documenting what is currently known of agricultural and industrial production in the countryside, and an exploration of the contribution that material culture can make to our understanding of how those resources moved across the province to feed and support military and civil populations and the development of towns and infrastructure.

Roman Society Publications • August 2017 • 9780907764441 • £36.00 Paperback • 297 x 210 • 480 pages • 267 illus.

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CELTIC RELIGIONS IN THE ROMAN PERIOD Personal, Local, and Global Edited by Ralph Haeussler and Thomas King

This multi-authored book brings together new work, from a wide range of disciplinary vantages, on pre-Christian religion in the Celtic-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire.

With contributions from international experts in the fields of classics, ancient history, archaeology, and Celtic studies, it discusses methodology, Britannia, Iberia, Gaul & Belgica, Gallia Cisalpina, Balkans & the Danube Provinces, and The Germanic Provinces.

Celtic Studies Publications • September 2017 • 9781891271250 • £39.95 Paperback • 246 x 189 • 400 pages • 70 illus.

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MEDIEVAL EUROPE

LOMBARD LEGACY

Cultural Strategies and the Visual Arts in Early Medieval Italy

By John Mitchell Using the great south-Italian monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, one of the best preserved monasteries of the earliest Middle Ages, as a case-study and heuristic paradigm, John Mitchell has engaged in a wide-ranging examination of the ways in which visual culture was developed and deployed by ambitious states and institutions in early medieval Europe.

Pindar Press • May 2017 • 9781904597346 • £150.00 Hardback • 644 pages • 294 illus.

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Early Medieval Monasticism in the North Sea Zone: Recent Research and New Perspectives Edited by Gabor Thomas, Alexandra Knox and Helena Hamerow Drawing upon the contributions of leading historians and archaeologists, the volume provides a fresh examination of monasticism in Anglo-Saxon Kent framed within its wider north-west European context, together with a range of complementary perspectives on Lyminge as a key site for understanding the broader processes of Christianisation and kingdom formation in early medieval Europe.

Oxford University School of Archaeology • April 2017 • 9781905905393 • £30.00 Paperback • 295 x 210 • 148 pages

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SEALS AND STATUS

Power of Objects Edited by John Cherry, Jessica Berenbeim and Lloyd de Beer For 7,000 years seals have functioned as signs of authority. This publication deals specifically with aspects of status in the history of seals, exploring this theme across a diverse range of cultural contexts—from the 9th century up to the Early Modern period, and, across the world, looking at Byzantine, European, Islamic and Chinese examples.

British Museum Press • November 2017 • 9780861592135 • £40.00 Paperback • 297 x 210 • 225 pages • 170 illus.

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BEJEWELLED

Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England

By Natasha Awais-Dean Offers an in-depth discussion of the contexts in which jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England was circulated from a male perspective, considering the jewels as valid items of material culture worthy of study and attention. The book analyses the social and historical contexts in which jewellery was acquired, owned and circulated, interrogating the meanings that these jewels had for their male owners.

British Museum Press • October 2017 • 9780861592098 • £40.00 Paperback • 297 x 210 • 200 pages • 160 illus.

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BRITISH HISTORIC TOWNS ATLAS

British Historic Towns Atlas Volume 6

Edited by Martin Biddle and Derek Keene

BRITISH HISTORIC TOWNS ATLAS

Explores the history of Winchester using a series of maps and accompanying text.

Volume VI

WINCHESTER

This latest volume in the Historic Towns Atlas series maps and explains the history of Winchester — a city which has played such an important part in English history from Roman times onwards. Combining many full-colour maps with an authoritative but very readable text, the atlas shows how the Roman city of Venta Belgarum became the second-most important city in England for several centuries, a walled town, the seat of kings and an ecclesiastical centre almost unparalleled in the country before gently declining into a judicial centre and county town.

Edited by

MARTIN BIDDLE and DEREK KEENE

Historic Towns Trust • Sep 2017 • 9781785706660 £70.00 • Hardback • 144 pages 24 pp colour maps, 90 illus.

BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY

WINCHESTER

The atlas contains maps of Roman Winchester; Winchester around 900; Winchester in 1000; Winchester in c.1130; Winchester in 1300; Winchester in 1417; Winchester in 1550; The plans for royal Winchester, 1680s; Parishes, liberties and the Soke, at different dates; the union of Winchester’s parishes, and Winchester’s military camps in the mid 18th century.

The atlas is centred around a detailed map of the city at 1:2500 showing all the sites of Winchester’s most important buildings and structures on a base map of the city c.1800, the first time that such a map has been made.

The volume also has a 1” OS map of the mid 19th century rescaled to 1:50,000, an aerial photograph of the city centre, and illustrations.

The maps, text, gazetteer and illustrations are presented in an A3 stiff card binder, and the format allows for maps of different date to be compared side-by-side.

Also in series:

Windsor and Eton 9781782978282 £55.00

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York 9781785701276 £70.00

The British Atlas of Historic Towns project aims to enhance appreciation and understanding of the history and character of European towns. They provide maps and text in a way which fills a gap both in knowledge and in tools for urban studies, including well-researched but readable historical summaries, accessible to the non-specialist but supported with full references.

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LONDON UNDER GROUND

The Archaeology of a City

By Lesley Hannigan, H. Sheldon and Ian Haynes London’s archaeology is as complex and varied as the city is today. These seventeen papers survey twenty-five years of London archaeology in the city and its environs, exploring the history of the city from prehistory to 1800 and touching on art, landscape, mortuary archaeology, roads, buildings and artefacts.

