WELCOME TO THE 2023 SPRING CATALOGUE

We are very pleased to present to you the Oxbow Books Spring 2023 catalogue, featuring our books printing in the first half of the year, as well as a selection of bestsellers and highlights from previous years. The catalogue contains books on all aspects of archaeology and ancient history, from theoretical approaches to fieldwork reports and spanning from prehistory to the medieval world.

As well as books from our own imprints, Oxbow Books and Windgather Press, we’re pleased to present books from our wide range of partner publishers, including Sidestone Press, Oxford Archaeology, Roman Society Publications, Aarhus University Press, and many more.

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Picturing the Bronze Age

Edited by

Peter Skoglund, Johan Ling and Ulf Bertilsson

Examines a wide range of Bronze Age images, including many aspects of their making and interpretation.

15 papers with a geographical coverage from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula examine a wide range of topics reflecting the many forms and expressions of Bronze Age imagery encompassing important themes including religion, materiality, mobility, interaction, power, and gender. Contributors explore themes such as representations of human form; images of manslaughter; gender identities; the relationship between rock art and its location; and modern and ancient perceptions of rock art.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789259858 • £38.00 • May 2023

232 pages • 216 x 279mm • Colour illus.

Ballynahatty

Excavations in a Neolithic Monumental Landscape

Edited by Barrie Hartwell, Sarah Gormley, Catriona Brogan and Caroline Malone

The full publication of a unique Neolithic monumental complex in Northern Ireland.

This book reports on the excavation of the massive Neolithic henge monument and ritual structure at Ballynahatty, Northern Ireland. As well as an account of the structure itself and its eventual destruction by fire, it includes an account of the wider context of Ballynahatty through its landscape history and environment, the story of the Giant’s Ring, the rediscovery of the site, the excavations, and specialist studies.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789259711 • £55.00 • May 2023

288 pages • 210 x 298mm • B/w & colour illus.

The Submerged Site of La Marmotta (Rome, Italy): Decrypting a Neolithic Society

Woodworking, Basketry, Textiles and Other Crafts

Edited by Mario Mineo, Juan Gibaja and Niccolò Mazzucco

First English publication of a submerged Italian Neolithic lake village with exceptionally preserved organic remains.

The archaeological excavations conducted at the settlement of La Marmotta (Anguillara Sabazia, Rome, Italy), represent one of the most relevant Neolithic villages of the entire Mediterranean. The main aim of this book is to make visible the extreme richness of the La Marmotta archaeological record and provide insights into Neolithic woodworking, basketry, textile production and other crafting and subsistence activities.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789258714 • £38.00 • January 2023

160 pages • 216 x 280 mm • Colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789258721

Contexts

Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in Bronze Age Aegean

By Philippa M. Steele

An innovative interdisciplinary outlook on what is involved in writing. Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practised by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how they do it. Focusing on the syllabic systems of Bronze Age Greece, this book brings together different perspectives to create an innovative interdisciplinary outlook on what is involved in writing.

OF AND RELATIONS BETWEEN EARLY WRITING SYSTEMS | OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789259018 • £50.00 • January 2023

272 pages • 170 x 240 mm • B/w illus. | eBook available: 9781789259025

The Bronze Age Collective Graves of Qarn al-Harf, Ras al-Khaimah (UAE)

Southeast Arabia at the Dawn of the Second Millennium

By Derek Kennet,

Alyson

Caine, Anna Hilton and Lloyd Weeks

Presents details of five richly furnished communal tombs of the Bronze Age Wadi-Suq period (2000–1650 BC).

This book reports on the excavation of a number of monumental collective tombs that were built in Ras al-Khaimah and used through the early part of the 2nd millennium. The way that they were constructed and used as well as the burial goods that they contain throw light on the population of this area, and give some indication of how and why it was that life continued in this small pocket in a way that was different to surrounding regions.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789257953 • £65.00 • January 2023

544 pages • 216 x 280 mm • B/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789257960

Knossos, Mycenae, Troy

The Bronze Age in the Aegean and its Shocking Epilogue

By Natale Barca

Examines key civilisations of the Mediterranean Bronze Age against the backdrop of a series of natural disasters.

