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SPRING 2015 NEW BOOKS CATALOG

Oxbow Books and Windgather Press New Books 2015 Welcome to the Oxbow Books US catalog!

It’s a busy year for Oxbow with so many excellent books in the publishing program that it has been diﬃcult to pick out just a few highlights. The Archaeology of Cremation (page 4) is the ﬁrst comprehensive study of the processes, ritual and practices involved in the cremation of human bodies and the methodologies that can be applied to the study of cremated human remains. The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland (page 23) is a comprehensive analysis of the use of caves from the earliest Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to the 21st century in Ireland. Autopsy in Athens (page 15) presents new observations on a range of aspects of the ancient city of Athens and life, politics and religion in Attica.

We are incredibly excited about the appearance of our American Landscapes series with Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio. Sadly, series editor and author of the first title Mark Lynott passed away before publication but we are proud to present it on his behalf and we know that the finished product will be a lasting legacy to him. 2015 also brings the publication of the first two books in our Oxbow Insights in Archaeology series; First Light: The Origins of Newgrange and Towards Skyscape Archaeology. Full details of both of these titles can be found on page 31.

Oxbow and Windgather titles are published simultaneously in print and digital form and a signiﬁcant amount of our backlist is also available electronically. Our digital editions are available on our own website, on the website of our US distributor Casemate Academic and from your favorite e-retailer. In addition we have worked extensively to ensure that our eBooks are available across all major library platforms. You can access our books through eBrary, eBook Library, EBSCO, MyiLibrary, JSTOR, Overdrive, Baker & Taylor 360, Vital Source and Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange (SIPX). Each year Oxbow personnel travel extensively to keep abreast of developments in our ﬁeld, to renew acquaintances, and to commission new publishing projects. Stop by the Casemate Academic booth to meet us; we’ll look forward to seeing you.

Finally, we are always pleased to look at proposals for new publications, or to discuss a project prior to a proposal being submitted. Guidelines for submitting proposals are on our website. Queries or proposals should be directed to me – michaela.goﬀ@casematepublishers.com – so do come and join our substantial and ever-growing list. With best wishes,

Michaela Goﬀ, Commissioning Editor, Oxbow Books

Table of Contents

● AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY ● ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD & THEORY ● MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY ● BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ● LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY ● TEXTILES ARCHAEOLOGY ● ANCIENT NEAR EAST ● FAR EAST ● ANCIENT EGYPT ● GREECE & ROME ● VIKING WORLD / MEDIEVAL EUROPE ● MEDIEVAL EUROPE ● EUROPEAN PREHISTORY ● BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY ● WINDGATHER PRESS

3 4-6 6 7 8 9-10 11-13 13 14 15-17 18 19-20 21-23 23-25 26-27

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American Archaeology

ARCHAEOASTRONOMY AND THE MAYA

Edited by Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos & Edwin L. Barnhart

Archaeoastronomy and the Maya illustrates archaeoastronomical approaches to ancient Mayan cultural production. The book is contextualized through a history of archaeoastronomical investigations into Mayan sites, originating in the 19th century discovery of astronomical tables within hieroglyphic books. Early 20th century archaeological excavations revealed inscriptions carved into stone that also preserved astronomical records, along with architecture that was built to reﬂect astronomical orientations. These materials provided the basis of a growing professionalized archaeoastronomy, blossoming in the 1970s and expanding into recent years. The chapters here exemplify the advances made in the ﬁeld during the early 21st century as well as the on-going diversity of approaches, presenting new perspectives and discoveries in ancient Mayan astronomy that result from recent studies of architectural alignments, codices, epigraphy, iconography, ethnography, and calendrics. More than just investigations of esoteric ancient sciences, studies of ancient Mayan astronomy have profoundly aided our understanding of Mayan worldviews. Concepts of time and space, meanings encoded in religious art, intentions underlying architectural alignments, and even methods of political legitimization are all illuminated through the study of Mayan astronomy.

Contents: 1. Cosmic order at chocolá: implications of solar observations of the eastern horizon at Chocolá, Suchitepéquez, Guatemala Harold H. Green 2. Teotihuacan architectural alignments in the central Maya lowlands? Ivan Sprajc 3. Astronomical observations from the Temple of the Sun Alonso Mendez, Carol Karasik, Edwin L. Barnhart, and Christopher Powell 4. An oracular hypothesis: the Dresden Codex Venus Table and the cultural translation of science Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos 5. Centering the world: zenith and nadir passages at Palenque Alonso Mendez and Carol Karasik 6. The Venus Almanac in Mesoamerica Susan Milbrath 7. Glyphs G and F: the cycle of nine, the lunar nodes, and the draconic month Michael J. Grofe 8. Epilogue: Mayan astronomers at work Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos

9781782976431, $49.95, July 2014, Paperback, 176p

HOPEWELL CEREMONIAL LANDSCAPES OF OHIO

More Than Mounds and Geometric Earthworks By Mark Lynott

Nearly 2000 years ago, people living in the river valleys of southern Ohio built earthen monuments on a scale that is unmatched in the archaeological record for small-scale societies. The period from c. 200 BC to c. AD 500 (Early to Middle Woodland) witnessed the construction of mounds, earthen walls, ditches, borrow pits and other earthen and stone features covering dozen of hectares at many sites and hundreds of hectares at some. The development of the vast Hopewell Culture geometric earthwork complexes such as those at Mound City, Chilicothe; Hopewell; and the Newark earthworks was accompanied by the establishment of wide-ranging cultural contacts reﬂected in the movement of exotic and strikingly beautiful artifacts such as elaborate tobacco pipes, obsidian and chert arrowheads, copper axes and regalia, animal ﬁgurines and delicately carved sheets of mica. These phenomena, coupled with complex burial rituals, indicate the emergence of a political economy based on a powerful ideology of individual power and prestige, and the creation of a vast cultural landscape within which the monument complexes were central to a ritual cycle encompassing a substantial geographical area.

The labor needed to build these vast cultural landscapes exceeds population estimates for the region, and suggests that people from near (and possibly far) travelled to the Scioto and other river valleys to help with construction of these monumental earthen complexes. Here, Mark Lynott draws on more than a decade of research and extensive new datasets to re-examine the spectacular and massive scale Ohio Hopewell landscapes and to explore the society that created them. American Landscapes 9781782977544, $34.95, December 2014, Paperback, 288p

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Archaeological Method & Theory ANIMAL SECONDARY PRODUCTS

Domestic Animal Exploitation in Prehistoric Europe, the Near East and the Far East Edited by Haskel J. Greenﬁeld

Animal Secondary Products investigates domestic animal exploitation and the animal economy from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze and Iron Ages across Eurasia (Europe, Near East, Siberia and China). Incorporating current zooarchaeological theory and cutting-edge methodological developments, it critically assesses Andrew Sherratt’s concept of a Secondary Products Revolution that proposed that a package of new subsistence practices and technologies swept across much of Eurasia at the end of the Neolithic, which triggered large-scale changes in economies and settlement across the landscape.

In this volume, thirteen papers present a holistic discussion of Sherratt’s concept and investigate the theoretical development in our understanding of the origins of milking, wool production, transhumance, as well as examining the need for a contextualized zooarchaeological analysis and harvest proﬁles from various international sites in order to reconstruct the nature of Secondary Products exploitation. 9781782974017, $115, October 2014, Hardback, 256p

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CREMATION

burned human remains in funerary studies Edited by Tim Thompson

Human societies have disposed of their dead in a variety of ways. However, while considerable attention has been paid to bodies that were buried, comparatively little work has been devoted to understanding the nature of cremated remains, despite their visibility through time.

This timely volume therefore draws together the inventive methodology that has been developed for this material and combines it with a fuller interpretation of the archaeological funerary context. It demonstrates how an innovative methodology, when applied to a challenging material, can produce new and exciting interpretations of archaeological sites and funerary contexts.

The reader is introduced to the nature of burned human remains and the destructive effect that fire can have on the body. Subsequent chapters describe cremation practices and sites from the Neolithic period to the modern day. By emphasizing the need for a robust methodology combined with a nuanced interpretation, it is possible to begin to appreciate the significance and wide-spread adoption of this practice of dealing with the dead. Studies in Funerary Archaeology 8 , , , , 2015, Paperback, 256p 9781782978480, $76, April

ARCHAEOLOGIES OF TEXT

Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics

Edited by Matthew T. Rutz & Morag Kersel

Scholars working in a number of disciplines routinely engage with ancient textual sources that are either material remains from the archaeological record or historical products of other connections between the ancient world and our own. Examining the archaeology-text nexus from multiple perspectives, contributors to this volume discuss current theoretical and practical problems that have grown out of their work at the boundary of the division between archaeology and the study of early inscriptions. In twelve representative case-studies drawn from research in Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and Mesoamerica, scholars use various lenses to critically examine the interface between archaeology and the study of ancient texts, rethink the fragmentation of their various specialized disciplines, and illustrate the best in current approaches to contextual analysis. The collection of essays also highlights recent trends in the development of documentation and dissemination technologies, engages with the ethical and intellectual quandaries presented by ancient inscriptions that lack archaeological context, and sets out to ﬁnd proﬁtable future directions for interdisciplinary research. Joukowsky Institute Publication 6 ,,,,

9781782977667, $45, December 2014, Paperback, 248p

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Archaeological Method & Theory

CHILDREN, SPACES AND IDENTITY

Edited by Margarita Sánchez Romero, Eva Alarcón García & Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez

How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists from archaeology, history, literature, architecture, didactics, museology and anthropology build a body of theoretical and methodological approaches about how space is articulated and organized around children and how this disposition aﬀects the creation and maintenance of social identities.

Children are considered as the main actors in historic dynamics of social change, from prehistory to the present day. Multi-disciplinary studies which focus on how children construct, negotiate and organize space during their lives are presented and notions of space, childhood and the construction of both the individual and the group identity of children are examined. Furthermore, consideration is given to the role played by children and adults in establishing burial strategies and practices. Childhood in the Past Monograph 4 9781782979357, $90, July 2015, Paperback, 336p

DEATH AND CHANGING RITUALS

Function and meaning in ancient funerary practices

Edited by J. Rasmus Brandt, Håkon Ingvaldsen & Marina Prusac

The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the corpse and the postmortem stages of grief and commemoration. The contributions presented here are focused not on the examination of different funerary practices, their function and meaning, but on the changes of such rituals – how and when they occurred and how they may be explained. Based on case studies from a range of geographical regions and from different prehistoric and historical periods, a range of key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices. Studies in Funerary Archaeology 7 9781782976394, $70, November 2014, Hardback, 320p

OF ROCKS AND WATER

Towards an Archaeology of Place Edited by Ömür Harmanşah

People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices. This volume presents a series of archaeological landscapes from the Iranian highlands to the Anatolian Plateau, and from the Mediterranean borderlands to Mesoamerica. Working with rock reliefs, sacred springs and lakes, caves, cairns, ruins and other meaningful places, the contributors draw attention to the need for a rigorous field methodology and theoretical framework for working with such special places. At a time when network models, urbancentered and macro-scale perspectives dominate discussions of ancient landscapes, this unusual volume takes us to remote, unmappable places of cultural practice, social imagination and political appropriation. It offers not only a diverse set of case studies approaching small meaningful places in their special geological grounding, but also suggests new methodologies and interpretive approaches to understand places and the processes of place-making. Joukowsky Institute Publication 5 9781782976714, $45, September 2014, Paperback

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Archaeological Method & Theory / Maritime Archaeology PARADIGM FOUND

Archaeological Theory – Present, Past and Future. Essays in Honour of Evžen Neustupný Edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Ladislav Šmejda & Jan Turek

This book brings together several papers by renowned researchers from across Europe, Asia and America to discuss a selection of pressing issues in current archaeological theory and method. The book also reviews the eﬀects and potential of various theoretical stances in the context of prehistoric archaeology.