Oxbow Books • 9781785707766 • £36.00 New in Paperback • 240 x 170 • 324 pages

THE DEPTFORD ROYAL DOCKYARD AND MANOR OF SAYES COURT, LONDON Excavations 2000-12

By Antony Francis

Integrating archaeological evidence with maps and written sources, this book traces the Deptford Royal Dockyard’s development from the 2000-12 investigation, the largest ever excavation of a naval dockyard. It follows the development and expansion of the dockyard to keep pace with advances in naval technology and the demands of empire, and throws light on life outside the yard for the workforce.

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) • June 2017 • 9781907586361 • £30.00 Hardback • 297 x 210 • 260 pages • 199 b/w and colour illus.

CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE

Black Death Cemetery and Carthusian Monastery, Meat Market and Suburb

By Sam Pfizenmaier The story of London’s Clerkenwell and Smithfield neighbourhood, from prehistory through to the present day, is illustrated by archaeological investigations undertaken as part of the Crossrail Central development. Excavation showed how, from being on the margins of the city, this area was occupied by religious houses and a cattle market, before developing into a densely packed suburb as London’s population exploded.

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) • November 2016 • 9781907586415 • £10.00 Paperback • 246 x 189 • 152 pages • Colour illus.

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FROM BLACKFRIARS TO BANKSIDE

Medieval and later riverfront archaeology along the route of Thameslink, central London

By Elizabeth Stafford and Steven Teague The Thameslink project involved the construction of new commuter stations on both banks of the Thames, the first to span the river and the first new station to be built in the area for 120 years. This book examines the results of fieldwork undertaken by Museum of London Archaeology, and places the results within their historical context stretching back to the Roman period.

Oxford Archaeology • December 2016 • 9780995663602 • £12.00 Hardback • 297 x 210 • 134 pages • 60 illus.

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Mázandarán AND

Astarábád

H. L. R ABINO

H. L. RABINO

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY

Charles Melville

By H. L. Rabino and with a new introduction by Charles Melville This classic work, long out of print and an essential resource, is a scholarly and sensitive account of two Iranian provinces full of character and variety. The book is a mixture of gazetteer and travelogue, informed by detailed research not only in the historical sources available, but also in the works of previous European and local writers. Notable among its valuable qualities is the substantial selection of Persian inscriptions provided in addition to Rabino’s descriptive text.

GIBB

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TEXT IN ENGLISH AND PERSIAN

The Geographical Part of theNuzhat al-Qulūb

THE GEOGRAPHICAL PART OF THE NUZHAT AL-QULŪB THE

Geographical Part OF THE

Nuzhat al-Qulūb Ḥ AMD -A LLĀH M USTAUFĪ

TRANSLATED BY

G. LE STRANGE

G. Le Strange WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY

Charles Melville

By Ḥamd-Allāh Mustaufī, translated by Guy Le Strange and with a new introduction by Charles Melville Guy Le Strange (1854-1933) pioneered the study of the historical geography of the Middle East, and especially Persia. The present work contains an English translation of Mustaufī’s Nuzhat al-qulūb, which sets out to give a description of Iran in the form of a gazetteer. This accessible new edition will make this important work available to a new generation of scholars.

ISLAMIC & MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY

Mázandarán and Astarábád

MÁZANDARÁN AND ASTARÁBÁD

GIBB

Gibb Memorial Trust • October 2017 • 9781909724884 • £38.00 Paperback • 240 x 170 • 340 pages

TEXT IN ENGLISH AND PERSIAN

Introduction à l’histoire des Mongols de Fadl Allah Rashid ed-din

Introduction à l’histoire

INTRODUCTION À L’HISTOIRE DES MONGOLS DE FADL ALLAH RASHID ED-DIN

Mongols de Fadl Allah Rashid ed-din

By Edgard Blochet and with a new introduction by Charles Melville

DES

E. B LOCHET

E. BLOCHET

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY

Charles Melville

Edgard Blochet (1870-1937), the French orientalist, left his mark in several areas of Middle Eastern and Asian studies. This work is concerned chiefly with the transformation of the Mongol Empire from the death of its founder into a Chinese dynasty. A reprint of a work that has long been unavailable, it aims to encourage a re-evaluation of his pioneering contributions to the field.

GIBB

Gibb Memorial Trust • October 2017 • 9781909724846 • £40.00 Paperback • 240 x 170 • 406 pages

TEXT IN FRENCH

CHARLES MASSON AND THE BUDDHIST SITES OF AFGHANISTAN Explorations, Excavations, Collections 1833-1835

By Elizabeth Errington

From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was employed by the British East India Company to explore the ancient sites in south-east Afghanistan. This volume studies the British Museum’s collection of Masson’s finds, including reliquaries, beads and coins, and places them within a wider historical and archaeological context.

British Museum Press • August 2017 • 9780861592159 • £40.00 Paperback • 297 x 210 • 250 pages • 320 illus.

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THE BIR MESSAOUDA BASILICA

Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage

By Richard Miles and Simon Greenslade This volume charts the radical transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage which was excavated over a five-year period by a team from the University of Cambridge. The Bir Messaouda basilica provides important insights into the transition between Vandal and Byzantine control of the city, and the significance of the pilgrimage in reinforcing ecclesiastical authority in post-Justinianic North Africa.

Oxbow Books • November 2017 • 9781785706806 • £55.00 Hardback • 280 x 216 • 368 pages

ARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST ASIA

The Rise of Civilisation in China, Korea and Japan

By Gina L. Barnes An introduction to social and political development of East Asia from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times, this book takes a regional view across China, Korea, and Japan that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region drew on indigenous developments and exterior stimuli to produce technologies and outlooks that characterize the civilization of historic modern East Asia.

Oxbow Books • 9781785706677 • £36.00 New in Paperback • 240 x 170 • 432 pages

ANTIQUARIANISMS

Contact, Conflict, Comparison Edited by Benjamin Anderson and Felipe Rojas Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were practiced in places other than Europe. Rather than assuming that interest in antiquity is universal, this book explores the circumstances under which the past itself is produced and transformed through encounters between antiquarian traditions over common objects of interpretation.

