OXBOW BOOK NEWS 101

New and forthcoming titles for Summer 2018 Archaeology The Ancient World Greece and Rome The 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.

Cover Image: The West Tanfield Angel (photo by Brian & Moira Gittos) From: Interpreting Medieval Effigies By Brian & Moira Gittos Forthcoming from Oxbow Books in 2019.

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

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/oxbowbooks @oxbowbooks General Interest The Cambridge World History The Cambridge World History Volume 6 7 Paperback Volume Set in 9 Pieces The Construction of a Global World, By Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks 1400–1800 CE, Part 2, Patterns of Change The Cambridge World History is an authoritative Edited by Jerry H. Bentley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam & new overview of the dynamic field of world history. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks It covers the whole of human history, not simply 514p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) history since the development of written records, in 9780521192460 Hb £105.00, 9781108407748 Pb £29.99 an expanded time frame that represents the latest thinking in world and global history. 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Wiesner-Hanks Burning Planet b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780521190749 The Story of Fire Through Time Hb £105.00, 9781108407724 Pb £29.99 By Andrew C. Scott The Cambridge World History Volume 6 Andrew Scott tells the whole story of fire’s impact The Construction of a Global World, on our planet’s atmosphere, climate, vegetation, 1400–1800 CE, Part 1, Foundations ecology, and the evolution of plant and animal life. He also explores how early hominids and humans Edited by Jerry H. Bentley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam & tamed fire and used it. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks 224p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198734840 Hb 512p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) £20.00 9780521761628 Hb 120.00, 9781108407731 Pb £29.99 1 Method and Theory Principles of Archaeology Archaeologists in Print By T. Douglas Price & Kelly J. Knudson Publishing for the People Principles of Archaeology By Amara Thornton provides the building This is a history of popular publishing in archaeology blocks for students to in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal learn how archaeologists period of expansion and development in both think. Retaining its focus archaeology and publishing. In the background on teaching the major of this narrative is the history of Britain’s imperial methods of analysis and expansion and contraction, and the evolution of the importance of scientific modern tourism in the Eastern Mediterranean techniques, this new edition and Middle East. Archaeologists exploited these has been thoroughly factors to gain public and financial redesigned and revised to support and interest, and build include the most recent and maintain a reading public Only technologies and ethical issues involved in studying for their work, supported by the the past. seasonal nature of excavation £17.00 until 448p, col illus (Thames and Hudson, 2nd ed 2018) and tourism. 31 October 9780500293614 Pb £50.00 312p, b/w illus (UCL Press 2018) 9781787352582 Pb £20.00 The Human Past By Christopher Scarre Key Concepts in Public Archaeology The Human Past offers Edited by Gabriel Moshenska authoritative and up-to-date This book provides a broad overview of the key coverage of prehistory. The concepts in public archaeology in both theoretical new edition is thoroughly and practical terms and seeks to clarify what revised and redesigned and exactly ‘public archaeology’ is by promoting an includes a new chapter, inclusive, socially and politically engaged vision of ‘The Origins, Antiquity, the discipline. It introduces the themes, theories and Dispersal of the First and controversies that connect Americans’; New ‘Key archaeology to wider society, from Theme’ boxes link chapters the trade in illicit antiquities Only through common issues in to the use of digital media in £17.00 until human history; and includes public engagement. 31 October new genetic evidence revealing the arrival of the 250p, b/w illus (UCL Press 2018) Yamnaya people in Europe and new theories on 9781911576433 Pb £20.00 the relationship between sedentism and agriculture. 768p col illus (Thames and Hudson, 4th ed 2018) 9780500294208 Pb £45.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE A Little History of Archaeology By Brian Fagan This 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 Only revolutionized the field. Shining light on the most intriguing £12.75 until events in the history of the field, this up-to-date book illuminates archaeology’s controversies, discoveries, heroes 31 Ocotber and scoundrels, global sites, and newest methods. 288p, 40 b/w illus (Yale UP 2018) 9780300224641 Hb £14.99

2 Strategies for Quantitative Research NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Archaeology by Numbers Crossing the Threshold By Grant S. McCall Architecture, Iconography and the Sacred Rather than focusing on the mathematics of Entrance calculation, this concise handbook selects appropriate forms of analysis and explains the By Madeleine Mumcuoglu & Yosef Garfinkel assumptions that underlie them. It deals with The recessed doorway fundamental issues, such as what kinds of data are has been continuously common in the field of archaeology and what are employed for 6500 the goals of various forms of analysis. years in temples, royal 264p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138632523 Pb £29.99 palaces, tombs, churches, synagogues and modern The Strong Case Approach in public buildings, Behavioral Archaeology becoming a symbol of the divine and of a place Edited by Michael Brian Schiffer of worship. What is the Although all archaeologists subscribe in secret of its longevity? principle to building strong cases in support of This unique cultural their inferences, behavioural archaeology alone edifice is not only about architecture, but isa has created methodology for developing strong language that defines social order and relations cases in practice. By illustrating the strong case with the ruling power and authorities. These, approach with convincing case studies from sometimes highly decorated and elaborate, behavioural archaeology, the editors aim to alert the sometimes simple and understated, thresholds archaeological community about how the process of in fact functioned on two communicative levels: archaeological inference can be improved. first, as a liminal marker demarcating a sacred 288p, b/w illus (University of Utah Press 2017) area and second, to emphasize the social order, 9781607815761 Pb £46.95 as few were permitted to pass through. 208p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) Empowering Communities through 9781789250763 Hb £50.00 Archaeology and Heritage The Role of Local Governance in Economic Market as Place and Space of Development Economic Exchange By Peter G. Gould Perspectives from Archaeology and Typically, the success of site museums, tourism Anthropology businesses, or crafts cooperatives is rarely reported Edited by Hans Peter Hahn & Geraldine Schmitz on in scholarly literature or subjected to systematic In the context of study. This book addresses that gap. Gould commodification, material argues that the success of community projects is culture has particular inextricably linked to the mechanisms community properties hitherto members use to govern their project activities, and considered irrelevant provides a much-needed assessment of the issues or neglected. First, relating to community governance. the market is a spatial 224p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781350036222 Hb structure, assigning £70.00 special properties to the things offered: the Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology goods and commodities. By Robert Chapman & Alison Wylie Secondly, the market How do archaeologists work with the data they defines a principle of dealing with things, identify as a record of the cultural past? How are including them in some contexts, excluding them these data collected and construed as evidence? from others. The contributions to Market as Place What is the impact on archaeological practice and Space address a variety of aspects of markets of new techniques of data recovery and analysis, within the framework of archaeological and especially those imported from the sciences? To anthropological case studies and with a special answer these questions, the authors identify close- focus on the indicators of practices attached to to-the-ground principles of best practice based on the commodities and their valuation. an analysis of examples of evidential reasoning in 240p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) archaeology that are widely regarded as successful, 9781785708930 Pb £38.00 contested, or instructive failures. 264p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb 2018) 9781472525277 Hb £60.00, 9781350066861 Pb £28.99

Method and Theory 3 Conflict Archaeology Absolute Constructions in Early Materialities of Collective Violence from Indo-European Prehistory to Late Antiquity By Antonia Ruppel Edited by Manuel Fernandez-Goetz & Nico Roymans By examining the nature and function of absolute This book presents a series of case-studies on constructions (ACs) and related constructions in conflict archaeology in ancient Europe, based on the Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, this new study arrives at results of both recent fieldwork and a reassessment a clear and simple definition of ACs. Focusing on of older excavations. Along key battlefields, the the earliest attested material in each language, it volume also incorporates many other sources highlights how AC usage differs between languages of evidence, including defensive works, military and offers explanations for these differences. camps, battle-related ritual deposits, and symbolic 269p (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2018) 9780521767620 Hb representations of violence in iconography and £67.00, 9781108456029 Pb £25.99 grave goods. 236p, b/w and col illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138502116 Digging for Words Hb £105.00 Edited by Rune Iversen & Guus Kroonen This volume offers a selection of case studies on Tecniche di Rilevamento e Metodi di the interface between linguistics and archaeology. Rappresentazione per l’Architettura The questions raised concern the future of Rupestre archaeolinguistic research. What can archaeologists By Andrea Angelini and linguists learn from each other’s disciplines? This volume proposes a general revision of What kind of research questions are particularly procedures for the 3D acquisition, elaboration suitable for future integrated studies? and representation of Rupestrian Architecture 99p, b/w and col illus (BAR S 2888, 2018) 9781407316420 through a methodological study on the different Pb £20.00 phases of the process and a systematization of the operational criteria. It is based on a case study of Gifts, Goods and Money the Benedictine Monastery of Subiaco, an example Comparing currency and circulation systems of the integration of architecture and. in past societies Italian text. 135p, b/w and col illus (BAR S 2889, 2018) Edited by Dirk Brandherm, Elon Heymans & Daniela 9781407316123 Pb £29.00 Hofmann Based on a broad range of individual case studies, Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Past these papers tackle problems surrounding the A Guide to Techniques in Historical Seismology identification of (pre-monetary) currencies in By Emanuela Guidoboni & John E. Ebel the archaeological record. They concern the part This handbook defines the discipline of historical played by weight measurement systems in their seismology by detailing the latest research development, the changing role of objects as they methodologies for studying historical earthquakes shift between different spheres of exchange, e.g. and tsunamis. It describes the various sources that from gifts to commodities, as well reference seismic phenomena, discusses the critical as wider issues regarding the role problems of interpreting such sources, and presents of exchange networks as agents Only a summary of the theories proposed throughout of social and economic change. £29.00 until history to explain the causes of earthquakes. 234p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 31 October 602p (Cambridge UP 2009, Pb 2018) 9780521837958 Hb 2018) 9781784918354 Pb £34.00 £101.00, 9781108462051 Pb £45.00 Objects of War Digital Geoarchaeology Currency in a Time of Conflict New Techniques for Interdisciplinary Human- By Kevin Clancy Environmental Research By providing the means through which they have Edited by Christoph Siart, Markus Forbriger & Olaf been fought, coins and banknotes have proved Bubenzer themselves an indispensable weapon of war. But This book includes topics and applications such the disruption that comes with conflict has seen as geographic and archaeological information usage of money change with coins debased or often systems, remote sensing, e.g. satellite imagery, buried in hoards, and money has offered the means aerial photographs, terrestrial and airborne laser through which victorious leaders have proclaimed scanning, digital image processing and pattern their triumphs. This book focuses principally on recognition, digital elevation models, 3D and the experience in Britain from Tudor times but 4D visualization and landscape reconstruction, draws on other instances from around the world geophysical prospecting, e.g. ERT, SRT, GPR as well and across time to show how money and war have as spatiotemporal analysis. collided and influenced one another. 250p (Springer Verlag 2017) 9783319253145 Hb £79.99 b/w and col illus 224p (Spink Books 2018) 9781907427909 Hb £25.00, NYP 4 Method and Theory Forthcoming from Oxbow Books NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Conversations Between Objects Edited by Linda Hulin Trends in Biological Anthropology 2 Linda Hulin considers the Edited by Betina Jakob & Malin Holst relationship between the The articles included archaeological record and the in this volume were human past and examines the all presented at the differences that arise between 15th annual British the practice of excavating Association for Biological material culture and the Anthropology and models for thinking about Osteoarchaeology it. Two common themes (BABAO) conference emerge: the dominance of held at the University of vision as a medium of both York on the 13th and 15th recording the past and a of September 2013. Ten vehicle for understanding it and the primacy given papers are presented, on to knowledge over sensation. The interplay between a range of topics and themes, including that of knowledge and experience is a major thread running ‘Constructing Identities: Ethnicity and Migration’ through this argument and offers a way to deal with exploring theoretical approaches to the multiple the quantities of mundane items that constitute the identities of the body and multidisciplinary bulk of material culture. Ultimately, this work brings approaches to investigating the African origin of the ordinariness of the object world African American communities in parts of South back into discourse by exploring America. Papers exploring the theme ‘Treatment their affect, en masse, upon the Only of the Body: Understanding and Portrayals’ human body. £11.99 until focus on the visibility of prehistoric burial practice in Britain and the Levant, and evidence 160p (Oxbow Books publication 2018) 9781789250039 Pb for diversity in late medieval Christian burial £15.99 practice in Taunton, Somerset. Three papers are incorporated in the theme ‘Investigating Lifeways: Archaeology in the PPG16 Era Diets, Disease and Occupations’, focusing on Investigations in England 1990–2010 ancient DNA to investigate Mycobacterium By Timothy Darvill, Bronwen Russell & Ehren Milner tuberculosis from 18th century mummies from Hungary; a bioarchaeological perspective on Planning Policy Guidance military communities in Roman London; and Note 16: Archaeology a methodological approach to testing a faster and Planning (known as method for recording past activity-patterns PPG16), published in in skeletal remains. The final three papers 1990, saw the formal of the volume have both archaeological and integration of archaeological methodological aspects, using osteological and considerations with the archaeological evidenc UK town and country planning system and set 320p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) out processes for informed 9781785706202 Pb £49.99 decision-making and the implementation of post- determination mitigation strategies. The scale of Who We Are and How We Got Here activity represented – more 1000 excavations per Ancient DNA and the New Science of year for most of the PPG16 Era – is more than the Human Past double the level of work undertaken at peak By David Reich periods during the previous three decades. This comprehensive review of the project presents a David Reich describes how the revolution in the wealth of data. A series of case studies examines ability to sequence ancient DNA has changed our the illustrate different types of development project, understanding of the deep human past. This book revealing many ways in which projects develop, tells the emerging story of our often surprising how archaeology is integrated with ancestry – the extraordinary ancient migrations planning and execution, and the and mixtures of populations that have made us who we are. range of outputs documenting Only the process. 368p (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198821250 Hb £20.00 £18.75 until 320p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018) publication 9781789251081 Hb £25.00

Method and Theory 5 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Reinventing Sustainability Metals, Minds and Mobility How Archaeology Can Save the Planet Integrating Scientific Data with Archaeological By Erika Guttmann-Bond Theory This book is about Edited by Xosé-Lois Armada, Mercedes Murillo-Barroso sustainable agriculture and & Mike Charlton architecture in the past, Metals, Minds and and the engineering works Mobility seeks to integrate that supported them, but archaeometallurgical data it also looks to the future. with archaeological theory Ancient technologies are to address longstanding what engineers define as questions about mechanisms ‘intermediate’, which of exchange, mobility means that they are often and social complexity in simple, low in cost and they prehistory. Bringing together depend on local materials. many leading expert Significantly, they don’t require fossil fuels. There contributions address topics is a lot that we in the West can learn from the that include the invention, past and from developing countries where people innovation and transmission of metallurgical still practice traditional agriculture, and there is knowledge; archaeometric based models of now broad agreement among many governments, exchange; characterization and discrimination non-government organisations, engineers and of different modes of material agronomists, as well as the United circulation; and the impact of Nations, that intermediate metals on social complexity. Only technologies are often the most Only 242p, b/w and col £36.00 until appropriate way forward in £18.75 until (Oxbow Books 2018) publication developing countries. publication 9781785709050 Hb £48.00 160p (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781785709920 Pb £25.00 Making Journeys Archaeologies of Movement Culture and Perspective at Edited by Catriona Gibson, Catherine Frieman & Times of Crisis Kerri Cleary State Structures, Private Initiative and the One route into exploring Public Character of Heritage mobility in the past may By Ioannis Poulios, Sophia Antoniadou, Giorgos be through exploring Vavouranakis & Pavlina Raouzaiou the movements and Culture and Perspective biographies of artefacts. deals with a variety of key Challenges lie not only aspects concerning heritage in tracing the origins and management at times of final destinations of objects crisis and specifically with but in the less tangible ‘in the public character of between’ journeys and the cultural heritage. Special, hands they passed through. but not exclusive emphasis, Biographical approaches to is on the case of Greece. artefacts include the recognition that culture contact In order to understand, and hybridity affect material culture in meaningful evaluate and reconsider the ways. Furthermore, discrete and bounded ‘sites’ role of the state in heritage still dominate archaeological inquiry, leaving the management, contributors address a series of spaces and connectivities between features and issues including the downgrading and shrinking settlements unmapped. These are linked to an of state structures, the upgrading and expansion under-explored middle-spectrum of mobility, a of the role of private initiative; the public character range nestled between everyday movements and of heritage, in terms of ownership as well as one-off ambitious voyages. This collection of papers access; and finally the synergies explores how these travels involved between state structures and entangled meshworks of people, private initiatives in view of the Only animals, objects, knowledge sets Only public character of heritage. £30.00 until and identities. £30.00 until 208p, b/w illus publication 256p, b/w illus publication (Oxbow Books 2018) (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785708596 Hb £40.00 9781785709302 Pb £40.00

6 Method and Theory The Work of the Dead Mobility and Pottery Production A Cultural History of Mortal Remains Archaeological and Anthropological By Thomas W. Laqueur Perspectives A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of Edited by Caroline Heitz & Regine Stapfer the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed From their production until their deposition as account of how and why the living have cared for waste, grave-goods, collectibles etc. pottery vessels the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. It can move with their owners or be passed on and seeks to recover the work that the dead do for the may thus shift between spatial, temporal, social, living: making human communities that connect economic and cultural contexts. This volume unites the past and the future. contributions addressing such phenomena from 736p, b/w illus, col pls (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691180939 archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Pb £22.95 270p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 9789088904608 Pb £45.00 Identified Skeletal Collections By Charlotte Yvette Henderson & Francisca The Social Archaeology of Food Alves Cardoso Thinking about Eating From Prehistory to This book focusses on identified skeletal collections the Present in the UK, Portugal, South Africa, USA and Canada. By Christine A. Hastorf The chapters discuss how and why collections This book offers a global perspective on the role were amassed including the local legislation food has played in shaping human societies, governing them. The importance of through both individual and collective identities. these collections is also focused It integrates ethnographic and archaeological on: particularly their role in Only case studies from the European and Near Eastern developing and testing methods £25.50 until Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Classic for age determination in adults. 31 October Maya, the Inka and many other periods and regions, 198p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress to ask how the meal in particular has acted as a 2018) 9781784918057 Pb £30.00 social agent in the formation of society, economy, culture and identity. Bioarchaeological Analyses 418p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2016, Pb 2018) and Bodies 9781107153363 Hb £77.00, £9781316607251 Pb £22.99 New Ways of Knowing Anatomical and Archaeological Skeletal Collections The Oxford Handbook of the Edited by Pamela K. Stone Archaeology of Childhood This volume considers from a bioarchaeological Edited by Sally Crawford, Dawn Hadley & perspective the research collections that have been Gillian Shepherd used because they represent deceased for whom However marginal the traces of children’s bodies there are records identifying them. These collections and bricolage may seem compared to adults, have been the basis for generating basic information archaeological evidence of children and childhood regarding the human skeletal transcript. can be found in the most astonishing places and 248p b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2018) 9783319711133 spaces. In this volume, experts from around the Hb £79.99 world ask questions about childhood – thresholds of age and growth, childhood in the material Human Remains in Archaeology culture, the death of children, and the intersection A Handbook of the childhood and the social, economic, religious, and political worlds of societies in the past. By Charlotte A. Roberts 720p (Oxford UP 2018) 9780199670697 Hb £110.00 This revised and updated 2nd edition of Professor Charlotte Robert’s best-selling Practical Handbook Culturas en Contacto provides the very latest guidance on all aspects of Conflicto, Asimilación e Intercambio the recovery, handling and study of human remains. It begins by asking why we should study human Edited by N. Pacheco Catalan et al. remains, and the ethical issues surrounding their These papers analyse multiple aspects of cultural recovery, analysis, curation and display. How people encounters, relationships and conflicts between were laid to rest at death is considered, as well as different societies in antiquity and the Middle the effect of various factors on their preservation. Ages. They are divided into five main categories: Further chapters give practical advice on excavation, ‘Acculturation and Cultural Exchanges’, ‘Contact processing and conservation. The author then between Religions’, ‘War, Colonisation and discusses recent technological advances in the study Migration Movements’, ‘Linguistics and Literature’ of human remains. and ‘Economy and Urbanism’. Papers in Spanish, 336p b/w and col illus (CBA 2nd ed 2018) 9781909990036 Italian and English. Pb £25.00 177p b/w illus (BAR S 2887, 2018) 9781407316307 Pb £41.00 Method and Theory 7 Unearthing Childhood Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Young Lives in Prehistory By Robin Derricourt Lands of the Shamans Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and Archaeology, Cosmology and Landscape finger daubs, in images painted on rocks and pots, Edited by Dragoş Gheorghiu, George Nash, Herman in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts Bender & Emilia Pasztor to learn practical crafts. The burials of those who ‘Shamanism’ is a term with did not reach adulthood reveal clothing, personal specific anthropological adornment, possession and status in society, while roots, but which is used the bodies themselves provide information on diet, more generally to cover a health and sometimes violent death. This book set of interactions between a demonstrates the extraordinary potential for the practitioner or ‘shaman’ and study of childhood within the prehistoric record. a spiritual or religious realm 312p, b/w illus (Manchester UP 2018) 9781526128089 beyond the reach of most Pb £20.00 members of the community. It has often been considered An Introduction to Zooarchaeology from an anthropological By Diane Patrice Gifford-Gonzalez viewpoint, but this book This volume is a comprehensive, critical introduction gathers the most recent studies on a subject to vertebrate zooarchaeology. It first offers a general which has not been comprehensively studied by introduction to zooarchaeology, key definitions, archaeologists. The shaman’s landscape reveals itself and an historical survey of the emergence of the to the world as one of multifaceted discipline. It then presents a series of critical “review spiritual and material activity. articles,” providing a portal into both the classic and Case Studies come from Europe, Only current literature and contextualizing these with North America and Asia. £28.50 until original commentary. 208p (Oxbow Books publication 384p, b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2018) 2018) 9781785709548 Pb 9783319656809 Hb £74.99 £38.00 Greyhound Nation Ancient Textiles, Modern A Coevolutionary History of England, 1200–1900 Science II By Edmund Russell Edited by Heather Hopkins & Katrin Kania Challenging the popular notion that animal breeds Ancient Textiles Modern Science II follows the remain uniform over time and space, Russell success of the first proceedings, published in 2013, integrates history and biology to offer a fresh take that catalogued the Forum’s formative years. This on human-animal coevolution. Using greyhounds proceedings highlights the range of subjects and in England from 1200 to 1900 as a case study, Russell approaches, from improved forms of notation shows that greyhounds varied and changed just as for nålbinding and terminology for non-woven much as their owners. fabric structures, to presentation and practical 214p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9780521745055 Pb interpretation of new and unique discoveries from £19.99 Lengberg Castle and of Roman leather underpants. The significance of unrealised assumptions and Shipwrecks and Provenance unappreciated historic decisions is shown through In-Situ Timber Sampling Protocols With a Focus the discovery of weaving tablets unrecognised on Wrecks of the Iberian Shipbuilding Tradition during their excavation and the effects of water supply on the outcome of dyeing in Pompeii. By Sara A. Rich, Nigel Nayling, Garry Momber & Ana Practical investigations of historic resist dyeing, Crespo Solana methods to selectively colour early Byzantine Shipwrecks pose a special problem in archaeometric embroidery after its completion, and how the dating and provenance because they often choice of metal in dyeing kettles influences dyeing accumulated new construction material as timbers outcomes make up the rest of this volume. The were repaired and replaced. This book is a set of European Textile Forum provides a place where protocols to establish the need for wood samples ideas can be exchanged and aims to give a good from shipwrecks and to guide archaeologists practical foundation for further in the removal of samples for a research. The end result is an suite of archaeometric techniques understanding of each aspect of currently available to provenance Only historic textiles that is greater Only the timbers used to construct £17.00 until than the sum of its £26.25 until wooden ships and boats. 31 October individual parts. publication 74p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 144p b/w illus (Oxbow 2018) 9781784917173 Pb £20.00 Books 2018) 9781789251203 Pb £35.00 8 Method and Theory Interchange in Pre – and Protohistory Language and Classification Case Studies in Iberia, Romania, Turkey Meaning-Making in the Classification and and Israel Categorization of Ceramics Edited by Ana Cruz & Juan F. Gibaja By Allison Burkette This book, constructed around a central theme This volume adopts a practice-based approach to rather than a specific time period or region, aims to examine the different ways in which classification show how different researchers working on different is communicated and negotiated in different topics address the inter-relationships between environments within archaeology. The book looks groups in pre – and protohistoric periods. It presents specifically at the archaeological classification some of the methodologies that are being used to of ceramics as a lens through which to examine analyse and determine the origin of raw materials the discursive and social practices inherent in the used in the preparation of ornaments, ceramic classification and categorization process, with vessels, lithic instruments, and other objects. perspectives from such areas as corpus linguistics, 214p, b/w illus (BAR S 2891, 2018) 9781407316369 Pb discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, and £44.00 archaeology forming the foundation of the book’s theoretical framework. 176p, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138243361 Hb £115.00 Landscape Oceanic Histories People in the Mountains Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford & Current Approaches to the Archaeology Sujit Sivasundaram of Mountainous Landscapes Oceanic Histories is the first Edited by Andrzej Pelisiak, Marek Nowak & Ciprian comprehensive account of Astalos world history focused not on Mountain landscapes were first exploited by farming the land but viewed through populations at the very beginning of the Neolithic. the 70% of the Earth’s surface However, there are controversies regarding when covered by water. Individual and where these specific types of human behaviour chapters trace the histories developed. This book presents research results from and the historiographies of different scientific contexts. To discuss these issues, the various oceanic regions, and to study different aspects of with special attention given human activity in the mountains to the histories of circulation and adjacent regions its Only and particularity, the links chapters deploy archaeological, between human and non-human history and the botanical, zooarchaeological £29.75 until connections and comparisons between parts of the and ethnological information. 31 October World Ocean. 234p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 338p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108423182 Hb £76.99, 2018) 9781784918170 Pb £35.00 9781108434829 Pb £19.99 Conflict Landscapes and Archaeology Historical Archaeologies of From Above Transhumance Across Europe Edited by Birger Stichelbaut & David Cowley Edited by Eugene Costello This volume brings together a wide range of This volume brings together recent advances in the perspectives to conflict archaeology, setting study of European transhumance during historical traditional approaches that draw on historical and times, from Sweden to Spain, Romania to Ireland, contemporary aerial photographs alongside cutting- and beyond that even Newfoundland. While the edge prospection techniques, cross-disciplinary focus is on the archaeology of seasonal sites used by analyses and innovative methods of presenting this shepherds and cowherds, the contributions exhibit material to audiences. Organized in four parts, the a high degree of interdisciplinarity. Documentary, first three sections take a broadly chronological cartographic, ethnographic and palaeoecological approach, exploring the use of aerial evidence evidence all play a part in the examination of to expand our understanding of the two World seasonal movement and settlement in medieval and Wars and the Cold War. The final section explores post-medieval landscapes. ways that the aerial perspective can be utilized to 272p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9780815380320 Hb represent historical landscapes to a wide audience. £115.00 336p, (Routledge 2016, Pb 2018) 9781472464385 Hb £72.99, 9781138307230 Pb £34.99 9 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Landscape Beneath the Waves The Land Was Forever The Archaeological Exploration of Underwater 15000 Years in North-East Scotland: Excavations Landscapes on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/ By Caroline Wickham-Jones Balmedie-Tipperty At the end of the last Ice Age, By Kirsty Dingwall, Matt Ginnever, Sorina Spanou, sea level around the world Richard Tipping & Jürgen van Wessel was lower, coastal lands Eight sites were excavated stretched further and the along the route of the continents were bigger, in Aberdeen Western some cases landmasses were Peripheral Route between joined by dry land that has Balmedy to Tipperty. The now disappeared beneath sites are mostly multi-period. the waves. The study of the Extensive specialist analysis now submerged landscapes has been undertaken that our ancestors knew on all sites, along with a represents one of the last programme of radiocarbon barriers for archaeology. Only recently have dating, OSL dating and advances in underwater technology reached the Bayesian analysis. During stage where a wealth of procedures are available the excavations, it was apparent how the specific to explore this lost undersea world. This volume landscape of each site was key to the activities considers the processes behind the rising (and taking place there, the periods and falling) of relative sea-levels and then presents duration of activity and the extent the main techniques available for to which people were passing Only the study and interpretation of through or settling. £30.00 until the archaeological remains that Only 368p b/w illus publication have survived inundation. £22.50 until (Oxbow Books 2018) 320p, b/w and colour publication 9781785709883 Hb £40.00 (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781789250725 Pb £29.95 The Tundzha Regional Archaeology Project Freshwater Fish in England Surface Survey, Palaeoecology, and Associated A Social and Cultural History of Coarse Fish Studies in Central and Southeast Bulgaria, from Prehistory to the Present Day 2009–2015 Final Report By Alison Locker Edited by Shawn A. Ross, Adela Sobotkova, Julia Much has been written on Tzvetkova, Georgi Nekhrizov & Simon Connor marine fishing and for the This volume presents migratory eel and salmon. the results of diachronic Less attention has focused archaeological and on the obligate freshwater palaeoecological research species, primarily the native conducted in two study pike, perch, cyprinids and areas: the intermontane introduced species of which Kazanlak Valley along the the most significant is carp. Upper Tundzha River, and Their exploitation by man the Thracian Plain along has changed from food to the Middle Tundzha River sport more dramatically in Major field activities of the England and the British Isles than in Europe. They project included over 100 have also been used as elite statements, symbols sq km of systematic pedestrian survey, legacy data of lineage, in religion and art. Much of the early verification and mapping, trial excavations, artefact evidence is confined to fish bones from archaeological processing, and environmental sampling in and sites and indicators of diet from isotopic analyses around the study areas. At the heart of the volume is of human bones. From the Medieval period a geospatial analysis of settlement patterns derived these data sources are increasingly from the survey dataset, which complemented and ultimately relates the footprint of past human superseded by documentary Only activities to environmental and Only sources and material culture. £28.50 until sociocultural drivers. £45.00 until 160p, b/w and col illus 286p, b/w and colour publication publication (Oxbow Books 2019) (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781789251128 Pb £38.00 9781789250541 Hb £60.00 10 Landscape Storied Ground Yorkshire Landscape and the Shaping of English National A Lyrical History of England’s Greatest County Identity By Richard Morris By Paul Readman In Yorkshire, Richard Morris In Storied Ground Paul looks beyond stereotypes, Readman uncovers why exploring interactions landscape matters so much to between landscape, the English people, exploring language, and memory. The its particular importance county is one of Europe’s in shaping English most geologically varied national identity amid the areas with mountain, plain, transformations of modernity. coast, chalk hills, wetland The book takes us from the and heath. Morris explores fells of the Lake District to the the tumultuous history of uplands of Northumberland; God’s Own County and asks from the streetscapes of why it has so often been to industrial Manchester to the heart of London. This the fore in times of conflict or tension. Outward- panoramic journey reveals the significance, not only lookingness is a repeating theme, and Morris of the physical characteristics of landscapes, but also of shows that Yorkshire has always been both a region the sense of the past, collective memories and cultural with a distinct identity inside Britain and a fulcrum traditions that give these places their meaning. in the world. 348p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108424738 320p, b/w illus (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2018) Hb £24.99 9780297609438 Hb £25.00 Paths to the Past Abandoned Villages Encounters with Britain’s Hidden Landscapes By Stephen Fisk By Francis Pryor Over the centuries many Bringing to bear a lifetime’s villages in Britain have digging, archaeologist been abandoned. This book Francis Pryor delves into describes the natural and Britain’s hidden urban and man-made causes, from rural landscapes, from coastal erosion to the closing Whitby Abbey to the navvy of old mines. Evidence from camp at Risehill in Cumbria, archaeology and historical from Tintagel to Tottenham’s records is summarised, and Broadwater Farm. Through for more recent settlements fields, woods, moors, roads, the accounts of former tracks and towns, he reveals residents are quoted. the stories of our physical 64p, b/w illus (Amberley 2018) 9781445679174 Pb £8.99 surroundings and what they meant to the people who formed them, used them and lived in them. 160p (Penguin 2018) 9780241299982 Hb £16.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE A History of Scotland’s Landscapes By Fiona Watson & Piers Dixon The 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 Only our environment over thousands of years. Full of maps, photographs and drawings, it offers a remarkable perspective £25.50 until on Scotland – a unique guide to tracing memories, events 31 October and meanings in the forms and patterns of our surroundings. 260p, col illus (RCAHMS 2018) 9781902419930 Hb £30.00

