Oxbow book news - Autumn 2020

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Welcome to the 106th edition of the Oxbow Book News. From everyday life in the Palaeolithic to nineteenth century mausolea, its pages are filled with a characteristically wide range of brand new archaeological titles from our own imprints and our partner publishers.

We are particularly excited to announce the latest Historic Towns Atlas which will cover our own home town of Oxford. Through a series of beautifully produced maps, the atlas traces the city’s development from its Prehistoric landscape through Anglo-Saxon beginnings and the medieval foundation of the university to its considerable expansion in the nineteenth century. Introductory material provides historical context, while a gazetteer describes the main historic buildings in detail.

Monuments in the Making by Vicki Cummings and Colin Richards presents a major re-appraisal of the dolmen. Based on a new fieldwork project across Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia, the book examines aspects of quarrying and construction as well as function, noting that not all dolmens were used for human burial and suggesting that these monuments were also intended to enchant and captivate.

The latest volume in our successful Studying Scientific Archaeology series, Scientific Dating in Archaeology edited by Seren Griffiths, provides an up-to-date guide to the revolution in thinking about chronology which has been sparked by the use of Bayesian statistics and details the methods, applications and challenges of different techniques. Another historic town forms the focus of two volumes from the Exeter: A Place in Time project edited by Stephen Rippon and Neil Holbrook, which give a synthesis of Exeter’s Roman and medieval development, as well as presenting case studies and a wealth of specialist reports.

Of course this selection only scratches the surface, and we are sure that, with the bargains to be found in the middle section of the catalogue added to the mix, you will find plenty to tempt you here.

We thank you, as ever, for your continued support

Cover Image: West wall of tomb 4, decorated with murals, Kenchreai cemetery Photo: Elizabeth Rees From: Archaeology and the Early Church in Southern Greece (Oxbow Books 2020))

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Scientific Dating in Archaeology Edited by Seren Griffiths A variety of techniques have been developed to provide scientific chronologies of archaeological sites and material culture. These chronologies under-pin the narratives that are generated for prehistoric and other periods. The application of Bayesian statistical analysis to scientific chronologies has brought renewed emphasis onto how we generate scientific chronological data, how these data are applied into wider narratives, and the epistemological importance of these data. This volume will provide a timely review of the methods, applications and challenges of applying different scientific dating techniques to archaeological sites and material culture.

It will then provide an introduction to Bayesian modelling, and highlight a series of considerations in the application of scientific dating techniques.

Oxbow Books • Dec 2020 • 9781789255621 £29.95 • Paperback • 256 pages b/w illustrations

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Far from Equilibrium An Archaeology of Energy, Life and Humanity: A Response to the Archaeology of John C. Barrett Edited by Michael J. Boyd & R. C. P. Doonan Archaeology is in crisis. Spatial turns, material turns and the ontological turn have directed the discipline away from its hardwon battle to find humanity in the past. Meanwhile, popularised science, camouflaged as archaeology, produces shock headlines built on ancient DNA that reduce humanity’s most intriguing historical problems to two-dimensional caricatures.

This volume foregrounds the relevance of the scholarship of John Barrett to this crisis. Topics include archaeology and the senses, the continuing problem of the archaeological record, practice, discourse, and agency, reorienting archaeological field practice, the question of different expressions of human diversity, and material ecologies. This critical examination of John Barrett’s contribution to archaeology is simultaneously a response to his urgent call to arms to reorient archaeology in the service of humanity.

Oxbow Books • Jan 2021 • 9781789256031 £55.00 • Hardback • 288 pages b/w illustrations

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Conversations between Objects Edited by Linda Hulin Linda Hulin considers the relationship between the archaeological record and the human past and examines the differences that arise between the practice of excavating material culture and the models for thinking about it.

Two common themes emerge: the dominance of vision as a medium of both recording the past and a vehicle for understanding it and the primacy given to knowledge over sensation. Ultimately, this work brings the ordinariness of the object world back into discourse by exploring their effect, en masse, upon the human body.

Oxbow Books • Dec 2020 • 9781789250039 • £15.99 • Paperback • 160 pages

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Themes in Old World Zooarchaeology From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Edited by Umberto Albarella, Cleia Detry, Sónia Gabriel, Catarina Ginja & Ana Elisabete Pires This new collection of papers from leading experts provides an overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology. The research spans various areas across Europe, Western Asia and North Africa – from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Thematically, the book covers many of the research areas where zooarchaeology can provide a significant contribution. These include animal domestication, bone modifications, fishing, fowling, economic and social status, as well as adaptation and improvement.

Oxbow Books • Dec 2020 • 9781789255348 • £60.00 • Hardback • 208 pages b/w illustrations

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Interdisciplinarity and Archaeology Scientific Interactions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeology Edited by Margarita Díaz-Andreu & Laura Coltofean-Arizancu This book explores the history of interdisciplinary relationships between archaeology and other branches of knowledge in Europe and elsewhere, a largely untold history. It encompasses ten scholarly contributions that offer a critical overview of this complex, dynamic and long-lasting transformative process. This is a pioneering project in the field of the history of archaeology, as it is the first to examine the inclusion into archaeological practice of various disciplines categorized under the umbrella of hard, natural and social sciences, as well as the humanities.

Oxbow Books • Feb 2021 • 9781789254662 • £29.99 • Paperback • 184 pages b/w illustrations

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Grave Disturbances The Archaeology of Post-Depositional Interactions with the Dead Edited by Edeltraud Aspöck, Alison Klevnäs & Nils Müller-Scheeßel Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Interactions with the remains of the dead are explored in eleven chapters ranging from the New Kingdom of Egypt to Viking Age Norway and from Bronze Age Slovakia to the ancient Maya. Each discusses cases of re-entries into graves, including desecration, tomb re-use, destruction of grave contents, as well as the removal of artefacts and human remains for reasons from material gain to commemoration, symbolic appropriation, ancestral rites, political chicanery, and retrieval of relics.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254426 £55.00 • Hardback • 256 pages

The Sacred Body Materializing the Divine Through Human Remains in Antiquity Edited by Nicola Laneri The aim of this volume is to undertake a cross-cultural investigation of the role played in antiquity by humans and human remains in creating forms of relationality with the divine. Such an approach will highlight how the human body can be envisioned as part of a broader materialization of religious beliefs that is based on connecting different realms of materiality in perceiving the supernatural by the community of the livings. Case studies on ritual aspects of funerary practices are presented, emphasising the varied roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics. Other papers take a wider look at regional practices in various time periods and cultural contexts to explore the central role of the corpse in the negotiation of death in human culture.

Oxbow Books • April 2021 9781789255188 • £50.00 • Hardback 240 pages • b/w illustrations

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The Competition of Fibres Early Textile Production in Western Asia, Southeast and Central Europe (10,000–500 BC) Edited by Wolfram Schier & Susan Pollock The central issues discussed in this new collection are the relationships between fibre resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other. Technological and economic practices – for example, the strategies by which raw materials were acquired and prepared – in the production of textiles play a major role.

Contributions investigate the beginnings of wool use in western Asia and southeastern Europe in the context of a consideration of other fibres, both plant and animal.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254297 • £38.00 • Paperback • 240 pages col illustrations

Making Journeys Archaeologies of Movement Edited by Catriona Gibson, Catherine Frieman & Kerri Cleary One route into exploring mobility in the past may be through exploring the movements and biographies of artefacts. Challenges lie not only in tracing the origins and final destinations of objects but in the less tangible ‘in between’ journeys and the hands they passed through. Furthermore, discrete and bounded ‘sites’ still dominate archaeological inquiry, leaving the spaces and connectivities between features and settlements unmapped.

This collection of papers explores how these travels involved entangled meshworks of people, animals, objects, knowledge sets and identities.

Oxbow Books • Dec 2020 • 9781785709302 • £40.00 • Paperback • 256 pages b/w illustrations

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Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies The Macro and Microscopic Characteristics of Experimental Samples

By Theresa Emmerich Kamper This research outlines the development of a systematic, non-destructive method for identifying the tanning technologies used to produce prehistoric skin artefacts. The approach combines extensive archaeological research and over 25 years of the author’s personal tanning experience. The method employs observations of an extensive sample reference collection, both macroscopic and microscopic, to produce a database of defining characteristics for six tannage types, from a large geographic area and time frame.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908361 • £45.00 • Paperback • 206 pages

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Interrogating Networks Investigating Networks of Knowledge in Antiquity Edited by Lin Foxhall The chapters in this volume aim to interrogate the interpretative potential of network concepts for understanding the movement over time and space of ideas about how to make things through a range of archaeological case studies which reveal both functional and dysfunctional relationships. The purpose is to consider how more broadly contextualized and multi-faceted studies can both enhance, and be enhanced by, network and related approaches.

Oxbow Books • Jan 2021 • 9781789256277 • £16.95 • Paperback • 144 pages b/w illustrations

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A Human Environment Studies in honour of 20 years Analecta Editorship by prof. dr. Corrie Bakels Edited by Victor Klinkenberg, Roos van Oosten & Carol van Driel-Murray This volume is themed around the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment, an important topic in the work of Corrie Bakels. How do environmental constraints and opportunities influence human behaviour and what is the human impact on the ecology and appearance of the landscape? And what can archaeological knowledge contribute to the current discussions about the use, arrangement and depletion of our (local) environment?

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088909061 • £40.00 • Paperback • 196 pages b/w & col illustrations

Cultures of Stone An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Stone Edited by Gabriel Cooney, Bernard Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly & Sol Mallía-Guest This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. Bound up with the physical properties of stone are ideas on identity, value, and understanding.

Stone can act as a medium through which these concepts are expressed and is tied to ideas such as monumentality and remembrance; its enduring character creating a link through generations to both people and place.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908910 • £45.00 • Paperback • 315 pages b/w & col illustrations

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Material Cultures in Public Engagement Re-Inventing Public Archaeology within Museum Collections Edited by Anastasia Christophilopoulou The Material Cultures in Public Engagement volume seeks to document and explore the significant change in the relationship of Museums with collections of the Ancient World and their audiences. Chapters present clear case-studies of the variety and diversity of public engagement projects conducted currently within European Museums and beyond. Plenty of reference is made to parallel strategies and successful public engagement programmes outside Europe and the volume provides important insights as to why public engagement programmes have developed in different ways between Europe and the Americas.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253689 • £25.00 • Paperback • 168 pages b/w & col illustrations

Weapons and Tools in Rock Art A world perspective

Edited by Ana M. S. Bettencourt, Manuel Santos-Estévez & Hugo Aluai Sampaio Weapons and tools are frequently found depicted in rock art in many parts of the globe and different periods and in varying social contexts. This collection of papers examines the subjective and metaphorical value of weapons and tools in art, the actions that created them, and their contexts.

Divided into regional sections which, for once, do not focus on Scandinavia, chapters deal with the representations of weapons and certain kinds of tools in different prehistoric, protohistoric and traditional community contexts.

Oxbow Books • Dec 2020 • 9781789254907 • £50.00 • Hardback • 236 pages b/w & col illustrations

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The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices Edited by Philip J. Boyes, Philippa M. Steele & Natalia Elvira Astoreca Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life. This book explores these relationships in a number of different cultural contexts and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including archaeological, anthropological and linguistic. It offers new ways to approach the study of writing and integrating it into wider debates and discussions about culture, history and archaeology.

Oxbow Books • Feb 2021 • 9781789254785 • £55.00 • Hardback • 352 pages b/w illustrations

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American Dinosaur Abroad A Cultural History of Carnegie’s Plaster Diplodicus

By Ilja Nieuwland In early July 1899, an excavation team of paleontologists sponsored by Andrew Carnegie discovered the fossil remains in Wyoming of what was then the longest and largest dinosaur on record, the Diplodocus carnegii— or Dippy, as it’s known today. Carnegie gifted his first plaster cast of Dippy to the British Museum in 1902, with at least seven reproductions made for museums across Europe. Ilja Nieuwland explores the influence of Andrew Carnegie’s prized skeleton on European culture through the dissemination, reception, and agency of his plaster casts, revealing much about the social, political, cultural, and scientific context of the early twentieth century.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 2020 • 9780822966524 • £22.00 • Paperback 336 pages • b/w illustrations

Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland

By Diarmid A. Finnegan The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an appropriate context for enabling and supporting scientific progress.

Finnegan’s study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 2020 • 9780822966357 • £35.00 • Paperback 248 pages

The Science of History in Victorian Britain Making the Past Speak

By Ian Hesketh The development of history as a scientific discipline was undertaken by several key historians of the Victorian period, influenced by German scientific history and British natural philosophy. This study examines parallels between the professionalization of both history and science at the time, which have previously been overlooked. Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources – monographs, lectures, correspondence – from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 2020 • 9780822966364 • £35.00 • Paperback 248 pages

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Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity Creation, Manipulation, Transformation Edited by Gian Franco Chiai & Ralph Häussler More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance, ritual, orality, textuality and memory in people’s sacred landscapes.

A diachronic view allows us to study how landscapes were ‘rewritten’, adapted and redefined in the course of time to suit new cultural, political and religious understandings, not to mention the impact of urbanism on people’s understandings Sacred Landscapes therefore aims to analyse the complex links between landscape, ‘religiosity’ and society, developing a dialectic framework that explores sacred landscapes across the ancient world in a dynamic, holistic, contextual and historical perspective..

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253276 £65.00 • Paperback • 448 pages b/w illustrations

The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland

By Marion Dowd The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland is a ground-breaking and unique study of the enigmatic, unseen and dark silent world of caves. People have engaged with caves for the duration of human occupation of the island, spanning 10,000 years. In prehistory, subterranean landscapes were associated with the dead and the spirit world, with evidence for burials, funerary rituals and votive deposition. The advent of Christianity saw the adaptation of caves as homes and places of storage, yet they also continued to feature in religious practice. Medieval mythology and modern folklore indicate that caves were considered places of the supernatural, being particularly associated with otherworldly women. Through a combination of archaeology, mythology and popular religion, this book takes the reader on a fascinating journey that sheds new light on a hitherto neglected area of research.

Oxbow Books • Nov 2020 9781789255706 • £35.00 • Paperback 340 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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The Waithe Valley Through Time 1. The Archaeology of the Valley and Excavation and Survey in the Hatcliffe Area

By Steven Willis This book examines the archaeology of the Waithe Valley as it passes through the central Lincolnshire Wolds. It concentrates on fieldwork and finds from the eastern edge of the Wolds and was undertaken as part of the Central Lincolnshire Wolds Research Project. It documents the development of human presence in and use of the valley from prehistory to recent times, reporting on geophysical survey, fieldwalking and excavations and focuses on the evidence for a late Roman settlement, field system and enclosures.

Pre-Construct Archaeology • 2020 • 9781999615543 • £35.00 • Paperback 464 pages • b/w illustrations

Past Societies Human Development in Landscapes Edited by Johannes Müller & Andrea Ricci This book examines human development within specific landscapes, from the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from Peru to the Near East. Events, processes and structures are described on local, regional and global scales as well as methodological developments on ecological and societal archives.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088909245 • £40.00 • Paperback • 200 pages b/w & col illustrations

Landscape and Settlement in the Vale of York Archaeological Investigations at Heslington East, York, 2003–13

By Steve Roskams & Cath Neal Providing a thematic analysis of the excavated evidence from the Heslington East area, this volume combines the results of commercial, student training and local community fieldwork between 2007 and 2013. A concluding chapter discusses temporal change by looking at key points of transition in landscape activity in the area and interpreting one of the largest exposures of prehistoric and Roman activity in the immediate hinterland of Eboracum, a major Roman town in Britain.

Society of Antiquaries of London • 2020 • 9780854313020 • £35.00 • Hardback 200 pages • b/w illustrations

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Landscapes Revealed Geophysical Survey in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Area 2002–2011

By Amanda Brend, Nick Card, Jane Downes, Mark Edmonds & James Moore This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a programme of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares between Skara Brae on the west Orkney coast and Maeshowe, by the Loch of Stenness. The results shed important new light on the character and extent of known prehistoric sites and ceremonial monuments. But they also document the afterlives of these and other places and their relation to the lived landscapes of the historic and more recent past.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789255065 £35.00 • Hardback • 288 pages col illustrations

New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England Edited by Gill Hey & Paul Frodsham These papers highlight recent archaeological work in Northern England, in the commercial, academic and community archaeology sectors, which have fundamentally changed our perspective on the Neolithic of the area. The papers take a broad chronological sweep, from the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition to the introduction of Beakers into the area. The key themes are: the nature of transition; the need for a much-improved chronological framework; regional variation linked to landscape character; links within northern England and with distant places; the implications of new dating for our understanding ‘the axe trade; the changing nature of settlement and agriculture; the character early Neolithic enclosures; the need to integrate rock art into wider discourse.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789252668 £38.00 • Paperback • 192 pages b/w & col illustrations

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Monuments in the Making Raising the Great Dolmens in Early Neolithic Northern Europe

By Vicki Cummings & Colin Richards This book provides a reappraisal of the ‘dolmen’ as an architectural entity and provides an alternative perspective on function. This is achieved through a re-theorising of the nature of megalithic architecture grounded in the results of a new research/fieldwork project covering Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia. It is argued that instead of understanding dolmen simply as chambered tombs these were multi-faceted monuments whose construction was as much to do with enchantment and captivation as it was with containing the dead.

Windgather Press • Jan 2021 • 9781911188438 • £39.95 • Paperback • 320 pages b/w & col illustrations

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The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney Edited by Colin Richards, Richard Jones & Stuart Jeffrey Drawing on the results of an extensive programme of fieldwork in the Bay of Firth, Mainland Orkney, this book explores the idea that the physical appearance of the house is a potent resource for materialising the dichotomous alliance and descent principles apparent in the archaeological evidence for the early and later Neolithic of Orkney. It interprets the archaeological evidence and provides the parameters for a ‘social’ narrative of the material changes occurring in Orkney between the 4th and 2nd millennia cal BC.

Windgather Press • Feb 2021 • 9781842170762 • £25.00 • Paperback • 512 pages col illustrations

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Beacons in the Landscape The Hillforts of England, Wales and the Isle of Man

By Ian Brown The first edition of this book, published in 2009, gave a detailed account of hillforts. What were they and where are they located? How were they built, what was their function and how did they fit into prehistoric and later society? Lavishly illustrated, this revised and updated second edition not only looks again at these questions in the light of substantial increases in knowledge over the years since first publication, but also now includes the outstanding and unusual hillforts of the Isle of Man.

Windgather Press • Feb 2021 • 9781911188759 • £39.95 • Paperback • 288 pages b/w & col illustrations

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The Social Context of Technology Non-Ferrous Metalworking in Later Prehistoric Britain and Ireland

By Sophia Adams, Joanna Brück & Leo Webley The Social Context of Technology explores non-ferrous metalworking in Britain and Ireland during the Bronze and Iron Ages (c. 2500 BC to 1st century AD). Bronze-working dominates the evidence, though the crafting of other non-ferrous metals – including gold, silver, tin and lead – is also considered.

The key questions are: what was the social context of this craft, and what was its ideological significance? How did this vary regionally and change over time?

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789251760 • £35.00 • Hardback • 280 pages b/w illustrations

Impinging on the Past A Rescue Excavation at Fladbury, Worcestershire, 1967

By David Hinton, D.P.S. Peacock & Christopher Dyer The prehistoric, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon periods were all represented in an excavation carried out in the centre of a Worcestershire village some time ago, but with results that can now be seen in new light because of all the archaeological work that has taken place since. A deep Iron Age ditch can be set in the context of enclosures revealed mainly by air photography.

The Romano-British skeletons form a small, elderly and hard-worked group.