Oxbow Books • June 2017 • 9781785706844 • £35.00 Paperback • 234 x 156 • 232 pages

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TREASURES IN TRUSTED HANDS

Negotiating the Future of Colonial Cultural Objects

By Jos van Beurden Presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations by missionaries, contestable acquisitions by private persons, and other categories. This book seeks to find a way to return these objects to their rightful countries by analysing disputes about other contestable objects.

Sidestone Press • May 2017 • 257 x 182 230 pages 9789088904394 • £35.00 • Paperback 9789088904400 • £100.00 • Hardback

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Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain

By R. S. O. Tomlin Based on the author’s 40 years’ experience of the epigraphy of Roman Britain, this volume collects 487 inscriptions, the majority from Britain but many from other Roman provinces and Italy, so as to illustrate the history and character of Roman Britain (AD 43–410).

Oxbow Books • October 2017 • 9781785707001 • £48.00 Hardback • 240 x 170 • 464 pages • b/w illus.

FRAGMENTS, HOLES, AND WHOLES

ANCIENT TEXTS & EPIGRAPHY

BRITANNIA ROMANA

Reconstrucing the Ancient World in Theory and Practice Edited by Tomasz Derda, Jennifer Hilder and Jan Kwapisz The present volume offers a variety of case studies rather than a theoretically oriented survey of trends and overall approaches towards fragmentarily preserved ancient material. Discussions of specific cases formulate some new theoretical proposals applicable to different kinds of material.

Journal of Juristic Papyrology • February 2017 • 9788394684808 • £50.00 Hardback • 240 x 160 • 406 pages

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FROM BEDROOM TO COURTROOM Law and Justice in the Greek Novel

By Saundra Schwartz

Argues that the fictional trial scenes in the Greek ideal romances reflect Roman legal institutions and ideas, particularly relating to family and sexuality. This book focuses on three major novels: Chariton’s Callirhoe, Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon, and Heliodorus’ Aethiopica.

Barkhuis • January 2017 • 9789492444080 • £90.00 Hardback • 240 x 170 • 270 pages

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ETHICS AND POETRY IN SIXTH-CENTURY ARABIA

By Nadia Jamil This study demonstrates that the ethics and poetry of sixth-century Arabia are an inseparable equation. Offering a critical overview of key figures and an analytic survey of recent major approaches, it then proceeds to a graded semantic analysis of selected poems.

Gibb Memorial Trust • September 2017 • 9781909724969 • £44.00 Hardback • 240 x 170 • 304 pages

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THE NEOLITHIC OF EUROPE Edited by Penny Bickle, Vicki Cummings, Daniela Hofmann and Joshua Pollard Presents new insights into settlement, subsistence, mobility, monumentality, lifestyle and dating.

Eighteen papers on prehistoric archaeology, written by leading international scholars. The coverage is broad, ranging geographically from south-east Europe to Britain, and chronologically from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, but with a decided focus on the former. Thematically, the main foci are on Neolithisation; the archaeology of Neolithic daily life, settlements and subsistence; as well as monuments and aspects of worldview. A number of contributions highlight the recent impact of techniques on our understanding of mobility, diet, lifestyles, events and historical processes.

Oxbow Books • May 2017 • 9781785706547 • £48.00 Hardback • 280 x 220 • 340 pages • b/w and colour illus.

NOT JUST FOR SHOW

The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, and Personal Ornaments Edited by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Clive Bonsall and Alice M. Choyke Major new series of studies covering technological, social and symbolic attributes of beads in prehistoric cultures.

These papers discuss the social narratives behind bead and beadwork manufacture, use and disposal, and the way beads work visually, audibly and even tactilely to cue wearers and audience to their social message(s). Understanding the social and technical aspects of beads require a broad spectrum of technical and methodological approaches including the identification of the sources for the raw material of beads. These scientific approaches are combined with experimentation to explore the production and use of beads in past societies.

Not Just for

Show

The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, & Personal Ornaments

E  Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Clive Bonsall and Alice M. Choyke

Oxbow Books • August 2017 • 9781785706929 • £48.00 Hardback • 280 x 220 • 224 pages • b/w and colour illus.

PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Edited by Tom Dawson, Courtney Nimura, Elías López-Romero and Marie-Yvane Daire Identifies major threats posed by climate change to world heritage and archaeology.

Promotes new approaches to studying and managing sites threatened by climate change, specifically actions that engage communities or employ ‘citizen science’ initiatives. With examples from across the globe, this selection of 18 papers details the scale of the problem through a variety of case studies.

Contributors examine differing responses and proactive methodologies for the protection, preservation and recording of sites at risk from natural forces and demonstrate how new approaches can better engage people with sites that are under increasing threat of destruction.

Oxbow Books • October 2017 • 9781785707049 • £38.00 Paperback • 280 x 220 • 208 pages • b/w and colour illus.

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Archaeological Discourses Edited by Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy An important new collection of papers examining the particular treatment of juvenile burials in the past.

A panorama of studies with a focus on juvenile burials, these 16 papers have a wide geographic and temporal breadth and represent a range of methodological approaches. All have a similar objective in mind, however, namely to understand how children were treated in death by different cultures in the past; to gain insights concerning the roles of children of different ages in their respective societies and to find evidence of the nature of past adult–child relationships and interactions across the life course.

Oxbow Books • August 2017 • 9781785707124 • £40.00 Paperback • 270 x 140 • 240 pages • b/w illus.

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD & THEORY

CHILDREN, DEATH AND BURIAL

Entangled Knowledge in Eurasia, 5000‒1500 BCE Edited by Philipp W. Stockhammer and Joseph Maran Explores societies as accepters rather than passive receivers of technological innovation and ideas.

