Archaeological Method & Theory
Oceans Odyssey Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781842174159
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 339 col illus
Description:
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 sites lie beyond territorial waters in depths of up to 820 metres off southeastern America and in the Straits of Gibraltar and the English Channel. Exclusively recorded using robotic technology in the form of a Remotely-Operated Vehicle, 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.
RRP: £25.00
Alexandria Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9788779344914
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2010
Series: Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created and formatted a distinct Alexandrine 'culture' as well as several distinct 'cultures'. Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish observers communicated or held claim to that particular message. Hence, Arrian, Theocritus, Strabo, and Athenaeus reported their fascination of the Alexandrine melting pot to the wider world and so did Philo, Josephus and Clement.
Built Environments, Constructed Societies Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9789088900389
Pub Date: 22 Dec 2009
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Archaeology, as the discipline that searches to explain the development of society by means of material remains, has been avoiding the big issues involved with its research agenda. The topic of social evolution is concealed by anxiety about previous paradigmatic malpractice and the primary archaeological division of the world in culture areas still suffers from the archaic methods by which it was established. Archaeological inference of developing societies is weighed down by its choice of particularism within agency approaches and overtly reductionist due to the prevalence of statistical, classificatory and biological approaches.
Norwich Castle Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 188
ISBN: 9780905594507
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2009
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Occasional Paper
Illustrations: 145 illus
Description:
In the 1980s work began on construction of the vast underground Castle Mall shopping centre in Norwich. The associated archaeological excavation was one of the largest of its kind in northern Europe, designed to investigate not only the castle bailey but also pre-Conquest settlement and, for the post-Conquest period, areas of the surrounding medieval city. Although Parts I and II both contain summary accounts of the faunal remains, setting them into their wider context and including additional information on craft activities, the scale of the data made publication of a separate and more specialised report on the faunal remains desirable and this is published here as Part III.
RRP: £20.00
The Archaeology of the Dead Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9781842173565
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist course in burial archaeology given by Duday in Rome in November 2004. The primary aim of the project was to contribute to the development of common procedures for excavation, data collection and study of Roman cemeteries of the imperial period.
The Medieval Broadcloth Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781842173817
Pub Date: 19 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Illustrations: b/w illus & 42 colour illustrations
Description:
The eight papers presented here provide a useful introduction to medieval broadcloth, and an up-to-date synthesis of current research. The word broadcloth is nowadays used as an overall term for the woven textiles mass-produced and exported all over Europe. It was first produced in Flanders as a luxurious cloth from the 11th century and throughout the medieval period.
Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781842173886
Pub Date: 18 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col illus
Description:
Dorchester-on-Thames and its abbey have been subjects of antiquarian interest for more than 450 years, and during that time much has been written about them. They are, however, still far from being comprehensively studied and recorded. Indeed, the most substantial architectural description of the medieval church was written as long ago as 1845, and a thoroughgoing reappraisal has long been overdue.
Tree-Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781842173862
Pub Date: 13 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The study of tree-rings (dendrochronology) provides a key resource for determining dates for archaeological and other contexts where wood/charcoal is present (and so cultural chronology), and for investigating past climate and environment. In the central and east Mediterranean region Peter Ian Kuniholm is synonymous with dendrochronology and dendroarchaeology. He led the creation of numerous tree-ring chronologies for the region (from forests, buildings, archaeological sites), and demonstrated the enormous potential and power of dendrochronology to a range of topics.
Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 175
ISBN: 9789088900341
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This book contains a detailed account of the earliest research carried out on the Dutch megalithic tombs. Dating from the Middle Neolithic these Stone Age monuments have continually triggered people's imagination. The earliest theories about their origin involved mythical creatures such as giants and witches.
Bronze Age Connections Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781842173480
Pub Date: 03 Sep 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col illus
Description:
New and exciting discoveries on either side of the English Channel in recent years have begun to show that people living in the coastal zones of Belgium, southern Britain, northern France and the Netherlands shared a common material culture during the Bronze Age, between three and four thousand years ago. They used similar styles of pottery and metalwork, lived in the same kind of houses and buried their dead in the same kind of tombs, often quite different to those used by their neighbours further inland. The sea did not appear to be a barrier to these people but rather a highway, connecting communities in a unique cultural identity; the 'People of La Manche'.
Labyrinth Revisited Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781842170618
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: many b/w illus
Description:
Minoan' Crete is one of the most intensively investigated archaeological cultures in the world, and one that has often captured the public imagination. It is a Bronze Age Aegean society, but it has been intimately connected with the Classical Greek myth of King Minos and his Labyrinth since Sir Arthur Evans excavated and restored (some would say rebuilt') the important site of Knossos, more than a century ago. Yet many archaeological interpretations of this fascinating culture are still largely traditional in focus and often anachronistic.
Wulfstan's Voyage Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 376
ISBN: 9788785180568
Pub Date: 21 Jun 2009
Series: Maritime Culture of the North
Description:
Wulfstan’s account covers a voyage from the root of Jutland to the Vistula Delta – connecting the trading centres of Hedeby and Truso – and provides a rare and vivid view of the south-eastern Baltic Sea region in the early Viking Age, including aspects of inland navigation and local culture. In this book, a panel of scholars presents the original source and debate its geographical, cultural, nautical and economic context in the light of recent investigations.
Tivaivai Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9780714125800
Pub Date: 18 Jun 2009
Illustrations: 100 col illus
Description:
Quilts generically known as tivaivai have been produced by women in the Cook Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Society Islands and elsewhere in Eastern Polynesia since the late 19th century, where they were a substitute for bark-cloth but also used in ways deeply invested in the new context of Christian domesticity. In the Cook Islands, quilts are stitched to be given away at funerals, at weddings and other events marking stages of loss and severance in the life of a person. Although often kept for years in trunks far away from the homeland as a result of the migrant diaspora, the quilt and its threads connect those who have been parted.
The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781842173657
Pub Date: 06 Apr 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Description:
Human bones form the most direct link to understanding how people lived in the past, who they were and where they came from. The interpretative value of human skeletal remains (within their burial context) in terms of past social identity and organisation is awesome, but was, for many years, underexploited by archaeologists. The nineteen papers in this edited volume are an attempt to redress this by marrying the cultural aspects of burial with the anthropology of the deceased.
Vitamin C for prevention of CRPS-I in traumatology and  orthopaedic surgery Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9789088900099
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2008
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS-I), formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, can occur after a trauma to an arm or leg. CRPS is frequently seen after wrist fractures. The diagnosis of CRPS is based on clinical signs and symptoms.
Past Bodies Cover Past Bodies Cover
Format: 
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781842173411
Pub Date: 11 Dec 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781782975427
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation of past subjects and their bodies, if analytically necessary, is hardly satisfactory.
RRP: £30.00