Landscape 11 A Journey through Time Kingdom, Civitas, and County Crossrail in the Lower Thames Floodplain The Evolution of Territorial Identity in By Graham Spurr the English Landscape Through analysis of the archaeology investigated By Stephen Rippon along the Crossrail south-east line, which diverts This book explores the development of territorial from the main west–east route across the Thames identity in the late prehistoric, Roman, and early floodplain from Stepney Green to Abbey Wood, this medieval periods. Over the course of the Iron Age, book tells the story of the lower Thames throughout a series of marked regional variations in material the Holocene (from c. 10,000 years ago to the culture and landscape character emerged across present), and in so doing introduces the techniques eastern England that reflect the development of of geoarchaeology. discrete zones of social and economic interaction. 60p col illus (MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) Stepehn Rippon shows how these socio-economic 2018) 9781907586422 Pb £10.00, NYP 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 Prehistoric Britain and Ireland Reindeer Hunters at Howburn Farm, Riversides South Lanarkshire Neolithic Barrows, a Beaker Grave, Iron Age By Torben Bjarke Ballin and Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement at This volume presents the lithic assemblage from Trumpington, Cambridge Howburn in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which By Christopher Evans, Sam Lucy & Ricky Patten at present is the oldest prehistoric settlement The 2010–11 excavations along Trumpington’s in Scotland (12,700-12,000 BC), and the only riverside proved extraordinary on a number of Hamburgian settlement in Britain. The book focuses accounts. Particularly for its ‘dead’, as it included on the Hamburgian finds, which are mainly based Neolithic barrows (one with a mass interment), a on the exploitation of flint from Doggerland. The double Beaker grave and an Early Anglo-Saxon tools include tanged arrowheads, cemetery, with a rich bed-burial interment in the scrapers, piercers, burins, and latter accompanied by a rare gold cross. Associated other implement forms which Only settlement remains were recovered with each. Most show similarities with tools of significant was the site’s Early Iron Age occupation. the same age on the European £21.25 until This yielded enormous artefact assemblages and continent. 31 October was intensively sampled for economic data, and 144p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress the depositional dynamics of its pit clusters are 2018) 9781784919016 Pb £25.00 interrogated in depth. 484p b/w illus (McDonald Institute 2018) 9781902937847 The Gwithian Landscape Hb £45.00 Molluscs and Archaeology on Cornish Sand Dunes A Taphonomic Approach to the By Thomas M. Walker Re-analysis of the Human Remains The present work explores the palaeoenvironment From the Neolithic Chamber Tomb of the area around the settlement sites at Gwithian, of Quanterness, Orkney from the Neolithic, when sand dunes initially By Rebecca Crozier developed in the Red River valley, to the present Megalithic tombs in Orkney have yielded some post-industrial landscape. Multiproxy analyses of the largest volumes of human remains in on sediments from coring, a test pit and mollusc Neolithic Britain. The data presented in this study columns provide a view of the changing landscape draws attention to subtle variations in funerary and how it may have influenced, ritual between and within the tombs, and pushes or been influenced by, human for a dramatic reconsideration of our current presence and settlement. Only understanding of the practices and cosmologies Mollusc studies are used as the £32.50 until associated with these enigmatic structures. principal analytical method. 31 October 333p, b/w and col illus (BAR BS 635, 2018) 9781407315713 210p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress Pb £50.00 2018) 9781784918033 Pb £38.00 12 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Clifton Quarry, Worcestershire The Beaker People Pits, Posts and Cereals: Archaeological Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain Investigations 2006–2009 Edited by Mike Parker Pearson, Andrew Chamberlain, By Robin Jackson & Andrew Mann Mandy Jay, Mike Richards & Jane Evans Between 2006 and 2009 The Beaker People: Isotopes, Worcestershire Archaeology Mobility and Diet in completed a series of Prehistoric Britain presents investigations in advance the results of a major project of quarrying at Clifton that sought to address Quarry, Worcestershire a century-old question revealing one of the most about the people who important sequences of were buried with Beakers prehistoric to early medieval – the distinctive pottery of activity discovered to date Continental origin that was from the Central Severn current, predominantly in Valley. Well-preserved equally distinctive burials, palaeoenvironmental deposits were recovered in Britain from around 2450 BC. Who were these from features and associated abandoned channels people? Were they immigrants and how far did of the River Severn. Analysis of this evidence is they move around? What did they eat? What was underpinned by a comprehensive programme of their lifestyle? How do they compare with Britain’s scientific dating, providing a record of changing earlier inhabitants and with contemporaries who patterns of landuse and activity from the Late did not use Beaker pottery? An international team Mesolithic onwards. Significant discoveries included of leading archaeologists and scientists, led by a series of Grooved Ware pits and an Professor Mike Parker Pearson, was assembled to extensive area of Early to Middle address these questions. Around 300 skeletons Iron Age activity. Only were subjected to isotope analysis to 240p, b/w and col illus £22.50 until explore patterns of mobility and diet, and 150 new radiocarbon (Oxbow Books 2018) publication Only 9781789250114 Hb £30.00 dates were obtained. £37.50 until 672p, b/w and col illus publication Big Men or Chiefs? (Oxbow Books 2018) Rondel Builders of Neolithic Europe 9781789250640 Hb £49.99 By Jaroslav Řídký, Petr Květina, Petr Limburský, Markéta Končelová & Pavel Burgert Excavations at Milla Skerra, This volume reassesses the Sandwick circular architecture of the Rhythms of Life on Iron Age Unst central European Neolithic, By Olivia Lelong with dimensions of many The Iron Age settlement at tens of metres, from which Milla Skerra was occupied only negative imprints of for at least 500 years before the ditches and imprints it was covered with storm- of posts in the form of blown sand and abandoned. postholes or narrow trenches Excavation revealed many are preserved to this day. details of the life of the The authors ask whether settlement and how it these structures, most often was reused over many termed rondels, can be regarded as ‘architecture generations. Thousands of of power’ – the first clear evidence of thought- artefacts and environmental out power strategies of some individuals or their remains from Milla Skerra groups. Using anthropological terms – were they reveal the everyday practices and seasonal rhythms skilful and exceptional entrepreneurs with an ad of the people that lived in this hoc status (such as Big Men) living in egalitarian/ windswept and remote island segmented communities, or rather settlement and their connections Only powerful Chiefs living in rank to both land and sea. £18.75 until and hereditary based societies/ Only 144p, b/w and col illus chiefdoms? £28.50 until (Oxbow Books 2017) publication 184p (Oxbow Books publication 9781785703430 Hb £25.0 2018) 9781789250268 Pb £38.00

Prehistoric Britain and Ireland 13 Axe-heads and Identity An Investigation into the Roles of Imported Axe- NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Heads in Identity Formation in Neolithic Britain Myth and Materiality By Katharine Walker By John Waddell The significant body of stone and flint axe-heads imported into Britain from the Continent has been The aim of this book is poorly understood, overlooked and undervalued in to promote the thesis Neolithic studies. It is proposed, in this study, that that myth may illuminate the cause is a bias of British Neolithic scholarship archaeology and that on against the invasion hypothesis and diffusionist occasion archaeology model, and it seeks to re-assess the significance may shed light on myth. accorded to these objects. It re-focuses on the Medieval Irish literature material, establishing a secure is rich in mythic themes evidence base, and exploring the and some of these are probable conditions in which used as a starting point. Only Some myths are of great these often distinctive items £34.00 until made their way to Britain. antiquity and some were 31 October invented by contemporary 334p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress authors. It is a challenging source, first explored 2018) 9781784917449 Pb £40.00 in the author’s earlier work Archaeology and Sites of Prehistoric Life in Celtic Myth; this work elaborates on some of the themes pursued there and introduces some new Northern Ireland ones. John Waddell brings a lifetime’s experience By Harry Welsh & June Welsh of studying Irish history, Bronze Age archaeology This monograph brings together information on and Celtic mythology in this personal and lively all the currently known sites in Northern Ireland exploration of mythology and its archaeological that are in some way associated with prehistoric expression. life. A total of 1580 monuments are recorded in the 192p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) inventory, ranging from burnt mounds to hillforts. 9781785709753 Pb £15.99 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 Only bibliography. £32.50 until 240p, b/w illus, col pls 31 October (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917937 Pb £38.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Neolithic Britain The Transformation of Social Worlds By Keith Ray & Julian Thomas Neolithic 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, Only kinship and social ties, and the ‘descent’ of cultural practices. The new perspective provided in this volume stems from £25.50 until a greater awareness of the ways in which unfolding events 31 October 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

14 Prehistoric Britain and Ireland The Classification of Chalcolithic and EAA 163 Early Bronze Age Copper and Bronze Iron Age and Roman Settlement: Rescue Axe-heads from Southern Britain Excavations at Lynch Farm 2, Orton Longueville, Peterborough By Stuart P. Needham This work presents a comprehensive classification of By Stephen G. Upex the morphology of early metal age axe-heads, chisels Three major archaeological excavations were and stakes from southern Britain. It is illustrated by carried out in a meander of the River Nene, west a type series of 120 representative examples. Despite of Peterborough, during the early 1970s. Peripheral their relative simplicity, flat and early flanged areas within the meander were thought to lack axes from Britain and Ireland show considerable archaeological significance, however, once gravel diversity in form. The main variation lies in outline extraction started, remains of Roman buildings were shapes and the classification scheme found and work was halted while rescue excavation arrived at therefore depends on took place (described here as Lynch Farm 2). careful evaluation of condition, Only 200p, b/w illus (East Anglian Archaeology 2018) followed by rigorous analysis of 9780952810520 Pb £20.00 £19.00 until shape using metrical ratios. 31 October 74p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2018) Along Prehistoric Lines 9781784917401 Pb £22.00 Neolithic, Iron Age and Romano-British Activity at the Former MOD Headquarters, Durrington, Life on the Edge Wiltshire The Neolithic and Bronze Age of Iain By Steve Thompson & Andrew Powell Crawford’s Udal, North Uist An excavation in 2010–12 on the site of the former Edited by Beverley Ballin Smith MoD Headquarters in Durrington, immediately The discovery of archaeological structures in North north-east of Stonehenge, revealed evidence Uist in 1974 after storm damage led to the identification spanning the post-glacial to the post-medieval by Iain Crawford of a kerb cairn complex, with a cist periods. Significant discoveries include a relatively and human remains. Six years later he went back, deeply buried Late Glacial Allerød soil, and a zone and over the next three years excavated another of Late Neolithic activity centred on a number of cist with human remains in its kerbed cairn, many natural solution hollows, posthole alignments and bowl pits dug into the blown sand, and down to two pit groups. The Late Iron Age defences, probably late Neolithic structures and a ritual complex. He constructed in the immediate pre-Conquest intensively studied the environmental conditions period and decommissioned soon after, influenced affecting the site and was among the the layout of early Romano-British fields and first archaeologists in Scotland to settlement activity. 130p, b/w and col illus (Wessex Archaeology understand the climate changes Only taking place at the transition 2018) 9781911137047 Pb £15.00 between late Neolithic and the £21.25 until early Bronze Age. 31 October 304p col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917708 Hb £25.00 Prehistoric Europe Vængesø and Holmegård Splendid Isolation Ertebølle Fishers and Hunters on Djursland The Eruption of the Laacher See Volcano & By Søren H. Andersen Southern Scandinavian Late Glacial Hunter- This volume presents the collated results of a Gatherers number of archaeological investigations undertaken By Felix Riede on the Danish peninsula Djursland over a period of This volume investigates the cultural evolution of almost 40 years. It begins with the findings of the late Ice Age forager societies at the northern edge excavations carried out around the former marine of Europe. It summarises more than ten years of lagoon of Vængesø in the northeastern part of the research that connects the cataclysmic eruption Helgenæs penin¬sula. Then follows an overview of of the Laacher See volcano in present-day western an excavation undertaken at the site of Holmegaard, Germany with contemporary cultural changes. It located on the former Stubbe Fjord complex. also offers an in-depth treatment of the eruption’s 285p (Aarhus UP 2018) 9788771248869 Hb £30.00, NYP impact on plants, animals and people as well as its cultural-historical consequences. 250p, (Aarhus UP 2018) 9788771241273 Hb £30.00 15 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Exploring Celtic Origins Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia Edited by Barry Cunliffe & John Koch Edited by Chris Scarre Exploring Celtic Origins is This volume takes recent the fruit of collaborative work excavations at Lajinha, a by researchers in archaeology, small megalithic tomb in historical linguistics, and the hill-country north of the archaeogenetics over the past River Tagus, and the adjacent ten years. Led by Sir Barry site of Cabeço dos Pendentes Cunliffe and John Koch, as the starting point for a the contributors present broader consideration of the multidisciplinary chapters megalithic tombs of western in a lively user-friendly Iberia. Key themes addressed style, aimed at accessibility are relevant to megalithic for workers in the other tombs more generally, fields, as well as general readers. The collection including landscape, chronology, settlement and stands as a pause to reflect on ways forward at interregional relationships. Over what period of the moment of intellectual history when the time were these tombs built and used? Do they form genome-wide sequencing of ancient DNA (a.k.a. ‘the a horizon of intensive monument construction, or archaeogenetic revolution’) has suddenly changed were the tombs the product of a persistent, long- everything in the study of later European prehistory. lived tradition? How do they relate to the famous How do we deal with what appears rock art of the Tagus valley, and to the cave burials to be an irreversible breach in the and open-air settlements of the barrier between science and the Only region, in terms of chronology humanities? £33.75 until and landscape? Only 224p, col illus publication 208p, b/w illus £33.75 until (Oxbow Books 2018) (Oxbow Books 2018) publication 9781789250886 Hb £45.00 9781785709807 Hb £45.00 First Textiles Social Dimensions of Food The Beginnings of Textile Production in Europe in the Prehistoric Balkans and the Mediterranean Edited by Maria Ivanova, Bogdan Athanassov, Vanya Edited by Małgorzata Siennicka, Lorenz Rahmstorf & Petrova, Desislava Takorovo & Philipp Stockhammer Agata Ulanowska This volume brings together The beginning of textile leading specialists in manufacture whilst still archaeobotany, economic vague can be traced back zooarchaeology and to the upper Palaeolithic. palaeoanthropology to Important developments discuss practices of food in textile technology, e.g. production and consumption weaving, spinning with a in their social dimensions spindle, introduction of wool, from the Mesolithic to the appeared in Europe and the Early Iron Age in the Balkans, Mediterranean throughout a region with intermediary the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and position between and the Early Bronze Age. This book Aegean Sea on one side and Central Europe and the is devoted to early textile production in Europe and Eurasian steppe regions on the other side. In a series the Mediterranean and aims to collect and investigate of transdisciplinary studies, the contributors shed the combined evidence of textile and leather remains, new light on the various social dimensions of food tools, workplaces and textile iconography. The chapters in a synchronous as well as diachronic perspective. discuss the recent achievements in the research of Contributors present a series of case studies focused ancient textiles their production, and techniques such on themes of social interaction, communal food as spinning, fabric and skin manufacture, use of textile preparation and consumption, tools and experimental textile archaeology. the role of feasting, and the The volume explores important importance and management of Only cultural and social aspects of textile salt production. £36.00 until production, and its development. Only 352p, b/w and col illus publication 272p, b/w and col illus £34.00 until (Oxbow Books 2018) (Oxbow Books 2018) publication 9781789250800 Hb £48.00 9781785707988 Hb £45.00

16 Prehistoric Europe Daily Life at the Turn of the Neolithic NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS A Comparative Study of Longhouses With Sunken Floors at Resengaard and Nine Other The Times of their Lives Settlements in the Limfjord Region, South Hunting History in the Archaeology of Scandinavia Neolithic Europe By Simonsen John By Alasdair Whittle This book provides unique insights into Late The Times of their Neolithic life, its organization and its economy, made Lives explains how possible by an altogether exceptional collection of archaeologists can now recent archaeological findings in South Scandinavia move away from thinking from longhouses with sunken floors dating from this about history in terms period. Through analysis and interpretation of these of thousands of years, comprehensive materials, Danish archaeologist to periods from one or John Simonsen presents brand new findings two centuries down to essential for many wider interpretations of this lifetimes and generations. crucial and fascinating transitional period from the This vastly improved Stone Age to the Bronze Age (c. 2350 – c. 1600 BC). precision comes from the 536p (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788793423145 Hb £48.00 application of Bayesian chronological frameworks for the interpretation Une maison sous les dunes of radiocarbon dates. This book will show how Beg ar Loued, Île Molène, Finistère: Identité temporally much more precise accounts of the et Adaptation des Groupes Humains en Mer past can be achieved, across a broad range of d’Iroise Entre Les Iiie et Iie Millénaires Avant contexts and situations. It offers a series of case Notre Ère studies across much of the continent, to provide much more precise timings of key features and Edited by Yvan Pailler & Clément Nicolas trends in the European Neolithic sequence than Since 2001, archaeological research has been are currently available, and to construct much conducted in the Molène Archipelago, an area more precise estimates of the duration of events that is particularly rich in remains from the and phenomena. At stake is our ability to study Neolithic and the Bronze Age. For nearly a decade, the lives of Neolithic people everywhere at the the settlement site at Beg ar Loued has been scale of lifetimes, something unimaginable even excavated by an interdisciplinary team. The data a few years ago. that have been obtained from this fieldwork provide 240p, (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785706684 information on the chronology of the various Hb £40.00 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 CHOICE The First Farmers of Europe An Evolutionary Perspective By Stephen Shennan Knowledge 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 Only fertility by colonising new regions that farming offered. The knowledge and resources for the farming ‘niche’ were £23.99 until passed on from parents to their children. However, Shennan 31 October 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

Prehistoric Europe 17 Océan, Céramiques et Îles Dans Warfare in Bronze Age Society L’ouest de la France Edited by Christian Horn & Kristian Kristiansen By Benjamin Gehres The Bronze Age represents This book presents research on the development the global emergence of ceramic production and exchange between the of a militarized society mainland and islands of Brittany from the Neolithic with a martial culture, to the Gallo-Roman period. Archaeometric analysis materialized in a package of ceramics is used to explore the development of of new efficient weapons communication networks between the islands and that remained in use for the mainland. millennia to come. Warfare French text. 410p b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press became institutionalized 2018) 9789088906244 Hb £285.00, 9789088906237 Pb and professionalized during £95.00, NYP the Bronze Age, and a new class of warriors made Considering Creativity their appearance. The case studies, written by an Creativity, Knowledge and Practice in Bronze international team of scholars, discuss these and Age Europe other new aspects of Bronze Age warfare. Edited by Joanna Sofaer 262p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107185562 Hb £75.00 This volume focuses on the outcomes of creativity – material culture – and an exploration of creative Iconoclasm and Later Prehistory practice. The papers in this volume view Bronze Age By Henry Chapman objects through the lens of creativity in order to offer fresh insights into the interaction This book presents the first analysis of iconoclasm between people and the world, for prehistoric periods. Through an examination of the themes of objects, the human body, monuments as well as the individual and Only cultural processes that lie and landscapes, the book demonstrates how the £28.00 until behind creative expression. application of the approaches developed within 31 October iconoclasm studies can enrich our understanding 174p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress of earlier periods in addition to identifying specific 2018) 9781784917548 Pb £33.00 events that may be categorised as iconoclastic. Creativity in the Bronze Age 236p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138038707 Hb Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, £110.00 and Metalwork Production Between History and Archaeology By Lise Bender Jorgensen, Joanna Sofaer & Marie Papers in Honour of Jacek Lech Louise Stig Sorensen Edited by Dagmara H. Werra & Marzena Wozny This book explores the nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments These papers explore in crafts that we take for granted today, such topics on archaeology and as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume history, and are organised compares and contrasts various aspects of their into three sections. The development, from the construction of the materials first contains texts on flint themselves, through the production processes, to mining dealing with well- the design and effects deployed in finished objects. known mining sites as well as previously unpublished 356p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108421362 Hb new material. The following £75.00 group of papers deals with Death Revisited the use of flint by Neolithic The Excavation of Three Bronze Age Barrows and younger communities, and Surrounding Landscape at Apeldoorn- including typological studies on trace evidence Wieselseweg analyses as well as theoretical papers on prehistoric periods in Europe and the New By Arjan Louwen & Prof. Dr. David Fontijn World. The final section consists This book presents a group of small and of papers on the history of Only inconspicuous barrows that were recently discovered archaeology in the 19th and £68.00 until in the forest of Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. During 20th centuries. 31 Oct the Bronze Age the mounds of this small barrow 526p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress group were used as collective graves for what was 2018) 9781784917722 Pb £80.00 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 18 Prehistoric Europe NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Selhurst Park Project Neolithic Bodies Excavations at Middle Barn, Selhurstpark Farm, Edited by Penny Bickle & Emilie Sibbesson Eartham, West Sussex 2005–2008 Papers are divided By George Anelay into three themes; Excavations at Middle Barn, living bodies, the Selhurst Park, Eartham body in death and uncovered a Middle Iron Age the representation to early Roman farmstead, of the body. In the sitting upon the southern first section, papers slopes of the South Downs in present new research West Sussex, and overlooking assessing skeletal the Sussex coastal plain. evidence, alongside While the structural remains new interpretations were unremarkable for a site of the body in the of this type, consisting of the Southern British Neolithic to examine the probable remains of three lived experience of the body in the Neolithic. roundhouses, surrounded by a network of ditched The second theme illustrates the variety of enclosures, the recovered artefact assemblages approaches arising from the study of death and were substantial and important. Of particular burial. The third theme examines the body as note were three large pits, cut into the chalk, and it is represented in Neolithic art, through backfilled with structured deposits of pottery, artefacts and the stone stele found in Western animal bone, grain and fired clay. Not only do and Mediterranean Europe. The approaches these bear testimony to notable Iron Age feasting taken in the papers presented here bridge events, but their assemblages fill significant gaps many different methodologies, ranging from in our understanding of regional theoretical treatises to methodological debates. pottery traditions and agricultural Overall, the volume presents the study of the practices from the Middle to the Only body in the Neolithic as a contested site, at Late Iron Age. which overlapping research themes meet, and £28.50 until 152p b/w illus addresses the insights provided by thinking publication (Oxbow Books 2018) about past bodies. 9781789251166 Pb £40.00 154p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709012 Pb £40.00 From the Archaeological Record to The Ancient Celts Virtual Reconstruction The Application of Information Technologies Second Edition at an Iron Age Fortified Settlement (San Chuis By Barry Cunliffe Hillfort, Allande, Asturias, Spain) Barry Cunliffe’s classic study By Juana Molina Salido of the ancient Celtic world From the Archaeological was first published in 1997. Record to Virtual Since then huge advances Reconstruction describes have taken place in our the use of New Information knowledge: new finds, new Technologies for the ways of using DNA records analyses and interpretation to understand Celtic origins, of archaeological record new ideas about the proto- of the San Chuis Hillfort urban nature of early (San Martín de Beduledo, chieftains’ strongholds, All Allande, Asturias, Spain). At these developments are the end, having studied and part of this fully updated, and investigated the site’s urban completely redesigned edition. Only evolution throughout its occupation 480p (Oxford UP 2018) period (890 cal. BP – 530 cal. AD), 9780198752936 Pb £20.00 £17.00 until 31 Oct a virtual reconstruction of the hillfort in its different settlement Only phases, presenting various £34.00 until evolution scenarios is presented. 31 Oct 200p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918750 Pb £40.00 Prehistoric Europe 19 World Archaeology Among Herders of Inner Mongolia Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Haslund-Christensen Collection at the National Museum of Denmark Extracting Stone By Christel Braae The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes This is a study of a unique collection of Inner By Anne S. Dowd & Mary Beth D. Trubbitt Mongolian artefacts at the National Museum of This exciting new addition Denmark, obtained during two expeditions in the to the American Landscapes 1930s. They are described, analysed and presented series provides an in-depth in a catalogue of more than 800 items, documenting account of how flintknappers the daily life of pastoral society in and around the obtained and used stone tent, in the herding of the animals, in caravan trade based on archaeological, and in hunting, crafts, sports and games, and in geological, landscape, ritual life. and anthropological data. 1000p col illus (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788779343955 Hb Featuring case studies from £70.00 three key regions in North America, this book gives Problems of Chronology in Gandharan readers a comprehensive Art view of quarrying activities ranging from extracting Proceedings of the First International Workshop the raw material to creating finished stone tools. of the Gandhara Connections Project, Authors Dowd and Trubitt show how sites University of Oxford, 23rd–24th March, 2017 functioned in a broad landscape context, which site locations or raw material types were preferred Edited by Wannaporn Rienjang & Peter Stewart and why, what cultures were responsible for Building upon the most recent, cross-disciplinary innovative or intensive quarry resource extraction, research, debate and excavation, this volume as well as how land use changed over time. Besides reinforces a new consensus about the chronology of discussions of the way that industrialists used Gandhara, bringing the history of Gandharan art into natural resources to change their technology by sharper focus than ever. By considering this tradition means of manufacture, trade, and in its wider context, alongside contemporary Indian exchange, examples are given of art and subsequent developments heritage sites that people can Only in Central Asia, the authors also visit in the United States and open up fresh questions and Only Canada. £28.50 until problems which a new phase of £27.20 until 240p, b/w and col illus publication research will need to address. 31 Oct (Oxbow Books 2018) 172p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 9781785706240 Pb £38.00 2018) 9781784918552 Pb £32.00 Empires of Ancient Eurasia The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE – 250 CE The Oxford Handbook of the Incas By Craig Benjamin Edited by Sonia Alconini & R. Alan Covey The Silk Roads are the symbol The scope of this handbook of the interconnectedness is comprehensive. It places of ancient Eurasian the century of Inca imperial civilizations. Craig Benjamin expansion within a broader explores the processes that historical and archaeological allowed for the comingling context, and then turns from of so many goods, ideas, Inca origins to the imperial and diseases around a political economy and geographical hub deep in institutions that facilitated central Eurasia. He argues expansion. Provincial that the first Silk Roads and frontier case studies era was the catalyst for an explore the negotiation and extraordinary increase in the implementation of state complexity of human relationships and collective policies and institutions, and their effects on the learning, a complexity that helped drive our species communities and individuals that made up the inexorably along a path towards modernity. bulk of the population. Several chapters describe 250p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107535435 Pb religious power in the Andes. £19.99 864p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190219352 Hb £115.00 20 Landscape, Land-Change & Well-Being NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS in the Lesser Antilles The Archaeology of Western Sahara Case Studies from the Coastal Villages of St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory, Dominica A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009 By Charlotte Eloise Stancioff By Jo Clarke & Nick Brooks This research investigates the changing landscape During the last ten years, and land use in two case studies of the coastal the Western Sahara villages of St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory of Project has undertaken Dominica. By integrating human and ecological large scale archaeological aspects of agrarian landscapes, this research and environmental analyses how land degradation or land change research that has begun impacts cultural ecosystem services, and ultimately to address the gaps disrupts community wellbeing. in our knowledge of the archaeology and 300p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) palaeoenvironments of 9789088905872 Hb £135.00, 9789088905865 Pb £48.00, Western Sahara, and to NYP develop narratives of Seascape Corridors prehistoric cultural adaptation and change from Modeling Routes to Connect Communities the end of the Pleistocene to the Late Holocene Across the Caribbean Sea and place it within its wider Saharan context. A detailed discussion of past environmental By Emma Ruth Slayton change and a presentation of results from the In this book past maritime connections are environmental component of the extensive modelled between indigenous island communities survey work are provided. A typology of built in the Caribbean. It evaluates how routes connected stone features– monuments and funerary islands in the Caribbean. architecture is presented together with the 340p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) results of the archaeological component of 9789088905780 Hb £135.00, 9789088905773 Pb £45.00, the extensive survey work. Chapters focusing NYP on intensive survey work in key study areas consider the landscape contexts of monuments The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric and the results of excavation of burial cairns and Oceania artefact scatters. Edited by Terry L. Hunt & Ethan E. Cochrane 256p, b/w illus, col pls (Oxbow Books 2018) Oceania was the last region on earth to be 9781782971726 Hb £55.00 permanently inhabited, with the final settlers Transforming the Landscape reaching Aotearoa/New Zealand approximately AD 1300. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos Oceania presents comprehensive coverage of the Edited by Carol Diaz-Granados, Jan Simek, George region by Oceania’s leading archaeologists and Sabo & Mark Wagner allied researchers. Chapters describe the cultural This beautifully illustrated sequences of the region’s major island groups, volume examines provide the most recent explanations for diversity American Indian rock art and change in Oceanic prehistory, and lay the across an expansive region foundation for the next generation of research. of eastern North America 512p (Oxford UP 2018) 9780199925070 Hb £97.00 during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Archaeology of Pacific Oceania Unlike portable cultural Inhabiting a Sea of Islands material, rock art provides By Mike Carson in situ evidence of ritual This book integrates a region-wide chronological activity that links ideology narrative of the archaeology of Pacific Oceania. and place. The focus is on It explores how and why this vast sea of islands, the widespread use of cosmograms depicted in covering nearly one-third of the world’s surface, Mississippian rock art imagery. This approach came to be inhabited over the last several millennia, anchors broad distributional patterns of motifs transcending significant change in ecology, and themes within a powerful framework for demography, and society. cultural interpretation, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, ceremonialism, 488p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138097179 Pb £32.99 and religion. 240p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785706288 Pb £38.00

