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Method & Theory Actual CLASSICS CATALOG AEGEAN A RC HAEOLOGY, CLASSICAL A RC HAEOLOGY, LITERATURE & HISTORY CONTENTS (ARRANGED BY PUBLISHER ) WELCOME TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY CASEMATE ACADEMIC Oxbow Books & Windgather Press 1-6 Amber Books 7 CLASSICS CATALOG ! Amberley 7 We’re proud to present the latest fascinating American School of Classical Studies at Athens 8-10 titles from our distributed publishers as well Archaeopress Archaeology 11-12 as our own imprints Oxbow Books and Aris & British Museum Press 13-14 Phillips. As ever, the subject range is broad: British School at Athens 15 you’ll find the latest in Aegean archaeology, British School at Rome 15 Classical archaeology, Classical History, Greek Akanthina 16 & 29 and Latin texts and literary criticism all within American Numismatic Society 16 these pages. There is also a selection of backlist American Society of Papyrologists 16 titles in case you missed these books the first Barkhuis 16 & 29 time around! Cambridge Archaeological Unit 17 Council for British Archaeology 17 More and more of our titles are now available East Anglian Archaeology 17 as eBooks. We have highlighted in this catalog Edizioni Polistampa 17 those which are available to download, if you’d Ekdotike Athenon 17 prefer a digital edition rather than a weighty paper tome. The eBooks can be downloaded English Heritage 17 from our website or from your favorite Etruscan Foundation 17 eRetailer. Fonthill Media 17 INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) 18-20 We look forward to seeing many of our Museum of London Archaeology 21 customers at conferences in the coming Hirmer Verlag GmbH 22 months. Do stop by our booth to say hello. The Histoire & Collections 22 full list conferences we will be attending at our McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 22 website www.casemateacademic.com where Midsea Books 22 you can also see the full range of titles available On-Site Archaeology 23 from us and find out more information about Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 23 all the publishers featured in this catalog. Oxford Archaeology 23 Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology (OCMA) 23 With best wishes, Oxford University School of Archaeology (OUSA) 23 Pre-Construct Archaeology 24 The Casemate Academic Marketing Team Roman Society Publications 24 Sidestone Press 24 Society for Libyan Studies 25 Silphium Press 25 Wessex Archaeology 25 Pen & Sword 26-27 TEXTUAL Aris & Phillips 28 & 29 Cambridge Philological Society 29 Classical Press of Wales 30 Franz Steiner Verlag 31-33 Francis Cairns Publications Ltd. 34 Journal of Juristic Papyrology 34 Legenda 35 London Association of Classical Teachers Occasional Research Series 35 Maney Publishing 35 Mimesis Edizioni 35 Front cover image Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism/17th Ephorate for Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities; from the title, “Hunters, Heroes, Kings,” by Hallie M. Franks (p. 9). Courtesy of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Oxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology printing over 70 titles a year written by leading academic and individual researchers from around the world. GLASS OF THE ROMAN WORLD PREHISTORIC , ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN & Edited by Justine Bayley, Ian Freestone & Caroline Jackson AEGEAN TEXTILES AND DRESS an interdisciplinary anthology Glass of the Roman World illustrates the arrival of new Edited by Marie-Louise Nosch, Cécile Michel & Mary Harlow cultural systems, mechanisms of trade and an expanded economic base in the early 1st millennium AD which, in Textile and dress production, from raw materials to combination, allowed the further development of the finished items, has had a significant impact on society existing glass industry. Glass became something which from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer encompassed more than simply a novel and highly a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research decorative material. Glass production grew and its field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological , consumption increased until it was assimilated into all iconographical and textual evidence within a broad levels of society, used for display and luxury items but geographical and chronological spectrum. The thirteen equally for utilitarian containers, windows and even chapters explore issues, such as the analysis of textile tools. These 18 papers by renowned international scholars tools, especially spindle whorls, and textile imprints for reconstructing textile production include studies of glass from Europe and the Near East. The authors write on a variety in contexts as different as Neolithic Transylvania, the Early Bronze Age North Aegean of topics where their work is at the