This book charts the rise of and interplay between the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, and Trojan civilisations using written sources and archaeological evidence: their fortunes and crises, and the wars and natural disasters that led to their decline. Chapters explore political geography, military and economic development, religion, monumental architecture and the rise and fall of the palatial dynasties and successive centralised governments, social life, and material culture, with emphasis on the importance of commerce.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789259476 • £40.00 • March 2023

256 pages • 170 x 240 mm • B/w illus. | eBook available: 9781789259483

Knossos: From First to Second Palace

An Integrated Ceramic, Stratigraphic, and Architectural Study

By Carl Knappett, Colin F. Macdonald and Iro Mathioudaki

Integrates multiple studies to illustrate the development of the Palace of Knossos.

The monumental Palace of Knossos underwent numerous changes over its 600–700 year history. Some of the greatest architectural developments took place in the last part of the Middle Bronze Age, yet the period has often been marginalised or even dismissed in the literature. By integrating a study of pottery from Evans’s excavations the authors now reveal a period that saw tremendous developments in art and architecture, and an expansion of connectivity and exchange in Crete and the Aegean.

BSA SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME | BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS

Hardback • 9780904887747 • £140.00 • January 2023

238 pages • 210 x 297 mm • 51 line-drawings; 8 tables; 23 half-tone plates; 2 colour plates; 1 pocket-plan

Burgäschisee 5000-3000 v. Chr.

Siedlungsdynamik und Mobilität, Landnutzung und Subsistenz

Edited by

Albert Hafner and Marco Hostettler

Interdisciplinary research brings new insights into the dating, settlement history, and finds of the Neolithic lakeside settlements.

Lake Burgäschi is a small lake on the Swiss Plateau, which has been inhabited since the Mesolithic, but is best known for its Neolithic lakeside settlements. Recently, Lake Burgäschi has been re-explored as part of an interdisciplinary research project under the direction of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bern. This volume closes a long lasting research gap and combines new results with ancient data to a comprehensive synthesis. Text in German.

OPEN SERIES IN PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY | SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464270211 • £80.00 • October 2022

524 pages • 210 x 280 mm • 108 b/w and 200 colour illus.

Settling Waterscapes in Europe

The Archaeology of Neolithic & Bronze Age Pile-Dwellings

Edited by Albert Hafner, Ekaterina Dolbunova, Andrey Mazurkevich, Elena Pranckenaite and Martin Hinz

An important new body of data and international perspectives on the settlement of European waterscapes.

Extensive multidisciplinary research carried out in recent years has provided new data with regard to the anthropogenic influence on the landscapes around Neolithic and Bronze Age pile dwellings, which allows us to characterise in more detail the lifestyles of the settlements’ inhabitants, the peculiarities of the ecological niche and the interaction between humans and their environment. This volumes contains various case studies that demonstrate the importance of scientific analyses for the study of settlements between land and water.

SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464270242 • £55.00 • September 2022

288 pages • 210 x 280 mm • 29 b/w and 104 colour illus.

Keramik jenseits von 'Kulturen' Mobilität, Verflechtungen und Transformationen im nördlichen Alpenvorland (3950–3800 v.Chr.)

By Caroline Heitz

Ceramics from neolithic lake-side settlements in Switzerland are used to study mobility, transformations and relationships in prehistory.

Mobility is fundamental to forms of social configurations. But what role did spatial mobility play in the past? This volume directs the question towards the excellently preserved Neolithic remains of the northern Alpine Foreland. Using the dendrochronologically dated settlements and their pottery, it examines the translocal social configurations of these settlements to challenge the idea of homogenised and static cultures during this period. Text in German.

OPEN SERIES IN PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY | SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464280456 • £70.00 • November 2022

504 pages • 210 x 280 mm • 56 b/w and 156 colour illus.

Complexity and dynamics

Settlement and Landscape from the Bronze Age to the Renaissance in the Nordic Countries (1700 BC–AD 1600)

Edited by Marie Ødegaard and Ingrid Ystgaard

A comprehensive update on current research and methodologies in settlement archaeology in the Nordic countries.

Contributions to the book explore the nature of the relationships between settlements: both symmetrical relationships between neighbouring farmsteads, and asymmetrical relationships between farmsteads representing different levels in a social hierarchy. Spatial and temporal relations between communities of the living and the dead are also discussed, as well as how architecture, spatial organisation, land divisions, and landscape use can be studied with up-to-date methodologies, and provides a comprehensive update on research.

SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464270426 • £40.00 • March 2023

210 pages • 210 x 280 mm • 1 b/w and 73 colour illus.

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The Excavations at Ismant al-Kharab

Volume II - The Christian Monuments of Kellis: The Churches and Cemeteries

Edited by Gillian E. Bowen

The first detailed publication of three of the earliest Christian churches known in Egypt.

