Oxbow Books Archaeology Catalogue Autumn 2018 by Casemate Publishers Ltd

PUBLICATIONS & DISTRIBUTED TITLES Autumn 2018

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

Welcome to the Autumn 2018 Catalogue from Oxbow Books We are very pleased to present to you books for the Autumn 2018 season in this catalogue. Specialising in Archaeology, Ancient History, and the Middle Ages, we bring you titles from our own imprints alongside our distributed publishers. We’re pleased to welcome two new distributed publishers: Aarhus University Press and the The Shīah Institute Press. You’ll find their new books throughout the catalogue, as well as selected backlist in the ‘Recent Highlights’ section on p. 36, along with other bestsellers and recent titles. With titles spanning from prehistory to post-medieval, and from maritime archaeology to numismatics, we hope that there will be something in here to interest you. Books marked will be available in eBook format from Oxbow Books.

European Prehistory.......................................................2 Ancient Egypt & the Ancient Near East....................6 Greece & the Hellenistic World................................... 11 Rome & the Roman Provinces....................................13 Medieval Archaeology.................................................. 15 British Archaeology.......................................................17 Aegean Archaeology.....................................................21 Islam and the Middle East...........................................23 Archaeological Method & Theory............................ 26 Numismatics & Philately............................................. 28 Museums & Heritage Managment............................ 34 Texts & Literature...........................................................35 Oxbow Recent Highlights.......................................... 36 Trade Ordering Information........................................ 41

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All prices and publication dates are accurate at the time of printing but subject to change without notice. Front cover: from Duncan Berryman and Sarah Kerr (eds) Buildings of Medieval Europe (p. 15) — Aerial view of Petrapilosa, Istria, Croatia, from the north. Photo by Josip Višnjić.

New ways forward in archaeology, linguistics, and genetics

EXPLORING CELTIC ORIGINS

New ways forward in archaeology, linguistics, and genetics Edited by Barry Cunliffe and John T. Koch An accessible work exploring Celtic identity and language across several disciplines.

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EXPLORING CELTIC ORIGINS

Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age and Beaker Period of the people who emerge as Celts and speakers of Celtic languages documented in the Iron Age and later times. Led by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe, the contributors present multidisciplinary chapters in a lively userfriendly style, aimed at accessibility for workers in the other fields, as well as general readers. The collection stands as a pause to reflect on ways edited by forward at the moment of intellectual history Barry Cunliffe & John T. Koch Barry Cunliffe when the genome-wide sequencing of ancient DNA (a.k.a. ‘the archaeogenetic revolution’) has suddenly changed everything in the study of later Oxbow Books • October 2018 9781789250886 • £45.00 • Hardback European prehistory. How do we deal with what 246 x 189mm • 224 pages • colour maps appears to be an irreversible breach in the barrier between science and the humanities? Exploring Celtic Origins includes colour maps and illustrations and annotated Further Reading for all chapters.

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Oxbow Books • Jan 2012 9781842174753 • Paperback £36.00 • 384 pages

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Oxbow Books • Jan 2017 9781785706523 • Paperback £36.00 • 237 pages

Oxbow Books • Aug 2016 9781785702273 • Hardback £60.00 • 480 pages

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EUROPEAN PREHISTORY

MYTH AND MATERIALITY By John Wadell (NUI Galway)

Leading Irish archaeologist John Waddell explores myth and materiality, as revealed by archaeology. OXBOW INSIGHTS IN ARCHAEOLOGY SERIES The aim of this latest book in the Oxbow Insights in Archaeology series is to promote the thesis that myth may illuminate archaeology and that on occasion archaeology may shed light on myth. Medieval Irish literature is rich in mythic themes and some of these are used as a starting point. Some myths are of great antiquity and some were invented by contemporary authors. It is a challenging source, first explored in the author’s earlier work Archaeology and Celtic Myth, and this work will elaborate on some of the themes pursued there, as well as introducing some new ones. Combining literary and archaeological evidence, chapters deal with the construction of the past, illustrating how the Irish medieval world invented aspects of the past; the abuses of myth presented in later literature; the evidence for the survival of pagan Oxbow Books • July 2018 beliefs and practices well into medieval times in 9781785709753 • £15.99 • Paperback Ireland; evidence to illustrate the key elements of 197 x 126mm • 192 pages • 35 b/w and colour illus. the institution of sacral kingship, a consideration of sacred trees; mythology of the underworld and its archaeological expressions, and the equine aspects of the myths attached to the Irish goddess Macha (linked to Navan Fort) and her Welsh counterpart Rhiannon. John Waddell brings a lifetime’s experience of studying Irish history, Bronze Age archaeology and Celtic mythology in this personal and lively exploration of mythology and its archaeological expression.

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Oxbow Books • Dec 2016 9781785704772 • Paperback £15.99 • 160 pages

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Oxbow Books • May 2015 9781782979517 • Paperback £15.99 • 210 pages

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Excavations at the Anta Da Lajinha Edited by Chris Scarre (Durham University)

Re-assessment of the chronology, landscape setting, and social context of Neolithic megalithic tombs in Iberia. This volume takes the recent excavations at Lajinha and the adjacent site of Cabeço dos Pendentes, along the Tagus valley, as the starting point for a broader consideration of the megalithic tombs of western Iberia. Key themes addressed are relevant to megalithic tombs more generally, including landscape, chronology, settlement and interregional relationships. A final section considers the Iberian tombs within the broader family of west European megalithic monuments, focusing on chronologies, parallels and patterns of contact.

EUROPEAN PREHISTORY

MEGALITHIC TOMBS IN WESTERN IBERIA

Oxbow Books • November 2018 • 9781785709807 • £45.00 • Hardback 280 x 216mm • 208 pages • b/w illus.

COLLAPSE OR SURVIVAL?

Micro-dynamics of Crisis, Change and Socio-political Endurance in the Late Prehistoric and Early Roman Central Mediterranean By Elisa Perego, Rafael Scopacasa and Silvia Amicone Explores localised phenomena of crisis, unrest and survival in the ancient Mediterranean first millennium BC. Explores localised phenomena of crisis, unrest and survival in the ancient Mediterranean. Contributors provide novel definitions of ‘collapse’ and reconsider notions of crisis and social change by taking a broader perspective that is not necessarily centred on élites. Individual chapters analyse how both high-status and non-élite social agents responded to socio-political rupture, unrest, depopulation, economic crisis, the disintegration of kinship systems, interruption in long-term trade networks, and destruction in war.

Collapse or Survival? Micro-Dynamics of Crisis, Change and Socio-Political Endurance in the Late Prehistoric and Early Roman Central Mediterranean

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Elisa Perego, Rafael Scopacasa and Silvia Amicone

Oxbow Books • July 2018 • 9781789251005 • £45.00 • Hardback 240 x 170mm • 224 pages

MOTHERHOOD AND INFANCIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN IN ANTIQUITY

Edited by Margarita Sánchez Romero (University of Granada) and Rosa Cid López (University of Oviedo) Uses material culture, representations and texts to explore motherhood throughout history. ‘Motherhood’ and ‘childhood’ are social and cultural constructions that have their origins in prehistoric times and are visible through Greek and Roman discourses in Antiquity. This volume explores the various images of maternity and infancy, and the identification with women and womanhood in prehistoric and classic societies. It aims to go deeper into gender analysis, considering motherhood and its plurality, and the diversity of women’s agency through history. Oxbow Books • September 2018 • 9781789250381 • £40.00 • Paperback CHILDHOOD IN 240 x 170mm • 304 pages THE PAST MONOGRAPH

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BIG MEN OR CHIEFS?

Rondel Builders in Neolithic Europe By Jaroslav Řídký, Petr Květina, Petr Limburský, Markéta Končelová and Pavel Burgert Questions what archaeological features can reveal about the Central European Neolithic period. This book asks whether the Neolithic large circular structures, most often termed rondels, can be regarded as “architecture of power”—the first clear evidence of thought-out power strategies of some individuals or their groups. Using anthropological terms—were they skilful and exceptional entrepreneurs with an ad hoc status (such as Big Men) living in egalitarian/segmented communities, or rather powerful Chiefs living in rank and hereditary based societies/chiefdoms? Oxbow Books • November 2018 • 9781789250268 • £38.00 • Paperback 280 x 216mm • 184 pages

THE TUNDZHA REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT

Surface Survey, Palaeoecology, and Associated Studies in Central and Southeast Bulgaria, 2009-2015 Final Report Edited by Shawn A. Ross (Maquarie University), Adela Sobotkova (Maquarie University), Julia Tzvetkova (Sofia University), Georgi Nekhrizov (National Archaeological Institute and Museum, Sofia) and Simon Connor (University of Melbourne)

Results of diachronic archaeological and palaeoecological research two areas of Bulgaria. The outcome of the Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project (TRAP), the first international, multidisciplinary, diachronic landscape archaeology project in Bulgaria. It presents the results of over 100 sq km of pedestrian survey, plus trial excavations, palaeoenvironmental research, and related investigations in the Kazanlak Valley and the Thracian Plain and adjacent forested uplands.

THE TUNDZHA REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT Surface Survey, Palaeoecology, and Associated Studies in Central and Southeast Bulgaria 2009–2015

FINAL REPORT

Edited by Shawn A. Ross, Adela Sobotkova, Julia Tzvetkova, Georgi Nekhrizov, and Simon Connor

Oxbow Books • July 2018 • 9781789250541 • £60.00 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 286 pages

VÆNGESØ AND HOLMEGÅRD

Ertebølle Fishers and Hunters on Djursland By Søren H. Andersen (Aarhus University) Presents results of archaeological investigations undertaken on the Danish peninsula of Djursland. This volume collates the results of a number of archaeological investigations undertaken on the Danish peninsula of Djursland over a period of almost 40 years. It begins with excavations carried out around the former marine lagoon of Vængesø in the northeastern part of the Helgenæs peninsula, and then follows an overview of an excavation undertaken at the site of Holmegaard, located on the former Stubbe Fjord complex. One of the previously published sites (Vængesø I) is reinterpreted in the light of new research and the results.

Aarhus University Press • May 2018 • 9788771248869 • £30.00 • Hardback 285 pages • 297 x 210

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By A. Bernard Knapp (University of Glasgow)

A diachronic study of seafaring, seafarers and maritime interactions during the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. Discussing themes often neglected in studies of the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age—such as social aspects of seafaring and transport, the relationship different peoples had with the sea, and the whole notion of ‘seascapes’—this book seeks to answer questions about seafaring, seafarers, and maritime interactions. It does so by examining a wide range of material, documentary and iconographic evidence, and re-examining a multiplicity of varying interpretations on Bronze Age seafaring and seafarers in the eastern Mediterranean.

