OXBOW BOOK NEWS

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New and forthcoming titles forSummer 2018

ArchaeologyThe Ancient WorldGreece and RomeThe Middle Ages

A warm welcome to the Summer edition of the Oxbow Book News.

We are always especially proud to present our own titles to you, and the second half of 2018 sees

a bumper crop. Two major new releases bring the revolutionary techniques of archaeogenetics to

bear on questions of perennial debate in later European Prehistory. The Beaker People: Isotopes,

Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain edited by Mike Parker Pearson, Andrew Chamberlain,

Mandy Jay, Mike Richards, and Jane Evans presents the much-anticipated results of an important

project which combines isotope analysis with ancient DNA data to investigate the origins, mobility

and diet of the Beaker people. A convincing picture of immigration from the continent emerges,

alongside regional movements within Britain by the descendants of the first Beaker users. Exploring

Celtic Origins edited by Barry Cunliffe and John T. Koch will provide a much-needed accessible

overview of the contribution which archaeogenetic analysis can make to determining the origins

of Celtic peoples and languages.

Significant scientific advances also form the backdrop to the latest title in our popular Studying

Scientific Archaeology series. In Landscape Beneath the Waves Caroline Wickham-Jones gives

a comprehensive guide to the study of submerged archaeological landscapes and the techniques

which can be used to shed dramatic light on the lives of Prehistoric coastal communities.

Following the aquatic theme Freshwater Fish in England by Alison Locker explores the

exploitation of species such as pike and carp from Prehistoric times to the present day, from

Mesolithic middens, to the first (probably ornamental) fish ponds introduced by the Romans, and

the medieval origins of angling as a sport.

In the central pages of this Book News you will find the usual bargain section (including great new

reductions on a number of our own titles). A new feature is a less detailed listing of bargains where

we are down to our last few copies. I’m afraid it really is a case of once they’re gone they’re gone

with these titles, so get your orders in quickly to avoid disappointment.

We look forward as ever to handling your orders and thank you for your continued support.

This issue of Oxbow Book News has been compiled by Mike Schurer © Oxbow Books 2018

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General InterestThe Cambridge World History Volume 6The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 2, Patterns of ChangeEdited by Jerry H. Bentley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam & Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks514p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780521192460 Hb £105.00, 9781108407748 Pb £29.99

The Cambridge World History Volume 7Production, Destruction and Connection 1750–Present, Part 1, Structures, Spaces and Boundary MakingEdited by John McNeill & Kenneth Pomeranz674p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107000209 Hb £105.00, 9781108407755 Pb £29.99

The Cambridge World History Volume 7Production, Destruction and Connection 1750–Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations?Edited by John McNeill & Kenneth Pomeranz570p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780521199643 Hb £105.00, 9781108407762 Pb £29.99

50 Finds from StaffordshireObjects from the Portable Antiquities SchemeBy Teresa Gilmore50 Finds from Staffordshire is the latest in the `50 finds’ series, highlighting the work of the Portable Antiquities Scheme. It presents some of the key finds, from palaeolithic handaxes to roman coins, from saxon treasures to post-medieval sundials. 96p, col illus (Amberley 2018) 9781445675480 Pb £14.99

Threads of Global DesireSilk in the Pre-Modern WorldEdited by Dagmar Schafer, Giorgio Riello & Luca MolaIn the process of its global diffusion, silk fostered technological innovation and allowed new forms of organization of labour to emerge. This book examines the integration of silk production and consumption into various cultures and its relation to everyday and regulatory practices. 432p, b/w and col illus (Boydell & Brewer2018) 9781783272938 Hb £60.00

Burning PlanetThe Story of Fire Through TimeBy Andrew C. ScottAndrew Scott tells the whole story of fire’s impact on our planet’s atmosphere, climate, vegetation, ecology, and the evolution of plant and animal life. He also explores how early hominids and humans tamed fire and used it. 224p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198734840 Hb £20.00

The Cambridge World History 7 Paperback Volume Set in 9 PiecesBy Merry E. Wiesner-HanksThe Cambridge World History is an authoritative new overview of the dynamic field of world history. It covers the whole of human history, not simply history since the development of written records, in an expanded time frame that represents the latest thinking in world and global history. With over two hundred essays, it is the most comprehensive account yet of the human past, and it draws on a broad international pool of leading academics from a wide range of scholarly disciplines. 9 vols, 5294pp, 429 b/w illus. 166 maps 48 tables (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9781107107724 Hb £820.00, 9781108407816 Pb £230.00

The Cambridge World History Volume 1Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCEEdited by David Christian516p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780521763332 Hb £120.00, 9781108406420 Pb £29.99

The Cambridge World History Volume 2A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE–500 CEEdited by Graeme Barker & Candice Goucher662p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780521192187 Hb £105.00, 9781108407649 Pb £29.99

The Cambridge World History Volume 3Early Cities in Comparative Perspective, 4000 BCE–1200 CEEdited by Norman Yoffee595p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780521190084 Hb £105.00, 9781108407694 Pb £29.99

The Cambridge World History Volume 4A World with States, Empires and Networks 1200 BCE–900 CEEdited by Dr. Craig Benjamin680pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9781107015722 Hb £105.00, 9781108407717 Pb £29.99

The Cambridge World History Volume 5Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500CE–1500CEEdited by B. Z. Kedar & M. E. Wiesner-Hanksb/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780521190749 Hb £105.00, 9781108407724 Pb £29.99

The Cambridge World History Volume 6The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 1, FoundationsEdited by Jerry H. Bentley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam & Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks512p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780521761628 Hb 120.00, 9781108407731 Pb £29.99

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Method and TheoryArchaeologists in PrintPublishing for the PeopleBy Amara ThorntonThis is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of expansion and development in both archaeology and publishing. In the background of this narrative is the history of Britain’s imperial expansion and contraction, and the evolution of modern tourism in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Archaeologists exploited these factors to gain public and financial support and interest, and build and maintain a reading public for their work, supported by the seasonal nature of excavation and tourism. 312p, b/w illus (UCL Press 2018) 9781787352582 Pb £20.00

Key Concepts in Public ArchaeologyEdited by Gabriel MoshenskaThis book provides a broad overview of the key concepts in public archaeology in both theoretical and practical terms and seeks to clarify what exactly ‘public archaeology’ is by promoting an inclusive, socially and politically engaged vision of the discipline. It introduces the themes, theories and controversies that connect archaeology to wider society, from the trade in illicit antiquities to the use of digital media in public engagement. 250p, b/w illus (UCL Press 2018) 9781911576433 Pb £20.00

Principles of ArchaeologyBy T. Douglas Price & Kelly J. KnudsonPrinciples of Archaeology provides the bui lding blocks for students to learn how archaeologists think. Retaining its focus on teaching the major methods of analysis and the importance of scientific techniques, this new edition h a s b e e n t h o ro u g h l y redesigned and revised to include the most recent technologies and ethical issues involved in studying the past. 448p, col illus (Thames and Hudson, 2nd ed 2018) 9780500293614 Pb £50.00

The Human PastBy Christopher ScarreThe Human Past offers authoritative and up-to-date coverage of prehistory. The new edition is thoroughly revised and redesigned and includes a new chapter, ‘The Origins, Antiquity, and Dispersal of the First Americans’ ; New ‘Key Theme’ boxes link chapters through common issues in human history; and includes new genetic evidence revealing the arrival of the Yamnaya people in Europe and new theories on the relationship between sedentism and agriculture. 768p col illus (Thames and Hudson, 4th ed 2018) 9780500294208 Pb £45.00

EDITOR’S CHOICEA Little History of ArchaeologyBy Brian FaganThis Little History tells the riveting stories of some of the great archaeologists and their amazing discoveries around the globe: ancient Egyptian tombs, Mayan ruins, the first colonial settlements at Jamestown, Stonehenge, the incredibly preserved Pompeii, and many, many more. In forty brief, exciting chapters, the book recounts archaeology’s development from its eighteenth-century origins to

its twenty-first-century technological advances, including remote sensing capabilities and satellite imagery techniques that have

revolutionized the field. Shining light on the most intriguing events in the history of the field, this up-to-date book illuminates archaeology’s controversies, discoveries, heroes and scoundrels, global sites, and newest methods.

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSCrossing the ThresholdArchitecture, Iconography and the Sacred EntranceBy Madeleine Mumcuoglu & Yosef GarfinkelThe recessed doorway has been continuously e m p l oye d f o r 6 5 0 0 years in temples, royal palaces, tombs, churches, synagogues and modern p u b l i c b u i l d i n g s , becoming a symbol of the divine and of a place of worship. What is the secret of its longevity? This unique cultural edifice is not only about architecture, but is a language that defines social order and relations with the ruling power and authorities. These, sometimes highly decorated and elaborate, sometimes simple and understated, thresholds in fact functioned on two communicative levels: first, as a liminal marker demarcating a sacred area and second, to emphasize the social order, as few were permitted to pass through. 208p, b /w (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781789250763 Hb £50.00

Market as Place and Space of Economic ExchangePerspectives from Archaeology and AnthropologyEdited by Hans Peter Hahn & Geraldine SchmitzI n t h e c o n t e x t o f commodification, material culture has particular p ro p e r t i e s h i t h e r t o considered irrelevant o r n e g l e c te d . F i rs t , the market is a spatial s t r u c t u re , a s s i g n i n g special properties to the things offered: the goods and commodities. Secondly, the market defines a principle of dealing with things, including them in some contexts, excluding them from others. The contributions to Market as Place and Space address a variety of aspects of markets within the framework of archaeological and anthropological case studies and with a special focus on the indicators of practices attached to the commodities and their valuation. 240p, b /w (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785708930 Pb £38.00

Strategies for Quantitative ResearchArchaeology by NumbersBy Grant S. McCallRather than focusing on the mathematics of calculation, this concise handbook selects appropriate forms of analysis and explains the assumptions that underlie them. It deals with fundamental issues, such as what kinds of data are common in the field of archaeology and what are the goals of various forms of analysis. 264p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138632523 Pb £29.99

The Strong Case Approach in Behavioral ArchaeologyEdited by Michael Brian SchifferAlthough all archaeologists subscribe in principle to building strong cases in support of their inferences, behavioural archaeology alone has created methodology for developing strong cases in practice. By illustrating the strong case approach with convincing case studies from behavioural archaeology, the editors aim to alert the archaeological community about how the process of archaeological inference can be improved. 288p, b/w illus (University of Utah Press 2017) 9781607815761 Pb £46.95

Empowering Communities through Archaeology and HeritageThe Role of Local Governance in Economic DevelopmentBy Peter G. GouldTypically, the success of site museums, tourism businesses, or crafts cooperatives is rarely reported on in scholarly literature or subjected to systematic study. This book addresses that gap. Gould argues that the success of community projects is inextricably linked to the mechanisms community members use to govern their project activities, and provides a much-needed assessment of the issues relating to community governance. 224p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781350036222 Hb £70.00

Evidential Reasoning in ArchaeologyBy Robert Chapman & Alison WylieHow do archaeologists work with the data they identify as a record of the cultural past? How are these data collected and construed as evidence? What is the impact on archaeological practice of new techniques of data recovery and analysis, especially those imported from the sciences? To answer these questions, the authors identify close-to-the-ground principles of best practice based on an analysis of examples of evidential reasoning in archaeology that are widely regarded as successful, contested, or instructive failures. 264p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb 2018) 9781472525277 Hb £60.00, 9781350066861 Pb £28.99

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Absolute Constructions in Early Indo-EuropeanBy Antonia RuppelBy examining the nature and function of absolute constructions (ACs) and related constructions in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, this new study arrives at a clear and simple definition of ACs. Focusing on the earliest attested material in each language, it highlights how AC usage differs between languages and offers explanations for these differences. 269p (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2018) 9780521767620 Hb £67.00, 9781108456029 Pb £25.99

Digging for WordsEdited by Rune Iversen & Guus KroonenThis volume offers a selection of case studies on the interface between linguistics and archaeology. The questions raised concern the future of archaeolinguistic research. What can archaeologists and linguists learn from each other’s disciplines? What kind of research questions are particularly suitable for future integrated studies? 99p, b/w and col illus (BAR S 2888, 2018) 9781407316420 Pb £20.00

Gifts, Goods and MoneyComparing currency and circulation systems in past societiesEdited by Dirk Brandherm, Elon Heymans & Daniela HofmannBased on a broad range of individual case studies, these papers tackle problems surrounding the identification of (pre-monetary) currencies in the archaeological record. They concern the part played by weight measurement systems in their development, the changing role of objects as they shift between different spheres of exchange, e.g. from gifts to commodities, as well as wider issues regarding the role of exchange networks as agents of social and economic change. 234p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918354 Pb £34.00

Objects of WarCurrency in a Time of ConflictBy Kevin ClancyBy providing the means through which they have been fought, coins and banknotes have proved themselves an indispensable weapon of war. But the disruption that comes with conflict has seen usage of money change with coins debased or often buried in hoards, and money has offered the means through which victorious leaders have proclaimed their triumphs. This book focuses principally on the experience in Britain from Tudor times but draws on other instances from around the world and across time to show how money and war have collided and influenced one another. b/w and col illus 224p (Spink Books 2018) 9781907427909 Hb £25.00, NYP

Conflict ArchaeologyMaterialities of Collective Violence from Prehistory to Late AntiquityEdited by Manuel Fernandez-Goetz & Nico RoymansThis book presents a series of case-studies on conflict archaeology in ancient Europe, based on the results of both recent fieldwork and a reassessment of older excavations. Along key battlefields, the volume also incorporates many other sources of evidence, including defensive works, military camps, battle-related ritual deposits, and symbolic representations of violence in iconography and grave goods. 236p, b/w and col illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138502116 Hb £105.00

Tecniche di Rilevamento e Metodi di Rappresentazione per l’Architettura RupestreBy Andrea AngeliniThis volume proposes a general revision of procedures for the 3D acquisition, elaboration and representation of Rupestrian Architecture through a methodological study on the different phases of the process and a systematization of the operational criteria. It is based on a case study of the Benedictine Monastery of Subiaco, an example of the integration of architecture and. Italian text. 135p, b/w and col illus (BAR S 2889, 2018) 9781407316123 Pb £29.00

Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the PastA Guide to Techniques in Historical SeismologyBy Emanuela Guidoboni & John E. EbelThis handbook defines the discipline of historical seismology by detailing the latest research methodologies for studying historical earthquakes and tsunamis. It describes the various sources that reference seismic phenomena, discusses the critical problems of interpreting such sources, and presents a summary of the theories proposed throughout history to explain the causes of earthquakes. 602p (Cambridge UP 2009, Pb 2018) 9780521837958 Hb £101.00, 9781108462051 Pb £45.00

Digital GeoarchaeologyNew Techniques for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental ResearchEdited by Christoph Siart, Markus Forbriger & Olaf BubenzerThis book includes topics and applications such as geographic and archaeological information systems, remote sensing, e.g. satellite imagery, aerial photographs, terrestrial and airborne laser scanning, digital image processing and pattern recognition, digital elevation models, 3D and 4D visualization and landscape reconstruction, geophysical prospecting, e.g. ERT, SRT, GPR as well as spatiotemporal analysis. 250p (Springer Verlag 2017) 9783319253145 Hb £79.99

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Who We Are and How We Got HereAncient DNA and the New Science of the Human PastBy David ReichDavid Reich describes how the revolution in the ability to sequence ancient DNA has changed our understanding of the deep human past. This book tells the emerging story of our often surprising ancestry – the extraordinary ancient migrations and mixtures of populations that have made us who we are. 368p (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198821250 Hb £20.00

Conversations Between ObjectsEdited by Linda HulinLinda 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. The interplay between knowledge and experience is a major thread running through this argument and offers a way to deal with the quantities of mundane items that constitute the bulk of material culture. Ultimately, this work brings the ordinariness of the object world back into discourse by exploring their affect, en masse, upon the human body.

160p (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781789250039 Pb £15.99

Archaeology in the PPG16 EraInvestigations in England 1990–2010By Timothy Darvill, Bronwen Russell & Ehren MilnerPlanning Policy Guidance No te 1 6 : A rc h a e o l o gy and Planning (known as P P G 1 6 ) , p u b l i s h e d i n 19 9 0 , s aw t h e f o r m a l integration of archaeological considerations with the UK town and country planning system and set out processes for informed decision-making and the implementation of post-determination mitigation strategies. The scale of activity represented – more 1000 excavations per year for most of the PPG16 Era – is more than double the level of work undertaken at peak periods during the previous three decades. This comprehensive review of the project presents a wealth of data. A series of case studies examines the illustrate different types of development project, revealing many ways in which projects develop, how archaeology is integrated with planning and execution, and the range of outputs documenting the process.

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSTrends in Biological Anthropology 2Edited by Betina Jakob & Malin HolstThe articles included in this volume were all presented at the 1 5 t h a n nu a l B r i t i s h Association for Biological A n t h r o p o l o g y a n d O s t e o a r c h a e o l o g y (BABAO) conference held at the University of York on the 13th and 15th of September 2013. Ten papers are presented, on a range of topics and themes, including that of ‘Constructing Identities: Ethnicity and Migration’ exploring theoretical approaches to the multiple identities of the body and multidisciplinary approaches to investigating the African origin of African American communities in parts of South America. Papers exploring the theme ‘Treatment of the Body: Understanding and Portrayals’ focus on the visibility of prehistoric burial practice in Britain and the Levant, and evidence for diversity in late medieval Christian burial practice in Taunton, Somerset. Three papers are incorporated in the theme ‘Investigating Lifeways: Diets, Disease and Occupations’, focusing on ancient DNA to investigate Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 18th century mummies from Hungary; a bioarchaeological perspective on military communities in Roman London; and a methodological approach to testing a faster method for recording past activity-patterns in skeletal remains. The final three papers of the volume have both archaeological and methodological aspects, using osteological and archaeological evidenc 320p, b /w (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785706202 Pb £49.99

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Metals, Minds and MobilityIntegrating Scientific Data with Archaeological TheoryEdited by Xosé-Lois Armada, Mercedes Murillo-Barroso & Mike CharltonM e t a l s , M i n d s a n d Mobility seeks to integrate archaeometallurgical data with archaeological theory to address longstanding questions about mechanisms of exchange, mobil i ty and social complexity in prehistory. Bringing together m a ny l e a d i n g ex p e r t contributions address topics that include the invention, innovation and transmission of metallurgical knowledge; archaeometric based models of exchange; characterization and discrimination of different modes of material circulation; and the impact of metals on social complexity.

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Making JourneysArchaeologies of MovementEdited by Catriona Gibson, Catherine Frieman & Kerri ClearyOne route into exploring mobility in the past may be through exploring t h e m o v e m e n t s a n d 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. Biographical approaches to artefacts include the recognition that culture contact and hybridity affect material culture in meaningful ways. Furthermore, discrete and bounded ‘sites’ still dominate archaeological inquiry, leaving the spaces and connectivities between features and settlements unmapped. These are linked to an under-explored middle-spectrum of mobility, a range nestled between everyday movements and one-off ambitious voyages. This collection of papers explores how these travels involved entangled meshworks of people, animals, objects, knowledge sets and identities.

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Reinventing SustainabilityHow Archaeology Can Save the PlanetBy Erika Guttmann-BondT h i s b o o k i s a b o u t sustainable agriculture and architecture in the past, and the engineering works that supported them, but it also looks to the future. Ancient technologies are what engineers define as ‘ i n t e r m e d i a t e ’ , w h i c h means that they are often simple, low in cost and they depend on local materials. Significantly, they don’t require fossil fuels. There is a lot that we in the West can learn from the past and from developing countries where people still practice traditional agriculture, and there is now broad agreement among many governments, non-government organisations, engineers and agronomists, as well as the United Nations, that intermediate technologies are often the most appropriate way forward in

developing countries. 160p (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781785709920 Pb £25.00

Culture and Perspective at Times of CrisisState Structures, Private Initiative and the Public Character of HeritageBy Ioannis Poulios, Sophia Antoniadou, Giorgos Vavouranakis & Pavlina RaouzaiouCulture and Perspective deals with a variety of key aspects concerning heritage management at times of crisis and specifically with the public character of cultural heritage. Special, but not exclusive emphasis, is on the case of Greece. In order to understand, evaluate and reconsider the role of the state in heritage management, contributors address a series of issues including the downgrading and shrinking of state structures, the upgrading and expansion of the role of private initiative; the public character of heritage, in terms of ownership as well as access; and finally the synergies between state structures and private initiatives in view of the public character of heritage.

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Mobility and Pottery ProductionArchaeological and Anthropological PerspectivesEdited by Caroline Heitz & Regine StapferFrom their production until their deposition as waste, grave-goods, collectibles etc. pottery vessels can move with their owners or be passed on and may thus shift between spatial, temporal, social, economic and cultural contexts. This volume unites contributions addressing such phenomena from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. 270p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 9789088904608 Pb £45.00

The Social Archaeology of FoodThinking about Eating From Prehistory to the PresentBy Christine A. HastorfThis book offers a global perspective on the role food has played in shaping human societies, through both individual and collective identities. It integrates ethnographic and archaeological case studies from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Classic Maya, the Inka and many other periods and regions, to ask how the meal in particular has acted as a social agent in the formation of society, economy, culture and identity. 418p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9781107153363 Hb £77.00, £9781316607251 Pb £22.99

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of ChildhoodEdited by Sally Crawford, Dawn Hadley & Gillian ShepherdHowever marginal the traces of children’s bodies and bricolage may seem compared to adults, archaeological evidence of children and childhood can be found in the most astonishing places and spaces. In this volume, experts from around the world ask questions about childhood – thresholds of age and growth, childhood in the material culture, the death of children, and the intersection of the childhood and the social, economic, religious, and political worlds of societies in the past. 720p (Oxford UP 2018) 9780199670697 Hb £110.00

Culturas en ContactoConflicto, Asimilación e IntercambioEdited by N. Pacheco Catalan et al.These papers analyse multiple aspects of cultural encounters, relationships and conflicts between different societies in antiquity and the Middle Ages. They are divided into five main categories: ‘Acculturation and Cultural Exchanges’, ‘Contact between Religions’, ‘War, Colonisation and Migration Movements’, ‘Linguistics and Literature’ and ‘Economy and Urbanism’. Papers in Spanish, Italian and English.177p b/w illus (BAR S 2887, 2018) 9781407316307 Pb £41.00

The Work of the DeadA Cultural History of Mortal RemainsBy Thomas W. LaqueurA remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. It seeks to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. 736p, b/w illus, col pls (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691180939 Pb £22.95

Identified Skeletal CollectionsBy Charlotte Yvette Henderson & Francisca Alves CardosoThis book focusses on identified skeletal collections in the UK, Portugal, South Africa, USA and Canada. The chapters discuss how and why collections were amassed including the local legislation governing them. The importance of these collections is also focused on: particularly their role in developing and testing methods for age determination in adults. 198p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918057 Pb £30.00

Bioarchaeological Analyses and BodiesNew Ways of Knowing Anatomical and Archaeological Skeletal CollectionsEdited by Pamela K. StoneThis volume considers from a bioarchaeological perspective the research collections that have been used because they represent deceased for whom there are records identifying them. These collections have been the basis for generating basic information regarding the human skeletal transcript. 248p b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2018) 9783319711133 Hb £79.99

Human Remains in ArchaeologyA HandbookBy Charlotte A. RobertsThis revised and updated 2nd edition of Professor Charlotte Robert’s best-selling Practical Handbook provides the very latest guidance on all aspects of the recovery, handling and study of human remains. It begins by asking why we should study human remains, and the ethical issues surrounding their recovery, analysis, curation and display. How people were laid to rest at death is considered, as well as the effect of various factors on their preservation. Further chapters give practical advice on excavation, processing and conservation. The author then discusses recent technological advances in the study of human remains.336p b/w and col illus (CBA 2nd ed 2018) 9781909990036 Pb £25.00

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Unearthing ChildhoodYoung Lives in PrehistoryBy Robin DerricourtPrehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images painted on rocks and pots, in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts to learn practical crafts. The burials of those who did not reach adulthood reveal clothing, personal adornment, possession and status in society, while the bodies themselves provide information on diet, health and sometimes violent death. This book demonstrates the extraordinary potential for the study of childhood within the prehistoric record. 312p, b/w illus (Manchester UP 2018) 9781526128089 Pb £20.00

An Introduction to ZooarchaeologyBy Diane Patrice Gifford-GonzalezThis volume is a comprehensive, critical introduction to vertebrate zooarchaeology. It first offers a general introduction to zooarchaeology, key definitions, and an historical survey of the emergence of the discipline. It then presents a series of critical “review articles,” providing a portal into both the classic and current literature and contextualizing these with original commentary. 384p, b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2018) 9783319656809 Hb £74.99

Greyhound NationA Coevolutionary History of England, 1200–1900By Edmund RussellChallenging the popular notion that animal breeds remain uniform over time and space, Russell integrates history and biology to offer a fresh take on human-animal coevolution. Using greyhounds in England from 1200 to 1900 as a case study, Russell shows that greyhounds varied and changed just as much as their owners. 214p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9780521745055 Pb £19.99

Shipwrecks and ProvenanceIn-Situ Timber Sampling Protocols With a Focus on Wrecks of the Iberian Shipbuilding TraditionBy Sara A. Rich, Nigel Nayling, Garry Momber & Ana Crespo SolanaShipwrecks pose a special problem in archaeometric dating and provenance because they often accumulated new construction material as timbers were repaired and replaced. This book is a set of protocols to establish the need for wood samples from shipwrecks and to guide archaeologists in the removal of samples for a suite of archaeometric techniques currently available to provenance the timbers used to construct wooden ships and boats. 74p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917173 Pb £20.00

Lands of the ShamansArchaeology, Cosmology and LandscapeEdited by Dragoş Gheorghiu, George Nash, Herman Bender & Emilia Pasztor‘Shamanism’ is a term with specific anthropological roots, but which is used more generally to cover a set of interactions between a practitioner or ‘shaman’ and a spiritual or religious realm beyond the reach of most members of the community. It has often been considered from an anthropological viewpoint, but this book gathers the most recent studies on a subject which has not been comprehensively studied by archaeologists. The shaman’s landscape reveals itself to the world as one of multifaceted spiritual and material activity. Case Studies come from Europe, North America and Asia.

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Ancient Textiles, Modern Science IIEdited by Heather Hopkins & Katrin KaniaAncient Textiles Modern Science II follows the success of the first proceedings, published in 2013, that catalogued the Forum’s formative years. This proceedings highlights the range of subjects and approaches, from improved forms of notation for nålbinding and terminology for non-woven fabric structures, to presentation and practical interpretation of new and unique discoveries from Lengberg Castle and of Roman leather underpants. The significance of unrealised assumptions and unappreciated historic decisions is shown through the discovery of weaving tablets unrecognised during their excavation and the effects of water supply on the outcome of dyeing in Pompeii. Practical investigations of historic resist dyeing, methods to selectively colour early Byzantine embroidery after its completion, and how the choice of metal in dyeing kettles influences dyeing outcomes make up the rest of this volume. The European Textile Forum provides a place where ideas can be exchanged and aims to give a good practical foundation for further research. The end result is an understanding of each aspect of historic textiles that is greater

than the sum of its individual parts. 144p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781789251203 Pb £35.00

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LandscapePeople in the MountainsCurrent Approaches to the Archaeology of Mountainous LandscapesEdited by Andrzej Pelisiak, Marek Nowak & Ciprian AstalosMountain landscapes were first exploited by farming populations at the very beginning of the Neolithic. However, there are controversies regarding when and where these specific types of human behaviour developed. This book presents research results from different scientific contexts. To discuss these issues, and to study different aspects of human activity in the mountains and adjacent regions i ts chapters deploy archaeological, botanical, zooarchaeological and ethnological information. 234p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918170 Pb £35.00

Conflict Landscapes and Archaeology From AboveEdited by Birger Stichelbaut & David CowleyThis volume brings together a wide range of perspectives to conflict archaeology, setting traditional approaches that draw on historical and contemporary aerial photographs alongside cutting-edge prospection techniques, cross-disciplinary analyses and innovative methods of presenting this material to audiences. Organized in four parts, the first three sections take a broadly chronological approach, exploring the use of aerial evidence to expand our understanding of the two World Wars and the Cold War. The final section explores ways that the aerial perspective can be utilized to represent historical landscapes to a wide audience. 336p, (Routledge 2016, Pb 2018) 9781472464385 Hb £72.99, 9781138307230 Pb £34.99

Oceanic HistoriesEdited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford & Sujit SivasundaramOceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth’s surface covered by water. Individual chapters trace the histories and the historiographies of the various oceanic regions, with special attention given to the histories of circulation and particularity, the links between human and non-human history and the connections and comparisons between parts of the World Ocean. 338p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108423182 Hb £76.99, 9781108434829 Pb £19.99

Historical Archaeologies of Transhumance Across EuropeEdited by Eugene CostelloThis volume brings together recent advances in the study of European transhumance during historical times, from Sweden to Spain, Romania to Ireland, and beyond that even Newfoundland. While the focus is on the archaeology of seasonal sites used by shepherds and cowherds, the contributions exhibit a high degree of interdisciplinarity. Documentary, cartographic, ethnographic and palaeoecological evidence all play a part in the examination of seasonal movement and settlement in medieval and post-medieval landscapes. 272p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9780815380320 Hb £115.00

Language and ClassificationMeaning-Making in the Classification and Categorization of CeramicsBy Allison BurketteThis volume adopts a practice-based approach to examine the different ways in which classification is communicated and negotiated in different environments within archaeology. The book looks specifically at the archaeological classification of ceramics as a lens through which to examine the discursive and social practices inherent in the classification and categorization process, with perspectives from such areas as corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology forming the foundation of the book’s theoretical framework. 176p, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138243361 Hb £115.00

Interchange in Pre – and ProtohistoryCase Studies in Iberia, Romania, Turkey and IsraelEdited by Ana Cruz & Juan F. GibajaThis book, constructed around a central theme rather than a specific time period or region, aims to show how different researchers working on different topics address the inter-relationships between groups in pre – and protohistoric periods. It presents some of the methodologies that are being used to analyse and determine the origin of raw materials used in the preparation of ornaments, ceramic vessels, lithic instruments, and other objects. 214p, b/w illus (BAR S 2891, 2018) 9781407316369 Pb £44.00

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The Land Was Forever15000 Years in North-East Scotland: Excavations on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie-TippertyBy Kirsty Dingwall, Matt Ginnever, Sorina Spanou, Richard Tipping & Jürgen van WesselEight sites were excavated along the route of the A b e r d e e n W e s t e r n Peripheral Route between Balmedy to Tipperty. The sites are mostly multi-period. Extensive specialist analysis h a s b e e n u n d e r t a ke n on all sites, along with a programme of radiocarbon dating, OSL dating and Bayesian analysis. During the excavations, it was apparent how the specific landscape of each site was key to the activities taking place there, the periods and duration of activity and the extent to which people were passing through or settling.

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The Tundzha Regional Archaeology ProjectSurface Survey, Palaeoecology, and Associated Studies in Central and Southeast Bulgaria, 2009–2015 Final ReportEdited by Shawn A. Ross, Adela Sobotkova, Julia Tzvetkova, Georgi Nekhrizov & Simon ConnorThis volu me presents the results of diachronic a r c h a e o l o g i c a l a n d palaeoecological research conducted in two study areas: the intermontane Kazanlak Valley along the Upper Tundzha River, and the Thracian Plain along the Middle Tundzha River Major field activities of the project included over 100 sq km of systematic pedestrian survey, legacy data verification and mapping, trial excavations, artefact processing, and environmental sampling in and around the study areas. At the heart of the volume is a geospatial analysis of settlement patterns derived from the survey dataset, which relates the footprint of past human activities to environmental and sociocultural drivers.

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Landscape Beneath the WavesThe Archaeological Exploration of Underwater LandscapesBy Caroline Wickham-JonesAt the end of the last Ice Age, sea level around the world was lower, coastal lands stretched further and the continents were bigger, in some cases landmasses were joined by dry land that has now disappeared beneath the waves. The study of the now submerged landscapes that our ancestors knew represents one of the last barriers for archaeology. Only recently have advances in underwater technology reached the stage where a wealth of procedures are available to explore this lost undersea world. This volume considers the processes behind the rising (and falling) of relative sea-levels and then presents the main techniques available for the study and interpretation of the archaeological remains that have survived inundation.

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Freshwater Fish in EnglandA Social and Cultural History of Coarse Fish from Prehistory to the Present DayBy Alison LockerMuch has been written on marine fishing and for the migratory eel and salmon. Less attention has focused on the obligate freshwater species, primarily the native pike, perch, cyprinids and introduced species of which the most significant is carp. Their exploitation by man has changed from food to sport more dramatically in England and the British Isles than in Europe. They have also been used as elite statements, symbols of lineage, in religion and art. Much of the early evidence is confined to fish bones from archaeological sites and indicators of diet from isotopic analyses of human bones. From the Medieval period these data sources are increasingly complemented and ultimately superseded by documentary sources and material culture.