Few Christian burial grounds in Egypt are published in any detail; this detailed publication of the churches and Christian burial grounds at Kellis publishes data from three of the earliest known Christian churches in Egypt to explore the spread of Christianity in Egypt in the 3rd-4th centuries. It also includes a major presentation of the skeletal material, bioarchaeology and grave goods from over 800 graves, charting the transition from traditional burial practices through the adoption of Christianity.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789259636 • £60.00 • February 2023

448 pages • 210 x 298mm • B/w & colour illus.

A Tomb Robbers' Trail Revealed Cold Case KV62 Tutankhamun

By Martin Hense

The evidence for tomb robberies is presented through new analysis of the documentation of Howard Carter and his excavation team.

This year, with the centennial of Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, Martin Hense is presenting his meticulous research like a true cold case crime investigation. Even though the tomb robberies took place more than 3300 years ago, the evidence for the way the robbers entered the tomb and the items they removed could still be discerned when Howard Carter opened the tomb in 1922. Knowingly, but also unknowingly, Carter documented the last traces of evidence of these crimes; Hense uncovers the evidence here to present one of the coldest cases in history.

BLIKVELDUITGEVERS PUBLISHERS

Paperback • 9789492940261 • £25.00 • December 2022

144 pages • 170 x 240 mm • Colour illus.

The World of the Middle Kingdom III

Edited by Gianluca Miniaci and Wolfram Grajetzki

15 essays on Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period Egypt. This selection of 15 essays on Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period Egypt includes papers which examine many objects published here for the first time.

MIDDLE KINGDOM STUDIES | GOLDEN HOUSE PUBLICATIONS

Paperback • 9781906137748 • £80.00 • September 2022

350 pages • 210 x 297 mm

Trade Centers and Trade Routes in Upper Egypt, During the Old and Middle Kingdoms

By Mohamed Osman Abdollah

Traces trade routes in Egypt from 3000 to about 1700 BC.

Using a variety of evidence – including textual, archaeological, and satellite images – this richly illustrated book traces trade routes and trade centers in Old and middle Kingdom Egypt (3000 to about 1700 BC).

GHP EGYPTOLOGY | GOLDEN HOUSE PUBLICATIONS

Paperback • 9781906137793 • £80.00 • September 2022

290 pages • 210 x 297 mm • 50 illus.

Early Egyptian Miscellanies

Discussions and Essays on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt

Edited by Gunnar Sperveslage

Several essays by different authors on Early Dynastic Egypt.

This book collects papers from various authors on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, covering archaeology, iconography, philology, lexicography, history, and history of research. The contributions provide insight into current research and offer new theories and observations on specific objects and aspects. This includes for instance neglected details of wellknown objects, detailed discussion of forgotten objects, new interpretations of inscriptions, and analysis of hieroglyphic signs and their functions. Contributions in English and German.

INTERNET-BEITRÄGE ZUR ÄGYPTOLOGIE UND SUDANARCHÄOLOGIE | GOLDEN HOUSE PUBLICATIONS

Paperback • 9781906137786 • £45.00 • October 2022

273 pages • 148 x 210 mm

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Let a Cow-skin be Brought

Armour, Chariots and Other Leather Remains from Tutankhamun’s Tomb

By André Veldmeijer and Salima Ikram

The finds from Tutankhamun's tomb through the lens of the archaeological leather specialists, bringing new insights.

The reader is guided through the surprising and complex world of leatherworking in ancient Egypt, focusing on the numerous different objects from the tomb such as the chariots and their accoutrements, weapons, and gloves, as well as hitherto unpublished finds. This approach offers new insights in ancient Egyptian technology as well as in the production and use of specific materials and objects. The findings are discussed in the wider framework of the development and organisation of the leather industry in New Kingdom Egypt.

SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464260984 • £45.00 • April 2023

150 pages • 203 x 279 mm • 25 b/w and 100 colour illus.

Perspectives on Lived Religion II

The Making of a Cultural Geography

Edited by Lara Weiss, Nico Staring and Huw Twiston Davies

Illustrates ancient Egyptians’ belief in an eternal afterlife being centred around life rather than death.

Ancient Egyptian elites invested immense cultural and economic efforts in preparing for their afterlives. However, the diversity of choices open to them is often overlooked. These choices included tomb size, tomb location, and architectural design, as well as tomb decoration, and the selection of certain grave gifts. The daily interactions of the living with their ancestors and gods are traceable in the evidence of lived religious practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the processes which shaped the landscape.

PALMA | SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464261196 • £35.00 • October 2022

160 pages • 210 x 280 mm • 28 b/w and 31 colour illus.

