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OXBOW BOOK NEWS 98 New and forthcoming titles for Summer 2017 Archaeology The Ancient World Greece and Rome The Middle Ages A warm welcome to the Summer edition of the Book News, in which you will find a veritable hoard of books on everything from the invention of numbers to the subterranean landscapes of the Western Front. Egypt and the Near East are particularly well represented in this catalogue, from texts to tombs, and urbanism to agriculture. The Romans feature strongly in our Autumn publishing programme. Britannia Romana by R. S. O. Tomlin draws on the work of the Roman Inscriptions of Britain project to tell the story of Roman Britain through its epigraphy. Combining historical narrative with themed explorations of Roman society, it shows just how much we can learn from inscriptions, and how they shed light on the everyday lives of the inhabitants of Roman Britain. The House of the Surgeon, Pompeii edited by Michael Anderson and Damian Robinson publishes the first results from the important Anglo-American excavations in Pompeii, providing a full account of one of the most iconic houses in one of the world’s most iconic sites. It adds considerable detail to our knowledge of Pompeii’s urban development. The work of Alan Sorrell will be immediately familiar from countless guidebooks and museums from Roman sites across Britain. Alan Sorrell: The Man Who Created Roman Britain by Julia Sorrell and Mark Sorrell tells the story of this peerless archaeological illustrator and the processes which informed his detailed and evocative reconstructions. Winchester is the subject of the next volume in the hugely popular series of atlases from the Historic Towns Trust. Edited by Martin Biddle and Derek Keene this large format work traces the development of Winchester in maps and text from Roman times to the early modern era. Winchester also forms the focus of a new archaeological synthesis by Patrick Ottaway – Winchester: An Archaeological Assessment, while the latest in the Winchester Studies series publishes and analyses the vast and important skeletal remains spanning 1300 years from Roman to medieval from excavations in and around Winchester, and features as an Editor’s Choice. Cover Image: Rock art in south-east Scania by Peter Skoglund © Peter Skoglund reproduced with permission. From: North Meets South: Theoretical Aspects on the Northern and Southern Rock Art Traditions in Scandinavia Edited by Peter Skoglund, Johan Ling and Ulf Bertilsson Forthcoming from Oxbow Books in 2017. This issue of Oxbow Book News has been compiled by Mike Schurer © Oxbow Books 2017 Published by Oxbow Books, The Old Music Hall, 106–108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JE Tel: +44 (0)1865-241249 | E-mail: [email protected] | www.oxbowbooks.com /oxbowbooks @oxbowbooks General Interest Objects from the Portable The Sea in History Series Antiquities Scheme Series How important has In the 20 years since the sea been in the it was set up The development of human Portable Antiquities history? Very important Scheme, which records indeed is the conclusion finds made by the of this important four public, has had a huge volume work. The impact on Britain’s books bring together the archaeology. 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Even if they knew what Edited by Benjamin Anderson & Felipe Rojas ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately Scholars have made distorted the representation of them in print. significant progress in This pioneering study uncovers an antiquity born the documentation and with print culture itself and from the need to analysis of indigenous accommodate competitive publishers, ambitious antiquarian traditions, but patrons and powerful popes.

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