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Butrint 8 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9798888571323
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Illustrations: 100 B/W and color illustrations
Description:
Butrint 8 is largely devoted to the Middle Byzantine archaeology discovered by the Butrint Foundation’s projects at Butrint itself, in its environs, and in the nearby port of Saranda, ancient Onchesmos. The volume includes a full report on the excavations in Butrint’s western defenses, built in the 6th century as a proteichisma, and maintained in use until the 9th century when tower 1 partly perished in a fire and tower 2 was abandoned. From these 9th-century levels came a major assemblage of traded and local ceramics as well as glass cullet.
RRP: £42.00
Obsidian Vessels in the Prehistoric and Early Historic Near East Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9798888570623
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 360 b/w and color imgaes
Description:
Obsidian, a shiny volcanic glass, was first used to make vessels in the mid-sixth millennium BC in the Near East, although other stone had been exploited for vessel manufacture since the thirteenth millennium BC. Unlike the stone used to make the earliest vessels, which was acquired from local and regional sources, obsidian had to be obtained from volcanoes located hundreds of kilometers from where vessels were made and used. The obsidian from these sources had long been exploited for making tools and by the tenth millennium BC obsidian artifacts can be found in communities located far distant from the sources.
RRP: £45.00
Threads of Contact Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9798888571477
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 50 b/w drawings and photographs, 25 colour photographs, charts. maps
Description:
Textile tools offer a fascinating and yet intimate approach to ancient people. Textile production has been one of the core activities for millennia, spanning from domestic production to royal needs. Textiles were light and easy to transport goods, often exchanged over long distances.
RRP: £40.00
The eve of destruction? Cover The eve of destruction? Cover
Format: 
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789464263121
Pub Date: 26 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 131fc / 35bw
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9789464263114
Pub Date: 26 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 131fc / 35bw
Description:
This volume collects papers on the pre-Corded Ware horizon in central Europe and adjacent areas (i.e. from c.
RRP: £120.00
RRP: £50.00
Empire and excavation Cover Empire and excavation Cover
Format: 
Pages: 450
ISBN: 9789464271157
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 50fc / 100bw
Pages: 450
ISBN: 9789464271140
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2025
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 50fc / 100bw
Description:
The modern discipline of archaeology developed in tandem with the expansion of European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cyprus, ruled by Britain between 1878 and 1960, is a fascinating example of how archaeology was practiced and developed in a specific colonial context. This volume explores the mechanisms, the institutions and the characters who contributed to the development of Cypriot archaeology, often within a fraught political environment.
RRP: £125.00
RRP: £65.00
Presenting Counterpoints to the Dominant Terrestrial Narrative of European Prehistory Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9798888571842
Pub Date: 21 Feb 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Maritime Encounters
Illustrations: 120 b/w and colour illustrations
Description:
For many years now, the main thrust of European prehistory has followed a fundamentally terrestrial plot line. This terrestrial paradigm has undervalued the story of Europe as a peninsula between the Baltic, Mediterranean and Atlantic, and likewise downplayed that of many navigable rivers that reach deeply inland and the large lakes important for travel and subsistence. In vast areas of Europe the survival of incoming groups depended on coping and interacting with a seascape as much as a landscape.
RRP: £55.00
High Pasture Cave Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 688
ISBN: 9781785709500
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
From the first steps taken into the darkness of High Pasture Cave, it was clear that this complex site would challenge current thinking on cave use and function in prehistory, and wider understanding of Iron Age cultural practice and beliefs. Situated in a dramatic location under the slopes of the Cuillin Mountains on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, this cave and its monumentalised environs were a focus for specific and special activities throughout the Iron Age – a venue for spectacular and extensive ceremonies featuring feasts, fire, crafts and the symbolic deposition of a plethora of artefacts and environmental materials, as well as human remains. This volume sets out the results of fieldwork carried out at High Pastures between 2004 and 2010, presents results from the extensive post-excavation analysis, and provides a biography of the High Pasture Cave complex from the early Bronze Age through 900 years of Iron Age activity.
RRP: £48.00
Place, Encounter, and the Making of Communities Cover Place, Encounter, and the Making of Communities Cover
Format: 
Pages: 450
ISBN: 9789464271065
Pub Date: 19 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Sirwan Regional Project Publications
Illustrations: 218fc / 31bw
Pages: 450
ISBN: 9789464271058
Pub Date: 19 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Sirwan Regional Project Publications
Illustrations: 218fc / 31bw
Description:
This book sketches the first archaeological history of the lower Sirwan/upper Diyala river valley of north-east Iraq and adjacent landscapes over a period of c. 12,000 years, from the earliest signs of human presence until the mid-first millennium BCE, based on data gathered between 2013 and 2023 by the Sirwan Regional Project (SRP).The central research objective of the SRP is to move beyond traditional historical topoi and their predominantly external and state-centric perspectives that have dominated narratives of the region thus far.