From Jerusalem to Delhi, through Persia

By Susan Adelman

Links the religions, myths, legends and literature of Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism.

Why are Jews so attracted to India, to Hinduism, and to Buddhism in the United States as well as Israel? Adelman believes that they are drawn by an atavistic connection, dating back to the great Persian empires that extended from the land of Israel to the Indian subcontinent, linking the religions, myths, legends, literature, customs, even languages over the centuries. Influenced by her own profoundly mystical experiences, Adelman provides the history, explains the religions, shows the common origins, and gives astonishing examples of parallel symbolism.

GORGIAS PRESS

Paperback • 9781463244064 • £25.00 • January 2022

338 pages • 152 x 229 mm

Çatalhöyük Excavations

The 2009-2017 Seasons

Edited by Ian Hodder

Covers the 2009-2017 seasons at Çatalhöyük and describes the work conducted in the GDN Area on the later phases of occupation.

This volume discusses the main excavations at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East undertaken from 2009 to 2017. The site is well known because of its large size, elaborate symbolism and wall paintings, and long history of excavation. This volume covers the last period of excavation directed by Ian Hodder in the North and South Areas of the site. It also describes the work conducted in the GDN Area on the later phases of occupation.

ÇATALHÖYÜK RESEARCH PROJECT SERIES | BRITISH INSTITUTE AT ANKARA

Hardback • 9781912090204 • £90.00 • January 2023

700 pages • 203 x 305 mm | eBook available: 9781912090198

Coming to Terms with the Future

Concepts of Resilience for the Study of Early Iranian Societies

Edited by Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock and Gisela Eberhardt

Examines crises faced by societies in the Iranian highlands from the Paleolithic to the medieval period.

The collection of essays in this book focuses on the highlands of Iran in pre-modern times, reaching from the Paleolithic to the medieval period. What holds the diverse contributions together is an issue that is closely related to debates in our own times: crises and how societies in the past dealt with them. It starts from the premise that general circumstances in the fractured topographic structure of the Iranian highlands led to unique relations between ecological, social, economic and political conditions.

THE IRANIAN HIGHLANDS. EARLY SOCIETIES BETWEEN RESILIENCE AND INTEGRATION | SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464261455 • £50.00 • March 2023

270 pages • 210 x 280 mm • 19 b/w and 64 colour illus.

Community Archaeology on Hadrian's Wall

By Rob Collins, Jane Harrison, Ian Kille, Kathryn Murphy and Kerry Shaw

Summary of the WallCap community project on Hadrian’s Wall describing activities and experiences of the volunteers.

The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) has been funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to promote the value of the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site to local communities and provide opportunities for volunteers to engage with the archaeology and conservation of the Wall. This publication provides a summary of the project, communicating the range of activities undertaken by and experiences of the volunteers, arranged thematically, supported by colour illustrations and contributions from project volunteers.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback •9781789259599 • £12.95 • January 2023

144 pages • 184 x 248mm • Colour illus.

Excavations Along Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2021 Structures, Their Uses, and Afterlives

By Rob Collins and Jane Harrison

The significant findings of seven excavation projects focusing on the construction and preservation of Hadrian's Wall.

This first of two volumes presents the results of archaeological excavation or conservation at seven sites along Hadrian’s Wall, undertaken by the Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP), providing new insights into its construction and preservation. These involve comparative archaeology of the construction of the Wall curtain in Hadrian’s reign and post-Roman ruin; the impact of post-War agriculture; the first evidence for how the Wall crossed a ‘minor’ river; and excavations of the urban periphery in the frontier zone.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789259445 • £50.00 • February 2023

240 pages • 210 x 297 mm • B/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789259452

Fabric of the Frontier Prospection, Use, and Re-Use of Stone from Hadrian’s Wall

By Rob Collins, Ian Kille and Kathleen O’Donnell

First volume to analyse of the fabric of Hadrian’s Wall in relation to its geological background.

This is the second of two volumes on the archaeological excavation or conservation at seven sites along Hadrian’s Wall, undertaken by the Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP). It discusses the use of stone and other geological materials relating to the Wall. Included is a compilation of geological and archaeological data; detailed survey and analysis of the underlying geological environment that contributes to the Wall; interdisciplinary approaches with applications for other landscape investigations; and site-based results that generate Wall-wide synthesis.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789259506 • £50.00 • March 2023

224 pages • 210 x 297 mm • B/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789259513

Chedworth Roman Villa

Excavations and Re-imaginings from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries

By Simon Esmonde Cleary, Jason Wood and Emma Durham

Original and exhaustive account of the archaeological investigations undertaken at Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire.