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YorkshireA Lyrical History of England’s Greatest CountyBy Richard MorrisIn Yorkshire, Richard Morris looks beyond stereotypes, exploring interact ions b e t w e e n l a n d s c a p e , language, and memory. The county is one of Europe’s most geologically varied areas with mountain, plain, coast, chalk hills, wetland and heath. Morris explores the tumultuous history of God’s Own County and asks why it has so often been to the fore in times of conflict or tension. Outward-lookingness is a repeating theme, and Morris shows that Yorkshire has always been both a region with a distinct identity inside Britain and a fulcrum in the world. 320p, b/w illus (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2018) 9780297609438 Hb £25.00

Abandoned VillagesBy Stephen FiskOver the centuries many villages in Britain have been abandoned. This book describes the natural and man-made causes, from coastal erosion to the closing of old mines. Evidence from archaeology and historical records is summarised, and for more recent settlements the accounts of former residents are quoted. 64p, b/w illus (Amberley 2018) 9781445679174 Pb £8.99

EDITOR’S CHOICEA History of Scotland’s LandscapesBy Fiona Watson & Piers DixonThe footprints of the past can be found everywhere across our modern landscape. The very shapes of our fields tell us of the passing of the Romans and the labours of medieval peasants; while many hundreds of years later, great heaps of abandoned spoil mark the rapid decline of heavy industry in the latter

half of the twentieth century. A History of Scotland’s Landscape’s explores the many ways that we have used and changed

our environment over thousands of years. Full of maps, photographs and drawings, it offers a remarkable perspective on Scotland – a unique guide to tracing memories, events and meanings in the forms and patterns of our surroundings.

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Storied GroundLandscape and the Shaping of English National IdentityBy Paul ReadmanIn Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance i n s h a p i n g E n g l i s h national identity amid the transformations of modernity. The book takes us from the fells of the Lake District to the uplands of Northumberland; from the streetscapes of industrial Manchester to the heart of London. This panoramic journey reveals the significance, not only of the physical characteristics of landscapes, but also of the sense of the past, collective memories and cultural traditions that give these places their meaning. 348p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108424738 Hb £24.99

Paths to the PastEncounters with Britain’s Hidden LandscapesBy Francis PryorBringing to bear a lifetime’s digging , archaeologis t Francis Pryor delves into Britain’s hidden urban and rural landscapes, from Whitby Abbey to the navvy camp at Risehill in Cumbria, from Tintagel to Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm. Through fields, woods, moors, roads, tracks and towns, he reveals the stories of our physical surroundings and what they meant to the people who formed them, used them and lived in them. 160p (Penguin 2018) 9780241299982 Hb £16.99

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RiversidesNeolithic Barrows, a Beaker Grave, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement at Trumpington, CambridgeBy Christopher Evans, Sam Lucy & Ricky PattenThe 2010–11 excavations along Trumpington’s riverside proved extraordinary on a number of accounts. Particularly for its ‘dead’, as it included Neolithic barrows (one with a mass interment), a double Beaker grave and an Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery, with a rich bed-burial interment in the latter accompanied by a rare gold cross. Associated settlement remains were recovered with each. Most significant was the site’s Early Iron Age occupation. This yielded enormous artefact assemblages and was intensively sampled for economic data, and the depositional dynamics of its pit clusters are interrogated in depth. 484p b/w illus (McDonald Institute 2018) 9781902937847 Hb £45.00

A Taphonomic Approach to the Re-analysis of the Human Remains From the Neolithic Chamber Tomb of Quanterness, OrkneyBy Rebecca CrozierMegalithic tombs in Orkney have yielded some of the largest volumes of human remains in Neolithic Britain. The data presented in this study draws attention to subtle variations in funerary ritual between and within the tombs, and pushes for a dramatic reconsideration of our current understanding of the practices and cosmologies associated with these enigmatic structures. 333p, b/w and col illus (BAR BS 635, 2018) 9781407315713 Pb £50.00

Reindeer Hunters at Howburn Farm, South LanarkshireBy Torben Bjarke BallinThis volume presents the lithic assemblage from Howburn in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which at present is the oldest prehistoric settlement in Scotland (12,700-12,000 BC), and the only Hamburgian settlement in Britain. The book focuses on the Hamburgian finds, which are mainly based on the exploitation of flint from Doggerland. The tools include tanged arrowheads, scrapers, piercers, burins, and other implement forms which show similarities with tools of the same age on the European continent. 144p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919016 Pb £25.00

The Gwithian LandscapeMolluscs and Archaeology on Cornish Sand DunesBy Thomas M. WalkerThe present work explores the palaeoenvironment of the area around the settlement sites at Gwithian, from the Neolithic, when sand dunes initially developed in the Red River valley, to the present post-industrial landscape. Multiproxy analyses on sediments from coring, a test pit and mollusc columns provide a view of the changing landscape and how it may have influenced, or been influenced by, human presence and sett lement. Mollusc studies are used as the principal analytical method. 210p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918033 Pb £38.00

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Kingdom, Civitas, and CountyThe Evolution of Territorial Identity in the English LandscapeBy Stephen RipponThis book explores the development of territorial identity in the late prehistoric, Roman, and early medieval periods. Over the course of the Iron Age, a series of marked regional variations in material culture and landscape character emerged across eastern England that reflect the development of discrete zones of social and economic interaction. Stepehn Rippon shows how these socio-economic zones corresponded to Late Iron Age Kingdoms, and subsequently to Roman administrative districts. He reviews the evidence for the emergence of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, again seeing a high degree of territorial continuity. 464p (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198759379 Hb £85.00

A Journey through TimeCrossrail in the Lower Thames FloodplainBy Graham SpurrThrough analysis of the archaeology investigated along the Crossrail south-east line, which diverts from the main west–east route across the Thames floodplain from Stepney Green to Abbey Wood, this book tells the story of the lower Thames throughout the Holocene (from c. 10,000 years ago to the present), and in so doing introduces the techniques of geoarchaeology. 60p col illus (MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) 2018) 9781907586422 Pb £10.00, NYP

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Clifton Quarry, WorcestershirePits, Posts and Cereals: Archaeological Investigations 2006–2009By Robin Jackson & Andrew MannBetween 2006 and 2009 Worcestershire Archaeology completed a series of investigations in advance of quarrying at Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire revealing one of the most important sequences of prehistoric to early medieval activity discovered to date from the Central Severn Val ley. Well -preserved palaeoenvironmental deposits were recovered from features and associated abandoned channels of the River Severn. Analysis of this evidence is underpinned by a comprehensive programme of scientific dating, providing a record of changing patterns of landuse and activity from the Late Mesolithic onwards. Significant discoveries included a series of Grooved Ware pits and an extensive area of Early to Middle Iron Age activity.

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Big Men or Chiefs?Rondel Builders of Neolithic EuropeBy Jaroslav Řídký, Petr Květina, Petr Limburský, Markéta Končelová & Pavel BurgertThis volume reassesses the circular architecture of the central European Neolithic, with dimensions of many tens of metres, from which only negative imprints of the ditches and imprints of posts in the form of postholes or narrow trenches are preserved to this day. The authors ask whether these structures, most often termed rondels, can be regarded as ‘architecture of power’ – the first clear evidence of thought-out power strategies of some individuals or their groups. Using anthropological terms – were they skilful and exceptional entrepreneurs with an ad hoc status (such as Big Men) living in egalitarian/segmented communities, or rather powerful Chiefs living in rank and hereditary based societies/chiefdoms?

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The Beaker PeopleIsotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric BritainEdited by Mike Parker Pearson, Andrew Chamberlain, Mandy Jay, Mike Richards & Jane EvansThe Beaker People: Isotopes, Mo b i l i ty a n d D i e t i n Prehistoric Britain presents the results of a major project that sought to address a century-old question about the people who were buried with Beakers – the distinctive pottery of Continental origin that was current, predominantly in equally distinctive burials, in Britain from around 2450 BC. Who were these people? Were they immigrants and how far did they move around? What did they eat? What was their lifestyle? How do they compare with Britain’s earlier inhabitants and with contemporaries who did not use Beaker pottery? An international team of leading archaeologists and scientists, led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson, was assembled to address these questions. Around 300 skeletons were subjected to isotope analysis to explore patterns of mobility and diet, and 150 new radiocarbon dates were obtained.

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Excavations at Milla Skerra, SandwickRhythms of Life on Iron Age UnstBy Olivia LelongThe Iron Age settlement at Milla Skerra was occupied for at least 500 years before it was covered with storm-blown sand and abandoned. Excavation revealed many details of the life of the settlement and how it was reused over many generations. Thousands of artefacts and environmental remains from Milla Skerra reveal the everyday practices and seasonal rhythms of the people that lived in this windswept and remote island settlement and their connections to both land and sea.

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EDITOR’S CHOICENeolithic BritainThe Transformation of Social WorldsBy Keith Ray & Julian ThomasNeolithic Britain provides an up to date, concise introduction to the period of British prehistory from c. 4000-2200 BCE. Written on the basis of a new appreciation of the chronology of the period, the result reflects both on the way that archaeologists write narratives of the Neolithic, and how Neolithic people constructed histories of their own. Important recent developments have resulted in a dual realisation: firstly, highly focused research into individual site chronologies can indicate precise and particular time narratives; and secondly,

this new awareness of time implies original insights about the fabric of Neolithic society, embracing matters of inheritance,

kinship and social ties, and the ‘descent’ of cultural practices. The new perspective provided in this volume stems from a greater awareness of the ways in which unfolding events and transformations in societies depend upon the changing

relations between individuals and groups, mediated by objects and architecture. 384p, b/w and col illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198823896 Hb £30.00

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Axe-heads and IdentityAn Investigation into the Roles of Imported Axe-Heads in Identity Formation in Neolithic BritainBy Katharine WalkerThe significant body of stone and flint axe-heads imported into Britain from the Continent has been poorly understood, overlooked and undervalued in Neolithic studies. It is proposed, in this study, that the cause is a bias of British Neolithic scholarship against the invasion hypothesis and diffusionist model, and it seeks to re-assess the significance accorded to these objects. It re-focuses on the material, establishing a secure evidence base, and exploring the probable conditions in which these often distinctive items made their way to Britain. 334p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917449 Pb £40.00

Sites of Prehistoric Life in Northern IrelandBy Harry Welsh & June WelshThis monograph brings together information on all the currently known sites in Northern Ireland that are in some way associated with prehistoric life. A total of 1580 monuments are recorded in the inventory, ranging from burnt mounds to hillforts. Along with a selection of photographs and plans, the work also includes an introduction to the prehistory of Northern Ireland, an explanation of terms and a full bibliography. 2 4 0 p , b /w i l l u s , co l p l s (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917937 Pb £38.00

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSMyth and MaterialityBy John WaddellThe aim of this book is to promote the thesis that myth may illuminate archaeology and that on occasion archaeology may shed light on myth. Medieval Irish literature is rich in mythic themes and some of these are used as a starting point. Some myths are of great antiquity and some were invented by contemporary authors. It is a challenging source, first explored in the author’s earlier work Archaeology and Celtic Myth; this work elaborates on some of the themes pursued there and introduces some new ones. John Waddell brings a lifetime’s experience of studying Irish history, Bronze Age archaeology and Celtic mythology in this personal and lively exploration of mythology and its archaeological expression. 192p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709753 Pb £15.99

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Prehistoric EuropeSplendid IsolationThe Eruption of the Laacher See Volcano & Southern Scandinavian Late Glacial Hunter-GatherersBy Felix RiedeThis volume investigates the cultural evolution of late Ice Age forager societies at the northern edge of Europe. It summarises more than ten years of research that connects the cataclysmic eruption of the Laacher See volcano in present-day western Germany with contemporary cultural changes. It also offers an in-depth treatment of the eruption’s impact on plants, animals and people as well as its cultural-historical consequences. 250p, (Aarhus UP 2018) 9788771241273 Hb £30.00

Vængesø and HolmegårdErtebølle Fishers and Hunters on DjurslandBy Søren H. AndersenThis volume presents the collated results of a number of archaeological investigations undertaken on the Danish peninsula Djursland over a period of almost 40 years. It begins with the findings of the excavations carried out around the former marine lagoon of Vængesø in the northeastern part of the Helgenæs penin¬sula. Then follows an overview of an excavation undertaken at the site of Holmegaard, located on the former Stubbe Fjord complex. 285p (Aarhus UP 2018) 9788771248869 Hb £30.00, NYP

EAA 163Iron Age and Roman Settlement: Rescue Excavations at Lynch Farm 2, Orton Longueville, PeterboroughBy Stephen G. UpexThree major archaeological excavations were carried out in a meander of the River Nene, west of Peterborough, during the early 1970s. Peripheral areas within the meander were thought to lack archaeological significance, however, once gravel extraction started, remains of Roman buildings were found and work was halted while rescue excavation took place (described here as Lynch Farm 2). 200p, b/w illus (East Anglian Archaeology 2018) 9780952810520 Pb £20.00

Along Prehistoric LinesNeolithic, Iron Age and Romano-British Activity at the Former MOD Headquarters, Durrington, WiltshireBy Steve Thompson & Andrew PowellAn excavation in 2010–12 on the site of the former MoD Headquarters in Durrington, immediately north-east of Stonehenge, revealed evidence spanning the post-glacial to the post-medieval periods. Significant discoveries include a relatively deeply buried Late Glacial Allerød soil, and a zone of Late Neolithic activity centred on a number of natural solution hollows, posthole alignments and pit groups. The Late Iron Age defences, probably constructed in the immediate pre-Conquest period and decommissioned soon after, influenced the layout of early Romano-British fields and settlement activity. 130p, b/w and col illus (Wessex Archaeology 2018) 9781911137047 Pb £15.00

The Classification of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Copper and Bronze Axe-heads from Southern BritainBy Stuart P. NeedhamThis work presents a comprehensive classification of the morphology of early metal age axe-heads, chisels and stakes from southern Britain. It is illustrated by a type series of 120 representative examples. Despite their relative simplicity, flat and early flanged axes from Britain and Ireland show considerable diversity in form. The main variation lies in outline shapes and the classification scheme arrived at therefore depends on careful evaluation of condition, followed by rigorous analysis of shape using metrical ratios. 74p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917401 Pb £22.00

Life on the EdgeThe Neolithic and Bronze Age of Iain Crawford’s Udal, North UistEdited by Beverley Ballin SmithThe discovery of archaeological structures in North Uist in 1974 after storm damage led to the identification by Iain Crawford of a kerb cairn complex, with a cist and human remains. Six years later he went back, and over the next three years excavated another cist with human remains in its kerbed cairn, many bowl pits dug into the blown sand, and down to two late Neolithic structures and a ritual complex. He intensively studied the environmental conditions affecting the site and was among the first archaeologists in Scotland to understand the climate changes taking place at the transition between late Neolithic and the early Bronze Age. 304p col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917708 Hb £25.00

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Megalithic Tombs in Western IberiaEdited by Chris ScarreThis volume takes recent excavations at Lajinha, a small megalithic tomb in the hill-country north of the River Tagus, and the adjacent site of Cabeço dos Pendentes as the starting point for a broader consideration of the megalithic tombs of western Iberia. Key themes addressed are relevant to megalithic tombs more generally, including landscape, chronology, settlement and interregional relationships. Over what period of time were these tombs built and used? Do they form a horizon of intensive monument construction, or were the tombs the product of a persistent, long-lived tradition? How do they relate to the famous rock art of the Tagus valley, and to the cave burials and open-air settlements of the region, in terms of chronology and landscape?

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Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistoric BalkansEdited by Maria Ivanova, Bogdan Athanassov, Vanya Petrova, Desislava Takorovo & Philipp StockhammerThis volume brings together l e a d i n g s p e c i a l i s t s i n archaeobotany, economic z o o a r c h a e o l o g y a n d palaeoanthropology to discuss practices of food production and consumption in their social dimensions from the Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age in the Balkans, a region with intermediary position between and the Aegean Sea on one side and Central Europe and the Eurasian steppe regions on the other side. In a series of transdisciplinary studies, the contributors shed new light on the various social dimensions of food in a synchronous as well as diachronic perspective. Contributors present a series of case studies focused on themes of social interaction, communal food preparation and consumption, the role of feasting, and the importance and management of salt production.

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Exploring Celtic OriginsEdited by Barry Cunliffe & John KochExploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. Led by Sir Barry Cunliffe and John Koch, the contributors present multidisciplinary chapters in a lively user-friendly style, aimed at accessibility for workers in the other fields, as well as general readers. 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?

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First TextilesThe Beginnings of Textile Production in Europe and the MediterraneanEdited by Małgorzata Siennicka, Lorenz Rahmstorf & Agata UlanowskaThe beginning of textile manufacture whilst still vague can be traced back to the upper Palaeolithic. Important developments in textile technology, e.g. weaving, spinning with a spindle, introduction of wool, appeared in Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. This book is devoted to early textile production in Europe and the Mediterranean and aims to collect and investigate the combined evidence of textile and leather remains, tools, workplaces and textile iconography. The chapters discuss the recent achievements in the research of ancient textiles their production, and techniques such as spinning, fabric and skin manufacture, use of textile tools and experimental textile archaeology. The volume explores important cultural and social aspects of textile production, and its development.

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Daily Life at the Turn of the NeolithicA Comparative Study of Longhouses With Sunken Floors at Resengaard and Nine Other Settlements in the Limfjord Region, South ScandinaviaBy Simonsen JohnThis book provides unique insights into Late Neolithic life, its organization and its economy, made possible by an altogether exceptional collection of recent archaeological findings in South Scandinavia from longhouses with sunken floors dating from this period. Through analysis and interpretation of these comprehensive materials, Danish archaeologist John Simonsen presents brand new findings essential for many wider interpretations of this crucial and fascinating transitional period from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age (c. 2350 – c. 1600 BC). 536p (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788793423145 Hb £48.00

Une maison sous les dunesBeg ar Loued, Île Molène, Finistère: Identité et Adaptation des Groupes Humains en Mer d’Iroise Entre Les IIIe et IIe Millénaires Avant Notre ÈreEdited by Yvan Pailler & Clément NicolasSince 2001, archaeological research has been conducted in the Molène Archipelago, an area that is particularly rich in remains from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. For nearly a decade, the settlement site at Beg ar Loued has been excavated by an interdisciplinary team. The data that have been obtained from this fieldwork provide information on the chronology of the various periods of occupation of the site and help to document the 3rd–2nd millennium BC transition. French text. 800p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088906138 Hb £300.00, 9789088903809 Pb £100.00, NYP

EDITOR’S CHOICEThe First Farmers of EuropeAn Evolutionary PerspectiveBy Stephen ShennanKnowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from human genomes. In this book, Stephen Shennan presents the latest research on the spread of farming by archaeologists, geneticists and other archaeological scientists. He shows that it resulted from a population expansion from present-day Turkey. Using ideas from the disciplines of human behavioural ecology and cultural evolution, he explains

how this process took place. The expansion was not the result of ‘population pressure’ but of the opportunities for increased

fertility by colonising new regions that farming offered. The knowledge and resources for the farming ‘niche’ were passed on from parents to their children. However, Shennan demonstrates that the demographic patterns associated with the spread of farming

resulted in population booms and busts, not continuous expansion. 266p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108435215 Pb £25.99

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSThe Times of their LivesHunting History in the Archaeology of Neolithic EuropeBy Alasdair WhittleT h e T i m e s o f t h e i r L i v e s ex p l a i n s h ow archaeologists can now move away from thinking about history in terms of thousands of years, to periods from one or two centuries down to lifetimes and generations. This vastly improved precision comes from the application of Bayesian chronological frameworks for the interpretation of radiocarbon dates. This book will show how temporally much more precise accounts of the past can be achieved, across a broad range of contexts and situations. It offers a series of case studies across much of the continent, to provide much more precise timings of key features and trends in the European Neolithic sequence than are currently available, and to construct much more precise estimates of the duration of events and phenomena. At stake is our ability to study the lives of Neolithic people everywhere at the scale of lifetimes, something unimaginable even a few years ago. 240p, (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785706684 Hb £40.00

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Warfare in Bronze Age SocietyEdited by Christian Horn & Kristian KristiansenThe Bronze Age represents the g lobal emergence of a militarized society with a martial culture, materialized in a package of new efficient weapons that remained in use for millennia to come. Warfare became institutionalized and professionalized during the Bronze Age, and a new class of warriors made their appearance. The case studies, written by an international team of scholars, discuss these and other new aspects of Bronze Age warfare. 262p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107185562 Hb £75.00

Iconoclasm and Later PrehistoryBy Henry ChapmanThis book presents the first analysis of iconoclasm for prehistoric periods. Through an examination of the themes of objects, the human body, monuments and landscapes, the book demonstrates how the application of the approaches developed within iconoclasm studies can enrich our understanding of earlier periods in addition to identifying specific events that may be categorised as iconoclastic. 236p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138038707 Hb £110.00

Between History and ArchaeologyPapers in Honour of Jacek LechEdited by Dagmara H. Werra & Marzena WoznyTh ese papers explore topics on archaeology and history, and are organised into three sections. The first contains texts on flint mining dealing with well-known mining sites as well as previously unpublished new material. The following group of papers deals with the use of flint by Neolithic and younger communities, including typological studies on trace evidence analyses as well as theoretical papers on prehistoric periods in Europe and the New World. The final section consists of papers on the history of archaeology in the 19th and 20th centuries. 526p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917722 Pb £80.00

Océan, Céramiques et Îles Dans L’ouest de la FranceBy Benjamin GehresThis book presents research on the development of ceramic production and exchange between the mainland and islands of Brittany from the Neolithic to the Gallo-Roman period. Archaeometric analysis of ceramics is used to explore the development of communication networks between the islands and the mainland. French text. 410p b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088906244 Hb £285.00, 9789088906237 Pb £95.00, NYP

Considering CreativityCreativity, Knowledge and Practice in Bronze Age EuropeEdited by Joanna SofaerThis volume focuses on the outcomes of creativity – material culture – and an exploration of creative practice. The papers in this volume view Bronze Age objects through the lens of creativity in order to offer fresh insights into the interaction between people and the world, as well as the individual and cultural processes that lie behind creative expression. 174p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917548 Pb £33.00

Creativity in the Bronze AgeUnderstanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork ProductionBy Lise Bender Jorgensen, Joanna Sofaer & Marie Louise Stig SorensenThis book explores the nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes, to the design and effects deployed in finished objects. 356p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108421362 Hb £75.00

Death RevisitedThe Excavation of Three Bronze Age Barrows and Surrounding Landscape at Apeldoorn-WieselsewegBy Arjan Louwen & Prof. Dr. David FontijnThis book presents a group of small and inconspicuous barrows that were recently discovered in the forest of Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. During the Bronze Age the mounds of this small barrow group were used as collective graves for what was probably perceived as one specific ‘community of ancestors’. 200p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905810 Hb £135.00, 9789088905803 Pb £45.00, NYP

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The Ancient CeltsSecond EditionBy Barry CunliffeBarry Cunliffe’s classic study of the ancient Celtic world was first published in 1997. Since then huge advances have taken place in our knowledge: new finds, new ways of using DNA records to understand Celtic origins, new ideas about the proto-urban nature of early chieftains’ strongholds, All these developments are part of this fully updated, and completely redesigned edition. 4 8 0 p ( O x f o r d U P 2 0 1 8 ) 9780198752936 Pb £20.00

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSNeolithic BodiesEdited by Penny Bickle & Emilie SibbessonPapers are divided into three themes; l iv ing bodies , the body in death and the representation of the body. In the first section, papers present new research a s s e s s i n g s ke l e t a l evidence, alongside new interpretations of the body in the Southern British Neolithic to examine the lived experience of the body in the Neolithic. The second theme illustrates the variety of approaches arising from the study of death and burial. The third theme examines the body as it is represented in Neolithic art, through artefacts and the stone stele found in Western and Mediterranean Europe. The approaches taken in the papers presented here bridge many different methodologies, ranging from theoretical treatises to methodological debates. Overall, the volume presents the study of the body in the Neolithic as a contested site, at which overlapping research themes meet, and addresses the insights provided by thinking about past bodies. 154p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709012 Pb £40.00

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The Selhurst Park ProjectExcavations at Middle Barn, Selhurstpark Farm, Eartham, West Sussex 2005–2008By George AnelayExcavations at Middle Barn, Selhurst Park, Eartham uncovered a Middle Iron Age to early Roman farmstead, sitting upon the southern slopes of the South Downs in West Sussex, and overlooking the Sussex coastal plain. While the structural remains were unremarkable for a site of this type, consisting of the probable remains of three roundhouses, surrounded by a network of ditched enclosures, the recovered artefact assemblages were substantial and important. Of particular note were three large pits, cut into the chalk, and backfilled with structured deposits of pottery, animal bone, grain and fired clay. Not only do these bear testimony to notable Iron Age feasting events, but their assemblages fill significant gaps in our understanding of regional pottery traditions and agricultural practices from the Middle to the Late Iron Age.

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From the Archaeological Record to Virtual ReconstructionThe Application of Information Technologies at an Iron Age Fortified Settlement (San Chuis Hillfort, Allande, Asturias, Spain)By Juana Molina SalidoFrom the Archaeological R e c o r d t o V i r t u a l Reconstruction describes the use of New Information Te c h n o l o g i e s f o r t h e analyses and interpretation of archaeological record of the San Chuis Hillfort (San Martín de Beduledo, Allande, Asturias, Spain). At the end, having studied and investigated the site’s urban evolution throughout its occupation period (890 cal. BP – 530 cal. AD), a virtual reconstruction of the hillfort in its different settlement phases, presenting various evolution scenarios is presented. 200p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918750 Pb £40.00

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Among Herders of Inner MongoliaThe Haslund-Christensen Collection at the National Museum of DenmarkBy Christel BraaeThis is a study of a unique collection of Inner Mongolian artefacts at the National Museum of Denmark, obtained during two expeditions in the 1930s. They are described, analysed and presented in a catalogue of more than 800 items, documenting the daily life of pastoral society in and around the tent, in the herding of the animals, in caravan trade and in hunting, crafts, sports and games, and in ritual life. 1000p col illus (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788779343955 Hb £70.00

Problems of Chronology in Gandharan ArtProceedings of the First International Workshop of the Gandhara Connections Project, University of Oxford, 23rd–24th March, 2017Edited by Wannaporn Rienjang & Peter StewartBuilding upon the most recent, cross-disciplinary research, debate and excavation, this volume reinforces a new consensus about the chronology of Gandhara, bringing the history of Gandharan art into sharper focus than ever. By considering this tradition in its wider context, alongside contemporary Indian art and subsequent developments in Central Asia, the authors also open up fresh questions and problems which a new phase of research will need to address. 172p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918552 Pb £32.00

Empires of Ancient EurasiaThe First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE – 250 CEBy Craig BenjaminThe Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness o f a n c i e n t E u r a s i a n civilizations. Craig Benjamin explores the processes that allowed for the comingling of so many goods, ideas, and diseases around a geographical hub deep in central Eurasia. He argues that the first Silk Roads era was the catalyst for an extraordinary increase in the complexity of human relationships and collective learning, a complexity that helped drive our species inexorably along a path towards modernity. 250p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107535435 Pb £19.99

World ArchaeologyForthcoming from Oxbow Books

Extracting StoneThe Archaeology of Quarry LandscapesBy Anne S. Dowd & Mary Beth D. TrubbittThis exciting new addition to the American Landscapes series provides an in-depth account of how flintknappers obtained and used stone based on archaeological, ge o l o g i c a l , l a n d s c a p e , and anthropological data. Featuring case studies from three key regions in North America, this book gives readers a comprehensive view of quarrying activities ranging from extracting the raw material to creating finished stone tools. Authors Dowd and Trubitt show how sites functioned in a broad landscape context, which site locations or raw material types were preferred and why, what cultures were responsible for innovative or intensive quarry resource extraction, as well as how land use changed over time. Besides discussions of the way that industrialists used natural resources to change their technology by means of manufacture, trade, and exchange, examples are given of heritage sites that people can visit in the United States and Canada.

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The Oxford Handbook of the IncasEdited by Sonia Alconini & R. Alan CoveyThe scope of this handbook is comprehensive. It places the century of Inca imperial expansion within a broader historical and archaeological context, and then turns from Inca origins to the imperial polit ical economy and institutions that facilitated ex p a n s i o n . Prov i n c i a l and frontier case studies explore the negotiation and implementation of state policies and institutions, and their effects on the communities and individuals that made up the bulk of the population. Several chapters describe religious power in the Andes. 864p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190219352 Hb £115.00

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSThe Archaeology of Western SaharaA Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009By Jo Clarke & Nick BrooksDuring the last ten years, the Western Sahara Project has undertaken large scale archaeological a n d e nv i r o n m e n t a l research that has begun to address the gaps in our knowledge of the archaeology and palaeoenvironments of Western Sahara, and to develop narratives of prehistoric cultural adaptation and change from the end of the Pleistocene to the Late Holocene and place it within its wider Saharan context. A detailed discussion of past environmental change and a presentation of results from the environmental component of the extensive survey work are provided. A typology of built stone features– monuments and funerary architecture is presented together with the results of the archaeological component of the extensive survey work. Chapters focusing on intensive survey work in key study areas consider the landscape contexts of monuments and the results of excavation of burial cairns and artefact scatters. 256p, b/w illus, col pls (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781782971726 Hb £55.00

Transforming the LandscapeRock Art and the Mississippian CosmosEdited by Carol Diaz-Granados, Jan Simek, George Sabo & Mark WagnerThis beautifully illustrated v o l u m e e x a m i n e s American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. The focus is on the widespread use of cosmograms depicted in Mississippian rock art imagery. This approach anchors broad distributional patterns of motifs and themes within a powerful framework for cultural interpretation, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, ceremonialism, and religion. 240p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785706288 Pb £38.00

Landscape, Land-Change & Well-Being in the Lesser AntillesCase Studies from the Coastal Villages of St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory, DominicaBy Charlotte Eloise StancioffThis research investigates the changing landscape and land use in two case studies of the coastal villages of St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory of Dominica. By integrating human and ecological aspects of agrarian landscapes, this research analyses how land degradation or land change impacts cultural ecosystem services, and ultimately disrupts community wellbeing.300p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905872 Hb £135.00, 9789088905865 Pb £48.00, NYP

Seascape CorridorsModeling Routes to Connect Communities Across the Caribbean SeaBy Emma Ruth SlaytonIn this book past maritime connections are modelled between indigenous island communities in the Caribbean. It evaluates how routes connected islands in the Caribbean. 340p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905780 Hb £135.00, 9789088905773 Pb £45.00, NYP

The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric OceaniaEdited by Terry L. Hunt & Ethan E. CochraneOceania was the last region on earth to be permanently inhabited, with the final settlers reaching Aotearoa/New Zealand approximately AD 1300. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents comprehensive coverage of the region by Oceania’s leading archaeologists and allied researchers. Chapters describe the cultural sequences of the region’s major island groups, provide the most recent explanations for diversity and change in Oceanic prehistory, and lay the foundation for the next generation of research. 512p (Oxford UP 2018) 9780199925070 Hb £97.00

Archaeology of Pacific OceaniaInhabiting a Sea of IslandsBy Mike CarsonThis book integrates a region-wide chronological narrative of the archaeology of Pacific Oceania. It explores how and why this vast sea of islands, covering nearly one-third of the world’s surface, came to be inhabited over the last several millennia, transcending significant change in ecology, demography, and society. 488p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138097179 Pb £32.99

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Ceramic manufacturing Techniques and cultural Traditions in Nubia From the 8th to the 3rd Millennium BCExamples From Sai IslandBy Giulia D’ErcoleThis book presents a comprehensive critical analysis of diverse ceramic assemblages from Sai Island, in the Middle Nile Valley of Northern Sudan, on the border between ancient Upper and Lower Nubia. The assemblages included in this study cover about five millennia, spanning the period c. 8000 to c. 2500 BC. A thorough stylistic macroscopic observation of the finds is integrated with a solid technological approach by means of archaeometric petrographic (OM), mineralogical (XRPD) and chemical (XRF) analyses. 204p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916718 Pb £40.00

Egyptian Predynastic Anthropomorphic ObjectsA Study of Their Function and Significance in Predynastic Burial CustomsBy Ryna OrdynatThe aim of this study is to examine anthropomorphic objects in terms of their original context in order to determine what role they played in Predynastic burials. A database comprising all provenanced anthropomorphic Predynastic objects and their placement in the grave, in addition to the details of each grave, has been composed in order to conduct a detailed analysis.. The placement and function seems to have depended on the type of object: for instance, figurines had different placements and meanings to tusks and tags. 128p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917784 Pb £30.00

Egypt at Its Origins 5Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference “Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt”, Cairo, 13th–18th April 2014Edited by Beatrix Midant-Reynes, Yann Tristant & E. M. RyanThis volume, publishing the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt (Cairo, 2014), presents the results of the latest research and discoveries in the field. The 39 articles are organised under five major headings: Settlements and Domestic Activities; Mortuary Archaeology; Technology: Pottery and Lithic Production; Iconography and Writing; Rock Art. 932p (Peeters Press 2018) 9789042934436 Hb £180.00

‘The Most Prominent Dutchman in Egypt’Jan Herman Insinger and the Egyptian Collection in LeidenBy Maarten J. RavenJan Herman Insinger (1854/1918) was a well-known character in the history of Egyptology, mainly because his name has been linked forever with a famous demotic wisdom papyrus now in Leiden. This volume focuses on his pivotal role in the growth of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities. 150p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905520 Hb £90.00, 9789088905513 Pb £30.00, NYP

From the Fjords to the NileEssays in Honour of Richard Holton Pierce on his 80th BirthdayEdited by Pal Steiner, Alexandros Tsakos & Eivind Heldaas SelandFrom the Fjords to the Nile brings together essays by students and colleagues of Richard Holton Pierce. It covers topics on Egypt, the ancient world and the Near East, on archaeological and in particular textual themes. 124p, Ib/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917760 Pb £24.00

My dear Miss RansomLetters between Caroline Ransom Williams and James Henry Breasted, 1898–1935Edited by Kathleen L. SheppardCaroline Louise Ransom Williams (1872–1952) is remembered as the first American u n ive rs i ty- t ra i n e d f e m a l e Egyptologist. This book presents her correspondence with her mentor, James Henry Breasted. 3 2 0 p ( A r c h a e o p r e s s 2 0 1 8 ) 9781784917821 Pb £24.00

The Enlightenment Rediscovery of EgyptologyVitaliano Donati’s Egyptian Expedition, 1759–62By Angela Scattolin MorecroftIn 1759 Vitaliano Donati led an expedition to Egypt under the patronage of King Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia. Charting his tumultuous expedition, this book reveals how, in spite of his untimely death in 1762, Donati managed to send enough items back to Turin to lay the foundations for one of the earliest and largest systematic collections of Egyptology in Europe. 216p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781409447771 Hb £115.00

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The Statues of Raneferef and the Royal Sculpture of the Fifth DynastyBy Verner MiroslavCzech archaeological team discovered in the mortuary temple of Raneferef in Abusir in the 1980s fragments of about a dozen of the statues of the king, including his six complete likenesses. The monograph presents a detailed description and discussion of Raneferef ’s statues in the broader context of the royal sculpture of the Fifth Dynasty. 259p, 107 (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2017) 9788073087456 Hb £120.00

Mummies, Magic and Medicine in Ancient EgyptMultidisciplinary Essays for Rosalie DavidEdited by Campbell Price, Roger Forshaw, Andrew Chamberlain, Paul Nicholson & Robert MorkotThis volume presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civi l isation: mummies, m a g i c a n d m e d i c a l practice. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on human remains, reassessments of ancient texts and modern experimental archaeology, it attempts to answer some of Egyptology’s biggest questions: how did Tutankhamun die? How were the Pyramids built? How were mummies made? 528p (Manchester UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9781784997946 Hb £90.00, 9781784992446 Pb £25.00

EDITOR’S CHOICESaving the PyramidsTwenty First Century Engineering and Egypt’s Ancient MonumentsBy Peter JamesAfter fourteen years working on the historic buildings and temples of Egypt Peter James now presents some of the more common theories surrounding the ‘collapsing’ pyramid – along with new and innovative projections on the

construction of the pyramids and the restoration of some of Cairo’s most monumental structures from the brink of ruin.