The 23 papers provide a discussion of the issues currently re-appearing in the focal point of theoretical debates in archaeology such as the role of the discipline in the present-day society, problems of interpretation in archaeology, approaches to the study of social evolution, as well as current insights into issues in classiﬁcation and construction of typologies. The contributors evaluate the eﬀects of past developments and discuss the impact they are likely to have on future directions in archaeology as an internationally connected discipline. 9781782977704, $70, December 2014, Hardback, 288p

OCEANS ODYSSEY 4. POTTERY FROM THE TORTUGAS SHIPWRECK, STRAITS OF FLORIDA

A Merchant Vessel from Spain’s 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet

Edited by Greg Stemm, Sean Kingsley & Ellen Gerth

The Tortugas shipwreck excavated at a depth of 405 meters in the Straits of Florida contained a major collection of 3,800 intact and fragmentary olive jars, tablewares, cooking vessels and tobacco pipes. Identified as the Portuguese-built and Spanishoperated 117-ton Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señora del Rosario, the ship’s Seville dominated tablewares are a revealing index of unchanged cultural tastes and continued production at the end of Spain’s Golden Age. For cooking the crew relied on Afro-Caribbean colonoware, possibly the first recorded archaeological evidence of maritime slavery in the Americas fleets. Two tin-glazed plates painted with papal coat of arms may have been used by Spain-bound clergymen from the newly formed Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith. 9781782977100, $45, September 2014, Hardback, 280p

SKYSCAPES

The Role and Importance of the Sky in Archaeology Edited by Fabio Silva & Nicholas Campion

Eleven papers discuss the role and importance of the landscape and the wider environment to past societies, and to the understanding and interpretation of their material remains, into consideration of the signiﬁcance of the celestial environment: the skyscape. The role of the sky for past societies has been relegated to the fringes of archaeological discourse. Nevertheless archaeoastronomy has developed a new rigour in the last few decades and the evidence suggests that it can provide insights into the beliefs, practices and cosmologies of past societies. Skyscapes explores the current role of archaeoastronomical knowledge in archaeological discourse and how to integrate the two. It shows how it is not only possible but even desirable to look at the skyscape to shed further light on human societies. This is achieved by ﬁrst exploring the historical relationship between archaeoastronomy and academia in general, and with archaeology in particular. 9781782978404, $80, March 2015, Hardback, 168p

SVETI PAVAO SHIPWRECK

A 16th century Venetian Merchantman from Mljet, Croatia By Carlo Beltrame, Sauro Gelichi & Igor Miholjek

Between 2007 and 2012 the Department for Underwater Archaeology of the Croatian Conservation Institute from Zagreb and the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice collaborated in the recording, underwater excavation and analysis of the unusually well-preserved wreck of a 16th century Venetian merchantman in the Sveti Pavao shallow oﬀ the southern shore of the island of Mljet, Croatia. The shipwreck preserved many personal possessions of the crew as well as a number of bronze artillery pieces and the remains of a cargo of luxury and richly decorated ceramic material from Iznik and other oriental workshops. Although the excavation is not complete, this volume presents the results of the project so far. The methodological and technical aspects of the underwater investigation of the site, mainly by photogrammetry, are described. 9781782977063, $70, August 2014, Paperback, 200p

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Biological Anthropology

DEATH EMBODIED

Archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse Edited by Zoë L. Devlin & Emma-Jayne Graham

In April 1485, a marble sarcophagus was found on the outskirts of Rome. It contained the remains of a young Roman woman so well-preserved that she appeared to have only just died and the sarcophagus was placed on public view, attracting great crowds. Such a ﬁnd reminds us of the power of the dead body to evoke in the minds of living people, be they contemporary (survivors or mourners) or distanced from the remains by time, a range of emotions and physical responses, ranging from fascination to fear, and from curiosity to disgust.

Archaeological interpretations of burial remains can often suggest that the skeletons which we uncover, and therefore usually associate with past funerary practices, were what was actually deposited in graves, rather than articulated corpses. The choices made by past communities or individuals about how to cope with a dead body in all of its dynamic and constituent forms, and whether there was reason to treat it in a manner that singled it out (positively or negatively) as diﬀerent from other human corpses, provide the stimulus for this volume.

The nine papers provide a series of theoretically informed, but not constrained, case studies which focus predominantly on the corporeal body in death. The aims are to take account of the active presence of dynamic material bodies at the heart of funerary events and to explore the questions that might be asked about their treatment; to explore ways of putting ﬂeshed bodies back into our discussions of burials and mortuary treatment, as well as interpreting the meaning of these activities in relation to the bodies of both deceased and survivors; and to combine the insights that body-centered analysis can produce to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the role of the body, living and dead, in past cultures. Studies in Funerary Archaeology 9

9781782979432, $76, June 2015, Paperback, 192p

TRENDS IN BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1

Edited by Karina Gerdau-Radonić & Kathleen McSweeney

This ﬁrst volume in the series Trends in Biological Anthropology presents 11 papers. The study of modern baboons as proxies to understand extinct hominin species’ diet and the interpretation of skeletal degenerative joint disease on the skeletal remains of extant primates are presented as case studies using methods and standards usually applied to human remains. The methodological theme continues with an assessment of the implications for interpretation of diﬀerent methods used to record Linear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH) and on the use and interpretation of three dimensional modelling to generate pictures of the content of collective graves.

Three case studies on palaeopathology are presented. First is the analysis of a 5th–16th century skeletal collection from the Isle of May compared with one from medieval Scotland in an attempt to ascertain whether the former beneﬁtted from a healing tradition. Study of a cranium found at Verteba Cave, western Ukraine, provides a means to understand inter-personal interactions and burial ritual during the Trypillian culture. A series of skulls from Belgrade, Serbia, displays evidence for beheading.

Two papers focus on the analysis disarticulated human remains at the Worcester Royal Infirmary and on Thomas Henry Huxley’s early attempt to identify a specific individual through analysis of skeletal remains. The concept and definition of ‘perimortem’ particularly within a Forensic Anthropology context are examined and the final paper presents a collaborative effort between historians, archaeologists, museum officers, medieval re-enactors and food scientists to encourage healthy eating among present day Britons by presenting the ill effects of certain dietary habits on the human skeleton.

9781782978367, $85, February 2015, Hardback, 160p

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Landscape Archaeology AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL LANDSCAPES IN PRE-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

Choices, Stability and Change

Edited by Fèlix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup & Althea Davies

Through a series of case studies, this volume deals with the technological constraints and innovations that enabled societies to survive and thrive across a range of environmental conditions. Fields and ﬁeld systems: Field-walls are a distinctive and apparently timeless characteristic of many pre-industrial farming landscapes but they present many the challenges to their study, such as the eﬀects of ploughing, abandonment and land-use change and of urban development in fertile lowland zones which may eradicate, reduce or conceal past systems of land-use and division. The importance of indirect and proxy evidence is illustrated and the value of interdisciplinary and modelling approaches emphasized. The contributions focus on mountainous areas, where temporary migrations provided access to a diversity of resources. Earth Series 3 9781842173596, $80, January 2015, Hardback, 280p

PLANTS AND PEOPLE

Choices and Diversity through Time

Edited by Alexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova & Leonor Pena-Chocarro

This first monograph in the EARTH: The Dynamics of Non-Industrial Agriculture: 8,000 years of Resilience and Innovation series, approaches the great variety of agricultural practices in human terms. It focuses on the relationship between plants and people, the complexity of agricultural processes and their organization within particular communities and societies. Collaborative European research among archaeologists, archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists using a broad analytical scale of investigation seeks to establish new common ground for integrating different approaches. By means of interdisciplinary examples, this book showcases the relationship between people and plants across wide ranging and diverse spatial and temporal milieus, including crop diversity, the use of wild foodstuffs, social context, status and choices of food plants. Earth Series 1 9781842175149, $100, May 2014, Hardback, 432p

EXPLORING AND EXPLAINING DIVERSITY IN AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

Edited by Annelou van Gijn, John Whittaker & Patricia C. Anderson

This volume is the outcome of collaborative European research among archaeologists, archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists, and frequently uses experiments in archaeology. It aims to establish new common ground for integrating diﬀerent approaches and for viewing agriculture from the standpoint of the human actors involved. Each chapter provides an interdisciplinary overview of the skills used and the social context of the pursuit of agriculture, highlighting examples of tools, technologies and processes from land clearance to cereal processing and food preparation. This is the second of three volumes in the EARTH monograph series, The dynamics of non-industrial agriculture: 8,000 years of resilience and innovation , which shows the great variety of agricultural practices in human terms, in their social, political, cultural and legal contexts. Earth Series 2 9781842175156, $80, November 2014, Hardback, 304p

EARTH: THE DYNAMICS OF NON-INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE: 8,000 YEARS OF RESILIENCE AND INNOVATION: 3 VOLUME SET

Edited by Patricia C. Anderson, Leonor PenaChocarro & Andreas Heiss

Presented here are all three volumes in the EARTH series; Plants and People: Choice and Diversity Through Time, Exploring and Explaining Diversity in Agricultural Technology, and Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Pre-Industrial Society: Choices, Stability and Change

Agriculture has been at the heart of human action and decision-making from the beginning of the Neolithic right up to the present day, when it presents some of the deepest hopes, and greatest challenges for our future. The daily activities and concerns of people, as they went about producing the food to sustain themselves, determined the nature of their relationships, the structure of their communities, and the overall organization of the societies in which they lived. Earth Series 9781782977537, $200, January 2015, Hardback, 1016p

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Textiles Archaeology ANCIENT TEXTILES

Production, Crafts and Society By Marie-Louise Nosch & C. Gillis

GLOBAL TEXTILE ENCOUNTERS

Edited by Marie-Louise Nosch, Zhao Feng & Lotika Varadarajan

An understanding of textiles and the role they played in the past is important for anyone interested in past societies. Textiles served and in fact still do as both functional and symbolic items. The evidence for ancient textiles in Europe is split quite definitely along a north-south divide, with an abundance of actual examples in the north, but precious little in the south, where indirect evidence comes from such things as vase painting and frescoes. This volume brings together these two schools to look in more detail at textiles in the ancient world, and is based on a conference held in Denmark and Sweden in March 2003. Throughout the book emphasis is placed on the universality of textiles, and the importance of information exchange between scholars from different disciplines. A small book on finds First Aid for the Excavation of Archaeological Textiles is included as an Appendix. Ancient Textiles Series 1