World Archaeology 21 Egypt ‘The Most Prominent Dutchman Ceramic manufacturing Techniques and in Egypt’ cultural Traditions in Nubia From the Jan Herman Insinger and the Egyptian 8th to the 3rd Millennium BC Collection in Leiden Examples From Sai Island By Maarten J. Raven By Giulia D’Ercole Jan Herman Insinger (1854/1918) was a well-known This book presents a comprehensive critical analysis character in the history of Egyptology, mainly of diverse ceramic assemblages from Sai Island, in because his name has been linked forever with a the Middle Nile Valley of Northern Sudan, on the famous demotic wisdom papyrus now in Leiden. border between ancient Upper and Lower Nubia. This volume focuses on his pivotal role in the The assemblages included in this study cover about growth of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities. five millennia, spanning the period c. 8000 to c. 2500 150p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) BC. A thorough stylistic macroscopic observation 9789088905520 Hb £90.00, 9789088905513 Pb £30.00, of the finds is integrated with a solid NYP technological approach by means of archaeometric petrographic From the Fjords to the Nile Only (OM), mineralogical (XRPD) £34.00 until Essays in Honour of Richard Holton Pierce and chemical (XRF) analyses. 31 October on his 80th Birthday 204p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress Edited by Pal Steiner, Alexandros Tsakos & Eivind 2017) 9781784916718 Pb £40.00 Heldaas Seland From the Fjords to the Nile brings together essays by Egyptian Predynastic students and colleagues of Richard Anthropomorphic Objects Holton Pierce. It covers topics on A Study of Their Function and Significance Egypt, the ancient world and the Only in Predynastic Burial Customs Near East, on archaeological and £20.50 until By Ryna Ordynat in particular textual themes. 31 October The aim of this study is to examine anthropomorphic 124p, Ib/w and col illus (Archaeopress objects in terms of their original context in order to 2018) 9781784917760 Pb £24.00 determine what role they played in Predynastic burials. A database comprising all provenanced My dear Miss Ransom anthropomorphic Predynastic objects and their Letters between Caroline Ransom Williams placement in the grave, in addition to the details of and James Henry Breasted, 1898–1935 each grave, has been composed in order to conduct Edited by Kathleen L. Sheppard a detailed analysis.. The placement and function Caroline Louise Ransom Williams (1872–1952) is seems to have depended on the type remembered as the first American of object: for instance, figurines university-trained female had different placements and Only Egyptologist. This book presents Only meanings to tusks and tags. £25.50 until her correspondence with her £20.50 until 128p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 31 October mentor, James Henry Breasted. 31 October 2018) 9781784917784 Pb £30.00 320p (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917821 Pb £24.00 Egypt at Its Origins 5 Proceedings of the Fifth International The Enlightenment Rediscovery Conference “Origin of the State. Predynastic of Egyptology and Early Dynastic Egypt”, Cairo, 13th–18th Vitaliano Donati’s Egyptian Expedition, 1759–62 April 2014 By Angela Scattolin Morecroft Edited by Beatrix Midant-Reynes, Yann Tristant & In 1759 Vitaliano Donati led an expedition to Egypt E. M. Ryan under the patronage of King Carlo Emanuele III of This volume, publishing the proceedings of the Sardinia. Charting his tumultuous expedition, this Fifth International Conference on Predynastic book reveals how, in spite of his untimely death in and Early Dynastic Egypt (Cairo, 2014), presents 1762, Donati managed to send enough items back to the results of the latest research and discoveries Turin to lay the foundations for one of the earliest in the field. The 39 articles are organised under and largest systematic collections of Egyptology in five major headings: Settlements and Domestic Europe. Activities; Mortuary Archaeology; Technology: 216p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781409447771 Hb Pottery and Lithic Production; Iconography and £115.00 Writing; Rock Art. 932p (Peeters Press 2018) 9789042934436 Hb £180.00

22 Labour organisation in Middle The Statues of Raneferef and the Royal Kingdom Egypt Sculpture of the Fifth Dynasty By Micol Di Teodoro By Verner Miroslav The study evaluates work Czech archaeological team organization in Middle discovered in the mortuary Kingdom Egypt (about 2000 temple of Raneferef in Abusir to 1559 BC). It uses written but in the 1980s fragments of also heavily archaeological about a dozen of the statues sources. of the king, including his 240p b/w illus (Golden six complete likenesses. House Publications 2018) The monograph presents 9781906137588 Pb £60.00 a detailed description and discussion of Raneferef’s Company of Images statues in the broader Modelling the Imaginary World of Middle context of the royal sculpture Kingdom Egypt of the Fifth Dynasty. Edited by Gianluca Miniaci, Maria Carmelo Betro & 259p, 107 (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2017) Stephen Quirke 9788073087456 Hb £120.00 This volume explores the fertile imaginary world of Mummies, Magic and Medicine Middle Bronze Age Egypt (2000-1500 BC). Images do not exist in their ontological isolation, as atomic in Ancient Egypt unity, but they form a complex agency network with Multidisciplinary Essays for Rosalie David other images and with the society that produced Edited by Campbell Price, Roger Forshaw, Andrew them, hence the title “Company of Images”. Chamberlain, Paul Nicholson & Robert Morkot Eighteen papers focus on this intricate web, tackling This volume presents the the topic from different perspectives: material latest research on three culture, archaeological finds, anthropological and of the most important social relations, iconographic representations, aspects of ancient Egyptian and analysis of the written sources, including civilisation: mummies, linguistic approaches. The final goal is to highlight magic and medical theoretical and methodological issues in order to practice. Drawing on recent explore connections between the images and their archaeological fieldwork, society, people who created images and who were new research on human recursively affected by the images they created. remains, reassessments of 526p (Peeters Press 2017) 9789012934955 Hb £115.00 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 CHOICE Saving the Pyramids Twenty First Century Engineering and Egypt’s Ancient Monuments By Peter James After 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. Only The decoding of historic construction from a builder’s perspective is examined and the book provides a new £11.25 until outlook on long-held assumptions, to embrace modern 31 October theories in a bid to preserve the past. 176p (University of Wales Press 2018) 9781786832504 Hb £12.99

Egypt 23 Death Is Only The Beginning Manual de Egipcio Medio Egyptian Funerary Customs at the Museum of (Segunda Edicion) Ancient Cultures Macquarie University By Carlos Gracia Zamacona Edited by Yann Tristant & Ellen M. Ryan A second revised and updated edition of Carlos The Museum of Ancient Cultures (MAC) is the Gracia Zamacona’s Manual de Egipcio Medio. The archaeological museum of Macquarie University. book is designed as a primer, written in Spanish, This is the first catalogue of the collection detailing to learn Middle Egyptian (2000-1500 BC). The 72 Ancient Egyptian artefacts associated with grammatical explanation is accompanied by a full funerary customs, from the Predynastic to the list of hieroglyphic signs (Gardiner’s Coptic period. Accompanying articles focus on plus recent refinements), basic aspects of Ancient Egyptian funerary culture. vocabulary, gradual exercises Only 318p (Australian Centre for Egyptology 2017) (with translation), and a short, £12.75 until 9780856688522 Pb £50.00 updated bibliography. 31 October Spanish text. 254p (Archaeopress The Bronze Figurines of the Petrie 2018) 9781784917616 Pb £14.99 Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400 By Elena Tiribilli From Single Sign to Pseudo-Script A Catalogue of bronze figures in the Petrie Museum An Ancient Egyptian System of Workmen’s of Egyptian Archaeology. The museum houses 510 Identity Marks statuettes or fragments of statuettes made of bronze. By Ben Haring Most of them represent Egyptian gods, but there are Some visual communication systems are very also Hellenistic and Roman figures. similar to writing, but work differently. Identity 368p b/w illus (Golden House Publications 2018) marks are typical examples of such systems, and 9781906137526 Pb £75.00 this book presents a particularly well-documented marking system used in Pharaonic Egypt as an The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt exemplary case. From Single Sign to Pseudo-Script Voices, Images, and Objects of Material is the first book to fully discuss the nature and Producers 2000–1550 BC development of an ancient marking system, its Edited by Gianluca Miniaci, Juan Carlos Moreno historical background, and the fascinating story of Garcìa, Stephen Quirke & Andréas Stauder its decipherment. The studies in this volume 300p (Brill 2018) 9789004357532 Hb £172.00 address the mechanisms of The Craft of a Good Scribe production in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, the circulation History, Narrative and Meaning in the First Tale of ideas among craftsmen, of Setne Khaemwas and the profiles of the By Steve Vinson people involved, based on In The Craft of a Good Scribe, Steve Vinson offers a the material traces, including comprehensive study of the Demotic Egyptian First depictions and writings, the Tale of Setne Khaemwas (Third Century BCE), the ancient craftsmen themselves first to appear since 1900. Vinson provides anew left and produced. textual edition and commentary, and explores the 275p, b/w and col illus tale’s cultural background, its modern reception, and (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905230 Pb £45.00 approaches to its interpretation as a work of literature. 550p (Brill 2018) 9789004353091 Hb £143.00 The Coffins of the Priests of Amun Egyptian coffins from the 21st Dynasty in Exorcism, Illness and Demons in the collection of the National Museum of an Ancient Near Eastern Context Antiquities in Leiden The Egyptian Magical Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 Edited by Lara Weiss By Susanne Beck This edited volume focusses on the lavishly Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 is one of the most decorated coffins of the Priests of Amon that are extraordinary manuscripts providing a deeper currently in the collection of the Dutch National insight into magic and medicine in Ancient Egypt. Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. Six chapters The main part of the papyrus deals with the ancient present the history of the Priests of Amon, the Near Eastern disease demon Sāmānu, who is well production of their coffins and use-life of the coffins known from Sumerian and Akkadian incantations from Ancient Egypt until modern times. and medical texts. This re-edition of papyrus Leiden 150p col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088904929 Pb I 343 + 345 is a revised transliteration, transcription, £35.00 translation and up-to-date commentary. 175p b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905391 Pb £40.00 24 Egypt Forthcoming from Oxbow Books From Microcosm to Macrocosm Individual Households and Cities in Ancient Egyptian Coffins Ancient Egypt and Nubia Past – Present – Future By Julia Budka & Johannes Auenmüller Edited by Julie Dawson & Helen Strudwick The combination of research This collection of papers questions on the micro- by leading international level with the macro-level experts on the subject of provides new information ancient Egyptian coffins, about cities and households builds on a project based at in Ancient Egypt and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Nubia and makes this Cambridge, to study book unique. Architectural and record in detail its studies as well as analyses collection. Papers address of material culture and a series of topics including: the new application of the development of coffins microarchaeology, here in antiquity, including especially of micromorphology and archaeometric iconographic and text-based studies; the post- applications, are presented as case studies from antiquity history of coffins, including their acquisition sites primarily dating to the New Kingdom (Second and subsequent treatment in museums around Millennium BC). the world; developments in technical examination 360p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) and methods of studying coffins, especially the use 9789088905995 Hb £195.00, 9789088905988 Pb £65.00, of multispectral imaging to provide non-invasive NYP analysis of materials; and increasing evidence of the re-use of materials Thebes in the First Millennium BC and complete re-working of Only Art and Archaeology of the Kushite Period coffins for new owners. £52.50 until and Beyond 288p, b/w and col publication Edited by Julia Budka, Elena Pischikova & Kenneth (Oxbow Books 2018) Griffin 9781785709180 Hb £70.00 This volume is a collection of articles, most of which Ptolemy I Soter are based on the talks given at the conference of the A Self-Made Man same name in Luxor in 2016. It brings together a substantial number of current studies on royal and Edited by Timothy Howe elite monuments of the First Millennium BC , puts As the founder of the longest- them into a wider context, and fills some gaps in lasting of all the Hellenistic Egyptological scholarship. kingdoms, not only was 380p b/w illus (Golden House Publications 2018) Ptolemy I an able soldier and 9781906137595 Pb £75.00, NYP ruler, he was also an historian and, in Egyptian eyes, a living Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Near god. His own inclination Eastern Palaces Volume I and experience facilitated Edited by Manfred Bietak & Silvia Prell continuous acts of self- creation in a variety of forms, This collection of studies whether literary, dynastic, on palaces in Ancient Egypt artistic, or political. In the investigates architectural pages of his own history, Ptolemy constructed a self- and functional variations portrait characterized by military courage and deep and seeks to recognise friendship with Alexander. As ruler of the Egyptian canonical building kingdom, Ptolemy experienced an elevated model schemes. In addition, the of kingship very different from the Macedonian one: understanding of Ancient he consciously embraced the divinity of the Pharaoh. Egyptian palaces is amplified The chapters in this book, written by field experts with specialist studies in numismatics, gender, warfare, historiography, regarding architectural and Egyptology and religion, examine the administrative terminology. many ways in which Alexander the The combined evidence shows that there was Great’s most successful Successor Only indeed a variability in function, in architecture and in the physical situation of palaces in Ancient Egypt. consciously made his own legacy. £31.50 until 309p b/w and col illus (Verlag der Osterreichischen 190p (Oxbow Books publication 2018) 9781789250428 Hb Akademie der Wissenschaften 2018) 9783700179542 Hb £42.00 £102.00

Egypt 25 Imaging and Imagining the Memphite JJP Supplement 31 (2017) Journal Necropolis of Juristic Papyrology Liber Amicorum René van Walsem ΟΙΝΟΣ: Production and Import of Wine Edited by V. Verschoor, A. J. Stuart & C. Demarée in Graeco-Roman Egypt The contributions are divided into five themes: By Dorota Dzierzbicka Material Culture – Finds at the Necropolis, relating The aim of this book is to amongst others to the (Anglo-)Dutch excavations investigate the role of local of the New Kingdom tombs of Horemheb, Maya & and imported wines on the Merit, Meryneith, and others, at Saqqara; Epigraphy Egyptian market during the – Texts and History, highlighting some surprising Graeco-Roman period. It textual material connected to Saqqara; Theoretics – seeks to establish where and Religion and Theory of Egyptology, dealing with the how wine was manufactured, material culture of ancient Egypt; Mastabas – Scenes what was the social base of Daily Life, revolving around the interpretation of for this industry and what iconographic programmes; Funerary Equipment – kinds of wine were locally Coffins and Stolas. produced, as well as what 339p (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042935648 Pb £70.00 patterns of distribution wine followed after it left the winery. It also seeks Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2015 to trace the supply-and-demand mechanisms Edited by Miroslav Bárta, Filip Coppens & Jaromír Krejčí and channels of distribution of the country’s The present volume, containing 43 contributions foreign wine market, and to view Egypt in a wider by 53 scholars, is the result of the fourth “Abusir perspective of Mediterranean trade routes. and Saqqara” conference held in June 2015. 527p (Journal of Juristic Papyrology 2018) 9788394684815 Recurring topics of the studies include a focus on Hb £52.00 archaeology, the theory of artefacts, iconographic and art historian studies, and the research of largely The Archive of the Architektones Kleon unpublished archival materials. An overwhelming and Theodoros number of contributions (31) are dedicated to By B. Van Beek various aspects of Old Kingdom archaeology This book contains an edition of texts from the and most present specific aspects linked with archive of Kleon and Theodoros, the engineers archaeological excavations, both past and present. who were responsible for the upkeep of the large 696p, b/w illus (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2018) scale irrigation system in the Fayum during the 9788073087586 Hb £168.00 reigns of Ptolemy II and III between 260 and 237 BC. The Cemetery of Meir Volume IV The edition contains the texts with translation and commentary of 124 Greek papyri, of which 37 are The Tombs of Senbi l and Wekhhotep l published here for the first time; for the others there By Naguib Kanawati & Linda Evans are numerous new readings and interpretations. This volume is devoted to the Middle Kingdom 324p, (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042935006 Hb £105.00 tombs of B1 and B2, which belonged to local ruler Senbi I and his son and successor Wekhhotep I. The Birdcage of the Muses It Presents a full description of both tombs and By Rolf Strootman contains a wealth of information about the art and The Birdcage of the Musesis the first book-length funeral practices of Egypt’s Twelfth Dynasty. historical study of the golden age of Ptolemaic 151p, 72 col pls; 24 b&w folded pls (Australian Centre for cultural and scientific patronage. Working from Egyptology 2018) 9788566888478 Pb £75.00 new approaches to premodern imperialism, Theological Defences of the Canopic Rolf Strootman reconsiders the significance of Hellenistic court poetry from the perspective of Gate in the Saïte Period current empire studies and the sociological study By Anne-Sophie von Bomhard of the court, arguing that artistic, scholarly and This work explores the theological defences scientific production contributed to processes of elite conceived by the Egyptians at Thonis-Heracleion integration in the heterogeneous imperial world to guard the Canopic gate, which in the Saïte system controlled by the Ptolemies. Rejecting the period was the main entrance to the port of Thonis- modernist view that poets, scholars and technicians Heracleion, the entry-point to Egypt for foreign were autonomous outsiders to court society, the vessels. The divine forces, including Khonsu-Thoth author is able to place these men in the social and Neith, were deployed alongside military forces milieu of the court, showing how their professional that were also located at the Canopic gate. This behavior was ruled by the same mechanisms study brings together a range of material evidence of gift exchange, etiquette and competition that for these theological defences. determined court society as a whole. 200p, 103 (Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology 196p, (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042933507 Pb £85.00 2018) 9781905905409 Hb £45.00 26 Egypt Near East Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archeology of the Levant and Beyond Understanding Relations Between Scripts II Edited by Yoshihiro Nishiaki & Takeru Akazawa This volume compiles the latest research Early Alphabets investigating the issues surrounding the Edited by Philippa M. Steele & Philip J. Boyes replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans. Understanding Relations The 13 chapters highlight the distinct nature of Between Scripts II: Early the cultural occurrences during the Middle and Alphabets brings together Upper Paleolithic periods of the Levant, displaying ten experts on ancient a continuous development as well as a combination writing, languages and of lithic traditions that may have originated in archaeology to present a set different regions. of diverse studies on the early 218p, b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2018) development of alphabetic 9789811068256 Hb £96.50 writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Signs from Silence Mediterranean during the Ur of the First Sumerians second and first millennia By Petr Charvat BC. By taking an interdisciplinary The Royal Tombs of Ur, dating from approximately perspective, it sheds new light on 3000-2700 BCE, are among the most famous alphabetic writing not just as a Only and impressive archaeological discoveries of the tool for recording language but £37.50 until twentieth century. Based on primary research with also as an element of culture. publication the Ur materials at the University of Pennsylvania 272p, (Oxbow Books Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, and 2018) 9781789250923 Hb paying particular attention to the iconography £50.00 found in what Woolley referred to as the “Seal Impression Strata of Ur,” this book works to Relentlessly Plain reconstruct the early history of Sumer, its social Seventh Millennium Ceramics at Tell Sabi structures and institutions of authority. Abyad, Syria 350p (Karolinum Press 2018) 9788024631301 Pb £30.00 Edited by Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse The prehistoric site of Bronze Age Bureaucracy Tell Sabi Abyad lies in the Writing and the Practice of Government valley of the Balikh River, a in Assyria tributary of the Euphrates in By Nicholas Postgate northern Syria. Between 2001 This book describes ten different government and 2008 excavations focused archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using on the north-western, them to analyze the social and economic character western and southwestern of the Middle Assyrian state, as well as the roles slopes of the main mound and practices of writing. It concentrates particularly (Operations III, IV and V). on how the Assyrian use of written documentation Relentlessly Plain presents affected the nature and ethos of government, and the results of detailed compares this to contemporary practices in other investigations into the 7th millennium BC ceramic palatial administrations at Nuzi, Alalah, Ugarit, and assemblages recovered from those excavations by an in Greece. interdisciplinary group of scholars. Supported by a 496p, (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9781107043756 Hb strong program of radiocarbon dating, extensive £67.00, 9781107619029 Pb £22.99 excavations have revealed a lengthy, continuous sequence of prehistoric occupation from the start A History of Babylon, 2200 BC – 75 AD of the Late Neolithic into the Early Halaf period. By Paul-Alain Beaulieu Pottery changed dramatically in the course of this Written by an expert in the field, this book presents a long trajectory. Initially ceramic containers were narrative history of Babylon from the time of its First visually conspicuous, occasionally Dynasty (1880–1595) until the last centuries of the decorated, but masses of city’s existence during the Hellenistic and Parthian relentlessly plain pottery Only periods (ca. 331–75 AD). Organized chronologically, characterize subsequent stages. £45.00 until it places the various socio–economic and cultural 384p, b/w and colour publication developments and institutions in their historical (Oxbow Books 2018) context. 9781789250848 Hb £60.00 288p (Wiley-Blackwell 2018) 9781405188982 Pb £27.99 27 The Elamite World Envisioning the Past Through Memories Edited by Javier Alvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello & How Memory Shaped Ancient Near Eastern Yasmina Wicks Societies The Elamite World assembles a group of forty Edited by Davide Nadali international scholars to contribute their expertise The chapters of this volume analyse the value and to the production of a solid, lavishly illustrated, function of memory within the ancient Near Eastern English language treatment of Elamite civilization, and Egyptian societies, combining archaeological, covering topics such as its physical setting, historical textual and iconographical evidence following a development, languages and people, material progression from the analysis of the creation and culture, art, science, religion and society. Also preservation of both single and multiple memories, treated are the legacy of Elam in the Persian empire to the material culture (things and objects) that shed and its presence in the modern world. light on the impact of memory on individuals and 928p, (Routledge 2018) 9781138999893 Hb £175.00 community. 200p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb2018) Textiles in the Neo-assyrian Empire 9781474223966 Hb £90.00, 9781350060593 Pb £28.99 A Study on Textile Terminology in Assyrian Texts By Salvatore Gaspa Ziyaret Tepe This book brings together our present-day Exploring the Anatolian frontier of knowledge about textile terminology in the the Assyrian Empire Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC. The By Timothy Matney, John MacGinnis, Dirk Wicke & book analyses the terms for raw materials, textile Kemalettin Koroglu procedures, and textile end products consumed Ziyaret Tepe, the ancient city of Tuhan, was a in first-millennium BC Assyria. In addition, a new provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire. The edition of a number of written records from Neo- excavations captured in this richly illustrated Assyrian administrative archives completes the book uncovered the palace of the governor, the work. mansions of the elite and the barracks of the rank 300p (Walter de Gruyter 2018) 9781501510748 Hb and file, charting the history of the empire from £119.95 its expansion in the early 9th century BC to its fall three centuries later. Danish Archaeological Investigations 232p, col pls (Cornucopia 2017) 9780956594891 Pb £16.95 in Qatar 1956–1974 Edited by Flemming Højlund Assembling Catalhoyuk The first archaeological surveys and excavations in Edited by Ian Hodder & Arkadiusz Marciniak the state of Qatar were carried out by Moesgaard This volume reports on the exciting new Museum, Denmark, in 1956-1974. A volume on the discoveries and advances that are being made in Stone Age sites was released by JAS in 1967, and the understanding of the 9000 year-old Neolithic the present publication includes the remaining site of Catalhoyuk. It also reports on methodological investigations. Of special interest are several graves advances that have been made by team members, with iron swords and arrows and camels and a including the development of reflexive methods, contemporary settlement with pottery showing paperless recording on site, the integrated use of 3D close relations to Bahrain and the eastern province visualization, and interactive archives. of Saudi Arabia. 202p (Routledge 2015, Pb 2017) 9781910526002 £57.99, 196p (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788793423091 Hb £35.00 9780815372424 Pb £36.99 Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World Place, Memory, and Healing Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments the Aegean, and South Asia By Omur Harmansah Edited by Sarah Scott, Sarah Costello, Marta Ameri & Focusing on Anatolian rock monuments carved Gregg Jamison into the living rock at watery landscapes during Using several methodological and theoretical the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, this book perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date develops an archaeology of place as a theory of research on seals that is comparative in scope and cultural landscapes and as an engaged methodology focus. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary of fieldwork in order to excavate the genealogies approach advances our understanding of the of places. The monuments are discussed in the significance of an important class of material historical and micro-regional context of their culture of the ancient world. making, while the book also investigates how such 527p b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2018) rock-cut places, springs, and caves are associated 9781107194588 Hb £125.00 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 28 Near East Revolutionizing a World The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes From Small States to Universalism in A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient the Pre-Islamic Near East Near East and Mediterranean World By Mark Altaweel & Andrea Squitieri Edited by Bleda S. During & Tesse D. Stek This book argues that the persistence of large states The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines and empires starting in the eighth/seventh centuries the transformation of rural landscapes and societies BCE, which continued for many centuries, led that formed the backbone of ancient empires in to new socio-political structures and institutions the Near East and Mediterranean. By highlighting emerging in the Near East. These patterns of social the processes that occur in rural and peripheral developments are analysed under different aspects: landscapes, the volume demonstrates that the settlement patterns, urban structure, material archaeology of these non-urban and literally eccentric culture, trade, governance, language spheres can provide an important contribution to our spread and religion, all pointing at understanding of ancient empires. The ‘bottom up’ movement as the main catalyst Only approach to the study of ancient empires is crucial to for social change. £21.25 until understanding how these remarkable socio-political 334p, b/w illus (UCL Press 2018) 31 October organisms could exist and persist. 9781911576648 Pb £25.00 410p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107189706 Hb £90.00 The Iranian Expanse Transforming Royal Identity Through Persian Art Architecture, Landscape and the Built Image-Making in Eurasia Environment, 650 BCE – 642 CE By Yuka Kadoi By Matthew Canepa In this illustrated book, nine contributors explore The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in the multifaceted aspects of art, architecture and ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural material culture of the Persian cultural realm. environment—everything from royal cities and Each chapter examines the historical, religious paradise gardens, to hunting enclosures and fire or scientific role of visual culture in the shaping, temples—to form and contest Iranian cultural influencing and transforming of distinctive ‘Persian’ memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies aesthetics across the various over a thousand years of history. Canepa shows historical periods, ranging from how the Seleucids, Arsacids, and Sasanians played pre-Islamic, medieval and early Only a transformative role in developing a new Iranian modern Islamic to modern £72.75 until royal culture that deeply influenced not only early times. 31 October Islam, but also the wider Persianate world of the Il- 208p, b/w and col illus (Edinburgh Khans, Safavids, Timurids, and Mughals. UP 2017) 9781474411158 Hb £85.00 505p, b/w illus (University of California Press 2018) 9780520290037 Hb £74.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Troy Myth, City, Icon By Naoise Mac Sweeney From 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 Only beyond. The modern day cultural significance of the Trojan £17.00 until 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 31 October – as a brand for consumer goods, and as a metaphor for contemporary conflicts. 224p, 30 bw illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781472529374 Pb £19.99