The growing of crops on an increasingly large scale has been demonstrated for the seventh to ninth centuries A.D.

The Highfield Press • 2020 • 9780992633691 • £20.00 • Paperback • 96 pages b/w illustrations

Pattern and Process Landscape Prehistories from Whittlesey

Edited by Mark Knight & Matt Brudenell The King’s Dyke and Bradley Fen excavations straddled the south-eastern contours of the Flag Fen Basin. This large-scale exposure revealed a beneath-the-peat or pre-basin landscape related to the buried floodplain of an early River Nene enabling us to situate the Flag Fen Basin in time as well as space.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research • 2020 • 9781902937939 £45.00 • Hardback • 280 pages

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Prehistoric Ebbsfleet Excavations and Research in Advance of High Speed 1 and South Thameside Development Route 4, 1989–2003

By Francis Wenban-Smith, Elizabeth Stafford, Martin Bates & Simon Parfitt This volume concerns the HS1 study theme defined as ‘Prehistoric Ebbsfleet’.

It focuses on landscape development and human occupation from the Palaeolithic through to the Early Iron Age, a span of around 300,000 years. This period incorporates fluctuating extremes of climate between harsh sub-arctic conditions, and Mediterranean conditions when luxuriant forest was interspersed with grassy plains. A reappraisal of the important Palaeolithic flint artefact collections from Baker’s Hole and the Ebbsfleet Channel is also presented.

Wessex Archaeology • 2020 • 9780957467200 • £30.00 • Hardback • 480 pages b/w & col illustrations

Stonehenge for the Ancestors Part 1: Landscape and Monuments

By Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas and Kate Welham This is the first of four volumes which present the results of the Stonehenge Riverside Project. It includes investigations of the monuments and landscape that pre-dated Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain as well as of excavation at Stonehenge itself. The main discovery at Stonehenge was of cremated human remains from many individuals, allowing their demography, health and dating to be established. With a revised radiocarbon-dated chronology for Stonehenge’s five stages of construction, these burials can now be considered within the context of the monument’s development.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088907029 • £90.00 • Paperback • 520 pages b/w & col illus

EAA 171: Three Bronze Age Weapon Assemblages from Norfolk

By Sue D. Bridgford & Peter Northover The discovery over a period from the 1950s of three roughly contemporary Late Bronze Age weapon assemblages from north-west Norfolk, provides the opportunity to combine a range of archaeological and technological approaches to their characterisation and interpretation. For the first time the resources were available to link a full compositional, metallographic and radiographic study of the largest of the assemblages, that from Waterden, with an assessment of combat and ritualised damage and with the more traditional archaeological approaches of typology and chronology.

East Anglian Archaeology • 2020 • 9780905594552 • £15.00 • Paperback 100 pages • b/w illustrations

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Repeopling La Manche New Perspectives on Neanderthal Lifeways from La Cotte de St Brelade Edited by Rebecca Scott & Andrew Shaw This latest volume of the acclaimed Prehistoric Society Research Papers provides a starting point for approaching the Middle Palaeolithic record of the English Channel region and considering the ecological opportunities and behavioural constraints this landscape offered to Neanderthal groups in north-west Europe. The volume reviews the Middle Palaeolithic archaeological record along the fringes of La Manche in northern France and southern Britain. It examines this record in light of recent advances in quaternary stratigraphy, sciencebased dating, and palaeoecology and explores how Palaeolithic archaeology in the region has developed in an interdisciplinary way to transform our understanding of Neanderthal behaviour.

Oxbow Books • Feb 2021 • 9781789251524 £35.00 • Hardback • 224 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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The Earliest Europeans A Year in the Life: Seasonal Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic

By Robert Hosfield The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of ‘a year in the life’: how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude Europe with its distinctive temperatures, seasonality patterns, and available resources.

Using a season-by-season chapter structure to explore, for example, the contrasting demands and opportunities of winter versus summer survival, Hosfield explores how foods and other resources would vary across the four seasons in quantity and quality, and the resulting implications for hominin behaviours.

By testing the likelihood of different scenarios by comparing short-term, site-based insights with long-term, regional trends, Hosfield is able to put forward ideas on how our earliest European ancestors survived and what their lives were like.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781785707612 £24.99 • Paperback • 416 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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Growing Up in the Ice Age Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children

By April Nowell It is estimated that in prehistoric societies children comprised at least forty to sixty-five percent of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools and make art. The economic, social, and political roles of Paleolithic children are often understudied because they are assumed to be unknowable or negligible. Drawing on the most recent data from the cognitive sciences and from the ethnographic, fossil, archaeological, and primate records, Growing Up in the Ice Age challenges these assumptions. By rendering the “invisible” children visible, readers will gain a new understanding not only of the contributions that children have made to the biological and cultural entities we are today but also of the Paleolithic period as whole.

Oxbow Books • Dec 2020 • 9781789252941 £38.00 • Paperback • 256 pages b/w illustrations

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Monumentalising Life in the Neolithic Narratives of Change and Continuity Edited by Anne Birgitte Gebaer, Lasse Sørensen, Anne Teather & António Carlos de Valera One of the principal characteristics of the European Neolithic is the development of monumentality in association with innovations in material culture and changes in subsistence from hunting and gathering to farming and pastoralism. The papers in this volume discuss the latest insights into why monumental architecture became an integral part of early farming societies in Europe and beyond. The latest evidence on the economic and paleoenvironmental context, carbon 14 dates as well as analytical methods are employed in illuminating the emergence of monumentalism in Neolithic Europe. Transformation from a natural to a built environment by monumentalizing part of the landscape is discussed as well as changes in megalithic architecture in relation to shifts in the social structure.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254945 £50.00 • Hardback • 304 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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Problems in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research Edited by Mikkel Sørensen & Kristoffer Buck Pedersen The purpose of this volume is to present current problems and approaches in Palaeolithic and Mesolitic archaeology and to provide ideas for future studies and debates. 14 contributions divided into four sections: Palaiolithic and Mesolitihic methodology; Choices and restraints in field archaeology; Dynamic perspectices on the Stone Age hunter-gatherer record, and The rituals and their artefacts: Approaching the Mesolitihic world.

Aarhus University Press • 2017 • 9788789500270 • £25.00 • Hardback • 274 pages

The Pitted Ware Culture on Djursland Supra-Regional Significance and Contacts in the Middle Neolithic of Southern Scandinavia Edited by Lutz Klassen Between ca. 3000 and 2800 BC, the Pitted Ware Culture of northeast European descent spread to the northeastern parts of Denmark. This volume presents 12 individual papers that present the available finds from the key site of Kainsbakke as well as a number of other sites. Besides artefacts, the faunal and botanical remains are dealt with in a comprehensive matter.

Several papers are devoted to scientific analyses of chronology as well as the provenance of artefacts and selected faunal remains.

Aarhus University Press • 2020 • 9788771847826 • £58.00 • Hardback • 489 pages

Island of the Setting Sun In Search of Ireland’s Ancient Astronomers

By Anthony Murphy & Richard Moore Ireland is home to some of the world’s oldest astronomically-aligned structures, giant stone monuments erected over 5,000 years ago. Finally back in print, this reissued edition presents evidence suggesting the builders of monuments such as Newgrange and its Boyne Valley counterparts were adept astronomers, cunning engineers and capable surveyors. Their huge monuments are memorials in stone and earth, commemorating their creators’ perceived unity with the cosmos and enshrining a belief system which resulted from a crossover between science and spirituality.

Liffey Press • 2020 • 9781916099852 • £29.95 • Paperback • 352 pages b/w illustrations

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Stereotype The Role of Grave Sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker Funerary Practices

By Karsten Wentink Throughout northern Europe, thousands of burial mounds were erected in the third millennium BCE. Starting in the Corded Ware culture, individual people were being buried underneath these mounds, often equipped with an almost rigid set of grave goods. In large parts of Europe, a ‘typical’ set of objects was placed in graves, known as the ‘Bell Beaker package’. Why were people buried in a seemingly standardized manner, what did this signify and what does this reveal about these individuals, their role in society, their cultural identity and the people that buried them?

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088909382 • £45.00 • Paperback • 296 pages b/w & col illustrations

Prehistoric Ukraine From the First Hunters to the First Farmers Edited by Malcolm C. Lillie, Inna D. Potekhina & Chelsea E. Budd This volume covers the Prehistory of Ukraine from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the end of the Neolithic periods. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of Ukrainian Prehistory from earliest times through until the Neolithic Period. The book includes the most recent research from all areas of prehistory up to the Neolithic period, and, in addition, areas such as recent radiocarbon dating and its implications for culture chronology are considered; as is a consideration of aDNA and the new insights into culture history this area of research affords; alongside recent macrofossil studies of plant use, and anthropological and stable isotope studies of diet, which all combine to allow greater insights into the nature of human subsistence and cultural developments across the Palaeolithic to Neolithic periods in Ukraine.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254587 • £55.00 • Hardback • 336 pages b/w illustrations

Maidanets’ke Development and Decline of a Trypillia Mega-site in Central Ukraine

By René Ohlrau At the end of the 5th millennium BCE, some of the vastest settlements of the time emerged on the forest steppe north of the Black Sea. The Trypillia ‘mega-sites’ reached sizes of up to 320 hectares with up to 3000 buildings in one place. Maidanets’ke represents the most complex of these enormous sites and is also among the best investigated ones. Based on new excavations by international teams, the settlement’s history, its structure and regional context are addressed.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908484 • £55.00 • Paperback • 312 pages b/w & col illustrations

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The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe Mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC Edited by Laure Salanova & Maria Pilar Prieto Martínez 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 not on Bell Beaker pottery but on social groups (craft specialists, warriors, chiefs, extended or nuclear families), 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.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253849 £35.00 • Paperback • 216 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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Current Approaches to Tells in the Prehistoric Old World Edited by Antonio Blanco-González & Tobias L. Kienlin This volume tackles tells and tell-like sites as a transversal phenomenon whose commonalities and divergences are poorly understood yet may benefit from cross-cultural comparison. It intends to assemble a representative range of ongoing theory – and science-based fieldwork projects targeting this kind of sites.

With the aim of encompassing a variety of social and material dynamics, its scope is diachronic—from the Earliest Neolithic up to the Iron Age—and covers a large region, from Iberia in Western Europe to Syria in the Middle East. The book takes a case-based approach, with contributions disparate both in their theoretical foundations – from household archaeology, social agency and formation theory – and their research strategies – including geophysical survey, microarchaeology and high-resolution excavation and dating.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254860 £38.00 • Paperback • 240 pages

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Death Revisited The Excavation of Three Bronze Age Barrows and Surrounding Landscape at Apeldoorn-Wieselseweg

By Arjan Louwen & Prof. Dr. David Fontijn This book presents a group of small and inconspicuous barrows that were recently discovered in the forest of Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. The burial practices in the mounds show strong similarities and it is argued that these barrows were each other’s successors, representing the funeral history of people who wished to unite their forebears in death as one unproblematic whole without distinctions. The fieldwork showed that even small-scale, partial excavations of a seemingly minor barrow group can inform us on the significance of the extensive barrow landscapes they are part of.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088905803 • £45.00 • Paperback • 200 pages b/w & col illustrations

Rural Settlement Relating Buildings, Landscape, and People in the European Iron Age Edited by Dave Cowley, Manuel Fernández-Götz, Tanja Romankiewicz & Holger Wendling This book is a contribution to the study of rural life in Iron Age Europe, collating case studies extending from southern Spain to northern Scotland and from Denmark to the Balkans. Papers are grouped thematically to open up cross-regional comparisons, ranging across studies of buildings, farms – the basic unit of Iron Age life consisting of its inhabitants, its livestock and associated agricultural lands – to wider settlement patterns and land use strategies.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908187 • £48.00 • Paperback • 240 pages b/w & col illustrations

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Deposition Practices in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik Culture Edited by Daniela Hofman This volume takes its starting point from the increasingly frequent discovery of deliberately placed deposits on Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik sites.

This includes the placement of complete and still usable tools in the ground, as well as the creation of complex abandonment layers for example in wells or the destruction of immense material wealth in enclosure ditches.

This book combines chapters dealing with routine discard, as well as those concerned with burial evidence, formalised deposition of objects and feasting debris.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908613 • £45.00 • Paperback • 250 pages b/w & col illustrations

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Exploring Celtic Origins New Ways Forward in Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics Edited by Barry Cunliffe & John Koch Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age and Beaker Period of the people who emerge as Celts and speakers of Celtic languages documented in the Iron Age and later times. The collection stands as a pause to reflect on ways forward at the moment of intellectual history when the genome-wide sequencing of ancient DNA (a.k.a. ‘the archaeogenetic revolution’) has suddenly changed everything in the study of later European prehistory. How do we deal with what appears to be an irreversible breach in the barrier between science and the humanities?

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789255508 £32.00 • Paperback • 224 pages

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Celtic Art in Europe Making Connections Edited by Katharina Ulmschneider, Sally Crawford & Christopher Gosden The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. 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 an international group of specialists to 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. 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.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253832 £38.00 • Paperback • 416 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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Silk Roads From Local Realities to Global Narratives Edited by Jeffrey D. Lerner & Yaohua Shi Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives brings together leading scholars in multiple disciplines related to Silk Roads studies. It highlights the multiplicity of networks that constituted the Silk Roads, including land and maritime routes, and approaches the Silk Roads from Antiquity to China’s One Belt One Road Initiative from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas.

This holistic approach to understanding ancient globalization, exchanges, transformations, and movements – and their continued relevance to the present – is in line with contemporary academic trends toward interdisciplinarity. Indeed, the Silk Roads is such an expansive topic that many approaches to its study must be included to represent accurately its many facets.

The volume emphasizes exchange and transformation along the Silk Roads – moments of acculturation or hybridization that contributed to novel syncretic forms.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254709 £55.00 • Hardback • 312 pages

Resistance at the Edge of Empires The Archaeology and History of the Bannu Basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200

By Cameron A. Petrie & Peter Magee This is the third in a series of volumes that present the final reports of the exploration and excavations carried out by the Bannu Archaeological Project, in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

This volume presents the first synthesis of the archaeology of the historic periods in the Bannu region, spanning the period when the first large scale empires expanded to the borders of South Asia up until the arrival of Islam in the subcontinent at the end of the first and beginning of the second millennium BC. The Bannu region provides specific insight into early imperialism in South Asia, as throughout this protracted period, it was able to maintain a distinctive regional identity in the face of recurring phases of imperial expansion and integration.

Oxbow Books • Nov 2020 9781785703034 • £60.00 • Hardback 464 pages • b/w illustrations

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The Mongol Conquests The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sube’etei

By Carl Fredrik Sverdrup The Mongols created the greatest landlocked empire known to history.

It was an empire created and sustained by means of conquest. Between them, Genghis Khan and Sube’etei directed more than 40 campaigns, fought more than 60 battles, and conquered all lands from Korea in the east to Hungary and Poland in the west. This book offers a detailed narrative of the military operations of these two leaders, based on early Mongolian, Chinese, Near Eastern, and European sources.

Helion and Company • 2020 • 9781913336059 • £25.00 • Paperback • 392 pages

The Tiflis Dirhams of Möngke Khān

By Kirk Bennett The dirhams of Möngke Khān represent the first major emission of silver coinage in Georgia following the Mongol conquest roughly a generation previously. Struck in the Georgian capital city of Tiflis (modern Tbilisi) from the middle of AH 652 to perhaps as late as the first month of AH 660 (AD 1254–1261), these coins circulated widely throughout the South Caucasus and adjacent areas.

American Numismatic Society • 2020 • 9780897223652 • £80.00 • Hardback 188 pages • b/w illustrations

Cultural Landscapes in India Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed

By Amita Sinha Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen in time. In Cultural Landscapes in India, Amita Sinha subverts the idea of heritage as static and examines the ways that landscapes influence culture and that culture influences landscapes. Pilgrim towns, medieval forts, religious sites, and contemporary memorial parks are sites of memory where myth and history converge. Engaging with these spaces allows us to reconstruct collective memory and reclaim not only historic landscapes, but ways of seeing, making, and remembering.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 2020 • 9780822946427 • £50.00 • Hardback 216 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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Kushan Mystique

By David Jongeward & Joe Cribb Kushan Mystique is in part a personal narrative, and in part a profile of people and places encountered as a result of David Jongeward’s Kushan research and travels. The narrative includes accounts of meetings with collectors and curators and other specialists, detailed descriptions of Mr. Jongeward’s museum-based research, as well as his visits to major archaeological sites in Pakistan that date to the Kushan era. The book includes discussions on the succession of Kushan kings and the Kushan pantheon of deities.

Spink Books • 2020 • 9781912667468 • £30.00 • Hardback • 272 pages

Megalithic Monuments and Social Structures Comparative Studies on Recent and Funnel Beaker Societies

By Maria Wunderlich Megalithic monuments and social structures includes various archaeological and ethnoarchaeological case studies on social implications of megalith building activities from a comparative perspective.

The case studies presented include recent megalith building traditions in Sumba, Indonesia, Nagaland, North-East India, as well as Neolithic Funnel Beaker communities in today’s Northern Germany and Southern Sweden.

They clearly demonstrate the importance of cooperative and competitive structures and their effect on feasting activities and megalith building.

Additionally, megalithic monuments represent a way of expressing and materialising economic inequality and social prestige.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088907869 • £90.00 • Paperback • 450 pages b/w & col illustrations

Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia

By Onesius O. Daeli This volume is based on an anthropological fieldwork among the Asmat people for many years, and investigates the cultural significances of Asmat’s dugout canoes by using ‘symbolic and interpretive anthropology’ as theoretical framework.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088909290 • £35.00 • Paperback • 185 pages b/w & col illustrations

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Cahokia City of the Cosmos

By John Kelly & James A. Brown The large American Indian city of Cahokia sits amidst a diverse natural landscape within the larger central Mississippi river valley. Over 300 sites with earthen mounds have been documented in the region and range from isolated mounds honoring the dead thousands of years ago to an array of over 100 mounds in the case of Cahokia that in some instances honored the ancestors individually and collectively. The editor’s investigations over nearly 25 years have helped elucidate the significance of Cahokia as an urban center and the processes leading to its creation.

Oxbow Books • Jan 2021 • 9781785708855 • £38.00 • Paperback • 256 pages b/w & col illustrations

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Hispaniola – Hell or Home?

Decolonizing Grand Narratives about Intercultural Interactions at Concepción de la Vega (1494–1564)

By Pauline Kulstad-González This work attempts to examine the lifeways at the archaeological site of Concepción de la Vega during its occupation from 1494 through 1564.

Situated in present-day Dominican Republic (Hispaniola island), this site was one of the earliest and most affluent in Caribbean colonial history.