The decoding of historic construction from a builder’s perspective is examined and the book provides a new outlook on long-held assumptions, to embrace modern theories in a bid to preserve the past.

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Labour organisation in Middle Kingdom EgyptBy Micol Di TeodoroThe study evaluates work organization in Middle Kingdom Egypt (about 2000 to 1559 BC). It uses written but also heavily archaeological sources. 240p b/w i l lus (Golden House Publications 2018) 9781906137588 Pb £60.00

Company of ImagesModelling the Imaginary World of Middle Kingdom EgyptEdited by Gianluca Miniaci, Maria Carmelo Betro & Stephen QuirkeThis volume explores the fertile imaginary world of Middle Bronze Age Egypt (2000-1500 BC). Images do not exist in their ontological isolation, as atomic unity, but they form a complex agency network with other images and with the society that produced them, hence the title “Company of Images”. Eighteen papers focus on this intricate web, tackling the topic from different perspectives: material culture, archaeological finds, anthropological and social relations, iconographic representations, and analysis of the written sources, including linguistic approaches. The final goal is to highlight theoretical and methodological issues in order to explore connections between the images and their society, people who created images and who were recursively affected by the images they created.526p (Peeters Press 2017) 9789012934955 Hb £115.00

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Manual de Egipcio Medio (Segunda Edicion)By Carlos Gracia ZamaconaA second revised and updated edition of Carlos Gracia Zamacona’s Manual de Egipcio Medio. The book is designed as a primer, written in Spanish, to learn Middle Egyptian (2000-1500 BC). The grammatical explanation is accompanied by a full list of hieroglyphic signs (Gardiner’s plus recent refinements), basic vocabulary, gradual exercises (with translation), and a short, updated bibliography. Spanish text. 254p (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917616 Pb £14.99

From Single Sign to Pseudo-ScriptAn Ancient Egyptian System of Workmen’s Identity MarksBy Ben HaringSome visual communication systems are very similar to writing, but work differently. Identity marks are typical examples of such systems, and this book presents a particularly well-documented marking system used in Pharaonic Egypt as an exemplary case. From Single Sign to Pseudo-Script is the first book to fully discuss the nature and development of an ancient marking system, its historical background, and the fascinating story of its decipherment. 300p (Brill 2018) 9789004357532 Hb £172.00

The Craft of a Good ScribeHistory, Narrative and Meaning in the First Tale of Setne KhaemwasBy Steve VinsonIn The Craft of a Good Scribe, Steve Vinson offers a comprehensive study of the Demotic Egyptian First Tale of Setne Khaemwas (Third Century BCE), the first to appear since 1900. Vinson provides a new textual edition and commentary, and explores the tale’s cultural background, its modern reception, and approaches to its interpretation as a work of literature. 550p (Brill 2018) 9789004353091 Hb £143.00

Exorcism, Illness and Demons in an Ancient Near Eastern ContextThe Egyptian Magical Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345By Susanne BeckPapyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 is one of the most extraordinary manuscripts providing a deeper insight into magic and medicine in Ancient Egypt. The main part of the papyrus deals with the ancient Near Eastern disease demon Sāmānu, who is well known from Sumerian and Akkadian incantations and medical texts. This re-edition of papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 is a revised transliteration, transcription, translation and up-to-date commentary. 175p b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905391 Pb £40.00

Death Is Only The BeginningEgyptian Funerary Customs at the Museum of Ancient Cultures Macquarie UniversityEdited by Yann Tristant & Ellen M. RyanThe Museum of Ancient Cultures (MAC) is the archaeological museum of Macquarie University. This is the first catalogue of the collection detailing 72 Ancient Egyptian artefacts associated with funerary customs, from the Predynastic to the Coptic period. Accompanying articles focus on aspects of Ancient Egyptian funerary culture. 318p (Australian Centre for Egyptology 2017) 9780856688522 Pb £50.00

The Bronze Figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400By Elena TiribilliA Catalogue of bronze figures in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. The museum houses 510 statuettes or fragments of statuettes made of bronze. Most of them represent Egyptian gods, but there are also Hellenistic and Roman figures. 368p b/w illus (Golden House Publications 2018) 9781906137526 Pb £75.00

The Arts of Making in Ancient EgyptVoices, Images, and Objects of Material Producers 2000–1550 BCEdited by Gianluca Miniaci, Juan Carlos Moreno Garcìa, Stephen Quirke & Andréas StauderThe studies in this volume address the mechanisms of production in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, the circulation of ideas among craftsmen, and the profiles of the people involved, based on the material traces, including depictions and writings, the ancient craftsmen themselves left and produced. 275p, b/w and col i l lus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905230 Pb £45.00

The Coffins of the Priests of AmunEgyptian coffins from the 21st Dynasty in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in LeidenEdited by Lara WeissThis edited volume focusses on the lavishly decorated coffins of the Priests of Amon that are currently in the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. Six chapters present the history of the Priests of Amon, the production of their coffins and use-life of the coffins from Ancient Egypt until modern times. 150p col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088904929 Pb £35.00

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From Microcosm to MacrocosmIndividual Households and Cities in Ancient Egypt and NubiaBy Julia Budka & Johannes AuenmüllerThe combination of research questions on the micro-level with the macro-level provides new information about cities and households in Ancient Egypt and Nubia and makes this book unique. Architectural studies as well as analyses of material culture and the new application of microarchaeology, here especially of micromorphology and archaeometric applications, are presented as case studies from sites primarily dating to the New Kingdom (Second Millennium BC). 360p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905995 Hb £195.00, 9789088905988 Pb £65.00, NYP

Thebes in the First Millennium BCArt and Archaeology of the Kushite Period and BeyondEdited by Julia Budka, Elena Pischikova & Kenneth GriffinThis volume is a collection of articles, most of which are based on the talks given at the conference of the same name in Luxor in 2016. It brings together a substantial number of current studies on royal and elite monuments of the First Millennium BC , puts them into a wider context, and fills some gaps in Egyptological scholarship. 380p b/w illus (Golden House Publications 2018) 9781906137595 Pb £75.00, NYP

Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Palaces Volume IEdited by Manfred Bietak & Silvia PrellThis collection of studies on palaces in Ancient Egypt investigates architectural and functional variations and seeks to recognise c a n o n i c a l b u i l d i n g schemes. In addition, the understanding of Ancient Egyptian palaces is amplified with specialist studies regarding architectural and administrative terminology. The combined evidence shows that there was indeed a variability in function, in architecture and in the physical situation of palaces in Ancient Egypt. 309p b/w and col illus (Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2018) 9783700179542 Hb £102.00

Ancient Egyptian CoffinsPast – Present – FutureEdited by Julie Dawson & Helen StrudwickThis collection of papers by leading international experts on the subject of ancient Egyptian coffins, builds on a project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, C a m b r i d g e , t o s t u d y and record in detail its collection. Papers address a series of topics including: the development of coffins in antiquity, including iconographic and text-based studies; the post-antiquity history of coffins, including their acquisition and subsequent treatment in museums around the world; developments in technical examination and methods of studying coffins, especially the use of multispectral imaging to provide non-invasive analysis of materials; and increasing evidence of the re-use of materials and complete re-working of coffins for new owners.

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Ptolemy I SoterA Self-Made ManEdited by Timothy HoweAs the founder of the longest-lasting of all the Hellenistic kingdoms, not only was Ptolemy I an able soldier and ruler, he was also an historian and, in Egyptian eyes, a living god. His own inclination and experience facilitated continuous acts of self-creation in a variety of forms, whether literary, dynastic, artistic, or political. In the pages of his own history, Ptolemy constructed a self-portrait characterized by military courage and deep friendship with Alexander. As ruler of the Egyptian kingdom, Ptolemy experienced an elevated model of kingship very different from the Macedonian one: he consciously embraced the divinity of the Pharaoh. The chapters in this book, written by field experts in numismatics, gender, warfare, historiography, Egyptology and religion, examine the many ways in which Alexander the Great’s most successful Successor consciously made his own legacy.

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JJP Supplement 31 (2017) Journal of Juristic PapyrologyΟΙΝΟΣ: Production and Import of Wine in Graeco-Roman EgyptBy Dorota DzierzbickaThe aim of this book is to investigate the role of local and imported wines on the Egyptian market during the Graeco-Roman period. It seeks to establish where and how wine was manufactured, what was the social base for this industry and what kinds of wine were locally produced, as well as what patterns of distribution wine followed after it left the winery. It also seeks to trace the supply-and-demand mechanisms and channels of distribution of the country’s foreign wine market, and to view Egypt in a wider perspective of Mediterranean trade routes. 527p (Journal of Juristic Papyrology 2018) 9788394684815 Hb £52.00

The Archive of the Architektones Kleon and TheodorosBy B. Van BeekThis book contains an edition of texts from the archive of Kleon and Theodoros, the engineers who were responsible for the upkeep of the large scale irrigation system in the Fayum during the reigns of Ptolemy II and III between 260 and 237 BC. The edition contains the texts with translation and commentary of 124 Greek papyri, of which 37 are published here for the first time; for the others there are numerous new readings and interpretations. 324p, (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042935006 Hb £105.00

The Birdcage of the MusesBy Rolf StrootmanThe Birdcage of the Musesis the first book-length historical study of the golden age of Ptolemaic cultural and scientific patronage. Working from new approaches to premodern imperialism, Rolf Strootman reconsiders the significance of Hellenistic court poetry from the perspective of current empire studies and the sociological study of the court, arguing that artistic, scholarly and scientific production contributed to processes of elite integration in the heterogeneous imperial world system controlled by the Ptolemies. Rejecting the modernist view that poets, scholars and technicians were autonomous outsiders to court society, the author is able to place these men in the social milieu of the court, showing how their professional behavior was ruled by the same mechanisms of gift exchange, etiquette and competition that determined court society as a whole.196p, (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042933507 Pb £85.00

Imaging and Imagining the Memphite NecropolisLiber Amicorum René van WalsemEdited by V. Verschoor, A. J. Stuart & C. DemaréeThe contributions are divided into five themes: Material Culture – Finds at the Necropolis, relating amongst others to the (Anglo-)Dutch excavations of the New Kingdom tombs of Horemheb, Maya & Merit, Meryneith, and others, at Saqqara; Epigraphy – Texts and History, highlighting some surprising textual material connected to Saqqara; Theoretics – Religion and Theory of Egyptology, dealing with the material culture of ancient Egypt; Mastabas – Scenes of Daily Life, revolving around the interpretation of iconographic programmes; Funerary Equipment – Coffins and Stolas. 339p (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042935648 Pb £70.00

Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2015Edited by Miroslav Bárta, Filip Coppens & Jaromír KrejčíThe present volume, containing 43 contributions by 53 scholars, is the result of the fourth “Abusir and Saqqara” conference held in June 2015. Recurring topics of the studies include a focus on archaeology, the theory of artefacts, iconographic and art historian studies, and the research of largely unpublished archival materials. An overwhelming number of contributions (31) are dedicated to various aspects of Old Kingdom archaeology and most present specific aspects linked with archaeological excavations, both past and present. 696p, b/w illus (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2018) 9788073087586 Hb £168.00

The Cemetery of Meir Volume IVThe Tombs of Senbi l and Wekhhotep lBy Naguib Kanawati & Linda EvansThis volume is devoted to the Middle Kingdom tombs of B1 and B2, which belonged to local ruler Senbi I and his son and successor Wekhhotep I. It Presents a full description of both tombs and contains a wealth of information about the art and funeral practices of Egypt’s Twelfth Dynasty. 151p, 72 col pls; 24 b&w folded pls (Australian Centre for Egyptology 2018) 9788566888478 Pb £75.00

Theological Defences of the Canopic Gate in the Saïte PeriodBy Anne-Sophie von BomhardThis work explores the theological defences conceived by the Egyptians at Thonis-Heracleion to guard the Canopic gate, which in the Saïte period was the main entrance to the port of Thonis-Heracleion, the entry-point to Egypt for foreign vessels. The divine forces, including Khonsu-Thoth and Neith, were deployed alongside military forces that were also located at the Canopic gate. This study brings together a range of material evidence for these theological defences. 200p, 103 (Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology 2018) 9781905905409 Hb £45.00

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The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archeology of the Levant and BeyondEdited by Yoshihiro Nishiaki & Takeru AkazawaThis volume compiles the latest research investigating the issues surrounding the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans. The 13 chapters highlight the distinct nature of the cultural occurrences during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods of the Levant, displaying a continuous development as well as a combination of lithic traditions that may have originated in different regions. 218p, b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2018) 9789811068256 Hb £96.50

Signs from SilenceUr of the First SumeriansBy Petr CharvatThe Royal Tombs of Ur, dating from approximately 3000-2700 BCE, are among the most famous and impressive archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century. Based on primary research with the Ur materials at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, and paying particular attention to the iconography found in what Woolley referred to as the “Seal Impression Strata of Ur,” this book works to reconstruct the early history of Sumer, its social structures and institutions of authority. 350p (Karolinum Press 2018) 9788024631301 Pb £30.00

Bronze Age BureaucracyWriting and the Practice of Government in AssyriaBy Nicholas PostgateThis book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using them to analyze the social and economic character of the Middle Assyrian state, as well as the roles and practices of writing. It concentrates particularly on how the Assyrian use of written documentation affected the nature and ethos of government, and compares this to contemporary practices in other palatial administrations at Nuzi, Alalah, Ugarit, and in Greece. 496p, (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9781107043756 Hb £67.00, 9781107619029 Pb £22.99

A History of Babylon, 2200 BC – 75 ADBy Paul-Alain BeaulieuWritten by an expert in the field, this book presents a narrative history of Babylon from the time of its First Dynasty (1880–1595) until the last centuries of the city’s existence during the Hellenistic and Parthian periods (ca. 331–75 AD). Organized chronologically, it places the various socio–economic and cultural developments and institutions in their historical context. 288p (Wiley-Blackwell 2018) 9781405188982 Pb £27.99

Near EastUnderstanding Relations Between Scripts IIEarly AlphabetsEdited by Philippa M. Steele & Philip J. BoyesUnderstanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets brings together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture.

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Relentlessly PlainSeventh Millennium Ceramics at Tell Sabi Abyad, SyriaEdited by Olivier P. NieuwenhuyseThe prehistoric site of Tell Sabi Abyad lies in the valley of the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates in northern Syria. Between 2001 and 2008 excavations focused on the north-western, western and southwestern slopes of the main mound (Operations III, IV and V). Relentlessly Plain presents the results of detailed investigations into the 7th millennium BC ceramic assemblages recovered from those excavations by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Supported by a strong program of radiocarbon dating, extensive excavations have revealed a lengthy, continuous sequence of prehistoric occupation from the start of the Late Neolithic into the Early Halaf period. Pottery changed dramatically in the course of this long trajectory. Initially ceramic containers were visually conspicuous, occasionally decorated, but masses of relentlessly plain pottery characterize subsequent stages.

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Envisioning the Past Through MemoriesHow Memory Shaped Ancient Near Eastern SocietiesEdited by Davide NadaliThe chapters of this volume analyse the value and function of memory within the ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies, combining archaeological, textual and iconographical evidence following a progression from the analysis of the creation and preservation of both single and multiple memories, to the material culture (things and objects) that shed light on the impact of memory on individuals and community. 200p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb2018) 9781474223966 Hb £90.00, 9781350060593 Pb £28.99

Ziyaret TepeExploring the Anatolian frontier of the Assyrian EmpireBy Timothy Matney, John MacGinnis, Dirk Wicke & Kemalettin KorogluZiyaret Tepe, the ancient city of Tuhan, was a provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire. The excavations captured in this richly illustrated book uncovered the palace of the governor, the mansions of the elite and the barracks of the rank and file, charting the history of the empire from its expansion in the early 9th century BC to its fall three centuries later. 232p, col pls (Cornucopia 2017) 9780956594891 Pb £16.95

Assembling CatalhoyukEdited by Ian Hodder & Arkadiusz MarciniakThis volume reports on the exciting new discoveries and advances that are being made in the understanding of the 9000 year-old Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk. It also reports on methodological advances that have been made by team members, including the development of reflexive methods, paperless recording on site, the integrated use of 3D visualization, and interactive archives.202p (Routledge 2015, Pb 2017) 9781910526002 £57.99, 9780815372424 Pb £36.99

Place, Memory, and HealingAn Archaeology of Anatolian Rock MonumentsBy Omur HarmansahFocusing on Anatolian rock monuments carved into the living rock at watery landscapes during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, this book develops an archaeology of place as a theory of cultural landscapes and as an engaged methodology of fieldwork in order to excavate the genealogies of places. The monuments are discussed in the historical and micro-regional context of their making, while the book also investigates how such rock-cut places, springs, and caves are associated with new forms of storytelling, holy figures, miracles, and healing in their post-antique life. 200p (Routledge 2014, Pb 2018) 9780415744881 Hb £115.00, 9781138587632 Pb £36.99

The Elamite WorldEdited by Javier Alvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello & Yasmina WicksThe Elamite World assembles a group of forty international scholars to contribute their expertise to the production of a solid, lavishly illustrated, English language treatment of Elamite civilization, covering topics such as its physical setting, historical development, languages and people, material culture, art, science, religion and society. Also treated are the legacy of Elam in the Persian empire and its presence in the modern world. 928p, (Routledge 2018) 9781138999893 Hb £175.00

Textiles in the Neo-assyrian EmpireA Study on Textile Terminology in Assyrian TextsBy Salvatore GaspaThis book brings together our present-day knowledge about textile terminology in the Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC. The book analyses the terms for raw materials, textile procedures, and textile end products consumed in first-millennium BC Assyria. In addition, a new edition of a number of written records from Neo-Assyrian administrative archives completes the work. 300p (Walter de Gruyter 2018) 9781501510748 Hb £119.95

Danish Archaeological Investigations in Qatar 1956–1974Edited by Flemming HøjlundThe first archaeological surveys and excavations in the state of Qatar were carried out by Moesgaard Museum, Denmark, in 1956-1974. A volume on the Stone Age sites was released by JAS in 1967, and the present publication includes the remaining investigations. Of special interest are several graves with iron swords and arrows and camels and a contemporary settlement with pottery showing close relations to Bahrain and the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. 196p (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788793423091 Hb £35.00

Seals and Sealing in the Ancient WorldCase Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South AsiaEdited by Sarah Scott, Sarah Costello, Marta Ameri & Gregg JamisonUsing several methodological and theoretical perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date research on seals that is comparative in scope and focus. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach advances our understanding of the significance of an important class of material culture of the ancient world. 527p b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107194588 Hb £125.00

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The Archaeology of Imperial LandscapesA Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean WorldEdited by Bleda S. During & Tesse D. StekThe Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires in the Near East and Mediterranean. By highlighting the processes that occur in rural and peripheral landscapes, the volume demonstrates that the archaeology of these non-urban and literally eccentric spheres can provide an important contribution to our understanding of ancient empires. The ‘bottom up’ approach to the study of ancient empires is crucial to understanding how these remarkable socio-political organisms could exist and persist. 410p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107189706 Hb £90.00

Persian ArtImage-Making in EurasiaBy Yuka KadoiIn this illustrated book, nine contributors explore multifaceted aspects of art, architecture and material culture of the Persian cultural realm. Each chapter examines the historical, religious or scientific role of visual culture in the shaping, influencing and transforming of distinctive ‘Persian’ aesthetics across the various historical periods, ranging from pre-Islamic, medieval and early modern Islamic to modern times. 208p, b/w and col illus (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9781474411158 Hb £85.00

EDITOR’S CHOICETroyMyth, City, IconBy Naoise Mac SweeneyFrom the palaces of Homeric epic to the ancestral seat of Roman emperors, Troy in antiquity was a place couched in myth. But for nearly four millennia, Troy was also a living city, inhabited by real people. Troy today is therefore a site of major archaeological and historical significance. In the modern world, however, Troy has become as much a symbol as a site. From movies to computer viruses, from condom branding to reggae records, Troy is a word to conjure with. This book explores the significance of Troy in three areas: the mythic, the archaeological, and the cultural, and highlights the continuing importance of the site today. Including a survey of the archaeological remains of Troy as they are currently

understood, the volume presents an all-inclusive overview of the site’s history, from the Troy of Homer to Classical Antiquity and

beyond. The modern day cultural significance of the Trojan War is also discussed, including re-tellings of the stories or representations of the site and myth, and the more abstract use of Troy as a symbol – as a brand for consumer goods, and as a metaphor for contemporary conflicts.

224p, 30 bw illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781472529374 Pb £19.99

Revolutionizing a WorldFrom Small States to Universalism in the Pre-Islamic Near EastBy Mark Altaweel & Andrea SquitieriThis book argues that the persistence of large states and empires starting in the eighth/seventh centuries BCE, which continued for many centuries, led to new socio-political structures and institutions emerging in the Near East. These patterns of social developments are analysed under different aspects: settlement patterns, urban structure, material culture, trade, governance, language spread and religion, all pointing at movement as the main catalyst for social change. 334p, b/w illus (UCL Press 2018) 9781911576648 Pb £25.00

The Iranian ExpanseTransforming Royal Identity Through Architecture, Landscape and the Built Environment, 650 BCE – 642 CEBy Matthew CanepaThe Iranian Expanse explores how kings in the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment—everything from royal cities and paradise gardens, to hunting enclosures and fire temples—to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies over a thousand years of history. Canepa shows how the Seleucids, Arsacids, and Sasanians played a transformative role in developing a new Iranian royal culture that deeply influenced not only early Islam, but also the wider Persianate world of the Il-Khans, Safavids, Timurids, and Mughals. 505p, b/w illus (University of California Press 2018) 9780520290037 Hb £74.00

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Tracing TechnoscapesThe Production of Bronze Age Wall Paintings in the Eastern MediterraneanEdited by Johannes Becker, Johannes Jungfleisch & Constance von RüdenThis volume provides insights into the various t e c h n i c a l a p p ro a c h e s and underlying bodies of knowledge in the different wall painting traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and throws light on the manner and extent of their possible interwovenness. 230p, b/w and col i l lus ( S i d e s t o n e P r e s s 2 0 1 8 ) 9789088906886 Hb £135.00, 9789088906879 Pb £45.00, NYP

Tel Anafa II, iiiEdited by Andrea M. Berlin & Sharon C. HerbertThis book is the last volume of final reports on the excavations at Tel Anafa by the University of Missouri and the University of Michigan between 1968 and 1986. It includes studies of several categories of finds from the excavations: pottery of the Bronze and Iron Ages, imported Attic pottery, medieval pottery, jewellery, equipment related to textile manufacture, figurines, and the stucco wall decoration that inspired the name of the site’s main structure: the Late Hellenistic Stuccoed Building. 366P b/w illus (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 2018) 9780990662389 Hb £74.00

Baal and the Politics of PoetryBy Aaron TugendhaftThis study provides a thoroughly new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle within the political context of its production. The book argues that the poem, written in the last decades of the Bronze Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses the depiction of a divine world to educate its audience about the nature of human politics. 166p (Routledge 2017) 9781138063624 Hb £105.00

Pessinus and Its Regional Setting, Volume 1Edited by Gocha R. TsetskhladzeThis is the first of two volumes presenting the results of the Melbourne archaeological project at Pessinus in Central Anatolia. The opening chapters discuss the historical background, including the cult of Cybele and the role of Midas. Three others examine two Anatolian archaeological sites (Dorylaion and Zey) that have yielded comparative material and thus clarified the picture we have of Pessinus. Further chapters focus on Pessinus itself. 610p (Peeters Press 2018) 9789042935082 Hb £125.00

Arsacids and SasaniansPolitical Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique PersiaBy M. Rahim ShayeganThis book undertakes a thorough investigation of the diverse range of written, numismatic, and archaeological sources in order to reassess Sasanian political ideology and its sources and influences. It sheds fresh light on the political complexities of early Arsacid and Sasanian history, especially the situation in Babylon and Elymais, and on Roman attitudes towards Sasanian Persia. 569p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2018) 9780521766418 Hb £97.99, 9781108456616 Pb £29.99

Semiramis’ LegacyThe History of Persia According to Diodorus of SicilyBy Jan StronkIn this book Jan Stronk provides the first complete translation of Diodorus’ account of the history of Persia. He also examines and evaluates both Diodorus’ account and the sources he used to compose his work, taking into consideration the historical, political and archaeological factors that may have played a role in the transmission of the evidence he used. 606p (Edinburgh UP 2017, Pb 2018) 9781474432559 Pb £29.99

Plutarch and the PersicaBy Eran AlmagorThis book addresses two historical mysteries. The first is the content and character of the fourth century BCE Greek works on the Persian Achaemenid Empire treatises called the Persica. The second is the method of work of the second century CE biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea (CE 45-120) who used these works to compose his biographies, in particular the Life of the Persian king Artaxerxes. 344p (Edinburgh UP 2018) 9780748645558 Hb £80.00

Dolmens in the LevantBy James A. FraserThis volume shows that dolmens in the Levant mostly concentrate in the eastern escarpment of the Jordan Rift Valley, and in the Galilean hills. They cluster near proto-urban settlements of the Early Bronze I period (3700-3000 BCE) in particular geological zones suitable for the extraction of megalithic slabs. Rather than approaching dolmens as a regional phenomenon, it thus considers dolmens as part of a local burial tradition whose tomb forms varied depending on geological constraints. 374p b/w and col illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138551855 Hb £105.00

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Figurine Makers of Prehistoric Cyprus:Settlement and Cemeteries at SouskiouEdited by Edgar Peltenburg, Diane Bolger & Lindy CreweThe excavations of the settlement and cemetery at Souskiou Laona reported on in this volume paint a very different picture of life on the island during the late 4th and early 3rd millennia BC. Burial practices at other known sites are generally s ingle inhumations in intramural pi t graves , only rarely equipped with artefacts. At Souskiou, multiple inhumations were interred in deep rock-cut tombs clustered in extra-mural cemeteries. Although the sites were also subjected to extensive looting, excavations have revealed complex multi-stage burial practices with arrangements of disarticulated and articulated burials accompanied by a rich variety of grave goods. This unusual treatment of the dead, which has not been recorded elsewhere in Cyprus, shifts the focus from the individual to the communal, and provides evidence for significant changes involving kinship group links to common ancestors.

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Agia Varvara-AlmyrasAn Iron Age Copper Smelting Site in CyprusEdited by Christina Peege, Philippe Della Casa & Walter FasnachtThe Iron Age copper smelting site situated near the Cypriot village Agia Varvara is of particular importance among the ancient copper processing places in the Near East because it has revealed spatial as well as technological aspects of copper production in a hitherto rarely-seen depth of detail. This volume presents the results of a comprehensive post-excavation analysis of the stratigraphy, also of the geology, metallurgical materials (furnaces, tuyeres), finds (pottery, furnace lining, stone tools), as well as a synthesis of the copper smelting technology at Agia Varvara-Almyras. 314p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918156 Pb £48.00

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levantc. 8000-332 BCEEdited by Margreet L. Steiner & Ann E. KillebrewUnique in its treatment of the entire region, this volume offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the current state of the archaeology of the Levant within its larger cultural, h i s to r i c a l , a n d s o c i o -economic contexts. The Handbook also attempts to bridge the modern scholarly and political divide between archaeologists working in this highly contested region. It focuses chronologically on the Neolithic through Persian periods – a time span during which the Levant was often in close contact with the imperial powers of Egypt, Anatolia, Assyria, Babylon, and Persia. 912p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9780199212972 Hb £110.00, 9780198822561 Pb £35.00

Colegio del PilarExcavations in Jerusalem, Christian QuarterEdited by C. Clamer, K. Prag & Jean-Baptiste HumbertThe present publication offers the results of a rare archaeological investigation in the Christian Quarter. A stratigraphic survey showed Ayyubid (XII-XIIIth centuries) occupation on bedrock. Structural remains of the Mamluk period reflected the growth of the city in the XIV-XVth centuries, and a well-preserved stone-built cesspit of this period provided abundant pottery. Most of the volume describes the fully illustrated pottery, organized by stratigraphic context. The analyses of faeces from the cesspit have provided important information on the health of the population at the time. 172p (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042934559 Hb £85.00

Il Complesso Monumentale di Baitokaike (Hoson Sulaiman – Siria)By Tarek AhmadThe architecture of the temple at Baitokaike shares the characteristics that are typical of the Phoenician region especially during the imperial era. Baitokaike corresponds to that Phoenician tradition, but our knowledge about the foundation of these shrines and their development is still limited. This study aims to deepen this topic, while proposing new chronological phases of the site, starting from the time when it was an open cult place, through the architectural analysis of its buildings. 124p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917746 Pb £26.00

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Travellers in TimeImagining Movement in the Ancient Aegean WorldBy Saro WallaceTravellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which the earliest Mediterranean civilizations were affected by population movement. It critiques both traditional culture-history-grounded notions of movement in the region as straightforwardly transformative, and the processual, systemic models that have more recently replaced this view, arguing that newer scholarship too often pays limited attention to the specific encounters, experiences and agents involved in travel. 570p, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138088481 Hb £105.00

Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern MediterraneanBy A. Bernard KnappA wide-ranging study of Bronze Age seafaring and seafarers in the eastern Mediterranean, from Anatolia in the north to Egypt in the south and west to Cyprus. It devotes significant attention to social factors, including: mobility, connectivity, the length and purpose as well as the risk of the journey, the knowledge and experience of navigation and travel, ‘working’ the sea, the impact of distance and access to the exotic upon peoples’ identities and ideologies. 285p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905551 Hb £120.00, 9789088905544 Pb £40.00, NYP

Daidalos at WorkA Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Minoan ArchitectureBy Clairy PalyvouIn this book, architecture is the protagonist and phenomoneology the basic tool of thought. It addresses archaeologists, architectural historians, and architects alike, in the hope that it will prove useful to those interested in understanding the Minoan world through its architecture as much as those interested in exploring architecture through the Minoan paradigm. 260p, b/w illus(INSTAP Academic Press 2018) 9781931534949 Pb £34.00, NYP

The Knossos TabletsBy José L. Melena & Richard J. FirthThe sixth edition of The Knossos Tablets brings for now to completion nearly 120 years of the study of the texts of the Linear B inscriptions from the preeminent Cretan palatial site of the late Minoan Bronze Age. José L. Melena, with assistance on find-spots from Richard Firth and a check of the accuracy of each and every text by an editorial team of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, offers here definitive readings of these archaeologically, linguistically and historically important records. 696p (INSTAP Academic Press 2018) 9781931534963 Hb £55.00, NYP

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Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman WorldBy Nathanael J. AndradeThis book demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the performance of Greekness and Syrianness in Roman Imperial Syria. It posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of ‘hybridity’ or similar concepts. 442p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9781107012059 Hb £76.00, 9781108456531 Pb £22.99

In the Footsteps of King DavidRevelations from an Ancient Biblical CityBy Yosef Garfinkel & Saar GanorIn this f irst-hand and highly readable account, the excavators of Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Valley of Elah reveal how seven years of exhaustive investigation have uncovered a city dating to the time of David – the late 11th and early 10th century bc – surrounded by massive fortifications with impressive gates, a clear urban plan and an abundance of finds. They explain the significance of these discoveries and how they shed new light on David’s kingdom, as well as discussing the link between the Bible, archaeology and history. 256p b/w and col illus (Thames and Hudson 2018) 9780500052013 Hb £24.95