Near East 29 Arsacids and Sasanians Tracing Technoscapes Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and The Production of Bronze Age Wall Paintings Late Antique Persia in the Eastern Mediterranean By M. Rahim Shayegan Edited by Johannes Becker, Johannes Jungfleisch & This book undertakes a thorough investigation Constance von Rüden of the diverse range of written, numismatic, and This volume provides archaeological sources in order to reassess Sasanian insights into the various political ideology and its sources and influences. It technical approaches sheds fresh light on the political complexities of and underlying bodies of early Arsacid and Sasanian history, especially the knowledge in the different situation in Babylon and Elymais, and on Roman wall painting traditions of attitudes towards Sasanian Persia. the Eastern Mediterranean 569p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2018) and throws light on the 9780521766418 Hb £97.99, 9781108456616 Pb £29.99 manner and extent of their possible interwovenness. Semiramis’ Legacy 230p, b/w and col illus The History of Persia According to Diodorus (Sidestone Press 2018) of Sicily 9789088906886 Hb £135.00, 9789088906879 Pb £45.00, By Jan Stronk NYP In this book Jan Stronk provides the first complete Tel Anafa II, iii translation of Diodorus’ account of the history of Persia. He also examines and evaluates both Edited by Andrea M. Berlin & Sharon C. Herbert Diodorus’ account and the sources he used to This book is the last volume of final reports on compose his work, taking into consideration the the excavations at Tel Anafa by the University of historical, political and archaeological Missouri and the University of Michigan between factors that may have played a 1968 and 1986. It includes studies of several categories of finds from the excavations: pottery of role in the transmission of the Only evidence he used. the Bronze and Iron Ages, imported Attic pottery, £25.50 until 606p (Edinburgh UP 2017, Pb medieval pottery, jewellery, equipment related to 2018) 9781474432559 Pb £29.99 31 October textile manufacture, figurines, and the stucco wall decoration that inspired the name of the site’s main Plutarch and the Persica structure: the Late Hellenistic Stuccoed Building. By Eran Almagor 366P b/w illus (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 2018) This book addresses two historical mysteries. The 9780990662389 Hb £74.00 first is the content and character of the fourth century Baal and the Politics of Poetry BCE Greek works on the Persian Achaemenid Empire treatises called the Persica. The second By Aaron Tugendhaft is the method of work of the second century CE This study provides a thoroughly new interpretation biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle within the political (CE 45-120) who used these works context of its production. The book argues that to compose his biographies, in Only the poem, written in the last decades of the Bronze particular the Life of the Persian £68.00 until Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses the depiction of a divine king Artaxerxes. 31 October 344p (Edinburgh UP 2018) world to educate its audience about the nature of 9780748645558 Hb £80.00 human politics. 166p (Routledge 2017) 9781138063624 Hb £105.00 Dolmens in the Levant By James A. Fraser Pessinus and Its Regional Setting, This volume shows that dolmens in the Levant Volume 1 mostly concentrate in the eastern escarpment of Edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze the Jordan Rift Valley, and in the Galilean hills. This is the first of two volumes presenting the results They cluster near proto-urban settlements of the of the Melbourne archaeological project at Pessinus Early Bronze I period (3700-3000 BCE) in particular in Central Anatolia. The opening chapters discuss geological zones suitable for the extraction of the historical background, including the cult of megalithic slabs. Rather than approaching dolmens Cybele and the role of Midas. Three others examine as a regional phenomenon, it thus considers two Anatolian archaeological sites (Dorylaion dolmens as part of a local burial tradition whose and Zey) that have yielded comparative material tomb forms varied depending on geological and thus clarified the picture we have of Pessinus. constraints. Further chapters focus on Pessinus itself. 374p b/w and col illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138551855 610p (Peeters Press 2018) 9789042935082 Hb £125.00 Hb £105.00 30 Near East The Oxford Handbook of the Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Archaeology of the Levant c. 8000-332 BCE Figurine Makers of Prehistoric Cyprus: Settlement and Cemeteries at Souskiou Edited by Margreet L. Steiner & Ann E. Killebrew Unique in its treatment of Edited by Edgar Peltenburg, Diane Bolger & Lindy the entire region, this volume Crewe offers a comprehensive The excavations of the overview and analysis settlement and cemetery at of the current state of the Souskiou Laona reported archaeology of the Levant on in this volume paint a within its larger cultural, very different picture of life historical, and socio- on the island during the late economic contexts. The 4th and early 3rd millennia Handbook also attempts to BC. Burial practices at other bridge the modern scholarly known sites are generally and political divide between single inhumations in archaeologists working in this highly contested intramural pit graves, region. It focuses chronologically on the Neolithic only rarely equipped with through Persian periods – a time span during artefacts. At Souskiou, multiple inhumations which the Levant was often in close contact with were interred in deep rock-cut tombs clustered in the imperial powers of Egypt, Anatolia, Assyria, extra-mural cemeteries. Although the sites were Babylon, and Persia. also subjected to extensive looting, excavations 912p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9780199212972 have revealed complex multi-stage burial Hb £110.00, 9780198822561 Pb £35.00 practices with arrangements of disarticulated and articulated burials accompanied by a rich variety Colegio del Pilar of grave goods. This unusual treatment of the Excavations in Jerusalem, Christian Quarter dead, which has not been recorded elsewhere in Cyprus, shifts the focus from the individual to the Edited by C. Clamer, K. Prag & Jean-Baptiste Humbert communal, and provides evidence The present publication offers the results of a for significant changes involving rare archaeological investigation in the Christian kinship group links to common Only Quarter. A stratigraphic survey showed Ayyubid ancestors. £36.00 until (XII-XIIIth centuries) occupation on bedrock. 288p (Oxbow Books publication Structural remains of the Mamluk period reflected 2018) 9781789250190 Hb the growth of the city in the XIV-XVth centuries, and £48.00 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 Agia Varvara-Almyras the cesspit have provided important information on An Iron Age Copper Smelting Site in Cyprus the health of the population at the time. Edited by Christina Peege, Philippe Della Casa & 172p (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042934559 Hb £85.00 Walter Fasnacht Il Complesso Monumentale di The Iron Age copper smelting site situated near Baitokaike (Hoson Sulaiman – Siria) the Cypriot village Agia Varvara is of particular importance among the ancient copper processing By Tarek Ahmad places in the Near East because it has revealed The architecture of the temple at Baitokaike shares spatial as well as technological aspects of copper the characteristics that are typical of the Phoenician production in a hitherto rarely-seen depth of detail. region especially during the imperial era. Baitokaike This volume presents the results of a comprehensive corresponds to that Phoenician tradition, but our post-excavation analysis of the stratigraphy, also knowledge about the foundation of these shrines of the geology, metallurgical materials (furnaces, and their development is still limited. This study tuyeres), finds (pottery, furnace aims to deepen this topic, while proposing new lining, stone tools), as well as a chronological phases of the site, synthesis of the copper smelting Only starting from the time when it technology at Agia Varvara- £41.00 until was an open cult place, through Only Almyras. the architectural analysis of its 31 October £22.25 until 314p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress buildings. 2018) 9781784918156 Pb £48.00 124p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 31 October 2018) 9781784917746 Pb £26.00

Near East 31 In the Footsteps of King David Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman Revelations from an Ancient Biblical City World By Yosef Garfinkel & Saar Ganor By Nathanael J. Andrade In this first-hand and This book demonstrates how highly readable account, the organization of Greek the excavators of Khirbet communities and a peer polity Qeiyafa in the Valley of Elah network extending citizenship reveal how seven years of to ethnic Syrians generated exhaustive investigation have new semiotic frameworks for uncovered a city dating to the performance of Greekness the time of David – the late and Syrianness in Roman 11th and early 10th century Imperial Syria. It posits that bc – surrounded by massive Greekness and Syrianness fortifications with impressive were constantly shifting and gates, a clear urban plan and transforming categories, and an abundance of finds. They it critiques many assumptions explain the significance of these discoveries and that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive how they shed new light on David’s kingdom, of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and as well as discussing the link between the Bible, culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of archaeology and history. ‘hybridity’ or similar concepts. 256p b/w and col illus (Thames and Hudson 2018) 442p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9780500052013 Hb £24.95 9781107012059 Hb £76.00, 9781108456531 Pb £22.99 Aegean and Mediterranean Prehistory Daidalos at Work Travellers in Time A Phenomenological Approach to the Study Imagining Movement in the Ancient of Minoan Architecture Aegean World By Clairy Palyvou By Saro Wallace In this book, architecture is the protagonist and Travellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which phenomoneology the basic tool of thought. It the earliest Mediterranean civilizations were addresses archaeologists, architectural historians, affected by population movement. It critiques and architects alike, in the hope that it will prove both traditional culture-history-grounded notions useful to those interested in understanding the of movement in the region as straightforwardly Minoan world through its architecture as much as transformative, and the processual, systemic models those interested in exploring architecture through that have more recently replaced this view, arguing the Minoan paradigm. that newer scholarship too often pays limited 260p, b/w illus(INSTAP Academic Press 2018) attention to the specific encounters, experiences and 9781931534949 Pb £34.00, NYP agents involved in travel. 570p, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138088481 Hb The Knossos Tablets £105.00 By José L. Melena & Richard J. Firth The sixth edition of The Knossos Tablets brings Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze for now to completion nearly 120 years of the study Age Eastern Mediterranean of the texts of the Linear B inscriptions from the By A. Bernard Knapp preeminent Cretan palatial site of the late Minoan A wide-ranging study of Bronze Age seafaring Bronze Age. José L. Melena, with assistance on and seafarers in the eastern Mediterranean, from find-spots from Richard Firth and a check of the Anatolia in the north to Egypt in the south and west accuracy of each and every text by an editorial to Cyprus. It devotes significant attention to social team of the Program in Aegean Scripts and factors, including: mobility, connectivity, the length Prehistory, offers here definitive readings of these and purpose as well as the risk of the journey, the archaeologically, linguistically and historically knowledge and experience of navigation and travel, important records. ‘working’ the sea, the impact of distance and access 696p (INSTAP Academic Press 2018) to the exotic upon peoples’ identities and ideologies. 9781931534963 Hb £55.00, NYP 285p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905551 Hb £120.00, 9789088905544 Pb £40.00, NYP 32 Chalasmenos I NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement. House A.2 From the Foundations to the Legacy By Melissa Eaby of Minoan Archaeology This is the first volume on the Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Chalasmenos, located near Studies in Honour of Professor Keith Ierapetra in eastern Crete. House A.2 is a two-room Branigan structure on the southwestern edge of the site. The Edited by Maria Relaki & Yiannis Papadatos excavation and stratigraphy, architecture, pottery, Evaluating the general small finds, and faunal material from the building frameworks within which are presented. The house was used for domestic Minoan archaeology purposes, serving as the home of an elite (or operates, scholars prospective elite) family, but it also was a meeting assess the usefulness of and dining place on certain occasions. chronological horizons in 206p, b/w illus (INSTAP Academic Press understanding continuity 2018) 9781931534956 Hb £55.00, NYP and change and providing a critical framework for The Early Iron Age the diachronic analysis The Cemeteries of culture, the degree By John K. Papadopoulos & Evelyn Lord Smithson to which the study of settlement patterns can reveal structural continuity This volume, the first of two dealing with the through time and the political reach of territorial Early Iron Age deposits from the Athenian Agora, states. The largest portion of discussion is devoted publishes the tombs from the end of the Bronze Age to mortuary practices. Some contributors focus through the transition from the Middle Geometric on reassessing the significance of micro-patterns to Late Geometric period. An introduction deals in the articulation of mortuary behaviour, while with the layout of the four cemeteries of the period, others emphasize broader temporal and spatial the topographical ramifications, periodization, and processes that affect practices of ostentatious a synthesis of Athens in the Early Iron Age. display in burial, all being unified under the 1120p b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at overarching perspective provided by recent Athens 2017) 9780876612361 Hb £95.00 osteoarchaeological studies which throw critical Material Koinai in the Greek Early light on mortuary ritual and the constitution of the social units using the cemeteries. Iron Age and Archaic Period 320p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) Edited by Søren Handberg & Anastasia Gadolou 9781785709265 Pb £38.00 Koine’ was used to describe the new common language dialect that became widespread in the Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the ancient Greek world after the conquests of Alexander Mani, Greece the Great. Modern scholars have increasingly used Edited by Anastasia Papathanasiou, William A. the word to conceptualise regional homogeneities in Parkinson, Daniel J. Pullen, Michael L. Galaty & the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. Panagiotis Karkanas In this volume, 20 scholars from various disciplines As a sealed, single- present case studies that focus on the fundamental component, archaeological question of the social and cultural mechanisms site, the Neolithic that led to the spread and consumption of material settlement complex of culture in the Greek early Iron Age. Alepotrypa Cave is one of 362p (Aarhus UP 2018) 9788771843286 Hb £40.00 the richest sites in Greece Rhadamanthys and Europe in terms of number of artefacts, Edited by Giorgia Baldacci & Ilaria Caloi preservation of biological This book gathers together 33 original papers, materials, volume of in Italian and in English, which bring a variety undisturbed deposits, and of approaches and perspectives to the Minoan horizontal exposure of archaeology of Crete, including also the Neolithic archaeological surfaces of past human activity. The period and the beginning of the Early Iron Age. goal of this edited volume is to offer a full scholarly Topics include architecture, iconography, pottery interdisciplinary study and interpretation of the production, landscape and territory, absolute and results of approximately 40 years of excavation relative chronology, scripts, cultural relations, and analysis in one book. and funerary practices. Many contributions focus 488p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) on Phaistos, seat of the legendary kingdom of 9781785706486 Hb £70.00 Rhadamanthys, and Haghia Triada. 328p (BAR S2884, 2018) 9781407315331 Pb £56.00

Aegean and Mediterranean Prehistory 33 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Hesperos The Aegean Seen from the West Crafting Minoanisation Edited by A. Vlachopoulos, Y. Lolos, Robert Laffineur & Textiles, Crafts Production and Social Dynamics M. Fotiadis in the Bronze Age southern Aegean Topics include: the nature of Mycenaean presence By Joanne Cutler in Iberia; the spread of the early technology of The mid second millennium bronze across the Mediterranean; the expansion of BC material record of the phenomena connected with the Cetina “culture”; southern Aegean shows the local productions and the Mediterranean trade evidence of strong Cretan network of goods, such as the industry of amber, influence. This phenomenon glass and murex; the nature of Mycenaean imports has traditionally been seen in Italy, the spread of matt-painted pottery in the in terms of ‘Minoanisation’, SW Balkans and the degree of “Mycenaeanization” but the nature and degree of Epirus. of Cretan influence, and the 558p, b/w illus (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042935624 Hb process/processes by which it £146.00 was spread and adopted, have been widely debated. This Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean new study addresses the question of ‘Minoanisation’ World through a study of the adoption of Cretan technologies By Thomas F. Tartaron in the wider southern Aegean: principally, weaving technology. By examining how technological skills By all accounts a seafaring and techniques are learned and considering possible people, the Mycenaeans mechanisms for the transmission of such technical enjoyed maritime knowledge and know-how, new perspectives connections with peoples as can be proposed concerning the distant as Egypt and Sicily. processes through which Cretan Dr Tartaron, however, argues that local maritime networks, techniques were taken up and Only imitated abroad. in the form of ‘coastscapes’ £36.00 until and ‘small worlds’, are far 544p (Oxbow Books publication more representative of the 2018) 9781785709661 Hb true fabric of Mycenaean £48.00 life. He offers a complete Collapse or Survival template of conceptual and Micro-dynamics of Crisis, Change and Socio- methodological tools for recovering small worlds political Endurance in the Late Prehistoric and and the communities that inhabited them. Early Roman Central Mediterranean 360p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9781107002982 Hb £86.00, 9781108431361 Pb £25.99 Edited by Elisa Perego, Rafael Scopacasa & Silvia Amicone Cycladic Archaeology and Research Collapse or Survival explores New Approaches and Discoveries localised phenomena Edited by Erica Angliker & John Tully of crisis, unrest and survival in the ancient These papers showcase Mediterranean, with a focus recent research in Cycladic on the first millennium BC. archaeology. They cover Contributors provide novel archaeological sites and definitions of ‘collapse’ and materials from across reconsider notions of crisis the Cycladic islands, and and social change by taking illustrate the diversity of a broader perspective that the islands’ material culture is not necessarily centred across the Geometric, on élites. Individual chapters analyse how both Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, high-status and non-élite social agents responded Roman, and Late Antique to socio-political rupture, unrest, depopulation, periods. 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The first one, which took interdisciplinary articles on themes from place around year 6000 BC, was a transformation underwater archaeology to history, archaeometry of subsistence strategy, transition from hunting and art history, and chronologically, and gathering to farming. The second one was a the subjects of these articles range social transformation that played out in the third from the Bronze Age to the 20th Only millennium BC, when for the first time the power century. of individuals was clearly expressed by material £37.50 until 198p, b/w and col illus culture. The third episode coincided (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918514 31 October with the end of prehistory in the Pb £44.00 Adriatic region. 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The conference focused the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to on figural themes, and to the iconographical and the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome’s iconological problems of paintings considered imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range in relation to their specific contexts. Many of ancient sources and the latest social theory, contributions zoom in on the rationale behind the Manning suggests that a search for an illusory use of specific motifs in wall paintings, the syntax single “ancient economy” has obscured the diversity of decorative systems in particular contexts, as well of lived experience in the Mediterranean world, as specific fashions in the use of figural themes in including both changes in political economies determined areas or sites in the ancient world. over time and differences in cultural conceptions 542p (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042935297 Pb £130.00 of property and money. 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35 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Touch and the Ancient Senses The Ancient Art of Transformation Edited by Alex Purves The essays in this volume explore the ways in Case Studies from Mediterranean Contexts which touch plays a defining role in ancient Edited by Renée M. Gondek & Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver science, art, philosophy, and medicine, and The Ancient Art of shaped understanding of topics ranging from Transformation examines aesthetics and poetics to various religious and the visual manifestation of ritual practices. It reveals touch to be a complex and human transformation in the fascinating indicator of the body’s relation to object, ancient and early medieval environment, and self. Mediterranean world, 230p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781844658718 Hb exploring the role of art and £110.00, 9781844658725 Pb £23.99 visual culture in enabling, hindering, or documenting Naturvorstellungen im Altertum physical, spiritual, personal, Schilderungen und Darstellungen von Natur im and social transitions such Alten Orient und in der Klassischen Antike as pregnancy and birth, Edited by Florian Schimpf, Dominik Berrens, initiations, marriage, death and funerals. The Katharina Hillenbrand, Tim Brandes & Carrie Schidlo definition of “transformation” is also expanded This volume aims at identifying concepts of nature in to address instances of less personal and more texts as well as in archaeological remains of Ancient widespread transitions such as shifts in political Near Eastern and Greek culture from the Archaic establishments and changes in cultural identity in to the Hellenistic period. Contributions from the geographic locations. Additionally, although the fields of archaeology and philology are juxtaposed ancient material record documents certain rites of for each time period in chronological passage such as marriage and death order. This arrangement provides extensively, artefacts and their a good overview of the concepts accompanying images are often Only Only of nature prevailing throughout studied simply to reconstruct £27.50 until £28.50 until different period and cultures. these social processes. 31 October publication German text. 262p, b/w illus 240p, b/w and colour (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918255 (Oxbow Books 2019) Pb £32.00 9781789251043 Pb £38.00 Motherhood and Infancies in the Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice Mediterranean in Antiquity Ancient Victims, Modern Observers Edited by Christopher A. Faraone & F. S. Naiden Edited by Margarita Sánchez Romero & Rosa Cid López The interpretation of animal sacrifice has long This volume explores been dominated by the views of Walter Burkert, various images of maternity J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne. No penetrating and infancy, and the and general critique of their views has appeared identification of women and and, in particular, no critique of the application of womanhood in Prehistoric these views to Roman religion. Nor has any critique and Classical societies. dealt with the use of literary and visual sources by Aspects such as the crucial these writers. This book, a collection of essays by role of maintenance activities leading scholars, incorporates all these subjects and and care, the processes of provides a theoretical background for the study of socialization and learning, animal sacrifice in an ancient context. the impact of infant death, the figure of the mother 223p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107011120 Hb queen, the religious discourses about motherhood, £69.99, 9781108456524 Pb £22.99 the rules on parental rights, the transgressions Birds in the Ancient World of traditional motherhood and the emotional Winged Words aspects of the mother-child relation are analysed. A multidisciplinary approach is adopted, analysing By Jeremy Mynott material culture, representations and texts to This book illustrates the many different roles birds gain a deeper understanding of played in culture: as indicators of time, weather the plurality of motherhood, and and the seasons; as a resource for hunting, eating, the diversity of women’s agency Only medicine and farming; as domestic pets and through history. entertainments; and as omens and intermediaries £30.00 until 304p (Oxbow Books between the gods and humankind. 2018) 9781789250381 Pb publication 464p, col pls, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198713654 £40.00 Hb £30.00

36 Classical World Routledge Companion to Ancient The Greek and Roman Trophy Philosophy From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power Edited by Frisbee Sheffield & James Warren By Lauren Kinnee A collection of new essays In this study spanning Archaic Greece through on the philosophy and the Augustan Principate Kinnee aims to create a philosophers of the ancient holistic view of this complex monument-type by Greek and Roman worlds. breaking down boundaries between the study of There are dedicated art history, philology, the history of warfare, and the discussions of the major anthropology of religion and magic. Ultimately, the areas of the philosophy of kaleidoscopic picture that emerges is of an ad hoc Plato and Aristotle together anthropomorphic Greek talisman that gradually with accounts of their developed into a sophisticated, Augustan sculptural predecessors and successors. or architectural statement of power. The contributors also 162p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9780415788380 Hb address various problems £115.00 of interpretation and method, highlighting the particular demands and interest of working with Classical Art ancient philosophical texts. A Life History from Antiquity to the Present 728p (Routledge 2013, Pb 2018) 9780415991261 Hb By Caroline Vout £185.00, 9781138478251 Pb £36.99 In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian Landscapes of Dread in Classical and classicist Caroline Vout Antiquity provides an original history Negative Emotion in Natural and of how classical art has been Constructed Spaces continuously redefined over Edited by Debbie Felton the millennia as it has found Over the last two decades, research in cultural itself in new contexts and geography and landscape studies has influenced cultures. Vout shows how this many humanities fields, including Classics, and has process began in antiquity, increasingly drawn our attention to the importance as Greeks of the Hellenistic of spaces and their contexts. The papers in this period transformed the art volume focus on emotions such as anxiety, fear, of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the terror, and especially dread-and they do so while Roman empire, Constantinople, European court treating many types of space, including domestic, societies, the neoclassical English country house, suburban, rural, and virtual, and while covering and the nineteenth century, up to the modern many genres and authors, including art, Greek and museum. Roman epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, the novel, and 376p col illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691177038 Hb the short story. £32.95 326p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138104952 Hb £115.00 Greece Class in Archaic Greece Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece By Peter W. Rose Edited by Alain Duplouy & Roger W. Brock Archaic Greece saw a number of decisive Focusing on archaic Greece, this volume brings changes, including the emergence of the polis, the together an array of renowned international foundation of Greek settlements throughout the scholars with the aim of exploring new routes to Mediterranean and Black Sea, the rise of tyranny, archaic Greek citizenship and constructing a new the invention of literacy, the development of image of archaic cities, which are no longer to be monumental architecture and large scale sculpture, considered as primitive or incomplete classical and the establishment of ‘democracy’. This book poleis. Topics of enquiry include law, cults, and argues that the best way of understanding them military obligations, athletics, commensality, and is the application of an eclectic Marxist model of descent. The volume as a whole exemplifies the class struggle, a struggle not only over control of living diversity of approaches to archaic Greece agricultural land but also over cultural ideals and and to the Greek city, combining both breadth and ideology. depth of insight with an opportunity to venture off 454p (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2018) 9780521768764 Hb the beaten track. £88.00, 9781108459266 £29.99 384p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198817192 Hb £80.00 37 Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens Greek Religion and Cults in the Black A History of Ancient Greece Sea Region By Robin Waterfield Goddesses in the Bosporan Kingdom from Throughout the course of the Archaic Period to the Byzantine Era ancient Greek civilization, By David Braund there always existed a sense This is the first integrated study of Greek religion of shared culture among the and cults of the Black Sea region, centred upon the many Greek communities Bosporan Kingdom of its northern shores, but with scattered throughout the connections and consequences for Greece and much Mediterranean. But if the of the Mediterranean world. David Braund explains Greeks knew that they were the cohesive function of key goddesses (Aphrodite kin, why is Greek history Ourania, Artemis Ephesia, Taurian Parthenos, Isis) so often the history of their as it develops from archaic colonization through internecine wars and other Athenian imperialism, the Hellenistic world and the forms of competition with Roman Empire in the East down to the Byzantine one another? This question era. Greek religion is shown as key to the internal provides a frame for Robin Waterfield’s new history, workings of the Bosporan Kingdom, its sense of its tracing political, military and social developments landscape and origins and its shifting relationships from the emergence of the Greeks around 750 BCE with the rest of its world. to the downfall of the last of the Greco-Macedonian 338p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) Hb £75.00 kingdoms in 30BCE. 528p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198727880 Hb Periclean Athens £25.00 By P. J. Rhodes Greece in the Ancient World In the second and third quarters of the fifth century BC, when Athens became both politically and By Jeremy McInerney culturally dominant in the Greek world, Pericles Spanning the Minoan and Mycenaean origins was the leading figure in the city’s public life. 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38 Greece Bargains and good deals General Interest deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen Luxury, A Rich History, By Peter McNeil and papers examine how the senses are affected in caves Giorgio Riello, Luxury is hardly a new phenomenon. and monuments that were used for ritual activities, Today’s obsession with luxury brands and services is from Bronze Age miners in Wales, to initiands in just one of the many manifestations that luxury has Italian caves, to a modern caver’s experience in one assumed. 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EDITOR’S CHOICE City and Empire in the Age of the Successors Urbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic Kingdoms By Ryan Boehm In 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, Only epigraphic, and textual evidence, City and Empire in the £63.00 until Age of the Successors reinterprets the role of urbanization in the creation of the 31 October 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

