Sentient Archaeologies

Global Perspectives on Places, Objects and Practice

Edited by Courtney Nimura, Rebecca O’Sullivan, Richard Bradley and Anwen Cooper

Presents innovative research and breathes new life into established archaeological theories.

This book showcases examples of the work of archaeologists who are responding to a major shift that has occurred within their field over the past century. Interpretations of evidence now prioritise change and variability, rather than treating it as a static snapshot of a particular moment in time. Though many established analytical concepts remain a vital part of an archaeologist’s investigative toolkit, they are being infused with the idea that archaeology is living, both in terms of the objects of study and the discipline as a whole. Researchers across the world are integrating ideas informed by relational epistemologies and mutually constructive ontologies into their work from the initial stage of project design all the way down to post-excavation interpretation. This book highlights the utility of these ideas in exploring material both old and new. The illuminating research and novel explanations presented contribute to resolving long-standing problems in regional archaeologies across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Oceania. In this way, this volume reinvigorates approaches taken towards older material but also acts as a springboard for future innovative discussions of theory in archaeology and related disciplines.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789259322 • £49.50 • May 2023

288 pages • 216 x 280 mm • B/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789259339

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Archaeology Without Digging Using Ground-Penetrating Radar to Explore Connecticut’s Hidden History

By Deborah Surabian, Jim Doolittle and Nick Bellantoni

A presentation of the results of GPR application at sites of historical import in Connecticut.

This book narrates the stories of GPR studies at 10 significant historical locations in Connecticut, spanning the 17th to the 20th centuries. These include mass graves and a 1941 plane crash site. The authors bring their collective expertise to the reader in a scientific manner with a personal, story-telling touch. Each chapter delves into the history of the sites, the nature of the geophysical search and the interpretation of data with regard to solving an historical problem.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789259261 • £30.00 • March 2023

160 pages • 170 x 240 mm • B/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789259278

Textiles in Motion Dress for Dance in the Ancient World

Edited by Audrey Gouy

Discussion of an often-overlooked aspect of ancient dance: the function of clothing.

This volume explores the significance, role and meaning of textiles and dress in dance, integrating anthropological and sociological dimension into historical analysis of textiles in the ancient world. Dress is at the core of dance. It is a communicative tool that can provide adornment, characterisation, symbolic expression and crucial information for the understanding of a dance. This book presents a valuable addition to the study of ancient dance, as, previously, clothing has rarely been taken into consideration.

ANCIENT TEXTILES SERIES | OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789257984 • £40.00 • November 2022

272 pages • 216 x 280 mm • B/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789257991

Tools, Textiles and Contexts

Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age

Edited by Eva Andersson Strand and Marie-Louise Nosch

Interdisciplinary and collaborative perspectives on textile production in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies.

This volume combines experimental archaeology, analyses of textile tools and find contexts to provide unique insights into both the production processes and, significantly, into the range of types of textiles that could have been produced at specific sites. These results illustrate the central, social, and economic impact of textile production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies.

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Paperback • 9781789259896 • £45.00 • June 2023

416 pages • 216 x 279mm • 210 illus,

Circuits of Metal Value

Changing Roles of Metals in the Early Aegean and Nearby Lands

Edited

by Toby Wilkinson and Susan Sherrat

Innovative new examination of the cultural role of metals in Aegean prehistory.

This volume examines the cultural part played by a spectrum of metals in use from the fourth millennium BC to the Early Iron Age, the divergent uses and roles of different metals, and their interrelationships with changing economic, social, cultural, and symbolic values. Themes include properties of different metals, under-representation of certain metals in the archaeological record, the beginnings of regular iron metallurgy, and the uses and attitudes to gold, silver, and bronze at various times.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789259612 • £42.00 • January 2023

224 pages • 171 x 241mm • B/w & colour illus.

Connectivity Matters!

Social, Environmental and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies

Edited by Johannes Müller

Presentation of new socio-environmental theory, based on a concept of societal connectivity, for the exploration of past societies. This book presents the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. It contains various case and concept studies, including rarely considered dependencies between nomadic and urban lifestyles, which represent an area of connectivity between the environment and agglomerated human settlement structures. It also considers the role of connectivities in the development of social inequality and the creation of linguistic features in written media.

ROOTS | SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464270273 • £40.00 • December 2022

216 pages • 210 x 280 mm • 10 b/w and 25 colour illus.

Cooking with Plants in Ancient Europe and Beyond

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Archaeology of Plant Foods

Edited by Soultana Maria Valamoti, Anastasia Dimoula and Maria Ntinou

An extremely detailed exploration of ancient plant cuisine with contributions from all over the world.