The Decolonial approach used here critically analyzes and reinterprets primary data about Concepción from the point of view of those colonized, particularly non-elite, Indigenous peoples, and those of African descent.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908514 • £45.00 • Paperback • 250 pages b/w & col illustrations

Islands of Salt Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880

By Konrad A. Antczak The early-modern Venezuelan Caribbean did not lure seafarers with the saccharine delights of cane sugar but with the preserving qualities of solar sea salt. In this book, the historical archaeological study of this salty commodity offers a unique entryway into the hitherto unknown maritime mobilities and daily lives of the seafarers who camped at the saltpans of Venezuelan islands from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries, cultivating and harvesting the white crystal of the sea.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908156 • £65.00 • Paperback • 364 pages b/w & col illustrations

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Heritage Education Memories of the Past in the Present Caribbean Social Studies Curriculum: A View from Teacher Practice

By Eldris Con Aguilar This study, aimed at investigating the use of heritage education in the classroom, treats this subject in the form of analyses of three country case studies: the Dominican Republic, Dominica and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Along these lines, results were drawn from an informed analysis of educational policies concerning cultural heritage as well as accounts of teachers’ perspectives on subject content and pedagogical practices.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908422 • £40.00 • Paperback • 190 pages b/w & col illustrations

Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter Anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles

By Vernon James Knight This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called “amulets,” from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. In analyzing this corpus, the author documents high stylistic diversity within the region, naming nine new figure pendant styles and situating these in space and time. This high diversity of local styles and subject matter suggests a previously undocumented religious pluralism in the ancient Caribbean, in accord with emergent understandings of cultural and political diversity within the region.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908705 • £40.00 • Paperback • 240 pages b/w & col illustrations

Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Past A Global Perspective

By Murray Johnson This book places the Aboriginal occupation of Australia within a broad framework of human evolution and habitation. The author discusses the pioneering studies that delve into the mists of antiquity, and he engages with current controversies, including the extinction of mega fauna, land management practices, and social development over many millennia. The extraordinary achievements of Australian Aborigines are revealed in all their complexity and the evidence surrounding the identity of Australia’s first occupants is re-examined.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 2020 • 9781925003710 • £30.00 • Paperback 290 pages

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The Oasis Papers 8 Pleistocene Research in the Western Desert of Egypt Edited by Maxine R. Kleindienst This is the only volume to present significant results of research into the Pleistocene of the Western Desert of Egypt. Papers are focused on geoarchaeological and palaeo-environmental data, reporting on different aspects of the off-site fieldwork conducted in the oases. Pleistocene finds and sequence are included. Detailed analyses of palaeolakes, the meteoritic Dakhleh Event, chronometric dating, and the ‘empty desert hypothesis’ employ state of the art research strategies and techniques to provide important information on Pleistocene human uses and habitability in the Western Desert.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789255713 • £45.00 • Paperback • 240 pages b/w illustrations

Calling out to Isis The Enduring Presence of Nubian Worshippers at Philae

By Solange Ashby The expansion of the cult of the goddess Isis throughout the Mediterranean world demonstrates the widespread appeal of Egyptian religion in the Greco-Roman period. In this monograph, Ashby focuses on an oft-neglected population in studies of this phenomenon: Nubian worshipers. Through examination of prayer inscriptions and legal agreements engraved on temple walls, as well as Ptolemaic royal decrees and temple imagery, Ashby sheds new light on the involvement of Nubians in the Egyptian temples of Lower Nubia, and further draws comparisons between Nubian cultic practices and the Meroitic royal funerary cult.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463207151 • £79.00 • Hardback • 350 pages

The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs in the Unas Cemetery

By Ashley Cooke Until comparatively recently, there has been little attempt to produce a detailed study of the architectural make-up of multi-roomed mastaba tombs and the implications of these observations for understanding the ways in which this type of tomb was really used. This book considers the architectural components of tomb design that made an ideal burial and explores different aspects of the design and construction of mastabas in the late Old Kingdom (c. 2375 – 2181 BC).

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908941 • £40.00 • Paperback • ??? pages

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The Many Histories of Naqada Edited by Alice Stevenson & Joris van Wetering This edited volume presents a series of reviews, overviews and unpublished archives from several historic expeditions in the Naqada region of Upper Egypt. This includes nineteenth-century fieldwork led by Gaston Maspero, Jacques de Morgan and Flinders Petrie through to surveys conducted in the twentieth century and new initiatives in the region in the 2010s. It encompasses not just the better-known Predynastic finds, but also later Pharaonic era material as well as Coptic heritage.

Golden House Publications • 2020 • 9781906137694 • £60.00 • Paperback 300 pages • b/w illustrations

Sur les Pas de L’âne Dans la Religion Égyptienne

By Marie Vandenbeusch Donkeys were essential in ancient Egyptian trade and agriculture, but their value was nuanced by their perception in religion. The animal appears in funerary, magical or ritual sources, where it often reflects an ambivalent nature, through its well-known association to the evil god Seth. By exploring iconographical, textual and archaeological sources spanning from Predynastic to Roman times, this monograph explores the role of donkeys in ancient Egypt from a religious perspective.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908279 • £65.00 • Paperback • 480 pages b/w & col illustrations

Être et Paraître Statues Royales et Privées de la Fin du Moyen Empire et de la Deuxième Période Intermédiaire (1850–1550 av. J.-C.)

By Simon Connor This volume presents an evaluation of late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (c. 1850 to 1550 BC) sculpture. Style, material and dating are discussed in length. The book is well illustrated (more than 100 b/w plates) and includes a catalogue of all statues of the period.

Golden House Publications • 2020 • 9781906137663 • £75.00 • Hardback 500 pages • b/w illustrations

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Script and Society The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: Contexts of Relations between Early Writing Systems Vol. 3

By Philip J. Boyes By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform – the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan. This book explores the social and cultural context of these complex writing traditions from the perspective of writing as a social practice.

Oxbow Books • Feb 2021 • 9781789255836 • £36.00 • Paperback • 256 pages b/w illustrations

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The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan Edited by Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem & Amy Richardson Within the scope of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, excavations have been conducted since 2012 at two Early Neolithic sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Bestansur and Shimshara. Bestansur represents an early stage in the transition to sedentary, farming life, where the inhabitants pursued a mixed strategy of hunting, foraging, herding and cultivating.

They also constructed substantial buildings of mudbrick, including a major building with a minimum of 65 human individuals, mainly infants, buried under its floor in association with hundreds of beads.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789255263 • £65.00 • Hardback • 720 pages b/w & col illustrations

The Gilgamesh Epos in Pictures

By Hugo de Reede Hugo de Reede (1929-2019), artist and archaeological illustrator, worked in Syria for many years. Gripped by the Gilgamesh Epos and the philosophy narrated in the epic, he created a pictorial book, re-telling the account of Gilgamesh and the eternal mystery of death. The style of drawing in the book suits the regional art in a remarkable manner and with a humorous touch that is fitting for the region’s storytelling tradition.

Blikvelduitgevers Publishers • 2020 • 9789492940155 • £32.00 • Hardback 124 pages • col illustrations

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A pencil will do, thank you’ 25 Years of Archaeological Reconstructions

By Martin Hense Martin Hense has been travelling to North Africa and West Asia to excavate and draw for more than 25 years. This book presents his reconstructions and archaeological drawings from various excavations with full colour illustrations. Reconstructing ancient ruins, with detailed knowledge of ancient architecture and building technology, he has become an expert over the years.

Blikvelduitgevers Publishers • 2020 • 9789080774407 • £17.00 • Paperback 64 pages • col illustrations

In the Footsteps of Honor Frost The life and legacy of a pioneer in maritime archaeology Edited by Lucy Blue Maritime archaeologist Honor Frost (1917-2010) was a pioneer in her field.

She left a rich legacy through her innovative research conducted in the eastern Mediterranean on the remains of ports and harbours, sea-level change, shipwrecks and ship construction, and ancient anchors. This volume provides an appreciation of Frost’s work and assesses current projects in the region that continue Frost’s work, providing insight into the development of the discipline of maritime archaeology in the region from its infancy to the present day.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908309 • £60.00 • Paperback • 300 pages b/w & col illustrations

Jerusalem’s Survival, Sennacherib’s Departure, and the Kushite Role in 701 BCE An Examination of Henry Aubin’s Rescue of Jerusalem

By Alice Ogden Bellis In 2002 Henry T. Aubin published The Rescue of Jerusalem which explored Jerusalem’s survival in 701 BCE in the face of an Assyrian invasion of the Levant. This volume brings together excellent scholars from several fields to consider issues that are raised by The Rescue of Jerusalem. It considers what may have happened in 701 BCE; it also probes the causes of changes in Western biblical scholarly attitudes regarding the Twenty-fifth Dyn­asty’s involvement in those events.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463241568 • £115.00 • Hardback • 387 pages

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Rivalling Rome Parthian Coins and Culture

By Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis & Alexandra Magub The Arsacid Parthians, famous for their riding and archery skills, became Rome’s most dangerous enemy east of the River Euphrates. Their coinage reveals important information about the development of the Parthian state, its expansion and the role of the king, who, by 111 BC, had adopted the ancient Persian title of King of Kings. This book highlights the rise to power of the Parthians, the long conflict with Rome, as well as the culture and religion of the Parthian Empire as seen through the coinage of this period.

Spink Books • 2020 • 9781912667444 • £20.00 • Paperback • 128 pages

Ancient Arms Race: Antiquity’s Largest Fortresses and Sasanian Military Networks of Northern Iran A joint fieldwork project by the Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handcraft and Tourism Organisation and the Universities of Edinburgh and Durham (2014–2016) Edited by Eberhard Sauer, Jebrael Nokandeh & Hamid Omrani Rekavandi Persia built up, between the fourth and sixth centuries AD, the most massive military infrastructure of any ancient or medieval Near Eastern empire – if not the ancient and medieval world. Recent excavations in Iran have enabled us to precision-date two of the largest fortresses of Southwest Asia, both larger than any in the Roman world. Excavations in a Gorgan Wall fort have shed much new light on frontier life, and unearthed a massive bridge nearby.

Oxbow Books • April 2021 • 9781789254624 • £80.00 • Hardback • 864 pages col illustrations

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The Last Empire of Iran

By Michael Bonner As part of the Gorgias Handbook Series, this book provides a political and military history of the Sasanian Empire in Late Antiquity (220s to 651 CE).

The book takes the form of a narrative, which situates Sasanian Iran as a continental power between Rome and the world of the steppe nomad.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463206161 • £74.00 • Paperback • 404 pages

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Crossing Continents Between India and the Aegean, from Prehistory to Alexander the Great

By Robert Arnott The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are generally thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC. There is now, however, growing evidence of much earlier but indirect connections, reaching back into prehistory.

This study views the Aegean as part of a greater trade network and attempts to both evaluate and re-evaluate what evidence and speculation there are for such contacts, particularly for commodities such as tin and lapis lazuli. In the Early to Late BronzeAges, India was an important resource for valuable and indispensable commodities destined for the elites and developing technologies of much of the Old World.

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Towards a Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period Bones, mortuary practice, and ideological shifts in the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Voudeni in Achaea, Greece

By Ioanna Moutafi

Oxbow Books • Dec 2020 9781789254822 • £40.00 • Paperback 304 pages • b/w & col illustrations

This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeletal remains and associated mortuary data from Voudeni, an important Mycenaean (14001050 BC) chamber tomb cemetery in Achaea, Greece. Over 60 chamber tombs have been excavated (Late Helladic IIB to IIIC periods), yielding an unprecedented wealth of biocultural information. This study explores the post-mortem treatment of the body, through a novel interpretive approach that transcends unproductive cross-disciplinary divisions. This biosocial approach integrates traditional archaeology, current reflections in mortuary archaeological theory and cutting-edge bioarchaeological methods, primarily focused on funerary taphonomy and archaeothanatology of commingled skeletal assemblages.

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The Masons’ Marks of Minoan Knossos

By Sinclair Hood & Lisa Bendall The signs known as ‘masons’ marks’ were carved on blocks of stone in Bronze Age Crete over a period of some 500 years from around 2000 BC until the middle of the 15th century B. Volume I presents a typology and chronology of the signs, considers their distribution beyond Knossos, examines comparanda in other media and in cultures beyond Crete, and provides a detailed discussion of their purpose. Volume II presents a complete photographic record of the Knossian signs, numerous line drawings, as well as plans and elevations showing their location.

British School at Athens • 2020 • 9780904887716 • £130.00 • Hardback 650 pages • b/w illustrations

Alatzomouri Pefka: A Middle Minoan IIB Workshop Making Organic Dyes Edited by Vili Apostolakou, Thomas M. Brogan & Philip P. Betancourt One of the most important sites for the early history of dyeing ever found in Minoan Crete was discovered in 2007. A Middle Minoan IIB workshop for making natural dyes and using them to colour fabrics included several basins carved into the soft limestone bedrock. Excavations uncovered pottery and stone vessels, stone tools, animal bones, and botanical remains among other types of artifacts. The evidence provides information both for the manufacture of dyes and for the broader issue of the economic foundation for Minoan trade in textiles during the period of the Old Palaces.

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Karphi Revisited A Settlement and Landscape of the Aegean Crisis Period c. 1200–1000 bc

By Saro Wallace The present volume publishes in full the data from excavation and survey work carried out at Karphi and in its surrounding area from 2008 to 2012, helping to confirm the complexity and coherence of this large crisis-period (1200-1000 BC) community. Key features include a new public building (differing from the Temple explored by Pendlebury); a hitherto unknown district or sub-settlement on Megali Koprana to the south (with evidence for selective re-use later in the Iron Age); and a fortification system (documented and explored for the first time).

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Keos XI: Wall Paintings and Social Context The Northeast Bastion at Ayia Irini

By Morgan; Lyvia This book presents the results of the study of the wall paintings from the Northeast Bastion at Ayia Irini, situating them within the wider social context of the island of Kea and the Aegean world.

Like the spectacularly well-preserved town of Akrotiri on Thera, with which these paintings are contemporary, Ayia Irini thrived 3,500 years ago. But unlike Akrotiri, Ayia Irini was not protected by a layer of volcanic ash. When the site was excavated in the 1960s–1970s the paintings had long since collapsed, fracturing into thousands of small pieces. This study attempts to bring the wall paintings back to life through the best-preserved fragments. The volume contains many colour images of the fragments, and it is also abundantly illustrated with colour drawings, visualizations, and photographs.

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Collapse and Transformation The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean Edited by Guy D. Middleton The years c. 1250 to 1150 BC in Greece and the Aegean are often characterised as a time of crisis and collapse, and the story of the Aegean at this time has frequently been incorporated into narratives focused on the wider eastern Mediterranean, and most infamously the ‘Sea Peoples’ of the Egyptian texts.

In twenty-four chapters written by specialists, Collapse and Transformation instead offers a tight focus on the Aegean itself, providing an up-to date picture of the archaeology ‘before’ and ‘after’ ‘the collapse’ of c. 1200 BC. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean regions, as well as providing data and a range of interpretations to those studying collapse and resilience more widely and engaging in comparative studies.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254259 £60.00 • Hardback • 280 pages

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Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in the Age of Globalization Edited by Anna Kouremenos & Jody Michael Gordon Given the current state of the field for globalization studies in Mediterranean archaeology, this volume aims to bring together for the first time archaeologists working on different islands and a range of material culture types to examine diachronically how Mediterranean insularities changed during eras when connectivity increased, such as the Late Bronze Age, the era of Greek and Phoenician colonization, the Classical period, and during the High and Late Roman imperial eras. Each chapter aims to situate a specific island or island group within the context of the globalizing forces and networks that conditioned a particular period, and utilizes archaeological material to reveal how islanders shaped their insular identities, or notions of insularity, at the nexus of local and global influences.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253443 £38.00 • Paperback • 304 pages b/w illustrations

The Art of Siege Warfare and Military Architecture from the Classical World to the Middle Ages Edited by Michael Eisenberg & Rabei Khamisy Military historiography and ancient manuals are familiar from the Classical period throughout the Hellenistic great battlefields until the end of the Middle Ages. The current book is the first to encompass this long array of time while trying to enrich the reader with the continuity, development and regression in the different periods and spheres of the ancient poliorcetics and beyond; the papers presented here focus on the physical fortifications, besieging and defense techniques, development and efficiency of ancient projectiles and sieging machinery, battlefields and the historiographical evidence.

Oxbow Books • Nov 2020 9781789254068 • £45.00 • Hardback 288 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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B ar ga in s a n d g o o d de a l s Method and Theory Early Ships and Seafaring Water Transport Beyond Europe

By Sean McGrail In this book, Professor McGrail’s study of European Water Transport is extended to Egypt, Arabia, India, Southeast Asia, China, Australia, Oceania and the Americas. The early rafts and boats of those regions were, as in Europe, hand-built from natural materials and were propelled and steered by human muscle or wind power.

220 pp • Pen & Sword Books Ltd • 2016 • Hardback 9781473825598 • was £19.99 now £9.95 Wild Harvest Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds Edited by Karen Hardy and Lucy Kubiak-Martens A major new textbook discussing the role of plants in hominin and pre-agrarian human societies with case studies drawn from ethnography, ethnohistory and ethnoarchaeology illustrating methods of analysis of plant remains and how archaeobotanical assemblages may be used and interpreted.

368 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Paperback 9781785701238 • was £32.00 now £12.95 A Geography of Offerings Deposits of Valuables in the Landscapes of Ancient Europe

By Richard Bradley A provocative study of current approaches to and theories regarding the character, location, social and physical context and object histories of specialised deposits in the European archaeological record. This is an extended essay about the strengths and weaknesses of current thinking regarding specialised deposits.

160 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Paperback 9781785704772 • was £15.99 now £7.95

Landscape Somerset’s Peatland Archaeology Managing and Investigating a Fragile Resource

By Richard Brunning This substantial monograph presents the results of the MARISP project which thoroughly assessed the condition of the wetland monuments and the ongoing threats to their survival and aimed to answer key research questions about the sites through the use of minimally invasive excavation and to inform the development of future national and county wetland strategies.

352 pp • Oxbow Books • 2013 • Hardback 9781842174883 • was £40.00 now £12.95 Street Trees in Britain A History

By Mark Johnston This is the first book on the history of Britain’s street trees and it gives a highly readable, authoritative and

often amusing account of their story, from the tree-lined promenades of the 17th century to the majestic boulevards that grace some of our modern city centres.

352 pp • Windgather Press • 2017 • Paperback 9781911188230 • was £39.95 now £14.95 The Historic Landscape of Devon A Study in Change and Continuity

By Lucy Ryder The combined evidence for three case-study areas – the Blackdown Hills, Hartland Moors, and the South Hams – is examined in detail. Key issues addressed include: how far back patterns of 19th century landholding can be traced, or projected, back into the medieval period; the occurrence and extent of open field farming in Devon; and the spread of nucleated and dispersed settlements.

256 pp • Windgather Press • 2013 • Paperback 9781905119387 • was £38.00 now £7.95

European Prehistory Neanderthals in Wales Pontnewydd and the Elwy Valley Caves Edited by Stephen Aldhouse-Green, Rick Peterson and Elizabeth A. Walker This monograph documents the results of 20 years of field research. It describes the traces of occupation left around 225,000 years ago by people who were ancestors of the Neanderthals. These include stone tools, animal bones and the remains of the people themselves.

360 pp • Oxbow Books • 2012 • Hardback 9781842174609 • was £60.00 now £14.95 Preserved in the Peat An Extraordinary Bronze Age Burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its Wider Context

By Andy M. Jones Presents detailed analysis of a highly unsual Early Bronze Age burial with preserved textiles, animal skin, basketry and an array of rare metal and organic objects, and discusses its wider environmental, social and burial context.

328 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback 9781785702600 • was £30.00 now £9.95 A Forged Glamour Landscape, Identity and Material Culture in the Iron Age

By Melanie Giles An exploration of the lives and deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their spectacular material culture, who lived in modern-day East and North Yorkshire, between the 4th and 1st centuries BC. It evaluates settlement and funerary evidence, analyses farming and craftwork, and explores what some of their ideas and beliefs might have been.

224 pp • Windgather Press • 2013 • Paperback 9781905119462 • was £35.00 now £12.95

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B a r gai ns and good deal s Landscapes in the Broekpolder

By Linda L. Therkorn and Elles Besselsen Excavations in Beverwijk and Heemskerk in North Holland revealed finds from the Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages. Twenty insets about various aspects of archeology have been added to the main text. In the appendices a large part of the prehistoric pottery is described and illustrated Amsterdams Archeologisch Centrum • 2013 Hardback • 9789078863557 • was £28.00 now £9.95 Living Well Together?