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SEAFARING AND SEAFARERS IN THE BRONZE AGE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

Sidestone Press • September 2018 • 257 x 182 mm • 285 pages • 40 b/w and 20 colour illus. 9789088905551 • £120.00 • Hardback 9789088905544 • £40.00 • Paperback

PALAEOLITHIC ITALY

Advanced studies on early human adaptations in the Apennine peninsula Edited by Valentina Borgia (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge) and Emanuela Cristiani (Sapienza University of Rome) Investigates Late Pleistocene adaptations in Italy from different methodological and interpretative perspectives. This volume aims to contribute to better understanding of open research questions by presenting the latest advances in Palaeolithic research in Italy, through the application of a variety of modern analytical methods and cutting-edge techniques when studying numerous collections of materials from both old and new excavations as well as the latest results of field research in the country. Sidestone Press • June 2018 • 257 x 182 mm • 375 pages • 56 b/w and 47 colour illus. 9789088905841 • £150.00 • Hardback 9789088905834 • £50.00 • Paperback

SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF FOOD IN THE PREHISTORIC BALKANS

Edited by Maria Ivanova, Bogdan Athanassov, Vanya Petrova, Desislava Takorovo and Philipp Stockhammer A multi-disciplinary approach to archaeological exploration of the social dimensions of food production and consumption. Archaeologists have long been aware of the importance of food for the understanding of prehistoric developments. Studies have classified and described cooking ware, hearths and ovens, and studied food residues and stable isotopes in skeletal material. However, there is no integration with traditional, functional perspectives on nutrition and semiotic approaches. In this volume, specialists in archaeobotany, economic zooarchaeology and palaeoanthropology discuss food production and consumption in social dimensions from the Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age in the Balkans. Oxbow Books • October 2018 • 9781789250800 • £48.00 • Hardback 240 x 170mm • 352 pages • b/w and colour illus.

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FIGURINE MAKERS OF PREHISTORIC CYPRUS Settlement and Cemeteries at Souskiou Edited by Edgar Peltenburg (Edinburgh University), Diane Bolger (Edinburgh University) and Lindy Crewe (Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, Nicosia)

Analyses settlement and cemeteries of Souskiou Laona together, providing novel insights into prehistory. The Chalcolithic period in Cyprus has been known since Porphyrios Dikaios’ excavations at Erimi in the 1930s and through the appearance in the antiquities market of illicitly acquired anthropomorphic cruciform figures, often manufactured from picrolite, a soft blue-green stone. The excavations of the settlement and cemetery at Souskiou Laona reported on in this volume paint a very different picture of life on the island during the late 4th and early 3rd millennia BC. Burial practices at other known sites are generally single inhumations in intramural pit graves, only rarely equipped with artefacts. At Souskiou, multiple inhumations were interred in deep rock-cut tombs clustered in extra-mural cemeteries. Although the sites were also subjected to extensive looting, excavations have revealed complex multi-stage burial practices with arrangements of disarticulated and articulated burials accompanied by a rich variety of grave goods. Chief among these are a multitude of cruciform figurines and pendants. This unusual treatment of the dead, which has not been recorded elsewhere in Cyprus, shifts the focus from the individual to the communal, and provides evidence for significant changes involving kinship group links to common ancestors. Excavations at the Laona settlement have furnished evidence suggesting that it functioned as a specialised centre for the procurement and manufacture of picrolite during its early phase. The subsequent decline of picrolite production and the earliest known occurrence of new types of ornaments, such as faience beads and copper spiral pendants, attest to important changes involving the transformation of personal and social identities during the first centuries of the 3rd millennium BC, a topic that forms a central theme of this final report on the site. Oxbow Books • November 2018 9781789250190 • £48.00 • Hardback 280 x 216mm • 288 pages

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Chronology and Environment 2. Settlement: Built and Open Environment 3. Mortuary Contexts 4. Integrated Studies

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PLAIN S e venth M illennium Ceramics at Tell S abi Abyad, Syria

Edited by O livier P. Nieuwenhuyse

Seventh Millennium Ceramics at Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria Edited by Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse (Freie Universität Berlin) An archaeological re-examination of the cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople. The prehistoric site of Tell Sabi Abyad lies in the valley of the Balikh River. Between 2001 – 2008 excavations focused on the north-western, western and southwestern slopes of the main mound. This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary group of scholars investigating the seventh millennium ceramic assemblages recovered from those excavations. It combines detailed discussion of themes relevant to the study of early ceramics in the ancient Near East with extensive analyses of each of the individual wares currently distinguished at the site.

Oxbow Books • July 2018 • 9781789250848 • £45.00 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 284 pages • b/w and colour illus.

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RELENTLESSLY PLAIN

HAGIA SOPHIA IN CONTEXT

An Archaeological re-examination of the cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople By Ken Dark (University of Reading) and Jan Kostenec (Czech Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology) An archaeological examination of the Hagia Sophia and the surrounding complex of buildings. The Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia has been a source of fascination since its sixth-century construction. Often seen as encapsulating Byzantine history and culture, it has been the subject of much scholarly interest since the Renaissance. However, while almost all archaeological work has focused on the church itself, the surrounding complex of ecclesiastical buildings has been largely neglected. This book focuses on the archaeology of the immediate environs of the church in order to understand the complex as a whole. Oxbow Books • December 2018 • 9781789250305 • £55.00 • Hardback 280 x 216mm • 208 pages

AsiA minor in the long sixth century

Current Research and Future Directions edited by Ine Jacobs and Hugh Elton

ASIA MINOR IN THE LONG SIXTH CENTURY

Current Research and Future Directions Edited by Ine Jacobs (University of Oxford) and Hugh Elton (Trent University, Ontario) A comprehensive examination of quality of life across Asia Minor before the end of Antiquity. This volume explores series of themes focused on life in Asia Minor towards the end of Late Antiquity, including the physical development of large and small settlements, their financial situation, and the proportion of public and private investment. Imperial, provincial, and local initiatives in city and countryside are compared and the main motivations examined, including civic or personal pride, military incentives and religious stimuli. The evidence presented is used to form opinions on the impact of the plague on living circumstances in the sixth century and to evaluate the significance of the Justinianic period.

Oxbow Books • October 2018 • 9781789250077 • £38.00 • Paperback 240 x 170mm • 256 pages

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ANCIENT EGYPT & THE NEAR EAST

THE PARTHIAN AND EARLY SASANIAN EMPIRES

Adaptation and Expansion Edited by Michael Alram, Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irving), Elizabeth Pendleton (British Museum) and Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis (British Museum) Major new multi-disciplinary reassessment of the Parthian and early Sasanian empires. Although much of the primary information about the Parthian period comes from coins, there has been much new research undertaken over the past few decades. This volume presents 15 papers covering various aspects of Parthian and early Sasanian history, material culture, linguistics and religion which demonstrate a rich surviving heritage and provide many new insights into ideology, royal genealogy, social organisation, military tactics, linguistic developments and trading contacts. Oxbow Books • December 2017 • 9781785709623 • £38.00 New in Paperback • 285 x 225 mm • 160 pages

BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES ARCHAEOLOGICAL MONOGRAPH SERIES

THE LATE THIRD MILLENNIUM IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST Chronology, C14, and Climate Change Edited by Felix Höflmayer (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Examines supraregional collapse in western Asia and Egypt in relation to rapid climate change. In recent years it has been argued that climatic reasons, especially rapid climate change in the late third millennium BC, might have triggered supraregional collapse in western Asia and Egypt, linking it to a period of aridification and cooling. This book addresses three major themes: the radiocarbon evidence for the mid to late third millennium BC Near East, the chronological implications of new dates and how historical/archaeological chronologies should/could be adapted, and if and how climate change can be related to transitions in the late Early Bronze Age. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago • April 2017 • 9781614910367 • £20.95 • Paperback 280 x 220mm • 510 pages ORIENTAL INSTITUTE SEMINARS MONOGRAPH

THE RITUAL LANDSCAPE AT PERSEPOLIS

Glyptic Imagery from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives By Mark B. Garrison Introduces and explores a new corpus of visual imagery concerning religious ritual in the Achaemenid period. The focus of this book is a corpus of glyptic imagery preserved as impressions on two large archives of administrative tablets from Persepolis, the Persepolis Fortification archive (509–493 BC) and the Persepolis Treasury archive (492–457 BC). The glyptic imagery published here concerns representations of what have been traditionally termed “fire altars” and/or “fire temples.” Most of this glyptic evidence has never been published; many of the structures and the scenes in which they occur are strikingly original. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago • October 2017 • 9781614910343 • £59.95 • Paperback 298 x 229 mm • 448 pages • 265 illus. STUDIES IN ANCIENT ORIENTAL CIVILISATION

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The Egyptian Magical Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 By Susanne Beck

A revised transliteration, transcription, translation and up-to-date commentary on papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345. Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 is one of the most extraordinary manuscripts providing a deeper insight into magic and medicine in Ancient Egypt. The main part of the papyrus deals with the ancient Near Eastern disease demon Sāmānu, who is well known from Sumerian and Akkadian incantations and medical texts. The texts are presented as parallel text edition and with photographs of the papyrus. This re-edition of papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 is a revised transliteration, transcription, translation and up-to-date commentary. Sidestone Press • March 2018 • 280 x 210mm • 175 pages • 69 b/w and 55 colour illus. 9789088905407 • £120.00 • Hardback 9789088905391 • £40.00 • Paperback

ANCIENT EGYPT & THE NEAR EAST

EXORCISM, ILLNESS AND DEMONS IN AN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN CONTEXT

THE CEMETERY OF MEIR

Volume IV: The Tombs of Senbi I and Wekhhotep I By Naguib Kanawati (Macquarie University, Sydney) and Linda Evans (Macquarie University, Sydney) Thoroughly illustrated description of two Middle Kingdom tombs in Meir, Egypt. This volume is devoted to the Middle Kingdom tombs of B1 and B2, which belonged to local ruler Senbi I and his son and successor Wekhhotep I. Presenting a full description of both tombs and illustrated with extensive colour plates and line drawings, Report 41 contains a wealth of information about the art and funeral practices of Egypt’s Twelfth Dynasty.

Australian Centre for Egyptology • February 2018 • 9788566888478 • £75.00 Paperback • 290 x 217mm • 151 pages • 24 b/w plates, 72 colour illus.

ACE REPORTS

DEATH IS ONLY THE BEGINNING

Egyptian funerary customs at the Museum of Ancient Cultures Macquarie University Edited by Yann Tristant (Macquarie University, Sydney) and Ellen M. Ryan (Macquarie University, Sydney) An indispensable catalogue of artefacts from the Museum of Ancient Cultures, Macquarie University. This is the first catalogue of the collection of the Museum of Ancient Cultures (MAC) detailing 72 Ancient Egyptian artefacts associated with funerary customs. Divided into two parts, the catalogue aims to explore Ancient Egyptian funerary culture through the MAC collection. Part One provides a series of articles on aspects of Ancient Egyptian funerary beliefs and practices. Part Two comprises the catalogue of artefacts, divided into four sections: pottery, funerary equipment, funerary texts, and religion and magic. Australian Centre for Egyptology • December 2017 • 9780856688522 • £50.00 Hardback • 255 x 210mm • 318 pages

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THE STATUES OF RANEFEREF AND THE ROYAL SCULPTURE OF THE FIFTH DYNASTY By Verner Miroslav

Detailed description of Raneferef’s Statues from Abusir. In the 1908s, a Czech archaeological team discovered in the mortuary temple of Raneferef in Abusir fragments of about a dozen of the statues of the king, including six complete likenesses. This monograph presents a detailed description and discussion of Raneferef’s statues in the broader context of the royal sculpture of the Fifth Dynasty.