RRP: £140.00
RRP: £80.00
Appropriating Height Cover Appropriating Height Cover
Format: 
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9789464271096
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: The Iranian Highlands. Early Societies between Resilience and Integration
Illustrations: 64fc / 24bw
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9789464271089
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: The Iranian Highlands. Early Societies between Resilience and Integration
Illustrations: 64fc / 24bw
Description:
The essays in this book focus on archaeological approaches to the utilization of highland regions in southwestern and central Asia, examining the interplay between human communities and highland landscapes from the Paleolithic era to the present.Contributions combine case studies with theoretical considerations to explore adaptive strategies of movement. They discuss the significance of mobility within archaeological and anthropological discourse.
RRP: £95.00
RRP: £40.00
Cyprus and Ugarit Cover Cyprus and Ugarit Cover
Format: 
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9789464263053
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 5fc / 6bw
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9789464263046
Pub Date: 16 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 5fc / 6bw
Description:
This study considers the detailed archaeological and documentary records of Cyprus and Ugarit (Syria) to gain new insights into the long-term relations between two of the best known, well-connected polities in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean.I engage with concepts such as maritime space and spheres of interaction, merchants and mercantilism, actors and agents. Some background on both Ugarit and Cyprus is presented, followed by examination of the common material features of both (e.
RRP: £90.00
RRP: £30.00
The Iseum of the Royal Island of Antirodos Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781905905515
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024
Series: Excavations in the Portus Magnum of Alexandria
Description:
The island of Antirhodos, isolated from the contemporary Alexandrian shoreline, was according to Strabo the property of kings (Geography 17.1.9).
Water Displays in Domestic Spaces across the Late Roman West Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9798888571125
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 100 color and B/W illustrations
Description:
For ambitious late antique homeowners seeking to demonstrate their status and taste, water and its display offered almost infinite possibilities. Water Displays in Domestic Spaces across the Late Roman West: Cultivating Living Buildings presents the first synthesis of the archaeological evidence for late antique water features in both urban houses and extra-urban villas across the western Empire. Ginny Wheeler examines a wide and varied range of examples: from decorative basins and pools to fountains of all forms to water-equipped dining couches.
RRP: £45.00
Craftful Minds Cover Craftful Minds Cover
Format: 
Pages: 266
ISBN: 9789464280821
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 140fc / 18bw
Pages: 266
ISBN: 9789464280814
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 140fc / 18bw
Description:
The aim of the thesis was to provide a framework for the identification and analysis of individual craftspeople in bifacial flint production. Flint production flakes from replications of South Scandinavian Late Neolithic daggers and Early Bronze Age sickles were the focus of the study, in contrast to research so far, mostly relying on finished and often exceptional pieces.To identify technical traditions within technological systems and/or personal approaches to production, it is necessary to analyse the complete production process.
RRP: £95.00
RRP: £45.00

The Handle Core Concept

Lithic Technology and Knowledge Transmission
The Handle Core Concept Cover
Format: 
Pages: 406
ISBN: 9789464280760
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 120fc / 55bw
Pages: 406
ISBN: 9789464280753
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: ROOTS Booklet Series
Illustrations: 120fc / 55bw
Description:
This work deals with topics related to mobility, contacts and transmission of knowledge. The study of these topics regarding the past can promote an understanding of the social implications of migration, communication and learning today through long-term perspectives of change. This volume focuses on these topics in the Mesolithic by analysing a specialised lithic concept known previously from Scandinavia and Northern Germany.
RRP: £120.00
RRP: £65.00
Identity, Power and Group Formation in Archaic Macedonia (600-400 BC) Cover Identity, Power and Group Formation in Archaic Macedonia (600-400 BC) Cover
Format: 
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9789464280791
Pub Date: 26 Nov 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 27fc / 19bw
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9789464280784
Pub Date: 26 Nov 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 27fc / 19bw
Description:
The first ever large-scale synthesis on identity and social dynamics across archaic Macedonia (600-400 BC), Christos Giamakis’s book provides a detailed narrative exploring the role of power as displayed through material culture in the formation of group identities across the region. Giamakis focuses on data from nine cemeteries in the region combining multiple datasets including grave goods, osteological evidence, burial rites, tomb types and the organisation of the cemetery space in order to explore both inter- and intra-site competition that led to the emergence of different group identities across the region. By doing so, he proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of the region as an alternative to past, ethnicity-based, approaches.
RRP: £95.00
RRP: £45.00
Figurine-making in the Neolithic Aegean Cover Figurine-making in the Neolithic Aegean Cover
Format: 
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464271034
Pub Date: 21 Nov 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 8fc / 72bw
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789464271027
Pub Date: 21 Nov 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 8fc / 72bw
Description:
This volume presents a cutting-edge perspective on figurine studies in the Neolithic Aegean, sparking renewed interest and innovative ideas. It celebrates two significant milestones in the field: the 50th anniversary of Giorgos Hourmouziadis’ Ph.D.
RRP: £95.00
RRP: £40.00