Settlement and Materiality in the Neolithic of South-East and Central Europe

By Alasdair Whittle, Daniela Hofmann and Douglass W. Bailey Investigates the development of the Neolithic in southeast and central Europe from 6500–3500 cal BC with special reference to the manifestations of settling down.

178 pp • Oxbow Books • 2008 • Paperback 9781842172674 • was £40.00 now £14.95 North Meets South Theoretical Aspects on the Northern and Southern Rock Art Traditions in Scandinavia Edited by Peter Skoglund, Johan Ling and Ulf Bertilsson Where previous examinations of rock art have emphasised disparaties between traditions in northern and southern Scandinavia, this volume emphasises similarities in themes, formats and repertoire and discusses new theoretical approaches to analysis which emphasise interaction and commonality.

176 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback 9781785708206 • was £20.00 now £6.95 Sagaholm North European Bronze Age Rock Art and Burial Ritual

By Joakim Goldhahn This major new study presents and discusses a series of rock art engravings from a Bronze Age barrow in Ljungarum parish, Jönköping Län, situated in the central part of southern Sweden. Sagaholm contains the largest group of rock engravings discovered in a burial context in northern Europe.

192 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Paperback 9781785702648 • was £36.00 now £12.95

Egyp t Ancient Egyptian Furniture Volume I 4000 – 1300 BC

By Geoffrey Killen This revised second edition examines the common forms of furniture used in ancient Egypt, so much of which has been preserved by the dry Egyptian climate and has long been admired for the quality of its design and construction.

160 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback 9781785704819 • was £60.00 now £14.95

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Ancient Egyptian Furniture Volume II

By Geoffrey Killen In this revised second edition Dr Killen continues his survey of Egyptian furniture-making techniques with a study of boxes, chests and footstools and traces their evolution from the earliest times.

168 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback 9781785704857 • was £60.00 now £14.95 Ancient Egyptian Furniture Volume III

By Geoffrey Killen In this third volume Dr Killen investigates how woodworking in ancient Egypt developed in the 19th and 20th dynasties. It establishes the range of wooden furniture manufactured during this period by surveying examples depicted in Ramesside Theban and Memphite tombs.

144 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback 9781785704895 • was £60.00 now £14.95 The Tomb of Pharaoh’s Chancellor Senneferi at Thebes (TT99) Edited by Nigel Strudwick This book presents a fascinating account of the life, career and tomb of Senneferi, Chancellor to Thutmose III (c. 1430 BC) as revealed by excavation and detailed analysis of the tomb contents and decoration. The book focuses on the use of the tomb complex during the New Kingdom, especially the 18th dynasty (c. 1550–1300 BC).

432 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Hardback 9781785703317 • was £70.00 now £19.95

Ancient Near East Digital Atlas of Traditional Food Made From Cereals and Milk

By R.T.J. Cappers The Digital atlas of traditional food made from cereals and milk explores the traditional food products that could have been made by transitional hunter-gatherers and the early farmers in south-west Asia by examining the traditional foods still being made today.

640 pp • Barkhuis • 2018 • Hardback • 9789492444707 was £90.95 now £19.95 Excavations by K M Kenyon in Jerusalem, Volume 4 The Iron Age Cave Deposits

By Itzak Eshel and K. Prag This volume concentrates on finds outside the walls of the Iron Age city, and particularly on the enigmatic, potteryrich depositis in Caves I and II to the south east of the city.

Eshel’s analysis of the pottery leads him to suggest a 7thcentury BC date.

278 pp • Council for British Research in the Levant • 1995 Hardback • 9780197270059 • was £45.00 now £14.95

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B ar ga in s a n d g o o d de a l s Çatalhöyuk Perspectives Themes from the 1995–99 Seasons

By Ian Hodder This volume, number six in the Çatalhöyük Research Project series, draws on material from Volumes 3 to 5 to deal with broad themes. Data from architecture and excavation contexts are linked into broader discussion of topics such as seasonality, art and social memory.

246 pp • McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research • 2006 • Hardback • 9781902937298 was £39.00 now £12.95 Changing Materialities at Çatalhöyuk Reports from the 1995–99 Seasons

By Ian Hodder Discusses the changing materi­ality of life at the site over its 1100 years of occupation. It in­cludes a discussion of ceramics and other fired clay material, chipped stone, groundstone, worked bone and basketry.

506 pp • McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research • 2006 • Hardback • 9781902937281 was £59.00 now £14.95 Excavations at Tell Brak 4 Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Regional Centre, 1994–1996.

By Roger Matthews and Wendy Matthews Provides an account of the architecture, artefacts, and environ­mental evidence, sup­ported by a program of radiocarbon dating. The results emphasize the indigenous nature of cultural development in Upper Mesopotamia during the early 4th to 2nd millennia BC 512 pp • McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2003 • Hardback • 9781902937168 • was £75.00 now £19.95 Inhabiting Çatalhöyuk Reports from the 1995–99 seasons

By Ian Hodder Deals with various aspects of the habitation of Çatalhöyük, including the relationship between the site and its environment, diet, lifestyle and population size, and ways in which houses and open spaces in the settlement were lived in.

446 pp • McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research • 2005 • Hardback • 9781902937229 was £60.00 now £14.95 Towards Reflexive Method in Archaeology The Example of Catalhöyuk

By Ian Hodder The aim of the volume is to discuss some of the reflexive or postprocessual methods that have been introduced at Catalhoyuk in the work there since 1993. These methods involve reflexivity, interactivity, multivocality and contextuality or relationality.

300 pp • McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research • 2000 • Hardback • 9781902937021 was £40.00 now £14.95

Excavations at Tell Nebi Mend, Syria Volume I Edited by Peter J. Parr The earliest settlement so far discovered at Tell Nebi Mend dates to the first half of the 7th millennium BC and is the subject of this volume. Five phases of occupation were recognised with architectural features including, at different times, house structures and remains of larger, probably communal, buildings, along with remains of plaster, floor surfaces, fire and rubbish pits and burials, followed by large-scale abandonment. More than 2000 sherds of Neolithic pottery and 1400 flint and obsidian artefacts were recovered.

408 pp • Oxbow Books • 2015 • Hardback 9781782977865 • was £48.00 now £12.95 Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961–1967, Volume VI” Sites on the edge of the Ophel

By Kay Prag In this volume the principal focus is on the presence/ absence of the city walls on the east side of the city from the Iron Age onwards. The evidence for major walls and their structure from Iron Age II to the Byzantine periods in Sites S.II and R.II is described and substantial revisions suggested.

324 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback 9781785706530 • was £50.00 now £14.95 The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia Edited by Akiri Tsuneki, Olivier Nieuwenhuyse and Stuart Campbell Through analysis of many archaeological site assemblages and collections these papers explore the evidence for the origins and development of pottery production against the wider technological background.

196 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback 9781785705267 • was £70.00 now £19.95

Aegean Prehistory An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean Edited by Maria Mina, Sevi Triantaphyllou and Yiannis Papadatos This book presents a series of thematically organised papers exploring the anthropology of the body and its role in the construction and performance of social identity in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean.

248 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Hardback 9781785702914 • was £48.00 now £14.95 Beyond Thalassocracies Understanding processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean Edited by Evi Gorogianni, Peter Pavúk and Luca Girella The 14 chapters which comprise this book examine various aspects of the phenomena of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation, both of which share the basic

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B a r gai ns and good deal s underlying defining feature of material culture change in communities around the Aegean. It focuses on regions of the Aegean basin that were affected by both processes, highlighting their similarities and differences.

240 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Hardback 9781785702037 • was £45.00 now £14.95 Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context Edited by Marisa Marthari, Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd This volume presents the first comprehensive reassessment of Early Bronze Age sculpture from the Cycladic islands in a generation. The contributors examine sculpture from settlements, cemeteries and the sanctuary at Kavos, with a discussion of material, techniques and aspects of manufacture.

544 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Hardback 9781785701955 • was £40.00 now £19.95 From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean Edited by Julie Hruby and Debra Trusty The contributors utilise a wide variety of analytical approaches and demonstrate the impact that cooking vessels can have on the archaeological interpretation of sites and their inhabitants. These sites include major Late Bronze Age citadels and smaller settlements throughout the Aegean and surrounding Mediterranean area.

216 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Paperback 9781785706325 • was £38.00 now £14.95 Social Change in Aegean Prehistory Edited by Corien Wiersma and Sofia Voutsaki This volume discusses the processes of social and economic change from the Early Bronze Age III to the Late Bronze Age I period (ca. 2200 – 1600 BC) in the southern Aegean, using pottery, burials and settlement evidence. A wide variety of factors is considered including demographic changes, reciprocal relations and sumptuary behaviour, household organization and kin structure, age and gender divisions, internal tensions, connectivity and mobility.

192 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Paperback 9781785702198 • was £36.00 now £12.95

Greece The Colors of Clay Special Techniques in Athenian Vases

By Beth Cohen This catalogue documents a major exhibition at the Getty Villa that was the first ever to focus on ancient Athenian terracotta vases made by techniques other than the well-known black- and red-figure styles. The exhibition comprised vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline, Kerch-style, white ground, and Six’s technique, as well as examples with added clay and gilding, and plastic vases and additions.

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The Hunt in Ancient Greece

By Judith Barringer Drawing on vase paintings, sculpture, inscriptions, and other literary evidence, Judith Barringer reexamines the theme of the hunt and shows how the tradition it depicts helped maintain the dominance of the ruling social groups.

312 pp • Johns Hopkins University Press • 2002 Hardback • 9780801866562 • was £45.00 now £12.95 Gods and Garments Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries BC

By Cecilie Brøns A new investigation into and interpretation of the role of textiles and clothing accessories in the performance and materialisation of ritual in Greek sanctuaries of the 7th–1st centuries BC. Among the questions posed are how and where we can detect the use of textiles in the sanctuaries, and how they were used in rituals including their impact on the performance of these rituals and the people involved.

384 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Hardback 9781785703553 • was £40.00 now £14.95 Textile Production in Classical Athens

By Stella Spantidaki This book presents a detailed consideration of the historical and social context of textile production in classical Athens. It examines and discusses evidence for the equipment, materials, processes and techniques employed at each stage of the full production sequence, and discusses the organisation of production and trade.

256 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Hardback 9781785702525 • was £40.00 now £14.95 With Alexander in India and Central Asia Moving East and Back to West Edited by Claudia Antonetti and P. Biagi Twelve papers in this volume examine aspects of Alexander’s Indian campaign, the relationship between him and his generals, the potential to use Indian sources, and evidence for the influence of policies of Alexander in neighbouring areas such as Iran and Russia.

304 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Paperback 9781785705847 • was £40.00 now £12.95 Archaic Pottery of Chios (2 vols) The Decorated Styles 2 vols Text & Plates by Anna A Lemos

By Anna A. Lemos A major study of the decorated pottery of Chios. It ranges from the patterned chalices of the seventh century, and the Wild Goat style, through the Reserving Styles of the sixth century to the Black-Figure Styles, with full discussion of shapes and changing styles 350 pp • Oxford University School of Archaeology • 1991 Hardback • 9780947816308 • was £75.00 now £20.00

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B ar ga in s a n d g o o d de a l s Megara Hyblaia and Selinous Two Greek City-States in Archaic Sicily

By Franco De Angelis This study focuses on two settlements, Megara Hyblaia and Selinous, established in Italy by the Greeks during the late 8th and mid-7th centuries BC. It explores the environment and political setting, the development of the settlements themselves and their influence, the nature of society, the economy and political life.

310 pp • Oxford University School of Archaeology • 2004 Hardback • 9780947816568 • was £48.00 now £10.00

Ro me More than Just Numbers?

The Role of Science in Roman Archaeology Edited by Irene Schrufer-Kolb This book, part of the International Roman Archaeology Conference series, presents a range of case studies from Italy and the provinces that open a fresh debate between science-based and humanities-based archaeologists.

Contributions share a common methodological thread in that the application of scientific methods in each case answers research questions that traditional archaeology alone could not.

191 pp • Journal of Roman Archaeology • 2012 • Hardback 9781887829915 • was £110.00 now £39.95 Roman Imperial Armour The Production of Early Imperial Military Armour

By David Sim and J. Kaminski Roman Imperial Armour presents an examination of the metals the armour was made from, of how the ores containing those metals were extracted from the earth and transformed into workable metal and of how that raw product was made into the armour of the Roman army.

180 pp • Oxbow Books • 2011 • Paperback 9781842174357 • was £25.00 now £9.95 Romans and Barbarians Beyond the Frontiers Archaeology, Ideology and Identities in the North Edited by Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez and Alexandra Guglielmi Case studies presented here span across disciplines and territories, from American anthropological studies on transcultural discourse and provincial organization in Gaul, to historical approaches to the propagandistic use of the limes in the early 20th century German empire; from Danish research on warrior identities and Roman–Scandinavian relations, to innovative ideas on culture contact in Roman Ireland; and from new views on Romano-Germanic relations in Central European Barbaricum, to a British comparative exercise on frontier cultures.

164 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback 9781785706042 • was £40.00 now £14.95

TRAC 2006 Edited by Ben Croxford and By Fred Eugene Ray, Roman Roth and Peter J. White Papers explore issues of identity, its expression and recognition. Other topics include public and private religion, ‘Romanisation’ from a zooarchaeological perspective, and how theoretical archaeology works in the field.

192 pp • Oxbow Books • 2007 • Paperback 9781842172643 • was £30.00 now £6.95 TRAC 2010 Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Edited by Dragana Mladenovic and Ben Russell 10 papers with topics including what the pottery finds from the Nepi Survey Project can tell us about how the local landscape was used and inhabited, poliadic deities in Roman colonies in Italy, Pompeii, the practice of the recycling of architectural materials and personal adornment concerning textile remains and brooches.

160 pp • Oxbow Books • 2011 • Paperback 9781842174524 • was £36.00 now £7.95 TRAC 2011 Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Edited by Maria Duggan, Frances McIntosh and Darrell J. Rohl Nine papers with topics including cultural evolution, production and distribution of samian ware, the Iron Age/ Roman transition, and the role of women on the frontiers.

134 pp • Oxbow Books • 2012 • Paperback 9781842174999 • was £36.00 now £7.95 TRAC 99 Proceedings of Ninth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Durham

By Garrick Fincham, Geoff Harrison, Rene Rodgers Holland and Louise Revell Thirteen papers from the annual TRAC conference, now in its ninth year. With a range of subject matters, they reflect the diversity of research being carried out.

160 pp • Oxbow Books • 2000 • Paperback 9781842170076 • was £30.00 now £7.95

Roman Britain Ritual Landscapes of Roman South-East Britain

By David Rudling Roman Britain was a multi-cultural mix of Celtic natives of different tribes and religions, of Romans with their own pantheon of deities, and of the soldiers and traders who brought their own practices and beliefs from all parts of Europe and North Africa and the East. This volume explores the way in which they practiced their religions in the relatively peaceful and prosperous areas of south eastern Britain, in towns and in the countryside, at temples and shrines, in cemeteries, and in their houses.

214 pp • Heritage Publications • 2008 • Paperback 9781905223183 • was £24.95 now £9.95

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B a r gai ns and good deal s Ariconium, Herefordshire An Iron Age settlement and Romano-British ‘small town’

By Robin Jackson The Roman ‘small town’ of Ariconium in southern Herefordshire has long been known as an important iron production centre but has remained very poorly understood. Rapid expansion during the second half of the 1st century AD indicates that the local population was able to articulate rapidly with the economic opportunities the Roman conquest brought.

304 pp • Oxbow Books • 2012 • Hardback 9781842174494 • was £25.00 now £9.95 Bath: An Archaeological Assessment A study of settlement around the sacred hot springs from the Mesolithic to the 17th century AD

By Emily La Trobe-Bateman and Rosalind Niblett The first major assessment and synthesis of archaeological records for the City of Bath, this volume consists of 3 parts first providing an overview of the area’s natural topography and current understanding of its archaeology, summarising antiquarian and early archaeological investigations, then surveying archaeological evidence available to us today, and offering suggestions for future research directions.

232 pp • Oxbow Books • 2015 • Hardback 9781782979982 • was £40.00 now £14.95 Colchester, Fortress of the War God An Archaeological Assessment

By David Radford, Adrian Gascoyne and Edited by Philip Wise This volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since the late 16th century and the first modern archaeological excavations occurred in 1845 close to Colchester Castle, the towns most prominent historic site.

352 pp • Oxbow Books • 2013 • Hardback 9781842175088 • was £45.00 now £14.95 Haltonchesters Excavations Directed by J. P. Gillam at the Roman Fort, 1960–61

By J. N. Dore A report on excation of the western part of the central range of the fort, a section of the west wall of the fort (including the porta quintana ), the north end of the west half of the retentura and part of an annexe attached to the west side of the fort.

128 pp • Oxbow Books • 2010 • Hardback 9781842173602 • was £20.00 now £9.95 Segedunum Excavations By Charles Daniels In The Roman Fort At Wallsend (1975–1984)

By Alexandra Croom and Alan Rushworth Between 1975 and 1984 almost the entire area of the Roman fort of Segedunum in Wallsend was excavated

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under the direction of Charles Daniels. It is these excavations which form the subject of this publication.

This comprehensive report on the structural remains (Vol. 1) and finds (Vol. 2) show clearly that Daniels’ work represented one of the most ambitious and prolonged programmes of fieldwork attempted on the northern frontier up to that point.

816 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Hardback 9781785700262 • was £55.00 now £19.95 Excavations At Barrow Hills, Radley, Oxfordshire, 1983–5 Volume 2: The Romano British Cemetery and Anglo Saxon Settlement

By R. A. Chambers and E. McAdam The Romano-British cemetery consisted of 69 burials dating to the 3rd and 4th centuries; both inhumations and cremations were found. The Anglo-Saxon settlement dates by finds evidence to the 4th-early 7th centuries.

280 pp • Oxford University School of Archaeology • 2007 Hardback • 9780947816735 • was £24.99 now £7.50 The Danebury Environs Roman Programme

By Barry Cunliffe and Cynthia Poole From 1997 to 2006 the Danebury Trust, under the direction of Barry Cunliffe, excavated seven sites on the chalk downland of eastern Hampshire to explore the rural settlement of the region in the Roman period. The volumes make a major contribution to our understanding of Iron Age and Roman Britain.

1295 pp • Oxford University School of Archaeology 2008 • Hardback • 9781905905119 • was £150.00 now £49.95 The Edge of the Empire A Journey to Britannia: From the Heart of Rome to Hadrian’s Wall

By Bronwen Riley Bronwen Riley describes an epic journey from Rome to Hadrian’s Wall at Britannia’s – and the empire’s – northwestern frontier. In this strikingly original snapshot of Roman Britain, she brings vividly to life the smells, sounds, colours and textures of travel in the second century AD. 272 pp • Pegasus Books • 2017 • Paperback 9781681774350 • was £13.99 now £5.95 My Roman Britain

By Richard Reece A personal view – stimulating and provoking – of RomanoBritish studies.

164 pp • Richard Reece • 1988 • Paperback 9780905853215 • was £14.95 now £3.95 The Romano-British Peasant Towards a Study of People, Landscapes and Work during the Roman Occupation of Britain

By Mike McCarthy This important and significant volume examines, for the first time, the ordinary people of Roman Britain. It looks at how people earned a living, family size and structure,

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B ar ga in s a n d g o o d de a l s social behaviour, customs and taboos and the impact of the presence of non-locals and foreigners, using archaeology, texts and ethnography.