The question of how to conceptualize the role of technological innovations is of crucial importance for understanding the mechanisms and rhythms of long-term cultural change in prehistoric and early historic societies. This volume goes beyond the current discussion by shedding light on conditions that may facilitate the rapid spread of technological innovation and on processes involved in the integration of new technologies into the life world of the appropriating societies.

Oxbow Books • November 2017 • 9781785707247 • £48.00 Hardback • 280 x 220 • 296 pages • b/w and colour illus.

ARCHAEOLOGIES OF GENDER AND VIOLENCE Edited by Bo Jensen and Uroš Matić Examines evidence for gendered violence in the past using a combination of approaches.

This volume aims to explore the intersection between archaeology, gender and violence. Papers range from theoretical discussions on previous approaches to gender and violence and the ethical necessity to address these questions today, to case studies dealing on gender and violence from prehistoric to early medieval Europe, but also including studies on ancient Egypt, Persia and Peru. Contributors deal with representations of violence and its gendered background in images and text, and with bioarchaeological evidence for violence and trauma with a gendered background.

Oxbow Books • July 2017 • 9781785706882 • £36.00 Paperback • 240 x 170 • 252 pages • b/w and colour illus.

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CHILDHOOD AND VIOLENCE IN THE WESTERN TRADITION Edited by Laurence Brockliss and Heather Montgomery Examines of the role of violence and neglect in the relations between parents/carers and children.

The violence and neglect suffered by children today is a common subject of media attention and much political hand-wringing, not just in Britain but in other parts of the western world. As yet, however, there has been no attempt to explore this concern historically and look at how the boundary between good and bad parenting may have changed across time. This book attempts to fill the gap by examining the role of violence and neglect in these parent/ carer relationships.

Oxbow Books • May 2017 • 9781785707964 • £38.00 New in Paperback • 242 x 170 • 352 pages • 37 b/w illus.

UNDERSTANDING ANCIENT FORTIFICATIONS

Between Regionality and Connectivity Edited by Ariane Ballmer, Manuel Fernandez-Götz and Dirk P. Mielke Looks at the development of fortified sites in Europe from the Neolithic through to the Late Iron Age. In many regions of Europe and beyond fortifications belong to the most impressive of archaeological remains. Their study has a long tradition and today a multitude of aspects about architecture, function or symbolism has been explored. However, fortifications are generally examined in a temporally, regionally or culturally limited context. Going a step further, this volume aims to bring into focus concepts of fortifications, which can be socially, symbolically or functionally, but also chronologically and supra-regionally aligned.

Oxbow Books • November 2017 • 9781785707483 • £55.00 Hardback • 280 x 220 • 192 pages • b/w illus.

A SHADOW OF WAR

Archaeological approaches to uncovering the darker sides of conflict from the 20th century

By Claudia Theune Presents archaeological research from places of war, violence, protest and oppression of the 20th and the 21st century.

Through careful archaeological investigation, we can present different and new perspectives that are not recorded clearly in existing written, pictorial or oral archives from sites of warfare, oppression and violence. The merging and examination of all sources together is what enables us to understand the complexity of the history. This book will also present future directions in contemporary archaeology that will help bring the study focus beyond sites and assemblages of war and protest.

Sidestone Press • August 2017 • 9789088904547 • £25.00 Hardback • 260 x 210 • 150 pages • c. 120 colour illus.

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Exploring Changing Human Beliefs about Death, Mortality and the Human Body Edited by Jennie Bradbury and Chris Scarre Presents important new insights into our understanding and interpretation of past mortuary practices.

A cross-disciplinary, archaeologically focused approach explores a variety of themes linked to the interpretation of mortuary traditions, death and the ways of disposing of the dead. Contributors explore changing beliefs and practices over time, considering how modern archaeology, ethnography and historical records can aid interpretations of the past, as well as considering how past practices may have influenced understandings of death and dying within the modern world.

Oxbow Books • September 2017 • 9781785706639 • £55.00 Hardback • 280 x 220 • 288 pages • b/w and colour illus.

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HERITAGE SITES OF ASTRONOMY AND ARCHAEOASTRONOMY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE CONVENTION

ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD & THEORY

ENGAGING WITH THE DEAD

A Thematic Study. Volume 2 Edited by Clive Ruggles and Michel Cotte

Explores themes and issues relating to astronomical heritage and its potential recognition as World Heritage.

This is the second volume in an ongoing exploration of themes and issues relating to astronomical heritage, and in particular and to science and technology heritage in general. It examines a number of key questions relating to astronomical heritage sites and their potential recognition as World Heritage, attempting to identify what might constitute “outstanding universal value” in relation to astronomy It represents the culmination of several years’ work to address some of the most challenging issues raised in the first volume, published in 2010.

Ocarina Books • August 2017 • 9780954086763 • £25.00 Paperback • 298 pages

NEW FRONTIER

The Origins And Development Of West London

By Richard Brown, Andy Shelley and Elizabeth Stafford Explores what lies beneath the busy streets and pavements of London’s West End. This book shines a spotlight on the history and archaeology of West London.

It is informed by the desk-based historical research, site excavations and archaeological monitoring carried out before and during the construction of the western arm of Crossrail as it travels from the tunnel portal at Royal Oak to Fisher Street – a journey which includes the discovery of ice age Bison and reindeer, the rediscovery of long lost rivers and reveals the history of the Georgian property developers and the Great Western Railway.

Oxford Archaeology • October 2016 • 9780904220803 • £10.00 Paperback • 246 x 189 • 119 pages • 97 illus.

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THEOLOGICAL DEFENCES OF THE CANOPIC GATE IN THE SAÏTE PERIOD Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology 9

By Anne-Sophie von Bomhard

This work brings together a range of material evidence to explore the theological defences conceived by the Egyptians at Thonis-Heracleion to guard the Canopic gate, which in the Saïte period was the main entrance to the port of Thonis-Heracleion, the entry-point to Egypt for foreign vessels, including the temple to Khonsu-Thoth and the deployment of divine forces alongside military forces at the Canopic gate.

Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology • August 2017 • 9789781905902 • £45.00 OXFORD CENTRE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY 9 Hardback • 300 x 213 • 200 pages • 103 illus.

AFTER THE DELUGE

A palaeogeographical reconstruction of Bronze Age West-Frisia (2000-800 BC)

By Wilko Van Zijverden This study tries to unite the excavation results from wide-scale excavations of Bronze Age settlement sites in West Frisia after World War II, and the discovery of further well-preserved sites in unexpected locations at the beginning of this century. Based on these results, it proposes a new model for the development of the landscape and habitation of West Frisia during the Bronze Age. Sidestone Press • March 2017 • 280 x 210 • 210 pages • 11 b/w & 55 colour illus.

9789088904066 • £50.00 • Paperback 9789088904073 • £150.00 • Hardback

THE INTERACTIVE PAST

Archaeology, Heritage, and Video Games Edited by Angus A.A. Mol, Csilla E. Ariese-Vandemeulebroucke, Krijn H.J. Boom and Aris Politopoulos Brings together a diverse group of thinkers who explore the interface of video games and the past. They address such topics as how thinking about and creating games can inform on archaeological method and theory, how games can be studied archaeologically, the challenges they present in terms of conservation, and why the deaths of virtual Romans and the treatment of video game chickens matters.

Sidestone Press • May 2017 • 257 x 182 • 220 pages • c. 40 full colour illus.

9789088904363 • £40.00 • Paperback 9789088904370 • £120.00 • Hardback

AN ETRUSCAN AFFAIR

The Impact of Early Etruscan Discoveries on European Culture Edited by Judith Swaddling Considers how the discovery of Etruscan artefacts have inspired artists, architects, nobility, scholars and travellers to Italy from the 16th through to the 20th century, from Ferdinando de’ Medici to Piranesi and Federico Fellini. Whilst the influence of the Etruscans on European culture may not be surprising, the volume discusses how knowledge of the Etruscan civilisation also spread to the USA.

British Museum Press • November 2017 • 9780861592111 • £40.00 Paperback • 297 x 210 • 200 pages • 160 illus.

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STREET TREES IN BRITAIN A History

By Mark Johnston

The first history of street trees in Britain.

The trees which line many of the streets in our towns and cities may live for 100 years or more and represent ‘living history’ in the midst of our modern streetscapes. This is the first book on the history of Britain’s street trees and it gives a highly readable, authoritative and often amusing account of their story, from the tree-lined promenades of the 17th century to the majestic boulevards that grace some of our modern city centres.

LANDSCAPE & NATURE

Mark Johnston

Windgather Press • July 2017 • 9781911188230 • £30.00 Paperback • 246 x 185 • 352 pages • 98 illus.

LAND AND PEOPLE

Papers in Memory of John G. Evans Edited by Terry O’Connor, Niall Sharples and Michael J. Allen Brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels.

This volume brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels. They cover geographical, methodological and thematic areas that were of interest to, and had been studied by, John Evans. The volume is divided into five sections, which echo themes of importance in British prehistory. They include papers on aspects of environmental archaeology, experiments and philosophy; new research on the nature of woodland on the chalklands of southern England; coasts and islands; people, process and social order, and snails and shells.

Oxbow Books • 9781785707728 • £36.00 New in Paperback • 275 x 215 • 240 pages • 99 b/w illus. and 13 tables

YARNTON

Neolithic and Bronze Age Settlement and Landscape

By Gill Hey, Christopher Bell, Caroline Dennis and Mark Robinson Explores the 2500 year settlement history of the prehistoric landscape of Yarnton.

A rich prehistoric landscape was unexpectedly revealed on the Thames floodplain during investigations in advance of gravel extraction in the parishes of Yarnton and Cassington. This fascinating study examines this 2500-year settlement history and its changing landscape context on the gravel islands, silted up river channels and adjacent gravel terrace. It not only explores the narrative of the site’s occupation, but combines and compares a suite of evidence to set the site in its wider context.

Oxford Archaeology • November 2016 • 9781905905379 • £29.95 Hardback • 297 x 210 • 812 pages • 452 illus.

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TEXTILES

THE WEALTH OF ENGLAND

The Medieval Wool Trade and Its Political Importance 1100–1600

By Susan Rose A fascinating new exposition on the role of the wool trade in the economy and political history of medieval England.

This book brings together the social, economic and political strands in the development of the wool trade and shows how and why it became so important. It looks at the lives of prominent wool-men, examines how their wealth transformed the appearance of the leading centres of the trade, and the links between England and Italian trading cities forged through the wool trade. No other book has treated this subject holistically with its influence on the course of English history made plain.

Oxbow Books • November 2017 • 9781785707360 • £40.00 Hardback • 270 x 140 • 304 pages • b/w and colour illus.

TEXTILES AND CULT IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN Edited by Cecilie Brøns and Marie-Louise Nosch Twenty-one papers on the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East.

Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean brings together experts in the fields of experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology to examine the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. It touches upon topics of textile production in sanctuaries, the use of textiles as votive offerings and ritual dress using epigraphy, literary sources, iconography and the archaeological material itself.

Oxbow Books • July 2017 • 9781785706721 • £48.00 Hardback • 280 x 216 • 320 pages

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FIRST TEXTILES

The Beginnings of Textile Production in Europe and the Mediterranean Edited by Małgorzata Siennicka, Lorenz Rahmstorf and Agata Ulanowska Explores the development of textile production in prehistoric Europe and the Mediterranean.