Czech Institute of Egyptology • December 2017 • 9788073087456 • £120.00 • Hardback 235 x 145mm • 259 pages • 107 illus. ABUSIR MONOGRAPHS

ABUSIR AND SAQQARA IN THE YEAR 2015

Edited by Miroslav Bárta, Filip Coppens and Jaromír Krejčí Papers from the fourth Abusir and Saqqara conference, held in June 2015. These 43 contributions from 53 scholars reflect the widespread, often multidisciplinary interest of many researchers into a wide variety of different topics related to the Memphite necropoleis. Recurring topics of the studies include a focus on archaeology, the theory of artefacts, iconographic and art historian studies, and the research of largely unpublished archival materials. Many of the contributions are dedicated to various aspects of Old Kingdom archaeology and most present specific aspects linked with archaeological excavations, both past and present.

Czech Institute of Egyptology • February 2018 • 9788073087586 • £168.00 • Hardback 300 x 210 • 696 pages • b/w illus.

Ptolemy I Soter A SELF-MADE MAN

PTOLEMY I SOTER

A Self-Made Man Edited by Timothy Howe (St. Olaf College, Minnesota) Explores Ptolemy I’s continual acts of self-creation in a variety of forms.

Edited by Timothy Howe

As the founder of the longest-lasting of all the Hellenistic kingdoms, not only was Ptolemy I an able soldier and ruler, he was also an historian and, in Egyptian eyes, a living god. His own inclination and experience facilitated continuous acts of self-creation in a variety of forms, whether literary, dynastic, artistic, or political. This book, written by field experts in numismatics, gender, warfare, historiography, Egyptology and religion, examine the many ways in which Alexander the Great’s most successful Successor consciously made his own legacy.

Oxbow Books • September 2018 • 9781789250428 • £42.00 • Hardback 240 x 170mm • 190 pages

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Acts of an International Conference at the Danish Institute at Athens, 30 January-1 Febriuary 2015 Edited by Søren Handberg and Anastasia Gadolou A critical examination of the use of the koine concept as a heuristic tool. Koine was used to describe the new common language dialect that became widespread in the ancient Greek world after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Modern scholars have increasingly used the word to conceptualise regional homogeneities in the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. In this volume, 20 scholars from various disciplines present case studies that focus on the fundamental question of the social and cultural mechanisms that led to the spread and consumption of material culture in the Greek early Iron Age. Aarhus University Press • March 2018 • 9788771843286 • £40.00 • Hardback 297 x 210 mm • 362 pages MONOGRAPHS OF THE DANISH INSTITUTE AT ATHENS

GREECE & THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

MATERIAL KOINAI IN THE GREEK EARLY IRON AGE AND ARCHAIC PERIOD

ASCENDING AND DESCENDING THE ACROPOLIS Movement in Athenian Religion Edited by Søren Handberg and Troels Myrup Kristensen

Examines religious mobilities in Attica using a range of sources and evidence. Ascending and Descending the Acropolis – Mobility in Athenian Religion provides new perspectives on religious mobilities within the geographically limited region of Attica in Greece from the Late Bronze Age to the second century AD. Attica is a particularly fruitful region to study these forms of mobility, as it provides rich evidence across a range of material and textual sources for a variety of different mobile situations – both inside the city of Athens itself (such as on and circumnavigating the Acropolis) and to sanctuaries in its hinterland (such as Eleusis and Brauron), as well to as more distant sanctuaries, such as Delphi.

Aarhus University Press • October 2018 • 9788771844672 • £25.00 • Hardback 240 x 170mm • 220 pages MONOGRAPHS OF THE DANISH INSTITUTE AT ATHENS

THE AGORA BONE WELL

By Maria A. Liston, Susan I. Rotroff and Lynn M. Snyder A truly interdisciplinary work examining the Agora Bone Well. Dorothy Thompson excavated the Agora Bone Well in 1938, yet it has not been fully studied until now. Located outside the northwest corner of the Athenian Agora and dating to the second quarter of the 2nd century B.C., the well contained the remains of roughly 460 newborn infants, a few older individuals, the bones of almost 150 dogs and other animals, and various artefacts. This book provides a thorough examination of its contents, a thoughtful analysis of the neighbourhood in which it was located, and examines its wider context.

American School of Classical Studies at Athens • June 2018 • 9780876615508 • £45.00 • Paperback 279 x 216mm • 136 pages • 95 figs, 5 tables HESPERIA SUPPLEMENT

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GREECE & THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

THE PYLOS REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT A Retrospective Edited by Jack L. Davis and John Bennet

Documents and sets in context the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project. This book represents 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, a multidisciplinary, diachronic archaeological expedition organised to investigate the history of prehistoric and historic settlement in western Messenia in Greece. Contributions document a comprehensive methodological approach by an archaeological project that was one of the first to incorporate new technologies such as digital mapping tools and online databases. An invaluable resource for those interested in the history and development of southwestern Greece, and for researchers interested in methodological approaches to archaeological survey. American School of Classical Studies at Athens • December 2018 • 9780876619681 • £45.00 • Paperback 279 x 216mm • 588 pages • 251 figs, 8 plates, 46 tables

THE ATHENIAN AGORA

Museum Guide (5th ed., modern Greek) By Laura Gawlinski with photographs by Craig A. Mauzy A companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide for the general visitor. Written for the general visitor, The Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora — the terrace, the ground-floor colonnade, and the newly opened upper story. The guide also discusses each case in the museum gallery chronologically, beginning with the prehistoric and continuing with the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. Also available in English. American School of Classical Studies at Athens • July 2014 • 9789607067081 • £15.00 • Paperback 203 x 152mm • 200 pages • 101 b/w and colour illus., 1 foldout plan TEXT IN GREEK

THE ARCHETYPE OF WISDOM

A Phenomenological Research on the Greek Temple By Roberto Malvezzi An innovative examination of Greek temples incorporating lived experiences. This volume analyses the birth of the earliest Greek temples through an innovative phenomenological approach, in which lived experiences are assumed as key tools of investigation. It explores the connections that tied the Greeks to their surroundings, which can be found in the evidence of Greek religion, poetry, art and philosophy. This framework sheds new light on the relationship between ‘human’ and ‘divine’ in the ancient Greek world, and suggests that the archetypal structure of temples was devised to facilitate a particular experience. Mimesis International • May 2018 • 9788869771507 • £14.00 • Paperback 240 x 170mm • 544 pages • 379 b/w figs, 9 colour figs, 32 tables

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Julius Caesar’s

battle for Gaul

battle for

Gaul

New Archaeological Perspectives Edited by Andrew P. Fitzpatrick (University of Leicester) and Colin Haselgrove (University of Leicester)

Edited by Andrew P. Fitzpatrick and Colin Haselgrove

The latest archaeological research on the Battle for Gaul and its aftermath.

new archaeological perspectives

Roman historians have little to say on the consequences of the war on the Iron Age communities of north-west Europe. Their story is told instead by archaeology and numismatics. Huge numbers were involved in the war, at a vast cost in people and wealth. In the aftermath, leaders sympathetic to Rome were installed and sometimes whole peoples were resettled. The diplomatic relations created at this time directly affected the eventual incorporation of these peoples into the Roman Empire.

ROME & THE ROMAN PROVINCES

Julius Caesar’s

JULIUS CAESAR’S BATTLE FOR GAUL

This book presents the latest archaeological research on the Battle for Gaul and its aftermath. Based on an acclaimed 2017 conference, it is Oxbow Books • October 2018 the first Europe-wide overview and much of the 9781789250503 • £38.00 • Paperback research is published here in English for the first 240 x 170mm • 224 pages • b/w and col illus. time. After an introduction to recent trends in historical studies, thematic studies and regional surveys analyse the archaeological and numismatic evidence from across north-west Europe. Comparative evidence for the Roman conquest of Spain is also examined, along with the fundamental role that the study of the Battle for Gaul played in shaping the development of Iron Age archaeology. Written by leading international experts, this book will be of interest to archaeologists, numismatists, ancient historians and military historians. Edited by Andrew P. Fitzpatrick and Colin Haselgrove

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EMBRACING THE PROVINCES

Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions Edited by Tatiana Ivleva (Newcastle University), Mark Driessen (Leiden University) and Jasper de Bruin (Leiden University) Twenty-one essays on new research and data on life in the Roman provinces. This collection of essays focuses on people and their daily lives living in the Roman provinces, c. 27 BC—AD 476. It showcases the vibrancy of Roman provincial studies and suggests new directions, or new emphasis, for future investigation of Roman provincial world. It capitalizes on a wealth of data made available in recent decades to provide a holistic view on life in the Roman provinces by analysing various aspects of daily routine in the frontier regions, such as eating, dressing, and interacting. Oxbow Books • August 2018 • 9781789250152 • £48.00 • Hardback 280 x 216 mm • 288 pages

LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL HISPANIA Landscapes without Strategy? By Pilar Diarte-Blasco (University of Leicester)

Examines transformations of the Iberian Peninsula from the disappearance of the Roman Empire to arrival of Islamic troops. Examines the transformations of the urban and rural landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula, across one of the most turbulent periods of the history of this region, between the decay and disappearance of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Islamic troops (c. AD 400-711). It analyses landscape changes in a global perspective, combining both rural and urban contexts, discarding orthodox and reductionists points of view, where both aspects are analysed independently and as isolated compartments.

Oxbow Books • August 2018 • 9781785709968 • £40.00 • Paperback 240 x 170mm • 224 pages

OUTSIDE ROMAN LONDON

Roadside burials by the Walbrook stream By Serena Ranieri and Alison Telfer Archaeological evidence from excavations at Crossrail’s Broadgate ticket hall at Liverpool Street. This book describes the archaeological evidence from excavations at Crossrail’s Broadgate ticket hall at Liverpool Street, from the Late Iron Age to the late Roman marsh formation. The site lay 120m north of the town defences in a landscape dominated by a former tributary of the Walbrook stream. The site included an early 2nd- to 3rd-century road, a burial ground, and a large assemblage of accompanying disarticulated human bone remains.

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) • March 2018 • 9781907586446 • £10.00 • Paperback 189 x 246 • 228 pages

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Life and Death in the Countryside of Roman Britain By Alexander Smith, Martyn Allen, Tom Brindle, Michael Fulford, Lisa Lodwick and Anna Rohnbogner How the rural population of Roman Britain looked, lived, interacted with material and spiritual worlds, and died. Many previous syntheses of life and death in Roman Britain have drawn mostly upon data from urban or military settings, with rural life being limited to the elite residing in villas. Thanks to the increase in new information resulting from developer-funded excavations over the past thirty years, this has now changed. The six main chapters in this volume each tackle a different theme relating to life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain, combining to facilitate construction of a broad social archaeology of the province.