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSFrom the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan ArchaeologyStudies in Honour of Professor Keith BraniganEdited by Maria Relaki & Yiannis PapadatosEvaluating the general frameworks within which Minoan archaeology o p e r a t e s , s c h o l a r s assess the usefulness of chronological horizons in understanding continuity and change and providing a critical framework for the diachronic analysis of culture, the degree to which the study of settlement patterns can reveal structural continuity through time and the political reach of territorial states. The largest portion of discussion is devoted to mortuary practices. Some contributors focus on reassessing the significance of micro-patterns in the articulation of mortuary behaviour, while others emphasize broader temporal and spatial processes that affect practices of ostentatious display in burial, all being unified under the overarching perspective provided by recent osteoarchaeological studies which throw critical light on mortuary ritual and the constitution of the social units using the cemeteries. 320p , b /w (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709265 Pb £38.00

Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, GreeceEdited by Anastasia Papathanasiou, William A. Parkinson, Daniel J. Pullen, Michael L. Galaty & Panagiotis KarkanasAs a sealed, s ingle-component, archaeological s i t e , t h e N e o l i t h i c settlement complex of Alepotrypa Cave is one of the richest sites in Greece and Europe in terms of number of artefacts, preservation of biological materials, volume of undisturbed deposits, and horizontal exposure of archaeological surfaces of past human activity. The goal of this edited volume is to offer a full scholarly interdisciplinary study and interpretation of the results of approximately 40 years of excavation and analysis in one book. 488p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706486 Hb £70.00

Chalasmenos IThe Late Minoan IIIC Settlement. House A.2By Melissa EabyThis is the first volume on the Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Chalasmenos, located near Ierapetra in eastern Crete. House A.2 is a two-room structure on the southwestern edge of the site. The excavation and stratigraphy, architecture, pottery, small finds, and faunal material from the building are presented. The house was used for domestic purposes, serving as the home of an elite (or prospective elite) family, but it also was a meeting and dining place on certain occasions. 206p, b/w illus (INSTAP Academic Press 2018) 9781931534956 Hb £55.00, NYP

The Early Iron AgeThe CemeteriesBy John K. Papadopoulos & Evelyn Lord SmithsonThis volume, the first of two dealing with the Early Iron Age deposits from the Athenian Agora, publishes the tombs from the end of the Bronze Age through the transition from the Middle Geometric to Late Geometric period. An introduction deals with the layout of the four cemeteries of the period, the topographical ramifications, periodization, and a synthesis of Athens in the Early Iron Age. 1120p b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2017) 9780876612361 Hb £95.00

Material Koinai in the Greek Early Iron Age and Archaic PeriodEdited by Søren Handberg & Anastasia GadolouKoine’ was used to describe the new common language dialect that became widespread in the ancient Greek world after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Modern scholars have increasingly used the word to conceptualise regional homogeneities in the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. In this volume, 20 scholars from various disciplines present case studies that focus on the fundamental question of the social and cultural mechanisms that led to the spread and consumption of material culture in the Greek early Iron Age. 362p (Aarhus UP 2018) 9788771843286 Hb £40.00

RhadamanthysEdited by Giorgia Baldacci & Ilaria CaloiThis book gathers together 33 original papers, in Italian and in English, which bring a variety of approaches and perspectives to the Minoan archaeology of Crete, including also the Neolithic period and the beginning of the Early Iron Age. Topics include architecture, iconography, pottery production, landscape and territory, absolute and relative chronology, scripts, cultural relations, and funerary practices. Many contributions focus on Phaistos, seat of the legendary kingdom of Rhadamanthys, and Haghia Triada. 328p (BAR S2884, 2018) 9781407315331 Pb £56.00

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HesperosThe Aegean Seen from the WestEdited by A. Vlachopoulos, Y. Lolos, Robert Laffineur & M. FotiadisTopics include: the nature of Mycenaean presence in Iberia; the spread of the early technology of bronze across the Mediterranean; the expansion of phenomena connected with the Cetina “culture”; the local productions and the Mediterranean trade network of goods, such as the industry of amber, glass and murex; the nature of Mycenaean imports in Italy, the spread of matt-painted pottery in the SW Balkans and the degree of “Mycenaeanization” of Epirus.558p, b/w illus (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042935624 Hb £146.00

Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean WorldBy Thomas F. TartaronBy all accounts a seafaring people, the Mycenaeans e n j o y e d m a r i t i m e connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily. Dr Tartaron, however, argues that local maritime networks, in the form of ‘coastscapes’ and ‘small worlds’, are far more representative of the true fabric of Mycenaean life. He offers a complete template of conceptual and methodological tools for recovering small worlds and the communities that inhabited them. 360p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9781107002982 Hb £86.00, 9781108431361 Pb £25.99

Cycladic Archaeology and ResearchNew Approaches and DiscoveriesEdited by Erica Angliker & John TullyThese papers showcase recent research in Cycladic archaeology. They cover archaeological sites and mater ia ls f rom across the Cycladic islands, and illustrate the diversity of the islands’ material culture across the Geometric , Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique periods. Together, they share common themes such as the importance of connectivity, and the role of each island’s individual landscape and its resources in shaping human activity. 3 6 2 p , b / w a n d c o l i l l u s (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918095 Pb £50.00

Crafting MinoanisationTextiles, Crafts Production and Social Dynamics in the Bronze Age southern AegeanBy Joanne CutlerThe mid second millennium BC material record of the southern Aegean shows evidence of strong Cretan influence. This phenomenon has traditionally been seen in terms of ‘Minoanisation’, but the nature and degree of Cretan influence, and the process/processes by which it was spread and adopted, have been widely debated. This new study addresses the question of ‘Minoanisation’ through a study of the adoption of Cretan technologies in the wider southern Aegean: principally, weaving technology. By examining how technological skills and techniques are learned and considering possible mechanisms for the transmission of such technical knowledge and know-how, new perspectives can be proposed concerning the processes through which Cretan techniques were taken up and imitated abroad.

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Collapse or SurvivalMicro-dynamics of Crisis, Change and Socio-political Endurance in the Late Prehistoric and Early Roman Central MediterraneanEdited by Elisa Perego, Rafael Scopacasa & Silvia AmiconeCollapse or Survival explores l o c a l i s e d p h e n o m e n a o f c r i s i s , u n re s t a n d survival in the ancient Mediterranean, with a focus on the first millennium BC. Contributors provide novel definitions of ‘collapse’ and reconsider notions of crisis and social change by taking a broader perspective that is not necessarily centred on élites. Individual chapters analyse how both high-status and non-élite social agents responded to socio-political rupture, unrest, depopulation, economic crisis, the disintegration of kinship systems, interruption in long-term trade networks, and destruction in war.

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Context and MeaningEdited by S. T. A. M. Mols & E. M. MoormanThis volume contains 81 contributions on ancient wall painting presented at twelfth triennial meeting of the Association Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique (2013). The conference focused on figural themes, and to the iconographical and iconological problems of paintings considered in relation to their specific contexts. Many contributions zoom in on the rationale behind the use of specific motifs in wall paintings, the syntax of decorative systems in particular contexts, as well as specific fashions in the use of figural themes in determined areas or sites in the ancient world. 542p (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042935297 Pb £130.00

The Open SeaThe Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of RomeBy J. G. ManningJ. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome’s imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an illusory single “ancient economy” has obscured the diversity of lived experience in the Mediterranean world, including both changes in political economies over time and differences in cultural conceptions of property and money. At the same time, he shows how the region’s economies became increasingly interconnected during this period. 432p b/w illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691151748 Hb £27.95

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Special Place, Interesting Times:The Island of Palagruža and Transitional Periods in Adriatic PrehistoryBy Staso ForenbaherThree crucial episodes of change marked later Adriatic prehistory. The first one, which took place around year 6000 BC, was a transformation of subsistence strategy, transition from hunting and gathering to farming. The second one was a social transformation that played out in the third millennium BC, when for the first time the power of individuals was clearly expressed by material culture. The third episode coincided with the end of prehistory in the Adriatic region. This monograph explores these transitions through the important site of Palagruža. 2 0 4 p , ( A r ch a e o p r es s 2 0 1 8 ) 9781784918491 Pb £34.00

Les Néandertaliens du talon: Technologie lithique et mobilité au Paléolithique moyen dans le SalentoEdited by Enza SpinapoliceThe research question at the basis of this book concerns the managing of raw materials by Neanderthals, through both the procurement and use of the locally available raw materials and the exploitation of possibly more distant sources. 244p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918217 Pb £45.00

SOMA 2015Time, Space and People: Proceedings of the 19th Symposium on Mediterranean ArchaeologyEdited by Murat ArslanThe proceedings of SOMA 2015 contain eighteen interdisciplinary articles on themes from underwater archaeology to history, archaeometry and art history, and chronologically, the subjects of these articles range from the Bronze Age to the 20th century. 1 9 8 p , b / w a n d c o l i l l u s (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918514 Pb £44.00

Palaeolithic ItalyAdvanced Studies on Early Human Adaptations in the Apennine PeninsulaEdited by Valentina Borgia & Emanuela CristianiDiscoveries regarding Neanderthal extinction and behavioural complexity, the dispersal of Anatomically Modern Humans as well as the origin and diffusion of modern technologies and symbolic behaviour in Europe have brought Italy into focus as an ideal region for understanding the evolutionary development of various hominin species that inhabited the continent in the Late Pleistocene. This volume presents the latest advances in Palaeolithic research in Italy through a variety of modern analytical methods and cutting-edge techniques. 375p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905841 Hb £150.00, 9789088905834 Pb £50.00, NYP

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Touch and the Ancient SensesEdited by Alex PurvesThe essays in this volume explore the ways in which touch plays a defining role in ancient science, art, philosophy, and medicine, and shaped understanding of topics ranging from aesthetics and poetics to various religious and ritual practices. It reveals touch to be a complex and fascinating indicator of the body’s relation to object, environment, and self. 230p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781844658718 Hb £110.00, 9781844658725 Pb £23.99

Naturvorstellungen im AltertumSchilderungen und Darstellungen von Natur im Alten Orient und in der Klassischen AntikeEdited by Florian Schimpf, Dominik Berrens, Katharina Hillenbrand, Tim Brandes & Carrie SchidloThis volume aims at identifying concepts of nature in texts as well as in archaeological remains of Ancient Near Eastern and Greek culture from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. Contributions from the fields of archaeology and philology are juxtaposed for each time period in chronological order. This arrangement provides a good overview of the concepts of nature prevailing throughout different period and cultures. German text. 262p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918255 Pb £32.00

Greek and Roman Animal SacrificeAncient Victims, Modern ObserversEdited by Christopher A. Faraone & F. S. NaidenThe interpretation of animal sacrifice has long been dominated by the views of Walter Burkert, J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne. No penetrating and general critique of their views has appeared and, in particular, no critique of the application of these views to Roman religion. Nor has any critique dealt with the use of literary and visual sources by these writers. This book, a collection of essays by leading scholars, incorporates all these subjects and provides a theoretical background for the study of animal sacrifice in an ancient context. 223p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107011120 Hb £69.99, 9781108456524 Pb £22.99

Birds in the Ancient WorldWinged WordsBy Jeremy MynottThis book illustrates the many different roles birds played in culture: as indicators of time, weather and the seasons; as a resource for hunting, eating, medicine and farming; as domestic pets and entertainments; and as omens and intermediaries between the gods and humankind. 464p, col pls, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198713654 Hb £30.00

The Ancient Art of TransformationCase Studies from Mediterranean ContextsEdited by Renée M. Gondek & Carrie L. Sulosky WeaverT h e A n c i e n t A r t o f Transformation examines the visual manifestation of human transformation in the ancient and early medieval Me d i te r ra n e a n wo r l d , exploring the role of art and visual culture in enabling, hindering, or documenting physical, spiritual, personal, and social transitions such as pregnancy and birth, initiations, marriage, death and funerals. The definition of “transformation” is also expanded to address instances of less personal and more widespread transitions such as shifts in political establishments and changes in cultural identity in geographic locations. Additionally, although the ancient material record documents certain rites of passage such as marriage and death extensively, artefacts and their accompanying images are often studied simply to reconstruct these social processes.

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Motherhood and Infancies in the Mediterranean in AntiquityEdited by Margarita Sánchez Romero & Rosa Cid LópezThis volume explores various images of maternity a n d i n f a n cy, a n d t h e identification of women and womanhood in Prehistoric and Classical societies. Aspects such as the crucial role of maintenance activities and care, the processes of socialization and learning, the impact of infant death, the figure of the mother queen, the religious discourses about motherhood, the rules on parental rights, the transgressions of traditional motherhood and the emotional aspects of the mother-child relation are analysed. A multidisciplinary approach is adopted, analysing material culture, representations and texts to gain a deeper understanding of the plurality of motherhood, and the diversity of women’s agency through history.

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The Greek and Roman TrophyFrom Battlefield Marker to Icon of PowerBy Lauren KinneeIn this study spanning Archaic Greece through the Augustan Principate Kinnee aims to create a holistic view of this complex monument-type by breaking down boundaries between the study of art history, philology, the history of warfare, and the anthropology of religion and magic. Ultimately, the kaleidoscopic picture that emerges is of an ad hoc anthropomorphic Greek talisman that gradually developed into a sophisticated, Augustan sculptural or architectural statement of power. 162p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9780415788380 Hb £115.00

Classical ArtA Life History from Antiquity to the PresentBy Caroline VoutIn this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in new contexts and cultures. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum. 376p col illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691177038 Hb £32.95

Routledge Companion to Ancient PhilosophyEdited by Frisbee Sheffield & James WarrenA collection of new essays on the philosophy and philosophers of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. T h e r e a r e d e d i c a t e d discussions of the major areas of the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle together with accounts of their predecessors and successors. The contr ibutors also address various problems of interpretation and method, highlighting the particular demands and interest of working with ancient philosophical texts. 728p (Routledge 2013, Pb 2018) 9780415991261 Hb £185.00, 9781138478251 Pb £36.99

Landscapes of Dread in Classical AntiquityNegative Emotion in Natural and Constructed SpacesEdited by Debbie FeltonOver the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance of spaces and their contexts. The papers in this volume focus on emotions such as anxiety, fear, terror, and especially dread-and they do so while treating many types of space, including domestic, suburban, rural, and virtual, and while covering many genres and authors, including art, Greek and Roman epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, the novel, and the short story. 326p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138104952 Hb £115.00

GreeceClass in Archaic GreeceBy Peter W. RoseArchaic Greece saw a number of decisive changes, including the emergence of the polis, the foundation of Greek settlements throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea, the rise of tyranny, the invention of literacy, the development of monumental architecture and large scale sculpture, and the establishment of ‘democracy’. This book argues that the best way of understanding them is the application of an eclectic Marxist model of class struggle, a struggle not only over control of agricultural land but also over cultural ideals and ideology. 454p (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2018) 9780521768764 Hb £88.00, 9781108459266 £29.99

Defining Citizenship in Archaic GreeceEdited by Alain Duplouy & Roger W. BrockFocusing on archaic Greece, this volume brings together an array of renowned international scholars with the aim of exploring new routes to archaic Greek citizenship and constructing a new image of archaic cities, which are no longer to be considered as primitive or incomplete classical poleis. Topics of enquiry include law, cults, and military obligations, athletics, commensality, and descent. The volume as a whole exemplifies the living diversity of approaches to archaic Greece and to the Greek city, combining both breadth and depth of insight with an opportunity to venture off the beaten track. 384p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198817192 Hb £80.00

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Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea RegionGoddesses in the Bosporan Kingdom from the Archaic Period to the Byzantine EraBy David BraundThis is the first integrated study of Greek religion and cults of the Black Sea region, centred upon the Bosporan Kingdom of its northern shores, but with connections and consequences for Greece and much of the Mediterranean world. David Braund explains the cohesive function of key goddesses (Aphrodite Ourania, Artemis Ephesia, Taurian Parthenos, Isis) as it develops from archaic colonization through Athenian imperialism, the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire in the East down to the Byzantine era. Greek religion is shown as key to the internal workings of the Bosporan Kingdom, its sense of its landscape and origins and its shifting relationships with the rest of its world. 338p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) Hb £75.00

Periclean AthensBy P. J. RhodesIn the second and third quarters of the fifth century BC, when Athens became both politically and culturally dominant in the Greek world, Pericles was the leading figure in the city’s public life. At this time Athens developed an empire of a kind which no Greek city had had before, and its politics were reshaped by the new institution of democracy. This concise and accessible introduction guides students through the key aspects of this most-studied period of ancient Greek history, focusing on the major developments, political and cultural. 128p, 21 bw illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781350014954 Pb £14.99

NemesisAlcibiades and the Fall of AthensBy David StuttardAlcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. Nemesis tells the story of this extraordinary life and the turbulent world that Alcibiades set out to conquer. 372p b/w illus (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674660441 Hb £21.95

Creators, Conquerors, and CitizensA History of Ancient GreeceBy Robin WaterfieldThroughout the course of ancient Greek civilization, there always existed a sense of shared culture among the many Greek communities scattered throughout the Mediterranean. But if the Greeks knew that they were kin, why is Greek history so often the history of their internecine wars and other forms of competition with one another? This question provides a frame for Robin Waterfield’s new history, tracing political, military and social developments from the emergence of the Greeks around 750 BCE to the downfall of the last of the Greco-Macedonian kingdoms in 30BCE. 528p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198727880 Hb £25.00

Greece in the Ancient WorldBy Jeremy McInerneySpanning the Minoan and Mycenaean origins of Greece to its eventual conquest by Rome, this wide-ranging and comprehensive account also emphasizes the interconnectedness of the Greek experience in the Mediterranean, framing the history of the Greeks as inextricably tied to their relationship with the wider world of antiquity, and the Persians in particular. Beautifully illustrated with examples of art, archaeology and architecture – from the frescoes of Akrotiri to the spectacular discovery of the Tomb of the Griffin Warrior in 2015 – this account foregrounds the variety and diversity of what it meant to be Greek. 368p, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2018) 9780500252260 Hb £35.00

The Early Hellenistic PeloponnesePolitics, Economies, and Networks 338–197 BCBy Graham ShipleyUsing all available evidence - literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological - this study offers a new analysis of the early Hellenistic Peloponnese. The conventional picture of the Macedonian kings as oppressors, and of the Peloponnese as ruined by warfare and tyranny, must be revised. Contrary to previous analyses, the evidence of field survey and architectural remains points to an active, even thriving civic culture and a healthy trading economy under elite patronage. Despite the rise of federalism, particularly in the form of the Achaean league, regional identity was never as strong as loyalty to one’s city-state (polis). 386p (Cambridge UP 2018) 9780521873697 Hb £90.00

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Bargains and good dealsGeneral InterestLuxury, A Rich History, By Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello, Luxury is hardly a new phenomenon. Today’s obsession with luxury brands and services is just one of the many manifestations that luxury has assumed. From palaces to penthouses, from couture fashion to lavish jewellery, from handbags to red wine, from fast cars to easy money, Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello present the first ever global history of luxury, from the Romans to the twenty-first century. 368p, b/w illus, Oxford UP, 2016, 9780199663248, Hb was £25.00, now £9.95

Chasing the Sun, By Richard Cohen, Chasing the Sun is a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life. Richard Cohen travels from the ancient Greek astronomers to modern-day solar scientists, from Stonehenge to Antarctica (site of the solar eclipse of 2003, when penguins were said to sing), Mexico’s Aztecs to the Norwegian city of Tromso, where for two months of the year there is no Sun at all. 720p, col pls, Simon & Schuster, 2011, 9781416526124, Pb was £8.99, now £3.95

Method and TheoryBones and Identity, Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia, Edited by Nimrod Marom, Reuven Yeshuran, Lior Weissbrod and Guy Bar-Oz, 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 the West and India in the East and spanning a time range from the latest part of the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. 352p, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701726, Pb was £38.00, now £9.95

Creating Material Worlds, The Uses of Identity in Archaeology, Edited by Adrián Maldonado, Elizabeth Pierce, Anthony Russell and Louisa Campbell, Explores new theoretical approaches to the relationship between people and objects, demonstrating how identity can be seen as an emergent property of living in a material world, and including a critical review of theories of identity. Research areas span from the Great Lakes to the Mediterranean, with case studies from the Mesolithic to the contemporary world by emerging voices in the field. 192p, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701801, Pb was £36.00, now £12.95

The Archaeology of Darkness, Edited by Marion Dowd and Robert Hensey, Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive

deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers examine how the senses are affected in caves and monuments that were used for ritual activities, from Bronze Age miners in Wales, to initiands in Italian caves, to a modern caver’s experience in one of the world’s deepest caves in Russia. 144p, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701917, Pb was £32.00, now £12.95

Death embodied, Archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse, Edited by Zoë L. Devlin and Emma-Jayne Graham, Archaeological interpretations of burial remains can often suggest that the skeletons which we uncover, and therefore usually associate with past funerary practices, were what was actually deposited in graves, rather than articulated corpses. The nine papers provide a series of theoretically informed, but not constrained, case studies which focus predominantly on the corporeal body in death. 174p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979432, Pb was £38.00, now £12.95

LandscapeArchaeology, Local Places, Global Processes, Histories of Environmental Change in Britain and Beyond, Edited by Peter Coates, David Moon and Paul Warde, This book presents a multi-disciplinary approach to the relationship between perceptions of environmental change at a local scale and the wider forces of transformation, addressing influential ways of understanding and debating questions of ‘the state of nature’. It uses case studies on conservation, landscape change and management to examine how perceptions of environmental change have emerged or been discarded over time, 272p, Windgather Press, 2016, 9781909686939, Pb was £29.95, now £12.95

Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation, Edited by Adrian M. Chadwick and Catriona D. Gibson, These papers explore how long-term persistence of place and practice in the landscape was possible; and why this was the case. Case studies use detailed contextual evidence to address these questions. In many instances, contributors discuss less visible examples where ‘memory work’ can be identified from non-monumental, ‘everyday’ landscapes. 336p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782973935, Hb was £40.00, now £19.95

Prehistoric BritainDown By The River, Archaeological, Palaeoenvironmental and Geoarchaeological Investigations of The Suffolk River Valleys, By Henry Chapman, Andy Howard and Benjamin Gearey, This series of detailed studies presents

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the results of palaeoenvironmental, archaeological and geoarchaeological investigations focused on the Post-Glacial record preserved in the valleys of the Suffolk rivers. Five floodplain sites (Beccles, Hoxne, Hengrave, Ixworth and Brandon) were cored for palaeoenvironmental assessment, further sampling and radiocarbon dating and the resulrs are described. 248p, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701689, Hb was £25.00, now £9.95

Moving on in Neol i thic studies, Understanding Mobile Lives, Edited by Jim Leary and Thomas Kador, This latest collection of papers from the Neolithic Studies Group seminars examines the importance and complexities of movement and mobility, whether on land or water, in the Neolithic period. It uses movement in its widest sense, ranging from everyday mobilities – the routines and rhythms of daily life – to proscribed mobility, such as movement in and around monuments, and occasional and large-scale movements and migrations around the continent and across seas. 256p, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701764, Pb was £38.00, now £12.95

Becoming Neanderthals, The Earlier British Middle Palaeolithic, By Rebecca Scott, It is now widely accepted that by the later Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthals possessed a wide range of social and practical skills. This book explores the development of classically Neanderthal behaviours in Europe between MIS 9-6, focusing on the British record, especially stone tools as durable residues of human action. 248p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842179734, Hb was £55.00, now £14.95

Defining a Regional Neolithic, By Kenneth Brophy and G. Barclay, The contributors to this volume address issues of regionality through a series of case-studies that focus not on the traditional ‘cores’ of Wessex and Orkney, but rather on other areas - the ‘Irish Sea Zone’, Ireland, Scotland, Yorkshire and the Midlands. 138p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173336, Pb was £34.00, now £12.95

Prehistoric EuropeDecoding Neoli thic Atlantic and Mediterranean Island Ritual, Edited by George Nash and Andrew Townsend, The 16 papers presented here explore the physicality, and levels of insularity of individual islands and island groups during prehistory through a series of case studies on Neolithic island archaeology in the Atlantic and Mediterranean regions. 304p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785700507, Hb was £50.00, now £14.95

Rock Art Studies - News of the World Volume 3, By Natalie R. Franklin, Matthias Strecker and Edited by Paul Bahn, This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening

in rock art studies around the world, covering the years 1999-2004. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions. 320p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2008, 9781842173169, Pb was £65.00, now £19.95

Ancient EgyptDakhleh Oasis and the Western Desert of Egypt under the Ptolemies, By James C. R. Gill, Through an analysis of recently discovered Ptolemaic pottery from Mut al-Kharab, as well as a re-examination of pottery collected by the Dakhleh Oasis Project during the survey of the oasis from 1978–1987, this book challenges the common perception that Dakhleh Oasis experienced a sudden increase in agricultural exploitation and a dramatic rise in population during the Roman Period. 504p, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701351, Hb was £75.00, now £19.95

Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of Ancient Egypt, Edited by C. Bronk Ramsey and Andrew J. Shortland, This volume presents the findings of a major international project on the application of radiocarbon dating to the Egyptian historical chronology. The results comprise an accurate scientifically based chronology of the kings of ancient Egypt obtained by the radiocarbon analysis of short-lived plant remains. 192p, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842175224, Pb was £48.00, now £14.95

Ancient Near EastCarchemish in Context, By T. J. Wilkinson, Edgar Peltenburg and Eleanor Barbanes Wilkinson, This volume provides an overview of the main trends of settlement in the region of Carchemish over 8000 years, using a combination of survey databases to both north and south of the Syrian-Turkish border and with a focus on the earlier phases of settlement from the Neolithic until the end of the Bronze Age when Carchemish became an outpost of the Hittite empire. 288p, b/w and colour illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701115, Hb was £48.00, now £14.95

Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC, Edited by Cécile Michel and Marie-Louise Nosch, Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles. The twenty-two chapters in the present volume offer the first comprehensive survey of this important material, with special attention to evidence for significant interconnections in textile terminology among languages and cultures, across space and time. 326p, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782973911, Pb was £38.00, now £14.95

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household activities at Final Neolithic Phaistos to the domestic correlates of “globalization” during the early Roman Empire. They demonstrate a variety of methodological approaches currently employed for understanding houses and household activities. 520p, b/w and col illus, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011, 9780876615447, Pb was £45.00, now £14.95

GreeceThe Athenian Agora, Museum Guide (5th ed.), By Laura Gawlinski and Craig A. Mauzy, Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora. Hundreds of artefacts, ranging from common pottery to elite jewelry held in 81 cases, are described and illustrated in color for the very first time. 200p, b/w illus, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2014, 9780876616581, Pb was £14.95, now £6.95

A Culture of Translation, British and Irish Scholarship in the Gennadius Library (1740-1840), Edited by Lynda Mulvin, Essays which focus on the work of pioneering British and Irish 18th and early 19th century antiquarians, artists, and architects who voyaged into the Mediterranean. The publication of their findings in architectural treatises, travelogues and illustrated books came, in turn, to inform the Neoclassical and Greek Revival styles. 126p, b/w and col illus, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2012, 9789609994514, Pb was £10.00, now £4.95

Histories of Peirene, A Corinthian Fountain in Three Millennia, By Betsey A. Robinson, Spanning three millennia and touching a fourth, the Fountain of Peirene developed from a nameless spring to a renowned source of inspiration. The author deftly describes its evolution framed against the underlying landscape and its ancient, medieval, and modern settlement, viewed from the perspective of Corinthian culture and spheres of interaction. 418p, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011, 9780876619650, Hb was £45.00, now £14.95

The Southeast Building, the Twin Basilicas, the Mosaic House, By Saul S. Weinberg, This volume discusses the important, mainly Roman, buildings at the east end of the Corinthian Agora--the Julian Basilica and the Southeast Building, the South Basilica (immediately behind the South Stoa), and the Mosaic House adjoining it. 146p, b/w illus, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1960, 9780876610152, Hb was £25.00, now £7.95

The South Stoa and Its Roman Successors, By Oscar Broneer, Careful description of all the remains, both those in situ and re-used blocks, forms the basis of the reconstruction of this

Aegean and Mediterranean PrehistoryOf Odysseys and Oddities, Scales and Modes of Interaction Between Prehistoric Aegean Societies and Their Neighbours, Edited by Barry Molloy, Of Odysseys and Oddities is about scales and modes of interaction in prehistory, specifically between societies on both sides of the Aegean and with their nearest neighbours overland to the north and east. The 17 contributions reflect on tensions at the core of how we consider interaction in archaeology, particularly the motivations and mechanisms leading to social and material encounters or displacements. 400p, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702310, Pb was £38.00, now £12.95

Beyond Thalassocracies, Understanding p r o c e s s e s o f M i n o a n i s a t i o n a n d 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 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. 240p, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702037, Hb was £45.00, now £14.95

The Mediterranean from 50,000 to 25,000 BP, Turning Points and New Directions, Edited by Marta Camps and By Carolyn Szmidt, This book addresses the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Mediterranean region through the examination of the nature and extent of behavioural changes and differences. Both theoretical and methodological papers, as well as site-specific ones are brought together with some arguing for a sharp transition and others for more of a mosaic pattern and continuity. 376p, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173145, Hb was £80.00, now £19.95

Tools, Textiles and Contexts, Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, Edited by Eva Andersson Strand and Marie-Louise Nosch, This volume combines experimental archaeology, analyses of textile tools and find contexts to provide unique insights into both the production processes and, significantly, into the range of types of textiles that could have been produced at specific sites. These results illustrate the central, social and economic impact of textile production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies. 484p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781842174722, Hb was £48.00, now £14.95

STEGA, The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete, Edited by Kevin T. Glowacki and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, The 38 papers presented here range from a discussion of

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extensive two-storey building of the third quarter of the fourth century B.C. which stretched the full length of the south side of the Corinthian Agora. 186p, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1954, 9780876610145, Hb was £25.00, now £7.95

Searching for Sappho, The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet, By Philip Freeman, Philip Freeman paints a vivid picture of Sappho’s world. He delves into religious rites, customs, the role of women in the family, medical knowledge and the experience of motherhood at the time. Through this contextual knowledge, a picture of Sappho’s life emerges. 336p, W W Norton, 1999, 9780393242232, Hb was £19.99, now £7.95

RomeRoman Crete: New Perspectives, Edited by Jane E. Francis and Anna Kouremenos, These papers confirm Crete’s place as a fully realised participant in the Roman world. They explore issues such as Romanisation/acculturation, climate and landscape studies, regional production and distribution, iconographic trends, domestic housing, economy and trade, and the transition to the late-Antique era. 288p, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785700958, Hb was £50.00, now £14.95

The Mirror of Venus: Women in Roman Art, By Iain Ferris, This is the first general book to present a coherent, broad analysis of the numerous images of women in Roman art and to interpret their meaning and significance, all set against the broader geographical, chronological, political, religious and cultural context of the world of the Roman republic and empire and of Late Antiquity. 256p, col pls, Amberley Publishing, 2015, 9781445633725, Hb was £20.00, now £7.95

Pax Romana, By Adrian Goldsworthy, Adrian Goldsworthy tells the story of the creation of the Empire, revealing how and why the Romans came to control so much of the world and asking whether the favourable image of the Roman peace is a true one. He chronicles the many rebellions by the conquered, and describes why these broke out and why most failed. At the same time, he explains that hostility was only one reaction to the arrival of Rome, and from the start there was alliance, collaboration and even enthusiasm for joining the invaders. 528p, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2017, 9781474604376, Pb was £10.99, now £4.95

The Archaeology of the Lower City and Adjacent Suburbs, By Kate Steane, Margaret Darling, Michael J. Jones, Jenny Mann, Alan Vince and Jane Young, This volume contains reports on excavations undertaken in the lower walled city at Lincoln. Remains of timber storage buildings were found, probably associated with the Roman legionary occupation in the later 1st century AD. Larger aristocratic residences came to dominate

the hillside. Sequences of increasingly intensive occupation from the 10th century were identified, with plentiful evidence for industrial activity. 550p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781782978527, Hb was £55.00, now £19.95

Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World, By Catherine M. Chin, This book looks at the contribution of the grammarian to the creation of a distinctively Christian classical culture and to promoting theological ideas and milleux. It shows how distinct bodies of Christian and Pagan texts and exempla evolved for teaching purposes. 270p, Pennsylvania UP, 2007, 9780812240351, Hb was £56.00, now £14.95

IslamicIslamic Glass in the Corning Museum, Volume One, By David Whitehouse, This hefty and beautifully produced catalogue presents 595 objects and fragments with scratch-engraved and wheel-cut ornament made in the Islamic world between the eighth and eleventh centuries. All are photographed in colour with description and comments on technical and stylistic matters, dating and provenance. 430p, col illus, Hudson Hill Press, 2010, 9781555953553, Hb was £50.00, now £19.95

Medieval EuropeA Brief History of the Knights Templar, By Helen Nicholson, Rather than a blow-by-blow account of events, this outline history is aimed at a general readership and begins with the origins of the order before outlining their activities in the Latin East, Iberia and eastern Europe, their organisation, government, religious life, commercial activities and their trial and downfall. It is a revised edition of Nicholson’s 2001 book The Knights Templar: A New History. 351p, b/w pls, Constable & Co. Ltd. 2010, 9781849011006, Pb was £8.99, now £3.95

Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, Edited by Edward Peters, This collection brings together some of the most important texts for the study of heresy and heterodoxy as well as the measures taken by the church to combat it. An initial chapter surveys the patristic background for the concept of heresy, while the bulk of the book is arranged chronologically from the tenth century to the Hussite heresy in the fifteenth. 312p, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980, 9780812211030, Pb was £19.00, now £6.95