Greece 39 Ascending and descending the The Treasures of Alexander the Great Acropolis How One Man’s Wealth Shaped the World Movement in Athenian Religion By Frank L. Holt Edited by Søren Handberg & Troels Myrup Kristensen Frank Holt investigates the kinds and quantities of This study provides new perspectives on religious treasure seized Alexander, from gold and silver to mobilities within the geographically limited region land and slaves. He reveals what became of the king’s of Attica in Greece from the Late Bronze Age to wealth and what Alexander’s redistribution of these the second century AD. Attica is a particularly vast resources can tell us about his much-disputed fruitful region to study these forms of mobility, as policies and personality. Though Alexander owed it provides rich evidence across a range of material his vast fortune to war, battle also distracted him and textual sources for a variety of different mobile from competently managing his spoils and much situations – both inside the city of Athens itself was wasted, embezzled, deliberately destroyed, or (such as on and circumnavigating the Acropolis) idled unprofitably. and to sanctuaries in its hinterland (such as Eleusis 320p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780199950966 Hb and Brauron), as well to as more distant sanctuaries, £22.99, 9780190866259 Pb £12.99 such as Delphi. 220p (Aarhus UP 2018) 9788771844672 Hb £25.00, NYP Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth The Seer and the City By Ariadne Konstantinou Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology A variety of Olympian goddesses and mortal in Ancient Greece heroines are explored, and the analysis of their By Margaret Foster myths follows specific chronological considerations. Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, Female mobility is presented in quite diverse ways but they rarely appear in colonial discourse from in myth, reflecting cultural flexibility in imagining the archaic and classical periods. Margaret Foster mobile goddesses and heroines. At the same time, exposes the ideological motivations behind this the out-of-doors spaces that mortal heroines inhabit discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse’s seem to lack a public or civic quality, with the privileging of the city’s founder and his dependence heroines being contained behind ‘glass walls’. In on Delphi, the colonial oracle par excellence, entails this respect, myth seems to reproduce the cultural a corresponding suppression of the seer. limitations of ancient Greek social ideology on 199p (University of California Press 2017) 9780520295001 mobility. Hb £74.00 224p (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781474256766 Hb £75.00 Greek Art and Archaeology Artists and Signatures in Ancient The Art of Libation in Classical Athens Greece By Milette Gaifman By Jeffrey M. Hurwit This handsome volume In this book, Jeffrey presents an innovative look M. Hurwit surveys the at the imagery of libations, phenomenon of artists’ the most commonly depicted signatures across the many ritual in ancient Greece, genres of Greek art from the and how it engaged viewers eighth to the first century in religious performance. BCE. Examining signatures Scenes depicting the ritual on gems, coins, mosaics, often involved beholders wall-paintings, metalwork, directly – a statue’s gaze vases, and sculptures, Hurwit might establish the onlooker argues that signatures help as a fellow participant, or us assess the position of painted vases could draw parallels between human the Greek artist within his society as well as his practices and acts of gods or heroes. conception of his own skill and originality. 196p,col illus (Yale UP 2018) 9780300192278 Hb £55.00 242p b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107105713 Hb £77.00, 9781107513549 Pb £18.99

40 The Monuments of the Eastern Hill Le Fortificazioni di Iasos di Caria By Bonna D. Wescoat By Michele Cornieti In this volume, the key monuments that form the This book presents the urban fortifications of the Theatral Complex, including the Theatral Circle, the ancient city of Iasos, in Asia Minor. The fortification Fieldstone Building with its masonry style plaster systems built for the defence of the city of the interior, the marble Doric hexastyle Dedication of Carian coast are analysed from an architectural, Philip III and Alexander IV, the elegant Ionic Porch typological, tactical and technical-constructive later attached to the western side of the Dedication, standpoint, from the remains datable to the classical and the remains of dozens of bronze statues that era up to the late Byzantine period, with particular originally framed the Theatral Circle, are presented reference to the circuit wall placed around the edge in their archaeological, architectural, and historical of the insular urban settlement. contexts. Italian text. 205p b/w illus (BAR S2886, 2018) 640p, b/w illus (ASCSA 2018) 9780876618509 Hb 9781407315157 Pb £37.00 £125.00 The Sanctuary of Athena at Sounion Monuments, Memory and Place By Barbara A. Barletta Commemorations of the Persian Wars The Temple of Athena at By Xavier Duffy Sounion has long been This study is concerned with how the Greek recognized as one of the peoples, of primarily the classical period, most unusual buildings in collectively commemorated the Persian Wars. the architectural history The data presented here are public monuments, of Greece. Its plan, with which include both physical and behavioural columns uniquely on the commemorations. It aims to get front and only one side, is away from an overemphasis unparalleled in the Greek on Athenian monuments, Only world. Here, Barletta provides highlighting the variations in £22.00 until a fascinating examination commemorative traditions. of the early excavations at 31 October 220p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress Sounion, the debate over who was worshipped at 2018) 9781784918392 Pb £26.00 the so-called Small Temple within the sanctuary, the varied architectural influences on the Temple of Visualizing Cityscapes of Athena, and the later use of its architectural pieces in Classical Antiquity the Athenian Agora. From Early Modern Reconstruction Drawings 360p, b/w and col illus (ASCSA 2018) to Digital 3D Models 9780876619674 Hb £45.00 By Chiara Piccoli Greek Sanctuaries and Temple The study presented here Architecture aims to make a practical An Introduction contribution to a new understanding and use of By Mary Emerson 3D reconstructions, namely Assuming no prior as ‘laboratories’ to test knowledge, this book hypotheses and visualize, introduces the reader evaluate and discuss to a selection of sites and alternative interpretations. temples, exploring them In order to do so, an analysis in detail and explaining all of visual reconstructions of technical terms along the the early and late modern way. In this second edition period is presented first, followed by a discussion there are new chapters on of current applications of 3D digital reconstructions, Western Greece, covering with a special focus on cityscapes. Lastly, a practical the site of Paestum and the implementation of a research-driven, unique temple of Olympian intellectually transparent and Zeus in Acragas. The book also offers a concise account of the evolution GIS-based 3D reconstruction is Only proposed for the urban site of of Greek architecture, explores aesthetic ideas £50.00 until Koroneia, in Boeotia, Central underlying Greek architectural design, and gives Greece. 31 October consideration to specific buildings in their social 328p (Archaeopress 2018) and religious context. 9781784918897 Pb £59.00 296p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2nd ed, 2018) 9781472575289 Pb £18.99

Greek Art and Archaeology 41 Greek Literature Greek Medical Literature and its A Guide to Reading Herodotus’ Histories Readers By Sean Sheehan From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more Edited by Sophia Xenophontos & Petros Bouras- complex writer than his past readers supposed. Vallianatos His Histories is now being read in ways that are This edited volume aims to seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This make a seminal contribution volume interrogates the various ways the text of the to the role of the audience Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as in the contextualisation the seminal text of our Ur-historian, as ethnology, of Greek medical texts, by literary art and fable. looking into the expectations, 336p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781474292672 Hb peculiarities, and needs £70.00, 9781474292665 Pb £22.99 of authors and readers. It examines for the first time the A Historical and Topographical Guide audience of particular Greek to the Geography of Strabo texts in different periods and By Duane W. Roller reassesses medical treatises This Guide provides the first English analysis of that have been neglected in current literature. and commentary on this long and difficult text. It further raises new research questions on the It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen readership of Greek medical literature and how this books and provides perhaps the most thorough regulated and/or controlled the reception of these bibliography as yet created for Strabo’s work. writings in contemporary and later societies. Careful attention is paid to the historical and 232p (Routledge 2018) 9781472487919 Hb £115.00 cultural data, the thousands of toponyms, and the many lost historical sources that are preserved only Galen: Hygiene, Volume I in the Geography. Books 1-4 1096p (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107180659 Hb £150.00 Edited by Ian Johnston His treatise Hygiene, also known as “On the The Politics of Youth in Greek Tragedy Preservation of Health” (De sanitate tuenda), was Gangs of Athens written during one of Galen’s most prolific periods By Matthew Shipton (170–180) and ranks among his most important By exploring how tragedy responded to the and influential works, providing a comprehensive fluctuating attitudes to young people at a highly account of the practice of preventive medicine. turbulent time in the history of Athens, Shipton Greek text with facing translation. sheds new light on ancient attitudes to youth. He 515p (Loeb, Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997127 Hb £18.95 argues that the prominence of young people in tragedy throughout the fifth century reflects the Galen: Hygiene, Volume II persistent uncertainty as to what their role in society Books 5-6. Thrasybulus. on Exercise with a should be. As the success of Athens rose and then Small Ball fell, young characters were repeatedly used by tragic Edited by Ian Johnston playwrights as a way to explore political tensions 401p (Loeb, Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997134 Hb £18.95 and social upheaval in the city. 208p (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781474295079 Hb £85.00 Galen: Psychological Writings Avoiding Distress, Character Traits, The The Poets of Alexandria Diagnosis and Treatment of the Affections By Susan A. Stephens and Errors Peculiar to Each Person’s Soul, The The author examines Alexandria’s poets in turn. Capacities of the Soul Depend on the Mixtures She discusses the strikingly avant-garde Aetia of the Body of Callimachus; the idealized pastoral forms of Edited by P. N. Singer Theocritus (which anticipated the invention of All Galen’s surviving shorter works on psychology fiction); and the neo-Homerian epic of Apollonius, and ethics – including the recently discovered the Argonautica, with its impressive combination Avoiding Distress, and the neglected Character of narrative grandeur and psychological acuity. She Traits, extant only in Arabic – are here presented shows that all three poets were innovators, even in one volume in a new English translation, with while they looked to the past for inspiration, they substantial introductions and notes and extensive emphasized stories and material that were entirely glossaries. relevant to their own progressive cosmopolitan environment. 557p b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9780521765176 Hb £103.00, 9781108438537 Pb £24.99 192p (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781848858794 Hb £39.50, 9781848858800 Pb £12.99 42 Rome Augustan Rome By Andrew Wallace-Hadrill NEW FROM casemate This introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus Roman Legionaries provides a fascinating insight into the social and Soldiers of Empire physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of By Simon Elliott government on society. The second edition features The might of Rome rested a new introductory section on literary figures on the back of its legions; under Augustus, a final chapter on the reception of the superbly trained and Augustus in later periods. equipped fighting force 176p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2nd ed. 2018) 9781472534262 with which the imperial Pb £14.99 Roman army conquered, subdued and ruled an Sabina Augusta empire for centuries. This An Imperial Journey concise and entertaining By T Corey Brennan history of the Roman legionary covers their In synthesizing the textual and massive material history from the age of evidence for the empress Sabina Augusta (ca. 85-ca. Augustus through the heyday of the Roman 137), wife of the emperor Hadrian, T. Corey Brennan Empire. Topics include training, tactics, weapons, traces the development of Sabina’s partnership with the men themselves, life on and off the battlefield her husband and shows the vital importance of the as well as significant triumphs and disasters in empress for Hadrian’s own aspirations. Brennan the great battles of the era. fully explores the various, and overwhelmingly negative, notions this empress stirred up in 160p b/w illus (Casemate 2018) historiography and proposes a new and nuanced 9781612006116 Pb £7.99 understanding of her formal role. 328p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190250997 Hb £55.00 Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies, Volume 18 (2017) Power and Privilege in Roman Society Edited by Mike Bishop and Stephanie Hoss By Richard Duncan-Jones Volume 18 of JRMES contains 15 papers, including How far were appointments in the Roman Empire many from the ROMEC XVIII conference. General based on merit? Did experience matter? What papers include items on the Vindolanda tent, difference did social rank make? This innovative hobnails, stonethrowers, the conflict landscape study of the Principate examines the career outcomes of Kalkriese, and the pilum. Papers in the second of senators and knights by social category. Although half of the volume are themed around “The Visual the highest appointments could reflect experience, Impact of the Roman Soldier”, and focus on a clear preference for the more aristocratic senators decoration in military equipment. is also seen. Bias is visible even in the major army 200p b/w and col illus (ARMES 2017) 9781910238127 commands and in the most senior civilian posts Pb £35.00 nominally filled by ballot. 241p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2016, Pb 2018) Roman Standards & Standard-Bearers 1 9781107149793 Hb £67.99, 9781316604335 Pb £22.99 112 BC-AD 192 By Raffaele D’Amato East of Asia Minor Roman unit standards Rome’s Hidden Frontier played an important role, By Timothy Bruce Mitford both ceremonially and on The two volumes of East of Asia Minor – based the battlefield. The standards on research, field work conducted largely on foot, themselves varied greatly, and new discoveries – document the topography, from the legion’s Eagle and monuments, inscriptions, and sighted coins of imperial portrait image to the frontier, looking in detail at strategic roads, various cohort signa, flags bridges, forts, watch and signalling systems, and (vexilla) and even dragon navigation of the Euphrates itself. Military activity, ‘windsocks’ (dracones) which extended to the Caucasus and the Caspian, copied from barbarian is placed in the context of climate, geography, and enemies and allies. Rafaele D’Amato uses detailed inter-regional trade routes. colour plates and the latest research to examine 832p, b/w illus, col pls (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198725176 these vital cogs in the Roman army machine. Hb £225.00 64p col illus (Osprey 2018) 9781472821805 Pb £11.99 43 Praetorian Social Interactions and Status Markers The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard in the Roman World By Guy de la Bedoyere Edited by George Cupcea & Rada Varga Guy de la Bedoyere This volume takes four main directions: provides a compelling prosopography (from Italy to Spain); ancient first full narrative history professions and professionals (merchants in of the Praetorians, whose Noricum, Lower Moesia, general nomenclature and dangerous ambitions ceased encoding of professions, associations only when Constantine and family life); onomastics and permanently disbanded origins, and finally, the military Only them. de la Bedoyere (iconography of funerary introduces Praetorians of monunments and centurions’ £25.50 until all echelons, from prefects social life). 31 October and messengers to artillery 180p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress experts and executioners. He 2018) 9781784917487 Pb £30.00 explores the delicate position of emperors for whom prestige and guile were the Triumphs in the Age of Civil War only defenses against bodyguards hungry for power. The Late Republic and the Adaptability of 344p (Yale UP 2017, Pb 2018) 9780300218954 Hb £25.00, Triumphal Tradition 9780300234381 Pb £10.99 By Carsten Hjort Lange Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Triumphs in the Age of Civil War rethinks the nature Rome’s Economic Development, and the character of the 0–275 CE phenomenon of civil war By Daniel Hoyer during the Late Republic. At Daniel Hoyer offers a new approach to explain the same time it focuses on Rome’s remarkable development. He surveys a a key feature of the Roman broad selection of material to see how this diverse socio-political order, the body of evidence can be reconciled to produce a triumph, and argues that single, coherent picture of the Roman economy. a commander could in Engaging with social scientific and economic theory, practice expect to triumph Hoyer highlights key issues in economic history, after a civil war victory if it placing the Roman Empire in its rightful place as could also be represented as being over a foreign a special—but not wholly unique—example of a enemy, even if the principal opponent was clearly successful preindustrial state. Roman. Significantly, the civil aspect of the war did (Brill 2018) 9789004358270 Hb £90.00 not have to be denied. 352p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb 2018) 9781474267847 Hb £95.00, 9781350060579 Pb £28.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Cave Canem Animals in Roman Civilization By Iain Ferris In 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 inRoman 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 Only and archaeological sources, particularly visual evidence in £17.00 until the form of sculptures, coins, mosaics, wall paintings and 31 October decorated everyday items in order to shed light on animals in Roman culture. 320p b/w illus (Amberley 2018) 9781445652931 Hb £20.00

44 Rome Models from the Past in Roman Culture Roman Political Thought A World of Exempla By Jed W. Atkins By Matthew B. Roller This thematic introduction to Roman political Historical examples played thought shows how the Roman world developed a key role in ancient Roman political ideas of lasting significance, from the culture, and Matthew Roller’s consequential constitutional notions of the book presents a coherent separation of powers, political legitimacy, and model for understanding individual rights to key concepts in international the rhetorical, moral, and relations, such as imperialism, just war theory, and historiographical operations cosmopolitanism. Jed Atkins relates these and many of Roman exemplarity. It other important ideas to Roman republicanism, examines the process of traces their evolution across all major periods observing, evaluating, and of Roman history, and describes Christianity’s commemorating noteworthy important contributions to their development. actors, or deeds, and then 248p (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107107007 Hb £61.99, holding those performances up as norms by which 9781107514553 Pb £19.99 to judge subsequent actors or as patterns for them to imitate. Pantheon 346p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107162594 Hb A New History of Roman Religion £75.00 By Jorg Rupke Jorg Rupke provides a comprehensive and strikingly Religious Dissent in the Roman Empire original narrative history of ancient Roman Violence in Judaea at the Time of Nero and Mediterranean religion over more than a By Vasily Rudich millennium – from the late Bronze Age through Against the broad background of Second Temple the Roman imperial period and up to full-fledged Judaism and Judaea’s history under Rome’s rule, Christianization. There is a particular emphasis Rudich discusses various manifestations of religious on “lived religion,” a perspective that stresses how dissent as distinct from the mainstream beliefs individuals’ experiences and practices transform and directed against both the foreign occupier religion into something different from its official and the priestly establishment. This book offers form. The narrative emphasizes the diversity the methodological framework for the analysis of of Roman religion, offers a new view of central the religious dissent mindset, which it considers a concepts such as “temple,” “altar,” and “votive,” recurrent historical phenomenon that may play a reassesses the gendering of religious practices, and major role in different periods and cultures. much more. 350p (Routledge 2015, Pb 2018) 9780415161060 Hb 536p, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691156835 Hb £120.00, 9780815377818 Pb £36.99 £30.00 Roman Art and Archaeology Worlds Apart Trading Together The Science of Roman History The Organisation of Long-Distance Trade Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past Between Rome and India in Antiquity Edited by Walter Scheidel By Kasper Gronlund Evers Contributors discuss climate The analysis conducted here demonstrates that an change and its impact on economically highly substantial trade took place Roman history, and then between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean in cover botanical and animal the 1st-6th cen. CE, altering patterns of consumption remains, which cast new and modes of production in both India, South light on agricultural and Arabia and the Roman Empire. It concludes that dietary practices. They the institution of the market in Antiquity was able exploit the rich record of to facilitate trade over very long distances, acting human skeletal material on a scale which had a characteristic – both bones and teeth – impact on the economies of which forms a bio-archive the societies involved, their that has preserved vital economic structures converging Only information about health, by adapting to trade and the £25.50 until nutritional status, diet, disease, working conditions, market. 31 October and migration. 222p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 280p b/w illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691162560 Hb 2017) 9781784917425 Pb £30.00 £27.95 45 NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Insularity and Identity in the Roman House of the Surgeon, Pompeii Mediterranean Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo Edited by Anna Kouremenos (VI 1, 9-10.23) The papers in this book Edited by Michael Anderson & Damian Robinson explore the concepts of This book represents the insularity and identity first major publication in the Roman period by of an important series of addressing some of the excavations undertaken following questions: what by the Anglo-American does it mean to be an Project in Pompeii (1994- island? How has insularity 2006). The House of the shaped ethnic, cultural, Surgeon has been one of and social identity in the the most frequently cited Mediterranean during the houses in the ancient Roman period? How were city since its discovery in islands connected to the mainland and other 1771. The results of the islands? Did insularity produce isolation or did the exhaustive study of the house within its urban populations of Mediterranean islands integrate context not only challenge many of the conclusions easily into a common ‘Roman’ culture? How of previous research, but also make it possible at has maritime interaction shaped the economy last for this important property to contribute and culture of specific islands? Can we argue information to the full history of Pompeii’s urban for distinct ‘island identities’ during the Roman development, illuminating the chronology of period? The twelve papers presented here each urban change, the processes involved in ancient deal with specific islands or island groups, thus domestic construction, aspects of the ancient allowing for an integrated view of Mediterranean environment, and changing socio-political and insularity and identity. economic conditions within Italy throughout the 208p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) middle to late Republic and early Empire. 9781785705809 Pb £38.00 528p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707285 Hb £70.00 Material Approaches to Roman Magic Occult Objects and Supernatural Substances Journal of Roman Pottery Edited by Adam Parker & Stuart McKie Studies Volume 17 This second volume in Edited by Steven Willis the new TRAC Themes in This volume publishes Roman Archaeology series papers relating to new seeks to push the research research on Roman agendas of materiality and period ceramics. Two lived experience further papers present evidence into the study of Roman of Late Iron Age and early magic, a field that has, Roman pottery forms and until recently, lacked fabrics from west and east object-focused analysis. Kent. Ceramic fire-dogs By concentrating primarily discovered in the area on the Imperial period and of the Dutch Lowlands the western provinces, the various contributions and Flanders brings to demonstrate very clearly the exceptional range of attention a type of find that may prove to be more influences and possibilities open to individuals common than previously noted. The same may who sought to use magical rituals to affect their be the case with portable Roman ceramic ovens lives in these specific contexts – something that and baking plates recorded in recent years in would have been largely impossible in earlier Britain; these two papers contribute to a growing periods of antiquity. corpus and debate on Roman cooking, ‘fast- 184p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) food’ and functions. Amphorae from the eastern 9781785708817 Hb £40.00 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

46 Roman Art and Archaeology The Boundaries of Art and Social Space The Roman Imperial Coinage Volume I in Rome Augustus–Vitellius (31 BC–69 AD) The Caged Bird and Other Art Forms By CHV Sutherland By Frederick Jones Sutherland’s revised Volume I has been out of print This volume focuses on four cultural phenomena in now for some years, but his study of the Julio- the Roman world of the late Republic – the garden, Claudian coinage, being the formative period of a garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged the long imperial series, is made newly available by bird. They accept or reject a categorisation as art Spink in this handsome reprint. in varying degrees, but they show considerable 360p b/w illus (1984, Spink Books reprint 2018) overlaps in the ways in which they impinge on 9780907605096 Hb £150.00, NYP social space. The study looks, therefore, at the borderlines between things that variously might or The Roman Imperial Coinage Volume X might not seem to be art forms. The Divided Empire, 395–491 208p b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb 2018) 9781472526120 By John Kent Hb £85.00, 9781350066847 Pb £28.99 The layout of this essential reference work is based on the division between the eastern and western Supports in Roman Marble Sculpture parts of the empire, and the reigns of successive Workshop Practice and Modes of Viewing emperors. A further section deals with imitative By Anna Anguissola coinages struck by certain of the barbarian peoples. Figural and non-figural supports are a ubiquitous There are detailed accounts of the monetary system feature of Roman marble sculpture. At odds with and mints, and of the coin-types and legends. modern ideas about beauty, completeness, and The catalogue comprises some 1,800 entries, each visual congruence, these elements, especially non- individually numbered, and illustrated by 80 plates. figural struts, have been dismissed by scholars as 856p b/w illus (1994, Spink Books reprint 2018) mere safeguards for production and transport. 9780907605430 Hb £195.00, NYP However, close examination of these features reveals the tastes and expectations of those who Water Culture in Roman Society commissioned, bought, and displayed marble By Dylan Kelby Rogers sculptures throughout the Mediterranean in the This discussion seeks to define ‘water culture’ in Hellenistic and Roman periods. Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, 276p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108418430 and archaeological evidence, while understanding Hb £75.00 modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water. The culture of water can be Gardens of the Roman Empire demonstrated through expressions of power, Edited by Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, Kathryn L. aesthetics, and spectacle. Further there was a shared Gleason, Kim J. Hartswick & Amina-Aicha Malek experience of water in the empire that could be In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering expressed through religion, landscape, and water’s archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski set out to role in cultures of consumption and pleasure. examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily (Brill 2018) 9789004368941 Pb £70.00 life throughout the empire. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various The Oxford Handbook of Roman types of gardens are examined, from how Romans Epigraphy actually created their gardens to the experience of Edited by Christer Brunn & Jonathan Edmondson gardens as revealed in literature and art. The Oxford Handbook 500p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2018) of Roman Epigraphy is 9780521821612 Hb £220.00 the fullest collection of scholarship on the study and The Elephant Mosaic Panel in history of Latin epigraphy Synagogue Huqoq produced to date. The 35 By Karen Britt & Ra’anan Boustan chapters cover everything The first official publication of the Elephant mosaic from typograph to the panel excavated in the synagogue at Huqoq Israel in importance of inscriptions 2013-2015. The book includes a long editorial preface for understanding many which raises a number of broader issues regarding aspects of Roman culture, the discovery of the mosaic and prior discussions of from Roman public life, it. Four alternative interpretations of the mosaic are to slavery, to the roles and discussed by Britt and Boustan, with them coming lives of women, to the military, and to life in the down in favour of a Hasmonean interpretation. provinces. (Journal of Roman Archaeology Suplement 106, 2017) 928p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015, Pb2018) 9780195336467 9780999458600 Hb £50.00 Hb £137.50, 9780190860301 Pb £35.99

Roman Art and Archaeology 47 Herculaneum Pompeii Archive A Roman Town Reborn By William Wylie By Brian Brennan Handsomely illustrated This book, fully illustrated and grand in scale, this in colour, is a comprehensive book features images by and up-to-date presentation American photographer of the ancient town and its William Wylie (b. 1957) excavation history. It includes taken over the past five chapters on the 19th and 20th years. The photographs century archaeologists who reanimate the ancient brought Herculaneum to city of Pompeii, showing light, the inscriptions, graffiti the ongoing cycles of deterioration and preservation and painted notices that give that mark it as a living landscape. Wylie captures us insights into life in the Pompeii’s former grandeur, including its terracotta ancient town, the Villa of reliefs and wall paintings, while also drawing the Papyri and the study of its scrolls, the scientific attention to the signs of an active excavation study of the bones of the nearly 300 people found site, from plaster casts in glass cases to ceramic in the 1980s in the boat chambers on the ancient fragments in storage facilities. beachfront, and the work of the Herculaneum 90p, 78 duotone illus. (Yale UP 2018) 9780300233667 Conservation Project. Hb £30.00 234p, col illus (Ancient History Seminars 2018) 9780975696385 Pb £14.99 Pompeii: a Different Perspective Via dell’Abbondanza – a Long Road, Well Great Waterworks in Roman Greece Traveled Aqueducts and Monumental Fountain By Arthur E. Stephens & Jennifer F. Stephens Structures: Function in Context This new book tells the story of a two thousand year- Edited by Georgia A. Aristodemou & Theodosios P. Tassios old street. It takes the reader on a unique journey These papers collectively down Via dell’Abbondanza, the longest street in demonstrate that great the ancient city of Pompeii. The book visually waterworks (namely documents and interprets Via dell’Abbondanza aqueducts and nymphaea) with distinctive and highly detailed representations not only were novelties of the thirty-two city blocks along the street. The in the Greek provinces of book also traces the history of the excavation of the the Roman Empire, both street, analyses the deterioration of the structures in form and function, but since they were discovered, and provides interesting they also changed the supplemental information about the buildings and architectural landscape the recording methodology. of their surrounding 126p col ilus (Lockwood Press 2017) 9781937040789 Hb environments, and they £40.00 introduced the concept of luxury in the urban landscapes of Roman Greece. Only 264p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress £29.75 until 2018) 9781784917647 Pb £35.00 31 October

EDITOR’S CHOICE Dura-Europos By Jennifer Baird Dura-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, Only situating Dura-Europos in its geographical, historical, and £17.00 until intellectual contexts, tracing the story of the site and its afterlives in scholarly and popular perceptions. 31 October 272p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781472522115 Hb £65.00, 9781472530875 Pb £19.99