ROME & THE ROMAN PROVINCES

NEW VISIONS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE OF ROMAN BRITAIN, VOLUME 3

Roman Society Publications • July 2018 • 9780907764465 • £32.40 • Paperback 297 x 210mm • 448 pages • 129 b/w and colour illus. BRITANNIA MONOGRAPH

ROMAN GUERNSEY

Excavations, Fieldwork and Maritime Archaeology 1980–2015 Edited by Heather Sebire, Philip de Jersey and Jason Monaghan First detailed examination of Roman activity on Guernsey and Herm based on major excavations. Before the 1970s, discoveries of Roman material in Guernsey was scarce, and made up mostly of chance finds. Since the 1980s two large-scale excavations in the town of St Peter Port, plus accumulated evidence from rescue excavations elsewhere in the island and from underwater discoveries, has demonstrated that there was significant Roman occupation which lasted for several centuries. This volume presents reports of the in St Peter Port, together with a gazetteer of all Roman finds recorded from almost one hundred other sites in Guernsey and Herm. Oxbow Books • September 2018 • 9781789250688 • £40.00 • Paperback 280 x 220mm • 144 pages GUERNSEY MUSEUM MONOGRAPHS

medieval

europe Studies in Social and Landscape Contexts of Medieval Buildings

Edited by Duncan Berryman and Sarah Kerr

BUILDINGS OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Studies in Social and Landscape Contexts of Medieval Buildings Edited by Duncan Berryman (Queen’s University, Belfast) and Sarah Kerr (Trinity College, Dublin) Architectural tradition, archaeology and functionality of vernacular, administrative, and religious buildings in medieval Europe. This volume brings together an interesting range of papers discussing medieval buildings across Europe. They provide interesting insights to life in the medieval world in several understudied areas of Europe, ranging from Croatia and Transylvania in the east, to Scandinavia in the north and Britain in the west. This volume aims to open discussions about medieval buildings beyond simply architectural features and typologies, and furthers the discipline through this process.

MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Buildings of

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Edited by Pilar Diarte-Blasco and Neil Christie

INTERPRETING TRANSFORMATIONS OF PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPES IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES Archaeological Approaches and Issues Edited by Pilar Diarte-Blasco (Leicester University) and Neil Christie (Leicester University) Valuable new analyses of people and places.

INTERPRETING TRANSFORMATIONS of People and Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Archaeological Approaches and Issues

Discusses and interprets the complex evolution of landscapes—both urban and rural—across Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (c. AD 300–700). The geographical coverage extends from Italy to the Mediterranean West through to the Rhine frontier and onto Hadrian’s Wall. Core are questions of impacts due to socio-political, religious, military and economic transformations affecting provinces, territories and kingdoms.

Oxbow Books • November 2018 • 9781789250343 • £55.00 • Hardback 280 x 216mm • 352 pages

THE NEW CHURCHYARD

From Moorfields marsh to Bethlem burial ground, Brokers Row and Liverpool Street By Robert Hartlewith, Niamh Carty, Michael Henderson, Elizabeth Knox and Don Walker Explores the Crossrail archaeological investigations at Liverpool Street. Modern Liverpool Street was once on the margins of London: the story of its development—from the medieval marsh of Moorfields to municipal, nonparochial, burial ground and later suburb—is illustrated by archaeological investigations undertaken as part of the Crossrail Central development. Excavation also recovered a wealth of well-preserved artefactual evidence for the local inhabitants, from the 16th century to the 19th-century households of Brokers Row. MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) • March 2018 • 9781907586439 • £10.00 • Paperback 189 x 246 mm • 300 pages

FROM BRIDGEHEAD TO BREWERY

The Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Remains from Finzel’s Reach, Bristol By Ben M . Ford, Kate Brady and Steven Teague Examines the heritage of Finzel’s Reach, site of the former Courage and Bristol Breweries. This richly illustrated book presents the fascinating results from a major project to examine the heritage of Finzel’s Reach, the site of the former Courage and Bristol Breweries near the centre of one of England’s greatest port cities. Archaeological, geoarchaeological and historic building investigations have revealed a fascinating story of change and urban evolution at the site. The accompanying DVD contains documentation that formed the basis of the heritage strategy and guided its implementation, and a set of full specialist reports on the artefacts and ecofacts. Oxford Archaeology • October 2017 • 9780904220865 • £27.00 • Hardback 297 x 210 mm • 156 pages • 200 illus., 16 tables

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Excavations at Cure’s College Burial Ground, Park Street By Louise Loe, Kate Brady, Lisa Brown, Mark Gibson and Kirsty Smith Archaeological, historical, artefactual, osteological and isotopic evidence from investigations at Park Street. The Thameslink Project, a major infrastructure upgrade focussed at Blackfriars Station and London Bridge Station, and along the New Borough viaduct, involved archaeological investigations at Park Street which included the excavation of 331 post-medieval skeletons. By bringing together the archaeological, historical, artefactual, osteological and isotopic evidence, this volume traces the development of the burial ground and builds a social and biological profile of the individuals buried there.

Oxford Archaeology • October 2017 • 9780995663619 • £13.00 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 156 pages • 68 illus., 48 tables

MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

LIVING AND DYING IN SOUTHWARK 1587-1831

THAMESLINK ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERIES

A Phenomenology of Medieval and Early-Modern Northern England By David Postles Examines the idea of the ‘North’ of England as a distinct identity from its surnames. The North of England and northern-ness are elusive concepts, both academically and in popular perception. This volume in the English Surnames Survey series looks at what can be learned about the idea of the ‘North’ of England as a distinct identity from its surnames. Dave Postles attempts to reconstruct the language of the speech community and communities of northern England through the reporting and recording of personal name elements, examining the evidence from patronyms, metronyms and personal names, as well as occupational by names, and even nicknames.

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THE NORTH THROUGH ITS NAMES

Oxbow Books • March 2018 • 9781785709791 • £32.00 • New in Paperback 240 x 170mm • 256 pages • 47 b/w figs ENGLISH SURNAMES SURVEY

THE EARLY ANGLO-SAXON KINGDOMS OF SOUTHERN BRITAIN AD 450-650 Beneath the Tribal Hidage By Sue Harrington and Martin Welch

Uses archaeological evidence to further explore the picture of Anglo-Saxon England given by the Tribal Hidage. The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their lands and surpluses. In this volume authors review archaeological evidence of material culture to compare to the documentary evidence of the Tribal Hidage, allowing them to understand the population and wealth distributions of the period in more detail.

Oxbow Books • January 2018 • 9781785709708 • £40.00 • New in Paperback 246 x 189mm • 240 pages • b/w and colour illus.

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LIVING OFF THE LAND

Agriculture in Wales c. 400 to 1600 AD Edited by Andy Seaman (Canterbury Christ Church University) and Rhiannon Comeau (UCL) Sets Welsh medieval agricultural landscapes in a broader British context. The first book for a generation on medieval agriculture in Wales, presenting evidence which is of considerable relevance to those studying the development of the early medieval landscapes of England and Ireland. The papers address key questions that include: how did the agricultural systems of Wales operate between c. 400 and 1600 AD? What light do they cast on the material evidence for life in the contemporary landscape? How similar or different was Wales to other areas of Britain and Ireland? Can we identify change over time? How do we go about researching early Welsh agriculture? Windgather Press • November 2018 • 9781911188391 • £34.99 • Paperback 246 x 185mm • 224 pages • b/w and colour illus.

THE BEAKER PEOPLE

Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain Edited by Mike Parker Pearson (UCL), Andrew Chamberlain (Manchester University), Mandy Jay (Durham University), Mike Richards (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Jane Evans Exploration of the origin, mobility, diet and cultural relationships of Beaker-using people in the Chalcolithic of Britain.

Oxbow Books • September 2018 • 9781789250640 • £49.99 • Hardback 280 x 216mm • 672 pages • b/w and colour illus.

PREHISTORIC SOCIETY RESEARCH PAPERS

A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME

Crossrail in the lower Thames floodplain By Graham Spurr with Mary Nicholls and Virgil Yendell Analysis of investigations along the Crossrail south-east line. Has the Thames always looked like it does today, confined to the same course, muddy, brackish and tidal? Through analysis of the archaeology investigated along the Crossrail south-east line, which diverts from the main west–east route across the Thames floodplain from Stepney Green to Abbey Wood, this book tells the story of the lower Thames throughout the Holocene (from c. 10,000 years ago to the present). Introducing the techniques and theories used in geoarchaeology, this book uses the platform of the Crossrail sites to understand the wider, lower Thames area from Erith to Greenwich, Canning Town to Hornchurch. MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) • March 2018 • 9781907586422 • £10.00 • Paperback 189 x 246 mm • 60 pages • 259 illus., 134 tables

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Seeks to address questions about the people who were buried with Beakers —the distinctive pottery of Continental origin that was current in Britain from around 2450 BC. Who were these people? Were they immigrants and how far did they move around? What was their lifestyle? How do they compare with Britain’s earlier inhabitants and with contemporaries who did not use Beaker pottery? This lavishly illustrated book presents a body of data that will be vital to studies of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain for decades to come.

Excavations on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/ Balmedie-Tipperty By Kirsty Dingwall, Matt Ginnever, Sorina Spanou, Richard Tipping (University of Stirling) and Jürgen van Wessel Results of excavations on eight sites revealing nine phases of activity from the Upper Palaeolithic to the post-Medieval. Eight sites were excavated along the route of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route between Balmedy to Tipperty. In addition to the individual site evidence, a concluding chapter expands on three themes highlighted through the work; Mobility, ‘Gaps’, and Methodologies. Full versions of all specialist reports, the original assessment reports and relevant catalogues are provided digitally through ADS and cross-referenced throughout the text.

BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY

THE LAND WAS FOREVER: 15,000 YEARS IN NORTH EAST SCOTLAND

Oxbow Books • August 2018 • 9781785709883 • £40.00 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 368 pages

FROM ROMAN CIVITAS TO ANGLO-SAXON SHIRE Topographical Studies on the Formation of Wessex By Bruce Eagles (Bournemouth University)

A comprehensive examination of the development of territorial organisation within the Wessex region. This book is the culmination of the author’s lifelong interest in the Roman to medieval transition in England, and in the analysis of the historic landscape of Wessex. It begins with a focused, referenced, and critical exploration of the thorny, but crucial, issues of post-Roman personal and group identity, employing linguistic, historical, archaeological and toponymical evidence. A series of integrated studies seek to elucidate changes in the territorial organisation of the Wessex landscape, from Somerset to Hampshire, from the Roman period to the emergence of the historic counties. Oxbow Books • July 2018 • 9781785709845 • £34.99 • Paperback 280 x 216mm • 260 pages • b/w and colour illus.

CLIFTON QUARRY, WORCESTERSHIRE

Pits, Posts and Cereals: Archaeological Investigations 2006–2009 By Andrew Mann and Robin Jackson Presents new evidence for Neolithic activity in the form of Grooved ware pits with important environmental data. Between 2006 and 2009, Worcestershire Archaeology completed a series of investigations in advance of quarrying at Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire, revealing one of the most important sequences of prehistoric to early medieval activity discovered to date from the Central Severn Valley. Analysis of this evidence is underpinned by a comprehensive programme of scientific dating, providing a record of changing patterns of landuse and activity from the Late Mesolithic onwards.

Oxbow Books • August 2018 • 9781789250114 • £30.00 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 240 pages • b/w and colour illus.

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FAVERSHAM IN THE MAKING

The Early Years: The Ice Ages until AD 1550 By Patricia Reid, Duncan Harrington and Michael Frohnsdorff Presents a lively description of the early history and archaeology of the picturesque Kentish market town of Faversham. Well known for its later gunpowder industry and the famous Sheherd Neame brewery, Faversham’s earlier medieval history also reveals it to have been an important religious and administrative centre. The town archives possess an unusually complete set of medieval-onwards town charters and other documents including a Magna Carta. Using archaeological and historical evidence set in a physical and social context, the authors argue that there is a great deal more to this small town on the North Kent coast than is obvious at first glance. Oxbow Books • May 2018 • 9781911188353 • £25.99 • Paperback 246 x 185 mm • 176 pages • b/w and colour illus.