The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell, Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500, By Dyan Elliott , This book uses Tertullian’s epithet “bride of Christ” as a starting point to examine the ways in which this metaphor was applied to pious women during the full sweep of the Middle Ages, and how it was used by the

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new research into important Norman castles in England and Normandy, drawing on information from recent excavations. 336p, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785700224, Hb was £48.00, now £14.95

Traditional Buildings in the Oxford Region, By John Steane and James Ayres, This book, the fruit of twenty years research, provides an account of vernacular architecture in the Oxford region from Anglo-Saxon times to the 19th century. At the heart of the book are surveys of cruck buildings, manorial and moated sites, town houses with particular emphasis on Abingdon, and houses in the countryside from farmhouses to cottages. 480p, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842174791, Hb was £45.00, now £19.95

Digging for Richard III, By Mike Pitts, No archaeological project of recent years has captured the public imagination like the discovery of the grave of Richard III. Mike Pitts tells the full story, including the dramatic unearthing of the king’s bones and the scientific studies which proved their identity as well as the picture they give of Richard’s appearance, diet, death and the treatment of his corpse. 208p, b/w illus, Thames and Hudson, 2014, 9780500252000, Hb was £18.95, now £6.95

Post-MedievalRussian Cloth Seals in Britain, A Guide to Identification, Usage and Anglo-Russian Trade in the 18th and 19th Centuries, By John Sullivan, For many decades in the 18th and 19th centuries, Russia was the world’s greatest exporter of flax and hemp and Great Britain its major customer. 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. 224p, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174654, Hb was £85.00, now £19.95

The Making of Home, The 500-year story of how our houses became homes, By Judith Flanders, In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house across northern Europe and America from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century, and paints a striking picture of how the homes we know today differ from homes through history. The transformation of houses into homes, she argues, was not a private matter, but an essential ingredient in the rise of capitalism and the birth of the Industrial Revolution. 368p, col pls, Atlantic Books, 2015, 9781848878006, Pb was £11.99, now £4.95

church to shape and restrict female agency, as well as by women themselves to reflect a more intimate, mystical relationship with Christ. 480p, Pennsylvania UP, 2011, 9780812243581, Hb was £52.00, now £14.95

The Sister Queens, Isabella and Catherine de Valois, By Mary McGrigor, A lively history of Isabella and Catherine de Valois, daughters of Charles VI of France. Mary McGrigor narrates their dramatic lives, including their marriages to Richard II and Henry V of England. 288p, col pls, The History Press, 2016, 9780750964203, Hb was £18.99, now £6.95

God’s Philosophers, How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science, By James Hannam, “God’s Philosophers” is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages. It brings back to light the discoveries of neglected geniuses like John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Thomas Bradwardine, as well as putting into context the contributions of more familiar figures like Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Saint Thomas Aquinas. 448p, Icon Books, 2010, 9781848311503, Pb was £10.99, now £4.95

Singing The New Song, Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England, By Katherine Zieman, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word. Where previous studies have described how writing comes to supplant oral forms of communication or how it objectifies relations of power formerly transacted through ritual and ceremony, Zieman shifts the critical gaze to the ritual performance of written texts in the liturgy—effectively changing the focus from writing to reading. 294p, b/w illus, Pennsylvania UP, 2008, 9780812240511, Hb was £48.00, now £14.95

A Brief History of the Normans, By Francois Neveux, Beginning as Viking raiders in the eighth century, the Normans not only changed the landscape of Europe but were changed by their new conquests. In A Brief History of the Normans Francois Neveux, gives an accessible and authorative introduction. A particular focus is on the origins and consolidation of the Duchy of Normandy, with over half of the book dedicated to the period pre-1066. 288p, Constable & Co. Ltd. 2008, 9781845295233, Pb was £8.99, now £3.95

Medieval ArchaeologyCastles 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

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Last Few Copies RemainingGeneral Interest

FamineA Short HistoryBy Cormac O Grada327p, b/w illus, Princeton UP, 2010, 9780691147970, Pb was £23.00, now £6.95

The Building of EnglandHow the History of England Has Shaped Our BuildingsBy Simon Thurley544p, William Collins, 2013, 9780007301409, Hb was £35.00, now £14.95

Method and TheoryBirdsBy Dale Serjeantson486p, b/w illus, Cambridge UP, 2009, 9780521866170, Hb was £72.00, now £14.95Creations of the MindTheories of Artifacts and Their RepresentationEdited By Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence372p, b/w illus, Oxford UP, 2015, 9780199250981, Hb was £99.00, now £29.95Landscape ArchaeologyArt, Faith and Place in East Anglia From Prehistory to the PresentBy T. A. Heslop, Elizabeth Mellings and Margit Thfner352p, b/w illus, col pls, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2012, 9781843837442, Hb was £50.00, now £14.95Men from the MinistryBy Simon Thurley224p, bw illus, Yale UP, 2013, 9780300195729, Hb was £18.99, now £7.95Recording BritainBy Gill Saunders288p, col illus, V & A Publications, 2011, 9781851776610, Hb was £30.00, now £12.95

Prehistoric Britain and IrelandAncient Britons and the Antiquarian ImaginationBy Stuart Piggott175p, 50 illus, Thames and Hudson, 1989, 9780500014707, Hb was £16.95, now £6.95Foxholes FarmA Multi-Period Gravel SiteBy Clive Partridge216p, b/w illus, Hertfordshire Archaeological Trust, 1989, 9780951433409, Pb was £22.00, now £4.95HomeBy Francis Pryor352p, col pls, Penguin Books Ltd, 2014, 9781846144875, Hb was £20.00, now £7.95Westbury CaveBy Peter Andrews, Jill Cook, Andrew Currant and Chris Stringer309p, b/w figs and pls, Western Academic & Specialist Press, 1999, 9780953541805, Hb was £60.00, now £9.95Celtic ArtBy V. Kruta240p, Phaidon Press Ltd, 2015, 9780714845975, Hb was £39.95, now £19.95

AsiaEyes of the AncestorsThe Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of ArtBy Reimar Schefold and Stephen G. Alpert192p, col illus, Tuttle Publishing, 2017, 9780804848589, Pb was £29.99, now £12.95

Environmental History of Early IndiaA ReaderBy Nandini Sinha Kapur344p, Oxford UP, 2011, 9780198070009, Hb was £35.00, now £12.95

AfricaOutsiders and StrangersAn Archaeology of Liminality in West AfricaBy Anne Haour224p, Oxford UP, 2013, 9780199697748, Hb was £72.00, now £14.95

The Archaeology of Christianity in AfricaBy Niall Finneran192p, b/w figs, 18 col pls, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2002, 9780752425108, Pb was £19.99, now £9.95

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Ancient EgyptA Passion for EgyptArthur Weigall, Tutankhamun and the ‘Curse of the Pharaohs’By Julie Hankey392p, b/w illus, I.B. Tauris, 2007, 9781845114350, Pb was £12.99, now £5.95Cleopatra the GreatBy Joann Fletcher454p, col pls, Hodder & Stoughton, 2011, 9780060585587, Hb was £20.00, now £7.95Egypt - Yesterday and TodayLithographs and Diaries By David RobertsBy Fabio Bourbon272p, many col illus, American University in Cairo Press, 2011, 9789774164101, Pb was £25.00, now £9.95

The Temple of Khonsu. Volume 1Scenes of King Herihor in the CourtBy Helen Jacquet-Gordon195p, b/w pls, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1979, 9780918986207, Hb was £82.50, now £39.95The Woman Who Would Be KingHatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient EgyptBy Kara Cooney298p, Random House, 2015, 9780307956767, Hb was £20.00, now £7.95Village Life in Ancient EgyptBy A. G. McDowell279p, b/w illus, Oxford UP, 1999, 9780199247530, Pb was £58.00, now £19.95

Ancient Near EastA Quest in the Middle EastGertrude Bell and the Making of Modern IraqBy Liora Lukitz328p, b/w illus, I.B. Tauris, 2006, 9781850434153, Hb was £31.00, now £9.95Arabia FelixAn Exploration of the Archaeological History of YemenBy Alessandro de Maigret384p, b/w illus, Stacey International , 2009, 9781906768041, Hb was £19.95, now £7.95Coins of Ancient MeironBy Joyce Raynor and Ya’akov Meshorer140p, b/w pls, Eisenbrauns, 1988, 9780897572088, Hb was £25.00, now £4.95From Nineveh to New YorkBy John M. Russell232p, b/w and col figs, Yale UP, 1997, 9780300064599, Hb was £60.00, now £17.95Hittite Studies in Honour of Harry A Hoffner Jr.Edited By Gary M. Beckman406p, b/w figs, tbs, Eisenbrauns, 2003, 9781575060798, Hb was £46.95, now £14.95

Israel’s Beneficent DeadBy Brian B. Schmidt400p, Eisenbrauns, 1994, 9781575060088, Pb was £35.95, now £9.95Oral World and the Written WordAncient Israelite LiteratureBy Susan Niditch184p, Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1996, 9780664219468, Pb was £14.95, now £5.95Peoples of the Old Testament WorldEdited By G.L. Mattingly, Edwin M. Yamauchi and Alfred J. Hoerth404p, b/w illus, Lutterworth Press, 1996, 9780718829537, Hb was £29.75, now £9.95The Ark Before NoahDecoding the Story of the FloodBy Irving Finkel421p, col pls, Nan A. Talese, 2014, 9780385537117, Hb was £20.00, now £7.95The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh CaveBy Erella Hovers321p, b/w illus, Oxford UP, 2009, 9780195322774, Hb was £79.00, now £14.95

Aegean and Mediterranean Prehistory

Etruscan ArtBy Otto J. Brendel535p, b/w illus, Yale UP, 1995, 9780300064469, Pb was £35.00, now £9.95

Prehistory and HistoryBy David W. Tandy201p, Black Rose Books, 2001, 9781551641881, Pb was £18.99, now £7.95

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Classical WorldClassical MythologyBy M. P. O. Morford864p, col illus, Oxford UP, 2011, 9780195397703, Pb was £34.99, now £12.95Confronting the ClassicsBy Mary Beard310p, Liveright Publishing, 2014, 9780871408594, Pb was £11.99, now £5.95Critical Moments in Classical LiteratureBy Richard Hunter217p, Cambridge UP, 2009, 9780521519854, Hb was £52.00, now £14.95

Masterpieces of Classical ArtBy Dyfri Williams360p, col illus, British Museum Press, 2009, 9780714122540, Hb was £19.99, now £7.95The Cambridge Companion to Ancient RhetoricBy Erik Gunderson356p, Cambridge UP, 2009, 9780521860543, Hb was £56.00, now £14.95

GreeceA Cabinet of Greek CuriositiesBy J. C. McKeown285p, Oxford UP, 2013, 9780199982103, Hb was £12.99, now £4.95A History of Greek ArtBy Martin Robertson835p, b/w pls, Cambridge UP, 1975, 9780521202770, Hb was £194.99, now £49.95Athenian Homicide LawBy D. M. Macdowell161p, Oxford UP, 1999, 9780719057427, Hb was £9.99, now £4.95From Democrats to KingsBy Michael Scott294p, col pls, Overlook Press, 2009, 9781590203910, Hb was £17.99, now £7.95Pity and Power in Ancient AthensBy Rachel Sternberg360p, Cambridge UP, 2005, 9780521845526, Hb was £77.00, now £19.95

Plague and the Athenian ImaginationDrama, History and the Cult of AsclepiusBy Robin Mitchell-Boyask224p, Cambridge UP, 2007, 9780521873451, Hb was £67.00, now £19.95The AcropolisGlobal Fame, Local ClaimBy Eleana Yalouri238p, b/w illus, Berg Publishers, 2001, 9781859735954, Pb was £27.99, now £6.95The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical AthensBy Kate Gilhuly208p, Cambridge UP, 2009, 9780521899987, Hb was £67.00, now £14.95Women and Humor in Classical GreeceBy Laurie O’Higgins282p, b/w illus, Cambridge UP, 2003, 9780521822534, Hb was £67.00, now £19.95

Greek LiteratureAncient EpistemologyBy Lloyd P. Gerson179p, Cambridge UP, 2009, 9780521691895, Pb was £22.99, now £7.95Greek Literature in the Roman EmpireBy Jason Konig128p, b/w illus, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd., 2009, 9781853997136, Pb was £15.99, now £4.95Parmenides and Presocratic PhilosophyBy John Palmer442p, Oxford UP, 2012, 9780199664696, Pb was £33.99, now £9.95

The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic PoetryBy Andrew Morrison358p, Cambridge UP, 2007, 9780521874502, Hb was £77.00, now £19.95Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic PoetryBy Marco Fantuzzi and Richard Hunter511p, Cambridge UP, 2002, 9780521835114, Hb was £88.00, now £24.95

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RomeDynastyThe Rise and Fall of the House of CaesarBy Tom Holland512p, col pls, Little, Brown and Company, 2015, 9781408703380, Pb was £14.99, now £5.95Making Roman Places, Past and PresentEdited By Darian Marie Totten and Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels176p, Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2012, 9781887829892, Hb was £62.00, now £19.95Ordering Knowledge in the Roman EmpireBy Jason Konig304p, Cambridge UP, 2007, 9780521859691, Hb was £67.00, now £14.95Religion in Republican ItalyEdited By Celia Schultz and Paul B. Harvey Jr.

299p, b/w illus, Cambridge UP, 2006, 9780521863667, Hb was £72.00, now £19.95Styling RomanisationPottery and Society in Central ItalyBy Roman Roth237p, Cambridge UP, 2007, 9780521875677, Hb was £77.00, now £12.95The Aesthetics of Emulation in the Visual Arts of Ancient RomeBy Ellen Perry208p, b/w illus, Cambridge UP, 2005, 9780521831659, Hb was £67.00, now £19.95To Rule BritanniaThe Claudian Invasion of Britain, AD 43By John Waite192p, The History Press, 2011, 9780752451497, Pb was £17.99, now £6.95

Latin LiteratureCiceroCatilinariansEdited By Andrew R. Dyck312p, Cambridge UP, 2008, 9780521832861, Hb was £72.99, now £9.95Inconsistency in Roman EpicBy James J. O’Hara165p, Cambridge UP, 2007, 9780521646420, Pb was £21.99, now £7.95

Ovid and his Love PoetryBy Rebecca Armstrong214p, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd., 2005, 9780715632895, Pb was £28.99, now £9.95The Art of Pliny’s LettersBy Illaria Marchesi278p, Cambridge UP, 2008, 9780521882279, Hb was £67.00, now £19.95

Late Antique and ByzantineConstantineBy Paul Stephenson358p, col pls, Quercus, 2009, 9780857381668, Pb was £12.99, now £4.95Coptic Textiles in the Brooklyn MuseumBy Deborah Thompson124p, Brooklyn Museum, 1971, 9781593339890, Hb was £28.00, now £7.95

Poems of Alcimus Acdicius AvitusTranslated By George W. Shea170p, Arizona State University, 1997, 9780866982146, Hb was £14.00, now £4.95

Anglo-SaxonBetween Earth and HeavenBy Johanna Kramer250p, b/w pls, Manchester UP, 2014, 9780719087899, Hb was £75.00, now £14.95Excavations in Iona 1964 to 1974By Richard Reece118p, b/w illus, UCL Press, 1981, 9780905853093, Pb was £55.99, now £7.95

Freswick Links, CaithnessExcavation and Survey of a Norse SettlementBy Christopher D. Morris, James Rackham and Colleen E. Batey295p, b/w illus, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1995, 9781874253013, Hb was £40.00, now £9.95

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Medieval BritainKing JohnEngland, Magna Carta and the Making of a TyrantBy Stephen Church334p, col pls, Pan, 2016, 9781447241959, Pb was £9.99, now £4.95Rethinking the South English LegendariesEdited By Heather Blurton and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne400p, b/w illus, Manchester UP, 2011, 9780719084348, Hb was £75.00, now £14.95

The Anglo-Norman Language and Its ContextsBy Richard Ingham196p, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2010, 9781903153307, Hb was £50.00, now £12.95The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval BritainEdited By Sophie Page272p, Manchester UP, 2010, 9780719078354, Hb was £75.00, now £14.95

Medieval EuropeGod’s ScribeThe Historiographical Art of Galbert of BrugesBy Jeff Rider360p, Catholic University of America Press, 2001, 9780813210186, Hb was £67.50, now £14.95Infidel Kings and Unholy WarriorsBy Brian Catlos416p, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014, 9780809058372, Hb was £18.99, now £7.95

Shopping in the RenaissanceBy Evelyn Welch403p, col illus, Yale UP, 2009, 9780300159851, Pb was £25.00, now £7.95The Third HorsemanClimate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th CenturyBy William Rosen304p, Penguin Books Ltd, 2003, 9780670025893, Hb was £25.00, now £7.95

Medieval Art and ArchitectureChrist Church Cathedral DublinA HistoryBy Kenneth Milne420p, 32 b/w pls, Four Courts Press, 2010, 9781846822704, Pb was £19.95, now £7.95The Rose WindowSplendour and SymbolBy Painton Cowan

276p, 381 pls, Thames and Hudson, 2005, 9780500511749, Hb was £39.95, now £19.95The Visual and the VisionaryArt and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval GermanyBy J. F. Hamburger580p, 246 illus, MIT Press, 1998, 9780942299458, Hb was £37.00, now £12.95

Medieval ArchaeologyExcavations in Castletown, Isle of Man, 1989–1992By P. J. Davey256p, with 70 illus, Liverpool UP, 1994, 9780853233992, Pb was £16.95, now £4.95

Ludgershall CastleBy P. V. Addyman268p, many b/w illus, microfiche, Wiltshire Archaeology & Natural History Society, 2000, 9780947723071, Pb was £24.00, now £9.95

Post-MedievalLetters from the Mary RoseBy David M. Loades and C. S. Knighton198p, b/w figs and pls, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2002, 9780750928397, Hb was £20.00, now £6.95

MaiolicaItalian Renaissance Ceramics in the Ashmolean MuseumBy Timothy Wilson80p, Ashmolean Museum Publications, 1989, 9780907849902, Pb was £9.99, now £4.95

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Gifts of the GodsA History of Food in GreeceBy Andrew Dalby & Rachel DalbyAndrew and Rachel Dalby discuss how the land was first settled, what was grown, and how certain fruits, herbs and vegetables came to be identified. Moving through prehistorical and classical Greece, and the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires, they explore the variety of Greek foods among communities outside the national borders as well as the food culture of the regions and islands of Greece itself. 384p, col illus (Reaktion 2018) 9781780238548 Hb £25.00

Feasting and Polis InstitutionsEdited by Floris van den Eijnde, Josine Blok & Rolf StrootmanFeasting and commensality were vital to the great resilience of the polis, Greece’s most characteristic and enduring form of political organization. Exploring a wide array of commensal practices, Feasting and Polis Institutions reveals how feasts defined the religious and political institutions of the Greek citizen-state. Taking the reader from the Early Iron Age to the Imperial Period, this volume launches an essential inquiry into Greek power relations. Focusing on the myriad of patronage roles at the feast and making use of a wide variety of methodologies and primary sources, including archaeology, epigraphy and literature, Feasting and Polis Institutions argues that in ancient Greece political interaction could never be complete until it was consumed in a very literal sense. 375p (Brill 2018) 9789004356726 Hb £110.00

EDITOR’S CHOICECity and Empire in the Age of the SuccessorsUrbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic KingdomsBy Ryan BoehmIn the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors’ contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the disparate territories under their control, they increasingly developed new cities by merging smaller settlements into large urban agglomerations. This practice of synoikism gave rise to many of the most important cities of the age, initiated major shifts in patterns of settlement, and consolidated numerous previously independent polities. The result was the increasing transformation of the

fragmented world of the small Greek polis into an urbanized network of cities. Drawing on a wide array of archaeological,

epigraphic, and textual evidence, City and Empire in the Age of the Successors reinterprets the role of urbanization in the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms and argues for the agency of local actors in the formation of these new imperial cities.

273p (University of California Press 2018) 9780520296923 Hb £74.00

Politics and the Street in Democratic AthensBy Alex GottesmanAthenians did not have hookah bars or coffee shops but they did socialize in symposia, gymnasia and workshops, and above all in the Agora. These represented the Athenian ‘street’, an informal political space that was seen as qualitatively different from the institutional space of the assembly, the council and the courts where elite orators held sway. The book explores how Athenians of all sorts, such as politicians, slaves and philosophers, sought to exploit the resources of the ‘street’ in pursuit of their aims. 261p (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9781107041684 Hb £69.99, 9781108439053 Pb £23.99

The Ancient Greek EconomyMarkets, Households and City-StatesEdited by Edward M. Harris, David M. Lewis & Mark WoolmerThis volume brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy specialising in history, economics, archaeology and numismatics. Marshalling a wide array of evidence, these essays investigate and analyse the role of market-exchange in the economy of the ancient Greek world, demonstrating the central importance of markets for production and exchange of goods and services during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. 488p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9781108456173 Pb £24.99

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The Art of Libation in Classical AthensBy Milette GaifmanThis handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. Scenes depicting the ritual often involved beholders directly – a statue’s gaze might establish the onlooker as a fellow participant, or painted vases could draw parallels between human practices and acts of gods or heroes. 196p,col illus (Yale UP 2018) 9780300192278 Hb £55.00

Artists and Signatures in Ancient GreeceBy Jeffrey M. HurwitI n t h i s b o o k , Je f f rey M. Hurwit surveys the phenomenon of artists’ signatures across the many genres of Greek art from the eighth to the first century BCE. Examining signatures on gems, coins, mosaics, wall-paintings, metalwork, vases, and sculptures, Hurwit argues that signatures help us assess the position of the Greek artist within his society as well as his conception of his own skill and originality. 242p b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107105713 Hb £77.00, 9781107513549 Pb £18.99

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The Treasures of Alexander the GreatHow One Man’s Wealth Shaped the WorldBy Frank L. HoltFrank Holt investigates the kinds and quantities of treasure seized Alexander, from gold and silver to land and slaves. He reveals what became of the king’s wealth and what Alexander’s redistribution of these vast resources can tell us about his much-disputed policies and personality. Though Alexander owed his vast fortune to war, battle also distracted him from competently managing his spoils and much was wasted, embezzled, deliberately destroyed, or idled unprofitably. 320p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780199950966 Hb £22.99, 9780190866259 Pb £12.99

Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek MythBy Ariadne KonstantinouA variety of Olympian goddesses and mortal heroines are explored, and the analysis of their myths follows specific chronological considerations. Female mobility is presented in quite diverse ways in myth, reflecting cultural flexibility in imagining mobile goddesses and heroines. At the same time, the out-of-doors spaces that mortal heroines inhabit seem to lack a public or civic quality, with the heroines being contained behind ‘glass walls’. In this respect, myth seems to reproduce the cultural limitations of ancient Greek social ideology on mobility. 224p (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781474256766 Hb £75.00

Ascending and descending the AcropolisMovement in Athenian ReligionEdited by Søren Handberg & Troels Myrup KristensenThis study provides new perspectives on religious mobilities within the geographically limited region of Attica in Greece from the Late Bronze Age to the second century AD. Attica is a particularly fruitful region to study these forms of mobility, as it provides rich evidence across a range of material and textual sources for a variety of different mobile situations – both inside the city of Athens itself (such as on and circumnavigating the Acropolis) and to sanctuaries in its hinterland (such as Eleusis and Brauron), as well to as more distant sanctuaries, such as Delphi. 220p (Aarhus UP 2018) 9788771844672 Hb £25.00, NYP

The Seer and the CityReligion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient GreeceBy Margaret FosterSeers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in colonial discourse from the archaic and classical periods. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse’s privileging of the city’s founder and his dependence on Delphi, the colonial oracle par excellence, entails a corresponding suppression of the seer. 199p (University of California Press 2017) 9780520295001 Hb £74.00

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Le Fortificazioni di Iasos di CariaBy Michele CornietiThis book presents the urban fortifications of the ancient city of Iasos, in Asia Minor. The fortification systems built for the defence of the city of the Carian coast are analysed from an architectural, typological, tactical and technical-constructive standpoint, from the remains datable to the classical era up to the late Byzantine period, with particular reference to the circuit wall placed around the edge of the insular urban settlement. Italian text. 205p b/w illus (BAR S2886, 2018) 9781407315157 Pb £37.00

The Sanctuary of Athena at SounionBy Barbara A. BarlettaThe Temple of Athena at Sounion has long been recognized as one of the most unusual buildings in the architectural history of Greece. Its plan, with columns uniquely on the front and only one side, is unparalleled in the Greek world. Here, Barletta provides a fascinating examination of the early excavations at Sounion, the debate over who was worshipped at the so-called Small Temple within the sanctuary, the varied architectural influences on the Temple of Athena, and the later use of its architectural pieces in the Athenian Agora. 360p, b/w and col illus (ASCSA 2018) 9780876619674 Hb £45.00

Greek Sanctuaries and Temple ArchitectureAn IntroductionBy Mary EmersonA s s u m i n g n o p r i o r k n ow l e d ge , t h i s b o o k introduces the reader to a selection of sites and temples, exploring them in detail and explaining all technical terms along the way. In this second edition there are new chapters on Western Greece, covering the site of Paestum and the unique temple of Olympian Zeus in Acragas. The book also offers a concise account of the evolution of Greek architecture, explores aesthetic ideas underlying Greek architectural design, and gives consideration to specific buildings in their social and religious context. 296p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2nd ed, 2018) 9781472575289 Pb £18.99

The Monuments of the Eastern HillBy Bonna D. WescoatIn this volume, the key monuments that form the Theatral Complex, including the Theatral Circle, the Fieldstone Building with its masonry style plaster interior, the marble Doric hexastyle Dedication of Philip III and Alexander IV, the elegant Ionic Porch later attached to the western side of the Dedication, and the remains of dozens of bronze statues that originally framed the Theatral Circle, are presented in their archaeological, architectural, and historical contexts. 640p, b/w illus (ASCSA 2018) 9780876618509 Hb £125.00

Monuments, Memory and PlaceCommemorations of the Persian WarsBy Xavier DuffyThis study is concerned with how the Greek peoples, of primarily the classical period, collectively commemorated the Persian Wars. The data presented here are public monuments, which include both physical and behavioural commemorations. It aims to get away from an overemphasis on Athenian monuments, highlighting the variations in commemorative traditions. 220p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918392 Pb £26.00

Visualizing Cityscapes of Classical AntiquityFrom Early Modern Reconstruction Drawings to Digital 3D ModelsBy Chiara PiccoliThe study presented here aims to make a practical contribution to a new understanding and use of 3D reconstructions, namely as ‘laboratories’ to test hypotheses and visualize, eva l u a t e a n d d i s c u s s alternative interpretations. In order to do so, an analysis of visual reconstructions of the early and late modern period is presented first, followed by a discussion of current applications of 3D digital reconstructions, with a special focus on cityscapes. Lastly, a practical implementation of a research-driven, intellectually transparent and GIS-based 3D reconstruction is proposed for the urban site of Koroneia, in Boeotia, Central Greece. 3 2 8 p ( A r c h a e o p r e s s 2 0 1 8 ) 9781784918897 Pb £59.00

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A Guide to Reading Herodotus’ HistoriesBy Sean SheehanModern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our Ur-historian, as ethnology, literary art and fable. 336p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781474292672 Hb £70.00, 9781474292665 Pb £22.99

A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of StraboBy Duane W. RollerThis Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text. It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen books and provides perhaps the most thorough bibliography as yet created for Strabo’s work. Careful attention is paid to the historical and cultural data, the thousands of toponyms, and the many lost historical sources that are preserved only in the Geography. 1096p (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107180659 Hb £150.00

The Politics of Youth in Greek TragedyGangs of AthensBy Matthew ShiptonBy exploring how tragedy responded to the fluctuating attitudes to young people at a highly turbulent time in the history of Athens, Shipton sheds new light on ancient attitudes to youth. He argues that the prominence of young people in tragedy throughout the fifth century reflects the persistent uncertainty as to what their role in society should be. As the success of Athens rose and then fell, young characters were repeatedly used by tragic playwrights as a way to explore political tensions and social upheaval in the city. 208p (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781474295079 Hb £85.00

The Poets of AlexandriaBy Susan A. StephensThe author examines Alexandria’s poets in turn. She discusses the strikingly avant-garde Aetia of Callimachus; the idealized pastoral forms of Theocritus (which anticipated the invention of fiction); and the neo-Homerian epic of Apollonius, the Argonautica, with its impressive combination of narrative grandeur and psychological acuity. She shows that all three poets were innovators, even while they looked to the past for inspiration, they emphasized stories and material that were entirely relevant to their own progressive cosmopolitan environment. 192p (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781848858794 Hb £39.50, 9781848858800 Pb £12.99

Greek Medical Literature and its ReadersFrom Hippocrates to Islam and ByzantiumEdited by Sophia Xenophontos & Petros Bouras-VallianatosThis edited volume aims to make a seminal contribution to the role of the audience in the contextualisation of Greek medical texts, by looking into the expectations, peculiarities, and needs of authors and readers. It examines for the first time the audience of particular Greek texts in different periods and reassesses medical treatises that have been neglected in current literature. It further raises new research questions on the readership of Greek medical literature and how this regulated and/or controlled the reception of these writings in contemporary and later societies. 232p (Routledge 2018) 9781472487919 Hb £115.00

Galen: Hygiene, Volume IBooks 1-4Edited by Ian JohnstonHis treatise Hygiene, also known as “On the Preservation of Health” (De sanitate tuenda), was written during one of Galen’s most prolific periods (170–180) and ranks among his most important and influential works, providing a comprehensive account of the practice of preventive medicine. Greek text with facing translation. 515p (Loeb, Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997127 Hb £18.95

Galen: Hygiene, Volume IIBooks 5-6. Thrasybulus. on Exercise with a Small BallEdited by Ian Johnston401p (Loeb, Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997134 Hb £18.95

Galen: Psychological WritingsAvoiding Distress, Character Traits, The Diagnosis and Treatment of the Affections and Errors Peculiar to Each Person’s Soul, The Capacities of the Soul Depend on the Mixtures of the BodyEdited by P. N. SingerAll Galen’s surviving shorter works on psychology and ethics – including the recently discovered Avoiding Distress, and the neglected Character Traits, extant only in Arabic – are here presented in one volume in a new English translation, with substantial introductions and notes and extensive glossaries. 557p b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9780521765176 Hb £103.00, 9781108438537 Pb £24.99

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Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies, Volume 18 (2017)Edited by Mike Bishop and Stephanie HossVolume 18 of JRMES contains 15 papers, including many from the ROMEC XVIII conference. General papers include items on the Vindolanda tent, hobnails, stonethrowers, the conflict landscape of Kalkriese, and the pilum. Papers in the second half of the volume are themed around “The Visual Impact of the Roman Soldier”, and focus on decoration in military equipment. 200p b/w and col illus (ARMES 2017) 9781910238127 Pb £35.00

Roman Standards & Standard-Bearers 1112 BC-AD 192By Raffaele D’AmatoRoman unit standards played an important role, both ceremonially and on the battlefield. The standards themselves varied greatly, from the legion’s Eagle and imperial portrait image to various cohort signa, flags (vexilla) and even dragon ‘windsocks’ (dracones) copied from barbarian enemies and allies. Rafaele D’Amato uses detailed colour plates and the latest research to examine these vital cogs in the Roman army machine. 64p col illus (Osprey 2018) 9781472821805 Pb £11.99

Augustan RomeBy Andrew Wallace-HadrillThis introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on society. The second edition features a new introductory section on literary figures under Augustus, a final chapter on the reception of Augustus in later periods. 176p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2nd ed. 2018) 9781472534262 Pb £14.99

Sabina AugustaAn Imperial JourneyBy T Corey BrennanIn synthesizing the textual and massive material evidence for the empress Sabina Augusta (ca. 85-ca. 137), wife of the emperor Hadrian, T. Corey Brennan traces the development of Sabina’s partnership with her husband and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrian’s own aspirations. Brennan fully explores the various, and overwhelmingly negative, notions this empress stirred up in historiography and proposes a new and nuanced understanding of her formal role. 328p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190250997 Hb £55.00

Power and Privilege in Roman SocietyBy Richard Duncan-JonesHow far were appointments in the Roman Empire based on merit? Did experience matter? What difference did social rank make? This innovative study of the Principate examines the career outcomes of senators and knights by social category. Although the highest appointments could reflect experience, a clear preference for the more aristocratic senators is also seen. Bias is visible even in the major army commands and in the most senior civilian posts nominally filled by ballot. 241p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9781107149793 Hb £67.99, 9781316604335 Pb £22.99

East of Asia MinorRome’s Hidden FrontierBy Timothy Bruce MitfordThe two volumes of East of Asia Minor – based on research, field work conducted largely on foot, and new discoveries – document the topography, monuments, inscriptions, and sighted coins of the frontier, looking in detail at strategic roads, bridges, forts, watch and signalling systems, and navigation of the Euphrates itself. Military activity, which extended to the Caucasus and the Caspian, is placed in the context of climate, geography, and inter-regional trade routes. 832p, b/w illus, col pls (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198725176 Hb £225.00

RomeNEW FROM casemateRoman LegionariesSoldiers of EmpireBy Simon ElliottThe might of Rome rested on the back of its legions; the superbly trained and equipped fighting force with which the imperial Roman army conquered, subdued and ruled an empire for centuries. This concise and entertaining history of the Roman legionary covers their history from the age of Augustus through the heyday of the Roman Empire. Topics include training, tactics, weapons, the men themselves, life on and off the battlefield as well as significant triumphs and disasters in the great battles of the era. 160p b/w i l lus (Casemate 2018) 9781612006116 Pb £7.99

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Social Interactions and Status Markers in the Roman WorldEdited by George Cupcea & Rada VargaThis volume takes four main directions: prosopography (from Italy to Spain); ancient professions and professionals (merchants in Noricum, Lower Moesia, general nomenclature and encoding of professions, associations and family life); onomastics and origins, and finally, the military ( iconography of funerary monunments and centurions’ social life). 180p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917487 Pb £30.00

Triumphs in the Age of Civil WarThe Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal TraditionBy Carsten Hjort LangeTriumphs in the Age of Civil War rethinks the nature and the character of the phenomenon of civil war during the Late Republic. At the same time it focuses on a key feature of the Roman socio-political order, the triumph, and argues that a commander could in practice expect to triumph after a civil war victory if it could also be represented as being over a foreign enemy, even if the principal opponent was clearly Roman. Significantly, the civil aspect of the war did not have to be denied. 352p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb 2018) 9781474267847 Hb £95.00, 9781350060579 Pb £28.99

EDITOR’S CHOICECave CanemAnimals in Roman CivilizationBy Iain FerrisIn many ways, Roman attitudes to animals were similar to our own; they kept animals as household pets, they farmed animals for meat and hunted and fished. However, animals also played a far more significant role in Roman culture and religion – and in the Roman imagination. In this book, Dr Iain Ferris discusses the extraordinary slaughter of huge numbers of animals for entertainment in the Roman arena, their association with the gods, their place in mythology and symbolism and their use in Roman religious practice. Many of their actions towards animals are seen today as cruel, but what did

animals mean for the Romans and how did they view their own actions? Lavishly illustrated, this book examines both written

and archaeological sources, particularly visual evidence in the form of sculptures, coins, mosaics, wall paintings and decorated everyday items in order to shed light on animals in Roman culture.