Ten years in the planning and with contributions by 27 expert authors, this is a comprehensive record of archaeological research at Chedworth Roman Villa, Gloucestershire (now in the care of the National Trust), from the 19th to the 21st centuries.

The volume brings together a large body of new, contextualised information about the villa including: a history of work at Chedworth from the 1860s to the present; a detailed fabric survey of the extant remains; description and analysis of the Roman structural remains; description and analysis of the decorative elements (e.g. mosaics, sculpture) and finds (e.g. coins, Roman artefacts, glass, pottery and bones); discussion of the development of the villa and its place in the landscape; and the consolidation and display of the villa from its discovery in 1864 to the present. It is well illustrated with drawings and photos ranging in date from the late 1800s to the present. This will appeal to all with an interest in Roman Britain, and Roman villas in particular, and in the antiquarians who first discovered and investigated them.

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Religious Individualisation

Archaeological, Iconographic and Epigraphic Case Studies from the Roman World

Edited by Ralph Haeussler and Anthony King

Case studies analyse archaeological, iconographic and epigraphic evidence for individual choices and actions in Roman religious practice.

In the Roman Empire, a person’s ‘religious’ experiences were shaped by many cult practices, whereby the ‘civic’ and ‘imperial’ cults might have had the least impact of all on individuals. This book rethinks traditional methodologies, aiming for a more dynamic image of religion that takes into account the varied and often contradictory choices and actions of individuals and social groups.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789259650 • £58.00 • February 2023

336 pages • 171 x 241 mm • B/w illus.

From Pirate Base to Roman City: The Excavations of Antiochia ad Cragum in Rough Cilicia

An Interim Report

Edited

by Michael Hoff, Birol Can and Rhys Townsend

Synthesis of the principal discoveries made during 15 years of excavation at the Antiochia ad Cragum site in western Rough Cilicia.

Since 2005, the Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (ACARP) has conducted nearly two decades of survey in the western portion of the Roman province of Cilicia, Turkey to investigate urban and extra-urban polities within the region. The 17 chapters of this interim report examine the burial evidence and architecture, material, and environmental remains from the first 15 years of novel research, together with a presentation on the conservation of these ancient relics.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789258950 • £60.00 • January 2023

336 pages • 216 x 280 mm • B/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789258967

Catalogue of the Sardinian, Etruscan and Italic Bronze Statuettes in the Danish National Museum

By Helle Salskov Roberts

Explores the cultural significance of Sardinian, Etruscan and Italic bronze statuettes from the Danish National Museum.

In the 1st millennium BC, present-day Italy was inhabited by many ethnic groups. Rome’s closest neighbours to the North were the Etruscans, whose language was unlike anything spoken in Italy. Despite military conflict, Romans admired the Etruscans’ religious and artistic excellence. Statues and statuettes were used as gifts for the gods in sanctuaries in Etruria, Rome, and across Italy. The Etruscans' skills in bronze casting has left a rich and fascinating heritage of bronze sculpture, which is examined here.

GÖSTA ENBOM MONOGRAPHS | AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Hardback • 9788772194547 • £23.00 • September 2021

164 pages • 230 x 250 mm

Commemorating Classical Battles

A Landscape Biography Approach to Marathon, Leuktra and Chaironeia

By Brandon Braun

First volume to examine the commemoration of military events in the ancient world using Landscape Biography.

This study of the commemoration of Classical Greek battles approaches monuments as vital elements in the creation and curation of memories. It analyses the diachronic development of battlefield, sanctuary, and city spaces, as evidenced by archaeological remains and ancient literary sources. It also explores the experience of the commemorative spaces through theories of space, phenomenology, and social memory. Following a biographical approach, battle commemoration is organised into stages of initial commemoration, official monumentalisation, memory curation, memory lapse, and reception.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789259353 • £44.95 • June 2023

240 pages • 170 x 240 mm • B/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789259360

The Ancient Harbours of the Piraeus

III.1: The Harbour Fortifications of the Mounichia and Kantharos Harbours – Architecture and Topography. III.2: The Themistoclean Shipsheds in Group 1 at Mounichia Harbour – Architecture, Topography and Finds.

By Bjørn Lovén, Ioannis Sapountzis and Edited by Stefanie Kennell

Exhibits the elaborate findings of the Zea Harbour Project at Mounichia Harbour from 2005 to 2012.