This volume focuses on plant food ingredients that were consumed in past societies and on the ways these ingredients were transformed into food. While the main focus is on Europe and the Mediterranean world in prehistory, the book also expands to other regions, including South Asia and Latin America. It covers a time span from the Palaeolithic to the historic periods. It provides a more comprehensive and systematic approach to ancient plant food culinary transformation than has previously been produced.

SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464270334 • £85.00 • December 2022

526 pages • 210 x 280 mm • 29 b/w and 207 colour illus.

Extracting Stone

The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes

By Anne S. Dowd and Edited by Mary Beth D. Trubitt

Thorough examination of activities at three major quarries used in the Archaic and Woodland periods.

This exciting new addition to the American Landscapes series provides an in-depth account of how flintknappers obtained and used stone based on archaeological, geological, landscape, and anthropological data. It features case studies from three key regions in North America and offers a comprehensive view of quarrying activities. It features discussion of the function of sites in a broad landscape context and gives examples of heritage sites that can be visited in Canada and the USA.

AMERICAN LANDSCAPES | OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781785706240 • £38.00 • November 2022

240 pages • 189 x 246 mm • B/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781785706257

Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America

Edited by Cheryl Claassen

New insights into the wide-ranging temporal and geographical evidence for rituals in Eastern North America.

This book focuses on rituals exploring the natural and made landscape stages. It also considers the ritual directors, including their progression from shaman to priesthood, and the meaning of the rites. It includes an examination of the archaeological records of Cahokia, the lower Ohio Valley, Aztalan Wisconsin, Vermont, Florida, and Georgia. In addition to this, it investigates tobacco/datura, colour symbolism, deer symbolism, mound stratigraphy, flintknapping, stone caching, cults and their organization, and red ochre in the Eastern US.

AMERICAN LANDSCAPES | OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789259292 • £38.00 • March 2023

256 pages • 185 x 246 mm • B/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789259308

The Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic in the Seimarreh Drainage, Central Zagros

Excavations at Mar Gurgalan, Asiab and Ganj Dareh

Edited by Tobias Richter, Hojjat Darabi and Peder Mortensen

The results of excavations into three key Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene sites in the Zagros Mountains.

This volume presents the results of a five-year long project which reinvestigated key late Pleistocene and Early Holocene sites in the Zagros Mountains of Iran with the aim of discovering pathways towards early plant and animal domestication and sedentism in relation to climate change. The sites, material culture assemblages and faunal and botanical remains are discussed in their regional context and against broader debates concerning the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Southwest Asia.

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Hardback • 9781789259414 • £55.00 • January 2023

272 pages • 210 x 297 mm • B/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789259421

Echoes from the Deep Inventorising Shipwrecks at the National Scale by the Application of Marine Geophysics and the Historical Text

By Innes McCartney

The results of a research project aiming to identify shipwrecks in the Irish Sea.

In a process analogous with the impact of aerial photography on landscape archaeology, marine geophysics is locating the remains of thousands of shipwrecks across the seabed of the globe. This research project set out to establish whether all of the shipwrecks in a given geographic region could be identified by name through the mutual study of the 3D models of the shipwrecks, alongside the historic text of shipping losses in the same area.

SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464261165 • £60.00 • September 2022

270 pages • 178 x 254 mm • 7 b/w and 163 colour illus.

Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology

Flat Ontologies, Oceanic Thought, and the Anthropocene

Edited by Sara Rich and Peter Campbell

Edited volume featuring transdisciplinary perspectives on oceanic artifacts. The essays collected in this volume reveal novel ways for maritime archaeologists to engage with the most important problems of our time and to benefit from the new insights offered by object-oriented and flat ontologies. The book gathers the analytical thinking of archaeologists, philosophers, marine biologists, and media theorists, and pushes those observations deep into the maritime realm. It emphasises the relevance of studying the marine world and is an important new contribution to the subject area.

SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464270396 • £50.00 • March 2023

344 pages • 178 x 254 mm • 30 b/w and 32 colour illus.

The Faroese Boat

By Morten Gøthche

A comprehensive presentation of the construction and function of the Faroese boat.

This volume presents the building and use of the Faroese boat, a marine vessel which has been adapted to cope with the special sailing conditions around the Faroe Islands. It shows the boat’s great importance to the Faroese society, for fishing and transporting people and goods. The building process, craftsmanship, and seamanship are examined in great detail, and the maritime history of the Faroese Islands from the Viking Age and until the 1970s are presented.

SHIPS AND BOATS OF THE NORTH | VIKING SHIP MUSEUM

Hardback • 9788785180766 • £47.00 • April 2023

350 pages • 250 x 290 mm • Illus.