160 pp • Windgather Press • 2013 • Paperback 9781905119479 • was £29.95 now £12.95

Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic Byzantine Art Recent Studies Edited by Colum Hourihane Studies on the architecture and art of the Byzantine world from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. Underpinned by iconography, style, reception and date, these essays attempt to contextualize the eastern world and the west, the Muslim and the Christian, the specific detail and the larger picture.

207 pp • Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society • 2009 Hardback • 9780866984263 • was £53.00 now £14.95 Neighbours and Successors of Rome Traditions of Glass Production and Use in Europe and the Middle East in the Later 1st Millennium AD Edited by Daniel Keller, Jennifer Price and Caroline Jackson Presented through 20 case studies covering Europe and the Near East, Neighbours and Successors of Rome investigates development in the production of glass and the mechanisms of the wider glass economy as part of a wider material culture in Europe and the Near East around the later first millennium AD. 352 pp • Oxbow Books • 2014 • Hardback 9781782973973 • was £50.00 now £14.95 Arts of the City Victorious

By Jonathan M. Bloom The Fatimids ruled in North Africa and Egypt from 909-1171 and produced some distinctive and spectacular art and architecture, which this lavishly illustrated book synthesises into an impressively detailed one volume study.

236 pp • American University in Cairo Press • 2007 Hardback • 9789774161292 • was £45.00 now £14.95

Anglo-Saxon and Viking Vikings Raiders from the Sea

By Kim Hjardar From the 9th to the 11th century, Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world. Employing sail technology and using unpredictable strategies, the Vikings could strike suddenly, attack with great force, then withdraw with stolen goods or captives. This short history of the Vikings discusses their ships, weapons and armour, and unique way of life.

160 pp • Casemate UK • 2017 • Paperback 9781612005195 • was £7.99 now £3.95

Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England Edited by Catherine Karkov and Nicholas Howe Papers range in scope from the conversion of the English to Christianity, to the expansion of Anglo-Saxon culture beyond the British Isles; and from early Anglo-Saxon burial goods to the evidence for and treatment of disease.

267 pp • Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society • 2006 Hardback • 9780866983631 • was £36.00 now £12.95 Crossing Boundaries Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World Edited by Eric Cambridge and Jane Hawkes In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new approaches to a number of themes ranging in time from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The main focus is on material culture, but also includes insights into the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, and the strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to record information in unfamiliar languages.

320 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback 9781785703072 • was £55.00 now £19.95 The Anglo-Saxon Church of All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire Survey, Excavation and Analysis, 1972–2010

By David Parsons and Diana Sutherland An unprecedented account of one of the most important buildings of its period surviving in England. The building of the main body of the church was towards the end of the 8th century, with a western tower, stair turret and polygonal apse added before the end of the 9th. Major modifications were made during the early and later medieval periods.

336 pp • Oxbow Books • 2013 • Hardback • 9781842175316 was £90.00 now £29.95 Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text Edited by Charles Insley and Gale R. Owen-Crocker Presents five major cross-disciplinary discourses on Anglo-Saxon culture seen through developments in literary text, imagery, historical documents, art and archaeological material culture. The common element is transformation, the Anglo-Saxon ability to rework older material for new times and the necessary adaptation to new circumstances.

144 pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Paperback 9781785704970 • was £38.00 now £12.95

Early Medieval Europe Croatia in the Early Middle Ages

By Ivan Supicic This large book contains thirty papers in English, bringing to the fore-front the richness of Croatian history, artistic and cultural achievement in the Early Middle Ages.

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B a r gai ns and good deal s Spanning the period from the 7th to 12th centuries, the papers explores the relationships between Croatia and the rest of Europe, especially the influence of Roman, Byzantine and eastern cultures.

633 pp • Philip Wilson Publishers • 1999 • Hardback 9780856674990 • was £73.00 now £24.95 Renovatio Monetae: Bracteates and Coinage Policies in Medieval Europe

By R. Svensson Bracteates are thin, uni-faced coins that were struck with only one die. Although these coins were very fragile, they dominated the coinage for 150–200 years in large parts of medieval Europe. This book is about the function of bracteates and how they can be linked to the evolution of coinage policies especially re-coinage.

284 pp • Spink Books • 2013 • Hardback • 9781907427299 was £50.00 now £14.95 This is my Body Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages

By Michal Kobialka Kobialka takes four epistemological fragments to illustrate his argument that images of the male and female body recreated in medieval drama and theatre were constantly changing and affected by different modes of seeing until they were stabilised by the constitutions of the Fourth Latern Council in 1215.

313 pp • University of Michigan Press • 1999 • Paperback 9780472089383 • was £30.50 now £9.95 The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland

By Neil Xavier O’Donoghue In addition to reassessing the available texts for the liturgy of the Eucharist in the pre-Norman Irish church this study considers the social dimension of the Eucharist, and its treatment in art and architecture.

Most importantly, O’Donoghue shows that pre-Norman Ireland was very much a part of the Western (Gallican) liturgical tradition 352 pp • University of Notre Dame Press • 2011 Paperback • 9780268037321 • was £47.50 now £14.95

Medieval History Familia and Household in the Medieval Atlantic Province Edited by Benjamin T. Hudson These nine essays explore the use and importance of genealogy, the artificial family, literary images of kinship, and the political ramifications of family ties. They contribute to the investigation of domestic structure and family organization during a crucial time in European development.

232 pp • Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society • 2011 Hardback • 9780866984409 • was £48.00 now £14.95

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Textual Healing Studies in Medieval English Medical, Scientific and Technical Texts Edited by Javier E. Diaz-Vera and Rosario Caballero The studies presented in this volume concentrate on different aspects of the medical, scientific and technical varieties of early English used in a wide range of medieval manuscripts.

213 pp • Peter Lang Verlag • 2009 • Hardback 9783039118229 • was £50.95 now £14.95 Urban Legends Civic Identity and the Classical Past in Northern Italy, 1250–1350

By Carrie E. Benes Between 1250 and 1350, numerous Italian city-states jockeyed for position in a cutthroat political climate.

Each city-state appropriated classical symbols, ancient materials, and Roman myths to legitimate its regime as a logical successor to-or continuation of-Roman rule. In Urban Legends, Carrie Benes illuminates this role of the classical past in the construction of late medieval Italian urban identity.

296 pp • Penn State University Press • 2011 • Hardback 9780271037653 • was £69.95 now £14.95 Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings Translated by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin With the aim of showing Saint Louis as he was commemorated in the literature of the Middle Ages, this book presents six previously untranslated texts: two little-known but early and important vitae of Saint Louis; two unedited sermons by the Parisian preacher Jacob of Lausanne (d. 1322); and a liturgical office and proper mass in his honor.

322 pp • University of Notre Dame Press • 2012 Paperback • 9780268029845 • was £42.50 now £12.95

Medieval Art Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven

By Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb This beautifully illustrated work explores the relationship between the historical and the archetypal city of Jerusalem, uncovering the ways in which the aesthetic achievements it inspired enhanced and enlivened the medieval world. Patrons and artists from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions alike focused their attention on the Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings and creating luxury goods for its residents.

400 pp • Metropolitan Museum of Art • 2016 • Hardback 9781588395986 • was £50.00 now £19.95

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B ar ga in s a n d g o o d de a l s Art in England The Saxons to the Tudors: 600–1600

By Sara N. James A single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. The media studied include architecture and related sculpture, both ecclesiastical and secular; tomb monuments; murals, panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by foreign artists commissioned by English patrons.

352 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Hardback 9781785702235 • was £60.00 now £14.95 Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery The Gambier Parry Collection

By John Lowden This scholarly catalogue, full of beautiful new photography, is the first publication dedicated solely to the collection. There are examples of the highest quality of ivory carving, both secular and religious in content, and a number of the objects are of outstanding interest.

144 pp • Paul Holberton Publishing • 2013 • Hardback 9781907372605 • was £40.00 now £14.95 Medieval Ivories and Works of Art

By John Lowden The Thomson Collection contains examples of the highest quality of most types of medieval ivory carving, both secular and religious. These include large statuettes of the Virgin and Child intended to stand on altars in chapels, small versions for private use in the home, and folding tablets or diptychs with scenes from the life of Christ carved in relief.

128 pp • Paul Holberton Publishing • 2008 • Paperback 9781903470800 • was £25.00 now £9.95 The Bernward Gospels: Art, Memory, and the Episcopate in Medieval Germany

By Jennifer P. Kingsley Jennifer Kingsley offers the first interpretive study of the pictorial program of this famed eleventh-century manuscript and considers how the gospel book conditioned contemporary and future viewers to remember its patron, Bishop Berward of Hildesheim 228 pp • Penn State University Press • 2014 • Hardback 9780271060798 • was £63.95 now £19.95 The Italian Piazza Transformed Parma in the Communal Age

By Areli Marina Areli Marina examines the radical transformation of Parma’s urban center in the thirteenth century by reconstructing the city’s two most significant public spaces: its cathedral and communal squares. She documents and discusses the evolution of each site tracing their construction by opposing political factions within the city’s ruling elite.

192 pp • Penn State University Press • 2012 • Hardback 9780271050706 • was £74.95 now £19.95

Medieval Archaeology The Abbey and Mint of Bury St Edmunds from 1279

By R. J. Eaglen This volume concentrates on the abbey and mint from 1279 until the closure of the mint c. 1329. A concluding chapter summarizes major events affecting the abbey until its dissolution in 1539. The Catalogue in this volume incorporates a die study of almost 2,500 coins struck at Bury during the fifty year period to c. 1329.

300 pp • British Numismatics Society • 2006 • Hardback 9781907427374 • was £45.00 now £9.95 Castles and the Anglo-Norman World Edited by John A. Davies, Angela Riley, Jean-Marie Levesque and Charlotte Lapiche Castles and the Anglo-Norman World draws together a series of 20 papers by 26 French and English specialists in the field of Anglo-Norman studies. It includes summaries of current knowledge and new research into important Norman castles in England and Normandy, drawing on information from recent excavations.

336 pp • Oxbow Books • 2016 • Hardback 9781785700224 • was £48.00 now £14.95 Newcastle upon Tyne, the Eye of the North An Archaeological Assessment

By C.P. Graves and D. H. Heslop This volume brings together the archaeological evidence for occupation in the historic core of Newcastle between the prehistoric period and 1650. It places the evidence in the context of the evolving historical communities who made and occupied the site, and in the wider context of medieval and early modern European urban life.

304 pp • Oxbow Books • 2013 • Hardback 9781842178140 • was £45.00 now £12.95 Trinkets and Charms

By Eleanor Rose Standley Gold signet rings, jet pendants or simple lace ends – all dress accessories were highly significant and meaningful objects used in everyday life in later medieval Britain.

This study of archaeological finds, artistic depictions and literature reveals the intricate uses and life-histories of dress accessories from two regions of Britain.

140 pp • Oxford University School of Archaeology • 2013 Hardback • 9781905905300 • was £35.00 now £14.95 A Place to Believe in Locating Medieval Landscapes

By Clare Lees This volume brings together scholars of medieval literature, archaeology, history, religion, art history, and environmental studies to explore the idea of place in medieval religious culture.A strength of the collection is its awareness of the fact that medieval and modern

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B a r gai ns and good deal s viewpoints converge in an experience of place and frame a newly created space where the literary, the historical, and the cultural are in ongoing negotiation with the geographical, the personal, and the material.

288 pp • Penn State University Press • 2006 • Paperback 9780271028606 • was £28.95 now £9.95

P ost-Medieval Oceans Odyssey Deep-Sea Shipwrecks in the English Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean

By Sean Kingsley and Edited by Greg Stemm In ten papers Odyssey Marine Exploration presents the technology, methodology and archaeological results from four deep-sea shipwrecks and one major survey conducted between 2003 and 2008. The wrecks range from the major Royal Navy warships HMS Sussex (1694) and the unique, 100-gun, first-rate HMS Victory (1744) to the steamship SS Republic (1865) and a mid-19th century merchant vessel with a cargo of British porcelain.

288 pp • Oxbow Books • 2010 • Hardback 9781842174159 • was £25.00 now £9.95 Oceans Odyssey 2 Underwater Heritage Management & Deep-Sea Shipwrecks in the English Channel & Atlantic Ocean Edited by Greg Stemm and Sean A. Kingsley Oceans Odyssey 2 presents the results of the discovery and archaeological survey of ten deep-water wrecks: a mid-17th century armed merchantman; the guns of Admiral Balchin’s Victory (1744); the mid-18th century French privateer La Marquise de Tourny; six German U-boats lost at the end of World War II; and an American schooner lost in the mid-19th century.

354 pp • Oxbow Books • 2011 • Hardback • 9781842174425 was £25.00 now £9.95 Oceans Odyssey 3 The Deep-Sea Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida A Merchant Vessel from Spain’s 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet Edited by Sean A. Kingsley and Greg Stemm In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa, Florida, commenced the world’s first robotic archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck.

Oceans Odyssey 3 introduces the shipwreck and its artefact collection ranging from gold bars to silver coins, pearls, ceramics, beads, glass wares, astrolabes, tortoiseshell, animal bones and seeds.

201 pp • Oxbow Books • 2013 • Hardback • 9781782971481 was £30.00 now £9.95 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 and By Ellen Gerth Six chapters focus on the tablewares, tin-glazed papal plates, Afro-Caribbean cooking wares, the olive jars,

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Inductively-Coupled Plasma Spectrometry results, and a study of how the pottery reflects Spanish colonial economic models, also compared to Roman and medieval structures.

280 pp • Oxbow Books • 2014 • Hardback 9781782977100 • was £30.00 now £9.95 Russian Cloth Seals in Britain A Guide to Identification, Usage and Anglo-Russian Trade in the 18th and 19th Centuries

By John Sullivan This book is based on a large body of new material consisting of lead-alloy seals that were attached to bundles of flax and hemp exported from Russia. It offers a short history of their use, a guide to their identification and a catalogue of items recovered in Britain.

224 pp • Oxbow Books • 2012 • Hardback 9781842174654 • was £85.00 now £19.95

History of Art The Last Days of Pompeii Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection

By Victoria C. Gardner Coates, Kenneth D. S. Lapatin and Jon L. Seydl This lavishly illustrated volume – featuring the works of artists such as Piranesi, Fragonard, Kaufmann, Ingres, Chassériau, and Alma-Tadema, as well as Duchamp, Dalí, Rothko, Rauschenberg, and Warhol – surveys the legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination under the three overarching rubrics of decadence, apocalypse, and resurrection.

264 pp • Getty Trust Publishing • 2012 • Hardback 9781606061152 • was £29.95 now £12.95 The Life of Titian Edited by Julia Bondanella, Bruce Cole, Jody Robin Shiffman and Peter Bondanella After Vasari’s Lives of the Most Famous Artists,The Life of Titian by the seventeenth-century Venetian artist and writer Carlo Ridolfi is the most important contemporary documentary source for our understanding of the great Renaissance artist. This new critical edition, the first translation into English of Ridolfi’s biography, illuminates his life, his artistic production, and his early critical reputation.

152 pp • Penn State Press • 1996 • Paperback 9780271016276 • was £33.95 now £12.95 Portrait of the Artist

By Anna Reynolds This volume showcases images of artists within the Royal Collection. It examines a range of themes played out within these works, from the cult of the artist to the symbolism evoked through images of the artist’s studio, and looks at the role of the monarch in commissioning, collecting and displaying portraits.

256 pp • Royal Collection Trust • 2016 • Hardback 9781909741324 • was £29.95 now £12.95

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Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece Materials Science Applied to Trace Ancient Technologies in the Aegean World Edited by Marina Panagiotaki, Ilias Tomazos & Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos This volume examines materials produced with the use of fire and mostly by use of the kiln (metals, plasters, glass and glaze, aromatics). The technologies based on fire have been considered high-tech technologies and they have contributed to the evolution of man throughout history. Papers highlight technical innovations of the technician/artist/pyrotechnologist that lived in the Aegean (mainland Greece and the islands) during the Bronze Age, the Classical and the Byzantine periods.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789252989 • £40.00 • Hardback • 256 pages b/w & col illustrations

Kale Akte, the Fair Promontory Settlement, Trade and Production on the Nebrodi Coast of Sicily 500 BC­–AD 500

By Adam Lindhagen This volume investigates the interaction between the natural environment, market forces and political entities in an ancient Sicilian town and its surrounding micro-region. Focusing on the ancient polis of Kale Akte (Caronia) and the surrounding Nebrodi area on the north coast of Sicily, the book examines the city’s archaeology and history from a broad geographical and cultural viewpoint, suggesting that Kale Akte may have had a greater economic importance for Sicily and the wider Mediterranean world than its size and lowly political status would suggest.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789252507 • £60.00 • Hardback • 272 pages b/w & col illustrations

White Gold Studies in Early Electrum Coinage Edited by Peter van Alfen, Ute Wartenberg, Haim Gitler & Koray Konuk This book collects the most complete, current scholarship on the history of known examples of ancient electrum coinage of the Greek world, with text, catalogue, and images.

American Numismatic Society • 2020 • 9780897223492 • £120.00 • Hardback 300 pages • b/w illustrations

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Karia and the Dodekanese Cultural Interrelations in the Southeast Aegean I Late Classical to Early Hellenistic Edited by Birte Poulsen, Poul Pedersen & John Lund The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. I, focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese during the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period. In the fourth century BC, the eastern cities experienced a new economic boom, and a revival of Archaic culture, sometimes termed ‘The Ionian Renaissance’, began. The cultural revival furthered rebuilding of old major works such as the Artemision at Ephesos, the embellishment of sanctuaries and a new royal architecture, such as the Maussolleion at Halikarnassos.

Oxbow Books • Dec 2020 • 9781789255102 • £48.00 • Hardback • 264 pages

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Karia and the Dodekanese Cultural Interrelations in the Southeast Aegean II Early Hellenistic to Early Byzantine Edited by Birte Poulsen, Poul Pedersen & John Lund This book presents new research that highlights cultural interrelations and connectivity in the Southeast Aegean and western Asia Minor over a period of more than 700 years. It is clear that close relations existed between the Dodekanese and western Asia Minor during the Classical period but this volume explores their development under the shifting political influences of Hellenistic kings, the Roman Empire, and the cosmopolitan late antique period. It examines urbanism, architectural form and embellishment, sculpture, pottery, and epigraphy.

Oxbow Books • Dec 2020 • 9781789255140 • £50.00 • Hardback • 336 pages

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An Introductory Guide to Ancient Greek and Roman Coins. Volume 1 Greek Civic Coins and Tribal Issues

By David Sear This is the first volume (of three) of David Sear’s brand new introductory guide to ancient coins, covering Greek civic coins and tribal issues. The guide is intended to give a general background to the fascinating world of ancient coins, looking back more than 26 centuries to the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, at how coins were designed and produced, and at how they can reveal so much to us today of the time in which they were produced.

Spink Books • 2020 • 9781907427657 • £50.00 • Paperback • 512 pages col illustrations

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Nicator: Seleucus I and his Empire

By Lise Hannestad Seleucus was the last surviving of the successors of Alexander the Great and the one who conquered the largest part of Alexander’s empire. He was later given the surname ‘Nikator’, the Conqueror. This book is a study of his life and achievements, his time and his legacy. It is based on Greco-Roman and Babylonian written sources as well as on archaeological evidence, which has grown exponentially in recent years.

Aarhus University Press • 2020 • 9788772191737 • £30.00 • Hardback • 182 pages

Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity Studies in honor of Elizabeth D. Carney Edited by Monica D’Agostini, Edward M. Anson & Frances Pownall Building on the methodological approach and theoretical framework engendered by Elizabeth Carney’s research, this book explores the complex web of personal relations governing Alexander the Great’s world. Inspired

by Carney’s seminal work on Ancient Macedonia, the volume moves beyond the traditionally rationalist and positivist approaches towards Hellenistic antiquity, into a new area of humanistic scholarship, by considering the dynastic bloodlines as well as the affective relations. The volume offers a discussion of the intra and extra familial network ruling the Mediterranean world at the time of Philip and Alexander.