Global Textile Encounters is a fascinating journey into three significant textiles and clothing cultures: China, India and Europe. The common thread is how fashions and traditions have travelled through space and time. In this richly illustrated anthology, with its 242 images, written both by textile researchers and practitioners as well as scholars from other fields across the globe, we hear of various types of encounters that bring to life a world of interactions and consequences as colorful as the textiles themselves. Among the 33 contributions we learn of the value we ascribe to old clothing. Recurrent themes include how religious praxis is informed by textile encounters; how travelling textiles enable patterns and symbols to be copied onto stone and metals; and textile motifs that acquire other symbolic meanings in their travels and encounters with different societies. Ancient Textiles Series 20

9781782978305, $50, October 2014, Paperback reprint, 304p

9781782977353, $12, January 2015, Paperback, 256p

GREEK AND ROMAN TEXTILES AND DRESS

An Interdisciplinary Anthology

Edited by Mary Harlow & Marie-Louise Nosch

Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and interdisciplinary study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; diﬀerent types of embellishments of dress from weaving techniques to the of embroidery; the close links between the language of ancient mathematics and weaving; the relationships of iconography to the realities of clothed bodies including a paper on the ground breaking research on the polychromy of ancient statuary; dye recipes and methods of analysis; analyzes of textile tools from across the Mediterranean; discussions of trade and ethnicity to the workshop relations in Roman fulleries. Ancient Textiles Series 19 9781782977155, $84, December 2014, Hardback, 320p

PREHISTORIC, ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN & AEGEAN TEXTILES AND DRESS

An Interdisciplinary Anthology

Edited by Mary Harlow, Cécile Michel & Marie-Louise Nosch

Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconographical and textual evidence within a broad geographical and chronological spectrum. The thirteen chapters explore issues, such as the analysis of textile tools, especially spindle whorls, and textile imprints for reconstructing textile production in contexts as different as Neolithic Transylvania, the Early Bronze Age North Aegean and the Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean; and discussions of royal and priestly costumes and clothing ornaments in the Mesopotamian kingdom of Mari and in Mycenaean culture. Ancient Textiles Series 18 9781782977193, $66, January 2015, Hardback, 224p

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Textiles Archaeology TEXTILES AND THE MEDIEVAL ECONOMY

Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th–16th Centuries Edited by Angela Ling Huang & Carsten Jahnke

Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of international trade and to examine the physical characteristics of textiles and their distribution in order to understand who was producing, using and trading them and what they were being used for. Historical evidence, mainly textual, is employed to link textile names to places, numbers and prices and thus provide an appreciation of changing economics, patterns of distribution and the organization of trade. Diﬀerent types and qualities of cloths are discussed and the social implications of their production and import/export considered against a developing background of urbanism and increasing commercial wealth. Ancient Textiles Series 16

9781782976479, $60, January 2015, Hardback, 232p

TOOLS, TEXTILES AND CONTEXTS

Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age Edited by Eva Andersson Strand & Marie-Louise Nosch

Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative work offers crucial new perspectives into this field. The new and updated catalog of archaeological textile finds presented here clearly demonstrates, even from the few extant finds, that knowledge of the use of fibres and of elaborate textile techniques that were used to produce textiles of different qualities was well developed. The functional analysis of spindle whorls and loom weights can be explored through experimental archaeology employing newly developed methodologies. The results bring new insights into the types of textile that may potentially have been made by such tools. This is highly pertinent as textile tools often constitute the single most important and plentiful type of evidence for the various stages of textile production in the archaeological record. The combination of experimental archaeology, analyzes of textile tools and find contexts allows for a discussion of the nature of textile production at different sites, regions and time periods. Ancient Textiles Series 21 9781842174722, $84, January 2015, Hardback, 484p

WOOL ECONOMY IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND THE AEGEAN

From the Beginnings of Sheep Husbandry to Institutional Textile Industry Edited by Catherine Breniquet & Cécile Michel

The history of the Ancient Near East covers a huge chronological frame, from the ﬁrst pictographic texts of the late 4th millennium to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333 BC. During these millennia, diﬀerent societies developed in a changing landscape where sheep (and their wool) always played an important economic role. The 22 papers presented here explore the place of wool in the ancient economy of the region, where large-scale textile production began during the second half of the 3rd millennium. By placing emphasis on the development of multi-disciplinary methodologies, experimentation and use of archaeological evidence combined with ancient textual sources, the wide-ranging contributions explore a number of key themes. The numerous archaeological and written sources provide an enormous amount of data on wool, textile crafts, and clothing and these inter-disciplinary studies are beginning to present a comprehensive picture of the economic and cultural impact of woollen textiles and textile manufacturing on formative ancient societies. Ancient Textiles Series 17 9781782976318, $60, October 2014, Hardback, 400p

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Ancient Near East

ANCIENT IRRIGATION SYSTEMS OF THE ARAL SEA AREA

The History, Origin, and Development of Irrigated Agriculture By B. V. Adrianov & Simone Mantellini

Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area is the English translation of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov's work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy priaralya , concerning the study of ancient irrigation systems and the settlement pattern in the historical region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan). This work holds a special place within the Soviet archaeological school because of the results obtained through a multidisciplinary approach combining aerial survey and ﬁeldwork, surveys, and excavations. This translation has been enriched by the addition of introductions written by several eminent scholars from the region regarding the importance of the Khorezm Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition and the ﬁgure of Boris V. Andrianov and his landmark study almost 50 years after the original publication. American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph

9781842173848, $35, January 2015, Hardback, 300p

ARCHAEOzOOLOGY OF THE NEAR EAST 9

Edited by Marjan Mashkour & Mark Beech

This two part volume brings together over 60 specialists to present 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near East. The papers are wide-ranging in terms of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic rock shelter assemblages in Syria to Byzantine remains in Palestine and from the Caucasus to Cyprus. Papers are grouped into thematic sections examining patterns of Palaeolithic and Neolithic subsistence in northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Iranian plateau; Palaeolithic to Neolithic faunal remains from Armenia; animal exploitation in Bronze Age urban sites; new evidence concerning pastoralism, nomadism and mobility; aspects of domestication and animal exploitation in the Arabian peninsula; several case studies on ritual animal deposits; and speciﬁc analyzes of patterns of animal exploitation at urban sites in Turkey, Palestine and Jordan.

This important collection of signiﬁcant new work builds on the well-established foundation of previous ICAZ publications to present the very latest results of archaeozoological research in the prehistory of this formative region in the development of animal exploitation. 9781782978442, $76, May 2015, Hardback, 464p

A CITY FROM THE DAWN OF HISTORY

Erbil in the Cuneiform Sources By John MacGinnis

The city of Erbil, which now claims to be one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, lies on the rich alluvial plains at the foot of the piedmont of the Zagros mountains in a strategic position which from the earliest times made it a natural gateway between Iran and Mesopotamia. Within the context of ancient Mesopotamian civilisation there can be no doubt that it will have been one of the most important urban centers. Yet while the citadel of Erbil is without question a site of exceptional interest, archaeologically the mound has until recently remained virtually untouched. On the other hand rich documentation allows us to understand the context in which the city grew and flourished. This work is dedicated to the cuneiform sources. Together these include hundreds of documents stretching from the late third millennium to the mid first millennium BC. The very first references, in administrative documents from the archives of the royal palace at Ebla, date to ca. 2300 BC. In the eras that follow texts written in Sumerian and then Akkadian attest to the city's periods of independence alternating with its incorporation in the Ur III, Assyrian and Babylonian empires. 9781782977971, $45, November 2014, Paperback, 148p

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Ancient Near East DEFINING THE SACRED

Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion in the Near East Edited by Nicola Laneri

Religion is a phenomenon that is inseparable from human society. It brings about a set of emotional, ideological and practical elements that are pervasive in the social fabric of any society and characterizable by a number of features. These include the establishment of intermediaries in the relationship between humans and the divine; the construction of ceremonial places for worshipping the gods and practicing ritual performances; and the creation ritual paraphernalia. Investigating the religious dimensions of ancient societies encounters problems in defining such elements, especially with regard to societies that lack textual evidences and has tended to lead towards the identification of differentiation between the mental dimension, related to religious beliefs, and the material one associated with religious practices, resulting in a separation between scholars able to investigate, and possibly reconstruct, ritual practices (i.e., archaeologists), and those interested in defining the realm of ancient beliefs (i.e., philologists and religious historians). The aim of this collection of papers is to attempt to bridge these two dimensions by breaking down existing boundaries in order to form a more comprehensive vision of religion among ancient Near Eastern societies. This approach requires that a higher consideration be given to those elements (either artificial -- buildings, objects, texts, etc. -- or natural -- landscapes, animals, trees, etc.) that are created through a materialization of religious beliefs and practices enacted by members of communities. 9781782976790, $50, March 2015, Paperback, 200p

DOCUMENTARY SOURCES IN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN AND GRECO-ROMAN ECONOMIC HISTORY

Methodology and Practice

Edited by Heather D. Baker & Michael Jursa

This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers overturn the conventional view of a fundamental divide between the economic institutions of these two regions. The premise is that, while controlling for diﬀerences, texts from either cultural setting can be brought to bear on the other and can shed light, through their use as proxy data, on such questions as economic mentalities and market development. The book also presents innovative approaches to the quantitative study of large corpora of ancient documents. The resulting view of the Ancient Economy is much more variegated and dynamic than traditional ‘primitivist’ views would allow.