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PraetorianThe Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial BodyguardBy Guy de la BedoyereG u y d e l a B e d o y e r e provides a compelling first full narrative history of the Praetorians, whose dangerous ambitions ceased only when Constantine permanently disbanded them. de la Bedoyere introduces Praetorians of all echelons, from prefects and messengers to artillery experts and executioners. He explores the delicate position of emperors for whom prestige and guile were the only defenses against bodyguards hungry for power. 344p (Yale UP 2017, Pb 2018) 9780300218954 Hb £25.00, 9780300234381 Pb £10.99

Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome’s Economic Development, 0–275 CEBy Daniel HoyerDaniel Hoyer offers a new approach to explain Rome’s remarkable development. He surveys a broad selection of material to see how this diverse body of evidence can be reconciled to produce a single, coherent picture of the Roman economy. Engaging with social scientific and economic theory, Hoyer highlights key issues in economic history, placing the Roman Empire in its rightful place as a special—but not wholly unique—example of a successful preindustrial state. (Brill 2018) 9789004358270 Hb £90.00

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The Science of Roman HistoryBiology, Climate, and the Future of the PastEdited by Walter ScheidelContributors discuss climate change and its impact on Roman history, and then cover botanical and animal remains, which cast new light on agricultural and dietary practices. They exploit the rich record of human skeletal material – both bones and teeth – which forms a bio-archive that has preserved vital information about health, nutritional status, diet, disease, working conditions, and migration. 280p b/w illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691162560 Hb £27.95

Worlds Apart Trading TogetherThe Organisation of Long-Distance Trade Between Rome and India in AntiquityBy Kasper Gronlund EversThe analysis conducted here demonstrates that an economically highly substantial trade took place between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean in the 1st-6th cen. CE, altering patterns of consumption and modes of production in both India, South Arabia and the Roman Empire. It concludes that the institution of the market in Antiquity was able to facilitate trade over very long distances, acting on a scale which had a characteristic impact on the economies of the societies involved, their economic structures converging by adapting to trade and the market. 222p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784917425 Pb £30.00

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Roman Political ThoughtBy Jed W. AtkinsThis thematic introduction to Roman political thought shows how the Roman world developed political ideas of lasting significance, from the consequential constitutional notions of the separation of powers, political legitimacy, and individual rights to key concepts in international relations, such as imperialism, just war theory, and cosmopolitanism. Jed Atkins relates these and many other important ideas to Roman republicanism, traces their evolution across all major periods of Roman history, and describes Christianity’s important contributions to their development. 248p (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107107007 Hb £61.99, 9781107514553 Pb £19.99

PantheonA New History of Roman ReligionBy Jorg RupkeJorg Rupke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium – from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial period and up to full-fledged Christianization. There is a particular emphasis on “lived religion,” a perspective that stresses how individuals’ experiences and practices transform religion into something different from its official form. The narrative emphasizes the diversity of Roman religion, offers a new view of central concepts such as “temple,” “altar,” and “votive,” reassesses the gendering of religious practices, and much more. 536p, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691156835 Hb £30.00

Models from the Past in Roman CultureA World of ExemplaBy Matthew B. RollerHistorical examples played a key role in ancient Roman culture, and Matthew Roller’s book presents a coherent model for understanding the rhetorical, moral, and historiographical operations of Roman exemplarity. It examines the process of observing, evaluating, and commemorating noteworthy actors, or deeds, and then holding those performances up as norms by which to judge subsequent actors or as patterns for them to imitate. 346p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107162594 Hb £75.00

Religious Dissent in the Roman EmpireViolence in Judaea at the Time of NeroBy Vasily RudichAgainst the broad background of Second Temple Judaism and Judaea’s history under Rome’s rule, Rudich discusses various manifestations of religious dissent as distinct from the mainstream beliefs and directed against both the foreign occupier and the priestly establishment. This book offers the methodological framework for the analysis of the religious dissent mindset, which it considers a recurrent historical phenomenon that may play a major role in different periods and cultures. 350p (Routledge 2015, Pb 2018) 9780415161060 Hb £120.00, 9780815377818 Pb £36.99

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSInsularity and Identity in the Roman MediterraneanEdited by Anna KouremenosThe papers in this book explore the concepts of insularity and identity in the Roman period by addressing some of the following questions: what does it mean to be an island? How has insularity shaped ethnic, cultural, and social identity in the Mediterranean during the Roman period? How were islands connected to the mainland and other islands? Did insularity produce isolation or did the populations of Mediterranean islands integrate easily into a common ‘Roman’ culture? How has maritime interaction shaped the economy and culture of specific islands? Can we argue for distinct ‘island identities’ during the Roman period? The twelve papers presented here each deal with specific islands or island groups, thus allowing for an integrated view of Mediterranean insularity and identity.208p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705809 Pb £38.00

Material Approaches to Roman MagicOccult Objects and Supernatural SubstancesEdited by Adam Parker & Stuart McKieThis second volume in the new TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology series seeks to push the research agendas of materiality and lived experience further into the study of Roman magic, a field that has, until recently, lacked object-focused analysis. By concentrating primarily on the Imperial period and the western provinces, the various contributions demonstrate very clearly the exceptional range of influences and possibilities open to individuals who sought to use magical rituals to affect their lives in these specific contexts – something that would have been largely impossible in earlier periods of antiquity. 1 84 p , b /w ( O x b o w B o o k s 2 0 1 8 ) 9781785708817 Hb £40.00

House of the Surgeon, PompeiiExcavations in the Casa del Chirurgo (VI 1, 9-10.23)Edited by Michael Anderson & Damian RobinsonThis book represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006). The House of the Surgeon has been one of the most frequently cited houses in the ancient city since its discovery in 1771. The results of the exhaustive study of the house within its urban context not only challenge many of the conclusions of previous research, but also make it possible at last for this important property to contribute information to the full history of Pompeii’s urban development, illuminating the chronology of urban change, the processes involved in ancient domestic construction, aspects of the ancient environment, and changing socio-political and economic conditions within Italy throughout the middle to late Republic and early Empire. 528p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707285 Hb £70.00

Journal of Roman Pottery Studies Volume 17Edited by Steven WillisThis volume publishes papers relating to new re s e a rc h o n R o m a n period ceramics. Two papers present evidence of Late Iron Age and early Roman pottery forms and fabrics from west and east Kent. Ceramic fire-dogs discovered in the area of the Dutch Lowlands and Flanders brings to attention a type of find that may prove to be more common than previously noted. The same may be the case with portable Roman ceramic ovens and baking plates recorded in recent years in Britain; these two papers contribute to a growing corpus and debate on Roman cooking, ‘fast-food’ and functions. Amphorae from the eastern Mediterranean in northern Europe and pottery used in Roman ritual and religion noting distinct types and trends often involving symbolism are dicussed. 138p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709340 Pb £38.00

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The Roman Imperial Coinage Volume IAugustus–Vitellius (31 BC–69 AD)By CHV SutherlandSutherland’s revised Volume I has been out of print now for some years, but his study of the Julio-Claudian coinage, being the formative period of the long imperial series, is made newly available by Spink in this handsome reprint. 360p b/w illus (1984, Spink Books reprint 2018) 9780907605096 Hb £150.00, NYP

The Roman Imperial Coinage Volume XThe Divided Empire, 395–491By John KentThe layout of this essential reference work is based on the division between the eastern and western parts of the empire, and the reigns of successive emperors. A further section deals with imitative coinages struck by certain of the barbarian peoples. There are detailed accounts of the monetary system and mints, and of the coin-types and legends. The catalogue comprises some 1,800 entries, each individually numbered, and illustrated by 80 plates. 856p b/w illus (1994, Spink Books reprint 2018) 9780907605430 Hb £195.00, NYP

Water Culture in Roman SocietyBy Dylan Kelby RogersThis discussion seeks to define ‘water culture’ in Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, while understanding modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water. The culture of water can be demonstrated through expressions of power, aesthetics, and spectacle. Further there was a shared experience of water in the empire that could be expressed through religion, landscape, and water’s role in cultures of consumption and pleasure.(Brill 2018) 9789004368941 Pb £70.00

The Oxford Handbook of Roman EpigraphyEdited by Christer Brunn & Jonathan EdmondsonThe Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy is the fullest collection of scholarship on the study and history of Latin epigraphy produced to date. The 35 chapters cover everything from typograph to the importance of inscriptions for understanding many aspects of Roman culture, from Roman public life, to slavery, to the roles and lives of women, to the military, and to life in the provinces. 928p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015, Pb2018) 9780195336467 Hb £137.50, 9780190860301 Pb £35.99

The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in RomeThe Caged Bird and Other Art FormsBy Frederick JonesThis volume focuses on four cultural phenomena in the Roman world of the late Republic – the garden, a garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged bird. They accept or reject a categorisation as art in varying degrees, but they show considerable overlaps in the ways in which they impinge on social space. The study looks, therefore, at the borderlines between things that variously might or might not seem to be art forms. 208p b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb 2018) 9781472526120 Hb £85.00, 9781350066847 Pb £28.99

Supports in Roman Marble SculptureWorkshop Practice and Modes of ViewingBy Anna AnguissolaFigural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous feature of Roman marble sculpture. At odds with modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and visual congruence, these elements, especially non-figural struts, have been dismissed by scholars as mere safeguards for production and transport. However, close examination of these features reveals the tastes and expectations of those who commissioned, bought, and displayed marble sculptures throughout the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. 276p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108418430 Hb £75.00

Gardens of the Roman EmpireEdited by Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, Kathryn L. Gleason, Kim J. Hartswick & Amina-Aicha MalekIn Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski set out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. 500p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9780521821612 Hb £220.00

The Elephant Mosaic Panel in Synagogue HuqoqBy Karen Britt & Ra’anan BoustanThe first official publication of the Elephant mosaic panel excavated in the synagogue at Huqoq Israel in 2013-2015. The book includes a long editorial preface which raises a number of broader issues regarding the discovery of the mosaic and prior discussions of it. Four alternative interpretations of the mosaic are discussed by Britt and Boustan, with them coming down in favour of a Hasmonean interpretation.(Journal of Roman Archaeology Suplement 106, 2017) 9780999458600 Hb £50.00

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Pompeii ArchiveBy William WylieHandsomely illustrated and grand in scale, this book features images by American photographer William Wylie (b. 1957) taken over the past five years. The photographs reanimate the ancient city of Pompeii, showing the ongoing cycles of deterioration and preservation that mark it as a living landscape. Wylie captures Pompeii’s former grandeur, including its terracotta reliefs and wall paintings, while also drawing attention to the signs of an active excavation site, from plaster casts in glass cases to ceramic fragments in storage facilities. 90p, 78 duotone illus. (Yale UP 2018) 9780300233667 Hb £30.00

Pompeii: a Different PerspectiveVia dell’Abbondanza – a Long Road, Well TraveledBy Arthur E. Stephens & Jennifer F. StephensThis new book tells the story of a two thousand year-old street. It takes the reader on a unique journey down Via dell’Abbondanza, the longest street in the ancient city of Pompeii. The book visually documents and interprets Via dell’Abbondanza with distinctive and highly detailed representations of the thirty-two city blocks along the street. The book also traces the history of the excavation of the street, analyses the deterioration of the structures since they were discovered, and provides interesting supplemental information about the buildings and the recording methodology.126p col ilus (Lockwood Press 2017) 9781937040789 Hb £40.00

EDITOR’S CHOICEDura-EuroposBy Jennifer BairdDura-Europos on the Syrian Euphrates was the subject of extensive excavations in the 1920s and 30s by French and American archaeologists, and is one of the

most important archaeological sites of the Roman Near East. This book provides an overview of the site and its history,

situating Dura-Europos in its geographical, historical, and intellectual contexts, tracing the story of the site and its afterlives in scholarly and popular perceptions. 272p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781472522115 Hb £65.00,

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HerculaneumA Roman Town RebornBy Brian BrennanThis book, fully illustrated in colour, is a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of the ancient town and its excavation history. It includes chapters on the 19th and 20th century archaeologists who brought Herculaneum to light, the inscriptions, graffiti and painted notices that give us insights into life in the ancient town, the Villa of the Papyri and the study of its scrolls, the scientific study of the bones of the nearly 300 people found in the 1980s in the boat chambers on the ancient beachfront, and the work of the Herculaneum Conservation Project.234p, col illus (Ancient History Seminars 2018) 9780975696385 Pb £14.99

Great Waterworks in Roman GreeceAqueducts and Monumental Fountain Structures: Function in ContextEdited by Georgia A. Aristodemou & Theodosios P. TassiosThese papers collectively demonstrate that great w a t e r w o r k s ( n a m e l y aqueducts and nymphaea) not only were novelties in the Greek provinces of the Roman Empire, both in form and function, but they also changed the architectural landscape o f t h e i r s u r ro u n d i n g environments, and they introduced the concept of luxury in the urban landscapes of Roman Greece. 264p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917647 Pb £35.00

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The Transition to Late Antiquity on the Lower DanubeExcavations at Dichin: An Extraordinary Late Roman and Early Byzantine Fort, Intensive Site-specific Survey and a Unique Roman AqueductBy Andrew PoulterExcavations on the site of this remarkable fort in northern Bulgaria (1996–2005) formed part of a long-term programme of excavation and intensive field survey, aimed at tracing the economic as well as physical changes which mark the transition from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages. The analysis of well-dated finds and their full publication provides a unique data-base for the late Roman period in the Balkans; they include metal-work, pottery, glass, copper alloy finds, inscriptions and dipinti as well as quantified environmental reports on animal, birds and fish.

640p, (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709586 Hb £70.00

Roman GuernseyExcavations, Fieldwork and Maritime Archaeology 1980–2015Edited by Heather Sebire, Philip de Jersey & Jason MonaghanSince the 1980s, two large-scale excavations in the town of St Peter Port, plus accumulated evidence from rescue excavations elsewhere in the island and from underwater discoveries, has demonstrated that Guernsey saw significant Roman occupation which lasted for several centuries. This volume presents reports of the excavations carried out at La Plaiderie (1983–85) and the Bonded Store (1996–2005) in St Peter Port, together with a gazetteer of all Roman finds recorded from almost one hundred other sites in Guernsey and Herm. It includes a detailed study of the pottery recovered from the two town sites, which demonstrates that Guernsey was a significant port-of-call on the Atlantic trade route and along the length of the Channel.

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Embracing the ProvincesSociety and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier RegionsEdited by Tatiana Ivleva, Mark Driessen & Jasper de BruinEmbracing the Provinces is a collection of essays focused on people and their daily lives living in the Roman provinces, c. 27 BC-AD 476. It capitalizes on a wealth of data made available in recent decades to provide a holistic view on life in the Roman provinces by analysing various aspects of daily routine in the frontier regions, such as eating, dressing, and interacting. Twenty-one essays are cohesively structured around five themes, encompassing studies on the female and juvenile presence on Roman military sites, Roman provincial cooking, and Roman cavalry and horse equipment. For the first time in the Roman provincial scholarship the volume has a special section on the subject of Roman leather, providing a much-needed overview of the current stance of work. A few papers deal also

with experimental archaeology. 288p (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781789250152 Hb £48.00

Julius Caesar’s Battle for GaulNew Archaeological PerspectivesEdited by Andrew P. Fitzpatrick & Colin HaselgroveThis book presents the latest archaeological research on the Battle for Gaul and its aftermath. Based on an acclaimed 2017 conference, it is the first Europe-wide overview and much of the research is published here in English for the first time. After an introduction to recent trends in historical studies, thematic studies and regional surveys analyse the archaeological and numismatic evidence from across north-west Europe. Comparative evidence for the Roman conquest of Spain is also examined, along with the fundamental role that the study of the Battle for Gaul played in shaping the development of Iron Age archaeology.

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The Roman Bridge between Dolni Vadin (Bulgaria) and Grojdibodu (Romania)By Dorel BondocThis book presents all the available data on the Roman bridge over the Danube which connected Dacia and Moesia at this point. There have been no archaeological excavations at the feet of the bridge but the author has been able to propose positioning, scale and full reconstruction on the basis of a survey of existing remains, known road alignments, old maps and drawings as well as comparison with better-known parallels. 116p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918071 Pb £30.00

La Statio Romana de Mas GusóBy Josep Casas, Josep Ma Nolla & Victoria SolerThe present volume on the site of Mas Gusó presents in detail the results obtained during fourteen excavation campaigns, focusing on the Roman settlement. It had a military-public function, as a praesidium intended to control the hinterland territories of Emporion and to take part in military actions within the province of Hispania Citerior.Spanish text. 439p b/w illus (BAR S2890 2018) 9781407316451 Pb £66.00

Romans in the Middle and Lower Danube Valley, 1st century BC–5th century ADEdited by Eric C. De Sena & Calin TimocTopics include the effect of the Romans on native settlements and defensive systems, the integration of modern technology and historical maps in archaeological surveys, the food supply of the Roman army, Roman defensive systems, funerary practices, demographic issues concerning Roman soldiers and settlers in the Danubian provinces, and imperial portraiture. 124p b/w illus (BAR S2882, 2018) 9781407316116 Pb £27.00

Things That TravelledMediterranean Glass in the First Millennium AdEdited by Daniela Rosenow, Matt Phelps, Andrew Meek & Ian FreestoneCovering all aspects of glass production, technology, distribution and trade in Roman, Byzantine and Early Medieval/Early Islamic times, including studies from Britain, Egypt, Cyprus, Italy and many others, this volume combines the strengths of the sciences and cultural studies to offer a new approach to research on ancient glass. 362p b/w illus (UCL Press 2018) 9781787351189 Pb £25.00

RomeA Sourcebook on the Ancient CityBy Fanny Dolansky & Stacie RaucciAt the intersection of topography and socio-cultural history, this volume examines the cultural and social significance of the sites of ancient Rome. Drawing on literary and historical sources, this is not simply a tour of the baths and taverns, the amphitheatres and temples of ancient Rome, but rather a journey through the city that is fully integrated with Roman society. 272p b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781441107541 Hb £75.00, 9781441194190 Pb £25.99

LatrinaeRoman Toilets in the Northwestern Provinces of the Roman EmpireEdited by Stefanie HossThis volume presents a selection of papers and case studies first presented at a 2009 conference designed to focus on the toilets of the Northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. Papers demonstrate the value of scientific analysis of waste to understand the food habits and diseases of the Roman users of the toilet, while elsewhere questions on how to find the necessary expertise and financing for such investigations were raised. 154p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917258 Pb £44.00

Un Approccio Integrato al Problema Della Ricostruzione Della Viabilità Romana in SiciliaLa Via Catania-AgrigentoBy Marco SfacteriaThis book focuses on the integrated application of geotechnologies and landscape archaeology to the goal of providing a reconstruction of the Roman road that connected Catania and Agrigento, with an emphasis on the central site of Sofiana and its hinterland. Italian text. 95p b/w and col illus (BAR S2883, 2018) 9781407316222 Pb £19.00

Rome, Ostia, PompeiiMovement and Space.Edited by Ray Laurence & David J. NewsomeThis volume investigates the three best-known cities from Roman Italy, revealing how movement contributes to our understanding of the ways different elements of society interacted in space, and how the movement of people and materials shaped urban development. Its chapters examine the impressions left by the movement of people and vehicles in the archaeological and historical record, and upon the Roman urban consciousness. 480p (Oxford UP 2011, pb 2018) 9780199583126 Hb £110.00, 9780198707004 Pb £25.00

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Exploring Antiquities and Archaeology in the North WestEssays in Commemoration of the Life and Work of Ben EdwardsEdited by David C. A. Shotter & Marion McClintockBen Edwards, County Archaeologist for Lancashire, Honorary Fellow of the CWAAS, scholar and historian, produced work that transcended historical period and county boundaries. This collection of essays by colleagues, based on a study day in Ben’s honour in 2012, contributes to our knowledge and understanding of the archaeology and history of Cumbria and Lancashire from the Romans to the early modern periods and commemorates Ben Edwards’ outstanding achievements. 180p (CWAAS 2018) 9781873124772 Pb £25.00

Septimius Severus in ScotlandThe Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the ScotsBy Simon ElliottSince 1975 much new archaeological evidence has come to light to illuminate the immense undertaking o f S e p t i m i u s S eve r u s campaigns in Scotland. Simon Elliott shows how his force of 50,000 troops, supported by the fleet, hacked their way through the Maeatae around the former Antonine Wall and then pressed on into Caledonian territory up to the Moray Firth. Severus was the first of the great reforming emperors of the Roman military, and his reforms are explained in the context of how he concentrated power around the imperial throne. 206p b/w illus (Greenhill Books 2018) 9781784382049 Hb £19.99

BoudicaWarrior Woman of Roman BritainBy Caitlin C. GillespieCaitlin Gillespie explores the life and literary importance of Boudica through juxtaposing her different literary characterizations with those of other women and rebel leaders. The book focuses on the accounts of Tacitus and Cassius Dio, and investigates their narratives alongside material evidence of late Iron Age and early Roman Britain. Throughout the book, Caitlin Gillespie draws comparative sketches between Boudica and the positive and negative examples with which readers associate her, including the prophetess Veleda, the client queen Cartimandua, and the rebel Caratacus. 216p (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190609078 Hb £47.99

Roman BritainForthcoming from Oxbow Books

Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in BritainBy Roger Bland, Adrian Chadwick, Eleanor Ghey, Colin Haselgrove & David J. MattinglyMore coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. 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. It also includes an unprecedented examination of the containers in which coin hoards were buried and the objects found with them. The patterns of hoarding in Britain from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD are discussed. The volume also provides a survey of Britain in the 3rd century AD, as a peak of over 700 hoards are known from the period from AD 253–296.

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New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain Volume 3Life and Death in the Countryside of Roman BritainBy Alexander Smith, Martyn Allen, Tom Brindle, Michael Fulford, Lisa Lodwick & Anna RohnbognerThis volume focuses upon the people of rural Roman Britain – how they looked, lived, interacted with the material and spiritual worlds surrounding them, and also how they died, and what their physical remains can tell us. Incorporation into the Roman empire certainly brought with it a great deal of social change, though contrary to many previous accounts depicting bucolic scenes of villa-life, it would appear that this change was largely to the detriment of many of those living in the countryside. 448p, b/w and col illus (Roman Society Publications 2018) 9780907764465 Pb £32.40, NYP

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Roman BritainThe Frontier Province. Collected PapersBy Mark HassallThis collection brings together twenty of Mark Hassall’s most significant articles, encompassing early and later military history, the frontier and the province; and including subjects such as the army, administration, towns, religion, education and trade. It serves as a valuable and broad-ranging resource for students of the Roman province, and specifically considers the literary and epigraphic record of Britannia across four centuries. 310p b/w illus (Hobnob Press 2017) 9781906978426 Hb £18.00

Dea SenunaTreasure, Cult and Ritual at Ashwell, HertfordshireBy Ralph Jackson & Gilbert BurleighThe hoard of Roman-British temple treasure discovered at Ashwell in 2002 provides fascinating new insights into the ritual of Roman religion. This is the first full publication of the Ashwell treasure since its high profile discovery in 2002, and features a detailed, highly illustrated discussion of the beautiful gold and silver votive plaques as well as the figurine of the previously unknown goddess Senuna. 285p b/w illus (British Museum Press 2018) 9780861591947 Pb £40.00

EDITOR’S CHOICELondinium: A BiographyRoman London from its Origins to the Fifth CenturyBy Richard Hingley & Christina UnwinThis major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a broad overview of the city from its foundation to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the context of its province and the wider empire. He explores the multiple functions of Londinium over time, considering economy, industry, trade, status and urban infrastructure, but also looking at how power, status, gender and identity are reflected through the materiality of the

terrain and waterscape of the evolving city. A particular focus of the book is the ritual and religious context in which these

activities occurred. Hingley looks at how places within the developing urban landscape were inherited and considers how the history and meanings of Londinium built upon earlier associations from its recent and ancient past.

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Coin Hoards and Hoarding in Roman Britain ad 43 – c498By Roger BlandBritain has a uniquely rich heritage of coin hoards of the Roman period, with over 3,400 known. This book is the product of a lifetime’s work studying these hoards and is the first comprehensive survey for eighty years. There are chapters on the study of hoards, on hoarding in general, on the Iron Age to Roman transition, the denarius period, radiate hoards, the fourth and fifth centuries, and late Roman precious-metal hoards. It also contains a full checklist of all Iron Age and Roman coin hoards. 424p (Spink Books 2018) 9781907427794 Hb £40.00

The Cunetio and Normanby HoardsBy Roger Bland, Edward Besly & Andrew BurnettThe Cunetio and Normanby hoards are the two of the largest Roman coin hoards from Britain. They both comprise mostly ‘radiate’ coins struck in the second half of the 3rd century and are the most important catalogues for people identifying radiate coins in Britain dating from AD 253 to AD 275. This edition provides the two hoards (originally published in 1983 and 1988) in one volume with a note on more recent work on the radiate coinage of AD 253-96 and notes to aid identification by Sam Moorhead. 304p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9781907427954 Hb £60.00, NYP

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MaryportA Roman Fort and Its CommunityBy David BreezeThe collection of Roman i n s c r i b e d s t o n e s a n d sculpture, together with other Roman objects found at Maryport in Cumbria, is the oldest archaeological collection in Britain still in private hands. Beside the museum which houses it, the earthworks of the Roman fort may still be seen, and beyond it, lies a large civil settlement, the scene of two recent excavations. ‘Maryport: A Roman Fort and its community’ places the collection in context and describes the history of research at the site. 1 2 4 p , b /w a n d co l i l l u s (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918019 Pb £14.99

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSClash of Cultures?The Romano-British Period in the West MidlandsEdited by Roger White & Mike HodderThe general perception of the west midlands region in the Roman period is that it was a backwater c o m p a r e d t o t h e militarised frontier zone of the north, or the south of Britain where Roman culture took root early – in cities like Colchester, London and St Albans – and lingered late at cities like Cirencester and Bath with their rich, late Roman villa culture. Where the west midlands differed, and why, are important questions in understanding the regional diversity of Roman Britain. They are addressed by this volume which details the archaeology of the Roman period for each of the modern counties of the region, written by local experts who are or have been responsible for the management and exploration of their respective counties. These are placed alongside more thematic takes on elements of Roman culture, including the Roman Army, pottery, coins and religion. Lastly, an overview is taken of the important transitional period of the fifth and sixth centuries. 224p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709227 Hb £30.00

Outside Roman LondonRoadside Burials by the Walbrook StreamBy Serena Ranieri & Alison TelferThis book describes the archaeological evidence from excavations at Liverpool Street, from the Late Iron Age to the late Roman marsh formation. Extensive remains of an early 2nd – to 3rd-century AD west–east metalled road with two main phases were traced across the site, along with several phases of roadside ditches. To the south of the road, seven 2nd-century AD inhumation burials, including three decapitations, and one cremation burial were found. 228p (MOLA 2018) 9781907586446 Pb £10.00, NYP

Native and Roman on the Northern FrontierExcavations and Survey in a Later Prehistoric Landscape in Upper Eskdale, DumfriesshireBy Roger MercerOver two years a small-scale intervention at the Castle O’er hillfort and the total excavation of a unique enclosure at Over Rig were carried out, the results of which are brought together and documented in detail for the first time in this volume. The findings have wide-ranging implications for the study of the Iron Age and Roman frontiers.296p b/w illus (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2018) 9781908332134 Hb £30.00

EAA 164Excavations at Wixoe Roman Small Town, SuffolkBy Rob AtkinsThe excavations presented here have shown that Wixoe was a post-Boudican planned town probably established at a similar time to several others in the region. The town appears to have reached its peak in the 2nd century, following which there seems to have been a slow decline leading to its eventual abandonment in the very late 4th or early 5th century. 234p b/w illus (EAA 164 2018) 9781907588105 Pb £25.00

In the Shadow of CoriniumPrehistoric and Roman Occupation at Kingshillsouth, Cirencester, GloucestershireBy Andrew Simmonds, Edward Biddulph & Ken WelshThree buildings were recorded within the area of the excavation. Building 1 was a domestic, stone-footed building best described as a proto-villa. Building 2 was an aisled building with an apsidal end and is likely to have served an agricultural function. Both were constructed in the 2nd century AD. Building 3, dated to the late Roman period, is interpreted as a granary. Evidence for craft activity, including pin-making, horn-working and smithing, was also recorded. 552p, 97 illus., 64 tables (Oxford Archaeology 2018) 9781905905416 Pb £15.00

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Gill MillLater Prehistoric Landscape and a Roman Nucleated Settlement in the Lower Windrush Valley at Gill Mill, near Witney, OxfordshireBy Paul Booth and Andrew SimmondsThe val ley f loodplain landscape covered by the Gill Mill quarry, almost 130ha, was intensively exploited from about 300 BC at a variety of Iron Age settlements. The largest of these remained in occupation into the early 3rd century AD, but meanwhile a large nucleated settlement grew up around a road junction roughly 1km distant to the NW. This became the sole focus of occupation, covering an area of about 10ha, and appears to have had a specialised economic role related to systematic cattle management. 916p b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2018) 9781905905423 Hb £35.00

DurovigutumRoman GodmanchesterBy H. J. M. GreenThis publication presents the results of over 30 years of investigation into Roman Godmanchester, ( C a m b r i d g e s h i re ) , by Michael Green. A tavern, g l a s swa re - s h o p, d a i r y e q u i p m e n t , p o t t e r y manufacture and a smithy are detailed, as well as analysis of land organization, infield and outfield agriculture, and a villa estate. Specialist analyses include samian and coarse wares, vessel and window glass, coins, animal bone, dairy production, belief systems and burial practices, as well as the exceptional finds of a hoard of jewellery, and a burial casket of wood and bronze. 484p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917500 Pb £50.00

Latin LiteratureFragmentary Republican Latin Volume IEnnius, Testimonia. Epic FragmentsEdited by Sander M. Goldberg & Gesine ManuwaldQuintus Ennius (239–169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major developments in Roman religion, social organization, and popular culture. This two-volume edition of Ennius, which inaugurates the Loeb series Fragmentary Republican Latin, replaces that of Warmington in Remains of Old Latin, Volume I and offers fresh texts, translations, and annotation that are fully current with modern scholarship. 475p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997011 Hb £18.95

Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume IIEnnius, Dramatic Fragments. Minor WorksEdited by Sander M. Goldberg & Gesine Manuwald450p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997141 Hb £18.95

LivyHistory of Rome, Volume X: Books 35-37Edited by J. C. YardleyThis edition replaces the original Loeb edition by Evan T. Sage. 400p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997158 Hb £18.95

Ancient BiographyIdentity Through Lives: Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Volume 17, 2017Edited by Francis Cairns & Trevor LukeEssays on biographical writing in antiquity. Topics include Plutarch’ depiction of ruller-cult; accounts of dreams and their influence on Artemidorus; biographies of women; the Alexander Romance; Greek Lives under Roman rule; Cassius Dio as a participant in the history he relates; and NeoPlatonic biography. 326p (Francis Cairns 2018) 9780995461215 Hb £50.00

Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and HadrianLiterary Interactions, AD 96-138Edited by Alice Konig & Christopher WhittonThis volume is the first holistic investigation of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138). With case studies from Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus among others, the eighteen chapters offer not just innovative readings of literary (and some ‘less literary’) texts, but a collaborative enquiry into the networks and culture in which they are embedded. 486p (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108420594 Hb £105.00

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Corinth in Late AntiquityA Greek, Roman and Christian CityBy Amelia BrownIn Late Antiquity, Corinthians recognised new Christian authorities; adopted novel rites of civic celebration and decoration; and destroyed, rebuilt and added to the city’s ancient landscape and monuments. Amelia Brown here surveys this period of urban transformation, from the old Agora and temples to new churches and fortifications. She demonstrates the many ways Corinthians responded to internal and external pressures by building, demolishing and repurposing urban public space. 272p b/w illus (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781784538231 Hb £79.00