48 Roman Art and Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Embracing the Provinces The Transition to Late Antiquity on Society and Material Culture of the Roman the Lower Danube Frontier Regions Excavations at Dichin: An Extraordinary Late Edited by Tatiana Ivleva, Mark Driessen & Roman and Early Byzantine Fort, Intensive Site- Jasper de Bruin specific Survey and a Unique Roman Aqueduct Embracing the Provinces is a By Andrew Poulter collection of essays focused Excavations on the site on people and their daily of this remarkable fort in lives living in the Roman northern Bulgaria (1996– provinces, c. 27 BC-AD 476. 2005) formed part of a It capitalizes on a wealth long-term programme of of data made available in excavation and intensive recent decades to provide field survey, aimed at tracing a holistic view on life in the economic as well as the Roman provinces by physical changes which analysing various aspects of mark the transition from daily routine in the frontier the Roman Empire to the regions, such as eating, dressing, and interacting. Middle Ages. The analysis Twenty-one essays are cohesively structured of well-dated finds and their full publication around five themes, encompassing studies on the provides a unique data-base for the late Roman female and juvenile presence on Roman military period in the Balkans; they include metal-work, sites, Roman provincial cooking, and Roman pottery, glass, copper alloy finds, cavalry and horse equipment. For the first time inscriptions and dipinti as well as in the Roman provincial scholarship the volume quantified environmental reports Only has a special section on the subject of Roman on animal, birds and fish. £52.00 until leather, providing a much-needed 640p, (Oxbow Books publication overview of the current stance 2018) 9781785709586 Hb of work. A few papers deal also Only £70.00 with experimental £36.00 until archaeology. publication Roman Guernsey 288p (Oxbow Books 2018) Excavations, Fieldwork and Maritime 9781789250152 Hb £48.00 Archaeology 1980–2015 Julius Caesar’s Battle for Gaul Edited by Heather Sebire, Philip de Jersey & New Archaeological Perspectives Jason Monaghan Since the 1980s, two large- Edited by Andrew P. Fitzpatrick & Colin Haselgrove scale excavations in the This book presents the latest town of St Peter Port, plus archaeological research on accumulated evidence from the Battle for Gaul and its rescue excavations elsewhere aftermath. Based on an in the island and from acclaimed 2017 conference, underwater discoveries, has it is the first Europe-wide demonstrated that Guernsey overview and much of the saw significant Roman research is published here occupation which lasted in English for the first time. for several centuries. This After an introduction to volume presents reports of recent trends in historical the excavations carried out at La Plaiderie (1983–85) studies, thematic studies and the Bonded Store (1996–2005) in St Peter and regional surveys analyse the archaeological Port, together with a gazetteer of all Roman finds and numismatic evidence from across north-west recorded from almost one hundred other sites in Europe. Comparative evidence for the Roman Guernsey and Herm. It includes a detailed study of conquest of Spain is also examined, along with the pottery recovered from the two town sites, which the fundamental role that the study demonstrates that Guernsey was of the Battle for Gaul played in a significant port-of-call on the shaping the development of Only Atlantic trade route and along Only Iron Age archaeology. £28.50 until the length of the Channel. £30.00 until 224p b/w illus publication 144p, b/w illus publication (Oxbow Books 2018) (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781789250503 Pb £38.00 9781789250688 Pb £40.00 Roman Art and Archaeology 49 Rome The Roman Bridge between Dolni A Sourcebook on the Ancient City Vadin (Bulgaria) and Grojdibodu By Fanny Dolansky & Stacie Raucci (Romania) At the intersection of topography and socio-cultural By Dorel Bondoc history, this volume examines the cultural and social This book presents all the available data on the significance of the sites of ancient Rome. Drawing Roman bridge over the Danube which connected on literary and historical sources, this is not simply Dacia and Moesia at this point. There have been a tour of the baths and taverns, the amphitheatres no archaeological excavations at the feet of the and temples of ancient Rome, but rather a journey bridge but the author has been able to propose through the city that is fully integrated with Roman positioning, scale and full reconstruction on society. the basis of a survey of existing 272p b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781441107541 Hb remains, known road alignments, £75.00, 9781441194190 Pb £25.99 old maps and drawings as well Only as comparison with better- £25.50 until Latrinae known parallels. 31 October Roman Toilets in the Northwestern Provinces of 116p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress the Roman Empire 2018) 9781784918071 Pb £30.00 Edited by Stefanie Hoss This volume presents a selection of papers and case La Statio Romana de Mas Gusó studies first presented at a 2009 conference designed By Josep Casas, Josep Ma Nolla & Victoria Soler to focus on the toilets of the Northwestern provinces The present volume on the site of Mas Gusó of the Roman Empire. Papers demonstrate the presents in detail the results obtained during value of scientific analysis of waste to understand fourteen excavation campaigns, focusing on the the food habits and diseases of the Roman settlement. It had a military-public function, Roman users of the toilet, while as a praesidium intended to control the hinterland elsewhere questions on how to Only territories of Emporion and to take part in military find the necessary expertise and actions within the province of Hispania Citerior. £37.50 until financing for such investigations Spanish text. 439p b/w illus (BAR S2890 2018) were raised. 31 October 9781407316451 Pb £66.00 154p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917258 Pb £44.00 Romans in the Middle and Lower Danube Valley, 1st century BC–5th Un Approccio Integrato al Problema century AD Della Ricostruzione Della Viabilità Edited by Eric C. De Sena & Calin Timoc Romana in Sicilia Topics include the effect of the Romans on native La Via Catania-Agrigento settlements and defensive systems, the integration By Marco Sfacteria of modern technology and historical maps in This book focuses on the integrated application of archaeological surveys, the food supply of the geotechnologies and landscape archaeology to the Roman army, Roman defensive systems, funerary goal of providing a reconstruction of the Roman practices, demographic issues concerning Roman road that connected Catania and Agrigento, with soldiers and settlers in the Danubian provinces, and an emphasis on the central site of Sofiana and its imperial portraiture. hinterland. Italian text. 124p b/w illus (BAR S2882, 2018) 9781407316116 Pb 95p b/w and col illus (BAR S2883, 2018) 9781407316222 £27.00 Pb £19.00 Things That Travelled Rome, Ostia, Pompeii Mediterranean Glass in the First Millennium Ad Movement and Space. Edited by Daniela Rosenow, Matt Phelps, Andrew Edited by Ray Laurence & David J. Newsome Meek & Ian Freestone This volume investigates the three best-known Covering all aspects of glass production, cities from Roman Italy, revealing how movement technology, distribution and trade in Roman, contributes to our understanding of the ways Byzantine and Early Medieval/Early Islamic times, different elements of society interacted in space, including studies from Britain, Egypt, Cyprus, and how the movement of people and materials Italy and many others, this volume shaped urban development. Its chapters examine combines the strengths of the the impressions left by the movement of people and sciences and cultural studies Only vehicles in the archaeological and historical record, to offer a new approach to £21.25 until research on ancient glass. and upon the Roman urban consciousness. 31 October 480p (Oxford UP 2011, pb 2018) 9780199583126 Hb 362p b/w illus (UCL Press 2018) £110.00, 9780198707004 Pb £25.00 9781787351189 Pb £25.00 50 Roman Art and Archaeology Roman Britain Exploring Antiquities and Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books in the North West Essays in Commemoration of the Life and Work Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in of Ben Edwards Britain Edited by David C. A. Shotter & Marion McClintock By Roger Bland, Adrian Chadwick, Eleanor Ghey, Ben Edwards, County Archaeologist for Lancashire, Colin Haselgrove & David J. Mattingly Honorary Fellow of the CWAAS, scholar and More coin hoards have historian, produced work that transcended historical been recorded from Roman period and county boundaries. This collection of Britain than from any other essays by colleagues, based on a study day in Ben’s province of the Empire. This honour in 2012, contributes to our knowledge and comprehensive and lavishly understanding of the archaeology and history of illustrated volume provides Cumbria and Lancashire from the Romans to the a survey of over 3260 hoards early modern periods and commemorates Ben of Iron Age and Roman coins Edwards’ outstanding achievements. found in England and Wales 180p (CWAAS 2018) 9781873124772 Pb £25.00 with a detailed analysis and discussion. Theories Septimius Severus in Scotland of hoarding and deposition The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer and examined, national and regional patterns in of the Scots the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of those hoards whose By Simon Elliott findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found Since 1975 much new in archaeological excavations. It also includes an archaeological evidence has unprecedented examination of the containers in come to light to illuminate which coin hoards were buried and the objects the immense undertaking found with them. The patterns of hoarding in of Septimius Severus Britain from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th campaigns in Scotland. century AD are discussed. The volume also provides Simon Elliott shows how a survey of Britain in the 3rd century his force of 50,000 troops, AD, as a peak of over 700 hoards supported by the fleet, are known from the period from Only hacked their way through AD 253–296. £48.75 until the Maeatae around the 496p, b/w and col illus former Antonine Wall (Oxbow Books 2018) publication and then pressed on into 9781785708558 Hb £65.00 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 New Visions of the Countryside of the imperial throne. Roman Britain Volume 3 206p b/w illus (Greenhill Books 2018) 9781784382049 Life and Death in the Countryside of Roman Hb £19.99 Britain Boudica By Alexander Smith, Martyn Allen, Tom Brindle, Warrior Woman of Roman Britain Michael Fulford, Lisa Lodwick & Anna Rohnbogner By Caitlin C. Gillespie This volume focuses upon the people of rural Roman Britain – how they looked, lived, interacted Caitlin Gillespie explores the life and literary with the material and spiritual worlds surrounding importance of Boudica through juxtaposing her them, and also how they died, and what their different literary characterizations with those of physical remains can tell us. Incorporation into the other women and rebel leaders. The book focuses Roman empire certainly brought with it a great deal on the accounts of Tacitus and Cassius Dio, and of social change, though contrary to many previous investigates their narratives alongside material accounts depicting bucolic scenes of villa-life, it evidence of late Iron Age and early Roman Britain. would appear that this change was largely to the Throughout the book, Caitlin Gillespie draws detriment of many of those living in the countryside. comparative sketches between Boudica and the positive and negative examples with which readers 448p, b/w and col illus (Roman Society Publications associate her, including the prophetess Veleda, the 2018) 9780907764465 Pb £32.40, NYP client queen Cartimandua, and the rebel Caratacus. 216p (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190609078 Hb £47.99 51 Coin Hoards and Hoarding in Roman Roman Britain Britain ad 43 – c498 The Frontier Province. Collected Papers By Roger Bland By Mark Hassall Britain has a uniquely rich This collection brings together twenty of Mark heritage of coin hoards of Hassall’s most significant articles, encompassing the Roman period, with early and later military history, the frontier and the over 3,400 known. This province; and including subjects such as the army, book is the product of a administration, towns, religion, education and trade. lifetime’s work studying It serves as a valuable and broad-ranging resource these hoards and is the for students of the Roman province, and specifically first comprehensive survey considers the literary and epigraphic record of for eighty years. There are Britannia across four centuries. chapters on the study of 310p b/w illus (Hobnob Press 2017) 9781906978426 Hb hoards, on hoarding in general, on the Iron Age £18.00 to Roman transition, the denarius period, radiate hoards, the fourth and fifth centuries, and late Dea Senuna Roman precious-metal hoards. It also contains a full Treasure, Cult and Ritual at Ashwell, checklist of all Iron Age and Roman coin hoards. Hertfordshire 424p (Spink Books 2018) 9781907427794 Hb £40.00 By Ralph Jackson & Gilbert Burleigh The hoard of Roman- The Cunetio and Normanby Hoards British temple treasure By Roger Bland, Edward Besly & Andrew Burnett discovered at Ashwell in The Cunetio and Normanby hoards are the two 2002 provides fascinating of the largest Roman coin hoards from Britain. new insights into the ritual They both comprise mostly ‘radiate’ coins struck of Roman religion. This is in the second half of the 3rd century and are the the first full publication of most important catalogues for people identifying the Ashwell treasure since radiate coins in Britain dating from AD 253 to AD its high profile discovery in 275. This edition provides the two hoards (originally 2002, and features a detailed, published in 1983 and 1988) in one volume with a highly illustrated discussion note on more recent work on the radiate coinage of the beautiful gold and of AD 253-96 and notes to aid identification by Sam silver votive plaques as well as the figurine of the Moorhead. previously unknown goddess Senuna. 304p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9781907427954 Hb 285p b/w illus (British Museum Press 2018) £60.00, NYP 9780861591947 Pb £40.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Londinium: A Biography Roman London from its Origins to the Fifth Century By Richard Hingley & Christina Unwin This 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 Only activities occurred. Hingley looks at how places within the £21.25 until developing urban landscape were inherited and considers 31 October how the history and meanings of Londinium built upon earlier associations from its recent and ancient past. 384p b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781350047297 Pb £25.00 Roman Britain 52 Outside Roman London NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Roadside Burials by the Walbrook Stream Clash of Cultures? By Serena Ranieri & Alison Telfer The Romano-British Period in the West This book describes the archaeological evidence Midlands from excavations at Liverpool Street, from the Late Iron Age to the late Roman marsh formation. Edited by Roger White & Mike Hodder Extensive remains of an early 2nd – to 3rd-century The general perception of AD west–east metalled road with two main phases the west midlands region were traced across the site, along with several in the Roman period is phases of roadside ditches. To the south of the that it was a backwater road, seven 2nd-century AD inhumation burials, compared to the including three decapitations, and one cremation militarised frontier zone burial were found. of the north, or the south 228p (MOLA 2018) 9781907586446 Pb £10.00, NYP of Britain where Roman culture took root early – Native and Roman on the Northern in cities like Colchester, Frontier London and St Albans – Excavations and Survey in a Later Prehistoric and lingered late at cities Landscape in Upper Eskdale, Dumfriesshire like Cirencester and Bath with their rich, late Roman villa culture. Where the west midlands By Roger Mercer differed, and why, are important questions in Over two years a small-scale intervention at the understanding the regional diversity of Roman Castle O’er hillfort and the total excavation of Britain. They are addressed by this volume which a unique enclosure at Over Rig were carried details the archaeology of the Roman period out, the results of which are brought together for each of the modern counties of the region, and documented in detail for the first time in written by local experts who are or have been this volume. The findings have wide-ranging responsible for the management and exploration implications for the study of the Iron Age and of their respective counties. These are placed Roman frontiers. alongside more thematic takes on elements of 296p b/w illus (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2018) Roman culture, including the Roman Army, 9781908332134 Hb £30.00 pottery, coins and religion. Lastly, an overview is taken of the important transitional period of the EAA 164 fifth and sixth centuries. Excavations at Wixoe Roman Small Town, 224p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018) Suffolk 9781785709227 Hb £30.00 By Rob Atkins The excavations presented here have shown that Wixoe was a post-Boudican planned town probably established at a similar time to several others in Maryport the region. The town appears to have reached its A Roman Fort and Its Community peak in the 2nd century, following which there By David Breeze seems to have been a slow decline leading to its The collection of Roman eventual abandonment in the very late 4th or early inscribed stones and 5th century. sculpture, together with 234p b/w illus (EAA 164 2018) 9781907588105 Pb £25.00 other Roman objects found at Maryport in Cumbria, is In the Shadow of Corinium the oldest archaeological Prehistoric and Roman Occupation at collection in Britain still in Kingshillsouth, Cirencester, Gloucestershire private hands. Beside the By Andrew Simmonds, Edward Biddulph & Ken Welsh museum which houses it, Three buildings were recorded within the area of the earthworks of the Roman the excavation. Building 1 was a domestic, stone- fort may still be seen, and footed building best described as a proto-villa. beyond it, lies a large civil Building 2 was an aisled building with an apsidal settlement, the scene of two recent excavations. end and is likely to have served an agricultural ‘Maryport: A Roman Fort and its function. Both were constructed in the 2nd century community’ places the collection AD. Building 3, dated to the late Roman period, is in context and describes the Only interpreted as a granary. Evidence for craft activity, history of research at the site. £12.75 until including pin-making, horn-working and smithing, 124p, b/w and col illus 31 October was also recorded. (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918019 552p, 97 illus., 64 tables (Oxford Archaeology 2018) Pb £14.99 9781905905416 Pb £15.00 Roman Britain 53 Durovigutum Gill Mill Roman Godmanchester Later Prehistoric Landscape and a Roman By H. J. M. Green Nucleated Settlement in the Lower Windrush This publication presents Valley at Gill Mill, near Witney, Oxfordshire the results of over 30 By Paul Booth and Andrew Simmonds years of investigation into The valley floodplain Roman Godmanchester, landscape covered by the Gill (Cambridgeshire), by Mill quarry, almost 130ha, Michael Green. A tavern, was intensively exploited glassware-shop, dairy from about 300 BC at a variety equipment, pottery of Iron Age settlements. The manufacture and a smithy are largest of these remained detailed, as well as analysis in occupation into the of land organization, infield early 3rd century AD, but and outfield agriculture, and meanwhile a large nucleated a villa estate. Specialist analyses include samian and settlement grew up around coarse wares, vessel and window glass, coins, animal a road junction roughly 1km bone, dairy production, belief systems distant to the NW. This became the sole focus of and burial practices, as well as the occupation, covering an area of about 10ha, and exceptional finds of a hoard of Only appears to have had a specialised economic role jewellery, and a burial casket of £42.50 until related to systematic cattle management. wood and bronze. 916p b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2018) 9781905905423 31 October 484p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress Hb £35.00 2018) 9781784917500 Pb £50.00 Latin Literature Ancient Biography Fragmentary Republican Latin Volume I Identity Through Lives: Papers of the Langford Ennius, Testimonia. Epic Fragments Latin Seminar, Volume 17, 2017 Edited by Sander M. Goldberg & Gesine Manuwald Edited by Francis Cairns & Trevor Luke Quintus Ennius (239–169 BC), widely regarded as Essays on biographical writing in antiquity. Topics the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in include Plutarch’ depiction of ruller-cult; accounts creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired of dreams and their influence on Artemidorus; major developments in Roman religion, social biographies of women; the Alexander Romance; organization, and popular culture. This two-volume Greek Lives under Roman rule; Cassius Dio as a edition of Ennius, which inaugurates the Loeb participant in the history he relates; and NeoPlatonic series Fragmentary Republican Latin, replaces that biography. of Warmington in Remains of Old Latin, Volume I 326p (Francis Cairns 2018) 9780995461215 Hb £50.00 and offers fresh texts, translations, and annotation that are fully current with modern scholarship. Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan 475p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997011 Hb £18.95 and Hadrian Literary Interactions, AD 96-138 Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume II Ennius, Dramatic Fragments. Minor Works Edited by Alice Konig & Christopher Whitton This volume is the first holistic investigation Edited by Sander M. Goldberg & Gesine Manuwald of Roman literature and literary culture under 450p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997141 Hb £18.95 Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138). With case studies from Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Livy Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus History of Rome, Volume X: Books 35-37 among others, the eighteen chapters offer not just Edited by J. C. Yardley innovative readings of literary (and some ‘less This edition replaces the original Loeb edition by literary’) texts, but a collaborative enquiry into the Evan T. Sage. networks and culture in which they are embedded. 400p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997158 Hb £18.95 486p (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108420594 Hb £105.00

54 Late Antique and Byzantine Corinth in Late Antiquity NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS A Greek, Roman and Christian City By Amelia Brown Palmyra after Zenobia AD 273-750 In Late Antiquity, Corinthians recognised new An Archaeological and Historical Reappraisal Christian authorities; adopted novel rites of civic By Emanuele E. Intagliata celebration and decoration; and destroyed, rebuilt Post-Roman Palmyra, and added to the city’s ancient landscape and city and setting, provide monuments. Amelia Brown here surveys this the focus of this book. period of urban transformation, from the old Agora Analysis and publication and temples to new churches and fortifications. of evidence for post- She demonstrates the many ways Corinthians Roman housing enables responded to internal and external pressures by a study of the city’s urban building, demolishing and repurposing urban life, including the private public space. residential buildings 272p b/w illus (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781784538231 Hb in the sanctuary of £79.00 Ba’alshamin. A systematic survey is presented of the Reconstructing the Settled Landscape archaeological and literary evidence for the of the Cyclades religious life of the city in Late Antiquity The Islands of Paros and Naxos During the Late and Early Islam. The city’s defences provide Antique and Early Byzantine Centuries another focus. After a discussion of the garrison By Konstantinos Roussos quartered in Palmyra, Diocletian’s military fortress and the city walls are investigated, with This book presents an attempt to interpret human- photographic and archaeological evidence used environmental interaction in order to “read” to discuss chronology and building techniques. the relationship between islands, settlements, The book concludes with a synthetic account of landscapes and seascapes in the context of the archaeological and written material, providing a diverse and highly interactive Mediterranean world. comprehensive history of the settlement from its 334p b/w illus (Leiden UP 2017) 9789087283032 Pb origins to the fall of Marwan II in 750 AD. £46.50 168p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) Mosaici Funerari Tardoantichi in Italia 9781785709425 Hb £50.00 Repertorio e Analisi By Luigi Quattrocchi This book focuses specifically on tomb mosaics Constantine and the Cities found in the Italian peninsula and major islands, and Imperial Authority and Civic Politics provides information on their geographic distribution, dating, typology, place of discovery By Noel Lenski and iconography, and considers Focusing on cities and the the potential identification of Only texts and images produced by individual workshops. £17.00 until their citizens for and about Italian text. 120p b/w and col illus the emperor, Constantine (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917999 31 October and the Cities uncovers the Pb £20.00 interplay of signals between ruler and subject, mapping Rome’s Holy Mountain out the terrain within which The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity Constantine nudged his By Jason Moralee subjects in the direction of conversion. Reading This book investigates how the Capitoline Hill was inscriptions, coins, legal used, imagined, and known from the third to the texts, letters, orations, and seventh centuries CE. The hill persisted as a densely histories, Lenski demonstrates how Constantine and populated urban zone and continued to supply a his subjects used the instruments of government in a bridge to fragmented memories of an increasingly struggle for authority over the religion of the empire. remote past through its toponyms. The book is also about a series of Christian engagements with the 416p, b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016, Capitoline Hill’s different registers of memory. Pb 2018) 9780812247770 Hb £72.00, 9780812223682 Pb £26.99 304p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190492274 Hb £47.99

55 The Lamps of Late Antiquity from The Monastic Landscape of Late Rhodes Antique Egypt 3rd–7th centuries AD An Archaeological Reconstruction By Angeliki Katsioti By Darlene L. Brook Hedstrom This study focuses on the recording, study and Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom publication of the corpus of the Late Antique lamps offers a new history of the dating from the 3rd to the 7th centuries as found in field of Egyptian monastic rescue excavations in the town of Rhodes. The aim archaeology. She analyzes here is to present the diachronic changes in the late-antique documentary artistic sensibility and preferences evidence, early monastic of this particular market. In literature, and ecclesiastical addition, facets of the economic Only history before turning to and commercial activities of the £68.00 until the extensive archaeological island during Late Antiquity are evidence of Christian highlighted. 31 October monastic settlements. In 678p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) doing so, she illustrates the 9781784917463 Pb £80.00 stark differences between idealized monastic landscape and the actual monastic landscape that Dress and Personal Appearance was urbanized through monastic constructions. in Late Antiquity 488p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107161818 Hb The Clothing of the Middle and Lower Classes £105.00 By Faith Pennick Morgan A Social and Cultural History of Late This book examines Antiquity the dress and personal appearance of members of By Douglas Boin the middle and lower classes Douglas Boin examines the in the eastern Mediterranean social and cultural landscape region during the 4th to of the Late Antique 8th centuries. Written, art Mediterranean. He captures historical and archaeological the period using a wide-lens, evidence is assessed with a including Persian material view to understanding the from the mid third century way that cloth and clothing through Umayyad material was made, embellished, of the mid eighth century cared for and recycled during this period. The book C.E., to offer a rich picture looks in detail at the use of apotropaic and amuletic of Late Antique life that is symbols and devices on clothing before examining not just focused on Rome, sewing and making methods, the textile industry Constantinople, or Christianity. The book surveys and the second-hand clothing trade. major themes such as power, gender, community, 288p b/w illus (Brill 2018) 9789004343955 Pb £136.00 cities, politics, law, art and architecture, and literary culture. 320p (Wiley-Blackwell 2018) 9781119077008 Hb £60.00, 9781119076810 Pb £27.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Mosaics in the Medieval World From Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century By Liz James In 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 Only their historical context. She asks why the mosaic was such £129.95 a popular medium and considers how mosaics work as historical ‘documents’ that tell us about attitudes and beliefs until in the medieval world. 31 October 650p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107011984 Hb £135.00

56 Late Antique and Byzantine Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Butrint 5 Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port: The Current Research and Future Directions Non-Ceramic Finds from the Triconch Palace Edited by Ine Jacobs & Hugh Elton By William Bowden It would seem that the This is the second volume sixth century in particular arising from the 1994–2003 is characterised not only excavations of the Triconch by a ruralisation of cities, Palace at Butrint (Albania), but also by the extension which charted the history and flourishing of villages of a major Mediterranean in Asia Minor, the Roman waterfront site from the 2nd Near East and Egypt. This to the 15th centuries AD. This volume explores a series of volume reports on the finds themes include the physical from the site (excluding the development of large and pottery), which demonstrate small settlements, their the ways in which the lives, financial situation, and the proportion of public and diet and material culture of a Mediterranean private investment. Imperial, provincial, and local population changed across the arc of the late Roman initiatives in city and countryside are compared and Medieval periods. It includes discussion of the and the main motivations examined, including environmental evidence, the human and faunal civic or personal pride, military incentives and remains, metal-working evidence, religious stimuli. The evidence presented is used and the major assemblages of to form opinions on the impact of the plague on glass, coins and small finds. Only living circumstances in the sixth 320p, b/w and col illus £33.75 until century and to evaluate the (Oxbow Books 2018) significance of the Justinianic Only publication 9781785708978 Hb £45.00 period. £28.50 until 256p b/w illus publication (Oxbow Books 2018) Interpreting Transformations 9781789250077 Pb £38.00 of People and Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Late Antique and Early Archaeological Approaches and Issues Medieval Hispania Edited by Pilar Diarte-Blasco & Neil Christie Landscapes without Strategy? In this volume of papers By Pilar Diarte-Blasco nineteen leading European Core to this period of change archaeologists discuss is the arrival in Hispania and interpret the complex of heterogenic groups of evolution of landscapes barbarians, their settlement – both urban and rural – in the Peninsula and their across Late Antiquity and co-existence with the local the Early Middle Ages (c. AD Romanised populations. This 300–700). The geographical volume examines not only coverage extends from Italy the visibility and tangibility of to the Mediterranean West these changes in the landscape through to the Rhine frontier and the nature of the related and onto Hadrian’s Wall. Core are questions archaeology, but also the types of impacts due to the socio-political, religious, of new authority created by these powers and whether military and economic transformations affecting these are evident through changing patterns of social provinces, territories and kingdoms across these organization in the landscape. Questions addressed often turbulent centuries. Underlying much of include: was this a heavily militarised landscape and the discussion is a consideration of the nature and one with clear differences between the older, Roman quality of our source material: how good is the settlement forms? Was there a visible strategy in archaeology of these periods and this new organization? Did powers how good is our current reading like the Visigoths really control of the materials available? Only the landscape or was this more Only 352p, b/w illus £41.25 until fragmented? £30.00 until (Oxbow Books 2018) 224p (Oxbow Books publication publication 9781789250343 Hb £55.00 2018) 9781785709968 Pb £40.00