Textile production and the manufacture of clothing was one of the most essential daily activities in prehistory. Textiles were significant objects of practical use, and at the same time had cultural, social and symbolic meaning, crucial for displaying the identity, gender, social rank and status, or wealth of their users. This book is devoted to early textile production in Europe and the Mediterranean and aims to collect and investigate the combined evidence of textile and leather remains, tools, workplaces and textile iconography.

Oxbow Books • December 2017 • 9781785707988 • £45.00 Hardback • 280 x 216 • 272 pages • b/w and colour illus.

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Syracuse in the Time of the Peloponnesian War

by Wolfgang R. Fischer-Bossert, edited by Ute Wartenberg, translated by Orla Mulholland, with contributions from Tukka Talvio Over 100 years after its first publication, Wolfgang R. Fischer-Bossert completely updates the scholarship and bibliography on signed Syracusan tetradrachms, making this book the single most important source on the subject. The book includes plates, a full-colour die-link chart, and three pull-outs featuring Syracusan tetradrachms and hoards.

American Numismatic Society • May 2017 • 9780897223416 • £160.00 Hardback • 279 x 203 • 400 pages • 300 illus.

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WEALTH AND WARFARE

The Archaeology of Money in Ancient Syria

By Frédérique Duyrat Beyond the human aspect of the conflict, one of the distinctive features of the war in Syria has been the treatment of cultural heritage. This volume is the first comprehensive look at Syrian coin hoards and contains a catalogue of every coin hoard discovered in what is now modern Syria through 2010.

American Numismatic Society • March 2017 • 9780897223461 • £160.00 Hardback • 279 x 203 • 600 pages • 100 illus.

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THE ART OF DEVASTATION

Medallic Art and Posters of the Great War Edited by Patricia Phagan and Peter van Alfen This is the exhibition catalogue for the joint exhibition of the American Numismatic Society hosted by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. The exhibition explored for the first time on American soil the intertwined roles of posters and medals in shaping public opinion of the Great War and in steering Americans into it.

American Numismatic Society • December 2016 • 9780897223485 • £50.00 Paperback • 279 x 203 • 200 pages • 50 illus.

COINS OF THE PTOLEMAIC EMPIRE Ptolemy I–Ptolemy IV

By Catherine Lorber

The long-anticipated catalogue of coins struck by the first four Ptolemaic kings of Egypt, which essentially rewrites the sections on these rulers in J. N. Svoronos’s classic, but now much out of date, Ta Nomismata tou Kratous ton Ptolemaion (1904). It also provides extensive historical and numismatic introductions that give the coins deeper context and meaning.

American Numismatic Society • September 2017 • 9780897223317 • £160.00 Hardback • 279 x 203 • 400 pages • 500 illus.

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IN CELEBRATION OF GREEK COINAGE

By Robin Eaglen This book’s origin is as a thoughtful study of the author’s own collection, acquired over the past seventeen years. Two initial chapters relate the author’s devotion to numismatics and his thoughts on Greek coins as art, followed by fifty essays inspired by coins in the author’s collection, comprised of updated and revised articles from the Spink Numismatic Circular and its magazine The Insider.

Spink Books • June 2017 • 9781907427770 • £40.00 Hardback • 246 x 189 • 240 pages • Colour illus.

THE COINS OF THE ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY Presidency Series. A Catalogue and Pricelist

By Paul Stevens

Presents a list of all coins known to have been issued by the East India Company for use in their Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras. Each section covers the coins of one Presidency with chapters on the coins issued from the main mint in the area – Calcutta, Bombay or Madras – as well as chapters on coins issued from local and transitional mints.

Spink Books • May 2017 • 246 x 189 • 562 pages • Colour illus.

9781907427725 • £40.00 • Paperback 9781907427695 • £60.00 • Hardback

ISLAMIC COINS AND THEIR VALUES, VOLUME 2 The Early Modern Period

By Tim Wilkes

The Islamic market has long been hampered by two things: the lack of reliable information regarding values due to the historic volatility of auction prices for Islamic coins, and the lack of general reference works with illustrations. This book is an attempt to remedy both these problems. It is intended as an introductory guide, aimed at the general collector.

Spink Books • September 2017 • 9781907427626 • £40.00 Hardback • 216x138 • 200 pages • Colour illus.

BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS OF THE 17TH CENTURY

Medallists, Books, Authors, Collectors, Booksellers & Antiquaries

By Jerome Platt and Arleen Platt As attractive as historical or commemorative medals are in their own right, they hold a wealth of information: by means of inscriptions, design and allegory, they tell us their age, of their makers, of the purpose for which they were made, the manner in which they were made, and the ‘story’ their maker wished to communicate.

Spink Books • April 2017 • 9781907427480 • £50.00 Hardback • 278 x 216 • 432 pages • Colour illus.

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Studies in Early Electrum Coinage Edited by Peter van Alfen, Ute Wartenberg and Other Haim Gitler and Koray Konuk White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage collects the most complete, current scholarship on the history of known examples of ancient electrum coinage of the Greek world, including text and description, detailed catalogue, and images.

American Numismatic Society • December 2017 • 9780897223492 • £120.00 Hardback • 279 x 203 • 300 pages • 200 illus.

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WHITE GOLD

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMISMATICS 26 Edited by Andy Meadows The American Journal of Numismatics is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal containing articles on numismatic topics, book reviews, and obituaries of notable figures in the field. This volume contains articles touching on numismatic studies from the classical to the medieval period, as well as book reviews.

American Numismatic Society • December 2014 • 9780897223362 • £60.00 Hardback • 229 x 152 • 386 pages • 62 illus.

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMISMATICS 27 Edited by Andy Meadows The American Journal of Numismatics is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal containing articles on numismatic topics, book reviews, and obituaries of notable figures in the field. This volume contains articles on Greek and Hellenistic coins, coins from the Roman provinces, Byzantine coins, and Ottoman coins, as well as book reviews.