Reconstructing the Settled Landscape of the CycladesThe Islands of Paros and Naxos During the Late Antique and Early Byzantine CenturiesBy Konstantinos RoussosThis book presents an attempt to interpret human-environmental interaction in order to “read” the relationship between islands, settlements, landscapes and seascapes in the context of the diverse and highly interactive Mediterranean world. 334p b/w illus (Leiden UP 2017) 9789087283032 Pb £46.50

Mosaici Funerari Tardoantichi in ItaliaRepertorio e AnalisiBy Luigi QuattrocchiThis book focuses specifically on tomb mosaics found in the Italian peninsula and major islands, and provides information on their geographic distribution, dating, typology, place of discovery and iconography, and considers the potential identification of individual workshops. Italian text. 120p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917999 Pb £20.00

Rome’s Holy MountainThe Capitoline Hill in Late AntiquityBy Jason MoraleeThis book investigates how the Capitoline Hill was used, imagined, and known from the third to the seventh centuries CE. The hill persisted as a densely populated urban zone and continued to supply a bridge to fragmented memories of an increasingly remote past through its toponyms. The book is also about a series of Christian engagements with the Capitoline Hill’s different registers of memory. 304p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190492274 Hb £47.99

Constantine and the CitiesImperial Authority and Civic PoliticsBy Noel LenskiFocusing on cities and the texts and images produced by their citizens for and about the emperor, Constantine and the Cities uncovers the interplay of signals between ruler and subject, mapping out the terrain within which Constantine nudged his subjects in the direction of conversion. Reading inscriptions, coins, legal texts, letters, orations, and histories, Lenski demonstrates how Constantine and his subjects used the instruments of government in a struggle for authority over the religion of the empire. 416p, b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016, Pb 2018) 9780812247770 Hb £72.00, 9780812223682 Pb £26.99

Late Antique and ByzantineNEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSPalmyra after Zenobia AD 273-750An Archaeological and Historical ReappraisalBy Emanuele E. IntagliataPost-Roman Palmyra, city and setting, provide the focus of this book. Analysis and publication of evidence for post-Roman housing enables a study of the city’s urban life, including the private residential buildings in the sanctuary of Ba’alshamin. A systematic survey is presented of the archaeological and literary evidence for the religious life of the city in Late Antiquity and Early Islam. The city’s defences provide another focus. After a discussion of the garrison quartered in Palmyra, Diocletian’s military fortress and the city walls are investigated, with photographic and archaeological evidence used to discuss chronology and building techniques. The book concludes with a synthetic account of archaeological and written material, providing a comprehensive history of the settlement from its origins to the fall of Marwan II in 750 AD. 168p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709425 Hb £50.00

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The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique EgyptAn Archaeological ReconstructionBy Darlene L. Brook HedstromDarlene L. Brooks Hedstrom offers a new history of the field of Egyptian monastic archaeology. She analyzes late-antique documentary evidence, early monastic literature, and ecclesiastical history before turning to the extensive archaeological evidence of Chris t ian monastic settlements. In doing so, she illustrates the stark differences between idealized monastic landscape and the actual monastic landscape that was urbanized through monastic constructions. 488p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107161818 Hb £105.00

A Social and Cultural History of Late AntiquityBy Douglas BoinDouglas Boin examines the social and cultural landscape o f t h e L a t e A n t i q u e Mediterranean. He captures the period using a wide-lens, including Persian material from the mid third century through Umayyad material of the mid eighth century C.E., to offer a rich picture of Late Antique life that is not just focused on Rome, Constantinople, or Christianity. The book surveys major themes such as power, gender, community, cities, politics, law, art and architecture, and literary culture. 320p (Wiley-Blackwell 2018) 9781119077008 Hb £60.00, 9781119076810 Pb £27.00

EDITOR’S CHOICEMosaics in the Medieval WorldFrom Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth CenturyBy Liz JamesIn this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide range of issues, including style and iconography, technique and material,

and function and patronage, she examines mosaics within their historical context. She asks why the mosaic was such

a popular medium and considers how mosaics work as historical ‘documents’ that tell us about attitudes and beliefs in the medieval world. 650p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107011984 Hb

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The Lamps of Late Antiquity from Rhodes3rd–7th centuries ADBy Angeliki KatsiotiThis study focuses on the recording, study and publication of the corpus of the Late Antique lamps dating from the 3rd to the 7th centuries as found in rescue excavations in the town of Rhodes. The aim here is to present the diachronic changes in the artistic sensibility and preferences of this particular market. In addition, facets of the economic and commercial activities of the island during Late Antiquity are highlighted. 678p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784917463 Pb £80.00

Dress and Personal Appearance in Late AntiquityThe Clothing of the Middle and Lower ClassesBy Faith Pennick MorganT h i s b o o k e x a m i n e s the dress and personal appearance of members of the middle and lower classes in the eastern Mediterranean region during the 4th to 8th centuries. Written, art historical and archaeological evidence is assessed with a view to understanding the way that cloth and clothing was made, embellished, cared for and recycled during this period. The book looks in detail at the use of apotropaic and amuletic symbols and devices on clothing before examining sewing and making methods, the textile industry and the second-hand clothing trade. 288p b/w illus (Brill 2018) 9789004343955 Pb £136.00

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Asia Minor in the Long Sixth CenturyCurrent Research and Future DirectionsEdited by Ine Jacobs & Hugh EltonIt would seem that the sixth century in particular is characterised not only by a ruralisation of cities, but also by the extension and flourishing of villages in Asia Minor, the Roman Near East and Egypt. This volume explores a series of themes include the physical development of large and small settlements, their financial situation, and the proportion of public and private investment. Imperial, provincial, and local initiatives in city and countryside are compared and the main motivations examined, including civic or personal pride, military incentives and religious stimuli. The evidence presented is used to form opinions on the impact of the plague on living circumstances in the sixth century and to evaluate the significance of the Justinianic period.

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Late Antique and Early Medieval HispaniaLandscapes without Strategy?By Pilar Diarte-BlascoCore to this period of change is the arrival in Hispania of heterogenic groups of barbarians, their settlement in the Peninsula and their co-existence with the local Romanised populations. This volume examines not only the visibility and tangibility of these changes in the landscape and the nature of the related archaeology, but also the types of new authority created by these powers and whether these are evident through changing patterns of social organization in the landscape. Questions addressed include: was this a heavily militarised landscape and one with clear differences between the older, Roman settlement forms? Was there a visible strategy in this new organization? Did powers like the Visigoths really control the landscape or was this more fragmented?

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Butrint 5Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port: The Non-Ceramic Finds from the Triconch PalaceBy William BowdenThis is the second volume arising from the 1994–2003 excavations of the Triconch Palace at Butrint (Albania), which charted the history of a major Mediterranean waterfront site from the 2nd to the 15th centuries AD. This volume reports on the finds from the site (excluding the pottery), which demonstrate the ways in which the lives, diet and material culture of a Mediterranean population changed across the arc of the late Roman and Medieval periods. It includes discussion of the environmental evidence, the human and faunal remains, metal-working evidence, and the major assemblages of glass, coins and small finds.

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Interpreting Transformations of People and Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle AgesArchaeological Approaches and IssuesEdited by Pilar Diarte-Blasco & Neil ChristieIn this volume of papers nineteen leading European archaeologists discuss and interpret the complex evolution of landscapes – both urban and rural – across Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (c. AD 300–700). The geographical coverage extends from Italy to the Mediterranean West through to the Rhine frontier and onto Hadrian’s Wall. Core are questions of impacts due to the socio-political, religious, military and economic transformations affecting provinces, territories and kingdoms across these often turbulent centuries. Underlying much of the discussion is a consideration of the nature and quality of our source material: how good is the archaeology of these periods and how good is our current reading of the materials available?

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Causation and Creation in Late AntiquityEdited by Anna Marmodoro & Brian D. PrinceThis collection of essays investigates the views of both pagan and Christian philosophers on causation and the creation of the cosmos. It first looks at divine agency and how late antique thinkers tackled questions such as: is the cosmos eternal? Did it come from nothing or from something pre-existing? How was it caused to come into existence? Is it material or immaterial? The second part looks at questions concerning human agency and responsibility, including the problem of evil and the nature of will. 311p, (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9781107061538 Hb £64.99, 9781107695320 Pb £22.99

The Popes and the Church of Rome in Late AntiquityBy John MoorheadStructured around a narrative from the accession of Leo the Great to the death of Zacharias II, this study places the history of the papacy in a broader context, by comparing Rome with other major sees to show how it differed from these, evaluating developments beyond Rome which created openings for the extension of papal authority. Closer to home, the book considers the ability of the Roman church to gain access to wealth, retain it in difficult times, and disburse it in ways that enhanced its authority. 322p (Routledge 2015, Pb 2017) 9780415883658 Hb £115.00, 9781138305779 Pb £34.99

Late Antique Calendrical Thought and Its Reception in the Early Middle AgesEdited by Daibhi O CroininLate Antique intellectual culture was dominated by computus, a calendrical science with the calculation of Easter at its core. The key questions were the mathematical modeling of the course of the sun through the zodiac and of the moon phases. This volume highlights key episodes in the transmission of calendrical ideass, and therewith helps explaining the transformation of intellectual culture into its new medieval Christian setting. 385p (Brepols 2018) 9782503577098 Pb £75.00

Rutilius Namatianus’ Going HomeDe Reditu SuoBy Martha MalamudDe Reditu Suo provides fascinating insights into travel and communications networks in the rapidly changing, fragmented world of the fifth century. Martha Malamud provides the only scholarly English translation with significant notes and commentary that explore historical, literary, cultural, and mythical references, as well as commenting on literary allusions, the structure, diction, and style of the poem, and textual issues.92p (Routledge 2016, Pb 2018) 9781138781979 Hb £83.99, 9780815352709 Pb £29.99

Religions of the Constantinian EmpireBy Mark EdwardsThis volume provides a synoptic review of Constantine’s relation to all the cultic and theological traditions of the Empire. Divided into three parts, the first considers the efforts of Christians to construct their own philosophy, and their own patterns of the philosophic life, in opposition to Platonism. The second assembles evidence of survival, variation or decay in religious practices which were never compulsory under Roman law. The third reviews the changes, both within the church and in the public sphere, which were undeniably prompted by the accession of a Christian monarch. 384p (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9780198785248 Pb £18.99

Being Christian in Vandal AfricaThe Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post- Imperial WestBy Robin WhelanThis book investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, ca. 439 to 533 CE. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene and Homoian Christians and explores their rival claims to political and religious legitimacy. These contests – sometimes violent – are key to understanding the wider and much-debated issues of identity and state formation in the post-imperial West. 278p, b/w illus (University of California Press 2017) 9780520295957 Hb £74.00

Early Christian Ritual LifeBy Richard E. DeMaris, Steven Muir & Jason LamoreauxRather than treating ritual in isolation or in a fragmentary way, this book examines early Christian ritual life as a whole. The authors explore an array of Christian ritual activity, employing theory critically and explicitly to make sense of various ritual behaviours and their interconnections. 218p (Routledge 2017) 9781138653054 Hb £110.00, 9781138653061 Pb £29.99

Reconceiving Religious ConflictNew Views from the Formative Centuries of ChristianityEdited by Wendy Mayer & Chris L. De WetThis book deconstructs instances of religious conflict within the formative centuries of Christianity, the first six centuries CE. It explores the theoretical foundations of religious conflict; the dynamics of religious conflict within the context of persecution and martyrdom; the social and moral intersections that undergird the phenomenon of religious conflict; and the relationship between religious conflict and religious identity. 392p, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138229914 Hb £115.00

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JJP Supplement 32 (2017) Journal of Juristic PapyrologyEmpowering the Dead in Christian Nubia: The Texts from a Medieval Funerary Complex in DongolaBy Adam Łajtar & Jacques van der VlietThe crypt of Archbishop Georgios of Dongola, discovered in 1993 was astounding to say the least. The walls were literally covered with writing. Even more astounding was the provisional identification of some of the texts, forcing a complete reevaluation of Makurian culture and Christianity in Africa in the early twelfth century. Adam Łajtar and Jacques van der Vliet here publish this astounding selection of texts in Greek and Coptic, this ‘library’ that Archbishop Georgios endeavoured to take with him into the afterworld. 340p b/w illus (Journal of Juristic Papyrology 2017) 9788394684822 Hb £67.00

The Concept of the Elect Nation in ByzantiumBy Shay EshelShay Eshel shows how the Old Testament model of the ancient Israelites was a prominent factor in the evolution of Roman-Byzantine national awareness between the 7th and 13th centuries. The Byzantines’ interpretation of the 7th century epic events as manifestations of God’s wrath enabled them to incorporate the events into a paradigm which they now embraced: the Old Testament paradigm of the Israelite Elect Nation’s complex relationship with God, a cyclic relation of sin, wrath, punishment, repentance and salvation. (Brill 2018) 9789004349476 Hb £84.00

Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls – Sense Perceptions in ByzantiumEdited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey & Margaret MullettScholars have attended to aspects of sight and sound in Byzantine culture, but have generally left smell, taste, and touch undervalued and understudied. Through c o l l e c t e d e s s ays t h a t redress the imbalance, the contributors explore how the Byzantines viewed the senses; how they envisaged sensory interactions within their world; and how they described, narrated, and represented the senses at work. 342p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780884024217 Hb £50.95

Hagia Sophia in ContextAn Archaeological Re-Examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine ConstantinopleBy Ken Dark & Jan KostenecThe Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia has been a source of wonder and fascination since its sixth-c e n t u r y c o n s t r u c t i o n . However, while almost all previous archaeological wo r k h a s f o c u s e d o n the church i tsel f , the surrounding complex of ecclesiastical buildings has been largely neglected. The research project presented here (co-directed by the authors) is the first to focus on the archaeology of the immediate environs of the church in order to understand the complex as a whole. Previously unrecorded material includes parts of the Patriarchal complex, from which the Orthodox Church was governed for almost a millennium, what may be the ‘Great Baptistery’ north of the church, and what are perhaps the first fragments of the fourth-century phase of the cathedral yet identified.

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Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and ByzantiumEdited by Jelena BogdanovicCase s tudies examine encounters with the holy through the perspective of the human body and sensory dimensions of sacred space, and discuss the dynamics of perception when experiencing what was constructed, represented, and understood as sacred. The research points to how early Christians and Byzantines teleologically viewed the divine source of the sacred in terms of its ability to bring together – but never fully dissolve – the distinctions between the human and divine realms. 240p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138561045 Hb £115.00

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Ibn KhaldunAn Intellectual BiographyBy Robert IrwinIn this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun’s extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas. Closely examining the Muqaddima, a startlingly original analysis of the laws of history, and drawing on many other contemporary sources, Irwin shows how Ibn Khaldun’s life and thought fit into historical and intellectual context, including medieval Islamic theology, philosophy, politics, literature, economics, law, and tribal life. 272p (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691174662 Hb £24.95

A Short History of the MongolsBy George LaneGeorge Lane argues that the Mongols were not only subjugators who swept all before them but one of the great organising forces of world history. He discusses the unification of the Turko-Mongol tribes under Chinggis’ leadership; the establishment of a vigorous imperium; imaginative policies of religious pluralism; and the rich legacy of the Toluid Empire of Yuan China and Ilkhanate Iran. 256p, b/w illus (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781780766065 Pb £10.99

The Mongol EmpireBy Timothy MayThis book explores the rise and establishment of the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, as well as its expansion and evolution under his successors. It also examines the successor states (Ilkhanate, Chaghatayid Khanate, the Jochid Ulus (Golden Horde), and the Yuan Empire) from the dissolution of the empire in 1260 to the end of each state. They are compared in order to reveal how the empire functioned not only at the imperial level but how regional differences manifested. 400p b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2018) 9780748642366 Pb £29.99

The Mongols and the West1221–1410By Peter JacksonThe Mongols and the West provides a comprehensive survey of relations between the Catholic West and the Mongol Empire from the first appearance of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan’s armies on Europe’s horizons in 1221 to the battle of Tannenberg in 1410. This second edition has been fully updated and contains significantly extended chapters on trade and mission. 426p, b/w illus (Routledge , 2nd ed 2018) 9781138848481 Pb £29.99

A History of the Muslim World to 1750The Making of a CivilizationBy Vernon O. EggerA History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Including the latest research from the last ten years, this second edition has been updated and expanded to cover the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. 568p, b/w illus (Routledge 2nd ed, 2017) 9781138215931 Pb £54.99

Reframing the AlhambraArchitecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court CeremonialBy Olga BushThis book explores the design principles of the Alhambra by investigating the neglected, interdisciplinary contexts of medieval poetics and optics and through comparative study of Islamic court ceremonials. This reframing enables the reconstruction of the underlying, integrated aesthetic, focusing on the harmonious interrelationship between diverse artistic media – architecture, poetry and textiles – in the experience of the beholder, resulting in a new understanding of the Alhambra. 344p, b/w and col illus (Edinburgh UP 2018) 9781474416504 Hb £95.00

The Ornament of HistoriesA History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650–1041: The Persian Text of Abu Sa’id ‘Abd al-Hayy GardiziEdited by Edmund BosworthAbu Sa’id ‘Abd al-Hayy Gardizi was an author and historian living in the mid-eleventh century at the height of the Turkish Ghazvanid dynasty. His only known work, The Ornament of Histories (‘Zayn al-akhbir’), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now Eastern Iran, Afghanistan and parts of the Central Asian Republics and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. This is the first English translation of the original Persian text, and is accompanied by an introduction and commentary which details the historical, geographical and cultural context. 192p (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781848853539 Hb £70.00, 9781788311120 Pb £25.00

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Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Volume XIIIDerbyshire and StaffordshireBy jane Hawkes and Philip SidebottomThis volume in the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture surveys the counties of Derbyshire and Staffordshire and provides an analytical catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon stone sculptures of that region. Introductory chapters set the material within historical, topographical, archaeological and art-historical contexts, as well as its scholarly framework, and there are specialist contributions concerning the geology of the monuments and the sculpture from the (originally) royal ecclesiastical site at Repton in Derbyshire. 556p, 150 b/w pls (Oxford UP 2018) 9780197266212 Hb £100.00

The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede’s Ecclesiastical HistoryMethodology and SourcesBy Richard ShawHistorians have long relied on Bede’s Ecclesiastical History for their narrative of early Christian Anglo-Saxon England, but what material lay behind Bede’s own narrative? What were his sources and how reliable were they? How much was based on contemporary material? How much on later evidence? What was rhetoric? What represents his own agendas, deductions or even inventions? This book represents the first systematic attempt to answers these questions for Bede’s History, taking as a test case the coherent narrative of the Gregorian mission and the early Church in Kent. 276p (Routledge 2018) 9781138060814 Hb £115.00

The Nature of Kingship c. 800–1300By Nils HybelNils Hybel presents the first comprehensive history of the changeable nature of monarchic power in Danish territories from the Viking Age to the Central Middle Ages. Kingship experienced a profound transformation during the half millennium investigated. With the first signs of taxation, legislation, law enforcement and the notion of a national, military force, kings began the transition from warlords to medieval kingship. (Brill 2018) 9789004358348 Hb £160.00

The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon LiteratureBy Irina DumitrescuIrina Dumitrescu explores how early medieval writers used fictional representations of education to explore the relationship between teacher and student. The book demonstrates the enduring concern of Anglo-Saxon authors with learning throughout Old English and Latin poems, hagiographies, histories, and schoolbooks. 252p (Cambridge U 2018) 9781108416863 Hb £75.00

EdmundIn Search of England’s Lost KingBy Francis YoungBury St Edmunds is the probable site of the body of Edmund: martyred monarch of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia and, well before St George, England’s first patron saint. After the king was slain by marauding Vikings in the ninth century, the legend which grew up around his murder led to the foundation in Bury of one of the pre-eminent shrines of Christendom. In showing how Edmund became the pivotal figure around whom Saxons, Danes and Normans all rallied, the author also argues for the possibility of his rediscovery through excavation. 256p, col pls (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781788311793 Hb £20.00

Anglo-SaxonNEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSFrom Roman Civitas to Anglo-Saxon ShireTopographical Studies on the Formation of WessexBy Bruce EaglesT h i s b o o k i s t h e c u l m i n a t i o n o f t h e author’s lifelong interest in the Roman to medieval transition in England and in the analysis of the historic landscape of Wessex. It begins with a focused, referenced, and critical exploration of the thorny, but crucial, issues of post-Roman personal and group identity, employing linguistic, historical, archaeological and toponymical evidence. A series of integrated studies seek to elucidate changes in the territorial organisation of the Wessex landscape, from Somerset to Hampshire, from the Roman period to the emergence of the historic counties. It is shown that the defined limits of the self-governed Roman civitates had a significant impact upon subsequent historical developments, not least on the early English settlements. 260p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709845 Pb £34.99

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EDITOR’S CHOICEBuilding Anglo-Saxon EnglandBy John BlairThis beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants. John Blair demonstrates how hundreds of recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time how regionally diverse the built environment of the Anglo-Saxons truly was. The origins of villages and their field systems emerge with a new clarity, as does the royal administrative organization of the kingdom of Mercia. He explores how the natural landscape was modified

to accommodate human activity, and how many settlements – secular and religious – were laid out with geometrical precision

by specialist surveyors. The book also shows how the Anglo-Saxon love of elegant and intricate decoration is reflected in the construction of the living environment, which in some ways was more sophisticated than it would become after the Norman Conquest.

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Winchester’s Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Later SuburbsBy Patrick Ottaway & K. E. QualmannThis volume is a report on excavations undertaken in Winchester’s historic suburbs which produced evidence for their character, development and buildings over some 1600 years from the end of the Roman era to the nineteenth century. Included are specialist reports on the human remains and iron coffin fittings from the medieval Jewish cemetery, and on the kiln itself and an important assemblage of clay pipes made by a well-documented local entrepreneur. 359p, (Hampshire Cultural Trust 2018) 9781999978006 Pb £30.00

The Search for Winchester’s Anglo-Saxon MinstersBy Martin BiddleThe ancient cathedral of Old Minster and the abbey church of New Minster once stood at the heart of Anglo-Saxon Winchester. Buildings of the first importance, honoured by Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings, these great churches were later demolished and their locations lost. Here Martin Biddle traces the history of the extensive excavations which he led between 1961 and 1970 and shows how they led to the discovery of the Old and New Minsters, bringing back to life the history, archaeology and architecture of Winchester’s greatest Anglo-Saxon buildings. 90p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918576 Pb £15.00

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Industry and the Making of a Rural LandscapeBy Chris SmartThis book presents the results of excavation and analysis of technological remains from the Devon village of Hemyock, on the north-west side of the Blackdown Hills. The first major subject covered is an examination of early medieval iron technology including the largest group of C14-dated furnaces of the late 9th to early 10th centuries in Britain, which has afforded a re-examination and modelling of all other dated examples in the UK, and a review of technological change in iron production. The second major element to this volume is the study of a later major pottery production centre, dated c. 1500-1550. 246p b/w and col illus (BAR BS 636, 2018) 9781407316260 Pb £44.00

Excavation of the Late Saxon and Medieval Churchyard of St Martin’s, Wallingford, OxfordshireBy Iain SodenMOLA undertook excavations over 2003-4 at the former St Martin’s churchyard, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Earliest use of the churchyard has been dated to the late 10th to early 11th century by radiocarbon dating, and burials continued until the end of the 14th century. Osteological analysis of 187 of the 211 excavated skeletons of the cemetery has depicted a lay population which was almost equally split between males and females, with only a slight bias towards males. 94p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917661 Pb £25.00

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The Book of KellsOfficial GuideBy Bernard MeehanThames & Hudson’s bestselling book of all time, The Book of Kells, was first published in 1994. It is now reissued in a completely restructured, rewritten, redesigned and freshly illustrated edition. The Book of Kells is explored through its historical background; its structure; its decorative elements, including the richness of its symbols and themes; the scribes and artists who worked on the manuscript; and the tools and pigments used in its creation. 96p, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2nd ed 2018) 9780500480243 Pb £12.95

Communal Creativity in the Making of the ‘Beowulf’ ManuscriptTowards a History of Reception for the Nowell CodexBy Simon C. ThomsonSimon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour and argues for a date in Cnut’s reign. He presents evidence for the use of more than three exemplars and at least two artists as well as two scribes, making this an intentional and creative re-presentation uniting literature religious and heroic, in poetry and in prose. (Brill 2018) 9789004360860 Hb £175.00

Sceatta ListBy Tony AbramsonThis second edition of Sceatta List adds more than a hundred new varieties of early pennies. The author provides insight to the organisation, dating and designs of this seventh – to eighth-century medium of exchange where the medium is the message, though often obscured by the passage of time. 424p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9781907427862 Hb £50.00

Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 69The Abramson Collection, Coins of Early Anglo-Saxon England and the North Sea AreaBy Tony AbramsonThis book records, illustrates and describes the early Anglo-Saxon collection of Tony Abramson: one of the premier private assemblages of gold, silver and base-metal coins from the early medieval period, amounting to over 1,100 specimens. Traditionally known as gold shillings or thrymsas and silver pennies or sceattas, the coinages represented in this volume formed the first currency of Anglo-Saxon England, from c. 600 onwards. 816p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9781907427855 Hb £30.00

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Living off the LandAgriculture in Wales c. 400 to 1600 ADEdited by Rhiannon Comeau & Andy SeamanThis is the first book for a generation on medieval a g r i c u l t u re i n Wa l e s , p r e s e n t i n g e v i d e n c e which is of considerable relevance to those studying the development of the early medieval landscapes of England and Ireland. This collection of essays confronts the paradox that, though agriculture lay at the heart of medieval society, understanding of what this meant for Wales remains limited. The papers address key questions that include: how did the agricultural systems of Wales operate between c. 400 and 1600 AD? What light do they cast on the material evidence for life in the contemporary landscape? How similar or different was Wales to other areas of Britain and Ireland? Can we identify change over time? How do we go about researching early Welsh agriculture? Themes covered include the use of infield-outfield systems, seasonal land use and its impact on territorial and estate structures, and regional variation, all explored using a wide array of complementary multidisciplinary approaches.

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Manx CrossesA Handbook of Stone Sculpture 500–1040 in the Isle of ManBy David M. WilsonThe carved stone crosses of the Isle of Man of the late fifth to mid-eleventh century are of national and international importance. This, the first general survey of the material for more than a century, provides a new view of the political and religious connections of the Isle of Man in a period of great turmoil in the Irish Sea region. The book also includes an up-to-date annotated inventory of the monuments. 188pb/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917562 Pb £24.99

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSThe Viking AgeA Time of Many FacesBy Caroline ArciniThis book uses results from the examination of a substantial corpus of Swedish osteological material to discuss aspects of demography and health in the Viking period – t h o s e w h i c h wo u l d have been visible and recognisable in the faces or physical appearances of the individuals concerned. It explores the effects of migration, from the spread of new diseases such as leprosy to patterns of movement and integration of immigrants into society. The skeletal material also allows the study of levels of violence, attitudes towards disablement, and the care provided by Viking communities. An overview of the worldwide phenomenon of modified teeth also gives insight into the practice of deliberate physical embellishment and body modification. 128p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709388 Hb £38.00

Cille PheadairA Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South UistBy Mike Parker Pearson, Mark Brennand, Jacqui Mulville & Helen SmithCille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age and Late Norse settlements discovered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), off the west coast of Scotland. I t s u nu s u a l l y we l l -preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine phases of occupation, including five longhouses and many smaller buildings, provides a remarkable insight into daily life on a Norse farmstead during two centuries of near-continuous occupation c. AD 1000 –1200. Although the excavation at Cille Pheadair was a rescue project undertaken before the site was destroyed by coastal erosion, it provided an opportunity to address important research questions about the domestic use of space, agricultural economy, and relationships with the wider world beyond the Outer Hebrides. 464p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785708510 Hb £35.00

Viking NottinghamshireBy Rebecca GregoryViking Nottinghamshire describes the county as it was throughout the Viking Age, through the various stages of Scandinavian settlement. It uses a range of historical evidence, including documents, place-names, artefacts and sculpture, to explore the impact and contribution the Scandinavian settlers made to the character and history of Nottinghamshire. The focus is on cultural interaction and integration rather than a story of invasion, rape and pillage. 76p, col illus (Five Leaves Publications 2018) 9781910170472 Pb £8.99

Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World and BeyondConverting the Isles IIEdited by Nancy EdwardsThis volume analyses the effects of religious conversion on landscapes of cult and on religious practice in Europe, focusing in particular on Britain and Ireland. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, the volume investigates the interaction between different forms of belief, their coexistence and competition. It discusses the coming of writing, the power of the word, landscapes of ritual, and converting communities. 525p (Brepols 2017) 9782503568683 Hb £102.00

Laughing Shall I DieLives and Deaths of the Great VikingsBy Tom ShippeyIn this robust new account of the Vikings, Tom Shippey explores their mindset, and in particular their fascination with scenes of heroic death. Laughing Shall I Die considers Viking psychology by weighing the evidence of the sagas against the accounts of the Vikings’ victims, and presents them for what they were: not peaceful explorers and traders, but bloodthirsty warriors and marauders. 368p (Reaktion 2018) 9781780239095 Hb £20.00

Dragon LordsThe History and Legends of Viking EnglandBy Eleanor ParkerEleanor Parker explores how the Vikings and their invasions were remembered and reimagined by the later inhabitants of medieval England. Native tales reveal the links to famous Vikings like Ragnar Lothbrok and his sons; Cnut; and Havelok the Dane. Each myth shows how the legacy of the newcomers can still be traced in landscape, place-names and local history. 288p, b/w illus (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781784537869 Hb £20.00

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In AustrvegrThe Role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age Communication across the Baltic SeaBy Marika MagiMarika Mägi’s book considers the cultural, mercantile and political interaction of the Viking Age (9th-11th century), focusing on the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea. It looks at the area from a trans-regional perspective, combining archaeological evidence with written sources, and offering reflections on the many different factors of climate, topography, logistics, technology, politics and trade that shaped travel in this period. (Brill 2018) 9789004216655 Hb £139.00

Viking Law and OrderPlaces and Rituals of Assembly in the Medieval NorthBy Alexandra SanmarkThe Vikings are well-known for their violent raids and pillage, but they also had a well-organised system for political decision-making, legal cases and conflict resolution. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of their well-ordered culture of law and assembly, an integral part of Norse life and identity, to the extent that the assembly institution was brought to all Norse settlements. 264p, b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9781474402293 Hb £70.00

The Pre-Christian Religions of the NorthResearch and Reception, Volume I: From the Middle Ages to C. 1830Edited by Margaret Clunies RossA definitive survey of the current and historical uses and interpretations of pre-Christian mythology and religious culture, tracing the many ways in which people both within and outside Scandinavia have understood and been influenced by these religions, from the Christian Middle Ages to contemporary media of all kinds. The present volume (I) traces the reception down to the early nineteenth century. 625p (Brepols 2018) 9782503568799 Hb £110.50

Gods and Humans in Medieval ScandinaviaRetying the BondsBy Jonas WellendorfJonas Wellendorf ’s study explores the medieval Scandinavian reception and re-interpretation of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. By providing an in-depth analysis of often overlooked mythological materials, along with translations of all textual passages, Wellendorf delivers an accessible work that sheds new light on the ways in which the old gods were integrated into the Christian worldview of medieval Scandinavia. (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108424974 Hb £75.00

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Beside the OceanThe Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney, Archaeological Research 2003-18By David Griffiths, Jane Harrison & Michael AthansonF r o m 2 0 0 3 , a n e w archaeological research project began to investigate the hinterlands of the three bays of Skaill, Marwick Bay, and Birsay Bay, seeking to create a broader and better-informed landscape context. In one area in particular, a cluster of large settlement mounds on the northern side of the Bay of Skaill, two major Viking-Norse settlement clusters were identified and investigated. The artefact assemblages include evidence for ferrous metalworking along with iron and copper alloy objects, combs, glass and amber beads, worked stone, ceramics and a range of archaeobotanical and archaeozoological remains.

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A Norse Settlement in the Outer HebridesExcavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South UistEdited by Niall SharplesThe settlement at Bornais is one of the largest rural settlements known from the Norse period in Britain. This volume explores the stratigraphic sequence uncovered by the excavation of Bornais mounds 2 and 2A. The excavation of mound 2 revealed a sequence of high status buildings that span the Norse occupation of the settlement. One of these houses, constructed at the end of the eleventh century AD, was a well preserved bow-walled longhouse and the careful excavation and detailed recording of the floor layers has revealed a wealth of finds that provides invaluable insight into the activities taking place in this building. The excavation of mound 2A provides an insight into the less prestigious areas of the settlement.