Late Antique and Byzantine 57 Religions of the Constantinian Empire Causation and Creation in By Mark Edwards Late Antiquity This volume provides a synoptic review of Edited by Anna Marmodoro & Brian D. Prince Constantine’s relation to all the cultic and theological This collection of essays investigates the views traditions of the Empire. Divided into three parts, the of both pagan and Christian philosophers on first considers the efforts of Christians to construct causation and the creation of the cosmos. It first their own philosophy, and their own patterns of the looks at divine agency and how late antique thinkers philosophic life, in opposition to Platonism. The tackled questions such as: is the cosmos eternal? second assembles evidence of survival, variation Did it come from nothing or from something pre- or decay in religious practices which were never existing? How was it caused to come into existence? compulsory under Roman law. The third reviews the Is it material or immaterial? The second part changes, both within the church and in the public looks at questions concerning human agency and sphere, which were undeniably prompted by the responsibility, including the problem of evil and accession of a Christian monarch. the nature of will. 384p (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9780198785248 Pb 311p, (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9781107061538 Hb £18.99 £64.99, 9781107695320 Pb £22.99 Being Christian in Vandal Africa The Popes and the Church of Rome The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post- in Late Antiquity Imperial West By John Moorhead By Robin Whelan Structured around a narrative from the accession of This book investigates conflicts over Christian Leo the Great to the death of Zacharias II, this study orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, ca. 439 to 533 CE. places the history of the papacy in a broader context, Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan by comparing Rome with other major sees to show exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation how it differed from these, evaluating developments between Nicene and Homoian Christians and beyond Rome which created openings for the explores their rival claims to political and religious extension of papal authority. Closer to home, the legitimacy. These contests – sometimes violent – are book considers the ability of the Roman church to key to understanding the wider and much-debated gain access to wealth, retain it in difficult times, and issues of identity and state formation in the post- disburse it in ways that enhanced its authority. imperial West. 322p (Routledge 2015, Pb 2017) 9780415883658 Hb 278p, b/w illus (University of California Press 2017) £115.00, 9781138305779 Pb £34.99 9780520295957 Hb £74.00 Late Antique Calendrical Thought and Early Christian Ritual Life Its Reception in the Early Middle Ages By Richard E. DeMaris, Steven Muir & Jason Edited by Daibhi O Croinin Lamoreaux Late Antique intellectual culture was dominated by Rather than treating ritual in isolation or in a computus, a calendrical science with the calculation fragmentary way, this book examines early Christian of Easter at its core. The key questions were the ritual life as a whole. The authors explore an array mathematical modeling of the course of the sun of Christian ritual activity, employing theory through the zodiac and of the moon phases. This critically and explicitly to make sense of various volume highlights key episodes in the transmission ritual behaviours and their interconnections. of calendrical ideass, and therewith helps explaining 218p (Routledge 2017) 9781138653054 Hb £110.00, the transformation of intellectual culture into its 9781138653061 Pb £29.99 new medieval Christian setting. Reconceiving Religious Conflict 385p (Brepols 2018) 9782503577098 Pb £75.00 New Views from the Formative Centuries Rutilius Namatianus’ Going Home of Christianity De Reditu Suo Edited by Wendy Mayer & Chris L. De Wet By Martha Malamud This book deconstructs instances of religious conflict De Reditu Suo provides fascinating insights into within the formative centuries of Christianity, the travel and communications networks in the rapidly first six centuries CE. It explores the theoretical changing, fragmented world of the fifth century. foundations of religious conflict; the dynamics of Martha Malamud provides the only scholarly religious conflict within the context of persecution English translation with significant notes and and martyrdom; the social and moral intersections commentary that explore historical, literary, cultural, that undergird the phenomenon of religious and mythical references, as well as commenting on conflict; and the relationship between religious literary allusions, the structure, diction, and style of conflict and religious identity. the poem, and textual issues. 392p, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138229914 Hb 92p (Routledge 2016, Pb 2018) 9781138781979 Hb £83.99, £115.00 9780815352709 Pb £29.99 58 Late Antique and Byzantine Forthcoming from Oxbow Books JJP Supplement 32 (2017) Journal of Juristic Papyrology Hagia Sophia in Context Empowering the Dead in Christian Nubia: An Archaeological Re-Examination of the The Texts from a Medieval Funerary Complex Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople in Dongola By Ken Dark & Jan Kostenec By Adam Łajtar & Jacques van der Vliet The Byzantine cathedral The crypt of Archbishop Georgios of Dongola, of Hagia Sophia has been discovered in 1993 was astounding to say the least. a source of wonder and The walls were literally covered with writing. Even fascination since its sixth- more astounding was the provisional identification century construction. of some of the texts, forcing a complete reevaluation However, while almost all of Makurian culture and Christianity in Africa in previous archaeological the early twelfth century. Adam Łajtar and Jacques work has focused on van der Vliet here publish this astounding selection the church itself, the of texts in Greek and Coptic, this ‘library’ that surrounding complex of Archbishop Georgios endeavoured to take with him ecclesiastical buildings has into the afterworld. been largely neglected. The 340p b/w illus (Journal of Juristic Papyrology 2017) research project presented here (co-directed by the 9788394684822 Hb £67.00 authors) is the first to focus on the archaeology of the immediate environs of the church in The Concept of the Elect Nation order to understand the complex as a whole. in Byzantium Previously unrecorded material includes parts of the Patriarchal complex, from which the Orthodox By Shay Eshel Church was governed for almost a millennium, Shay Eshel shows how the Old Testament model of what may be the ‘Great Baptistery’ north of the the ancient Israelites was a prominent factor in the church, and what are perhaps the evolution of Roman-Byzantine national awareness first fragments of the fourth- between the 7th and 13th centuries. The Byzantines’ century phase of the cathedral Only interpretation of the 7th century epic events as manifestations of God’s wrath enabled them to yet identified. £41.25 until incorporate the events into a paradigm which they 208p b/w and col publication illus(Oxbow Books 2018) now embraced: the Old Testament paradigm of the 9781789250305 Hb £55.00 Israelite Elect Nation’s complex relationship with God, a cyclic relation of sin, wrath, punishment, repentance and salvation. (Brill 2018) 9789004349476 Hb £84.00 Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls – Edited by Jelena Bogdanovic Sense Perceptions in Byzantium Case studies examine Edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey & Margaret Mullett encounters with the holy Scholars have attended to through the perspective aspects of sight and sound of the human body and in Byzantine culture, but sensory dimensions of have generally left smell, sacred space, and discuss taste, and touch undervalued the dynamics of perception and understudied. Through when experiencing what was collected essays that constructed, represented, redress the imbalance, the and understood as sacred. contributors explore how The research points to the Byzantines viewed the how early Christians and senses; how they envisaged Byzantines teleologically sensory interactions within viewed the divine source of the sacred in terms their world; and how they described, narrated, and of its ability to bring together – but never fully represented the senses at work. dissolve – the distinctions between the human and 342p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780884024217 Hb £50.95 divine realms. 240p b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138561045 Hb £115.00

Late Antique and Byzantine 59 Islamic A History of the Muslim World to 1750 Ibn Khaldun The Making of a Civilization An Intellectual Biography By Vernon O. Egger By Robert Irwin A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert development of Islamic civilization from the career Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth of Ibn Khaldun’s extraordinary life, times, writings, century. Including the latest research from the last and ideas. Closely examining the Muqaddima, a ten years, this second edition has been updated startlingly original analysis of the laws of history, and and expanded to cover the fifteenth to eighteenth drawing on many other contemporary sources, Irwin centuries. shows how Ibn Khaldun’s life and thought fit into 568p, b/w illus (Routledge 2nd ed, 2017) 9781138215931 historical and intellectual context, including medieval Pb £54.99 Islamic theology, philosophy, politics, literature, economics, law, and tribal life. Reframing the Alhambra 272p (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691174662 Hb £24.95 Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial A Short History of the Mongols By Olga Bush By George Lane This book explores the design George Lane argues that the Mongols were not only principles of the Alhambra by subjugators who swept all before them but one investigating the neglected, of the great organising forces of world history. He interdisciplinary contexts of discusses the unification of the Turko-Mongol tribes medieval poetics and optics under Chinggis’ leadership; the establishment of a and through comparative vigorous imperium; imaginative policies of religious study of Islamic court pluralism; and the rich legacy of the Toluid Empire ceremonials. This reframing of Yuan China and Ilkhanate Iran. enables the reconstruction 256p, b/w illus (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781780766065 Pb of the underlying, integrated £10.99 aesthetic, focusing on the harmonious interrelationship The Mongol Empire between diverse artistic media – By Timothy May architecture, poetry and textiles This book explores the rise and establishment of – in the experience of the Only the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, as well beholder, resulting in a new £80.75 until as its expansion and evolution under his successors. understanding of the Alhambra. 31 October It also examines the successor states (Ilkhanate, 344p, b/w and col illus (Edinburgh Chaghatayid Khanate, the Jochid Ulus (Golden UP 2018) 9781474416504 Hb £95.00 Horde), and the Yuan Empire) from the dissolution of the empire in 1260 to the end of each state. They The Ornament of Histories are compared in order to reveal how A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD the empire functioned not only 650–1041: The Persian Text of Abu Sa’id ‘Abd at the imperial level but how Only al-Hayy Gardizi regional differences manifested. £25.50 until Edited by Edmund Bosworth 400p b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 31 October Abu Sa’id ‘Abd al-Hayy Gardizi was an author and 2018) 9780748642366 Pb £29.99 historian living in the mid-eleventh century at the height of the Turkish Ghazvanid dynasty. His only The Mongols and the West known work, The Ornament of Histories (‘Zayn al- 1221–1410 akhbir’), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern By Peter Jackson Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now The Mongols and the West provides a comprehensive Eastern Iran, Afghanistan and parts of the Central survey of relations between the Catholic West and Asian Republics and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. the Mongol Empire from the first appearance of This is the first English translation of the original Chinggis (Genghis) Khan’s armies on Europe’s Persian text, and is accompanied by an introduction horizons in 1221 to the battle of Tannenberg in 1410. and commentary which details the historical, This second edition has been fully updated and geographical and cultural context. contains significantly extended chapters on trade 192p (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781848853539 Hb £70.00, and mission. 9781788311120 Pb £25.00 426p, b/w illus (Routledge , 2nd ed 2018) 9781138848481 Pb £29.99

60 Anglo-Saxon The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Methodology and Sources From Roman Civitas to Anglo-Saxon By Richard Shaw Shire Historians have long relied on Bede’s Ecclesiastical Topographical Studies on the Formation of History for their narrative of early Christian Anglo- Wessex Saxon England, but what material lay behind Bede’s own narrative? What were his sources and By Bruce Eagles how reliable were they? How much was based This book is the on contemporary material? How much on later culmination of the evidence? What was rhetoric? What represents author’s lifelong interest his own agendas, deductions or even inventions? in the Roman to medieval This book represents the first systematic attempt to transition in England answers these questions for Bede’s History, taking as and in the analysis of a test case the coherent narrative of the Gregorian the historic landscape of mission and the early Church in Kent. Wessex. It begins with a 276p (Routledge 2018) 9781138060814 Hb £115.00 focused, referenced, and critical exploration of the The Nature of Kingship c. 800–1300 thorny, but crucial, issues By Nils Hybel of post-Roman personal Nils Hybel presents the first comprehensive history and group identity, employing linguistic, of the changeable nature of monarchic power historical, archaeological and toponymical in Danish territories from the Viking Age to evidence. A series of integrated studies seek to the Central Middle Ages. Kingship experienced elucidate changes in the territorial organisation a profound transformation during the half of the Wessex landscape, from Somerset to millennium investigated. With the first signs of Hampshire, from the Roman period to the taxation, legislation, law enforcement and the emergence of the historic counties. It is shown notion of a national, military force, kings began the that the defined limits of the self-governed transition from warlords to medieval kingship. Roman civitates had a significant impact upon subsequent historical developments, not (Brill 2018) 9789004358348 Hb £160.00 least on the early English settlements. The Experience of Education in 260p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) Anglo-Saxon Literature 9781785709845 Pb £34.99 By Irina Dumitrescu Irina Dumitrescu explores how early medieval writers used fictional representations of education Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone to explore the relationship between teacher and Sculpture, Volume XIII student. The book demonstrates the enduring Derbyshire and Staffordshire concern of Anglo-Saxon authors with learning throughout Old English and Latin poems, By jane Hawkes and Philip Sidebottom hagiographies, histories, and schoolbooks. This volume in the Corpus 252p (Cambridge U 2018) 9781108416863 Hb £75.00 of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture surveys the counties of Edmund Derbyshire and Staffordshire In Search of England’s Lost King and provides an analytical By Francis Young catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon stone sculptures of that Bury St Edmunds is the probable site of the body region. Introductory chapters of Edmund: martyred monarch of the Anglo-Saxon set the material within kingdom of East Anglia and, well before St George, historical, topographical, England’s first patron saint. After the king was slain archaeological and art- by marauding Vikings in the ninth century, the historical contexts, as well legend which grew up around his murder led to the as its scholarly framework, and there are specialist foundation in Bury of one of the pre-eminent shrines contributions concerning the geology of the of Christendom. In showing how Edmund became monuments and the sculpture from the (originally) the pivotal figure around whom Saxons, Danes and royal ecclesiastical site at Repton in Derbyshire. Normans all rallied, the author also argues for the possibility of his rediscovery through excavation. 556p, 150 b/w pls (Oxford UP 2018) 9780197266212 Hb £100.00 256p, col pls (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781788311793 Hb £20.00 61 Winchester’s Anglo-Saxon, Medieval Industry and the Making of and Later Suburbs a Rural Landscape By Patrick Ottaway & K. E. Qualmann By Chris Smart This volume is a report on excavations undertaken This book presents the results of excavation and in Winchester’s historic suburbs which produced analysis of technological remains from the Devon evidence for their character, development and village of Hemyock, on the north-west side of the buildings over some 1600 years from the end of the Blackdown Hills. The first major subject covered is Roman era to the nineteenth century. Included are an examination of early medieval iron technology specialist reports on the human remains and iron including the largest group of C14-dated furnaces of coffin fittings from the medieval Jewish cemetery, and the late 9th to early 10th centuries in Britain, which on the kiln itself and an important assemblage of clay has afforded a re-examination and modelling of pipes made by a well-documented local entrepreneur. all other dated examples in the UK, and a review 359p, (Hampshire Cultural Trust 2018) 9781999978006 of technological change in iron production. The Pb £30.00 second major element to this volume is the study of a later major pottery production centre, dated The Search for Winchester’s Anglo- c. 1500-1550. Saxon Minsters 246p b/w and col illus (BAR BS 636, 2018) 9781407316260 By Martin Biddle Pb £44.00 The ancient cathedral of Excavation of the Late Saxon and Old Minster and the abbey church of New Minster once Medieval Churchyard of St Martin’s, stood at the heart of Anglo- Wallingford, Oxfordshire Saxon Winchester. Buildings By Iain Soden of the first importance, MOLA undertook excavations over 2003-4 at honoured by Anglo-Saxon the former St Martin’s churchyard, Wallingford, and Norman kings, these Oxfordshire. Earliest use of the churchyard has great churches were later been dated to the late 10th to early 11th century demolished and their by radiocarbon dating, and burials continued locations lost. Here Martin until the end of the 14th century. Osteological Biddle traces the history of analysis of 187 of the 211 excavated skeletons of the extensive excavations which he led between 1961 the cemetery has depicted a lay and 1970 and shows how they led to the discovery population which was almost of the Old and New Minsters, equally split between males and Only bringing back to life the history, females, with only a slight bias £21.25 until archaeology and architecture Only towards males. 31 October of Winchester’s greatest Anglo- £12.75 until 94p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress Saxon buildings. 31 October 2018) 9781784917661 Pb £25.00 90p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918576 Pb £15.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Building Anglo-Saxon England By John Blair This 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 Only by specialist surveyors. The book also shows how the Anglo- £34.00 until Saxon love of elegant and intricate decoration is reflected in the construction of the living environment, which in some 31 October ways was more sophisticated than it would become after the Norman Conquest. 488p, col and b/w illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691162980 Hb £40.00

62 Anglo-Saxon The Book of Kells Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Official Guide Living off the Land By Bernard Meehan Agriculture in Wales c. 400 to 1600 AD Thames & Hudson’s bestselling book of all time, The Book of Kells, was first published in 1994. Edited by Rhiannon Comeau & Andy Seaman It is now reissued in a completely restructured, This is the first book for rewritten, redesigned and freshly illustrated a generation on medieval edition. The Book of Kells is explored through its agriculture in Wales, historical background; its structure; its decorative presenting evidence elements, including the richness of its symbols and which is of considerable themes; the scribes and artists who worked on the relevance to those studying manuscript; and the tools and pigments used in its the development of the creation. early medieval landscapes 96p, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2nd ed 2018) of England and Ireland. 9780500480243 Pb £12.95 This collection of essays confronts the paradox that, Communal Creativity in the Making though agriculture lay at the of the ‘Beowulf’ Manuscript heart of medieval society, understanding of what Towards a History of Reception for this meant for Wales remains limited. The papers the Nowell Codex address key questions that include: how did the agricultural systems of Wales operate between c. By Simon C. Thomson 400 and 1600 AD? What light do they cast on the Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity material evidence for life in the contemporary to tell a story about the project that preserved landscape? How similar or different was Wales Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, to other areas of Britain and Ireland? Can we endeavour and argues for a date in Cnut’s reign. He identify change over time? How do we go about presents evidence for the use of more than three researching early Welsh agriculture? Themes exemplars and at least two artists as well as two covered include the use of infield-outfield systems, scribes, making this an intentional and creative re- seasonal land use and its impact on territorial presentation uniting literature religious and heroic, and estate structures, and regional in poetry and in prose. variation, all explored using a (Brill 2018) 9789004360860 Hb £175.00 wide array of complementary Only multidisciplinary approaches. Sceatta List £26.25 until 224p b/w illus publication By Tony Abramson (Windgather Press 2018) This second edition of Sceatta List adds more than a 9781911188391 Pb £34.99 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, Manx Crosses though often obscured by the passage of time. A Handbook of Stone Sculpture 500–1040 424p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9781907427862 Hb in the Isle of Man £50.00 By David M. Wilson The carved stone crosses Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 69 of the Isle of Man of the The Abramson Collection, Coins of Early Anglo- late fifth to mid-eleventh Saxon England and the North Sea Area century are of national and By Tony Abramson international importance. This book records, illustrates and describes the early This, the first general survey Anglo-Saxon collection of Tony Abramson: one of of the material for more the premier private assemblages of gold, silver and than a century, provides a base-metal coins from the early medieval period, new view of the political and amounting to over 1,100 specimens. Traditionally religious connections of the known as gold shillings or thrymsas and silver Isle of Man in a period of pennies or sceattas, the coinages represented in this great turmoil in the Irish Sea volume formed the first currency of Anglo-Saxon region. The book also includes an England, from c. 600 onwards. up-to-date annotated inventory Only of the monuments. 816p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9781907427855 Hb £21.25 until £30.00 188pb/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917562 Pb £24.99 31 October

Anglo-Saxon 63 Viking Nottinghamshire NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS By Rebecca Gregory The Viking Age Viking Nottinghamshire describes the county as it A Time of Many Faces was throughout the Viking Age, through the various stages of Scandinavian settlement. It uses a range By Caroline Arcini of historical evidence, including documents, place- This book uses results names, artefacts and sculpture, to explore the impact from the examination and contribution the Scandinavian settlers made to of a substantial corpus the character and history of Nottinghamshire. The of Swedish osteological focus is on cultural interaction and integration material to discuss aspects rather than a story of invasion, rape and pillage. of demography and health 76p, col illus (Five Leaves Publications 2018) in the Viking period – 9781910170472 Pb £8.99 those which would have been visible and Transforming Landscapes of Belief in recognisable in the faces the Early Medieval Insular World and or physical appearances of Beyond the individuals concerned. It explores the effects of migration, from the Converting the Isles II spread of new diseases such as leprosy to patterns Edited by Nancy Edwards of movement and integration of immigrants This volume analyses the effects of religious into society. The skeletal material also allows conversion on landscapes of cult and on religious the study of levels of violence, attitudes towards practice in Europe, focusing in particular on Britain disablement, and the care provided by Viking and Ireland. Adopting an interdisciplinary and communities. An overview of the worldwide comparative approach, the volume investigates phenomenon of modified teeth also gives the interaction between different forms of belief, insight into the practice of deliberate physical their coexistence and competition. It discusses embellishment and body modification. the coming of writing, the power of the word, 128p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) landscapes of ritual, and converting communities. 9781785709388 Hb £38.00 525p (Brepols 2017) 9782503568683 Hb £102.00 Cille Pheadair Laughing Shall I Die A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings in South Uist By Tom Shippey By Mike Parker Pearson, Mark Brennand, Jacqui In this robust new account of the Vikings, Tom Mulville & Helen Smith Shippey explores their mindset, and in particular Cille Pheadair is one their fascination with scenes of heroic death. of more than 20 Viking Laughing Shall I Die considers Viking psychology Age and Late Norse by weighing the evidence of the sagas against the settlements discovered on accounts of the Vikings’ victims, and presents them the island of South Uist for what they were: not peaceful explorers and in the Outer Hebrides traders, but bloodthirsty warriors and marauders. (Western Isles), off the 368p (Reaktion 2018) 9781780239095 Hb £20.00 west coast of Scotland. Its unusually well- Dragon Lords preserved stratigraphic The History and Legends of Viking England sequence of nine phases By Eleanor Parker of occupation, including Eleanor Parker explores how the Vikings and their five longhouses and many smaller buildings, invasions were remembered and reimagined by provides a remarkable insight into daily life the later inhabitants of medieval England. Native on a Norse farmstead during two centuries of tales reveal the links to famous Vikings like Ragnar near-continuous occupation c. AD 1000 –1200. Lothbrok and his sons; Cnut; and Havelok the Dane. Although the excavation at Cille Pheadair was Each myth shows how the legacy of the newcomers a rescue project undertaken before the site can still be traced in landscape, place-names and was destroyed by coastal erosion, it provided local history. an opportunity to address important research questions about the domestic use of space, 288p, b/w illus (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781784537869 Hb agricultural economy, and relationships with the £20.00 wider world beyond the Outer Hebrides. 464p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785708510 Hb £35.00