The volume covers the following topics: Babylonian house size data as an index of urban living standards; the Old Babylonian archives as a source for economic history; Middle Bronze Age long distance trade in Anatolia; long-term economic development in Babylonia from the 7th to the 4th century BC; legal institutions and agrarian change in the Roman Empire; papyrological evidence for water-lifting technology; money circulation and monetization in Late Antique Egypt; the application of Social Network Analysis to Babylonian cuneiform archives; price trends in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as the eﬀects of locust plagues on prices. 9781782977582, $66, September 2014, Hardback, 336p

THE LAND OF ASSUR AND THE YOKE OF ASSUR

Studies on Assyria 1971-2005 By J. Nicholas Postgate

This book brings together a selection of twenty-eight previously disparate articles by Nicholas Postgate that represent some thirty years of engagement with the nature of Assyrian society and government. Most are broadly synthetic and deal with general issues; they are a tremendous body of work, and this will be an invaluable collection for everyone interested in Assyria. 9781782977414, $55, October 2014, Paperback reprint, 368p

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Ancient Near East / Far East

MARI

Capital of Northern Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium. The archaeology of Tell Hariri on the Euphrates By Jean-Claude Margueron

According to archaeological evidence gleaned over more than 70 years, Mari appears to have been the most important city in northern Mesopotamia from its foundation at about 2950 BC to 1760 BC. Situated at the heart of a river system and progressively linked with an overland network, Mari was the city that controlled the relations of central and southern Mesopotamia with the regions bordering the Taurus and Zagros mountains to the north and east and the Mediterranean coastal zone to the west. Mari drew its power from this situation, and the role it played accounts for the particularity of its features, positioned as it was between the Syrian, Assyrian, Iranian, Babylonian and Sumerian worlds. This book provides an overview and summary of over thirty years excavation and research at Mari. It covers the development of the city, architecture, palaces, religious monuments, everyday objects and art and it summarizes the historical data than can be gleaned from the archaeology. The evidence shows that there was not one city of Mari, but three successive cities, each having speciﬁc features, although there is a striking permanence in the original forms. 9781782977315, $70, January 2015, Hardback, 176p

THE SOUTHERN TRANSjORDAN/EDOMITE PLATEAU AND THE DEAD SEA RIFT VALLEY TO THE WEST

The Bronze Age through the Islamic Period (3800/3700 BC–AD 1917) By Burton MacDonald

Burton MacDonald presents an in-depth study of the archaeology and history of human presence over the past five-six thousand years in the southern segment of the Transjordan/Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley to the west. The evidence from archaeology for the area spans the entire period though the time for which literary evidence is available is only the past 4000 years, from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BC). Once literary evidence is available, however, it complements the archaeological record and, as can be amply demonstrated, the written records can be clarified only through the archaeological data. These two sources are, thus, used to describe environments, resources, industries, settlement patterns, and the life styles of the inhabitants of this pivotal region. The result is a “story” of the people who lived in the area from the Bronze Age through the Islamic period. What is evident is that there were differences in certain archaeological periods in settlement patterns, as well as life-styles, between those who lived on the southern segment of the Plateau and those who lived in the Dead Sea Rift Valley or in the lowlands immediately to the west. 9781782978329, $120, February 2015, Hardback, 208p

PUṣPIKā: TRACING ANCIENT INDIA THROUGH TEXTS AND TRADITIONS

Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume 3 Edited by Robert Leach & Jessie Pons

It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world's richest and most enticing cultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first "Indologist," wrote his outsider's account of the subcontinent and two hundred years have passed since the inception of Western Indology. And yet, what this monumental scholarship has achieved is still outweighed by the huge tracts of terra incognita: thousands of works lacking scholarly attention and even more manuscripts which still await careful study whilst decaying in the unforgiving Indian climate. In September 2009 young researchers and graduate students in this field came together to present their cutting-edge work at the first International Indology Graduate Research Symposium, which was held at Oxford University. This volume, the first in a new series which will publish the proceedings of the Symposium, will make important contributions to the study of the classical civilisation of the Indian sub-continent. The series will strive to cover a wide range of subjects reaching from literature, religion, philosophy, ritual and grammar to social history. 9781782979395, $56, April 2015, Paperback, 128p

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Ancient Egypt COPTIC DOCUMENTARY TEXTS FROM KELLIS

Volume 2 P. Kellis VII

By Iain Gardner, Anthony Alcock & Wolf-Peter Funk

This is the second volume on fourth century Coptic documents written on papyri and boards, found in the ruins of houses at Kellis, the Roman predecessor of the village of Ismant el-Kharab in the Dakhleh Oasis. It is concerned with 75 letters and associated household accounts and lists, mostly from House 3. The documents are transcribed and translated with commentary.

Together, these two volumes break new ground in providing a unique insight into the social and economic relations of a sectarian group within a late antique village, and the opportunity to study that group’s interaction with other communities. They give voice to ordinary people and provide genuine insights into literacy and the role of women, communications and travel, multilingual society and normative forms of belief and practice. Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 16

9781782976516, $130, September 2014, Hardback, 320p

THE LANGUAGE OF RAMESSES

Late Egyptian Grammar

By Francois Neveu & Maria Cannata

François Neveu enables the reader to explore the Ramesside age through an understanding of Late Egyptian. This phase corresponds to the language spoken from the 17th to the 24th dynasty, which became a written language – used for private letters, administrative, legal and literary texts, as well as some oﬃcial inscriptions – during the Amarna period (circa 1364 BC).

The ﬁrst part of the book covers the basics of the grammar, the morphology, while the second part is devoted to the syntax, covering ﬁrst the verbal system and then the nominal forms. Two appendices, one devoted to interrogative constructions and another to syllabic writing, complete the work.

The book incorporates the most recent work on the subject and the clarity with which Neveu presents linguistic and grammatical points, and the hundreds of examples used to illustrate the grammatical presentation, makes this the ideal tool for anyone interested in learning Late Egyptian grammar in order to read and understand texts from this period. These texts also introduce the reader to the daily life of the Deir el-Medina workers, the social movements that shook the community, the conspiracies at court, the embezzlement of some priests and other prominent community ﬁgures, major historical events, as well as the stories and novels studied and read by the society of the time.

Maria Cannata’s translation makes this key work available in English for the ﬁrst time. 9781782978688, $59.95, March 2015, Paperback, 282p

CURRENT RESEARCH IN EGYPTOLOGY 14 (2013)

Edited by Kelly Accetta, Renate Fellinger, Pedro Lourenço Gonçalves, Sarah Musselwhite & W. Paul van Pelt

The fourteenth Current Research in Egyptology conference, held at the University of Cambridge in March 2013 brought together speakers and attendees from six continents and hosted more than 50 presentations covering multiple aspects of Egyptology and its related ﬁelds. The aim of the conference was to cross cultural and disciplinary boundaries.

The papers presented in these proceedings reﬂect this aim by presenting current research that draws on insights derived from anthropology, archaeology, archaeobotany, ethnography, organic chemistry, geography, linguistics, and law, amongst others. The symposium papers are not included in this volume. 9781782976868, $76, May 2014, Paperback, 232p

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Greece & Rome

ATHENIAN POTTERS AND PAINTERS III

Edited by John Oakley

Athenian Potters and Painters III presents a rich mass of new material on Greek vases, including finds from excavations at the Kerameikos in Athens and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Some contributions focus on painters or workshops – Paseas, the Robinson Group, and the structure of the figured pottery industry in Athens; others on vase forms – plates, phialai, cups, and the change in shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. Context, trade, kalos inscriptions, reception, the fabrication of inscribed painters’ names to create a fictitious biography, and the reconstruction of the contents of an Etruscan tomb are also explored. The iconography and iconology of various types of figured scenes on Attic pottery serve as the subject of a wide range of papers – chariots, dogs, baskets, heads, departures, an Amazonomachy, Menelaus and Helen, red-figure komasts, symposia, and scenes of pursuit. Among the special vases presented are a black spotlight stamnos and a column krater by the Suessula Painter. Athenian Potters and Painters III, the proceedings of an international conference held at the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2012, will, like the previous two volumes, become a standard reference work in the study of Greek pottery. 9781782976639, $130, September 2014, Hardback, 272p

AUTOPSY IN ATHENS

Recent Archaeological Research on Athens and Attica Edited by Margaret M. Miles

This is an exciting time to study in Athens. The “rescue” excavations of recent years, conducted during construction of the Metro system and in preparation for the 2004 Olympics Games, combined with major restoration projects and a new enthusiasm for fresh examination of old material, using new techniques and applications, brings new perspectives and answers on many aspects of the ancient city of Athens and life, politics and religion in Attica.

The 15 paper presented here contribute new findings that result from intensive, first-hand examinations of the archaeological and epigraphical evidence. They illustrate how much may be gained by re-examining material from older excavations, and from the methodological shift from documenting information to closer analysis and larger historical reflection. They offer a variety of perspectives on a range of issues: the ambience of the ancient city for passersby, filled with roadside shrines; techniques of architectural construction and sculpting; religious expression in Athens include cults of Asklepios and Serapis; the precise procedures for Greek sacrifice; how the borders of Attica were defined over time, and details of its road-system. 9781782978565, $120, April 2015, Hardback, 224p

BUILDING FOR ETERNITY

The History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea By C.J. Brandon, R.L. Hohlfelder, M.D. Jackson & J.P. Oleson

One marker of the majesty of ancient Rome is its surviving architectural legacy, the stunning remains of which are scattered throughout the circum-Mediterranean landscape. Surprisingly, one truly remarkable aspect of this heritage remains relatively unknown. There exists beneath the waters of the Mediterranean the physical remnants of a vast maritime infrastructure that sustained and connected the western world’s ﬁrst global empire and economy. The key to this incredible accomplishment and to the survival of structures in the hostile environment of the sea for two thousand years was maritime concrete, a building material invented and then employed by Roman builders on a grand scale to construct harbor installations anywhere they were needed, rather than only in locations with advantageous geography or topography. This book explains how the Romans built so successfully in the sea with their new invention. The story is a stimulating mix of archaeological, geological, historical and chemical research, with relevance to both ancient and modern technology. 9781782974208, $95, September 2014, Hardback, 368p

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Greece & Rome CERAMICS, CUISINE AND CULTURE

The archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient mediterranean world Edited by Alexandra Villing & Michela Spataro

The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socio-economic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian ‘technomic’ category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioural schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region. 9781782979470, $100, June 2015, Hardback, 304p

GLASS OF THE ROMAN WORLD

Edited by Justine Bayley, Ian Freestone & Caroline Jackson

This book illustrates the arrival of new cultural systems, mechanisms of trade and an expanded economic base in the early 1st millennium AD which, in combination, allowed the further development of the existing glass industry. Glass became something which encompassed more than simply a novel and highly decorative material. Glass production grew and its consumption increased until it was assimilated into all levels of society, used for display and luxury items but equally for utilitarian containers, windows and even tools.

These 18 papers by renowned international scholars include studies of glass from Europe and the Near East. The authors write on a variety of topics where their work is at the forefront of new approaches to the subject. They both extend and consolidate aspects of our understanding of how glass was produced, traded and used throughout the Empire and the wider world drawing on chronology, typology, patterns of distribution, and other methodologies, including the incorporation of new scientiﬁc methods. Though focusing on a single material the papers are ﬁrmly based in its archaeological context in the wider economy of the Roman world, and consider glass as part of a complex material culture controlled by the expansion and contraction of the Empire. 9781782977742, $70, December 2014, Hardback, 272p

GREECE, MACEDON AND PERSIA

Edited by Timothy Howe, Erin Garvin & Graham Wrightson

This book contains a collection of papers related to the history and historiography of Warfare, Politics and Power in the Ancient Mediterranean world. The contributions, written by 19 recognized experts from a variety of methodological and evidentiary perspectives, show how ancient peoples considered war and conﬂict at the heart of social, political and economic activity.

Though focusing on a single theme – war – the papers are ﬁrmly based in the context of the wider social and literary issues of Ancient Mediterranean scholarship and as such, consider war and conﬂict as part of a complex matrix of culture in which historical actors articulate their relationships with society and historical authors articulate their relationships with history. The result is a rich understanding of Ancient World history and history-writing. The volume is presented in honour of Waldemar Heckel, a foremost scholar of Alexander the Great and Ancient Warfare.

