Libros de la editorial OXBOW BOOKS

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  • ANTIQUARIANISMS: CONTACT, CONFLICT, COMPARISON

    ANDERSON, BENJAMIN

    OXBOW BOOKS (2017)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-684-4
    • EAN: 9781785706844
    • Páginas: 232
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.59,00 €

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    Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. ...

  • THE DIVERSITY OF HUNTER GATHERER PASTS

    FINLAYSON, BILL

    OXBOW BOOKS (2017)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-588-5
    • EAN: 9781785705885
    • Páginas: 192
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.57,00 €

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    This thought provoking collection of new research papers explores the extent of variation amongst hunting and gathering peoples past and present and the considerable analytical challenges presented by this diversity. This problem is especially important ...

  • INSULARITY AND IDENTITY IN THE ROMAN MEDITERRANEAN

    KOUREMENOS, ANNA

    OXBOW BOOKS (2017)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-580-9
    • EAN: 9781785705809
    • Páginas: 208
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.65,00 €

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    Insularity - the state or condition of being an island - has played a key role in shaping the identities of populations inhabiting islands of the Mediterranean. As entities surrounded by water and usually possessing ...

  • TREASURES FROM THE SEA: SEA SILK AND SHELLFISH PURPLE DYE IN ANTIQUITY.

    ENEGREN, HEDVIG LANDENIUS

    OXBOW BOOKS (2017)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-435-2
    • EAN: 9781785704352
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.62,00 €

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    This interdisciplinary volume presents a collection of 17 papers which treat the current state of research on two marine resources used in ancient textile manufacture, shellfish purple dye and sea silk. Purple dye is extracted ...

  • ROMANS AND BARBARIANS BEYOND THE FRONTIERS "ARCHAEOLOGY, IDEOLOGY AND IDENTITIES IN THE NORTH"

    GONZALEZ SANCHEZ, SERGIO

    OXBOW BOOKS (2017)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-604-2
    • EAN: 9781785706042
    • Páginas: 176
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.46,00 €

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    This first thematic volume of the new series TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology brings renowned international experts to discuss different aspects of interactions between Romans and 'barbarians' in the north-western regions of Europe.
    Northern Europe ...

  • DEATH AS A PROCESS: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ROMAN FUNERAL

    PEARCE, J

    OXBOW BOOKS (2017)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-323-2
    • EAN: 9781785703232
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.55,50 €

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    The study of funerary practice has become one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of Roman archaeology in recent decades. This volume draws on large-scale fieldwork from across Europe, methodological advances and conceptual ...

  • A GEOGRAPHY OF OFFERINGS: DEPOSITS OF VALUABLES IN THE LANDSCAPES OF ANCIENT EUROPE

    BRADLEY, RICHARD

    OXBOW BOOKS (2017)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-477-2
    • EAN: 9781785704772
    • Páginas: 160
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.29,00 €

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    More than quarter of a century ago Richard Bradley published The Passage of Arms. It was conceived as An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits, but, as the author concedes, these terms were ...

  • EMBATTLED TERRITORY " THE CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS"

    VVAA

    OXBOW BOOKS (2017)

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    • ISBN: 978-90-382-2568-5
    • EAN: 9789038225685
    • Páginas: 456
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.96,00 €

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    The classical view of science in the Spanish Netherlands harbors implicit assumptions, which need to be reconsidered in the light of contemporary historiography. Approaching the history of science from the perspective of the circulation of ...

  • BURIAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN FIRST MILLENNIUM BC ITALY "APPROACHING SOCIAL AGENTS"

    PEREGO, ELISA

    OXBOW BOOKS (2016)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-184-9
    • EAN: 9781785701849
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.65,00 €

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    In the first millennium BC, communities in Italy underwent crucial transformations which scholars have often subsumed under the heading of 'state formation', namely increased social stratification, the centralisation of political power and, in some cases, ...

