Archaeological Method & Theory
Fire for Effect Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9781636245980
Pub Date: 19 Sep 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 270 B/W and colour illustrations
Description:
This book presents the results of years of research on Limoges enamels in the medieval Norwegian Church province (established 1152/1153). This is the first study of the 133, more-or-less complete, surviving objects. In presenting this new knowledge, the book aims to stimulate further research about the material culture of the Middle Ages, and to provide an important resource for those studying churches and places in the Nordic countries, medieval art and especially Limoges enamels.
RRP: £55.00
Gold and Glass Going North Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9798888572108
Pub Date: 19 Sep 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 270 B/W and colour illustrations
Description:
This book presents the results of years of research on Limoges enamels in the medieval Norwegian Church province (established 1152/1153). This is the first study of the 133, more-or-less complete, surviving objects. In presenting this new knowledge, the book aims to stimulate further research about the material culture of the Middle Ages, and to provide an important resource for those studying churches and places in the Nordic countries, medieval art and especially Limoges enamels.
RRP: £55.00
Archaeology Of Coastal Settlements / Archéologie des peuplements littoraux Cover Archaeology Of Coastal Settlements / Archéologie des peuplements littoraux Cover
Format: 
Pages: 580
ISBN: 9789464263428
Pub Date: 03 Sep 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 257fc / 39bw
Pages: 580
ISBN: 9789464263411
Pub Date: 03 Sep 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 257fc / 39bw
Description:
This volume presents the proceedings of the HOMER 2021 international conference, held in September/October 2021 on the Island of Oléron, France. The conference focused on recent advances in coastal and island archaeology across a wide geographical area, covering the Atlantic north of the equator. From the 55 oral presentations and 24 posters, 49 papers emerged, contributed by scholars from seven countries.
RRP: £85.00
RRP: £85.00
The Tombs of Forefathers Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9798888572023
Pub Date: 20 Jun 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: max 195 inc some colour
Description:
Neolithic long barrows in Bohemia were long neglected by archaeologists due to their destruction by modern intensive agricultural activity. This new analysis, resulting from a threeyear interdisciplinary research project, of the phenomenon of Neolithic long barrows in Bohemia and Central Europe presents entirely new findings and data and tackles a number of previously unresolved questions. New discoveries, based primarily on remote sensing and targeted excavations, together with the revision of earlier archaeological records, allow us to define more accurately the construction and chronological development of these monuments, and to advance our knowledge of the southeastern boundary of this phenomenon's spread together with reconstruction of the social and religious significance of these monuments for the agricultural communities of Central Europe.
RRP: £42.00
On This Day (October) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 262
ISBN: 9781463247683
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2025
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: The Armenian Church Synaxarion
Description:
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints’ lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian Church Synaxarion represented the logical culmination of a long and steady development of what is today called the cult of the saints. This volume, the first Armenian-English edition, is the tenth of a twelve-volume series—one for each month of the year—and is ideal for personal devotional use or as a valuable resource for anyone interested in saints.
Priscillian Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 221
ISBN: 9781463245597
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2025
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The first historical biography of Priscillian, a controversial figure of great importance for the history of the West, who until now has been considered by the different authors who have approached his figure as a heretic, reformer, apocryphal martyr or non-conformist Christian.
Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History Cover Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History Cover
Format: 
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789464263367
Pub Date: 13 May 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 119fc / 12bw
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789464263350
Pub Date: 13 May 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 119fc / 12bw
Description:
The human past is unimaginable without the horse. From our ancestors hunting and painting horses in the Upper Palaeolithic, to the earliest riders, the rise of equestrian empires, and the critical role of horses in war, settler colonialism, and modern state formation, human history is undeniably equestrian. Because of the deep and varied entanglements between people and horses, the study of horses of the past is inherently, and increasingly, interdisciplinary.
RRP: £120.00
RRP: £60.00
On This Day (September) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781463245771
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2025
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: The Armenian Church Synaxarion
Description:
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints’ lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian Church Synaxarion represented the logical culmination of a long and steady development of what is today called the cult of the saints. This volume, the first Armenian-English edition, is the ninth of a twelve-volume series—one for each month of the year—and is ideal for personal devotional use or as a valuable resource for anyone interested in saints.