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HuosilandA Small Country in Carolingian EuropeBy Carl I. HammerDiscussed here is the landscape of western Bavaria in the early-medieval period, between about 750 and 850, possibly the best documented European landscape of this time. This is due to the extraordinary cartulary prepared for the diocese of Freising by the monk, Cozroh, in the second quarter of the ninth century. This volume provides a full study of the cartulary and what it can tell us about the society and economy of the region. 258p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917593 Pb £30.00

Charlemagne’s Practice of EmpireBy Jennifer R. DavisDavis explores how Charlemagne overcame the two main problems of ruling an empire, namely how to delegate authority and how to manage diversity. She demonstrates that rather than imposing a pre-existing model of empire onto conquered regions, Charlemagne and his men learned from them, developing a practice of empire that allowed the emperor to rule on a European scale. As a result, Charlemagne’s realm was more flexible and diverse than has long been believed. 551p (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9781107076990 Hb £108.00, 19781107434134 Pb £24.99

Conquest and ChristianizationSaxony and the Carolingian World, 772–888By Ingrid RemboldThis book sets out to re-evaluate the political integration and Christianization of Saxony and to show how the success of this transformation has important implications for how we view governance, the institutional church, and Christian communities in the early Middle Ages. It serves to undercut the narrative of top-down Christianization with a more grassroots model that highlights the potential for diversity within Carolingian Christianity. 292p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107196216 Hb £75.00

Archaeozoological Analysis of the Fortified Settlement of Sand (10th Century AD, Lower Austria)By Konstantina SaliariThis book presents an archaeozoological analysis of the Early Medieval fortified settlement Sand, in Lower Austria. The work describes the exceptional socio-economic organisation of a settlement based on its animal remains, and sheds light on aspects of daily life, the interaction between consumers and providers, and the exploitation of faunal resources. 175p b/w illus (BAR S2892, 2018) 9781407316376 Pb £40.00

The Sösdala Horsemen and the Equestrian Elite in Fifth Century EuropeEdited by Charlotte Fabech & Ulf NässmanSösdala is a famous name in European archaeology of the Migration Period for its mounts, from an exquisitely decorated parade bridle, the closest parallels to which are found in Austria, Poland, Romania and Ukraine. Based on new scholarly studies and scientific analyses a European team of scholars places Sösdala in its European setting. 452p col illus (Aarhus UP 2018) 9788793423152 Hb £35.00, NYP

Debating Religious Space and Place in the Early Medieval World (c. AD 300-1000)Edited by Chantal Bielmann & Brittany ThomasThese papers discuss and debate ‘space’ and ‘place’ with a focus on new methodologies. They address such themes as phenomenological and experiential issues in the archaeology of space and place; access to and visibility of spaces in the past; the transformation and appropriation of spaces beyond the ‘Christian/Pagan’ dichotomy; and aspects of community and memory building in the medieval world. 225p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088904196 Hb £95.00, 9789088904189 Pb £35.00

Making Early Medieval SocietiesConflict and Belonging in the Latin West, 300–1200Edited by Kate Cooper & Conrad LeyserThis book draws anthropologists’ work to consider dispute settlement and conflict management during and after the end of the Roman Empire. Contributions range across the internecine rivalries of late Roman bishops, the marital disputes of kings, and the tension between religious leaders and unruly crowds – all considering the mechanisms by which conflict could be harnessed as a force for social stability or an engine of social change. 293p (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107138803 Hb £67.99, 9781316503607 Pb £19.99

Medieval RomeStability and Crisis of a City, 900–1150By Chris WickhamMedieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city. This volume doesn’t merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional Church standpoint; instead, it engages in studies of the city’s processions, material culture, legal transformations, and sense of the past, seeking to unravel the complexities of Roman cultural identity. 536p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9780199684960 Hb £36.99, 9780198811220 Pb £18.99

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The Cambridge History of IrelandVolume 1, 600–1550Edited by Brendan SmithInterspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. New perspectives are offered on the politics, artistic culture, religious beliefs and practices, social organisation and economic activity that prevailed on the island in these centuries. Underpinning the book is a comparative, outward-looking approach that sees Ireland as an integral but exceptional component of medieval Christian Europe. 700p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107110670 Hb £100.00

Conqueror’s SonDuke Robert Curthose, Thwarted KingBy Katherine LackDuke Robert of Normandy, eldest son of William the Conqueror, was one of the greatest kings England never had. Instead, his reputation was distorted by the English chroniclers to give legitimacy to the claims to the throne of Robert’s two brothers, William Rufus and Henry I. Katherine Lack sets out to redress the balance of opinion on Robert Curthose. What emerges is a fascinating revision of our understanding of William the Conqueror and his complex relations with his sons. 256p, b/w illus (The History Press 2018) 9780750986823 Pb £12.99

The History of William MarshalBy Nigel BryantThe History of William Marshal is the earliest surviving biography of a medieval knight – indeed it is the first biography of a layman in the vernacular in European history. Few other medieval biographies have the immediacy of this celebration of Marshal’s career, based not least on stories told by Marshal himself and those close to him, and it is made available here for the first time in a modern prose translation. 259p (Boydell & Brewer 2016, Pb 2018) 9781783271313 Hb £50.00, 9781783273034 Pb £17.99

Henry the Young King, 1155–1183By Matthew StricklandThis first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father’s lifetime. Henry played a central role in the politics of Henry II’s great empire and was hailed as the embodiment of chivalry. Yet the Young King was provoked into heading a major rebellion against his father, and died before reaching the age of thirty having never assumed actual power. 496p, b/w pls (Yale UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9780300215519 Hb £30.00, 9780300232875 Pb £12.99

The Welsh and the Medieval WorldTravel, Migration and ExileEdited by Patricia SkinnerThis book seeks for the first time to capture the medieval Welsh on the move, and core to its purpose is the exploration of identity within and outside the Welsh territories – particularly since ‘Welsh’ may have become a fluid term to describe a stranger, often pejoratively. Examining archaeological, historical and l i terary evidence together, this book enables a better understanding of the ways in which people from Wales interacted with and understood their near and distant neighbours. 336p (University of Wales Press 2018) 9781786831897 Pb £29.99

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NEW FROM casemateThe Black Prince and the Capture of a KingPoitiers 1356By Morgen Witzel & Marilyn LivingstoneThe core of this book is a day-by-description of the campaign of July-September 1356, climaxing with a detailed description of the Battle of Poitiers itself. The detailed account and analysis of the battle and the campaigns that led up to it has a strong focus on the people involved in the campaign: ordinary men-at-arms and non-combatants as well as princes and nobles. 336p, b/w pls (Casemate UK 2018) 9781612004518 Hb £25.00

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The Old French Chronicle of MoreaAn Account of Frankish Greece after the Fourth CrusadeEdited by Anne Van Arsdall & Helen MoodyThe Chronicle of Morea is the key source for the history of the Frankish states established in Greece after the conquest of Constantinople in 1204 and their relations with the reviving Byzantine Empire during the 13th century. This is the first translation into English or any other modern language of the Old French text, thus opening its content to a wider audience. 290p (Routledge 2015, Pb 2017) 9780754631521 Hb £115.00, 9781138307223 Pb £34.99

Kill Them AllCathars and Carnage in the Albigensian CrusadeBy Sean McGlynnThe bloody Albigensian Crusade launched against the Cathar heretics of southern France in the early thirteenth century is infamous for its massacres and acts of appalling cruelty, deeds commonly ascribed to the role of religious fanaticism. Here, in the first military history of the whole conflict, Sean McGlynn reveals the crusade in a different light – as a bloody territorial conquest in which acts of terror were perpetrated to secure military aims rather than religious ones. 320p, col illus (The History Press 2018) 9780750984317 Pb £18.99

Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean (C. 1000–1500 Ce)Edited by Reuven Amitai & Christoph CluseThis volume contains innovative studies that look at various aspects of slavery and the slave trade in the Eastern Mediterranean between about 1000–1500 CE: overviews of slavery in the different religious traditions, examinations of the role of the Italian merchant cities – mainly Venice and Genoa – in this trade, the nature of Mamluk military slavery and aspects of the commerce in these so-called slave soldiers. 500p (Brepols 2018) 9782503570198 Hb £115.00

The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third CrusadeBy John D. HoslerThe two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third Crusade. Drawing on a balanced selection of Christian and Muslim sources, historian John D. Hosler has written the first book-length account of this hard-won victory for the Crusaders, when England’s Richard the Lionheart and King Philip Augustus of France joined forces to defeat the Egyptian Sultan Saladin. 272p, b/w pls (Yale UP 2018) 9780300215502 Hb £25.00

The Economy of Medieval HungaryEdited by Josef Laszlovszky, Balazs Nagy, Peter Szabo & Andras VadasThe Economy of Medieval Hungary is the first single-volume treatment of the subject in English, and draws on an extensive range of archaeological and historical data. The twenty-five chapters of the book focus on structures of medieval economy, different means and ways of human-nature interactions in production, and offer an overview of the different spheres of economic life, with a particular emphasis on taxation, income and commercial activity. (Brill 2018) 9789004310155 Hb £200.00

Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval IrelandThe English and Irish of the Four Obedient ShiresBy Sparky BookerThis study examines the nature of interactions between English and Irish neighbours in the four shires at the heart of the English colony, taking into account the complex tensions between assimilation and the preservation of distinct ethnic identities and exploring how the common colonial rhetoric of the Irish as an ‘enemy’ coexisted with the daily reality of alliance, intermarriage, and accommodation. 336p (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107128088 Hb £75.00

Encountering Islam on the First CrusadeBy Nicholas MortonNicholas Morton offers a major reinterpretation of the crusaders’ attitudes towards the Arabic and Turkic peoples they encountered on their journey to Jerusalem. He offers a varied picture of cross cultural relations, depicting the Near East as an arena in which multiple protagonists were pitted against each other. Some were fighting for supremacy, others for their religion, and many simply for survival. 331p (Cambridge UP 2016, Pb 2017) 9781107156890 Hb £67.99, 9781108444866 Pb £22.99

Medieval Brugesc. 850–1550Edited by Andrew Brown & Jan DumolynBringing together specialists from both archaeology and history, this ‘total’ history presents an integrated view of Bruges’ history from its very beginnings, tracing its astonishing expansion through to its subsequent decline in the sixteenth century. The authors’ analysis of its commercial growth, industrial production, socio-political changes, and cultural creativity is grounded in an understanding of the city’s structure, its landscape and its built environment. 568p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108419659 Hb £99.99

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Women and Religion in Late Medieval NorwichBy Carole HillDrawing on uniquely rich and varied sources, the book demonstrates, far more fully and effectively than studies for other cities have been able to do, how links with continental Europe enriched female life. Norwich’s successful status as an international depot – especially its trade with the Low Countries and with Germany – became the vehicle for the transmission of various cults, artistic expression and books related to continental female mysticism. 234p (Boydell & Brewer 2010, Pb 2017) 9780861933044 Hb £50.00, 9780861933464 Pb £19.99

The Murder of William of NorwichThe Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval EuropeBy E. M. RoseIn 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city’s walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of the Crucifixion as a mockery of Christianity. E.M. Rose’s engaging book delves into the story of William’s murder and the notorious trial that followed to uncover the origin of the ritual murder accusation – known as the “blood libel” – in western Europe in the Middle Ages. 416p, (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9780190679194 Pb £10.99

Scandalous ErrorCalendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval EuropeBy C. Philipp E. NothaftFor centuries prior to the Gregorian reform, astronomers, mathematicians, theologians, and even Church councils had been debating the necessity of improving or emending the existing ecclesiastical calendar, which throughout the Middle Ages kept losing touch with the astronomical phenomena at an a larm i ng pace . Scandalous Error is the first comprehensive study of the medieval literature devoted to the calendar problem and its cultural and scientific contexts. 384p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198799559 Hb £75.00

Selected Works of Abbot Suger o f Saint-DenisEdited by Richard Cusimano & Eric WhitmoreSuger is best for his work on Saint-Denis, but he was much more than an architect. He served as a counsellor and member of the courts of King Louis VI and VII, who sent him across Europe on diplomatic missions. Suger’s texts provide a wealth of information about the events of his era as well as a large amount of biographical material on his accomplishments. His writings are here provided in an English translation. 312p (Catholic University of America Press 2018) 9780813229973 Hb £67.50

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Fools and Idiots?Intellectual Disability in the Middle AgesBy Irina MetzlerThis is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Medieval physicians, lawyers and the schoolmen of the emerging universities wrote the texts which shaped medieval definitions of intellectual ability and its counterpart, disability. In studying such texts, which form part of our contemporary scientific and cultural heritage, we gain a better understanding of which people were considered to be intellectually disabled and how their participation and inclusion in society differed from the situation today. 296p, b/w illus (Manchester UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9780719096365 Hb £75.00, 9780719096372 Pb £25.00

Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeEdited by Theresa EarenfightIn this volume, the authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe. The essays focus on the people of the highest social rank: the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, and physicians. Themes include financial and administrative management, itinerant households, the household of an imprisoned noblewoman, blended households, and cultural influence. (Brill 2018) 9789004314320 Hb £166.00

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Dealing With The DeadMortality and Community in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeEdited by Thea TomainiD u r i n g t h e M i d d l e Ages the dead continued to function literally as integrated members of their communities long after they were laid to rest in their graves. From stories of revenants bringing pleas from Purgatory to the living, to the practical uses and regulation of burial space; from the tradition of the ars moriendi, to the depiction of death on the stage; and from the making of martyrs, to funerals for the rich and poor, this volume examines how communities dealt with their dead as continual, albeit non-living members. 480p (Brill 2018) 9789004315143 Hb £150.00

Carmina Burana, Volume IEdited by David A. TraillCarmina Burana, literally “Songs from Beuern,” is named after the village where the manuscript was found. The thirteenth-century songbook consists of nearly 250 poems, on subjects ranging from sex and gambling to crusades and corruption. The multilingual codex includes works by leading Latin poets such as the Archpoet, Walter of Châtillon, and the canonist Peter of Blois, as well as stanzas by German lyric poets. This new presentation of the medieval classic in its entirety makes the anthology accessible in two volumes with the texts accompanied by a facing English translation. 602p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674660250 Hb £19.95

Carmina Burana, Volume IIEdited by David A. Traill801p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674980976 Hb £19.95

EDITOR’S CHOICEThe Parish and the Chapel in Medieval Britain and NorwayBy Sarah E. ThomasThis book, the first major comparative study of the subject, begins by examining what a chapel was, who used them, and their purpose. It then categorises chapels according to function and their relationship with the parish

church, showing that they served a far greater range of purposes than has previously been assumed. The author also considers

whether the drive for uniformity had an impact on religious landscapes in Britain and Norway, arguing that there is little evidence of a Viking impact on chapel organisation in the British Isles.

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Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its AfterlivesEdited by Elisa A. Foster, Julia Perratore & Steven RozenskiThis collection examines the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their devotion with a particular focus on Yorkshire. The volume also addresses the afterlives of objects and buildings in their temporal journeys from the Middle Ages to the present day. The chapters incorporate site-specific research with the insights of scholars of visual art, literature, music, liturgy, ritual, and church history. (Brill 2018) 9789004315068 Hb £172.00

The Right Ordering of Souls’The Parish of All Saints’ Bristol on the Eve of the ReformationBy Clive BurgessI n t h e two ce nt u r i e s preceding the Reformation in England, economic, political and spiritual conditions combined with constructive effect. The wealthier classes invested in and worked for their neighbourhood churches with a degree of largesse – witnessed in parish buildings in many localities – hardly equalled since. This book, using the remarkable survival of records for one parish – All Saints’, Bristol, in the later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries – scrutinises the investment that the faithful made. 432p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2018) 9781783273096 Hb £60.00

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Touching the PassionSeeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of FaithBy Donna L. SadlerDonna Sadler explores the manner in which worshipers responded to the carved and polychromed retables adorning the altars of their parish churches. Framed by the symbolic death of Christ re-enacted during the Mass, the historical account of the Passion on the retable situated Christ’s suffering and triumph over death in the present. The dramatic gestures, contemporary garb, and wealth of anecdotal detail on the altarpiece, invited the viewer’s absorption in the narrative. As in the Imitatio Christi, the worshiper imaginatively projected himself into the story like a child before a dollhouse. (Brill 2018) 9789004360198 Hb £117.00

The Mosaics of the Norma Stanza in PalermoBy David KnippThis book explores the making and meaning of the chamber commonly known as the ‘Room of Roger’ in the palace of the Norman kings of Sicily in Palermo. The unique way in which Byzantine technique, skill and style are blended with Maghribi Islamic perspective conventions and iconography while producing aesthetic interaction as well as obvious tension, serves as a starting point for an investigation of the various currents of artistic exchange and dynastic pretensions between Palermo, Constantinople, Norman Antioch and the Maghrib. 312p (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042933330 Hb £115.00

HousesAn Architectural GuideBy Charles O’BrienAn enthusiast’s guide to exploring historic houses of England, this informative book, now in paperback, also enables readers to discover more about the history of their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic architecture, identify period styles, uncover the origins of a building, and understand why rooms are arranged in particular sequences, why window and chimney designs change through history, or why staircases are presented in a certain fashion. 192p, b/w and col illus (Yale UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9780300233421 Pb £8.99

The Castle at War in Medieval England and WalesBy Dan SpencerThis book explores the role of the castle in warfare in England and Wales, focusing on the period from the Norman Conquest to the reign of Henry VIII. Previous authors have tended to concentrate on the architecture of castles and on establishing a narrative of how castles changed throughout the Middle Ages. Instead this book discusses castles in relation to the military history of medieval England and Wales, with chapters covering specific conflicts such as the Normans, the twelfth century civil war, war with Scotland and the Wars of the Roses. 336p b/w illus (Amberley 2018) 9781445662688 Hb £20.00

ChurchesAn Architectural GuideBy Simon BradleyThis compact and accessible book is for anyone who would like to understand more about the architectural history of English churches. Clear and easy to use, the text explains the key components of church architecture-stylistic developments, functional requirements, regional variations, and arcane vocabulary. 192p, b/w and col illus (Yale UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9780300233438 Pb £8.99

Medieval Art & ArchitectureNEW FROM casemateCastlesFortresses of PowerBy Rosie Serdiville & John SadlerIn medieval times castles were the ultimate symbol of power, dominating their surroundings, and marking the landscape with their imposing size and impregnable designs. Alongside their primary role as a fortress, castles also functioned as a residence, the backdrop for extravagant banquets and entertainments, and the lord’s collection of taxes and application of the law. This concise history of castles uses the example of individual castles, including Harbottle and Bodiam, to explore how and why they were built and what life in a castle was really like. 160p b/w i l lus (Casemate 2018) 9781612006130 Pb £7.99

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Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic of Appropriation in the Italian Maritime Cities, 1000–1150By Karen Rose MathewsKaren Rose Mathews analyzes the relationship between war, trade, and the use of spolia as architectural decoration in the public monuments of the Italian maritime republics in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This comparative study addressing five urban centres argues that the multivalence of spolia and their openness to new interpretations made them the ideal visual form to define a distinct Mediterranean identity for the inhabitants of these cities, celebrating the wealth and prestige that resulted from the paired endeavours of war and commerce while referencing the cultures across the sea that inspired the greatest hostility, fear, or admiration. (Brill 2018) 9789004335653 Hb £95.00

The Medieval Manuscript BookCultural ApproachesEdited by Michael Johnston & Michael Van DussenTraditional scholarship on manuscripts has tended to focus on issues concerning their production and has shown comparatively little interest in the cultural contexts of the manuscript book. The Medieval Manuscript Book redresses this by focusing on aspects of the medieval book in its cultural situations. Written by experts in the study of the handmade book before print, this volume combines bibliographical expertise with broader insights into the theory and praxis of manuscript study in areas from bibliography to social context, linguistics to location, and archaeology to conservation. The focus of the contributions ranges widely, from authorship to miscellaneity, and from vernacularity to digital facsimiles of manuscripts. Taken as a whole, these essays make the case that to understand the manuscript book it must be analyzed in all its cultural complexity, from production to transmission to its continued adaptation. 318p, 26 b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107685987 Pb £20.99

EDITOR’S CHOICEChurch Monuments in South Wales, c.1200-1547By Rhianydd BiebrachChurch Monuments in South Wales is the first full-scale study of the medieval funerary monuments of this region offering a much-needed Celtic contribution to the growing corpus of literature on the monumental culture of late-

medieval Europe, which for the British Isles has been hitherto dominated by English studies. It focuses on the social groups

who commissioned and were commemorated by funerary monuments and how this distinctive memorial culture reflected their shifting fortunes, tastes and pre-occupations at a time of great social change.

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RomanesquePatrons and ProcessesEdited by J. Camps, M. Castineiras, J. McNeill & R. PlantThe twenty-five papers in this volume explore the making of art and architecture in Latin Europe and the Mediterranean between c. 1000 and c. 1250, with a particular focus on questions of patronage, design and instrumentality across Latin Europe and the Mediterranean. Topics range from case studies on Santiago de Compostela, the Armenian Cathedral in Jerusalem and the Winchester Bible to reflections on textuality and donor literacy, the culture of abbatial patronage at Saint-Michel de Cuxa and the re-invention of slab relief sculpture around 1100. 568p, b/w and col illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138477049 Hb £110.00, 9781138477032 Pb £34.99

The Lithic GardenNature and the Transformation of the Medieval ChurchBy Mailan S. DoquangThe Lithic Garden offers innovative perspectives on the role of ornament in medieval church design. Focusing on the foliate friezes articulating iconic French monuments such as Amiens Cathedral, it demonstrates that church builders strategically used organic motifs to integrate the interior and exterior of their structures, thus reinforcing the connections and distinctions between the entirety of the sacred edifice and the profane world beyond its boundaries. 272p, b/w and col illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190631796 Hb £64.00

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Medieval ArchaeologyNEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSFaversham in the MakingThe Early Years: The Ice Ages until AD 1550By P. Reid, D. Harrington & M. FrohnsdorffUsing archaeological and historical evidence set in an ever-changing physical and social context, the authors argue that there is a great deal more to this small town on the north Kent coast than is obvious at first glance. There is a wealth of evidence for prehistoric settlement with the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age being particularly well represented archaeologically and Roman remains indicate a very prosperous phase up to around the AD 270s, followed by drastic changes. Abundant evidence. The book charts the rise of the town from Pagan Jutish origins through the medieval period, centred originally around the establishment of an Abbey and other religious houses but developing as a trading port and wealthy market town. 192p b/w and col illus (Windgather Press 2018) 9781911188353 Pb £25.99

Buildings of Medieval EuropeStudies in Social and Landscape Contexts of Medieval BuildingsEdited by Duncan Berryman & Sarah KerrT h i s vo l u m e b r i n gs together an interesting range of papers discussing medieval buildings across Europe, ranging from Croatia and Transylvania in the east, Scandinavia in the north and Britain in the west. There is comprehensive range in size and status of buildings, from the smallest, single-roomed house in Byzantine Serbia and rural homes in central Europe to churches in Sweden and monastic hospitals in England. Buildings of high status and low status are discussed, as well as those of a secular and ecclesiastic nature. Materials and craftspeople are considered through a study of brick makers and their identifying marks. The volume aims to open discussions about medieval buildings beyond simply architectural features and typologies, and furthers the discipline through this process. 164p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709715 Pb £38.00

Bristol: A Worshipful Town and Famous CityAn Archaeological AssessmentBy Nigel Baker, Jonathan Brett & Robert JonesThis volume provides a comprehensive overview of the historical development of Bristol , based on a r c h a e o l o g i c a l a n d architectural evidence. Part 1 describes the geological a n d t o p o g r a p h i c a l context of Bristol and discusses evidence for the environment prior to the foundation of the city. The history of archaeological work in Bristol is discussed in detail, as is the pictorial record and the cartographic evidence for the city. In Part 2, a series of period-based chapters considers the historical background and archaeological evidence for Bristol’s development. Part 3 assesses the significance of Bristol’s archaeology, and presents a range of research themes for future research. 600p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785708770 Hb £40.00

The Houses of Hereford 1200–1700By Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes & Richard K. MorrissThe cathedral city of Hereford is one of the best-kept historical secrets of the Welsh Marches. Although i ts Anglo-Saxon development is well known from a series of classic excavations in the 1960s and ’70s, what is less widely known is that the c i ty boasts an astonishingly well-preserved medieval plan and contains some of the earliest houses still in everyday use anywhere in England. Three leading authorities on the buildings of the English Midlands have joined forces, combining detailed archaeological surveys, primary historical research and topographical analysis, to examine 24 of the most important buildings, from the great hall of the Bishop’s Palace of c.1190, to the first surviving brick town-house of c.1690. 256p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785708169 Hb £25.00

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The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in BritainEdited by Christopher Gerrard & Alejandra GutierrezThis substantial volume provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. 61 entries, divided into 10 thematic sections, cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings, and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive. 1072p (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198744719 Hb £110.00

Clothing the PastSurviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western EuropeBy Elizabeth Coatsworth & Gale R. Owen-CrockerAn astonishing number of medieval garments survive more-or-less complete. Here the authors present 100 items, ranging from homely to princely. Detailed descriptions and discussions explain technique and ornament, investigate alleged associations with famous people (many of them spurious) and demonstrate, even when there are no known associations, how a garment may reveal its own biography: a story that can include repair, remaking, recycling; burial, resurrection and veneration; accidental loss or deliberate deposition. 480p (Brill 2018) 9789004288706 Hb £216.00

The Chasuble of Thomas BecketA BiographyEdited by Avinoam ShalemVenerated as a relic of St Thomas of Canterbury, the chasuble was produced in Spanish-Muslim workshops and probably reached Italy as a donation to the Cathedral of Fermo in about 1200. Richly illustrated with numerous details, this volume investigates the meaning of the inscriptions and motifs, examines manufacturing techniques and the function of the chasuble, traces its “biography” and places it within the historical context of the political, economic and cultural situation in the Mediterranean region. 304p col illus (Hirmer Verlag 2018) 9783777425191 Hb £85.00

Seals and StatusPower of ObjectsEdited by J. Cherry, J. Berenbeim & L. de BeerThis publication deals specifically with aspects of status in the history of seals, exploring this theme across a diverse range of cultural contexts, from the 9th century up to the Early Modern period, and across the world, looking at Byzantine, European, Islamic and Chinese examples. These objects are united by the significant role they play in social status hierarchies, in the status of institutions, indications of power and finally in notions of relative status among objects themselves. 225p b/w and col illus (British Museum Press 2018) 9780861592135 Pb £40.00

English Hammered Coinage Volume IBy JJ NorthThe third revised editions of Jeffrey North’s two volume classic are newly reissued for 2018 to make them available again for the first time in over ten years. Volume I includes hammered coins of the early Anglo Saxon, Viking, Regional Kings, Norman and Plantagenet periods up to the reign of Henry III, including 20 plates with hundreds of coin images, covering the dates c600 to 1272. 320p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9780907605454 Hb £50.00

English Hammered Coinage Volume IIBy JJ NorthVolume II covers the coinages of Edward I to Charles II from 1272-1662, the principal amendments to the third edition being in the coinages of 1279-1351and the provincial issues of Charles I. 256p, b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9780907605348 Hb £50.00

The English Long-Cross Pennies 1279–1489By Christopher R. WrenAs with other volumes in this series, this guide is intended to introduce the voided long-cross coinage to new collectors and beginners generally and to assist in classifying these coins. It contains useful lists of obverse and reverse legends, initial marks and symbols, enabling simple and quick identification. 200p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9780952034827 Pb £25.00

The Short-Cross Coinage 1180–1247By Christopher R. WrenThis guide is intended to introduce the short cross coinage to collectors, archaeological site personnel, detectorists and others. The introduction sets out very briefly the historical context of the short cross coinage and the development of the classification system in used today. 96p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9781902040738 Pb £20.00

The Voided Long-Cross Coinage 1247–1279By Christopher R. WrenThis guide is only intended to introduce the voided long cross coinage to new collectors and beginners generally to assist in classifying these coins. The English voided long – cross coins are so-named from the double-limbed or ‘voided’ cross on the reverses which extends to the outer edge of the coins, This serves to distinguish them from the earlier short-cross which they replaced and from the later (plain) long-cross coins of Edward I (from 1279) and thereafter. 88p, b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9781902040745 Pb £20.00

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Medieval LifeArchaeology and the Life CourseBy Roberta GilchristThe aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived – how people were born and grew old, how they dressed, how they inhabited their homes, the rituals that gave meaning to their lives and how they prepared for death and the afterlife. Five thematic case studies present the archaeology of medieval England (c.1050-1540 CE) in terms of the body, the household, the parish church and cemetery, and the relationship between the lives of people and objects. 342p, b/w and col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2013, Pb 2018) 9781783273065 Pb £19.99

New Home, New HerdsCuman Integration and Animal Husbandry in Medieval Hungary from an Archaeozoological PerspectiveBy Kyra LyublyanovicsThis study collects all available information, historical, ethnographic and archaeological alike, on the animal husbandry aspect of the complex development of the Cuman population in medieval Hungary. The book combines a primary scientific dataset with historical information and interprets them within the framework of settlement history in order to i nve s t i gate t h e m a n i f o l d integration process of a medieval community. 338p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784917524 Pb £55.00

EDITOR’S CHOICELondon’s Waterfront 1100–1666Excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974–84By John Schofield, Lyn Blackmore & Jacqui PearceLondon’s Waterfront 1100-1666: excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974-84 presents and celebrates the mile-long Thames Street in the City of London and the land south of it to the River Thames as an archaeological asset. The

argument is based on the reporting of four excavations of 1974-84 by the Museum of London near the north end of

London Bridge: Swan Lane, Seal House, New Fresh Wharf and Billingsgate Lorry Park. Here the findings of the period 1100-1666 are presented.550p, b/w and col illus, 132 colour plates. (Archaeopress 2018)

9781784918378 Hb £90.00

The Great Barn of 1425–7 at Harmondsworth, MiddlesexBy Edward ImpeyT h e G r e a t B a r n a t Harmondsworth, built in 1425-7 for Winchester College is one of the most impressive medieval barns. Prefaced by an exploration of the ancient estate to which it belonged and of its precursor buildings, this book explores why, how and when the barn was built, the ingenuity and oddities of its construction, and the trades, materials and people involved. Aided by an exceptionally full series of medieval accounts, it then examines the way the barn was actually used, and the equipment, personnel, processes and accounting procedures involved. 80p, b/w and col illus (Historic England 2017) 9781848023710 Pb £20.00

Kirkstall Abbey, Volume IIThe Guest House Excavations 1979-86Edited by Stuart WrathmallThe Cistercian abbey at Kirkstall, near Leeds, provided hospitality for a wide range of visitors and guests. The excavations described in this volume revealed the complex development of these facilities from the late 12th to the early 16th centuries. The large quantities of ceramic, metal and other objects, along with the faunal remains, provide a uniquely detailed picture of the guests’ personal belongings, activities and diet, as well as the equipment and fittings of the buildings they occupied. 238p b/w illus (West Yorkshire Arch Service 2018) 9781870453509 Hb £30.00

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Unfolding a MountainAn Historical Archaeology of Modern and Contemporary Cave Use on Mount PelionEdited by Niels H. Andreasen, Panagiota Pantzou, Dimitris Papadopoulos & Andreas DarlasThis volume explores the role of caves in the modern and recent historical past in Greece. A team of archaeologists, ethnologists, and a geologist present the results of a survey on Pelion Mountain in East Thessaly, Greece. They offer a human picture of the experiences of cave dwellers through historical evidence, interviews, physical anthropology, material culture, and graffiti. 322p (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788771243796 Hb £35.00

City of LondonBy Michael FoleyThis illustrated history of the City of London highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the Historic England Archive, a unique collection of over 12 million photographs, drawings, plans and documents covering England’s archaeology, architecture, social and local history. Pictures date from the earliest days of photography to the present and cover subjects from Bronze Age burials and medieval churches to cinemas and seaside resorts. 96p, b/w and col illus (Amberley 2018) 9781445677323 Pb £14.99

The New ChurchyardFrom Moorfields Marsh to Bethlem Burial Ground, Brokers Row and Liverpool StreetBy Robert Hartlewith, Niamh Carty, Michael Henderson, Elizabeth Knox & Don WalkerThe New Churchyard, or ‘Bethlem’ as it was later known, was established after the severe plague of 1563 and was in use from 1569 to 1739. Contemporary accounts and parish registers, combined with tombstones and detailed osteological analysis of one quarter of the 3354 burials excavated, enable the reconstruction of some of their lives, and their deaths. 300p col illus (MOLA 2018) 9781907586439 Pb £10.00, NYP

The Outcast DeadBy Brittney K. Shields WilfordAdopting a multidisciplinary approach, this work presents an integration of osteological and historical evidence to examine the detrimental impact of the workhouse on inmates in nineteenth-century London and to assess whether the 1834 change to the English Poor Laws led to deterioration in health. The investigation centres on published osteological data for five Post-Medieval London cemeteries and four associated historical registers of burials. 104p (BAR BS 634 2018) 9781407316093 Pb £21.00

Transfer between Sea and LandMaritime Vessels for Cultural Exchanges in the Early Modern PeriodEdited by Simone KahlowThis book presents interdisciplinary investigations of cultural exchanges based on chosen objects from shipwrecks and land, significant written documents and verifiable transfer of knowledge. Historians, archaeologists, and pharmacists investigate such transfer by means of material and immaterial goods, such as ship lists, medicine, metal ware, exotic animals and Asian objects as well as ship constructions. They set out, the continuity and discontinuity of cultural exchange based on moving objects depending on different conditions such as region, time, demand and availability. 150p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088906213 Hb £95.00, 9789088906206 Pb £35.00, NYP

Post-MedievalNEW FROM OXBOW BOOKSLost Lives, New VoicesUnlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650By Christopher Gerrard, Pam Graves, Andrew Millard, Richard Annis & Anwen CaffellIn November 2013 two m a s s b u r i a l s w e r e discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in north-east England. O ve r t h e n ex t t wo years, a complex jigsaw of evidence was pieced together by a team of archaeologists to establish the identity of the human remains. Today we know them to be some of the Scottish prisoners who died in the autumn of 1650 in Durham cathedral and castle following the battle of Dunbar on the south-east coast of Scotland. Fought between the English and the Scots, this was one of the key engagements of the War of the Three Kingdoms. Using the latest techniques of skeleton science, this book gives back to the men a voice through an understanding of their childhood and later lives. Archaeological and historical evidence also allows us to reconstruct with vivid accuracy how and why these men vanished off the historical radar. 224p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785708473 Pb £20.00

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