American Numismatic Society • December 2015 • 9780897223430 • £60.00 Hardback • 229 x 152 • 258 pages • 58 illus.

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMISMATICS 28 Edited by Ute Wartenberg and David Yoon The American Journal of Numismatics is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal containing articles on numismatic topics, book reviews, and obituaries of notable figures in the field. This volume contains articles on coin hoards, mint workers, and Early Medieval Numismatics in Central Asia, as well as a book review.

American Numismatic Society • December 2016 • 9780897223515 • £60.00 Hardback • 229 x 152 • 271 pages • 60 illus.

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COINS OF ENGLAND & THE UNITED KINGDOM Standard Catalogue of British Coins Edited by Emma Howard

Only reference work to feature every major British coin.

This historic reference work for British coins is still the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the present day, arranged in chronological order and divided into metals under each reign, then into coinages, denominations and varieties. Under Elizabeth II the decimal issues are separated from the pre-decimal coinages, with all decimal coinage since 1968 listed in a separate volume.

Spink Books • November • 2017 • 9781907427633 • £35.00 Hardback • 220 x 145 • 808 pages • colour illus.

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ANCIENT COINS

By David Sear An approachable and informative introduction to the hobby.

Ancient coins have long fascinated generations of collectors by virtue of their beauty, the stories they tell, and for the unique insight they give into the history of the time in which they were made. This guide gives a general background to the fascinating world of ancient Greek and Roman coins, looking back more than 26 centuries to the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, at how coins were designed and produced, and at how they can reveal so much to us today.

LIVING HISTORY

Spink Books • November 2017 • 9781907427657 • £9.99 Paperback • 198 x 129 • 224 pages • colour illus.

CATALOGUE DE TIMBRES DE FRANCE 2018 121st Edition Edited by Maury Spink

The authoritative work for any collector of French stamps.

The Spink Maury Catalogue has traditionally provided the highest level of detail for the stamps and covers of France and the French colonies, with thousands of top quality illustrations and prices updated every year. The catalogue includes stamps on cover, tete-beche issues, blocks, reprints, military mail, specimens, telegraphs, officials, parcel post, booklets, essays, proofs, airmails, precancels, postage dues, imperforate issues, balloon mail, occupation issues, telephone stamps, siege mail and war stamps.

Spink Books • November 2017 • 9781907427640 • £22.50 Hardback • 215 x 155 • 1110 pages • colour illus.

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ICONIC COSTUMES Scandinavian Late Iron Age Costume Iconography

By Keith Ray and Ian Bapty

By Ulla Mannering

A major new study of Offa’s Dyke, the first for over fifty years. Incorporating all the latest evidence and research, t h i s a t t ra c t i ve vo l u m e sheds light on the design and purpose of this highly significant monument.

A richly illustrated study of the iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 400-1050) depicting clothed human figures, using gold and metal objects, jewellery and textiles, and over 1000 different images of male and female costumes.

Windgather Press • 9781905119356 £29.95 • Paperback 246 x 185 • 464 pages • 200 illus.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEOLITHIC HOUSE SOCIETIES IN ORKNEY Edited by Colin Richards, Richard Jones and Contributions by Stuart Jeffrey A comprehensive discussion of Neolithic society on Orkney based on a major series of excavations of domestic sites, enabling tracing of the development and fragmentation of sociétés à maisons over a 1500 year period of Northern Isles prehistory.

Windgather Press • 9781909686892 £35.00 • Hardback 279 x 215 • 512 pages • colour illus.

THE LOST DARK AGE KINGDOM OF RHEGED The Discovery of a Royal Stronghold at Trusty’s Hill, Galloway

By Ronan Toolis and Christopher Bowles Presents new archaeological evidence for the presence of a royal stronghold as the heart of the hitherto ‘lost’ Dark Age kingdom of Rheged, which was pre-eminent amongst the kingdoms of the north in the late sixth century AD. Oxbow Books • 9781785703119 £35.00 • Hardback 297 x 210 • 200 pages • b/w and colour illus.

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OFFA’S DYKE Landscape & Hegemony in Eighth-Century Britain

Oxbow Books • 9781785702150 £38.00 • Hardback 280 x 216 • 288 pages

GARDENS AND GARDENERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD History, Myth and Archaeology

By Linda Farrar Traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the Middle Ages.

Windgather Press • 9781909686854 £25.00 • Paperback 246 x 185 • 304 pages • 150 illus.

THE RURAL SETTLEMENT OF ROMAN BRITAIN

By Alexander Smith, Martyn Allen, Tom Brindle and Michael Fulford In this volume, a new regional framework for the study of rural Roman Britain is proposed in which it is the farmstead, rather than the villa, which takes centre stage.

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FOCUS ON FORTIFICATIONS Edited by Rune Frederiksen, Silke Muth, Peter Schneider and Mike Schnelle A collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the recent and brand new research on ancient fortifications, addressing the under-discussed aspects previously neglected by scholars.

Oxbow Books • 9781785701313 £70.00 • Hardback 275 x 210 • 624 pages

Presents thematically organised papers exploring the anthropology of the body and its role in the construction and performance of social identity in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean.

Oxbow Books • 9781785702914 £45.00 • Hardback 279 x 215 • 248 pages • b/w illus.

A guide to research on ancient fortifications containing 12 chapters on all aspects of current research on fortifications plus a catalogue featuring regions, sites, architectural elements and architectural details, with text in English and German.

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Examines the literary exploitation of the imagery, concepts and symbolism of ancient textiles and clothing in the Greek and Roman world.

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF DARKNESS Edited by Marion Dowd and Robert Hensey Thirteen papers explore Palaeolithic use of deep caves in Europe and the orientation of mortuary monuments in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. It examines how the senses are affected in caves and monuments that were used for ritual activities.