9781782979234, $80, May 2015, Hardback, 168p

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Greece & Rome

MEDICINE AND HEALING IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD

Edited by D. Michaelides

There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources. The 42 papers presented here cover many aspects of medicine in the Mediterranean world during Antiquity and early Byzantine times, bringing together both internationally established specialists on the history of medicine and researchers in the early stages of their career.

The contributions are grouped under a series of headings: medicine and archaeology; media (online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean; medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery; medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; new research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources. These subject areas are addressed through a combination of wide ranging archaeological and osteological data and the examination and interpretation of philosophical, literary and historiographical texts. 9781782972358, $99, October 2014, Hardback, 446p

THE ROMAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY AND ITS INFLUENCE

By Penelope Walton Rogers, Lise Bender Jorgensen & Antoinette Rast-Eicher

Textiles were a hugely important Roman industry yet, because of their perishable nature, only fragments remain. These twenty-two essays provide a detailed study of surviving fragments from across the Roman world, from the dry sands of Egypt to the Atlantic coast and the northern frontiers and beyond. The result is a comprehensive reconstruction of both everyday and exotic Roman clothing with information about the inﬂuences of fashion and of Roman weaving techniques. Written by friends and colleagues, the contributions are oﬀered as a tribute to John Peter Wild whose own studies of Roman textiles have been the inspiration of so much recent work. Contents:

1. Mons Claudianus: investigating Roman textiles in the desert Lise Bender Jogensen and Ulla Mannering

2. On the road to Berenike: a piece of tunic in damask weave from Didymoi Dominique Cardon

3. Two wide-sleeved linen tunics from Roman Egypt Frances Pritchard and Christ Verhecken-Lammens

4. Varia romana: textiles from a Roman army dump Nettie K. Adams and Elisabeth Crowfoot

9781782977407, $35, September 2014, Paperback reprint, 200p

STRUCTURE, IMAGE, ORNAMENT

Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World Edited by Peter Schultz & Ralf Von den Hoﬀ

This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens in 2004. There are additional contributions from Patricia Butz, Robin Osborne, Katherine Schwab, Justin St. P. Walsh, Hilda Westervelt and Lorenz Winkler-Horacek. The contents are divided into four sections I. Structure and Ornament; II. Technique and Agency; III. Myth and Narrative and IV. Diffusion and Influence. Highlights include Robin Osbornes discussion of What you can do with a chariot but cant do with a satyr on a Greek temple; Ralf von den Hoffs consideration of the Athenian treasury at Delphi; and Katherine Schwabs presentation of New evidence for Parthenon east metope 14. The papers not only cover a great variety of issues in architectural sculpture but also present a range of case studies from all over the Greek world. The result is an important collection of current research.

9781782977391, $38, October 2014, Paperback reprint, 248p

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Viking World / Medieval Europe DANES IN WESSEX

The Scandinavian Impact on Southern England, c. 800 – c. 1100 Edited by Ryan Lavelle & Simon Roﬀey

There have been many studies of the Scandinavians in Britain, but this is the first collection of essays to be devoted solely to their engagement with Wessex. New work on the early Middle Ages, not least the excavations of mass graves associated with the Viking Age in Dorset and Oxford, drew attention to the gaps in our understanding of the wider impact of Scandinavians in areas of Britain not traditionally associated with them. Here, a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach to the problems of their study is presented. While there may not have been the same degree of impact, discernable particularly in place-names and archaeology, as in those areas of Britain which had substantial influxes of Scandinavian settlers, Wessex was a major theatre of the Viking wars in the reigns of Alfred and Æthelred Unræd. Two major topics, the Viking wars and the Danish landowning elite, figure strongly in this collection but are shown not to be the sole reasons for the presence of Danes, or items associated with them, in Wessex. Multi-disciplinary approaches evoke Vikings and Danes not just through the written record, but through their impact on real and imaginary landscapes and via the objects they owned or produced. 9781782979319, $90, July 2015, Paperback, 288p

VIKING WORLDS

Things, Spaces and Movement

Edited by Marianne Hem Eriksen, Unn Pedersen, Bernt Rundberget, Irmelin Axelsen & Heidi Lund Berg

Fourteen papers explore a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the Viking past, both in Scandinavia and in the Viking diaspora. Contributions employ both traditional inter- or multi-disciplinarian perspectives such as using historical sources, Icelandic sagas and Eddic poetry and also specialized methodologies and/or empirical studies, place-name research, the history of religion and technological advancements, such as isotope analysis. Together these generate new insights into the technology, social organization and mentality of the worlds of the Vikings. Geographically, contributions range from Iceland through Scandinavia to the Continent. Scandinavian, British and Continental Viking scholars come together to challenge established truths, present new deﬁnitions and discuss old themes from new angles. Topics discussed include personal and communal identity; gender relations between people, artifacts, and places/spaces; rules and regulations within diﬀerent social arenas; processes of production, trade and exchange, and transmission of knowledge within both past Viking-age societies and present-day research. 9781782977278, $60, December 2014, Hardback, 176p

BRITAIN'S MEDIEVAL EPISCOPAL THRONES

By Charles Tracy & Andrew Budge

Geographically, contributions range from Iceland through Scandinavia to the Continent. Scandinavian, British and Continental Viking scholars come together to challenge established truths, present new deﬁnitions and discuss old themes from new angles. Topics discussed include personal and communal identity; gender relations between people, artifacts, and places/spaces; rules and regulations within diﬀerent social arenas; processes of production, trade and exchange, and transmission of knowledge within both past Viking-age societies and present-day research. 9781782977827, $85, January 2015, Hardback, 192p

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Medieval Europe

ENGLISH INLAND TRADE 1430-1540

Southampton and its region Edited by Michael Hicks

The Southampton brokage books are the best source for English inland trade before modern times. Between 1430 and 1540 the brokage series records all departures through Southampton’s Bargate, the owner, carter, commodity, quantity, destination and date, and many deliveries too. Seventeen papers investigate Southampton’s interaction with Salisbury, London, Winchester, and many other places, long-term trends and short-term ﬂuctuations. The rise and decline of the Italian trade, the dominance of Salisbury and emergence of Jack of Newbury, the recycling of wealth and metals from the dissolved monasteries all feature here. Underpinning the book are 32 computer-generated maps and numerous tables, charts, and graphs, with guidance provided as to how best to exploit and extend this remarkable resource.

An accompanying web-mounted database (http://www.overlandtrade.org) enables the changing commerce to be mapped and visualized through maps and trade to be tracked week by week and over a century. Together the book and database provide a unique resource for Southampton, its trading partners, traders and carters, freight traﬃc and the genealogies of the middling sort. 9781782978244, $90, February 2015, Hardback, 184p

EVERYDAY PRODUCTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Crafts, Consumption and the individual in Northern Europe c. AD 800-1600 Edited by Gitte Hansen, Steven Ashby & Irene Baug

The medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts of the Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the people involved in the transactions that took place there, how their lives were inﬂuenced by those transactions, or about the complex networks of individuals whose actions allowed raw materials to be extracted, hewn into objects, stored and ultimately shipped for market. Twenty diverse case studies combine leading edge techniques and novel theoretical approaches to illuminate the identities and lives of these much overlooked ordinary people, painting of a number of detailed portraits to explore the worlds of actors involved in the lives of everyday products - objects of bone, leather, stone, ceramics, and base metal - and their production and use in medieval northern Europe. In so doing, this book seeks to draw attention away from the emergent trend to return to systems and global models, and restore to center stage what should be the archaeologist’s most important concern: the people of the past. 9781782978053, $65, January 2015, Hardback, 352p

MEDIEVAL CHILDHOOD

Archaeological Approaches

Edited by D. M. Hadley & K.A. Hemer

The nine papers presented here set out to broaden the recent focus of archaeological evidence for medieval children and childhood and to oﬀer new ways of exploring their lives and experiences.

The everyday use of space and changes in the layout of buildings are examined, in order to reveal how these impacted upon the daily practices and household tasks relating to the upbringing of children. Aspects of work and play are explored: how, archaeologically, can we determine whether, and in what context, children played board and dice games? How we may gain insights into the medieval countryside from the perspective of children and thus begin to understand the processes of reproduction of particular aspects of medieval society and the spaces where children’s activities occurred; and the possible role of children in the medieval pottery industry. Funerary aspects are considered: the burial of infants in early English Christian cemeteries; the treatment and disposal of infants and children in the cremation ritual of early Anglo-Saxon England; and childhood, children and mobility in early medieval western Britain, especially Wales. Childhood in the Past Monograph 3 9781782976981, $55, December 2014, Paperback, 160p

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Medieval Europe POTTERY AND SOCIAL LIFE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

By Ben Jervis

How can pottery studies contribute to the study of medieval archaeology? How do pots relate to documents, landscapes and identities? These are the questions addressed in this book which develops a new approach to the study of pottery in medieval archaeology. Utilizing an interpretative framework which focuses upon the relationships between people, places and things, the eﬀect of the production, consumption and discard of pottery is considered, to see pottery not as reﬂecting medieval life, but as one factor which contributed to the development of multiple experiences and realities in medieval England. The case studies presented explore how we might use relational approaches to re-consider our approaches to medieval landscapes, overcome the methodological and theoretical divisions between documents and material culture and explore how the use of objects could have multiple implications for the formation and maintenance of identities. 9781782976592, $80, July 2014, Hardback, 160p

THE MEDIEVAL PEASANT HOUSE IN MIDLAND ENGLAND

By Nat Alcock & Dan Miles

The aim of this lavishly illustrated book is to provide an in-depth study of the many medieval peasant houses still standing in Midland villages, and of their historical context. In particular, the combination of tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, detailed architectural study and documentary research illuminates both their nature and their status. The results are brought together to provide a new and detailed view of the medieval peasant house, resolving the contradiction between the archaeological and architectural evidence, and illustrating how its social organization developed in the period before we have extensive documentary evidence for the use of space within the house. Nat Alcock and Dan Miles' work on Medieval Peasant Houses in Midland England has been nominated for the 2014 Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year. 9781782977148, $75, September 2014, Paperback reprint, 272p

SEALS AND THEIR CONTEXT IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Edited by Phillipp R. Schoﬁeld

This book oﬀers an extensive overview of the approaches to and the potential of sigillography, as well as introducing a wider readership to the range, interest and artistry of medieval seals. Seals were used throughout medieval society in a wide range of contexts: royal, governmental, ecclesiastical, legal, in trade and commerce and on an individual and personal level. The fourteen papers presented here, which originate from a conference held in Aberystwyth in April 2012, focus primarily on British material but there is also useful reference to continental Europe. The volume is divided into three sections looking at the history and use of seals as symbols and representations of power and prestige in a variety of institutional, dynastic and individual contexts, their role in law and legal practice, and aspects of their manufacture, sources and artistic attributes. 9781782978176, $150, December 2014, Hardback, 208p

TOWNS AND TOPOGRAPHY

Essays in Memory of David H. Hill Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker & Susan D. Thompson

Fifteen papers presented here examine a variety of aspects of medieval towns and their topography. It comprises essays on the excavations in the Frankish emporium of Quentovic, directed by David Hill; London; Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian mints; the burhs of Somerset; and urban perspectives in literature. The second part concentrates on topographical subjects including an examination of the signiﬁcance of the distribution through trade of Mayen Lava quernstones in early medieval north-west Europe and the evidence of a charter for the topography of late Anglo-Saxon Worcester revealing that standing crosses were, by then, considered old fashioned. Other papers consider landscape through placename studies; long term archaeology projects in The Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire, and western Cheshire; medieval dykes; land holdings needed supporting the monasteries of Jarrow and Monkwearmouth. 9781782977025, $120, November 2014, Hardback

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European Prehistory

THE BELL BEAKER TRANSITION IN EUROPE

Mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC Edited by Maria Pilar Prieto Martínez & Laure Salanova

Could the circulation of objects or ideas and the mobility of artisans explain the unprecedented uniformity of the material culture observed throughout the whole of Europe? The 17 papers presented here offer a range of new and different perspectives on the Beaker phenomenon across Europe. The focus is on social groups using technological studies and physical anthropology to understand mobility patterns during the 3rd millennium BC. Chronological evolution is used to reconstruct the rhythm of Bell Beaker diffusion and the environmental background that could explain this mobility and the socio-economic changes observed during this period of transition toward Bronze Age societies.