The Life of Sallara and his Mother Elishbah Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9781463248024
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2025
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity
Description:
The first ever edition and translation of a biography of Sallara and his mother Elishbah, exploring both its local context – their asceticism and deeds in North Mesopotamia in the early 7th century – and the geopolitical events underway in the Middle East: war between Persia and Byzantium, and the rise of Islam in the region.
Sitting on the fence: Negotiating archaeology, anthropology and philosophy Cover Sitting on the fence: Negotiating archaeology, anthropology and philosophy Cover
Format: 
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789464263213
Pub Date: 14 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
Illustrations: 22fc / 7bw
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789464263206
Pub Date: 14 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia
Illustrations: 22fc / 7bw
Description:
This volume celebrates the academic life of prof. Raymond Corbey. It gathers contributions by diverse scholars and professionals from both science and society to engage with a range of key topics Raymond has grappled with at different stages of his capricious career.
RRP: £95.00
RRP: £40.00
Damjili Cave Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9798888571804
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 160 B/W and color illustrations
Description:
Modern archaeological research carried out since the late 19th century has sufficiently demonstrated that the beginning of the food production economy and the establishment of a farming society had a significant impact on the shaping of subsequent human history. Accordingly, these processes of Neolithization have attracted a great deal of interest from archaeologists and anthropologists worldwide. The South Caucasus, i.
RRP: £55.00
The Hidden Lives of Viking Women Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9798888571866
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Description:
This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, mythology, and lived experiences of Viking women as well as the impacts of change on women during the turbulent period of the Viking Age. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, this is a book dedicated to the lesserknown aspects of women’s lives as active members of society. It provides an innovative way of bringing together work from archaeological, anthropological, historical, and literary perspectives to address questions about women in trade, in war, in magic, in the household and activities that provided women with power and respect in their communities.
RRP: £29.95
Southeast Arabia at the Dawn of the Second Millennium  Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9781789257953
Pub Date: 29 Jan 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w and colour
Description:
The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in Southeast Arabia (the United Arab Emirates and Northern Oman). The cultural homogeneity of the preceding Early Bronze Age, Umm an-Nar period (c. 2700–2000 BC) came to an end and gave way to the Middle Bronze Age, Wadi Suq period (2000–1600 BC).
RRP: £65.00
Chariots, Swords and Spears Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781789255423
Pub Date: 23 Oct 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
This volume brings together recent excavations at two sites in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. The main focus of the volume is examination of Iron Age burials, which included chariots, swords, and spears, along with inclusion of earlier Prehistoric and later Roman activity. The excavations have enabled further scientific evidence for migration and mobility in the Iron Age population and secure chronologies for artefacts.
Forsaken Relics Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9798888571149
Pub Date: 17 Oct 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies (MAtAS)
Illustrations: 100 B/W illustrations
Description:
Forsaken Relics is the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue between history, archaeology, and ethnography on the topic of the appropriation of disputed goods and places. Scholars with diverse backgrounds convened to address this common challenge: how different societies in time and space managed to claim and re-appropriate alleged ‘abandoned’ or ‘ownerless’ goods or things ‘in ruin’.The volume includes a diverse range of case studies – from Neolithic sites in Eastern Europe to ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean, encompassing early modern and present-day Europe – reflecting on the ways in which actions can be used to legitimise appropriation, with a particular focus on ritual actions and practices.
Exploring Ancient Sounds and Places Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9798888571774
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 86 B/W photos and line drawings
Description:
Exploring Ancient Sounds and Places: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Archaeoacoustics brings together scholars from diverse academic fields – including archaeology, anthropology, architecture, classics, history, art history and sound engineering – to shed light on the role of sound and acoustics in the cultural practices of past societies from various chronologies and locations around the world. This innovative volume covers a broad spectrum of topics, such as the genesis of archaeological investigations into sound, the emergence of speech and song in early humans, the cognitive effects of music in ritualistic contexts, the acoustic dimensions of rock art sites, and the emotional responses elicited by sonorous activities experienced in these decorated spaces. Additionally, the book delves into the study of prehistoric musical instruments, the use of ethnohistorical sources in archaeoacoustic research, the analysis of sound imagery in medieval frescoes, and explores historical approaches to the study of specific acoustic parameters and the sonic properties of urban environments.