forefront of new approaches to the subject. They and the Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean; the importance of cuneiform clay tablets both extend and consolidate aspects of our understanding of how glass was produced, as a documentary source for both drawing a detailed picture of the administration of a traded and used throughout the Empire and the wider world drawing on chronology, textile industry and for addressing gender issues, such as the construction of masculinity typology, patterns of distribution, and other methodologies, including the incorporation in the Sumerian kingdoms of the 3rd millennium BC; and discussions of royal and of new scientific methods. priestly costumes and clothing ornaments in the Mesopotamian kingdom of Mari and 9781782977742, $70, HB, b/w & col illus, 2014, NYP, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $52 in Mycenaean culture. Ancient Textiles Series 18 TOOLS , TEXTILES AND CONTEXTS 9781782977193, $66, HB, 224p, b/w & col illus, 2014, NYP, Oxbow Books textile production in the aegean and Pre-Publication Price $50 eastern mediterranean bronze age ATHENIAN POTTERS AND PAINTERS III Edited by Eva Andersson Strand & Marie-Louise Nosch Edited by John Oakley Textile production is one of the most important crafts Athenian Potters and Painters III presents a rich mass in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age of new material on Greek vases, including finds from societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative excavations at the Kerameikos in Athens and Despotiko work offers crucial new perspectives into this field. in the Cyclades. Some contributions focus on painters The new and updated catalog of archaeological textile or workshops – Paseas, the Robinson Group, and the finds presented here clearly demonstrates, even from the structure of the figured pottery industry in Athens; others few extant finds, that knowledge of the use of fibres and on vase forms – plates, phialai, cups, and the change in of elaborate textile techniques that were used to produce shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. Context, trade, textiles of different qualities was well developed. kalos inscriptions, reception, the fabrication of inscribed The functional analysis of spindle whorls and loom weights can be explored through painters’ names to create a fictitious biography, and the experimental archaeology employing newly developed methodologies. The results bring reconstruction of the contents of an Etruscan tomb are also explored. The iconography new insights into the types of textile that may potentially have been made by such tools. and iconology of various types of figured scenes on Attic pottery serve as the subject of This is highly pertinent as textile tools often constitute the single most important and a wide range of papers – chariots, dogs, baskets, heads, departures, an Amazonomachy, plentiful type of evidence for the various stages of textile production in the archaeological Menelaus and Helen, red-figure komasts, symposia, and scenes of pursuit. Among the record. The combination of experimental archaeology, analyses of textile tools and vases presented are a black spotlight stamnos and a column krater by the Suessula Painter. find contexts allows for a discussion of the nature of textile production at different sites, regions and time periods. Ancient Textiles Series 21 9781782976639, $130, HB, 272p, b/w images & 2 col plt sections, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $104 9781842174722, $84, HB, 484p, 210 illus, 2014, NYP, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $63 DOCUMENTARY SOURCES IN ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN TEXTILES AND DRESS NEAR EASTERN AND GRECO -ROMAN an interdisciplinary anthology Edited by Mary Harlow & Marie-Louise Nosch ECONOMIC HISTORY methodology and practice Twenty chapters present the range of current research Edited by Heather D. Baker & Michael Jursa into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study This volume breaks new ground in approaching the in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary Issues addressed include: the importance of studying sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. textiles to understand economy and landscape in the Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been past; different types of embellishments of dress from studied separately, the collected papers overturn the weaving techniques to the of embroidery; the close conventional view of a fundamental divide between the links between the language of ancient mathematics and economic institutions of these two regions. The volume weaving; the relationships of iconography to the realities covers the following topics: Babylonian house size data as an index of urban living of clothed bodies including a paper on the ground
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