The chapters are mainly organized geographically, covering Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean shores and the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula, include some areas that are traditionally studied and well known, such as France, the British Isles or Central Europe, but also others that have so far been considered peripheral, such as Norway, Denmark or Galicia. This journey oﬀers a complex and diverse image of a supra-regional structure that articulated a new type of society on an unprecedented scale. 9781782979272, $76, July 2015, Paperback, 216p

THE END OF THE LAKE-DWELLINGS IN THE CIRCUM-ALPINE REGION

Edited by Francesco Menotti

After more than 3500 years of occupation in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, the many lake-dwellings’ around the Circum-Alpine region ‘suddenly’ came to an end. Throughout that period alternating phases of occupation and abandonment illustrate how resilient lacustrine populations were against change: cultural/ environmental factors might have forced them to relocate temporarily, but they always returned to the lakes. So why were the lake-dwellings finally abandoned and what exactly happened towards the end of the Late Bronze Age that made the lake-dwellers change their way of life so drastically? The new research presented here draws upon the results of a four-year-long project dedicated to shedding light on this intriguing conundrum. Placing a particular emphasis upon the Bronze Age, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has studied the lake-dwelling phenomenon inside out, leaving no stones unturned, enabling identification of all possible interactive socio-economic and environmental factors that can be subsequently tested against each other to prove (or disprove) their validity. By re-fitting the various pieces of the jigsaw a plausible, but also rather unexpected, picture emerges.

ELEVATED ROCK ART

9781782978602, $90, April 2015, Paperback, 208p

Towards a maritime understanding of Bronze Age rock art in northern Bohuslän, Sweden By Johan Ling

How may Bohuslän rock art and landscape be perceived and understood? Since the Bronze Age, the landscape has been transformed by shore displacement but, largely due to misunderstanding and certain ideas about the character of Bronze Age society, rock art research in Tanum has drawn much of its inspiration from the present agrarian landscape. This perception of the landscape has not been a major issue. This volume, republished from the GOTAC Serie B (Gothenburg Archaeological thesis 49) aims to shed light on the process of shore displacement and its social and cognitive implications for the interpretation of rock art in the prehistoric landscape. The ﬁndings clearly show that in the Bronze Age, the majority of rock art sites in Bohuslän had a very close spatial connection to the sea. Here, the basic conditions for the production of rock art, social theory and approaches to image, communication, symbolism and social action are discussed and related to palpable social forms of the “reading” of rock art. Swedish Rock Art Research Series 2 9781782977629, $70, October 2014, Hardback, 272p

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European Prehistory FINGERPRINTING THE IRON AGE: APPROACHES TO IDENTITY IN THE EUROPEAN IRON AGE

Integrating South-Eastern Europe into the debate Edited by Cătălin Nicolae Popa & Simon Stoddart

Archaeology has long dealt with issues of identity, and especially with ethnicity, with modern approaches emphasizing dynamic and fluid social construction. The archaeology of the Iron Age in particular has engendered much debate on the topic of ethnicity, fuelled by the first availability of written sources alongside the archaeological evidence which has led many researchers to associate the features they excavate with populations named by Greek or Latin writers. Some archaeological traditions have had their entire structure built around notions of ethnicity, around the relationships existing between large groups of people conceived together as forming unitary ethnic units. The 24 contributions to this volume focus on the south east Europe, where the Iron Age has, until recently, been populated with numerous ethnic groups with which specific material culture forms have been associated. The wide array of approaches to identity presented here reflects the continuing debate on how to integrate material culture, protohistoric evidence (largely classical authors looking in on first millennium BC societies) and the impact of recent nationalistic agendas. 9781782976752, $84, November 2014, Hardback, 336p

PATHS TO COMPLEXITY

Centralisation and Urbanisation in Iron Age Europe

Edited by Manuel Fernández-Götz, Holger Wendling & Katja Winger

Exploring the origins of urbanism – the emergence and development of the ﬁrst cities, has long constituted one of the main challenges of archaeological and ancient historical research. Studying cities in a long-term and cross-cultural perspective links the past with the present, allowing a better understanding of one of the most important developments in human history. Moreover, archaeological research on ancient cities can contribute to a better understanding of contemporary processes of urbanisation.

The 21 papers in this volume aim bring together the latest continental and English-speaking research with contributions by well-established researchers and younger colleagues providing innovative perspectives. Contributions cover an area stretching from central Spain to Moravia and from southern France to Britain. The aim has been to produce a work of reference for readers interested in Iron Age archaeology in particular, and in urbanisation processes in general. The aim has been to produce a work of reference for readers interested in Iron Age archaeology in particular, and in urbanization processes in general. 9781782977230, $130, October 2014, Hardback, 248p

PICTURING THE BRONzE AGE

Edited by Johan Ling, Peter Skoglund & Ulf Bertilsson

Pictures from the Bronze Age are numerous, vivid and complex. There is no other prehistoric period that has produced such a wide range of images spanning from rock art to ﬁgurines to decoration on bronzes and gold. Fifteen 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 speciﬁc elements of rock art in some detail such as the representation of the human form; images of manslaughter; and gender identities. The relationship between rock art imagery and its location on the one hand, and metalwork and networks of trade and exchange of both materials and ideas on the other, are considered. Modern and ancient perceptions of rock art are discussed, in particular the changing perceptions that have developed during almost 150 years of documented research. Picturing the Bronze Age is based on an international workshop with the same title held in Tanum, Sweden in October 2012. Swedish Rock Art Series 3 9781782978794, $70, March 2015, Hardback, 232p

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European Prehistory / British Archaeology

WILD THINGS

Recent advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research

Edited by Frederick W. F. Foulds, Helen C. Drinkall, Angela R. Perri, David T.G. Clinnick & James W.P. Walker

Recently, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology has been breaking boundaries worldwide. Finds such as the Mesolithic house at Howick, the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, and the recently discovered footprints at Happisburgh all serve to indicate how archaeologists in these ﬁelds are truly at the cutting edge of understanding humanity’s past. This volume celebrates this trend by focusing on recent advances in the study of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. With contributors from a diverse range of backgrounds, it allows for a greater degree of interdisciplinary discourse than is often the case, as the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic are generally split apart. Wild Things brings together contributions from major researchers and early career specialists, detailing research taking place across the British Isles, France, Portugal, Russia, the Levant and Europe as a whole, providing a cross-section of the exciting range of research being conducted. By combining papers from both these periods, it is hoped that dialogue between practitioners of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology can be further encouraged. 9781782977469, $60, December 2014, Paperback, 208p

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CAVES IN IRELAND

By Marion Dowd

Caves are one of the most enduring natural features in the Irish landscape. Approximately 980 are documented across limestone regions of the country, and 91 of these are registered archaeological sites. Until recently they have tended to remain neglected for archaeological study, being the haunt of cavers and palaeontologists who have historically been largely responsible for the recovery of cultural material. In many ways caves resemble cabinets of curiosities – underground repositories of jumbled and varied multi-period collections of artifacts and bones. As research develops and the archaeological potential of caves is increasingly recognized, the number of caves of archaeological signiﬁcance in Ireland is growing. When associated ﬁelds of scholarship are considered – such as popular religious practices, ethnohistory and folklore – we are left in no doubt as to their cultural importance. This fully illustrated book provides a synthesis of what we currently know about how caves were used and perceived by communities spanning the 10,000 years of human occupation of Ireland, from the earliest Mesolithic hunter gatherers to the 21st century urban dweller. 9781782978138, $85, February 2015, Hardback, 320p

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LOWER CITY AND ADjACENT SUBURBS

By Kate Steane, Margaret Darling, Michael J. Jones, Jenny Mann, Alan Vince & Jane Young

This volume contains reports on excavations undertaken in the lower walled city at Lincoln, which lies on sloping ground on the northern scarp of the Witham gap, and its adjacent suburbs between 1972 and 1987, and forms a companion volume to LAS volumes 2 and 3 which cover other parts of the historic city. The earliest features encountered were discovered both near to the line of Ermine Street and towards Broadgate. Remains of timber storage buildings were found, probably associated with the Roman legionary occupation in the later 1st century AD. Elements of some Roman structures survived to be reused in subsequent centuries. There are hints of one focus in the Middle Saxon period, in the area of St Peter’s church, but occupation of an urban nature did not recommence until the late 9th century with the ﬁrst phases of Anglo-Scandinavian occupation recorded here. There was a further revival in the later post-medieval period, but much of the earlier fabric, and surviving stretches of Roman city wall, were swept away in the 19th century. Lincoln Archaeology Studies 4 9781782978527, $110, February 2015, Hardback, 608p

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British Archaeology CELTIC ART IN EUROPE

Making Connections

Edited by Christopher Gosden, Sally Crawford & Katharina Ulmschneider

The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. On the one hand it represents a specialist area of archaeological interest, on the other, it has a wide general appeal. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history. Of these disciplines, art history offers the most direct message to a wider audience. This volume of 37 papers brings together a truly international group of pre-eminent specialists in the field of Celtic art and Celtic studies. It is a benchmark volume the like of which has not been seen since the publication of Paul Jacobsthal’s Early Celtic Art in 1944. The papers chart the history of attempts to understand Celtic art and argue for novel approaches in discussions spanning the whole of Continental Europe and the British Isles. This new body of international scholarship will give the reader a sense of the richness of the material and current debates. Artifacts of rich form and decoration, which we might call art, provide a most sensitive set of indicators of key areas of past societies, their power, politics and transformations. With its broad geographical scope, this volume offers a timely opportunity to re-assess contacts, context, transmission and meaning in Celtic art for understanding the development of European cultures, identities and economies in pre- and proto-history. 9781782976554, $105, October 2014, Hardback, 400p

CONTINENTAL CONNECTIONS

Exploring cross-channel relationships

Edited by Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Duncan Garrow & Fraser Sturt

The prehistories of Britain and Ireland are inescapably entwined with continental European narratives. The central aim here is to explore ‘cross-channel’ relationships throughout later prehistory, investigating the archaeological links (material, social, cultural) between the areas we now call Britain and Ireland, and continental Europe, from the Mesolithic through to the end of the Iron Age. Since the separation from the European mainland of Ireland (c. 16,000 BC) and Britain (c. 6000 BC), their island nature has been seen as central to many aspects of life within them, helping to define their senses of identity, and forming a crucial part of their neighbourly relationship with continental Europe and with each other. However, it is important to remember that the surrounding seaways have often served to connect as well as to separate these islands from the continent. In approaching the subject of ‘continental connections’ in the long-term, and by bringing a variety of different archaeological perspectives (associated with different periods) to bear on it, this volume provides a new a new synthesis of the ebbs and flows of the cross-channel relationship over the course of 15,000 years of later prehistory, enabling fresh understandings and new insights to emerge about the intimately linked trajectories of change in both regions. 9781782978091, $60, February 2015, Paperback, 176p

EXCAVATIONS AT CILL DONNAIN

A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist By Mike Parker Pearson & Marek Zvelebil

The SEARCH (Sheﬃeld Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The aim of the project is to investigate how human societies adapted in the longterm to the isolated environment of the Outer Hebrides.