Oxbow Books • Dec 2020 • 9781789254983 • £55.00 • Hardback • 352 pages b/w illustrations

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Simonides Lyricus Essays on the ‘other’ classical choral lyric poet Edited by Peter Agócs & Lucia Prauscello Simonides of Keos was one of the most important praise-poets of the early fifth century BCE, ranking alongside Pindar and Bacchylides. In Simonides Lyricus, a group of leading international experts revisit familiar questions about his lyric poetry, and pose new ones. Themes discussed include textual criticism and attribution of fragments; poetic genre and the place of the poet’s melic fragments in his larger oeuvre; the historical, cultural and political background of the poems; and Simonides’ afterlife in the biographical and anecdotal traditions that formed around his name.

Cambridge Philological Society • 2020 • 9780956838179 • £60.00 • Hardback 290 pages • b/w illustrations

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The Fight for Greek Sicily Society, Politics, and Landscape Edited by Melanie Jonasch This book is not concerned with realities from the battlefield or questions of military strategy and tactics, but rather offers a broad collection of archaeological case studies and historical essays that analyse how political competition, strategic considerations, and violent encounters substantially affected rural and urban environments, the island’s heterogeneous communities, and their social practices. These contributions, originating from a workshop in 2018, combine expertise from the fields of archaeology, ancient history, and philology. The focus on a specific time period and the limited geographic area of Greek Sicily allows for the thorough investigation and discussion of various forms of organized societal violence and their consequences on the developments in society and landscape.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253566 £45.00 • Paperback • 400 pages • b/w & col illustrations

Trinacria, ‘An Island Outside Time’ International Archaeology in Sicily Edited by Christopher Prescott, Arja Kariveri, Peter Campbell & Kristian Göransson Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of archaeological research. Recognising Sicily’s rich prehistory and pivotal role in the history of the Mediterranean, Sebastiano Tusa – professor, head of heritage agencies and councillor for Cultural Heritage for the Sicilian Region – promoted the exploration of the island’s heritage through international collaboration.

This collaboration between the Sicilian and international partners, often in an interdisciplinary framework, has generated important results and perspectives. The articles in this volume present research projects from throughout the island. The core of the articles is concerned with the Archaic through to the Roman period, but diachronic studies also trace lines back to the Stone Age and up to the contemporary era.

Oxbow Books • Mar 2021 • 9781789255911 £55.00 • Hardback • 240 pages b/w illustrations

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Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain

By Roger Bland, Adrian Chadwick, Eleanor Ghey, Colin Haselgrove & David J. Mattingly This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a detailed analysis and discussion. Theories of hoarding and deposition and examined, national and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found in archaeological excavations.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781785708558 • £65.00 • Hardback • 384 pages b/w & col illustrations

Roman and Medieval Exeter and their Hinterlands From Isca to Escanceaster: Exeter, A Place in Time Volume I Edited by Stephen Rippon & Neil Holbrook This first volume, presenting research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project, provides a synthesis of the development of Exeter within its local, regional, national and international hinterlands. Exeter began life in c. AD 55 as one of the most important legionary bases within early Roman Britain. Its development as a town was, however, relatively slow, reflecting the gradual pace at which the region as a whole adapted to being part of the Roman world. In the late 9th century, however, Exeter became a defended burh, and this was followed by the revival of urban life.

Oxbow Books • Feb 2021 • 9781789256154 • £35.00 • Hardback • 256 pages col illustrations

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Studies in the Roman and Medieval Archaeology of Exeter Exeter, A Place in Time Volume II Edited by Stephen Rippon and Neil Holbrook This second volume presents a series of specialist contributions that underpin the general overview published in the first volume. Chapters cover the excavations carried out within the city of Exeter between 1812 and 2019; the plan of the legionary fortress and the streets and buildings of the Roman town; reports on three medieval sites; and specialist reports on archaeometallurgical debris, dendrochronology, Roman pottery, Roman ceramic building material, Roman querns and millstones, Claudian coins, an overview of the Roman coins from Exeter and Devon, medieval pottery, and the human remains found in a series of medieval cemeteries.

Oxbow Books • Mar 2021 • 9781789256192 • £35.00 • Hardback • 256 pages col illustrations

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Britannia Romana Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain

By R. S. O. Tomlin Britannia Romana: Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain is based on the author’s 40 years’ experience of the epigraphy of Roman Britain. It collects 487 inscriptions so as to illustrate the history and character of Roman Britain (AD 43–410). Each inscription is presented in the original (in Latin, except for eight in Greek), followed by a translation and informal commentary; they are linked by the narrative which they illustrate, and more than half (236) are accompanied by photographs.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789255485 • £29.95 • Paperback • 464 pages

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Silchester Insula IX: The Claudio-Neronian Occupation of the Iron Age Oppidum The Early Roman Occupation at Silchester Insula IX

By Michael Fulford, Amanda Clarke, Emma Durham & Nicholas Pankhurst Occupation of Silchester (Calleva) after the Roman invasion of south-east Britain in A.D. 43 shows remarkable continuity from the pre-Roman Iron Age oppidum. Although there is clear evidence of investment in the town in the reign of Nero, the pre-existing settlement was not swept away until the Roman street grid was established c. A.D. 85. The contents of rubbish pits and wells give remarkable insights into the diet, occupations, identity and ritualistic behaviour of the inhabitants, while the richly varied provenances of the pottery and other finds reveal the local, regional and long-distance connections of the community.

Roman Society Publications • 2020 • 9780907764472 • £80.00 • Paperback 700 pages • b/w illustrations

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Isurium Brigantum An Archaeological Survey of Roman Aldborough

By Rose Ferraby & Martin Millett By the second century AD Isurium Brigantium had become a key Roman town engaged with the supply of the northern frontier, with buildings and mosaics that reveal a thriving economy through to the fourth century.

Bringing together the results of large-scale geophysical surveys of with a re-evaluation of earlier antiquarian study and more recent archaeological fieldwork and excavations, this volume provides exciting new information about its topography, and about its development and later landscape, together with a thorough review of the town in the broader context of Roman Britain and the western Empire.

Society of Antiquaries of London • 2020 • 9780854313013 • £35.00 • Hardback 208 pages • b/w illustrations

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Romans at War The Roman Military in the Republic and Empire

By Simon Elliott In this grand tour covering every aspect of the Roman military, Simon Elliott first provides a detailed background to the Roman Republic and Empire to provide context for all that follows. He then looks specifically at the Roman military in its three key chronological phases: the Republic, the Principate Empire and the Dominate Empire. Next he forensically examines specific examples of the Roman military on campaign and in battle, and of its engineering prowess. Finally, he examines the many enemies faced by the Roman Republic and Empire.

Casemate Publishers • 2020 • 9781612008851 • £29.95 • Hardback • 304 pages b/w & col illustrations

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Life in the Limes Studies of the people and objects of the Roman frontiers Edited by Frances McIntosh & Rob Collins The essays presented here encompass social and industrial aspects of northern frontier forts; new insights into inscribed and sculptural stones specific to military communities; religious, cultural and economic connotations of Roman armour finds; the economic and ideological penetration of romanitas in the frontiers as reflected by individual objects and classes of finds; evidence of trans-frontier interactions and invisible people; the role of John Clayton in the exploration and preservation of Hadrian’s Wall; the detailed consideration of individual objects of significant interest; and a discussion of the widespread occurrence of mice in Roman art.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253856 • £38.00 • Paperback • 264 pages b/w & col illus illustrations

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Imperial Legitimation The iconography of the Golden Age Myth on Roman Imperial coinage of the Third Century AD

By Graham Barker, Richard Abdy & Sam Moorhead This fascinating study of the iconography of the Golden Age Myth on Roman Imperial coinage of the Third Century AD, which started as a master’s dissertation, also includes all Roman coins that have the Saecular Games types, down to 300 AD. The first study of its kind, it also gives a reconstruction of the Games and appendices with texts from well-known classical authors.

Spink Books • 2020 • 9781912667475 • £30.00 • Hardback • 160 pages

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Building for Eternity The History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea

By C.J. Brandon, R.L. Hohlfelder, M.D. Jackson and J.P. Oleson This book explains how the Romans built so successfully in the sea with their new invention, maritime concrete. The story is a stimulating mix of archaeological, geological, historical and chemical research, with relevance to both ancient and modern technology. Mechanical, chemical and physical analysis of 36 concrete samples taken from 11 sites in Italy and the eastern Mediterranean have helped fill many gaps in our knowledge of how the Romans built in the sea.

Oxbow Books • Mar 2021 • 9781789256369 • £35.00 • Paperback • 368 pages b/w illustrations

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Silk Trade and Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity Edited by Berit Hildebrandt These papers bring together historical, philological and archaeological research from to highlight the use, circulation and meaning of silk as a commodity, gift, tribute, booty, and status symbol in varying cultural and chronological contexts between East and West, including technological aspects of silk production. Rome and China in antiquity provide the geographical and chronological frame for this volume, but earlier and later epochs and cultures are considered to build an intercultural and diachronic understanding of long-distance relations involving silk.

Oxbow Books • Nov 2020 • 9781789255515 • £29.95 • Paperback • 224 pages

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Continuity and Rupture in Roman Mediterranean Gaul An Archaeology of Colonial Transformations at Ancient Lattara

By Benjamin P. Luley With the decline in popularity of the term “Romanization” as a way of analysing the changes in the archaeological record visible throughout the conquered provinces of the Roman Empire, scholars have increasingly turned to the important concept of “identity”. This volume provides a detailed study of the ways in which the Celtic-speaking peoples of the ancient settlement of Lattara in Roman Mediterranean Gaul fashioned their lives under two centuries of Roman rule.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789255669 • £50.00 • Hardback • 256 pages b/w & col illustrations

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Hidden Power Late Cistophoric Production and the Organization of Provincia Asia (128–89 BC)

By Lucia Carbone Using the production and circulation patterns of the Asian cistophorus as a case study, Hidden Power seeks to develop a better understanding of Roman monetary policy in the province of Asia between its establishment in the 120s BC and the beginning of the Mithraditic Wars. It catalogues and illustrates some 1,737 cistophoric tetradrachms and fractions from the mints of Ephesus, Pergamum, Tralles, Laodicea, Apamea, Adramyteum, Nysa, and Smyrna. Most of the coins included in the study are late cistophori, issues between 134.3 BC and the 60s BC. American Numismatic Society • 2020 • 9780897223638 • £80.00 • Hardback 415 pages • b/w illustrations

Hinterlands and Inlands The Archaeology of West Cambridge and Roman Cambridge Revisited Edited by Christopher Evans & Gavin Lucas Spanning 25 years of fieldwork across a 3 sq. km swathe on the west side of Cambridge, this and its companion volume present the results of 15 sites, including seven cemeteries. The main focus here is on the area’s prehistoric ‘inland’ colonization (particularly its Middle Bronze Age horizon) and the dynamics of its Roman hinterland settlements. The latter involves a variety of farmsteads, a major roadside centre and a villa-estate complex. The book also includes a review of Roman Cambridge, appraising its status as a town.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research • 2020 • 9781902937892 • £45.00 Hardback • 350 pages

Building the Countryside Rural Architecture and Settlement in the Tripolitanian Countryside

By Nichole Sheldrick This volume brings together data collected from both previously published surveys and new data collected using satellite imagery on the architecture and construction of over 2,400 rural structures in nine different regions of Tripolitania and dating between the 1st c. BC and the 7th c. AD. The first part contextualises the material within its wider context. The second part presents quantitative and qualitative analyses of the physical characteristics of Roman military structures and unfortified and fortified farm buildings.

Society for Libyan Studies • 2020 • 9781900971775 • £40.00 • Paperback 250 pages • b/w illustrations

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Archaeology and the Early Church in Southern Greece

By Elizabeth Rees This important study examines the growth of Christianity in southern Greece from New Testament times until the medieval period, taking into account both contemporary theological expertise and a detailed knowledge of the numerous and exciting current archaeological excavations. The book examines evidence relating to Christianity in New Testament times, particularly through the writings of St Paul and early theologians, and juxtaposes these texts with recent and current excavations at Corinth, with its twin ports of Kenchreai and Lechaion, and its chief sanctuary beyond the city at Isthmia, where St Paul worked during the celebration of the pan-Hellenic Games. Later, particularly from the sixth century onwards, Christian basilicas were built throughout Greece. A number of these are examined, including those at Nemea and Epidaurus.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789255751 £55.00 • Paperback • 192 pages • b/w & col illustrations

City Walls in Late Antiquity An Empire-wide Perspective Edited by Emanuele Intagliata, Christopher Courault & Simon J. Barker The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300–600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. Research has highlighted chronological and regional variations, enabling scholars to rethink how and why urban circuits were built and functioned in Late Antiquity. However studies are often concerned with one single monument or a particular region, and the issues raised do not usually lead to a broader perspective, creating an artificial divide between east and west. It is this broader understanding that this book seeks to provide.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253641 £55.00 • Hardback • 200 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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A Globalised Visual Culture?

Towards a Geography of Late Antique Art Edited by Fabio Guidetti & Katharina Meinecke Late Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture. On the other hand, they are also spread in geographically distant regions. This volume aims at investigating the reasons behind this seemingly globalised visual culture spread across the Late Antique world, both within the borders of the (former) Roman and (later) Byzantine Empire and beyond, bringing together diverse approaches characteristic of different national and disciplinary traditions.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254464 • £50.00 • Hardback • 416 pages col illustrations

Butrint 7 Beyond Butrint: Kalivo, Çuka e Aitoit and their surroundings: Surveys and Excavations by the Italian Archaeological Mission, the Albanian Institute of Archaeology and the Butrint Foundation, 1928–2015 Edited by Richard Hodges & David R. Hernandez A collection of reports and essays pertaining to the Butrint Foundation project at Butrint, Albania. It includes unpublished archive reports discovered in Rome and Tirana, commentaries on their methodology and history, as well as several new fieldwork reports arising from research made or supported by the Butrint Foundation. Together with other volumes published in the series, it makes this Adriatic Sea port and its hinterland one of the most intensively published coastal littorals in the Mediterranean region, the so-called Corrupting Sea. Oxbow Books • Nov 2020 • 9781789254334 • £45.00 • Hardback • 224 pages b/w illustrations

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Towns and water supply in post-Roman Spain (AD 400–1000)

By Javier Martinez Jimenez Our current knowledge of Roman aqueducts across the Empire is patchy and uneven. One of the aspects which has been generally left aside is the chronology of their late antique phases and of their abandonment. This publication tackles this issue by analysing and reassessing the available evidence for the late phases of the Hispanic aqueducts by looking at a wide range of sources of information, many times derived from the recent interest shown by archaeologists and researchers on late antique urbanism.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463239152 • £95.00 • Hardback • 300 pages

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Wadi Qitna and Kalabsha-South Late Roman-Early Byzantine Tumuli Cemeteries in Egyptian Nubia, Vol. II. Anthropology

By Eugen Strouhal, Hans Barnard, Lenka Varadzinova & Petra Havelkova The present publication follows volume I from 1984 and presents the results of a comprehensive archaeological investigation of two tumulus cemeteries of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Period. This volume evaluates the human skeletal remains of 558 individuals from the cemetery at Wadi Qitna and 35 individuals from the cemetery at Kalabsha-South. The volume touches upon the complex of social and ethnic processes taking place in the region between Egypt and Nubia.

Czech Institute of Egyptology • 2020 • 9788073089719 • £76.00 • Hardback 360 pages • b/w illustrations

Revelations of Byzantium The Monasteries and Painted Churches of Northern Moldavia

By Alan Ogden, Octavian Ion Penda & Kurt W. Treptow This full-color album is written and photographed by Alan Ogden. The author provides a comprehensive introduction discussing the art and architecture of the monasteries and painted churches of Northern Moldavia.

Each church is then presented separately in words and pictures to reveal its own unique history and artistic beauty. Also included is an introduction to the history of Moldavia and Romanian lands during the Middle Ages

by Kurt W. Treptow, a noted specialist on Romanian history, and original illustrations by renowned artist, Octavian Ion Penda.

Center for Romanian Studies • 2020 • 9789739432320 • £54.99 • Hardback 288 pages • b/w illustrations

Codex Zacynthius: Catena, Palimpsest, Lectionary Edited by H.A.G. Houghton & D.C. Parker This book consists of a series of studies of Codex Zacynthius (Cambridge, University Library MS Add. 10062), the earliest surviving New Testament commentary manuscript in catena format. A research project has produced new multispectral images of the palimpsest undertext to enable a thorough investigation of the manuscript and the creation of a complete electronic edition. This volume, co-authored by the members of the project, provides a full account of the research undertaken by the project.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463241070 • £116.00 • Hardback • 335 pages

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Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Jacob’s Revelation at Bethel and on our Lord and Jacob, on the Church and Rachel and on Leah and the Synagogue Edited by Mary Hansbury & Dana Miller Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. This volume contains two of his homilies on Jacob. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical references. The volume is one of the fascicles of Gorgias Press’s Complete Homilies of Saint Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain all of Jacob’s surviving sermons.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463241896 • £31.00 • Paperback • 100 pages

Historiography and Hierotopy Palestinian Hagiography in the Sixth Century A.D.

By Rod Stearn Judean hagiographies are unusual. Some are unexpectedly structured: a saint’s life in the form of a history text. Others offer surprising content.

The monasteries that produced these texts were utterly dominated by the environment of Christian Jerusalem. Although often commented upon, the unmined implications of this reality hold the key to understanding these hagiographies. It is only by examining these monasteries’ ties to – and embeddedness within – their peculiar context that we can perceive the mindset that produced such baffling texts.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463239817 • £95.00 • Hardback • 250 pages

Singer of the Word of God Ephrem the Syrian and his Significance in Late Antiquity

By Sebastian Brock This book collects Sebastian P. Brock’s articles related to Ephrem the Syrian.

The articles cover a wide array of topics, including a biographical overview of the saint, an exposition of St. Ephrem’s importance for Christianity today and his relevance as a theologian, an analysis of some of his works, and a bibliographic guide to editions of these works. While most of the articles were previously published, many are updated and some are published in English for the first time.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463239220 • £138.00 • Hardback • 388 pages

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Ambrose of Milan’s On the Holy Spirit Edited by Andrew Selby Despite being the first extended defense of the divinity of the Holy Spirit written in Latin and influencing the Trinitarian theology of Augustine of Hippo, Ambrose of Milan’s On the Holy Spirit (De Spiritu Sancto) has received little scholarly attention. This book seeks to change this perspective by claiming that Ambrose defines the Holy Spirit in a way consistent with proNicene theology using classical Ciceronian rhetoric to interpret Scripture in a quasi-judicial situation.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463240745 • £131.00 • Hardback • 500 pages

The Interpretations of the Theotokias by the Patriarch John ibn Qiddis

By Youhanna Youssef The theotokias are prayers dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God (Theotokos). In the early fourteenth century, the Patriarch of the Coptic Church, Ibn Qiddis, composed and paraphrased – in Coptic – the Theotokias. His work has only survived in a single manuscript. This book introduces the author, John Ibn Qiddis, his liturgical, pastoral, and literary activities, and the Coptic language of his time, followed by the texts and an English translation.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463239480 • £112.00 • Hardback • 174 pages

Jewish Cultural Elements in the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwah. do Church e

By Afework Hailu This monograph traces how ‘Jewish’ elements were introduced into and disseminated throughout the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church through a series of multi-layered, socio-politico-cultural processes. Drawing on historical and literary evidence, Afework tracks the incorporation of Jewish features into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church from pre-Aksumite Christianity, before the fourth century, through the sixteenth century.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463207175 • £98.00 • Hardback • 369 pages

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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam

By Patricia Crone Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam: the supposition that Mecca was a trading center. In addition, she seeks to elucidate sources on which we should reconstruct our picture of the birth of the new religion in Arabia.