Fascicule III.1 presents the results of the Zea Harbour Project’s investigations of the harbour fortifications at Mounichia in 2005 and 2007 to 2012, and re-examines what can be known about the fortifications of Kantharos, which continues to serve as the Piraeus’ principal harbour to the present day. III.2 presents the findings of the Project’s 2010–2012 investigations on the northern side of Mounichia Harbour to discuss the architecture and topography of Shipsheds 1–7 in Group 1.

MONOGRAPHS OF THE DANISH INSITUTE AT ATHENS | AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Hardback • 9788772193410 • £69.00 • September 2021

381 pages • 230 x 280 mm • B/w illus.

Dogs in the Athenian Agora (Modern Greek Edition)

By Colin M. Whiting and Irini Marathaki

Well-illustrated, portable book examining the cultural significance of dogs in ancient Greek society.

This book exhibits how dogs fit into ancient Greek society with material from the last 90 years of excavations at the Athenian Agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Topics range from dog-assisted hunts and legitimate dogs’ names to tender burials in the Agora and the sacrifice of dogs. Mythological dogs like the three-headed Kerberos appear, as do pawprints that are over 1000 years old. Dozens of illustrations of pottery, sculpture, and excavated remains enliven the text. Text in Greek.

AGORA PICTURE BOOK | AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

Paperback • 9789607067128 • £4.50 • June 2022

44 pages • 140 x 216 mm • 50 color illus.

Hagia Sophia in Context

An Archaeological Re-examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople

By Ken Dark and Jan Kostenec

An archaeological re-examination of the cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople, with fresh evidence about its appearance and function.

The Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia has been a source of wonder and fascination since its sixthcentury construction. It was the premier monument of the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, and remains one of the most recognisable symbols of modern Istanbul. Often seen as encapsulating Byzantine history and culture, the building has been the subject of much scholarly interest since the Renaissance. However, while almost all previous archaeological work has focused on the church itself, the surrounding complex of ecclesiastical buildings has been largely neglected. The research project presented here is the first to focus on the archaeology of the immediate environs of the church to understand the complex as a whole. Previously unrecorded material includes parts of the Patriarchal complex, from which the Orthodox Church was governed for almost a millennium, what may be the ‘Great Baptistery’ north of the church, and what are perhaps the first fragments of the fourth-century phase of the cathedral yet identified, as well as the discovery of an unrecognised porch. This new information provides fresh evidence about the appearance and function of the complex, illustrating its similarities to, and dissimilarities from, episcopal centres elsewhere in the Byzantine world. Combined with other archaeological sources, these discoveries enable us to place the sixth-century cathedral in its urban context and to reconsider what Hagia Sophia can tell us about the wider Byzantine world.

"[A] thorough and valuable addition to present knowledge on this key site, for which the authors should be applauded."

OXBOW BOOKS

–Medieval Archaeology

Paperback • 9781789259872 • £35.00 • April 2023

160 pages • 210 x 298mm

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Northern Emporium

Vol. 2 The Networks of Viking-age Ribe

Edited by Søren M. Sindbæk

Examines archaeological evidence uncovering the social network of a maritime trading town on the North Sea coast.

This is the second and final volume presenting the Northern Emporium research project results and the high-definition excavations carried out within this programme in 2017-18 in Ribe, Denmark. 21 chapters survey the remarkable range of finds retrieved here in the 8th and 9th centuries AD. The book focuses on assembling Ribe’s early urban network by analysing findings and their context to develop a picture of the emporium's social roles and interactions between residents and visitors.

AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Hardback • 9788793423824 • £58.00 • May 2023

476 pages • 220 x 300 mm • Colour illus.

Colonisation and Christianity

The Long Settlement of Viking Age and Medieval Skagafjörður, North Iceland

Edited by John M.

Steinberg, Douglas Bolender,

Kathryn

A. Catlin, Brian N. Damiata and Guðný Zoëga

Traces Viking and medieval farmstead settlement patterns in northern Iceland and the impact of Christianity.

Details the methods and results from an innovative systemic regional archaeological survey that integrated extensive soil coring and shallow geophysical surveying with targeted excavation, tephra and AMS dating and documentary research to produce a near complete inventory of Viking Age and medieval occupation in and around the Hegranes region in lowland Skagafjörður, North Iceland. Comparing against early Christian household cemeteries, the book examines the development of and influences on Viking Age and medieval settlement patterns.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789259674 • £50.00 • April 2023

224 pages • 216 x 279mm • B/w & colour illus. |

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