64 Anglo-Saxon In Austrvegr Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age Communication across the Baltic Sea Beside the Ocean By Marika Magi The Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney, Archaeological Research 2003-18 Marika Mägi’s book considers the cultural, mercantile and political interaction of the Viking By David Griffiths, Jane Harrison & Michael Athanson Age (9th-11th century), focusing on the eastern From 2003, a new coasts of the Baltic Sea. It looks at the area archaeological research from a trans-regional perspective, combining project began to investigate archaeological evidence with written sources, and the hinterlands of the three offering reflections on the many different factors of bays of Skaill, Marwick Bay, climate, topography, logistics, technology, politics and Birsay Bay, seeking to and trade that shaped travel in this period. create a broader and better- (Brill 2018) 9789004216655 Hb £139.00 informed landscape context. In one area in particular, a Viking Law and Order cluster of large settlement Places and Rituals of Assembly in mounds on the northern the Medieval North side of the Bay of Skaill, By Alexandra Sanmark two major Viking-Norse settlement clusters were The Vikings are well-known for their violent raids identified and investigated. The artefact assemblages and pillage, but they also had a well-organised include evidence for ferrous metalworking along system for political decision-making, legal cases with iron and copper alloy objects, and conflict resolution. This book provides a combs, glass and amber beads, worked stone, ceramics and a comprehensive analysis of their well-ordered culture Only of law and assembly, an integral range of archaeobotanical and £33.75 until part of Norse life and identity, archaeozoological remains. 432p b/w illus publication to the extent that the assembly Only institution was brought to all (Oxbow Books 2018) Norse settlements. £59.50 until 9781789250961 Hb £45.00 31 October 264p, b/w illus (Edinburgh UP A Norse Settlement in the 2017) 9781474402293 Hb £70.00 Outer Hebrides The Pre-Christian Religions Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, of the North South Uist Research and Reception, Volume I: From the Edited by Niall Sharples Middle Ages to C. 1830 The settlement at Bornais Edited by Margaret Clunies Ross is one of the largest rural A definitive survey of the current and historical uses settlements known from and interpretations of pre-Christian mythology and the Norse period in Britain. religious culture, tracing the many ways in which This volume explores the people both within and outside Scandinavia have stratigraphic sequence understood and been influenced by these religions, uncovered by the excavation from the Christian Middle Ages to contemporary of Bornais mounds 2 and 2A. media of all kinds. The present volume (I) traces The excavation of mound 2 the reception down to the early nineteenth century. revealed a sequence of high 625p (Brepols 2018) 9782503568799 Hb £110.50 status buildings that span the Norse occupation of the Gods and Humans in Medieval settlement. One of these houses, constructed at Scandinavia the end of the eleventh century AD, was a well Retying the Bonds preserved bow-walled longhouse and the careful excavation and detailed recording of the floor By Jonas Wellendorf layers has revealed a wealth of finds that provides Jonas Wellendorf’s study explores the medieval invaluable insight into the activities taking place Scandinavian reception and re-interpretation of pre- in this building. The excavation of Christian Scandinavian religion. By providing an mound 2A provides an insight in-depth analysis of often overlooked mythological into the less prestigious areas of Only materials, along with translations of all textual the settlement. £33.75 until passages, Wellendorf delivers an accessible work 608p, b/w illus that sheds new light on the ways in which the old (Oxbow Books 2018) publication gods were integrated into the Christian worldview 9781789250466 Hb £45.00 of medieval Scandinavia. (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108424974 Hb £75.00 Anglo-Saxon 65 Early Medieval Europe The Sösdala Horsemen and the Huosiland Equestrian Elite in Fifth Century Europe A Small Country in Carolingian Europe Edited by Charlotte Fabech & Ulf Nässman By Carl I. Hammer Sösdala is a famous name in European archaeology Discussed here is the landscape of western of the Migration Period for its mounts, from an Bavaria in the early-medieval period, between exquisitely decorated parade bridle, the closest about 750 and 850, possibly the best documented parallels to which are found in Austria, Poland, European landscape of this time. This is due to the Romania and Ukraine. Based on new scholarly extraordinary cartulary prepared for the diocese of studies and scientific analyses a European team of Freising by the monk, Cozroh, in the scholars places Sösdala in its European setting. second quarter of the ninth century. This volume provides a full study 452p col illus (Aarhus UP 2018) 9788793423152 Hb Only £35.00, NYP of the cartulary and what it can tell us about the society and £25.50 until Debating Religious Space and Place economy of the region. 31 October in the Early Medieval World 258p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2018) (c. AD 300-1000) 9781784917593 Pb £30.00 Edited by Chantal Bielmann & Brittany Thomas Charlemagne’s Practice of Empire These papers discuss and debate ‘space’ and ‘place’ By Jennifer R. Davis with a focus on new methodologies. They address Davis explores how Charlemagne overcame the two such themes as phenomenological and experiential main problems of ruling an empire, namely how issues in the archaeology of space and place; to delegate authority and how to manage diversity. access to and visibility of spaces in the past; the She demonstrates that rather than imposing a pre- transformation and appropriation of spaces beyond existing model of empire onto conquered regions, the ‘Christian/Pagan’ dichotomy; and aspects of Charlemagne and his men learned from them, community and memory building in the medieval developing a practice of empire that allowed the world. emperor to rule on a European scale. As a result, 225p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) Charlemagne’s realm was more flexible and diverse 9789088904196 Hb £95.00, 9789088904189 Pb £35.00 than has long been believed. Making Early Medieval Societies 551p (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9781107076990 Hb £108.00, 19781107434134 Pb £24.99 Conflict and Belonging in the Latin West, 300–1200 Conquest and Christianization Edited by Kate Cooper & Conrad Leyser Saxony and the Carolingian World, 772–888 This book draws anthropologists’ work to consider By Ingrid Rembold dispute settlement and conflict management This book sets out to re-evaluate the political during and after the end of the Roman Empire. integration and Christianization of Saxony and to Contributions range across the internecine rivalries show how the success of this transformation has of late Roman bishops, the marital disputes of important implications for how we view governance, kings, and the tension between religious leaders and the institutional church, and Christian communities unruly crowds – all considering the mechanisms in the early Middle Ages. It serves to undercut the by which conflict could be harnessed as a force for narrative of top-down Christianization with a more social stability or an engine of social change. grassroots model that highlights the potential for 293p (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107138803 Hb £67.99, diversity within Carolingian Christianity. 9781316503607 Pb £19.99 292p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107196216 Hb £75.00 Medieval Rome Archaeozoological Analysis of the Stability and Crisis of a City, 900–1150 Fortified Settlement of Sand (10th By Chris Wickham Century AD, Lower Austria) Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city By Konstantina Saliari of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major This book presents an archaeozoological analysis change in the city. This volume doesn’t merely of the Early Medieval fortified settlement Sand, in seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional Lower Austria. The work describes the exceptional Church standpoint; instead, it engages in studies socio-economic organisation of a settlement based of the city’s processions, material culture, legal on its animal remains, and sheds light on aspects of transformations, and sense of the past, seeking to daily life, the interaction between consumers and unravel the complexities of Roman cultural identity. providers, and the exploitation of faunal resources. 536p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9780199684960 175p b/w illus (BAR S2892, 2018) 9781407316376 Pb Hb £36.99, 9780198811220 Pb £18.99 £40.00 66 Medieval History The History of William Marshal By Nigel Bryant NEW FROM casemate The History of William The Black Prince and the Capture Marshal is the earliest surviving biography of a of a King medieval knight – indeed Poitiers 1356 it is the first biography of a By Morgen Witzel & Marilyn Livingstone layman in the vernacular The core of this book in European history. Few is a day-by-description other medieval biographies of the campaign of have the immediacy of this July-September 1356, celebration of Marshal’s climaxing with a detailed career, based not least on description of the Battle stories told by Marshal of Poitiers itself. The himself and those close to detailed account and him, and it is made available here for the first time analysis of the battle and in a modern prose translation. the campaigns that led 259p (Boydell & Brewer 2016, Pb 2018) 9781783271313 up to it has a strong focus Hb £50.00, 9781783273034 Pb £17.99 on the people involved in the campaign: ordinary Henry the Young King, 1155–1183 men-at-arms and non-combatants as well as By Matthew Strickland princes and nobles. This first modern study of Henry the Young 336p, b/w pls (Casemate UK 2018) King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known 9781612004518 Hb £25.00 Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his The Cambridge History of Ireland father’s lifetime. Henry played a central role in the politics of Henry II’s great empire and was hailed Volume 1, 600–1550 as the embodiment of chivalry. Yet the Young King Edited by Brendan Smith was provoked into heading a major rebellion against Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key his father, and died before reaching the age of thirty themes, the first volume in the Cambridge History having never assumed actual power. of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects 496p, b/w pls (Yale UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9780300215519 Hb of the medieval Irish experience. New perspectives £30.00, 9780300232875 Pb £12.99 are offered on the politics, artistic culture, religious beliefs and practices, social organisation and The Welsh and the Medieval World economic activity that prevailed on the island Travel, Migration and Exile in these centuries. Underpinning the book is a Edited by Patricia Skinner comparative, outward-looking approach that sees This book seeks for the first Ireland as an integral but exceptional component time to capture the medieval of medieval Christian Europe. Welsh on the move, and 700p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107110670 core to its purpose is the Hb £100.00 exploration of identity Conqueror’s Son within and outside the Welsh territories – particularly since Duke Robert Curthose, Thwarted King ‘Welsh’ may have become By Katherine Lack a fluid term to describe a Duke Robert of Normandy, eldest son of William the stranger, often pejoratively. Conqueror, was one of the greatest kings England Examining archaeological, never had. Instead, his reputation was distorted historical and literary by the English chroniclers to give legitimacy to evidence together, this book the claims to the throne of Robert’s two brothers, enables a better understanding William Rufus and Henry I. Katherine Lack sets of the ways in which people out to redress the balance of opinion on Robert from Wales interacted with Only Curthose. What emerges is a fascinating revision of and understood their near and £25.50 until our understanding of William the Conqueror and distant neighbours. 31 October his complex relations with his sons. 336p (University of Wales Press 256p, b/w illus (The History Press 2018) 9780750986823 2018) 9781786831897 Pb £29.99 Pb £12.99 67 The Economy of Medieval Hungary The Old French Chronicle of Morea Edited by Josef Laszlovszky, Balazs Nagy, Peter Szabo An Account of Frankish Greece after the Fourth & Andras Vadas Crusade The Economy of Medieval Hungary is the first Edited by Anne Van Arsdall & Helen Moody single-volume treatment of the subject in English, The Chronicle of Morea is the key source for the and draws on an extensive range of archaeological history of the Frankish states established in Greece and historical data. The twenty-five chapters of the after the conquest of Constantinople in 1204 and book focus on structures of medieval economy, their relations with the reviving Byzantine Empire different means and ways of human-nature during the 13th century. This is the first translation interactions in production, and offer an overview into English or any other modern language of the of the different spheres of economic life, with Old French text, thus opening its content to a wider a particular emphasis on taxation, income and audience. commercial activity. 290p (Routledge 2015, Pb 2017) 9780754631521 Hb (Brill 2018) 9789004310155 Hb £200.00 £115.00, 9781138307223 Pb £34.99 Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Kill Them All Medieval Ireland Cathars and Carnage in the Albigensian Crusade The English and Irish of the Four Obedient By Sean McGlynn Shires The bloody Albigensian Crusade launched against By Sparky Booker the Cathar heretics of southern France in the early This study examines the nature of interactions thirteenth century is infamous for its massacres between English and Irish neighbours in the four and acts of appalling cruelty, deeds commonly Medieval Religion shires at the heart of the English colony, taking into ascribed to the role of religious fanaticism. Here, in account the complex tensions between assimilation the first military history of the whole conflict, Sean and the preservation of distinct ethnic identities and McGlynn reveals the crusade in a different light – as exploring how the common colonial rhetoric of the a bloody territorial conquest in which acts of terror Irish as an ‘enemy’ coexisted with the daily reality of were perpetrated to secure military aims rather than alliance, intermarriage, and accommodation. religious ones. 336p (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107128088 Hb £75.00 320p, col illus (The History Press 2018) 9780750984317 Pb £18.99 Encountering Islam on the First Crusade Slavery and the Slave Trade in the By Nicholas Morton Eastern Mediterranean (C. 1000–1500 Nicholas Morton offers a major reinterpretation Ce) of the crusaders’ attitudes towards the Arabic Edited by Reuven Amitai & Christoph Cluse and Turkic peoples they encountered on their This volume contains innovative studies that look at journey to Jerusalem. He offers a varied picture various aspects of slavery and the slave trade in the of cross cultural relations, depicting the Near East Eastern Mediterranean between about 1000–1500 as an arena in which multiple protagonists were CE: overviews of slavery in the different religious pitted against each other. Some were fighting for traditions, examinations of the role of the Italian supremacy, others for their religion, and many merchant cities – mainly Venice and Genoa – in simply for survival. this trade, the nature of Mamluk military slavery 331p (Cambridge UP 2016, Pb 2017) 9781107156890 Hb and aspects of the commerce in these so-called £67.99, 9781108444866 Pb £22.99 slave soldiers. 500p (Brepols 2018) 9782503570198 Hb £115.00 Medieval Bruges c. 850–1550 The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191 Edited by Andrew Brown & Jan Dumolyn Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle Bringing together specialists from both archaeology That Decided the Third Crusade and history, this ‘total’ history presents an integrated By John D. Hosler view of Bruges’ history from its very beginnings, The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was tracing its astonishing expansion through to the most significant military engagement of the its subsequent decline in the sixteenth century. Third Crusade. Drawing on a balanced selection The authors’ analysis of its commercial growth, of Christian and Muslim sources, historian John industrial production, socio-political changes, and D. Hosler has written the first book-length account cultural creativity is grounded in an understanding of this hard-won victory for the Crusaders, when of the city’s structure, its landscape and its built England’s Richard the Lionheart and King Philip environment. Augustus of France joined forces to defeat the 568p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108419659 Hb Egyptian Sultan Saladin. £99.99 272p, b/w pls (Yale UP 2018) 9780300215502 Hb £25.00 68 Medieval History Royal and Elite Households in Medieval Fools and Idiots? and Early Modern Europe Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages Edited by Theresa Earenfight By Irina Metzler In this volume, the authors bring fresh approaches This is the first book devoted to the cultural history to the subject of royal and noble households in in the pre-modern period of people we now medieval and early modern Europe. The essays describe as having learning disabilities. Medieval focus on the people of the highest social rank: the physicians, lawyers and the schoolmen of the nuclear and extended royal family, their household emerging universities wrote the texts which shaped attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, medieval definitions of intellectual ability and and physicians. Themes include financial and its counterpart, disability. In studying such texts, administrative management, itinerant households, which form part of our contemporary scientific and the household of an imprisoned noblewoman, cultural heritage, we gain a better understanding of blended households, and cultural influence. which people were considered to be intellectually (Brill 2018) 9789004314320 Hb £166.00 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 Medieval Religion Scandalous Error Women and Religion in Late Medieval Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy Norwich in Medieval Europe By Carole Hill By C. Philipp E. Nothaft Drawing on uniquely rich and varied sources, the For centuries prior to book demonstrates, far more fully and effectively the Gregorian reform, than studies for other cities have been able to do, astronomers, mathematicians, how links with continental Europe enriched female theologians, and even Church life. Norwich’s successful status as an international councils had been debating depot – especially its trade with the Low Countries the necessity of improving and with Germany – became the vehicle for the or emending the existing transmission of various cults, artistic expression ecclesiastical calendar, which and books related to continental female mysticism. throughout the Middle Ages 234p (Boydell & Brewer 2010, Pb 2017) 9780861933044 kept losing touch with the Hb £50.00, 9780861933464 Pb £19.99 astronomical phenomena at an alarming pace. The Murder of William of Norwich Scandalous Error is the first The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval comprehensive study of the medieval literature Europe devoted to the calendar problem and its cultural and By E. M. Rose scientific contexts. In 1144, the mutilated body of 384p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198799559 Hb William of Norwich, a young £75.00 apprentice leatherworker, Selected Works of Abbot Suger o was found abandoned outside the city’s walls. The f Saint-Denis boy bore disturbing signs of Edited by Richard Cusimano & Eric Whitmore torture, and a story spread Suger is best for his work on Saint-Denis, but he that it was a ritual murder, was much more than an architect. He served as performed by Jews in a counsellor and member of the courts of King imitation of the Crucifixion Louis VI and VII, who sent him across Europe on as a mockery of Christianity. diplomatic missions. Suger’s texts provide a wealth E.M. Rose’s engaging book of information about the events of his era as well delves into the story of as a large amount of biographical material on his William’s murder and the notorious trial that accomplishments. His writings are here provided in followed to uncover the origin of the ritual murder an English translation. accusation – known as the “blood libel” – in western 312p (Catholic University of America Press 2018) Europe in the Middle Ages. 9780813229973 Hb £67.50 416p, (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9780190679194 Pb £10.99 69 Devotional Interaction in Medieval Dealing With The Dead England and its Afterlives Mortality and Community in Medieval and Edited by Elisa A. Foster, Julia Perratore & Steven Early Modern Europe Rozenski Edited by Thea Tomaini This collection examines the During the Middle interaction between medieval Ages the dead continued English worshippers and to function literally as the material objects of their integrated members of their devotion with a particular communities long after focus on Yorkshire. The they were laid to rest in volume also addresses the their graves. From stories afterlives of objects and of revenants bringing pleas buildings in their temporal from Purgatory to the living, journeys from the Middle to the practical uses and Ages to the present day. The regulation of burial space; chapters incorporate site- from the tradition of the ars specific research with the moriendi, to the depiction of insights of scholars of visual art, literature, music, death on the stage; and from the making of martyrs, liturgy, ritual, and church history. to funerals for the rich and poor, this volume (Brill 2018) 9789004315068 Hb £172.00 examines how communities dealt with their dead as continual, albeit non-living members. The Right Ordering of Souls’ 480p (Brill 2018) 9789004315143 Hb £150.00 The Parish of All Saints’ Bristol on the Eve of the Reformation Carmina Burana, Volume I By Clive Burgess Edited by David A. Traill In the two centuries Carmina Burana, literally “Songs from Beuern,” is preceding the Reformation in named after the village where the manuscript was England, economic, political found. The thirteenth-century songbook consists and spiritual conditions of nearly 250 poems, on subjects ranging from sex combined with constructive and gambling to crusades and corruption. The effect. The wealthier classes multilingual codex includes works by leading Latin invested in and worked poets such as the Archpoet, Walter of Châtillon, for their neighbourhood and the canonist Peter of Blois, as well as stanzas churches with a degree by German lyric poets. This new presentation of largesse – witnessed in of the medieval classic in its entirety makes the parish buildings in many anthology accessible in two volumes with the texts localities – hardly equalled accompanied by a facing English translation. since. This book, using the 602p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674660250 Hb £19.95 remarkable survival of records for one parish – All Saints’, Bristol, in the later fifteenth and early Carmina Burana, Volume II sixteenth centuries – scrutinises the investment that Edited by David A. Traill the faithful made. 801p (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674980976 Hb £19.95 432p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2018) 9781783273096 Hb £60.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Parish and the Chapel in Medieval Britain and Norway By Sarah E. Thomas This 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 Only whether the drive for uniformity had an impact on religious £51.00 until landscapes in Britain and Norway, arguing that there is little evidence of a Viking impact on chapel organisation in the 31 October British Isles. 200p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2018) 9781783273140 Hb £60.00

70 Medieval Religion Medieval Art & Architecture Touching the Passion NEW FROM casemate Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through Castles the Eyes of Faith Fortresses of Power By Donna L. Sadler Donna Sadler explores the manner in which By Rosie Serdiville & John Sadler worshipers responded to the carved and In medieval times castles polychromed retables adorning the altars of their were the ultimate symbol parish churches. Framed by the symbolic death of of power, dominating Christ re-enacted during the Mass, the historical their surroundings, and account of the Passion on the retable situated marking the landscape Christ’s suffering and triumph over death in the with their imposing size present. The dramatic gestures, contemporary garb, and impregnable designs. and wealth of anecdotal detail on the altarpiece, Alongside their primary invited the viewer’s absorption in the narrative. As role as a fortress, castles in the Imitatio Christi, the worshiper imaginatively also functioned as a projected himself into the story like a child before residence, the backdrop a dollhouse. for extravagant banquets (Brill 2018) 9789004360198 Hb £117.00 and entertainments, and the lord’s collection of The Mosaics of the Norma Stanza taxes and application of the law. This concise in Palermo history of castles uses the example of individual castles, including Harbottle and Bodiam, to By David Knipp explore how and why they were built and what This book explores the making and meaning of life in a castle was really like. the chamber commonly known as the ‘Room of 160p b/w illus (Casemate 2018) Roger’ in the palace of the Norman kings of Sicily 9781612006130 Pb £7.99 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 The Castle at War in Medieval England obvious tension, serves as a starting point for an and Wales investigation of the various currents of artistic By Dan Spencer exchange and dynastic pretensions between Palermo, Constantinople, Norman Antioch and the Maghrib. This book explores the role of the castle in warfare in England and Wales, focusing on the period from 312p (Peeters Press 2017) 9789042933330 Hb £115.00 the Norman Conquest to the reign of Henry VIII. Houses Previous authors have tended to concentrate on An Architectural Guide the architecture of castles and on establishing a narrative of how castles changed throughout the By Charles O’Brien Middle Ages. Instead this book discusses castles in An enthusiast’s guide to relation to the military history of medieval England exploring historic houses of and Wales, with chapters covering specific conflicts England, this informative such as the Normans, the twelfth century civil war, book, now in paperback, also war with Scotland and the Wars of the Roses. enables readers to discover 336p b/w illus (Amberley 2018) 9781445662688 Hb more about the history of £20.00 their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic Churches architecture, identify period An Architectural Guide styles, uncover the origins of By Simon Bradley a building, and understand why rooms are arranged This compact and accessible book is for anyone in particular sequences, who would like to understand more about the why window and chimney architectural history of English churches. Clear and designs change through easy to use, the text explains the key components history, or why staircases are of church architecture-stylistic developments, presented in a certain fashion. functional requirements, regional variations, and arcane vocabulary. 192p, b/w and col illus (Yale UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9780300233421 Pb £8.99 192p, b/w and col illus (Yale UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9780300233438 Pb £8.99 71 Romanesque Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic Patrons and Processes of Appropriation in the Italian Edited by J. Camps, M. Castineiras, J. McNeill & R. Plant Maritime Cities, 1000–1150 The twenty-five papers By Karen Rose Mathews in this volume explore Karen Rose Mathews analyzes the relationship the making of art and between war, trade, and the use of spolia as architecture in Latin Europe architectural decoration in the public monuments and the Mediterranean of the Italian maritime republics in the eleventh between c. 1000 and c. 1250, and twelfth centuries. This comparative study with a particular focus on addressing five urban centres argues that the questions of patronage, multivalence of spolia and their openness to new design and instrumentality interpretations made them the ideal visual form across Latin Europe and to define a distinct Mediterranean identity for the Mediterranean. Topics the inhabitants of these cities, celebrating the range from case studies on wealth and prestige that resulted from the paired Santiago de Compostela, the Armenian Cathedral endeavours of war and commerce while referencing in Jerusalem and the Winchester Bible to reflections the cultures across the sea that inspired the greatest on textuality and donor literacy, the culture of hostility, fear, or admiration. abbatial patronage at Saint-Michel de Cuxa and (Brill 2018) 9789004335653 Hb £95.00 the re-invention of slab relief sculpture around 1100. 568p, b/w and col illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138477049 The Medieval Manuscript Book Hb £110.00, 9781138477032 Pb £34.99 Cultural Approaches The Lithic Garden Edited by Michael Johnston & Michael Van Dussen Nature and the Transformation of Traditional scholarship on manuscripts has tended the Medieval Church to focus on issues concerning their production and has shown comparatively little interest in the By Mailan S. Doquang cultural contexts of the manuscript book. The The Lithic Garden offers Medieval Manuscript Book redresses this by focusing innovative perspectives on on aspects of the medieval book in its cultural the role of ornament in situations. Written by experts in the study of the medieval church design. handmade book before print, this volume combines Focusing on the foliate bibliographical expertise with broader insights into friezes articulating iconic the theory and praxis of manuscript study in areas French monuments such from bibliography to social context, linguistics to as Amiens Cathedral, it location, and archaeology to conservation. The demonstrates that church focus of the contributions ranges widely, from builders strategically used authorship to miscellaneity, and from vernacularity organic motifs to integrate to digital facsimiles of manuscripts. Taken as a the interior and exterior of whole, these essays make the case that to understand their structures, thus reinforcing the connections the manuscript book it must be analyzed in all its and distinctions between the entirety of the sacred cultural complexity, from production to transmission edifice and the profane world beyond its boundaries. to its continued adaptation. 272p, b/w and col illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190631796 318p, 26 b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107685987 Hb £64.00 Pb £20.99 EDITOR’S CHOICE Church Monuments in South Wales, c.1200-1547 By Rhianydd Biebrach Church 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 Only monuments and how this distinctive memorial culture £51.00 until reflected their shifting fortunes, tastes and pre-occupations 31 October at a time of great social change. 244p, b/w illus, col pls (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783272648 Hb £60.00

72 Medieval Art & Architecture Medieval Archaeology NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Faversham in the Making Bristol: A Worshipful Town and The Early Years: The Ice Ages until AD 1550 Famous City By P. Reid, D. Harrington & M. Frohnsdorff An Archaeological Assessment Using archaeological and By Nigel Baker, Jonathan Brett & Robert Jones historical evidence set in This volume provides a an ever-changing physical comprehensive overview of and social context, the the historical development authors argue that there of Bristol, based on is a great deal more to this archaeological and small town on the north architectural evidence. Part Kent coast than is obvious 1 describes the geological at first glance. There is and topographical a wealth of evidence for context of Bristol and prehistoric settlement with discusses evidence for the the Late Bronze Age and environment prior to the Early Iron Age being particularly well represented foundation of the city. The archaeologically and Roman remains indicate a history of archaeological work in Bristol is very prosperous phase up to around the AD 270s, discussed in detail, as is the pictorial record and followed by drastic changes. Abundant evidence. the cartographic evidence for the city. In Part The book charts the rise of the town from Pagan 2, a series of period-based chapters considers Jutish origins through the medieval period, centred the historical background and archaeological originally around the establishment of an Abbey evidence for Bristol’s development. Part 3 assesses and other religious houses but developing as a the significance of Bristol’s archaeology, and trading port and wealthy market town. presents a range of research themes for future 192p b/w and col illus (Windgather Press research. 2018) 9781911188353 Pb £25.99 600p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018) Buildings of Medieval Europe 9781785708770 Hb £40.00 Studies in Social and Landscape Contexts of The Houses of Hereford 1200–1700 Medieval Buildings By Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes & Richard K. Morriss Edited by Duncan Berryman & Sarah Kerr The cathedral city of This volume brings Hereford is one of the together an interesting best-kept historical secrets range of papers discussing of the Welsh Marches. medieval buildings across Although its Anglo- Europe, ranging from Saxon development is Croatia and Transylvania well known from a series in the east, Scandinavia of classic excavations in in the north and Britain the 1960s and ’70s, what in the west. There is is less widely known is comprehensive range in that the city boasts size and status of buildings, an astonishingly well- from the smallest, single- preserved medieval plan and contains some of roomed house in Byzantine Serbia and rural the earliest houses still in everyday use anywhere homes in central Europe to churches in Sweden in England. Three leading authorities on the and monastic hospitals in England. Buildings of buildings of the English Midlands have joined high status and low status are discussed, as well as forces, combining detailed archaeological surveys, those of a secular and ecclesiastic nature. Materials primary historical research and topographical and craftspeople are considered through a study analysis, to examine 24 of the most important of brick makers and their identifying marks. buildings, from the great hall of the Bishop’s The volume aims to open discussions about Palace of c.1190, to the first surviving brick town- medieval buildings beyond simply architectural house of c.1690. features and typologies, and furthers the discipline 256p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) through this process. 9781785708169 Hb £25.00 164p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709715 Pb £38.00 73 English Hammered Coinage Volume I The Oxford Handbook of Later By JJ North Medieval Archaeology in Britain The third revised editions of Jeffrey North’s two Edited by Christopher Gerrard & Alejandra Gutierrez volume classic are newly reissued for 2018 to make This substantial volume provides an overview of them available again for the first time in over ten the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain years. Volume I includes hammered coins of the between AD 1066 and 1550. 61 entries, divided into early Anglo Saxon, Viking, Regional Kings, Norman 10 thematic sections, cover topics ranging from later and Plantagenet periods up to the reign of Henry III, medieval objects, human remains, archaeological including 20 plates with hundreds of coin images, science, standing buildings, and sites such as covering the dates c600 to 1272. castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict 320p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9780907605454 Hb landscapes which still survive. £50.00 1072p (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198744719 Hb £110.00 English Hammered Coinage Volume II Clothing the Past By JJ North Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Volume II covers the coinages of Edward I to Early Modern Western Europe Charles II from 1272-1662, the principal amendments By Elizabeth Coatsworth & Gale R. Owen-Crocker to the third edition being in the coinages of 1279- An astonishing number of medieval garments 1351and the provincial issues of Charles I. survive more-or-less complete. Here the authors 256p, b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9780907605348 Hb present 100 items, ranging from homely to princely. £50.00 Detailed descriptions and discussions explain The English Long-Cross Pennies technique and ornament, investigate alleged associations with famous people (many of them 1279–1489 spurious) and demonstrate, even when there By Christopher R. Wren are no known associations, how a garment may As with other volumes in this series, this guide reveal its own biography: a story that can include is intended to introduce the voided long-cross repair, remaking, recycling; burial, resurrection and coinage to new collectors and beginners generally veneration; accidental loss or deliberate deposition. and to assist in classifying these coins. It contains 480p (Brill 2018) 9789004288706 Hb £216.00 useful lists of obverse and reverse legends, initial marks and symbols, enabling simple and quick The Chasuble of Thomas Becket identification. A Biography 200p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9780952034827 Pb Edited by Avinoam Shalem £25.00 Venerated as a relic of St Thomas of Canterbury, the chasuble was produced in Spanish-Muslim The Short-Cross Coinage 1180–1247 workshops and probably reached Italy as a donation By Christopher R. Wren to the Cathedral of Fermo in about 1200. Richly This guide is intended to introduce the short cross illustrated with numerous details, this volume coinage to collectors, archaeological site personnel, investigates the meaning of the inscriptions and detectorists and others. The introduction sets out motifs, examines manufacturing techniques and very briefly the historical context of the short cross the function of the chasuble, traces its “biography” coinage and the development of the classification and places it within the historical context of the system in used today. political, economic and cultural situation in the 96p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9781902040738 Pb Mediterranean region. £20.00 304p col illus (Hirmer Verlag 2018) 9783777425191 Hb £85.00 The Voided Long-Cross Coinage Seals and Status 1247–1279 Power of Objects By Christopher R. Wren Edited by J. Cherry, J. Berenbeim & L. de Beer This guide is only intended to introduce the voided This publication deals specifically with aspects of long cross coinage to new collectors and beginners status in the history of seals, exploring this theme generally to assist in classifying these coins. The across a diverse range of cultural contexts, from the English voided long – cross coins are so-named 9th century up to the Early Modern period, and from the double-limbed or ‘voided’ cross on the across the world, looking at Byzantine, European, reverses which extends to the outer edge of the Islamic and Chinese examples. These objects are coins, This serves to distinguish them from the united by the significant role they play in social earlier short-cross which they replaced and from status hierarchies, in the status of institutions, the later (plain) long-cross coins of Edward I (from indications of power and finally in notions of 1279) and thereafter. relative status among objects themselves. 88p, b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9781902040745 Pb 225p b/w and col illus (British Museum Press 2018) £20.00 9780861592135 Pb £40.00 74 Medieval Archaeology The Great Barn of 1425–7 at Medieval Life Harmondsworth, Middlesex Archaeology and the Life Course By Edward Impey By Roberta Gilchrist The Great Barn at The aim of this book is to Harmondsworth, built in explore how medieval life 1425-7 for Winchester College was actually lived – how is one of the most impressive people were born and grew medieval barns. Prefaced old, how they dressed, how by an exploration of the they inhabited their homes, ancient estate to which it the rituals that gave meaning belonged and of its precursor to their lives and how they buildings, this book explores prepared for death and why, how and when the barn the afterlife. Five thematic was built, the ingenuity and case studies present the oddities of its construction, archaeology of medieval and the trades, materials and people involved. England (c.1050-1540 CE) in terms of the body, the Aided by an exceptionally full series of medieval household, the parish church and cemetery, and the accounts, it then examines the relationship between the lives of people and objects. way the barn was actually used, 342p, b/w and col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2013, Pb 2018) and the equipment, personnel, Only 9781783273065 Pb £19.99 processes and accounting £17.00 until procedures involved. New Home, New Herds 80p, b/w and col illus (Historic 31 October Cuman Integration and Animal Husbandry in England 2017) 9781848023710 Pb Medieval Hungary from an Archaeozoological £20.00 Perspective By Kyra Lyublyanovics Kirkstall Abbey, Volume II This study collects all available information, The Guest House Excavations 1979-86 historical, ethnographic and archaeological alike, Edited by Stuart Wrathmall on the animal husbandry aspect of the complex The Cistercian abbey at Kirkstall, near Leeds, development of the Cuman population in medieval provided hospitality for a wide range of visitors and Hungary. The book combines a primary scientific guests. The excavations described in this volume dataset with historical information and interprets revealed the complex development of these facilities them within the framework of from the late 12th to the early 16th centuries. The settlement history in order to large quantities of ceramic, metal and other objects, investigate the manifold Only along with the faunal remains, provide a uniquely integration process of a medieval £46.75 until detailed picture of the guests’ personal belongings, community. activities and diet, as well as the equipment and 338p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 31 October fittings of the buildings they occupied. 2017) 9781784917524 Pb £55.00 238p b/w illus (West Yorkshire Arch Service 2018) 9781870453509 Hb £30.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE London’s Waterfront 1100–1666 Excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974–84 By John Schofield, Lyn Blackmore & Jacqui Pearce London’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 Only London Bridge: Swan Lane, Seal House, New Fresh Wharf £76.50 until and Billingsgate Lorry Park. Here the findings of the period 1100-1666 are presented. 31 October 550p, b/w and col illus, 132 colour plates. (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918378 Hb £90.00

Medieval Archaeology 75 Post-Medieval Unfolding a Mountain NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS An Historical Archaeology of Modern and Lost Lives, New Voices Contemporary Cave Use on Mount Pelion Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers Edited by Niels H. Andreasen, Panagiota Pantzou, at the Battle of Dunbar 1650 Dimitris Papadopoulos & Andreas Darlas This volume explores the role of caves in the By Christopher Gerrard, Pam Graves, Andrew modern and recent historical past in Greece. Millard, Richard Annis & Anwen Caffell A team of archaeologists, ethnologists, and a In November 2013 two geologist present the results of a survey on Pelion mass burials were Mountain in East Thessaly, Greece. They offer a discovered unexpectedly human picture of the experiences of cave dwellers on a construction site through historical evidence, interviews, physical in the city of Durham anthropology, material culture, and graffiti. in north-east England. 322p (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788771243796 Hb £35.00 Over the next two years, a complex jigsaw City of London of evidence was pieced By Michael Foley together by a team of archaeologists to establish This illustrated history of the City of London the identity of the human highlights the special character of some of its remains. Today we know them to be some of the most important historic sites. The photographs Scottish prisoners who died in the autumn of are taken from the Historic England Archive, a 1650 in Durham cathedral and castle following unique collection of over 12 million photographs, the battle of Dunbar on the south-east coast drawings, plans and documents covering England’s of Scotland. Fought between the English and archaeology, architecture, social and local history. the Scots, this was one of the key engagements Pictures date from the earliest days of photography of the War of the Three Kingdoms. Using to the present and cover subjects from Bronze Age the latest techniques of skeleton science, this burials and medieval churches to cinemas and book gives back to the men a voice through an seaside resorts. understanding of their childhood and later lives. 96p, b/w and col illus (Amberley 2018) 9781445677323 Archaeological and historical evidence also Pb £14.99 allows us to reconstruct with vivid accuracy how and why these men vanished off the historical The New Churchyard radar. From Moorfields Marsh to Bethlem Burial Ground, Brokers Row and Liverpool Street 224p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785708473 Pb £20.00 By Robert Hartlewith, Niamh Carty, Michael Henderson, Elizabeth Knox & Don Walker The New Churchyard, or ‘Bethlem’ as it was later Transfer between Sea and Land known, was established after the severe plague of 1563 and was in use from 1569 to 1739. Contemporary Maritime Vessels for Cultural Exchanges in accounts and parish registers, combined with the Early Modern Period tombstones and detailed osteological analysis of Edited by Simone Kahlow one quarter of the 3354 burials excavated, enable This book presents interdisciplinary investigations the reconstruction of some of their lives, and their of cultural exchanges based on chosen objects from deaths. shipwrecks and land, significant written documents 300p col illus (MOLA 2018) 9781907586439 Pb £10.00, and verifiable transfer of knowledge. Historians, NYP archaeologists, and pharmacists investigate such transfer by means of material and immaterial The Outcast Dead goods, such as ship lists, medicine, metal ware, By Brittney K. Shields Wilford exotic animals and Asian objects as well as ship Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this work constructions. They set out, the continuity and presents an integration of osteological and historical discontinuity of cultural exchange based on moving evidence to examine the detrimental impact of objects depending on different conditions such as the workhouse on inmates in nineteenth-century region, time, demand and availability. London and to assess whether the 1834 change to 150p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) the English Poor Laws led to deterioration in health. 9789088906213 Hb £95.00, 9789088906206 Pb £35.00, The investigation centres on published osteological NYP data for five Post-Medieval London cemeteries and four associated historical registers of burials. 104p (BAR BS 634 2018) 9781407316093 Pb £21.00 76 20% OFF EBOOKS

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