Gorgias Press • 1987, reprint 2020 • 9781463241728 • £59.00 • Paperback 309 pages

Islamic Origins, Arabian Custom, and the Documents of the Prophet

By Sarah Z. Mirza Along with the Quran and ḥadīth, pragmatic documents negotiating land, taxes, and tribal relations are attributed to the Prophet Muhammad (~570632 CE) in early Islamic historiography. These are often viewed as relics reflecting the Prophet’s religio-political mission, or as anachronistic texts spuriously ascribed to him. Challenging both conclusions, this book argues that an indigenous Arabian legal and documentary tradition, distinct from classical Islamic law, can be traced in these documents.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463206444 • £140.00 • Hardback • 300 pages

An Early Christian Reaction to Islam Išū‘yahb III and the Muslim Arabs

By Iskandar Bcheiry The year 652 marked a fundamental political change in the Middle East and the surrounding region. An important and contemporary source of the state of the Christian Church at this time is to be found in the correspondence of the patriarch of the Church of the East, Išū‘yahb III (649–659), which he wrote between 628 and 658. This books discusses Išū‘yahb’s view of and attitudes toward the Muslim Arabs.

Gorgias Press • 2020 • 9781463240981 • £111.00 • Hardback • 205 pages

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Fad.ā’il-i Balkh, or The Merits of Balkh Annotated Translation with Commentary and Introduction of the Oldest Surviving History of Balkh in Afghanistan

By Arezou Azad, Edmund Herzig & Ali Mir-Ansari This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Fada’il-i Balkh (The Merits of Balkh), which was completed in 610 Hijri (1214 CE) in Arabic by Shaykh al-Islam Abu Bakr ‘Abd Allah al-Wa’izẓ and translated into Persian by ‘Abd Allah al-Husayni in 676 Hijri (1278 CE).

The detailed commentary and introduction to this new publication gives remarkable and fascinating insights into the self-perception of one erudite man of Balkh who has left us a social history of the medieval Islamic East.

Gibb Memorial Trust • 2020 • 9781913604004 • £110.00 • Hardback • 462 pages b/w illustrations

Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts

By Robert Hillenbrand These studies, written over a period of almost thirty years, and taken from a wide variety of published sources, deal with aspects of the decorative arts from Spain to India and from the 7th to the 17th century. They focus in turn upon ceramics and metalwork; on coins, carpets and calligraphy; and on carving in wood and ivory. The volume offers not only a general introduction to some of the problems posed by Islamic art, but also readings of key objects in an attempt to explore their meaning.

Pindar Press • 2020 • 9781904597506 • £150.00 • Hardback • 574 pages b/w & col illustrations

Iranian Copper, Brass and Bronze Of the Late 14th to the Mid-18th Centuries in the Collection of the State Hermitage Museum

By Anatoli Ivanov The Hermitage Collection, which numbers 162 pieces is the largest collection in the world of later Iranian Islamic metalwork, from the West of Iran as far as the Punjab. The great majority of these are household utensils, and their manufacture is characteristic of the middling levels of urban societies.

As well as minutely detailed descriptions of each piece and analyses of their decoration, Ivanov presents a detailed critical survey of the limited documentary evidence afforded by the inscriptions many pieces bear.

Azimuth Editions • 2020 • 9781898592372 • £29.00 • Hardback • 412 pages col illustrations

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Pecsaetna People of the Anglo-Saxon Peak District

By Phil Sidebottom This book is intended to pull together our current knowledge of the ‘lost’ group of people called the Pecsaetna (literally, meaning the ‘Peak Sitters’) by synthesising more recent historical and archaeological research towards a better understanding of their activities, territory and identity. Since the mid-20th century, valuable work has been done to identify former Anglo-Saxon estates in the Peak. In addition, some have also attempted reconstructions of geographical territories from the Tribal Hidage, the document which first mentions the Pecsaetna. To this historical analysis can be added further archaeological evidence which ranges from Anglo-Saxon barrow investigation in the limestone Peak District, to studies into the geographical distributions of free-standing stone monuments of the AngloSaxon and Anglo-Scandinavian periods. It is this latter work that has prompted the writer to attempt this study.

Windgather Press • 2020 • 9781911188681 £29.99 • Paperback • 144 pages b/w illustrations

Peopling Insular Art Practice, Performance, Perception Edited by Cynthia Thickpenny, Katherine Forsyth, Jane Geddes & Kate Matthis The theme of IIAC8 – Peopling Insular Art: Practice, Performance, Perception – was intended to focus attention on those who commissioned, created, and engaged with Insular art objects, and how they conceptualised, fashioned, and experienced them (with ‘engagement’ covering not only contemporary audiences, but later medieval and modern ones too). The twenty-one articles gathered here reflect the diverse ways in which this theme has been interpreted. They focus not only on made objects, but on the creative processes and intellectual decisions which informed their making. This volume brings Insular makers – the illuminators, pattern-makers, rubricators, carvers, and casters – to the fore.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254549 £38.00 • Paperback • 248 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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Re-imagining Periphery Archaeology and Text in Northern Europe from Iron Age to Viking and Early Medieval Periods Edited by Charlotta Hillerdal & Kristin Ilves This edited volume delves into the current state of Iron Age and Early Medieval research in the North, explored under the subheadings of field and methodology, settlement and spatiality, text and translation, and interaction and impact.

Gathering the work of leading, established researchers and field archaeologists based throughout northern Europe, the volume provides a collective summary of our current understandings of the Iron Age and Early Medieval Era in the North. It also facilitates a renewed interaction between academia and the ever-growing field of infrastructural archaeology, by integrating cutting edge fieldwork and developing field methods.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254501 £40.00 • Hardback • 200 pages

Viking Encounters Proceedings of the 18th Viking Congress Edited by Anne Pedersen & Søren M Sindbæk The investigation of social networks and cultural encounters has formed an active focus of Viking Studies in recent years, from the mapping of geographical interaction attested by the archaeological and scientific evidence to the analysis of social relations in written records and literature. Meanwhile, the memory and heritage of the Viking Age has been a matter of profound fascination for later generations, from medieval historians and saga writers to contemporary novelists, artists and popular media. These themes are explored and linked in this major volume, which presents the proceedings from the 18th Viking Congress, held in Denmark in 2017.

Aarhus University Press • Nov 2020 9788771842654 • £50.00 • Hardback 580 pages • b/w illustrations Forthcoming

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Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, c. 800–1100 Edited by Letty ten Harkel & D. M. Hadley The thirteen chapters in this book bring together the current state of knowledge about Viking-Age towns (c. 800–1100) from both sides of the Irish Sea, focusing on everyday life in and around these emerging settlements.

Although historical sources are addressed, the emphasis of the volume is overwhelmingly archaeological, paying homage to the wealth of new material that has become available since the advent of urban archaeology in the 1960s.

Oxbow Books • Dec 2020 • 9781789255461 • £29.95 • Paperback • 272 pages

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The Correspondence of Thomas Stephens Revolutionising Welsh Scholarship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Through Knowledge Exchange

By Adam Coward Thomas Stephens was one of the most significant and controversial nineteenth-century Welsh scholars. His Literature of the Kymry (1849) was the first work to apply modern critical scholarship to medieval Welsh literature. Throughout his career, he was an outspoken critic of unscrupulous interpretations of the Welsh and Celtic past. His correspondence shows the complex networks of knowledge exchange which stretched across the nineteenth-century scholarly world and, within those networks, the development of modern Welsh and Celtic studies.

Celtic Studies Publications • 2020 • 9781891271304 • £19.95 • Paperback 272 pages

Iconic Costumes Scandinavian Late Iron Age Costume Iconography

By Ulla Mannering This richly illustrated book presents a selection of the rich and varied iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 4001050) depicting clothed human figures, from an archaeological textile and clothing perspective. The source material consists of five object categories: gold foils, gold bracteates, helmet plaques, jewellery, and textile. The book contributes with new information on social, regional and chronological differences in clothing traditions from ca. AD 400 to the Viking Age.

Oxbow Books • Nov 2020 • 9781789255478 • £27.50 • Paperback • 288 pages

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The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3 The Brough of Birsay, Orkney: Investigations 1954–2014

By Christopher D. Morris & Rachel Barrowman The Brough of Birsay was the power-centre of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014. Specialist artefactual and palaeobiological studies of metallurgical material, ogham inscriptions and a gilt-bronze mount of Insular origin are included, together with re-analysis of the radiocarbon dates from all sites in Birsay Bay, and a re-assessment of the architecture and dating of the church and related buildings on the Brough itself. The final two chapters put the Brough in the overall context of Birsay Bay and Viking and late Norse Orkney.

Oxbow Books • Jan 2021 • 9781789256079 £60.00 • Hardback • 688 pages col illustrations

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The Economy of a Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides Excavations at Mounds 2 and 2A Bornais, South Uist

By Niall Sharples This book explores the economic evidence for the settlement at Bornais on South Uist. It reports in detail on the large assemblages of material found during the excavations at mounds 2 and 2A. There is important evidence for craft activity, such as bone and antler working and this includes the only comb making workshop from a rural settlement in Britain. A large proportion of the copper alloy, bone and antler assemblages comprise pieces of personal adornment, while a large assemblage of iron tools and fittings, provides important information on the activities taking place at the settlement. The information derived from the artefact assemblages is complemented by that provided by the ecofactual material, which provides detailed information on agricultural practices, and the processing, preparation and consumption of foodstuffs.

Oxbow Books • Nov 2020 9781789255386 • £35.00 • Hardback 608 pages • b/w and col illustrations

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Vlad III Dracula The Life and Times of the Historical Dracula

By Kurt Treptow & Octavian Penda This book, widely regarded as the authoritative biography of the historical Dracula, presents the life and times of this remarkable personality of medieval Europe. Despite his short reign, Vlad created a name for himself both in the history of his own country and in world history. A portrait of the historical Dracula emerges, providing the reader with a better understanding of this enigmatic figure of medieval history and the times in which he lived. The author also discusses the development of the Dracula myth.

Center for Romanian Studies • 2020 • 9781592110285 • £27.99 • Hardback 296 pages • b/w illustrations

Lucrezia Borgia Daughter of Pope Alexander VI

By Ferdinand Gregorovius Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821-1891) was one of the preeminent scholars of the Italian Renaissance. His biography of Lucrezia Borgia reveals the atmosphere of the Renaissance, painting a portrait of Lucrezia and her relationships with her father Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, her brother Cesare, her mother Vanozza, her father’s mistress, Giulia Farnese, her husband Duke Alfonso D’Este of Ferrara, and many others, including important artists and writers of the time. This new edition of Gregorovius’s classic work is enhanced with an introduction by Samantha Morris.

Vita Histria • 2020 • 9781592110391 • £39.99 • Hardback • 272 pages

The Art of Medieval Warfare Edited by Peter Konieczny The 2020 special edition of Medieval Warfare is a compilation of covers, battle scenes and unit reconstructions from the first fifty issues of the magazine. Compiled and edited by Peter Konieczny, with contributions from the rest of the Medieval Warfare staff, this 100-page full-colour book features artwork by favourite illustrators such as Jose CabreraPena, Darren Tan, Rocio Espin, and Zvonimir Grbasic to name but a few.

Also included are articles by the staff with insight into our philosophy for commissioning artwork, and a “behind-the-scenes” look at how illustrations are produced.

Karwansaray Publishers • 2020 • 9789490258214 • £16.00 • Paperback 100 pages

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Medieval Military Combat Battle Tactics and Fighting Techniques of the Wars of the Roses

By Tom Lewis How did medieval soldiers in the War of the Roses, and in the infantry sections of battles such as Agincourt and Towton, carry out their grim work? Medieval Military Combat explores the techniques of such battles. It suggests that medieval battle numbers may be highly exaggerated, and that we need to look again at the accounts of actions such as the famous Battle of Towton, which this work uses as a basic for its overall study.

Casemate Publishers • 2020 • 9781612008875 • £25.00 • Hardback • 256 pages b/w illustrations

The Burke Collection of Italian Miniatures Edited by Sandra Hidman, Federica Toniolo & Christopher de Hamel The magnificent Burke Collection of Italian miniatures, which is housed in Special Collections in the the Stanford University Libraries, has been built over more than twenty years and includes manuscript leaves, cuttings, and codices by many of the greatest Italian artists of the medieval and Renaissance periods. Works in the collection range in date from the 12th through the 16th centuries, and in them we see masterfully painted initials, borders, and miniatures that enhance our appreciation of the great skill that John Ruskin called “writing made beautiful.”

Ad Ilissum • 2020 • 9781912168200 • £80.00 • Hardback • 340 pages b/w illustrations

14th Century Colour Palettes – Volumes 1 & 2 Edited by Patricia Railing From Italy to France to Flanders, the arts of painting in the 14th century were practised in manuscript illumination, on panel, and in fresco. Recipes for pigments appropriate to all these arts are included in this collection.

“Experiments upon Colours” were dictated by painters to a Frenchman, Jehan Alcherius, while the Italian artist, Cennino Cennini, was especially attentive to the practice and the pigments to be used in fresco painting in The Book of Art / Il Libro dell’ Arte, of c. 1390.

Artists Bookworks • 2020 • 9780946311293 • £25.00 • Paperback • 234 pages b/w & col illustrations

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Gothic Spirit Medieval Art from Europe

By Jada Gajdošová & Matthew Reeves This publication brings together 27 works of art made across western Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries, a period spanning the Middle Ages and Renaissance. They represent some of the finest examples of sculpture, metalwork, painting and stained glass still in private hands, and together offer a startling insight into the period’s rich artistic achievements.

Sam Fogg • 2020 • 9780955339387 • £25.00 • Paperback • 124 pages col illustrations

Saving the Light at Chartres How the Great Cathedral Was Protected during World War II

By Victor Pollak Chartres Cathedral survived World War II thanks to the efforts of the French Resistance and a single American soldier. The grand cathedral’s stained glass was first protected, in 1939 and 1940, by the French Resistance. Four years later, Col. Wellborn Griffith stepped up. His superiors decided the cathedral was expendable, since German snipers were presumed to be in its spires, but he personally inspected the cathedral and cleared it – and later that day was killed while patrolling the town.

Stackpole Books • 2020 • 9780811739016 • £19.95 • Hardback • 384 pages b/w illustrations

Fortresses of Faith A Pictorial History of the Fortified Churches of Romania

By Alan Ogden For nearly a thousand years, the Saxon settlers from the Rhine valley played a vital role in the history of Transylvania.

Fortresses of Faith focuses on their magnificent architectural legacy – the fortress-churches or kirchenburgen of the Seibenburgen. After a comprehensive introduction covering history, architecture, and decor, the author takes us on an enthralling photographic tour, helpfully arranged for travelers into the areas surrounding Sibiu, Medias‚ , Sighis‚ oara, and Bras‚ ov.

Center for Romanian Studies • 2000 • 9789739432085 • £49.99 • Hardback 134 pages

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The Reredos of All Souls College Oxford Edited by Peregrine Horden The reredos of the fifteenth-century chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, with its combination of medieval niches and statuary by George Gilbert Scott, has remained one of the unsung glories of both medieval perpendicular architecture and Victorian restoration. Informed by recent scientific investigation of its stonework and its surviving medieval polychromy, this volume traces for the first time the entire history of the reredos in its architectural and religious context.

Ad Ilissum • 2020 • 9781912168224 • £80.00 • Paperback • 256 pages col illustrations

I like my choyse: Posy Rings from The Griffin Collection

By Diana Scarisbrick This catalogue, focusing on about 150 rings in the Griffin Collection, is concerned with perhaps the most personal rings of all, those associated with love and marriage. The majority are gold bands, sometimes plain and occasionally decorated, that are inscribed with mottoes in English expressing the admiration, affection, and pledges of fidelity which bind humankind together. Known as posies or little poems because they often rhyme, these mottoes were current on rings from the late Middle Ages until the middle of the 19th century.

Ad Ilissum • 2020 • 9781912168217 • £45.00 • Hardback • 340 pages col illustrations

Bridging the Past: Life in Medieval and PostMedieval Southwark Excavations along the route of ThameslinkBorough Viaduct and at London Bridge Station

By Amelia Fairman, Steven Teague & Jonathan Butler Excavations for the Thameslink project at Borough Viaduct and London Bridge Station have provided important new insights into the development of Southwark from the Saxon period up to the 19th century. The landscape of islands and waterways that characterised Roman Southwark was transformed through the 1st and 2nd millennia AD, as new areas were reclaimed for settlement. Substantial assemblages of artefacts and environmental remains were retrieved, revealing differences in living standards between wealthier and poorer households.

Oxford Archaeology • 2020 • 9780995663633 • £35.00 • Hardback • 722 pages b/w illustrations

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British Historic Towns Atlas Volume VII, Oxford Edited by Alan Crossley The latest volume of the British Historic Towns Atlas covers the internationally-renowned city of Oxford. Famed for its university and its many outstanding historic buildings, the volume presents in mapped form the history of its topographical development.

From its prehistoric setting, through its contentious Anglo-Saxon foundation, the medieval establishment of its university, and its sporadic growth after that, the atlas charts how it became a nineteenth-century city dominated by colleges, churches, university buildings, and its associated publishing industry.

The atlas is presented as a large-format portfolio containing a series of maps showing the city at key points in its history, many illustrations of its buildings and streets, maps to show its setting, and reproduction early maps of the city.

Oxbow Books • Feb 2021 • 9781789253269 £70.00 • Hardback • 144 pages • b/w & col illus including 16 large folded maps

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The Berkeley Tales Archaeological narratives from the Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire Edited by Mark Horton, Stuart J. Prior & Konstantinos P. Trimmis The ‘Berkeley Tales’ volume presents the outcomes of 15 years of excavations and landscape research at the Berkeley Castle estate in south Gloucestershire. The project aimed to build up a detailed picture of the history and archaeology of the castle and the associated settlement of Berkeley. The current focus of the volume can best be described as ‘Minster, Manor and Town’.

By combining the results of detailed archaeological fieldwork with information contained in the castle’s impressive collection of 20,000 historical documents, the project adds greatly to the knowledge and understanding of the early medieval period and the subsequent changes in landscape and society that occurred with the coming of the Normans and the erection of a castle on the former minster site.

Oxbow Books • Jan 2021 • 9781789255799 £50.00 • Paperback • 192 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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The Wandering Herd The Medieval Cattle Economy of South-East England c.450–1450

By Andrew Margetts This book represents a deep, multi-disciplinary study of the cattle economy over the longue durée of the Middle Ages, especially its importance within the evolution of medieval society, settlement and landscape. It explores the nature and presence of vaccaries, a high status form of specialised cattle ranch. They produced beef stock, milk and cheese and the draught oxen necessary for medieval agriculture. Whilst they are most often associated with wild northern uplands they also existed in lowland landscapes and areas of Forest and Chase. Nationally, medieval cattle have been one of the most important and neglected aspects of the agriculture of the medieval period. As part of both a mixed and specialised farming economy they have helped shaped the countryside we know today.