Classical Controversies

Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Kim Beerden and Timo Epping

Discussion of the use and misuse of classical Antiquity in 21st-century museums and political discourse.

This volume aims to showcase a number of illustrative examples of the kinds of narratives about Antiquity that people are currently creating for themselves, and thus to provide a deeper understanding of 21st-century reception of Antiquity.

Part I of the book focuses on two main fields: controversies referencing ancient and modern literary works; and controversies surrounding heritage ethics.

Part II takes literary evidence from the USA to Italy as its starting point: it shows how metaphors about early Christianity find their way into American conservative discourse; how Sparta is evoked in right-wing thinking in the USA, Germany, France and Scandinavia; and how Aeneas plays a role in recent Italian debates on migrations.

Part III focuses on heritage ethics and material culture, in first instance taking practices at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) – on the display of death, queering and orientalism – as case studies.

Together, these papers show that academics should engage with the receptions of antiquity in the recent past and present. If they want their research and museum displays to be part of current reception, they should make their voice heard.

Site by site

An Introductory Guide to Archaeological Site Management in Egypt

By Jolanda Bos and Theo Meereboer-Necheporenko

Offers useful knowledge and insight to those in the field of heritage management in Egypt.

This book is a general introduction to archaeological site management and museology in Egypt. Its aim is to let archaeologists and site managers preserve the archaeological heritage in their care for future generations and present it in a meaningful way. It reflects the training projects that were organized by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Cairo and the NVIC for the Egyptian MoA and several heritage professionals from Egypt and the Netherlands between 2017 and 2020.

BLIKVELDUITGEVERS PUBLISHERS

Paperback • 9789492940285 • £37.95 • December 2022

288 pages • 170 x 210 mm • Colour illus.

Photo-Museology

The Presence of Absence and the Absence of Presence

By Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas

A photographic investigation into ethnographic museums and sites of crosscultural encounters.

Photo-Museology arises from an art project undertaken over 25 years. The authors investigated sites of cross-cultural encounter in the Pacific and associated places in Europe, ranging from Captain Cook memorials to ethnographic museums. Some museums still exhibited colonial symbols and forms of knowledge, others had attempted to displace such histories, foregrounding more inclusive or progressive stories. Through photography this book revisits the places collections were made, and the places they ended up in. It is a meditation on presence and absence.

PACIFIC PRESENCES | SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789088906329 • £85.00 • November 2022

474 pages • 178 x 254 mm • 76 b/w and 289 colour illus.

Living (World) Heritage Cities

Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Perspectives of People-centered Approaches in Dynamic Hstoric Urban Landscapes

Edited by Maaike De Waal, Ilaria Rosetti, Mara De Groot and Uditha Jinadasa

An exploration of the methods (World) Heritage Cities are using to conserve their living heritage.

This book aims to explore how (World) Heritage Cities are dealing with the preservation of their living heritage, what is needed for its effective management, what approaches are adopted, and what challenges and opportunities are encountered. Results offer an overview of current practices, which also include some of the first testimonies of their evolution in the time of a global pandemic (COVID-19), that can inform future research and urban strategies.

SIDESTONE PRESS

Paperback • 9789464261424 • £45.00 • December 2022

250 pages • 210 x 280 mm • 3 b/w and 84 colour illus.

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Caves and Ritual in Medieval Europe, AD 500–1500

By Knut Andreas Bergsvik and Marion Dowd

An interdisciplinary exploration of the use of caves and rock shelters across Europe during the medieval period.

Paperback • 9781789258073 • £38.00 • May 2022

324 pages • eBook available: 9781785708336

Constantinople

Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis

By Ken Dark and Ferudun Özgümüs

Now available in paperback, this significant publication explores the archaeology and development of Constantinople.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789258066 • £35.00 • March 2022

224 pages • eBook available: 9781782971818

Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City

Edited by Javier Martínez Jiménez and Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

This volume tackles the subject of the survival and transformation of the ancient city through memory.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789258165 • £50.00 • February 2022

360 pages • eBook available: 9781789258172

Cities as Palimpsests?

Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism

Edited

by Elizabeth Key Fowden, Suna Çagaptay, Edward Zychowicz-Coghill and Louise Blanke

Explores the historical complexity and cultural hybridity of post-classical eastern Mediterranean cities.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789257687 • £50.00 • January 2022

432 pages • eBook available: 9781789257694

Exploring Archaeoastronomy

A History of its Relationship with Archaeology and Esotericism

By Liz Henty

A fascinating account of the development of archaeoastronomy, its impact on archaeological interpretation and its future potential.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789257861 • £38.00 • February 2022

288 pages • eBook available: 9781789257878

Roman Aquileia

The Impenetrable CityFortress, a Sentry of the Alps

By Natale Barca

A study of Aquileia from its foundation in the 2ndcentury BC through to its fall in the 5th-century AD.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789257748 • £38.00 • January 2022

256 pages • eBook available: 9781789257755

Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces Space Sacralisation and Religious Communication during the

Principate

(1st–3rd century AD)

By Csaba Szabó

An innovative study of the transmission of Roman religious ideas and practices to the northern provinces.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789257830 • £38.00 • March 2022

312 pages • eBook available: 9781789257847

Stone Axe Studies III

Edited by Vin Davis and Mark Edmonds

Explores how scholars from various parts of the world currently approach the study of stone axes.