AMERICAN LANDSCAPES

RIVERSIDES

Neolithic Barrows, a Beaker Grave, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement at Trumpington, Cambridge By Christopher Evans, Sam Lucy, and Ricky Patten Presents results of a series of excavations along the Trumpington riverfront, Cambridgeshire. The 2010–11 excavations along Trumpington’s riverside proved extraordinary on a number of accounts, particularly for its ‘dead’, as it included Neolithic barrows (one with a mass interment), a double Beaker grave and an Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Aside from historiographical-themed Inset sections, there are detailed scientific analyses, and more than 30 radiocarbon dates were achieved. The concluding chapter critically addresses issues of local continuity and de facto notions of ‘settlement evolution’. McDonald Institute For Archaeological Research • May 2018 • 9781902937847 • £45.00 • Hardback AMERICAN LANDSCAPES 280 x 216 mm • 484 pages • b/w and colour illus. NEW ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE CAMBRIDGE REGION

A NORSE SETTLEMENT IN THE OUTER HEBRIDES

A NORSE SETTLEMENT IN THE OUTER HEBRIDES Excavations on mounds 2 and 2A Bornais, South Uist

Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist Edited by Niall Sharples (Cardiff University) Excavation report for one of the largest known rural Norse settlements in Britain. The settlement at Bornais in the Western Isles of Scotland is one of the largest rural settlements known from the Norse period in Britain, spanning from the fifth to the fifteenth century AD. This volume explores the stratigraphic sequence uncovered by the excavation of Bornais mounds 2 and 2A. The evidence presented makes a major contribution to the understanding of Norse Scotland and the colonisation of the North Atlantic in a period of dramatic transformations.

EDITED BY NIALL SHARPLES

Oxbow Books • December 2018 • 9781789250466 • £45.00 • Hardback BRITISH MUSEUM RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS 297 x 210mm • 608 pages

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BESIDE THE OCEAN Coastal Landscapes at the Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney

David Griffiths, Jane Harrison and Michael Athanson

The Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney, Archaeological Research 2003-18 By David Griffiths (Oxford University), Jane Harrison (Oxford University) and Michael Athanson (Oxford University) New evidence for Viking and Norse settlement in the bays of Orkney’s Atlantic coast.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2003–2017

The coastline of Orkney’s North-West Mainland is of exceptional archaeological importance, dominated by the Neolithic world heritage site of Skara Brae, and the Viking-Norse remains on the tidal Brough of Birsay. From 2003, a new archaeological research project began, using the rapidly-developing applications of archaeological geophysics, coupled with topographical survey. This monograph brings together the survey and excavation results to tell a new story of an ancient landscape.

BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY

BESIDE THE OCEAN, BIRSAY, ORKNEY

Oxbow Books • December 2018 • 9781789250961 • £45.00 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 432 pages

AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY

UNDERSTANDING RELATIONS BETWEEN SCRIPTS II

Early Alphabets Edited by Philip J. Boyes (Cambridge University) and Philippa M. Steele (Cambridge University) Sheds new light on alphabetic writing as an element of culture. This volume brings together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture.

Oxbow Books • August 2018 • 9781789250923 • £50.00 • Hardback CONTEXTS OF AND 240 x 170 mm • 272 pages RELATIONS BETWEEN EARLY WRITING SYSTEMS (CREWS)

CRAFTING MINOANISATION

Textiles, Crafts Production and Social Dynamics in the Bronze Age southern Aegean By Joanne Elizabeth Cutler Proposes new perspectives concerning processes through which Cretan techniques were taken up and imitated abroad. The mid second millennium BC material record of the southern Aegean shows evidence of strong Cretan influence. This phenomenon has traditionally been seen in terms of ‘Minoanisation’, but the nature and degree of Cretan influence, and the process/processes by which it was spread and adopted, have been widely debated. This new study addresses the question of ‘Minoanisation’ through a study of the adoption of Cretan technologies in the wider southern Aegean: principally, weaving technology. Oxbow Books • May 2018 • 9781785709661 • £48.00 • Hardback 280 x 216mm • 544 pages • 171 illus.

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BUTRINT 5: LIFE AND DEATH AT A MEDITERRANEAN PORT The Non-Ceramic Finds from the Triconch Palace By William Bowden (University of Nottingham)

A landmark, rare example of an environmental and material assemblage from a late Roman and Medieval excavation. This is the second volume arising from the 1994-2003 excavations of the Triconch Palace at Butrint (Albania), which charted the history of a major Mediterranean waterfront site from the 2nd to the 15th centuries AD. This volume reports on the finds from the site (excluding the pottery), which demonstrate the ways in which the lives, diet and material culture of a Mediterranean population changed across the arc of the late Roman and Medieval periods. Oxbow Books • December 2018 • 9781785708978 • £45.00 • Hardback BUTRINT 297 x 210mm • 320 pages • b/w and colour illus. ARCHAEOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

THE KNOSSOS TABLETS

By José L. Melena and Richard J. Firth The sixth edition of The Knossos Tablets. José L. Melena, with assistance on find-spots from Richard Firth and a check of the accuracy of each and every text by an editorial team of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, offers here definitive readings of the Knossos tablets archaeologically, linguistically and historically important records. The book presents accurate information on tablet joins, find-spots, assignments of texts to scribes, sets of texts identified by subject matter and administrative purpose, and conjectural readings of partially preserved texts.

INSTAP • May 2018 • 9781931534963 • £55.00 • Hardback 254 x 178 mm • 696 pages • 5 illus.

CHALASMENOS I The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement. House A.2 By Melissa Eaby Examines House A.2 at Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Chalasmenos. This is the first volume on the Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Chalasmenos, located near Lerapetra in eastern Crete, and excavated 1992–2014. House A.2 is a two-room structure on the southwestern edge of the site. The excavation and stratigraphy, architecture, pottery, small finds, and faunal material from the building are presented. The house was used for domestic purposes, serving as the home of an elite (or prospective elite) family, but it also was a meeting and dining place on certain occasions.

INSTAP • May 2018 • 9781931534956 • £55.00 • Hardback 279 x 216 mm • 206 pages • 4 charts, 8 tables, 31 figure, 21 plates

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A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Minoan Architecture By Clairy Palyvou Explores the Minoan world through its architecture, and architecture through the Minoan paradigm. The Bronze Age was a time of affluence and innovation for Crete, a unique “moment” in the early history of architecture. The mythical Daidalos stands for the prototype of “an architect at work”, following orders and desires set by his clients and by society. In this book, architecture is the protagonist and phenomoneology the basic tool of thought. This book addresses archaeologists, architectural historians, and architects alike.

AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY

DAIDALOS AT WORK

INSTAP • June 2018 • 9781931534949 • £34.00 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 260 pages • 221 figs.

THE LATE MINOAN III NECROPOLIS OF ARMENOI Volume 1: Introduction and Background Edited by Yannis Tzedakis, Holley Martlew and Robert Arnott

Examines an important and extensive Late Bronze Age III cemetery on Crete. This is the first volume on the Late Minoan III necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. It sets the scene, introduces the site and its topography, and offers the results of site surveys and their finds. A chapter on the Linear B discovery from the necropolis is also included. This publication will augment our knowledge of Minoan burial practices, craft production, and religion. It will elucidate Minoans as a people: what they ate and drank, how they lived their lives, what diseases caused them suffering, and how they died.

INSTAP • July 2018 • 9781931534970 • £55.00 • Hardback 279 x 216 mm • 284 pages • 20 tables, 147 figs.

PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS

By Ali Faraj

Historical, linguistic, artistic and bibliographic aspects of the Kitāb Ġurar al-fawāyd by aš-Šarīf al-Murtadā. . During a period of over five years of work in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the author has examined the majority of its Arabic manuscripts in order to provide some elementary codicological data. This monograph describes the Kitāb Ġurar al-fawāyd by aš-Šarīf al-Murtadā . contained in manuscript MS.1665 (H 43) and other copies of the same text preserved in some Western European libraries, with regard to their historical, linguistic, artistic and bibliographic aspects. Mimesis International • August 2018 • 9788869771583 • £12.00 • Paperback 210 x 140mm • 75 pages • 30 illus.

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ISLAM & THE MIDDLE EAST

CODICOLOGICAL AND ORTHOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF KITĀB ĠURAR AL-FAWĀYD BY AŠ-ŠARĪF AL-MURTAḌĀ MS. 1665 H 43 BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA

ABRAXAS / ESSAYS

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JAWN MARTYR OF KARBALA LAMENTED

Marsiyah Dar Hal Janab Jawn Ibn Hawiyy Mawla Abi Dharr Al-Ghifari By His Highness Raja Muḥammad Amīr Ahmad Khān and Peter Knapcyzk Publishes for the first time a marsiyah that will grip both the academic and lay reader. This hitherto unpublished marsiyah composed by Rajad Mohammad Amir Ahmad Khan of Mahmudabad is unique for a number of reasons. The subject of the marsiyah is Jawn, an Abyssinian companion of Imam al-Husayn, who . was martyred in Karbala. It is the very first marsiyah known to be composed in Jawn’s memory in any language of such length and breadth. Alongside the obvious references to racial equality, the marsiyah demonstrates the author’s deep knowledge of Islamic history and contains subtle metaphysical meditations.

The Shīah Institute Press • Available Now • 9781905912407 • £39.00 • Hardback 234 x 156 mm • 253 pages THE SHĪ‘AH HERITAGE OF SOUTH ASIA

PHILOSOPHY AND THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN SHĪ‘AH ISLAM

Symposium 2015 Edited by Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad and Sajjad H. Rizvi Aims to make an initial contribution to, and encourage further research into, Shī‘ī intellectual history. Contains the proceedings from The Shī‘ah Institute’s first Symposium 2015, comprising a series of studies into the philosophical trends and thinkers associated with the Shī‘ī tradition. The volume offers insight into the rich intellectual history in Shī‘ah Islam of examining enduring and integral theological, mystical, metaphysical, and epistemological questions. The chapters are broad in scope, commencing from the classical period of philosophical theology and proceeding to examine philosophical aspects of the thought of al-Shaykh al-Mufīd, Mīr Dāmād, and Mullā Sadrā, . amongst others.

The Shīah Institute Press • Available now • 9780993588433 • £139.00 • Hardback 234 x 156 mm • 276 pages THE SHĪ‘AH INSTITUTE SYMPOSIA SERIES

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By Jamāl al-Din Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥasan b. Sadīd al-Dīn Yūsuf b. Zayn al-Dīn ʿAli b. al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī and Edited by Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi An indispensable text for all serious scholars of Imāmī Shī‘ī legal theory. Al-Allāmah al-Hillī’s Mabādi’ al-wusūl ilā ‘ilm al-usūl is a testament to the . . . revival of Shī‘ī scholarship in the seventh and eighth centuries of the Hijrah. This highly-condensed text set the standard for the subsequent development and discussion of Imāmī Shī‘ī legal theory (usūl . al-fiqh). This is the first Arabic critical edition of any of al-‘Allāmah al-Hillī’s jurisprudential works published . to date. It is based on six manuscripts, four of which date from the lifetime of the author, and comes with a full Arabic Apparatus Criticus.