Windgather Press • Mar 2021 9781911188797 • £34.99 • Paperback 320 pages • b/w & col illustrations

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Medieval Rural Settlement Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600

By Neil Christie & Paul Stamper A major assessment and review of the origins, forms and evolutions of medieval rural settlement in Britain and Ireland across the period c. AD 800–1600. It offers a comprehensive analysis of early to late medieval settlement, land use, economics and population, bringing together evidence drawn from archaeological excavations and surveys, historical geographical analysis and documentary and place-name study. Part I comprises a set of papers exploring the history of medieval rural settlement research in Britain and Ireland, the evolving methodologies, the roots of the medieval landscape and the place of power in these settlements and landscapes.

Part II presents an extensive series of regional and national reviews detailing contexts, histories of study, forms, evolutions and future research needs.

Windgather Press • Dec 2020 9781911188674 • £25.00 • Paperback 304 pages • b/w illustrations

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Before the Mast Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose Edited by Julie Gardiner Before the Mast explores how the men of the Mary Rose lived, through their surviving possessions; how they were fed; their music and recreation, medicine and provision for illness and injury, as well as working practices: carpentry and maintenance, stowage, navigation and ship’s communications. The personal possessions of the crew included religious items, books, fishing lines and weights, sewing kits, money, hair combs, jewellery, knives, musical instruments and many items of clothing.

Oxbow Books • Jan 2021 • 9781789256352 • £39.95 • Paperback • 760 pages

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The Dyer’s Handbook Memoirs of an 18th Century Master Colourist

By Dominique Cardon The Dyer’s Handbook concerns a unique manuscript from the eighteenth century; a dyer’s memoirs from Languedoc, containing recipes for dyes with corresponding colour samples. It is an exceptional document, hugely rare and of great significance not only to textile historians but dyers and colourists today, as thanks to the information in the manuscript the colours can be reproduced exactly, with the same ingredients, or reproduced using modern techniques by matching the colour samples.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789255492 • £29.95 • Paperback • 160 pages

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Osteoarchaeology in Historical Context Cemetery Research from the Low Countries Edited by Roos van Oosten, Rachel Schats & Kerry Fast Osteoarchaeology in Historical Context contributes to the dissemination of cemetery research in the Low Countries. Several important skeletal collections are examined in their historical contexts to better understand past living and dying. Osteoarchaeological data is combined with information on burial location, orientation, and grave goods. In doing so, this volume expands our knowledge of contextual cemetery research in the Low Countries and serves as a starting point for comparative research.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908330 • £35.00 • Paperback • 206 pages b/w & col illustrations

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And So the Tomb Remained Exploring Archaeology and Forensic Science within Connecticut’s Historical Family Mausolea

By Nick Bellantoni Stone and brick tombs were repositories for the physical remains of many of Connecticut’s wealthiest and influential families. This volume tells the stories of the Connecticut State Archaeologist’s investigations into five 18th/19th century family tombs. Since historic tombs were occupied by social and economic elites, forensic studies provide an opportunity to investigate the health and life stress pathologies of the wealthiest citizens in Connecticut’s historic past, while offering comparisons to the wellbeing of lower socioeconomic populations.

Oxbow Books • Nov 2020 • 9781789255027 • £30.00 • Paperback • 192 pages b/w & col illustrations

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A Mighty Capital Under Threat The Environmental History of London, 1800–2000 Edited by Bill Luckin & Peter Thorsheim Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere. A Mighty Capital under Threat investigates the environmental history of one of the world’s global cities and the largest city in the United Kingdom. Contributors cover the feeding of London, waste management, movement between the city’s numerous districts, and the making and shaping of the environmental sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 2020 • 9780822946106 • £40.00 • Hardback 480 pages

Boonesborough Unearthed Frontier Archaeology at a Revolutionary Fort

By Nancy O’Malley Throughout the Revolutionary War, Fort Boonesborough was one of the most important and defensively crucial sites on the western frontier. It served not only as a stronghold against the British but also as a sanctuary, land office, and a potential seat of government. This groundbreaking book presents new information and fresh insights about Fort Boonesborough and life in frontier Kentucky. O’Malley also delves into the lives of the settlers who lived there, and explores the Transylvania Company’s dashed hopes of forming a fourteenth colony at the fort.

University Press of Kentucky • 2020 • 9780813177618 • £21.50 • Paperback 214 pages

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English Silver Coinage (New Edition)

By Maurice Bull This new 7th edition offers an update to Maurice Bull’s previous volume, with new varieties, corrections and current prices.

The arrangement is again done by monarch rather than denomination, and all Bull reference numbers are crossreferenced to the 5th edition. The section on Provenances lists the instances of illustrations of coins and where they have appeared, potentially proving the existence of many rare examples or those only rumoured to exist. Rarity of the coins has again been looked at in light of current evidence. English Silver Coinage is a record of the major and many minor recognised types and die-varieties of English silver coins. This indispensible guide is truly the essential handbook for any collector of English silver coinage.

Spink Books • Nov 2020 • 9781912667499 £45.00 • Hardback • 672 pages

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English Gold Coinage

By Maurice Bull This brand new comprehensive guide – the first of its kind on English gold coinage – covers every type of English gold coin and includes many new varieties, along with current prices.

The arrangement is by monarch, with accompanying Bull reference numbers cross-referenced to the Standard Catalogue of British Coins. The section on Provenances lists the instances of illustrations of coins and where they have appeared, potentially proving the existence of many rare examples or those only rumoured to exist. Rarity of the coins has also been looked at in light of current evidence. English Gold Coinage is a record of the major and many minor recognised types and die-varieties of English gold coins. This indispensible guide is truly the essential handbook for any collector of English gold coinage.

Spink Books • Nov 2020 • 9781912667505 £50.00 • Hardback • 672 pages

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The Coins of Scotland, Ireland & the Islands 4th edition Edited by Emma Howard The fourth edition of this standard reference catalogue has been fully updated, with a revised section on the Anglo-Gallic coinage – namely those coins struck in France by the kings and princes of England between 1154 and 1453 – with new information and current prices throughout. It is the essential guide for any collector in this fascinating area of British coinage.

Spink Books • 2020 • 9781912667482 • £45.00 • Hardback • 304 pages

Coins of England 2021 Pre-Decimal Edited by Emma Howard This historic reference work for British coins is still the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the Decimal coinage of Queen Elizabeth II, arranged in chronological order and divided into metals under each reign, then into coinages, denominations and varieties. The catalogue includes up-to-date values for every coin, a beginner’s guide to coin collecting, numismatic terms explained and historical information about each British coin, from our earliest (Celtic) coins, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Norman coins, the coins of the Plantagenet Kings, the Houses of Lancaster and York, the Tudors and Stuarts, to the more modern Milled coinage, minted for the first time in 1561 during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Spink Books • Nov 2020 • 9781912667512 • £30.00 • Hardback • 576 pages

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Coins of England 2021 Decimal Edited by Emma Howard The Coins of England and the United Kingdom Pre-Decimal and Decimal volumes together comprise the Standard Catalogue of British Coins, with the pre-decimal issues under Elizabeth II (and all previous coinage) listed in a separate volume. This volume of Decimal issues under Elizabeth II gives a comprehensive overview of all individual coins and sets issued by the Royal Mint since 1971 (and in circulation since 1968), offering an authoritative catalogue of modern British coins.

Spink Books • Nov 2020 • 9781912667529 • £9.99 • Paperback • 336 pages

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The Metal in Britain’s Coins

By Graham Birch The origin of the metals in Britain’s coins is seldom discussed by numismatists, but this fascinating book shows what a compelling topic it can be. Graham Birch’s starting point is to de-code the provenance marks on coins and understand the motives behind their use and the messages they convey – mostly about power and money. Global traders such as the Royal African Company and the South Sea Company brought bullion from all corners of the world, while logos and privy marks allow us to connect with the mines and the characterful people involved.

Spink Books • 2020 • 9781912667437 • £40.00 • Hardback • 248 pages

The Distinguished Service Medal The First 25 Years

By Simon Eyre The Distinguished Service Medal was the main gallantry medal given to naval ratings during the First World War, with over 4,000 medals being awarded.

For the first time this book documents all the surviving recommendations for these awards as well as providing analysis of the campaigns for which the awards were made. The posthumous recommendations for the medal and also details of the other awards made to DSM recipients are included to provide a definitive history of the medal during the First World War and the Interwar period.

Spink Books • 2020 • 9781912667420 • £60.00 • Hardback • 896 pages

Old Regime France and its Jetons Pointillist History and Numismatics

By James McClellan Non-monetary tokens known as jetons originated as counters used on medieval counting tables. The historical and numismatic interest in jetons stems more from what else they became, particularly under the Bourbon monarchs, as perks of office for office holders, New Year’s Day presents, and lagniappe handed out for attendance at meetings in town halls, regional estates, and learned societies. In this book jetons serve as microdots in a pointillist, longue durée account that paints a grand portrait of early modern and Old Regime France leading up to the French Revolution.

American Numismatic Society • 2020 • 9780897223621 • £82.00 • Hardback 281 pages

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Thorvaldsen’s Plaster Casts from the Antique and 1400–1800 The Roman Plaster Cast Market 1750–1840

By Jan Zahle, Ole Haupt, Hans Effenberger & Thomas Christiansen The Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) was recognized in all of Europe as one of the leading artists of the time. He lived in Rome from 1797-1838, where he built a comprehensive collection of plaster casts, mainly after antique sculpture. Jan Zahle, presents a complete mapping and reevaluation of this cast collection.

Aarhus University Press • 2020 • 9788771843590 • £84.00 • Hardback • 652 pages color illustrations

Peter Brandes Meridian of Art

By Ettore Rocca Peter Brandes’ oeuvre is gigantic. It spans more than fifty years, and includes such varied forms of artistic expression as painting, sculpture, drawing, graphic art, ceramics, and not least photography and stained glass. Dialogue with tradition runs throughout his work, marking Brandes as one of Denmark’s foremost practitioners of cultural migration.

Aarhus University Press • 2020 • 9788772190815 • £42.00 • Hardback • 260 pages

The Nature of Dreams England and the Formation of Art Nouveau

By Paul Greenhalgh Published to accompany a major new exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre, this book examines role of nature in Art Noveau. The common theme of translating plants into patterns is explored as a defining feature of the modern style.

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts • 2020 • 9781916133617 • £30.00 • Paperback 152 pages

Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo and the Allegory of Patience

By Carlo Falcioni This book recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasari’s painting Allegory of Patience, painted in 1551–52 for the Bishop of Arezzo, Vasari’s hometown. Vasari consulted his contemporaries and fellow humanists as well as the great sculptor Michelangelo when deciding what form it should take.

Paul Holberton Publishing • 2020 • 9781911300823 • £18.99 • Hardback • 96 pages 30 illustrations

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A Taste for Green

Death and Changing Rituals

Examines the appeal, acquisition, exchange and cultural significance of artefacts made from distinctive green rocks widely circulated throughout prehistoric Europe and the Americas.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252743 £45.00 • Hardback • 192 pages b/w & col illus

Based on a wide range of case studies, key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253818 £35.00 • Paperback • 480 pages b/w & col illus illustrations

Making One’s Way in the World

The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age

Edited by Kurt J Gron, Lasse Sorensen & Peter Rowley-Conwy

New Research focused on the cultural significance of the ‘Arras Culture’ of the East Yorkshire Iron Age including analysis of newly found chariot burials.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252583 £38.00 • Paperback • 216 pages b/w & col illus

Presents various perspectives regarding earliest farming among archaeological cultures and geographic locations across Europe, addressing the question: What was the earliest farming really like?

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789251401 £45.00 • Hardback • 464 pages b/w & col illus

Edited by Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán, Ben A. Nelson & Ramón Fábregas Valcarce

By Martin Bell

Explores landscape archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies, ethnohistory and animal tracking to address the topic of how we identify and interpret patterns of movement in prehistory.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254020 £50.00 • Hardback • 320 pages

Wild Things 2

Edited by James Walker & David Clinnick Twelve papers on advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology looking at case studies in Europe, North America and Asia.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781785709463 £38.00 • Paperback • 208 pages

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

Edited by Peter Halkon

Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia

Edited by Chris Scarre & Luiz Oosterbeek Re-assessment of the chronology, landscape setting and social context of Neolithic megalithic tombs in Iberia based on recent excavation of Lajinha and Cabeço dos Pendentes.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781785709807 £45.00 • Hardback • 256 pages b/w illus

Debasement

Edited by Kevin Butcher This interdisciplinary volume brings together monetary historians of different periods and archaeometallurgists to explore the debasement of coinage throughout history.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253986 £50.00 • Hardback • 240 pages b/w & col illus

Farmers at the Frontier

Houses of the Dead?

Edited by Alistair Barclay, David Field & Jim Leary Explores the interface between Neolithic structures considered to be those of the living (such as longhouses) with those for the dead (such as long barrows) Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254105 £40.00 • Paperback • 216 pages

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Art in the Eurasian Iron Age

Ecology of a Tool

Edited by C. Nimura, H. Chittock, P.Hommel & C. Gosden

By Pierre Petrequin, Anne-Marie Petrequin & Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud

Explores Iron Age art at a Eurasian scale and considers long-distance connections and mutual influences that link Celtic Art to art traditions across northern Eurasia.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253948 £48.00 • Hardback • 256 pages b/w & col illustrations

English edition of classic French publication on the manufacture, exchange and social and economic significance of New Guinea axes.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253863 £45.00 • Hardback • 336 pages b/w & col illustrations

The People of the Cobra Province in Egypt

Edited by Rogério Sousa

By Wolfram Grajetzki

A social history of the working population of the ancient province of Cobra, Egypt, investigating the lives of ordinary farmers and their relationship with the ruling classes.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254211 £55.00 • Hardback • 288 pages b/w illustrations

Gilded Flesh

Examination of decorative elements applied to over 600 Egyptian coffins of the 21st Dynasty with a discussion on symbolism, chronology and status.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252620 £60.00 • Hardback • 208 pages b/w illustrations

Understanding Relations Between Scripts II

By Guido Guarducci

This volume presents a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems in the Levant and the Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789250923 £50.00 • Hardback • 240 pages

First detailed study of pottery production, socio-economic development and trade in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Eastern Anatolia, South Caucasus and NW Iran.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252781 £60.00 • Hardback • 272 pages b/w & col illustrations

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An Archaeological History of Montserrat in the West Indies

By John F. Cherry & Krysta Ryzewski

Traces the 5000 year history and heritage of the Caribbean island of Montserrat through all the available archaeological evidence and newly available archival documents.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253900 £30.00 • Paperback • 208 pages b/w & col illustrations

The Oasis Papers 9

Edited by Gillian E. Bowen & Colin A. Hope Presents a synthesis of the current state of our knowledge of Dakhleh Oasis and its interconnections with surrounding regions, especially the Nile Valley.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253764 £60.00 • Hardback • 496 pages b/w & col illustrations

Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean Edited by Cécile Michel & Catherine Breniquet

The 22 papers presented here explore the place of wool in the ancient economy of the region.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253801 £35.00 • Paperback • 472 pages b/w and colour illustrations

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Death in Mycenaean Laconia

By Chrysanthi Gallou

First systematic study of Late Bronze Age burial traditions in southeastern Peloponnese, Greece with examining landscapes of death, burial architecture, funerary, post-funerary customs and rituals Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252422 £48.00 • Hardback • 296 pages b/w illustrations

Sicily, Heritage of the World Edited by D. Booms & P. J. Higgs

This volume considers the history and material culture of the different peoples occupying Sicily at key points in the island’s history, providing an overview of its unique identity and significance in a wider context.

British Museum Press • 2019 9780861592227 • £40.00 • Paperback 200 pages • b/w illustrations

The Staffordshire Hoard

Edited by Chris Fern, Tania Dickinson & Leslie Webster Tells the story of the Staffordshire Hoard’s discovery and acquisition, and the six-year research project that pieced its fragments back together, identified its objects and explored their manufacture.

Society of Antiquaries of London • 2019 9781527233508 • £45.00 • Hardback 640 pages • col illustrations

Beyond the Cyclades

Edited by Marisa Marthari, Colin Renfrew & Michael J. Boyd This second volume on Early Cycladic (and Cycladicising) sculptures examines finds from mainland Greece, along with the rarer items from the north and east Aegean Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789250602 £40.00 • Hardback • 328 pages b/w illustrations

Dariali: The ‘Caspian Gates’ in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages

By Eberhard Sauer

Archaeological survey and excavations of the Caspian Gates, a site pivotal in world history.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789251920 £75.00 • Hardback • 1088 pages b/w & col illustrations

My Life as a Replica

By Sally Foster & Sian Jones Presents an interdisciplinary composite cultural biography the St John’s Cross on Iona and its copies, exploring networks of relationships between things, people and places.

Windgather Press • 2020 9781911188599 • £35.00 • Paperback 224 pages • b/w & col illustrations

Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in the Age of Globalization Edited by Anna Kouremenos & Jody Michael Gordon

Explores how comparative archaeologies of insularity can contribute to discourse onancient Mediterranean “globalization” Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253443 £38.00 • Paperback • 304 pages b/w illustrations

The Bir Messaouda Basilica

By Richard Miles & Simon Greenslade Excavations chart the transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage, with the development of a significant basilica that was transformed into a major pilgrimage centre.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781785706806 £55.00 • Hardback • 440 pages b/w illustrations

Early Christianity in South-West Britain

By Elizabeth Rees

Offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the 4th–10th centuries based on archaeological evidence, early texts and recent critical scholarship Windgather Press • 2020 9781911188551 • £34.99 • Paperback 288 pages • b/w illustrations

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Llangorse Crannog

By Alan Lane & Mark Redknap

The Glass Vessels of AngloSaxon England c. AD 650–1100

Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns

By Rose Broadley

Edited by St. P. Ashby & S. M. Sindbaek

Presents a comprehensive exploration of all vessel glass from middle and late Anglo-Saxon England and a review of the early glass with detailed interpretation of its meaning and place in Anglo-Saxon society.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253726 £35.00 • Paperback • 192 pages b/w & col illustrations

Explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanization in Viking-age Northern Europe employing new theoretical and analytical approaches to artefacts, technology and the processes of craft specialisation in developing economies.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789251609 £38.00 • Paperback • 288 pages b/w & col illustrations

Edited by Niall Sharples

The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester

By Carolyn Heighway & Richard Bryant

Mount Grace Priory: Excavations of 1957–1992

An excavation report on the settlement at Bornais in the Western Isles of Scotland, one of the largest known rural Norse settlements in Britain.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789250466 £35.00 • Hardback • 728 pages

A highly-illustrationstrated volume on the history of the abbey at Gloucester cathedral.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789254143 £24.99 • Paperback • 128 pages col illustrations

Presents the results of large-scale excavation and recording of Mount Grace Priory, Yorkshire and reviews its significance.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253146 £30.00 • Hardback • 448 pages b/w & col illustrations

The Wealth of England

Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia

The crannog on Llangorse Lake, Brecon, Wales together with two logboats represents a time capsule of 9th–10 century life, combining archaeology, history, myth, underwater and terrestrial archaeology.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253061 £40.00 • Hardback • 512 pages b/w & col illustrations

A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides

By Susan Rose

Susan Rose presents a fascinating new exposition on the role of the wool trade in the economy and political history of medieval England.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253825 £28.00 • Paperback • 238 pages b/w & col illustrations

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Edited by Mark Maltby & Mark Brisbane This book deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781842172773 £65.00 • Hardback • 392 pages b/w illustrations; accompanying CD with supporting data

Edited by G.Coppack & L. Keen

Beyond the Romans

Edited by Irene Selsvold & Lewis Webb Explores post-humanist approaches to re-examine Roman material culture and interactions between human and non-human agents in the Roman world.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789251364 £40.00 • Hardback • 176 pages b/w illustrations

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