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Rome and the Colonial City Rethinking the Grid

Edited by Sofia Greaves and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

New perspectives on the ideals and aims articulated by ancient city founders and their successors.

Hardback • 9781789257809 • £50.00 • March 2022

432 pages • eBook available: 9781789257816

Surveying the Domesday Book

By Simon Keith

An innovative analysis and reassessment of the Domesday Book from the perspective of a surveyor.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789258080 • £29.50 • May 2022

448 pages • eBook available: 9781842175941

Tracing Textile Production from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages Tools, Textiles, Texts and Contexts

By Ingvild Øye

Examines textile production in Norway and the north Atlantic region from the Viking period to High Middle Ages.

OXBOW BOOKS

Hardback • 9781789257779 • £48.00 • March 2022

264 pages • eBook available: 9781789257786

WINDGATHER PRESS

Paperback • 9781914427107 • £34.99 • February 2022

168 pages • 185 x 246 mm • | eBook available: 9781914427114

Values and Revaluations

The Transformation and Genesis of 'Values in Things' from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives

Edited by Hans Peter Hahn, Anja Klöckner and Dirk Wicke

New theoretical and methodological approaches on the subject of how objects are valued.

OXBOW BOOKS

Paperback • 9781789258134 • £38.00 • March 2022

272 pages • eBook available: 9781789258158

1-10

900 Years of St Bartholomew's

The Ancient Harbours of the Piraeus

A Tomb Robbers' Trail Revealed

The Archaeology of Wild Birds in Britain and Ireland

Archaeology Without Digging B

Ballynahatty

The Battle of Pinkie

Broken Pots, Mending Lives

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

Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain

Burgäschisee 5000-3000 v. Chr.

Burials and the Black Death in Hereford

Byblos, Gateway to the World

Çatalhöyük Excavations

Catalogue of the Sardinian, Etruscan and Italic bronze statuettes in the Danish National Museum

Caves and Ritual in Medieval Europe, AD 500–1500

Chedworth Roman Villa

Circuits of Metal Value

Cities as Palimpsests?

Classical Controversies

Colonization and Christianity

Coming to Terms with the Future

Commemorating Classical Battles

Community Archaeology on Hadrian's Wall Complexity and dynamics

Connectivity Matters!

Constantinople

Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology

Cooking with plants in ancient Europe and beyond Current Research in Nubian Archaeology

D

Dogs in the Athenian Agora (Modern Greek Edition)

Dynamics of Religious Individualisation

E

EAA 176: Fransham

EAA 177: Living with Monuments

Early Egyptian MiscellaniesDiscussions and Essays on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt

Echoes from the Deep Excavations Along Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2021

Excavations on Wether Hill, Ingram, Northumberland

Exploring Archaeoastronomy

Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in Bronze Age

Aegean

Extracting Stone

F

Fabric of the Frontier

The Faroese Boat

From Hunter-Gatherers to Early Christians

From Jerusalem to Delhi, through Persia

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

Hagia Sophia in Context

Harpole

Ismant al-Kharab. The Christian Monuments of Kellis

Keramik jenseits von 'Kulturen'

Knossos, Mycenae, Troy

Knossos: From First to Second Palace

Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America

Let a cow-skin be brought Living (World) Heritage Cities

Lucayan Legacies

The Marriage Bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York

Medieval Garments Reconstructed

Medieval New Romney, A Town Shaped by Water

The Norse Sorceress

Northern Emporium

Perspectives on Lived Religion II

Photo-Museology

Picturing the Bronze Age

Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City

Roman and Medieval Carlisle

Roman Aquileia

Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces

Rome and the Colonial City

Sentient Archaeologies

Settling Waterscapes in Europe

Site by site

Stone Axe Studies III

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

Surveying the Domesday Book

Textiles in Motion

The World of the Middle Kingdom III

Tools, Textiles and Contexts

Tracing Textile Production from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages

Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change: The Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic in the Seimarreh Drainage, Central Zagros

"Trade centers and Trade routes in Upper Egypt, during the Old and Middle Kingdoms"