ANCIENT EGYPT & THE NEAR EAST
NAIRI LANDS
The Identity of the Local Communities of Eastern Anatolia, South Caucasus and Periphery During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. A Reassessment of the Material Culture and the SocioEconomic Landscape By Guido Guarducci First detailed study of pottery production, socio-economic development and trade in the ‘Nairi Lands’. Analyses the social and symbolic value of the material culture and the social structure of the local communities of a broad area encompassing Eastern Anatolia, the South Caucasus and North-western Iran during the last phase of the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age.
Oxbow Books • July 2019 • 9781789252781 • £60.00 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 288 pages • b/w and colour illus.
INHABITING THE PROMISED LAND
Exploring the Complex Relationship between Archaeology and Ancient Israel as Depicted in the Bible By Margreet L. Steiner Elucidates the lives and beliefs of peoples that inhabited the land in which the Bible was written. This book describes the often-complicated relationship between archaeology and the Bible. It is not a book on ‘biblical archaeology’, and archaeology is not used to illustrate the biblical stories, nor to prove that the Bible is right. Instead, it focuses on the information that archaeology can provide of the lives and beliefs of the ancient peoples that inhabited the land in which the Bible was written, and on how this information relates to the biblical stories.
Oxbow Books • August 2019 • 9781789253306 • £30.00 • Paperback 240 x 170mm • 128 pages • b/w illus.
GILDED FLESH
Egyptian anthropoid coffins and the quest for the immortal body Edited by Rogério Sousa (University of Porto) Examination of decorative elements applied to over 600 Egyptian coffins of the 21st Dynasty. Examines twelve non-royal tombs found relatively intact, from the plains of Saqqara to the sacred hills of Thebes, that managed to escape ancient looters. Each one of these sites reveals a time capsule, where coffins and tombs were designed together as part of a social, political, and religious order. The book unveils a silent revolution which managed to open to the common people horizons of divinity previously reserved for the royal sphere.
Oxbow Books • November 2019 • 9781789252620 • £60.00 • Hardback 240 x 170mm • 272 pages • b/w illus.
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