  • PREHISTORY WITHOUT BORDERS: THE PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE TYNE-FORTH REGION

    CRELLIN, RACHEL

    OXBOW BOOKS (2016)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-199-3
    • EAN: 9781785701993
    • Páginas: 260
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.66,07 €

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    Modern borders of all kinds, political, geographical and social, effect the kinds of prehistoric narratives archaeologists can write. Borders that dominate today did not exist in prehistory. This volume works across such borders and focuses ...

  • CELTIC FROM THE WEST 3.. "ATLANTIC EUROPE IN THE METAL AGES - QUESTIONS OF SHARED LANGUAGE"

    KOCH, JOHN T .

    OXBOW BOOKS (2016)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-227-3
    • EAN: 9781785702273
    • Páginas: 480
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.75,00 €

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    The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. 'Celts') emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is to explore from the perspectives of three disciplines'archaeology, genetics, and ...

  • BONES AND IDENTITY "ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN SOUTHWEST ASIA"

    VVAA

    OXBOW BOOKS (2016)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-172-6
    • EAN: 9781785701726
    • Páginas: 352
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.55,79 €

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    Seventeen papers demonstrate how zooarchaeologists engage with questions of identity through culinary references, livestock husbandry practices and land use. Contributions combine hitherto unpublished zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide geographic expanse between Greece in ...

  • MOVING ON IN NEOLITHIC STUDIES: UNDERSTANDING MOBILE LIVES

    LEARY, JIM

    OXBOW BOOKS (2016)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-176-4
    • EAN: 9781785701764
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.70,00 €

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    Mobility is a fundamental facet of being human and should be central to archaeology. Yet mobility itself and the role it plays in the production of social life, is rarely considered as a subject in ...

  • TURNING STONE TO BREAD "A DIACHRONIC STUDY OF MILLSTONE MAKING IN SOUTHERN SPAIN "

    ANDERSON, TIMOTHY J.

    OXBOW BOOKS (2016)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-9926336-5-3
    • EAN: 9780992633653
    • Páginas: 341
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.73,89 €

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    Millstone quarries are the sites where hard and abrasive stones were extracted to be fashioned into the querns or millstones to grind flour for bread, the staple food of our ancestors. These stones equipped the ...

  • WAYS OF BEING ROMAN: DISCOURSES OF IDENTITY IN THE ROMAN WEST

    REVELL, LOUISE

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-84217-292-6
    • EAN: 9781842172926
    • Páginas: 144
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.55,00 €

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    This book examines the question of identity in the Roman provinces of the western empire. It takes an innovative approach in looking at the wider discourses or ideologies through which an individual sense of self ...

  • ON THE FASCINATION OF OBJECTS

    BOARDMAN, JOHN

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-006-4
    • EAN: 9781785700064
    • Páginas: 192
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.107,00 €

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    The Shefton Collection in Newcastle upon Tyne contains a fine array of Greek and Etruscan objects and takes its name from its founder Professor Brian Shefton (1919 - 2012). In spite of the importance of ...

  • ANCIENT FORTIFICATIONS "A COMPENDIUM OF THEORY AND PRACTICE"

    VVAA

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-139-9
    • EAN: 9781785701399
    • Páginas: 352
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.80,50 €

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    Dedicated to the investigation of fortifications as important and integral elements of ancient built space, the present volume results from the activity of the German based international research network Fokus Fortifikation. Ancient Fortifications in the ...

  • ARCHAEOLOGY FOR THE PEOPLE "JOUKOWSKY INSTITUTE PERSPECTIVES"

    CHERRY, JOHN F.

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-107-8
    • EAN: 9781785701078
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.50,00 €

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    All of the articles collected in this book combine sophisticated analysis of an exciting archeological problem with prose geared at a non-specialised audience This volume gathers the best of the entries submitted for a writing ...

  • FOCUS ON FORTIFICATION

    autor no determinado

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-131-3
    • EAN: 9781785701313
    • Páginas: 624
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.120,00 €

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    With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many ...

  • WILD HARVEST

    HARDY, KAREN

    OXBOW BOOKS (2015)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-78570-123-8
    • EAN: 9781785701238
    • Páginas: 368
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.48,30 €

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    Plants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. Yet access to plant use ...