The ﬁrst major excavation on South Uist discovered that what was thought to be a shell midden at Cill Donnain was in fact a wheelhouse, a type of dwelling used in the period c.300 BC – AD 500; under which lay the remains of a Bronze Age settlement. This settlement was partly investigated by Marik Zvelebil in 1991 and then later by Mike Parker Pearson and Kate MacDonald in 2003. The site itself is situated at the foot of a high steep-sided dune on the eastern edge of a large sand valley, close to the western shore of Loch Cill Donnain. The archaeological report of the excavation at the Cill Donnain wheelhouse shows that, in comparison with contemporary neighbouring settlements, it was unlikely that each was an independent unit and that they were linked by social and economic inter-dependency. Sheﬃeld Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides 9 9781782976271, $40, October 2014, Hardback, 272p

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British Archaeology IRELAND'S FIRST SETTLERS

Time and the Mesolithic

By Peter Woodman

Ireland’s First Settlers tells the story of the archaeology and history of the first continuous phase of Ireland’s human settlement. It combines centuries of search and speculation about human antiquity in Ireland with a review of what is known today about the Irish Mesolithic. This is, in part, provided in the context of the author’s 50 years of personal experience searching to make sense of what initially appeared to be little more than a collection of beach rolled and battered flint tools. The story is embedded in how the island of Ireland, its position, distinct landscape and ecology impacted on when and how Ireland was colonised. It also explores how these first settlers evolved their technologies and lifeways to suit the narrow range of abundant resources that were available. The volume concludes with discussions on how the landscape should be searched for the often ephemeral traces of these early settlers and how sites should be excavated. them as farming began to be introduced. 9781782977780, $76, January 2015, Hardback, 448p

RITUAL IN EARLY BRONzE AGE GRAVE GOODS

An examination of ritual and dress equipment from Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age graves in England By John Hunter & Ann Woodward

This volume is the result of a major research project that aimed to investigate Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age grave goods in relation to their possible use as special dress accessories or as equipment employed within ritual activities and ceremonies. It shows that many items of adornment formed elements of elaborate costumes, probably worn by individuals who held important ritual roles within society. Furthermore, the analysis has shown that various categories of object long interpreted as mundane types of tool were in fact items of bodily adornment or implements used in ritual contexts, or in the special embellishment of the human body. The volume provides an extensive, and intensively illustrated, overview of a large proportion of the grave goods from English burial sites. 9781782976943, $140, December 2014, Hardback, 616p

QUATERNARY OF THE TRENT

Edited by David R. Bridgland, Andy J. Howard, Mark J. White & Tom S. White

This volume is an integrated overview and synthesis of available data relating to the Quaternary evolution of the River Trent. It provides detailed descriptions of the Pleistocene sedimentary records from the Trent, its tributaries and related drainage systems - a sedimentary record that spans a period of approximately half a million years - and the biostratigraphical and archaeological material preserved therein.

Significant new data are presented from recently discovered sites of geological and archaeological importance, including previously unrecognised fluvial deposits, as well as novel analyzes, such as mathematical modelling of fluvial incision as recorded by the river terrace deposits. In combination with a thorough review of the literature on the Trent, these new data have contributed to revised chronostratigraphical and palaeogeographical frameworks for central England and revealed the complexity of the Pleistocene fluvial and glacial records in this region. 9781842174616, $60, September 2014, Hardback, 416p

WHAT THE VICTORIANS THREW AWAY

By Tom Licence

The people who lived in England before the First World War now inhabit a realm of yellow photographs. Theirs is a world fast fading from ours, yet they do not appear overly distant. Many of us can remember them as being much like ourselves. Nor is it too late for us to encounter them so intimately that we might catch ourselves worrying that we have invaded their privacy. Digging up their refuse is like peeping through the keyhole. How far off are our grandparents in reality when we can sniff the residues of their perfume, cough medicines, and face cream? In this highly readable and delightfully illustrated little book Tom Licence reveals how these everyday minutiae contribute to the bigger story of how our great grandparents built a throwaway society from the twin foundations of packaging and mass consumption and illustrates how our own throwaway habits were formed. It is the first detailed study of Victorian household rubbish and employs case studies to examine the daily lives of individuals from different walks of life. 9781782978756, $19.99, April 2015, Paperback, 208p

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Windgather Press ARCADIAN VISIONS

Pastoral Inﬂuences on Poetry, Painting and the Design of Landscape By Allan R. Ruﬀ

This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is dimly perceived and little understood by landscape architects and those responsible for the management of land. This is in marked contrast to previous centuries when the vision of Arcadia and the pastoral was implanted by education among the more privileged in society. Young men spent many hours translating and learning by rote the words of Virgil and other classical authors and on the Grand Tour they would be introduced to work of painters like Poussin and Claude and their interpretations of the Ideal pastoral landscape. Today Arcadia holds as powerful an inﬂuence as at any time in the past and it is important that we plan our urban environment in ways that harmonise with the natural world. Arcadian Visions provides an alternative landscape history for all those involved with the landscape - either through its design, management, use or enjoyment. 9781909686663, $79.95, July 2015, Hardback, 288p

AN AUTHOR AND A GARDENER

The Gardens and Friendship of Edith Wharton and Laurence johnston By Allan R. Ruﬀ

Garden designer, Edith Wharton, as a writer chose to expose her innermost thoughts and feelings and was continually in the public eye. Laurence Johnston, however, wrote nothing about his gardens, hardly permitted photographs of himself or his gardens and, though he kept an engagement diary, these, with two exceptions, have not survived. As a result Johnston remains a shadowy figure upon whom light occasionally falls from within the diaries kept by Edith Wharton. Wharton was a passionate gardener – an aspect not yet fully explored in previous biographies - early in her life after she had made her first garden at The Mount, at Lenox, Massachusetts in the United States, she claimed she was a better landscape designer than novelist. This book is the first to portray in depth the life, friendship and gardens of Edith Wharton and Lawrence Johnston. In this major new critical biography Alan Ruff has brought the two together, calling upon his lifetime’s knowledge of landscape and garden design to assess the influences and techniques employed in the gardens of these two remarkable people, all set against a long-vanished, high-society background. 9781909686465, $55, October 2014, Hardback, 360p

BETWEEN THE WIND AND THE WATER

World Heritage Orkney

By Caroline Wickham-Jones

The Archaeological sites of Orkney give us an unparalleled glimpse into prehistory. Inscribed as the 'Heart of Neolithic Orkney' World Heritage Site in 1999, four great monuments - the village of Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness and the burial mound of Maeshowe - are also at the center of the archipelago's story. This book looks at what makes these monuments so special. Caroline Wickham-Jones explores the Neolithic world in which they were built, how they came to be a focus through the ages, and what they mean today. Picts, saints, Vikings, antiquarians and tourists populate Orkney's past: a history which is channeled through these 'dances of stones'.

This new second edition replaces the highly successful and widely used ﬁrst edition, which sold over 1,000 copies. The text has been fully updated to take account of recent discoveries and research including the now world famous site Ness of Brodgar. In addition there are over thirty new images including stunning photographs of Orkney's archaeology and landscape. 9781909686502, $39.95, November 2014, Paperback reprint, 178p

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Windgather Press DEER AND PEOPLE

Edited by Karis Baker, Ruth Carden & Richard Madgwick

Deer have been central to human cultures throughout time and space: whether as staples to hunter-gatherers, icons of Empire, or the focus of sport. Their social and economic importance has seen some species transported across continents, transforming landscape as they went with the establishment of menageries and park. The fortunes of other species have been less auspicious, some becoming extirpated, or being in threat of extinction, due to pressures of over-hunting and/or humaninstigated environmental change. In spite of their diverse, deep-rooted and long standing relations with human societies, no multi-disciplinary volume of research on cervids has until now been produced. This volume draws together research on deer from wide-ranging disciplines and in so doing substantially advances our broader understanding of human-deer relationships in the past and the present.