ISLAM & THE MIDDLE EAST

MABĀDI’ AL-WUṢŪL ILĀ ‘ILM AL-UṢŪL

The Shīah Institute Press • Available now • 9780993588426 • £50.00 • Hardback TEXT IN ARABIC 242 x 170 mm • 190 pages MAKTABAT AL-TURĀTH AL-SHĪ‘Ī

THE CALL OF THE FREE

An adaptation of Riḍā al-Khafājī’s Ṣawt al-Ḥurr al-Riyāḥi By Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi An adaptation into English of Sawt al-Hurr al-Riyāhī, . . by the Iraqi . poet and playwright Ridā . al-Khafājī. The Call of the Free portrays the events leading up to the massacre of alHusayn b. ‘Alī, his family, and his companions at Karbala, as seen through the . eyes of al-Hurr al-Riyāhī, . . a man caught between his duties as a soldier of the Umayyad Caliphate and his conscience. This adaptation into English seeks to introduce the theatrical tradition of Mystery plays in honour of ‘Āshūrā’ to the Anglophone world —offering the reader insight into the rich commemorative practices surrounding the lamentation of the massacre at Karbala.

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MI‘RĀJ AL-‘UQŪL SHARḤ DU‘Ā’ AL-MASHLŪL

The Ascension of the Intellects: Commentary on the Supplication of the Lame By Sayyid Murtaḍā Nawnahrawī Ghāzīpūrī and Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad Finally introduces a seminal theological, philosophical, and mystical work to the wider world of scholarship. Mi‘rāj al-‘Uqūl Sharh. Du‘ā’ al-Mashlūl (The Ascension of the Intellects: Commentary on the Supplication of the Lame) is Ghāzīpūrī’s magnum opus; a comprehensive, recondite, treatment of the issues relating to the Divine Attributes, in the form of a commentary on a well-known supplication of Imām ‘Alī b. Abī Talīb (d. 40 AH/661 CE). This edition is the first time this important . text has been published in any form in over a century, during which time it was neglected and largely forgotten. The Shīah Institute Press • Available Now • 9780993588402 • £90.00 • Hardback 242 x 170 mm • 276 pages • 171 illus. THE SHĪ‘AH HERITAGE OF SOUTH ASIA

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD & THEORY

CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN OBJECTS

Conversations between Objects

Edited by Linda Hulin (University of Oxford)

New theoretical approach to the relationship between the archaeological recovery of objects how humans experience objects.

Linda Hulin

Conversations between Objects

This volume in the popular Oxbow Insights in Archaeology series considers the relationship between the archaeological record and the human past, and examines the differences that arise between the practice of excavating material culture and the models for thinking about it. Two common themes emerge: the dominance of vision as a medium of both recording the past and a vehicle for understanding it and the primacy given to knowledge over sensation. Ultimately, this work brings the ordinariness of the object world back into discourse by exploring their affect, en masse, upon the human body.

Linda Hulin OXBOW INSIGHTS IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Oxbow Books • December 2018 • 9781789250039 • £15.99 • Paperback 197 x 128mm • 160 pages • Colour illus. OXBOW INSIGHTS IN ARCHAEOLOGY

LANDSCAPE BENEATH THE WAVES

The Archaeological Exploration of Underwater Landscapes By Caroline Wickham-Jones (University of Aberdeen) Offers an easily accessible introduction to the exciting realm of underwater archaeology. At the end of the last Ice Age, sea level around the world was lower, coastal lands stretched further and the continents were bigger, in some cases landmasses were joined by dry land that has now disappeared beneath the waves. The study of the now submerged landscapes that our ancestors knew represents one of the last barriers for archaeology. This volume considers the processes behind the rising (and falling) of relative sea-levels and then presents the main techniques available for the study and interpretation of the archaeological remains that have survived inundation. Case studies are used to illustrate particular applications, and a review of projects around the world highlights the varying scale and period of sites concerned. It offers an easily accessible introduction to the exciting realm of underwater archaeology. Oxbow Books • October 2018 • 9781789250725 • £29.95 • Paperback 240 x 170mm • 256 pages • b/w and colour illus. STUDYING SCIENTIFIC ARCHAEOLOGY

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Estudio arqueológico sobre el paisaje indígena de Haytí y su transformacióna al paisaje colonial de La Española (1200-1550) By Eduardo Herrera Malatesta Examines the ways in which Columbus’ arrival to the Caribbean affected the indigenous populations. The arrival of Columbus to the Caribbean in 1492 marked a milestone in world history, and affected the indigenous population at different cultural, social and political levels. This volumes approaches these transformations by studying material culture patterns and their spatial distribution. In this work a regional archaeological investigation is combined with a theoretical framework that integrates the concepts of taskscape and contested landscapes with statistical analysis and Geographic Information Systems to evaluate the patterns of material culture distribution and its cultural implications. Sidestone Press • December 2018 • 257 x 182 mm • 336 pages • 85 b/w and 43 colour illus. 9789088905728 • £150.00 • Hardback TEXT IN SPANISH 9789088905711 • £50.00 • Paperback

DEBATING RELIGIOUS SPACE AND PLACE IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD (C. AD 300-1000)

ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD & THEORY

UNA ISLA, DOS MUNDOS

Edited by Chantal Bielmann and Brittany Thomas

Interdisciplinary and multi-national scholars discuss religious ‘space’ and ‘place’ in the Early Medieval World. Religious spaces are often some of the most debated, contested, or otherwise scrutinized in the early medieval world. That space and place were important to people in the past is evident in their architecture, artwork, literature, and in their cemeteries and burial grounds. While these observations are not new, this volume brings together interdisciplinary and multi-national archaeologists, historians, and geographers to discuss and debate ‘space’ and ‘place’ with a focus on new methodologies and current approaches to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Sidestone Press • May 2018 • 257 x 182 mm • 225 pages • 25 b/w and 27 colour illus. 9789088904196 • £95.00 • Hardback 9789088904189 • £35.00 • Paperback

MANIPULATIONS POST-MORTEM DU CORPS HUMAIN Implications Archéologiques et Anthropologiques By Jennifer Kerner

Includes the study of double-funeral ceremonies and manipulations of human bones in funerary or ritual contexts. This work includes the study of double-funerals ceremonies and manipulations of human bones in funerary or ritual contexts but also complicated pre-funerals treatments (exposure, dismemberment, mummification) in a transcultural and transchronological perspective. Human remains and spatial data from archaeological contexts have been analysed using bioanthropological and traceological approach in order to reconstruct complex mortuary operating sequences. An ethnoarcheological study on multiple-steps funerals has been led in order to interpret archaeological remains. Sidestone Press • April 2018 • 257 x 182 mm • 400 pages • 88 colour illus. 9789088905445 • £180.00 • Hardback 9789088905438 • £60.00 • Paperback

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NUMISMATICS & PHILATELY

THE SÖSDALA HORSEMEN AND THE EQUESTRIAN ELITE IN FIFTH CENTURY EUROPE Edited by Charlotte Fabech and Ulf Nässman

A European team of scholars places Sösdala in its European setting. Sösdala is a famous name in European archaeology of the Migration Period, but the fame of the name has overshadowed the finds themselves – including mounts from an exquisitely decorated parade bridle, the closest parallels to which are found in Austria, Poland, Romania and Ukraine. Based on new scholarly studies and scientific analyses, a European team of scholars places Sösdala in its European setting. The book is concluded by full catalogues of three finds of horse tack from Sösdala and Fulltofta.

Aarhus University Press • March 2018 • 9788793423152 • £35.00 • Hardback 280 x 240 mm • 452 pages • b/w and colour illus.

JUTLAND ARCHAEOLGOGICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS

THE LATER REPUBLICAN CISTOPHORI By William Metcalf

Catalogues and illustrates the cistophoric coinage bearing the names of Roman magistrates, struck in 58–48 BC. This volume treats the cistophoric coinage bearing the names of Roman magistrates, most commonly proconsuls, struck in 58–48 BC, as well as other issues which depart from the traditional paradigm. It catalogues and illustrates some 523 cistophori and fractions from the mints of Ephesus, Pergamum, Tralles, and Apameia, as well as the “ATA” series and related issues. A detailed commentary discusses the Roman magistrates and the Greek signers of their coinages as well as well as the metrology and fineness of the cistophori.

American Numismatic Society • December 2017 • 9780897223478 • £55.00 Hardback • 279 x 216 mm • 200 pages • 100 illus.

NUMISMATIC NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS

A MONETARY HISTORY OF CENTRAL AMERICA By Brian Stickney

The first complete and up-to-date history of Central American coinage, organised by country. A comprehensive approach to analyse the political, economic, and sociological events which influenced the evolution of coinage and medals in Central America. Beginning with the discovery of the New World, the book seeks to determine how and why the many monetary regimes evolved, were sustained, and ultimately replaced throughout both the Colonial and Independence eras. It includes a thumbnail chronology of political and monetary events from 1500–1965, a glossary of terms, and gold and silver production and ratio tables throughout the centuries.

American Numismatic Society • February 2018 • 9780897223508 • £120.00 Hardback • 279 x 203 mm • 386 pages • 630 b/w illus.

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By C.H.V. Sutherland

A reprint of an important work on Julio-Claudian coinage. Dr CHV Sutherland was for many years Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum. From 1939 he was co-editor and part-author of Roman Imperial Coinage, devoting years to the fundamental revision and rewriting of Mattingley and Sydenham’s original Volume I (1923) of the series. Though the revised volume has been out of print now for some years, his study of the Julio-Claudian coinage is made newly available by Spink in this handsome reprint.

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THE ROMAN IMPERIAL COINAGE, VOLUME I

Spink Books • May 2018 • 9780907605096 • £150.00 • Hardback 240 x 152mm • 360 pages

THE ROMAN IMPERIAL COINAGE, VOLUME X By John Kent

Essential reading for students of the late Roman and Byzantine period and coin collectors. This tenth volume of Roman Imperial Coinage completed the first edition of the series founded by Mattingly and Sydenham in 1923. Its layout is based on the division between the eastern and western parts of the empire, and the reigns of successive emperors. A further section deals with imitative coinages struck by certain of the barbarian peoples, and there are detailed accounts of the monetary system and mints, and of the coin-types and legends.

Spink Books • May 2018 • 9780907605430 • £350.00 • Hardback 240 x 152mm • 856 pages

ECHOES OF EMPIRE

Sierra Leone Philatelic Legacy, 1786-1980 By Majed Halawi Integrates Sierra Leone’s philatetic legacy into the prevailing cultural, social, and political narrative. A little short of two and a half centuries ago, the Province of Freedom was founded on the shores of what would later become an independent Sierra Leone. Echoes of Empire provides a glimpse of major events in the history of Sierra Leone through a presentation of its stamps and postal history from inception through the early 1980s.

Spink Books • September 2018 • 9781907427961 • £50.00 • Hardback 280 x 216mm • 512 pages

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THE CUNETIO AND NORMANBY HOARDS By Roger Bland, Edward Besly and Andrew Burnett

Examines two of the largest Roman coin hoards from Britain. The Cunetio and Normanby hoards are the two of the largest Roman coin hoards from Britain. The Cunetio hoard was originally published as a single volume; the Normanby hoard was published along with several other hoards. This edition provides the two hoards in one volume with a note on more recent work on the radiate coinage of AD 253-96 and notes to aid identification by Sam Moorhead.

