Cyrenaica is thought to have had extensive commercial links with the rest of the Greek world in the 4th and 5th centuries BC. This study aims to examine the nature, frequency and routes of trading bet
Eight archaeological papers, from the Fifth Annual Meeting of the EEA held in Bournemouth in 1999, discuss light equipment across the Classical world, with emphasis on artefacts and trade in the North
At the heart of this study of ancient bathing and bathhouses is an analysis of the culture of bathing in Roman Israel and what this reveals about the Romanisation of the Jewish population.
This account of one of the Sudan's remotest provinces, at the end of 1930, provides the historical context for the early classics of British social anthropology. It contains descriptions of local life
Papers included in the volume were presented at the 2011 international academic conference ‘Continuity and Destruction in Alexander's East: the transformation of monumental space from the Hellenistic
This volume comprises a thorough review of excavations at a two mound site in southern Rajasthan. The occupation sequence is determined, from pre-Chalcolithic beginnings, to its height in the mid-Chal
This study presents the corpus of Attic pinakes from the late seventh to early fourth century. It looks at the iconography of these painted clay votive offerings, at the inscriptions they bear, the lo
This volume looks at the development of antiquarianism in Cork from its earliest manifestations at the end of the eighteenth century up to about 1880, and in particular the spread of more scientific a
Oxbow says: Based on archaeological, literary and epigraphic sources, this study focuses on processes of continuity and change in Late Roman North Africa, from the late 3rd to the early 5th century A
Oxbow says: Henry's Mill was just one of thousands of sawmills established in Victoria (Australia) from the 1850s to the Second World War. Rather than focusing on industrial and technological aspects
Oxbow says: This study re-evaluates many of the misconceptions about the war-crazed Iron Age warrior hero, and questions anew the role of hillforts as truly, or primarily, defensive structures. Takin
This book presents an investigation into the towns of Palestine under Muslim rule from AD 600 to 1600. The primary form of evidence is archaeological reports though historical sources are also used.
Acknowledging problems inherent in dating Australian rock art, Natalie Franklin approaches a group of engravings known as the `Panaramitee style' in terms of its spatial variation. By assessing the di
In response to a general lack of research in the Zindar region of northern Nigeria, Ann Haour collates information and data related to one important but ill-understood site - Kufan Kanawa. Although th
The underwater excavation of Dor D, a Byzantine shipwreck off the Carmel coast, began in 1999. This volume forms the report of the survey and excavation of the wreck and of its cargo and associated fi
'Beazley treated the gems, rings and cameos listed in this volume as monuments deserving as much attention in description of detail, even to the forms of letters in inscriptions, as any other work of
The decoration of church vestments, which are the ceremonial garments worn by the clergy at the celebration of the Mass, has always been a matter of high fashion.
A good overview of the archaeology and history of Sardinia from the earliest inhabitation on the island, through the prehistoric period to the Romans, late Roman, medieval and late medieval periods.
Based on the author's thesis, this study presents a detailed analysis of traditional African weapons, namely types of daggers, swords and knives, most of which were collected in the 20th century. 504
In these sixteen papers, from a conference held by the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies in 2000, some well-known names approach the reigns of Aethelbald and Offa from a range of perspectives.
Collection of quirky papers from the second Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Catastrophists' Convention held in Cambridge in 1997. The papers bring together thoughts from a wide range of discipli
Readers of Claudia Roden's masterworks have long been aware of the continuities in Middle Eastern cookery, others have been tantalized by the influence of Islamic cooking on the medieval West, all
An investigation of the propagandic methods employed by the Severan dynasty. In this thesis, a wide variety of evidence is examined, much of it relating to portraiture.
This is the fifth in a series of fasicules publishing tne British Museum's programme of research excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk. It provides an account of the exploration of the deep mine sites
This report from English Heritage and London Planning Advisory Committee is the first strategic strategy of planning policy and conservation in London. The study offers six key conservation policy ini
This is the first full-scale study of the world of eighteenth-century British cookery books, their authors, their readers and their recipes. For many decades, we have treated them as collectables - of
A multi-component site containing a Terminal Late Woodland (Emergent Mississippian) linear hamlet that provided the type site for the Lindeman Phase (A.D. 950-1000) and the first excavated example of