Oxbow Books • 9781785701917 £32.00 • Paperback 242 x 170 • 144 pages

ANCIENT FORTIFICATIONS Edited by Silke Muth, Peter Schneider, Mike Schnelle and Peter De Staebler

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The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature Edited by Mary Harlow, Marie Louise Nosch and Giovanni Fanfani

Oxbow Books • 9781785701603 £38.00 • Hardback 246 x 185 • 300 pages

AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF PREHISTORIC BODIES AND EMBODIED IDENTITIES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Edited by Maria Mina, Sevi Triantaphyllou and Yiannis Papadatos

Oxbow Books • 9781785701399 £55.00 • Hardback 297 x 210 • 352 pages

SPINNING FATES AND THE SONG OF THE LOOM

SHADES OF GREEN An Environmental and Cultural History of Sitka Spruce

By Ruth Tittensor This book presents the first major study of the importance of Sitka spruce in North America and the British Isles in terms of landscape and landscape history, cultural perceptions and reactions, and economic terms.

Windgather Press • 9781909686779 £29.95 • Paperback 246 x 185 • 375 pages

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Using the material from recent excavation projects, and drawing on the papers presented at a symposium held in Athens in 2014, this volume undertakes a fresh overview of sculpture from the Cycladic islands.

Oxbow Books • 9781785701955 £40.00 • Hardback 280 x 216 • 544 pages

AN UPLAND BIOGRAPHY Landscape and Prehistory on Gardom’s Edge, Derbyshire

By John Barnatt, Bill Bevan and Mark Edmonds A new synthesis detailing the character and chronology of intense occupation from the Mesolithic period through to the Iron Age of the Gardom’s Edge region of the Derbyshire Peak District.

Windgather Press • 9781911188155 £34.99 • Paperback 246 x 185 • 200 pages • b/w and colour illus.

THE CHANGING FACE OF LONDON HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND THE CROSSRAIL ROUTE

By Richard Brown, Julian Munby, Andy Shelley and Kirsty Smith This book considers what the buildings and structures which were discovered during recent construction and survey works by Crossrail have told us about the changing face of London throughout time.

Oxford Archaeology • 9780904220780 £10.00 • Paperback 246 x 189 • 152 pages • 109 illus.

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SILK Trade and Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity Edited by Berit Hildebrandt These collected papers present the latest in multidisciplinary approaches to the manufacture, trade in and status of silk and other textiles between Rome and China along the Silk Roads in antiquity.

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EARLY CYCLADIC SCULPTURE IN CONTEXT Edited by Marisa Marthari, Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd

Oxbow Books • 9781785702792 £40.00 • Hardback 240 x 170 • 224 pages

BEYOND THALASSOCRACIES Understanding processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean Edited by Evi Gorogianni, Peter Pavúk and Luca Girella Aims to rethink the manner in which archaeologists approach and analyse the processes associated with cultural change connected to interregional contact, focused around the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age. Oxbow Books • 9781785702037 £45.00 • Hardback 280 x 216 • 240 pages

FROM BRUNEL TO BRITISH RAIL The Railway Heritage of the Crossrail Route

By Andy Shelley and Other Richard Brown Presents the results of Crossrail surveys in the form of a collection of essays, largely based on the chronology of railway development in the capital. Collected together, the chapters provide new aspects to the history of railways in London.

Oxford Archaeology • 9780904220797 £10.00 • Paperback 246 x 189 • 192 pages • 131 illus.

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THE DYER’S HANDBOOK Memoirs of an 18th Century Master Colourist

By Dominique Cardon A translation and facsimile reproduction of a unique 18th century French manuscript that provides colour recipes and samples for producing dyes for the textiles of the day. With analysis and essays setting it in context.

Oxbow Books • 9781785702112 £48.00 • Hardback 297 x 210 • 160 pages

Twe n t y p a p e r s g i ve a sophisticated picture of life and death in Asia Minor from ca. 200 BC – to AD 1300 for the first time, with a wideranging selection of topics and areas covered.

Oxbow Books • 9781785703591 £65.00 • Hardback • 279 x 215 432 pages

Explores new theoretical approaches to the relationship between people and objects, demonstrating how identity can be seen as an emergent property of living in a material world, and including a critical review of theories of identity.

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ROMAN CRETE New Perspectives Edited by Jane E. Francis and Anna Kouremenos This book presents the results of the latest research into the artefacts, history, inscriptions and archaeological investigations that come together to characterise Crete as a fully integrated Roman province.

Oxbow Books • 9781785700958 £48.00 • Hardback 279 x 215 • 288 pages

CREATING MATERIAL WORLDS The Uses of Identity in Archaeology Edited by Adrián Maldonado, Elizabeth Pierce, Anthony Russell and Louisa Campbell

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Important new multidisciplinary exploration of the relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology employing a variety of approaches drawn from archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history.

Oxbow Books • 9781785702952 £36.00 • Paperback • 240 x 170 176 pages

LIFE AND DEATH IN ASIA MINOR IN HELLENISTIC, ROMAN AND BYZANTINE TIMES Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology Edited by J. Rasmus Brandt, Erika Hagelberg, Gro Bjørnstad and Sven Ahrens

Oxbow Books • 9781785701801 £36.00 • Paperback 240 x 170 • 192 pages

ARCHAEOLOGY AND HOMERIC EPIC Edited by Susan Sherratt and John Bennet

LOCAL PLACES, GLOBAL PROCESSES Histories of Environmental Change in Britain and Beyond Edited by Peter Coates, David Moon and Paul Warde Presents a multi-disciplinary approach to the relationship between perceptions of environmental change at a local scale and the wider forces of transformation, addressing influential ways of understanding and debating questions of ‘the state of nature’.

Windgather Press • 9781909686939 £29.95 • Paperback 246 x 185 • 272 pages

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