Spink Books • June 2018 • 9781907427954 • £60.00 • Hardback 282 x 224mm • 304 pages

OBJECTS OF WAR

Currency in a Time of Conflict By Kevin Clancy An exploration of the ways in which war has shaped money and currency. In this new book Kevin Clancy, Director of the Royal Mint Museum, explores how war has shaped currencies, and how coins and banknotes have been used as weapons of war, symbols of state, and how they have changed in reaction to extreme circumstances. It is a fascinating story that will be as engaging to those with an interest in military history as much as to those of us with more than a passing interest in money.

Spink Books • September 2018 • 9781907427909 • £25.00 • Hardback 282 x 224mm • 224 pages

MONARCHY, MONEY AND MEDALS Highlights of the Royal Collection By Jeremy Cheek

Describes and illustrates the coins, medals and banknotes of the Royal Collection. The Royal Collection is famous as one of the finest art collections in the world, but little is known about its coins, medals and banknotes, which include many extremely rare pieces. This book describes and illustrates the most important items in the Collection, giving their historical background, how they came to be in the Collection, and their importance. It features many objects which have never been exhibited before.

Spink Books • October 2018 • 9781907427916 • £40.00 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 230 pages

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The Medals of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Risogimento and Modern Italy By Jerome J. Platt The rise of Giuseppe Garibaldi, through medals, books and memorabilia. This book provides an overview of the historical events during which Giuseppe Garibaldi rose from obscurity to leadership of the Italian unification movement or ‘Risorgimento.’ It accomplishes this goal by utilising the Anthony P. Campanella Collection of medals, books, memorabilia and other resources relating to Giuseppe Garibaldi at the University of South Carolina. It affords an important resource for those who wish to research medals relating to Giuseppe Garibaldi’s life and legacy.

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“HERE WE MAKE ITALY OR WE DIE”

Spink Books • June 2018 • 9781907427848 • £50.00 • Hardback 280 x 216mm • 304 pages

COIN HOARDS AND HOARDING IN ROMAN BRITAIN AD 43 - C.498 A British Numismatic Society Publication By Roger Bland

A comprehensive overview of British coin hoards from the Roman period. Britain has a uniquely rich heritage of coin hoards of the Roman period, with over 3,400 known from the Iron Age through to the fifth century AD. This book is the first comprehensive survey for eighty years. There are chapters on the study of hoards, on hoarding in general, on the Iron Age to Roman transition to AD 69, the denarius period, radiate hoards, the fourth and fifth centuries, and late Roman precious-metal hoards.

Spink Books • June 2018 • 9781907427794 • £40.00 • Hardback 278 x 200mm • 424 pages

SCAETTA LIST

Second Edition By Tony Abramson Essential volume for collectors, curators, cataloguers, detectorists and dealers. This second edition adds more than a hundred new varieties of early pennies. It builds on the work While this topic, with its huge variation in designs, has more than its fair share of difficulties, the author has always sought to make the subject more accessible to occasional users. The volume is essentially for – and essential to – collectors, curators, cataloguers, detectorists and dealers, among others, and includes guidance on scarcity and values.

Spink Books • June 2018 • 9781907427862 • £50.00 • Hardback 195 x 255mm • 424 pages

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SYLLOGE OF COINS OF THE BRITISH ISLES 69

The Abramson Collection, Coins of Early Anglo-Saxon England and the North Sea Area By Tony Abramson A critical resource for students of early Anglo-Saxon archaeology, history and numismatics. The Sylloge is a major series of catalogues of British and Irish coins in public and significant private collections, describing and illustrating coins and tokens ranging from Ancient British issues to those of the 17th century. This volume records, illustrates and describes the early Anglo-Saxon collection of Tony Abramson: one of the premier private assemblages of gold, silver and basemetal coins from the early medieval period, amounting to over 1,100 specimens.

Spink Books • June 2018 • 9781907427855 • £30.00 • Hardback 255 x 200mm • 816 pages

ENGLISH HAMMERED COINAGE, VOLUME I By J.J. North

Revised edition of a classic work. The third revised editions of Jeffrey North’s two volume classic are newly reissued for 2018 to make them available to Spink customers for the first time in over ten years. Volume I includes hammered coins of the early Anglo Saxon, Viking, Regional Kings, Norman and Plantagenet periods up to the reign of Henry III, including 20 plates with hundreds of coin images, covering the dates c.600 to 1272.

Spink Books • June 2018 • 9780907605454 • £50.00 • Hardback 255 x 200mm • 320 pages

ENGLISH HAMMERED COINAGE, VOLUME II By J.J. North

Revised edition of a classic work. The third revised editions of Jeffrey North’s two volume classic are newly reissued for 2018 to make them available to Spink customers for the first time in over ten years. Volume II covers the coinages of Edward I to Charles II from 1272-1662, the principal amendments to the third edition being in the coinages of 1279-1351 and the provincial issues of Charles I.

Spink Books • June 2018 • 9780907605348 • £50.00 • Hardback 255 x 200mm • 256 pages

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An Illustrated Guide to Identification By Christopher R. Wren A simple guide to short-cross coinage.

This guide is intended to introduce the short cross coinage to new collectors and beginners generally and to assist in classifying these coins. It aims to enable collectors, archaeological site personnel, detectorists and others to identify the majority of normal coins at need. It also sets out very briefly the historical context of the short cross coinage and the development of the classification system in used today.

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THE SHORT-CROSS COINAGE 1180-1247

Spink Books • June 2018 • 9781902040738 • £20.00 • Paperback 210 x 150mm • 96 pages

THE VOIDED LONG-CROSS COINAGE 1247-1279 An Illustrated Guide to Identification By Christopher R. Wren

A simple guide to voided long-cross coinage. This guide is intended to introduce the voided long cross coinage to new collectors and beginners generally to assist in classifying these coins. The English voided long- cross coins are so-named from the double-limbed or ‘voided’ cross on the reverses which extends to the outer edge of the coins, This serves to distinguish them from the earlier short-cross which they replaced and from the later (plain) long-cross coins of Edward I (from 1279) and thereafter.

Spink Books • June 2018 • 9781902040745 • £20.00 • Paperback 210 x 150mm • 88 pages

THE ENGLISH LONG-CROSS PENNIES 1279-1489 An Illustrated Guide to Identification By Christopher R. Wren

A simple guide to English long-cross pennies. This guide is intended to introduce the long-cross coinage to new collectors and beginners generally and to assist in classifying these coins. It is not a scholarly work; it does not include any significant original material and some of the details and complexities have been simplified. It aims to enable collectors, archaeological site personnel, detectorists and others to identify the majority of coins. A very useable guide with most useful lists of obverse and reverse legends, initial marks and symbols, enabling simple and quick identification.

Spink Books • June 2018 • 9780952034827 • £25.00 • Paperback 210 x 150mm • 200 pages

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MUSEUMS & HERITAGE MANAGEMENT

ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE PPG16 ERA

Investigations in England 1990–2010 By Timothy Darvill (Bournemouth University), Bronwen Russell (Bournemouth University) and Ehren Milner (Bournemouth University) Only comprehensive assessment of the significance and role of Planning Policy Guidance Note 16: Archaeology and Planning (PPG16). The Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP) systematically collected information about the nature and outcomes of more than 86,000 archaeological projects undertaken between 1990 and 2010. This volume looks at long-term trends in archaeological investigation and reporting, places this work within wider social, political, and professional contexts, and reviews its achievements. A series of case studies reveals ways in which projects develop, how archaeology is integrated with planning and execution, and the range of outputs documenting the process. Oxbow Books • December 2018 • 9781789251081 • £25.00 • Hardback 280 x 220mm • 320 pages

CULTURE AND PERSPECTIVE AT TIMES OF CRISIS

State Structures, Private Initiative and the Public Character of Heritage Edited by Ioannis Poulios, Sophia Antoniadou (Hellenic Open University), Giorgos Vavouranakis (University of Athens) and Pavlina Raouzaiou Explores new avenues for public engagement and the development of public involvement in heritage management.

Deals with key aspects concerning heritage management at times of crisis, and specifically with the public character of cultural heritage. Contributors address a series of issues including the downgrading and shrinking of state structures in heritage management; the upgrading and expansion of the role of private initiative towards covering the gap created by the insufficiency of the state; the public character of heritage; and the synergies between state structures and private initiatives in view of the public character of heritage. Oxbow Books • September 2018 • 9781785708596 • £40.00 • Hardback 240 x 170mm • 208 pages • b/w illus.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COLLECTIONS

Of the Oriental Institute Edited by Jean M. Evans, Jack Green and Emily Teeter Guide to over 100 highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago. This guide to over 100 highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago presents objects from ancient Mesopotamia, Syria-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Persia, Nubia, and objects from the Islamic collection. It features all new photography, provenance information, and a brief description of each object, as well as a history of the collections and a concordance.

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago • January 2018 • 9781614910053 • £14.95 • Paperback 254 x 152mm • 152 pages • 140 illus.

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Ancient Biography: Identity through Lives Edited by Francis Cairns and Trevor Luke Papers from the colloquium Narrating Lives: Biography and Identity in Antiquity, held in 2015 at Florida State University. Ancient Biography contains revised versions of most of the papers given at the Papers from the colloquium Narrating Lives: Biography and Identity in Antiquity, held in 2015 at Florida State University, along with contributions from other scholars in the fields of biographical writing and identity. A combined bibliography and indexes are included.

TEXTS % LITERATURE

PAPERS OF THE LANGFORD LATIN SEMINAR, VOLUME 17, 2017

Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd • May 2018 • 9780995461215 • £50.00 • Hardback ARCA, CLASSICAL 216 x 138mm • 326 pages • b/w and colour illus. AND MEDIEVAL TEXTS, PAPERS AND MONOGRAPHS

JJP SUPPLEMENT 32 (2017) JOURNAL OF JURISTIC PAPYROLOGY

Empowering the Dead in Christian Nubia: The Texts from a Medieval Funerary Complex in Dongola Edited by Adam Łajtar and Jacques van der Vliet Publishes the texts found on the walls of the crypt of Archbishop Georgios of Dongola. In 1993, a team from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw discovered the crypt of Archbishop Georgios of Dongola. The walls of the crypt were covered with writing, and the provisional identification of some of the texts forced a complete re-evaluation of Makurian culture and Christianity in Africa in the early twelfth century. These texts have been recorded, studied and ultimately published in this astounding selection of texts in Greek and Coptic.

Journal of Juristic Papyrology • December 2017 • 9788394684822 • £67.00 • Hardback 280 x 160mm • 340 pages • b/w illus. JJP SUPPLEMENTS

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RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

INTO THE MELTING POT

SPLENDID ISOLATION

By Unn Pedersen

The Eruption of the Laacher See Volcano & Southern Scandinavian Late Glacial Hunter-Gatherers By Felix Riede

Examines workshops and discusses the craftspeople i n t h e Vi k i n g tow n o f Kaupang including their activities, crafted products, raw materials, skills and networks. The study focuses on artefacts used in on-ferrous metalworking.