9781909686540, $80, December 2014, Paperback, 248p

OFFA'S DYKE

Landscape and Hegemony in Eighth Century Britain

By Keith Ray & Ian Bapty

The massive ancient earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary national walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a century of study, we still do not fully understand how or why Britain's largest linear monument was built, and in recent years, the views of those who have studied the Dyke have diverged even as to such basic questions as its physical extent and date of construction. This book provides a fresh perspective on the creation of Offa's Dyke arising from over a decade of study and of conservation practice by its two authors. It also provides a new appreciation of the specifically Mercian and English political context of its construction. The authors first summarise what is known about the Dyke from archaeology and history and review the debates surrounding its form and purpose. 9781905119356, $46, May 2015, Paperback, 200p

NORTH DOWNS LANDSCAPES

By Doug Kennedy

The North Downs are a range of hills that run east-west from the south-east tip of England, at Dover in Kent, to Farnham in Surrey. They skirt the southern edge of London, so for a long time have oﬀered Londoners beautiful countryside to escape to, or for a home to commute to work from. A hundred years ago, they were still quite remote, but London has grown, spreading onto Downland, and rail and road links have ensured that the many towns across the hills have also grown substantially in size. Despite development there is still a lot of unspoilt landscape, from farmland, to deep woods, to open grassland ridges with fantastic views across the weald of Surrey and Kent; and it is these places that are the focus of this book. The core of this book are beautiful full-page color photographs illustrating the beauty and distinctive landscapes of the Downs. The text explores the history, geography, geology and ecology of the countryside and some of its towns and villages. Together photographs and text capture the character and atmosphere of a special part of the British Isles. 9781909686588, $29.99, April 2015, Hardback

TREES IN TOWNS AND CITIES

A History of British Urban Arboriculture By Mark Johnston

This is the ﬁrst book on the history of trees in Britain’s towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them. It is a highly readable and authoritative account of the trees in our urban landscapes from the Romans to the present day, including public parks, private gardens, streets, cemeteries and many other open spaces. It charts how our appreciation of urban trees and woodland has evolved into our modern understanding of the many environmental, economic and social beneﬁts of our urban forests. A description is also given of the various threats to these trees over the centuries, such as pollution damage during the Industrial Revolution and the recent ravages of Dutch elm disease. Central and local government initiatives are examined together with the contribution of civic and amenity societies. This account gives a deeper analysis by exploring issues such as who owned those treed landscapes, why they were created and who had access to them. 9781909686625, $79.95, June 2015, Paperback, 256p

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Archaeology, anthropology, landscape history and environmental diversity

Series editors: Peter Topping and Mark Lynott American Landscapes is a new series from Oxbow Books which presents lavishly illustrated volumes exploring the landscape history of the North American continent. Each volume provides a comprehensive and accessible narrative aimed at the informed reader, presenting an up-to-date review of the latest research from archaeology, anthropology, historical studies and the environmental sciences, which also provides a guide to the detailed literature. The aim is to produce an expert overviewâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from a holistic landscape perspectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of the history and changing land use of particular areas/regions or archaeological/historical themes across a wide timeframe in the United States and Canada The first five titles have been commissioned and the series launched at the end of 2014. All titles will be available from Oxbowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s US distributor, Casemate Academic (formerly The David Brown Book Company). To register your interests in the series and receive advance notification of future titles please send an email to Michaela Goff michaela.goff@casematepublishers.com.

Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio Mark Lynott

9781782977544, $34.95, December 2014, Paperback, 288p

During the first five centuries of the Christian era, a remarkable society built a large and elaborate complex of earthen mounds, walls, ditches and ponds in the southern flowing drainages of the Ohio River Valley. The number, size, and variety of forms make them some of the most impressive earthworks in all of North America. The development of the vast Hopewell Culture earthwork complexes such as those at Mound City, Hopewell, Fort Ancient and the Newark earthworks was accompanied by the establishment of wide-ranging cultural contacts reflected in the movement of exotic and strikingly beautiful artifacts such as elaborate tobacco pipes, obsidian and chert spearheads, copper axes and regalia, animal figurines and delicately carved sheets of mica. These phenomena, coupled with complex burial rituals, indicate the emergence of a powerful ideology of individual and group power and prestige, and the creation of a vast cultural landscape within which the monument complexes were central to a ritual cycle encompassing a substantial geographical area.

Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America Robert A. Birmingham Between circa A.D. 700 and 1100, Late Woodland people of the Upper Midwest used the topography and other features of the natural landscape to create vast ceremonial landscapes consisting of thousands of earthen mounds sculpted into animals and animal spirits that mirrored their belief and clan based social structure and that served an important role in mortuary ritual. In so doing, the Late Woodland people created quite visible three dimensional maps of ancient cosmology and social structures that are similar to the beliefs and social systems of more recent Indian people. With the benefit of LiDAR survey, the nature of these unique effigy mound landscapes can now been documented with unprecedented precision and the use of topography and natural features to create the ceremonial landscapes examined. An interpretation put forward that demonstrates how these were living landscapes in which ancestral animals and supernatural beings were ritually brought back to life at places where the spirits are best evoked in a continuous cycle of death and rebirth of the earth and its people.

Transforming the Landscape: Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos Carol Diaz-Granados, Jan Simek, George Sabo, and Mark Wagner There is a vast repertoire of American Indian rock art spread across an expansive region of eastern North America created during the Mississippian Period. Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. Our focus on the widespread use of cosmograms in Mississippian rock art imagery anchors broad distributional patterns of motifs and themes within a powerful framework for cultural interpretation, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, nature, ceremonialism, religion, and a more comprehensive perspective on Mississippian symbolism.

Archaic Landscapes of Louisiana: Hedgepeth Mounds, Watson Brake and the Middle Archaic Mounds Joe Saunders Middle Archaic earthen mound complexes in the lower Mississippi valley include major sites in Louisiana, of which the Hedgepeth Mounds, Watson Break and Frenchmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bend are the best known. Identified as being earlier than many of the mound complexes further up the Mississippi, early exploration of the Louisiana complexes produced little in the way of material culture. However, research programs involving extensive coring, stratigraphic studies, and both radiometric and luminescence dating have identified and examined pre-mound middens and occupation surfaces and buried soils producing a range of lithic and fired clay objects and organic materials for dating. At Watson Brake, for instance, where 11 connected mounds enclose a probable ritual space, substantial moundraising began ca. 3350 B.C. and continued in stages until some time after 3000 B.C at which point the site was abandoned. Year-round occupation supported by broad-spectrum foraging is indicated. This volume brings together the results of 25 years of research in order to explore the origins, cultural development and ultimate demise of early moundbuilding traditions in the lower Mississippi region.

Battlespace 1865: Archaeology of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska Douglas Scott and Peter Bleed In early 1865, as the Civil War was winding down and Plains Indian communities were reeling in the wake of the Sand Creek massacre, combat swept across the Nebraska panhandle. Operating on terrain they knew well, Cheyenne warriors and other Native forces encountered the US Cavalry who operated with a modern network of trails and stations. Archaeological consideration the battlefields, bases, and landscapes associated with this fighting expose how the combat developed and how the opposing forces dealt with the challenges they encountered. This study draws on techniques of battlefield archaeology as well as historical accounts of the participants, LiDAR-informed terrain assessment, and theoretical consideration of the strategic thinking of the combatants. It applies a landscape approach to the archaeological study of war and reveals an overlooked phase of the American Civil War and the opening of the Indian Wars.

OXBOW INSIGH Oxbow Insights in Archaeology is a new peer-reviewed series of small format single author paperbacks by leading academics in all areas of archaeology reflecting on one or more aspects of their personal research or subject area. This series is intended to be of high academic standard but somewhat ‘free-form’. It is peer-reviewed and overseen by a distinguished Editorial Advisory Board. Authors can reflect on any aspect of archaeology: be it landscape, artifact, or period based, theoretical, historiographical, social, phenomenological - though preferably stemming from their own work and present a free narrative of their collected thoughts. It can be a straightforward summary of their current thoughts, new ideas, a sideways look, or off-the-wall. The aim is to free the author from the strictures of REF or other academic point-scoring and give them the opportunity to say what they want (and feel) on a subject or theme of their choice to a wide audience. Two existing Oxbow examples which reflect the series format are Caroline Wickham-Jones’ volume Fear of Farming which has sold very well and The Death of Archaeological Theory? (although a collected work), which has been widely read. The texts should be short c. 50,000–70,000 words, illustrated as required but not heavily so. Volumes will be published simultaneously as print and e-book editions. Authors Authors do not need to getting towards the end of their career but simply to have something interesting to say and to be able to write for a not entirely academic audience, preferably fairly opinionated and with some wit!

HTS IN ARCHAEOLOGY First Light: The Origins of Newgrange by Robert Hensey Newgrange in Ireland is a world famous monument not only because of its vast scale and elaborate megalithic art, but also because of its renowned alignment to the sun on the winter solstice. Yet the origins of Newgrange remain somewhat mysterious. Across Ireland over two hundred similar passage tombs are found, some of which are considerably older than Newgrange. These less investigated monuments reveal that the origins of Newgrange may be hidden in plain sight. In short, Robert Hensey uncovers an untold history at Newgrange; an island-wide story of incremental changes over hundreds of years, of a society in evolution, perhaps in extremis, who left behind such a rich, enigmatic and patterned legacy. 9781782979517, $26, June 2015, Paperback Oxbow Insights in Archaeology, Oxbow Books

Towards Skyscape Archaeology by Fabio Silva Towards Skyscape Archaeology looks at archaeoastronomical theory and method from the point of view of archaeology. It highlights current limitations and suggests what needs to be addressed and overcome for archaeoastronomy to produce knowledge of value to the broader academic community. It argues that archaeoastronomy needs to come closer to archaeology; it needs to become a skyscape archaeology, and proposes ways to achieve this. Using case studies from Peru, Scotland, Spain, Malta and Stonehenge, Fabio Silva challenges the orthodoxy and argues that with a different approach we can further our understanding of the cosmology and worldviews of cultures and societies. 9781782979555, $26, June 2015, Paperback Oxbow Insights in Archaeology, Oxbow Books Editorial Advisory Board Umberto Albarella, University of Sheffield

Neil Price, University of Aberdeen

John Baines, University of Oxford

Anthony Snodgrass, University of Cambridge

Richard Bradley â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Chair, University of Reading

Mark White, Durham University

Chris Gosden, University of Oxford

Alasdair Whittle, Cardiff University

Simon James, University of Leicester

Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: Studying Scientific Archaeology Series editors: Michael J. Allen, AEA Allen Environmental Archaeology Terry O’Connor, University of York Studying Scientific Archaeology is a new series of titles from Oxbow Books. The series will produce books on a wide variety of scientific topics in archaeology aimed at students at all levels. These will examine the methods, procedures and reasoning behind various scientific approaches to archaeological data and present case studies or extended examples to demonstrate how data is used and interpretations are arrived at. In particular we aim that books in this series should demonstrate how scientific analyzes contribute to our wider understanding of past human behavior, technology and economy. The series title reflects an inclusivity in the volumes in the sense of encouraging readers in practical research rather than just presenting collected papers as statements of work completed. Our aim is that these titles will come to feature as recommended reading for university courses, providing a sound basis for the appreciation and application of scientific archaeology. Proposals on all aspects of archaeological science are invited and will be accepted for both monographs and edited volumes. Volume 1: A handbook of geoarchaeological approaches to settlement sites and landscapes, by Charles French (publication Spring 2015) Volume 2: Wild Harvest: Plants and people in the pre-agricultural and non-agricultural world, edited by Karen Hardy (publication 2015) Volume 3: Expanding the Horizons of Forensic Human Burial Research, edited by Don Brothwell (publication 2015) Volume 4: Molluscs in Archaeology, edited by Michael J. Allen (publication 2015) Volume 5: Snails, Soils and Sediments, by Michael J. Allen (publication 2016) Dr Michael J. Allen is one of the UK’s leading environmental archaeologists, specializing in geoarchaeology (particularly the analysis of hillwash and colluvium), land snail analysis, prehistoric landscape reconstruction and the management of environmental archaeological projects. Prof.Terry O’Connor is a foremost expert in the study of animal remains and is particularly known for his zooarchaeological research on material from York. He has taught zooarchaeology and environmental archaeology for many years, first at the University of Bradford and now at York. For further information about this new series or enquiries regarding book proposals please contact: Michaela Goff, US Commissioning Editor, at michaela.goff@casematepublishers.com

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