Splendid Isolation summarises more than ten years of research that connects the cataclysmic eruption of the Laacher See volcano in present-day western Germany with contemporary cultural changes.

Aarhus University Press • 9788779343108 • £35.00 Hardback • 305 x 215mm • 222 pages

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PETRAS, SITEIA. THE PRE- AND PROTOPALATIAL CEMETERY IN CONTEXT

In 1864, a large metal hoard of copper, bronze and silver objects was discovered at Pile in the southern Swedish region of Scania. The hoard has been dated to the onset of the rich Nordic Bronze Age, and emerges as the earliest, finest and one of the largest of the Nordic sacrificial deposits of metalwork in or near water. The metal hoard from Pile in Scania, Sweden provides the first detailed documentation, scientific examination and historical interpretation of the assemblage. Around 2000 BCE the site of Pile was networked with places near and the far in a manner that boosted the political economy of Southern Scandinavia, adding to an atmosphere of tensions and change – and it made history. The chapters unfold as a ‘history from beneath’ beginning with place, things and time and concluding with metals and the worlds that intersected in Pile at the threshold of the long Bronze Age.

Stregkode

Aarhus University Press • 9788771841572 • £50.00 Hardback • 275 x 210mm • 448 pages

URBAN CONSUMPTION

Tracing urbanity in the archaeological record of Aarhus c. AD 800-1800 By Jette Linaa

Based on excavations and finds from Aarhus and its periphery, the development of the town and its network is analysed from Viking Age to mid-1800, focusing on the urban communities and their challenges.

Aarhus University Press • 9788793423060 • £29.00 Hardback • 297 x 210mm • 239 pages

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THE METAL HOARD FROM PILE

This report on the site of Petras, Siteia concerns the progress of research conducted on the very important and extensive cemetery of the Pre- and Proto-palatial periods in eastern Crete.

Place, Things, Time, Metals & Worlds Around 2000 BCE By Helle Vandkilde Vandkilde

Acts of a two-day conference held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 14-15 February 2015 Edited by Metaxia Tsipopoulou

METAL HOARD FROM PILE IN SCANIA, SWEDEN

THE METAL HOARD FROM PILE IN SCANIA, SWEDEN Place, things, time, metals, and worlds around 2000 BCE By Helle Vandkilde

In 1864, a large metal hoard was discovered at Pile in the southern Swedish region of Scania. This book provides the first detailed documentation, scientific examination and historical interpretation of the assemblage.

Aarhus University Press • 9788771841435 • £25.00 Hardback • 300 x 210mm • 250 pages

DAILY LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE NEOLITHIC

A comparative study of longhouses with sunken floors at Resengaard and nine other settlements in the Limfjord region, South Scandinavia By Simonsen John Unique insights into Late Neolithic life, its organization and its economy.

Aarhus University Press • 9788793423145 • £48.00 Hardback • 297 x 210mm • 536 pages

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Edited by Flemming Højlund

The first archaeological surveys and excavations in the state of Qatar were carried out by Moesgaard Museum, Denmark, in 19561974. A volume on the Stone Age sites was released by JAS in 1967, and the present publication includes the remaining investigations.

MEDIEVAL GARMENTS RECONSTRUCTED Norse Clothing Patterns By Else Ostergard

With a short introduction to the amazing finds of garments from the Norse settlement of Herjolfnes in Greenland by Else Østergård, this is a practical guide to making your own Norse Medieval garment!

Aarhus University Press • 9788793423091 • £35.00 Hardback • 297 x 210mm • 196 pages

Aarhus University Press • 9788779342989 • £25.00 Hardback• 225 x 320mm • 144 pages

ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Volume 1: Eighth to Twelfth Centuries AD By James Graham-Campbell

The first, ground-breaking volume of the first complete account of medieval archaeology across Europe. This book covers from the 8th to 12th centuries in sixteen chapters, and is comprehensively illustrated.

Aarhus University Press • 9788779342903 • £35.00 Paperback • 170 x 240mm • 479 pages

SPOLIA CHURCHES OF ROME

Recycling Antiquity in the Middle Ages By Maria Fabricius Hansen Explores the phenomenon of re-use of the materials and architecture of ancient Rome in the building of Middle Age churches. It also contains maps and other practical information which make it the ideal companion to Rome’s architectural past.

Aarhus University Press • 9788771242102 • £25.00 Paperback • 220 x 125mm • 255 pages

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DANISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN QATAR 1956-1974

Volume 2: Twelfth To Sixteenth Centuries AD By Martin Carver and Jan Klapste The second, ground-breaking volume of the first complete account of medieval archaeology across Europe. This book covers from the 12th to 16th centuries in sixteen chapters, and is comprehensively illustrated.

Aarhus University Press • 9788779342897 • £64.00 Hardback • 170 x 240mm • 550 pages

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE Edited by Elizabeth R. Gebhard, Alexander Sokolicek and Rune Frederiksen

Leading experts on ancient Greek theatre architecture present new excavation results and new analyses of individual monuments.

Aarhus University Press • 9788771243802 • £50.00 Hardback • 275 x 210mm • 468 pages

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AGGERSBORG

DANISH MEDIEVAL CASTLES By Rikke Agnete Olsen

The first comprehensive overview in English of the castles and fortifications that are known from medieval Denmark. The book tells the story of who built the castles, when they did so, and why.

Aarhus University Press • 9788771241792 • £40.00 Hardback • 255 x 240mm • 302 pages

DRAWING LITHIC ARTEFACTS By Yannick Raczynski-Henk

With a little perseverance anyone can learn how to make lithic artefact drawings. This book is a concise how-to guide, for both professional and amateur archaeologists, helping both to learn the process and the uses of these drawings. Sidestone Press • 9789088905308 • £20.00 Paperback • 230 x 160mm • 52 pages

LOST LIVES, NEW VOICES

Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650 By Christopher Gerrard, Pam Graves, Andrew Millard, Richard Annis and Anwen Caffell U s e s s ke l e t a l ev i d e n ce uncovered at Cathedral, along with archaeological and historical sources, to reports on the lives and deaths of Scottish soldiers taken at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. Oxbow Books • 9781785708473 • £20.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 224 pages

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The Viking-Age Settlement & Fortress Edited by Else Roesdahl, Søren M. Sindbaek, Anne Pedersen and David M. Wilson

A comprehensive account of the major excavations of Aggersborg by the National Museum of Denmark, both of the fortress and the rural settlement, and places their structures and the objects found within the wider context of the Viking Age.

Aarhus University Press • 9788788415872 • £47.00 Hardback • 300 x 210mm • 475 pages

SEALS AND STATUS

Power of Objects Edited by John Cherry, Jessica Berenbeim and Lloyd de Beer

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.

British Museum Press • 9780861592135 • £40.00 Paperback • 297 x 210mm • 225 pages

THE VIKING AGE

A Time of Many Faces By Caroline Arcini A major publication from the “Migration during the Viking period” project, this book explores life during the Viking period from a new perspective. Using osteological material, it examines attitudes towards visible aspects of demography and health.

Oxbow Books • 9781785709388 • £38.00 Paperback • 240 x 170 • 256 pages

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Law and Economics Perspectives By Morris Silver

FARMING TRANSFORMED IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

Agriculture in the Long Eigth Century By Mark McKerracher

Adopts a new approach to the study of the AngloSaxon economy based on examination of archaeological datasets reflecting agricultural practices, crop-processing and storage and changes in animal husbandry.

Ta ke s a ra d i c a l l y n ew approach to explaining the marital and economic status of three important but poorly understood groups of women and children in ancient Greek society.

Oxbow Books • 9781785708633 • £38.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 224 pages

CAVES AND RITUAL IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE AD 500 - 1500 Edited by Knut Bergsvik and Marion Dowd

Presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the use of caves and rock shelters across Europe during the medieval period for a wide range of religious and spiritual purposes by Christian, Muslim, Pictish and nondenominational communities, at both regional and local levels.

Oxbow Books • 9781785708329 • £50.00 Hardback • 280 x 220mm • 376 pages

MADE FOR TRADE

A New View of Icenian Coinage By John Talbot Innovative and comprehensive first full examination of the complete set of dies used for producing Iron Age coinage of the Icenian tribe with a detailed consideration of chronology, manufacture, design, economy and society.

Oxbow Books • 9781785708121 • £55.00 Hardback • 280 x 220mm • 320 pages

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SLAVE-WIVES, SINGLE WOMEN AND ‘BASTARDS’ IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD

Windgather Press • 9781911188315 • £34.99 Paperback • 246 x 185mm • 164 pages

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. Written by his children, this is the first book to chart his life as an artist.

Oxbow Books • 9781785707407 • £29.99 Paperback • 280 x 220mm • 256 pages

CHILDREN, DEATH AND BURIAL

Archaeological Discourses Edited by Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy An important new collection of papers by leading experts in funerary archaeology, examining the particular treatment of juvenile burials in the past, focusing on the expression of varying status and identity of children in the funerary archaeological record Oxbow Books • 9781785707124 • £40.00 Paperback • 270 x 140mm • 240 pages

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NINETEENTH CENTURY CHILDHOODS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

Edited by Jane Eva Baxter and Meredith A.B. Ellis This new volume in the Childhood in the Past series examines a range of sources, methods and perspectives for developing an understanding of the changing role, status, identity and health of children around the world during the nineteenth century. Oxbow Books • 9781785708435 • £40.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 224 pages

CARE OR NEGLECT?

Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology Edited by László Bartosiewicz and Erika Gál Employs high-level palaeopathological analyses to present fascinating new exploration of evidence for animal welfare at ancient settlements from prehistoric and historic periods across Eurasia.

Oxbow Books • 9781785708893 • £40.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 304 pages

THE BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF RITUAL AND RELIGION

Edited by Alexandra Livarda, Richard Madgwick and Santiago Riera Mora

This volume is the first comprehensive synthesis of bioarchaeological material from archaeological contexts relating to ritual and religious practice.

Oxbow Books • 9781785708282 • £48.00 Hardback • 280 x 220mm • 230 pages

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THE WEALTH OF ENGLAND

The medieval wool trade and its political importance 1100–1600 By Susan Rose Susan Rose presents a fascinating new exposition on the role of the wool trade in the economy and political history of medieval England.

Oxbow Books • 9781785707360 • £40.00 Hardback • 270 x 140mm • 238 pages

COMMUNITIES IN TRANSITION

The Circum-Aegean Area in the 5th and 4th Millennia BC Edited by Søren Dietz, Fanis Mavridis, Žarko Tankosić and Turan Takaoğlu

An examination of aspects o f t h e s o c i a l , c u l t u ra l , technological, economic and ideological transformations that mark the transition from Neolithic to Early Bronze Age around the Aegean during the 5th and 4th millennium BC.

Oxbow Books • 9781785707209 • £70.00 Hardback • 280 x 220mm • 616 pages

UNDERSTANDING ANCIENT FORTIFICATIONS

Between Regionality and Connectivity Edited by Ariane Ballmer, Manuel Fernandez-Götz and Dirk P. Mielke Important new collection of papers looking at the development of fortified sites in Europe from the Neolithic through to the Late Iron Age.

Oxbow Books • 9781785707483 • £55.00 Hardback • 280 x 220mm • 192 pages

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