Oxbow Books 2014 Bargain Catalogue Happy New Year, and welcome to the 2014 vintage of our ever-popular Bargain Catalogue. It brings together a bumper crop of sale titles on everything from Anglo-Saxon buckets to Roman armour, hunter- gatherer folk-lore from South Africa to medieval Armenian manuscripts, as well as hardy perennials like Stonehenge and Pompeii. The only thing they have in common are the prices, which are all as low as we can manage. Much of what fills the catalogue is brand new, with Shire Archaeology, Boydell & Brewer and the Catholic University of America Press represented particularly well. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Bargain Catalogue without some mouth-watering reductions on our own titles, and this time round we have dozens of really special new deals on Oxbow and Windgather Press books. The only downside is that many of these books are in strictly limited supply. For that reason, we encourage you to get your orders in quickly to be sure of getting the books you desire. As ever it is a pleasure dealing with your orders – we hope that there is something here to catch your eye. 2 General Interest Sacred Living Archaeology Ancient Textiles edited by John Reeve. by Philip Rahtz. Production, Crafts and Society This is the catalogue of an An entertaining autobiography of edited by Carole Gillis and Marie- exhibition at the British Library, one of the best known and most Louise Nosch. which places alongside each other highly regarded archaeologists The evidence for ancient textiles some of the finest examples of the of recent times. Rahtz excavated in Europe is split along a north- holy books of Judaism, Christianity many important sites, including south divide, with an abundance and Islam. Essays explore issues Bordesley Abbey, Glastonbury of actual examples in the north, such as the creation and transmission of sacred texts, Tor, Cannington Cemetery, the church at Deerhurst St but precious little in the south, where indirect evidence while glorious full colour photographs illustrate 200 Mary and the Iron Age hillfort at Cadbury Congresbury, comes from such things as vase painting and frescoes. key manuscripts, each of which is accompanied by a and gained many great friends and colleagues along This volume brings together these two schools to look descriptive paragraph. the way. in more detail at textiles in the ancient world. 224p, col illus (British Library 2007) Pb was £14.95 288p b/w illus (Sutton 2001) Pb was £17.99 now 304p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2007) Hb was now £6.95 £5.95 £35.00 now £12.95 The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Astrology Anthropological Approaches Maritime History From Ancient Babylon to the to Zooarchaeology edited by John B. Hattendorf. Present Colonialism, Complexity and Here is an encyclopedia of maritime by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart. Animal Transformations history that, in scope and depth, Maxwell-Stuart traces the edited by Douglas V. Campana rivals the expansiveness of the sea development of astrology, et al. itself. The Encyclopedia covers the showing that like a science it was Explores various themes including entire history of seafaring, from not a static body of learning, but the interaction of foodways with ancient Egyptian shipbuilders to Viking sea-raiders, one that was constantly reinterpreted and added to, complex societies, the interaction between diet and from Nelson and the Napoleonic Wars to the voyages following theological, medical, aesthetic and political colonialism and the complex role that animals, and of Cheng Ho, from the European conquerors of the New currents, and in turn influencing other areas of inquiry. parts of animals, play in all human societies as religious World to the nuclear submarines and supertankers 320p b/w pls (Amberley 2010) Hb was £20.00 now objects, identity markers, or other types of symbols. of today. £7.95 320p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2010) Hb was £80.00 4 vols, 2912p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2007) Hb was now £14.95 £370.00 now £99.95 Oxfordshire Textiles Through the Ages Archaeology and A Look At the Past by Ruth Barnes, Emma Dick and Jon Anthropology Thompson. by Hilary L Turner. Understanding Similarity, This booklet illustrates the A tour of the churches, Exploring Difference history of textiles and weaving monuments, trackways, through the centuries by bringing edited by Duncan Garrow and markets, houses and colleges of Thomas Yarrow. together some key objects from Oxfordshire, aimed at the resident This book focuses on the relation- the Ashmolean Museum’s many and visitor alike. Hilary Turner ship between archaeology and collections. It includes representations of textiles in a reviews the evidence chronologically, describing the anthropology. The papers draw on a range of theoretical variety of media, from Ancient Egyptian statues to early sites and monuments, exploring human impact on the perspectives and empirical case-studies, but are unified modern embroideries. landscape and building a picture of the changing lives in their concern to explore the ideological, practical 24p col illus (Ashmolean Museum) Pb was £3.95 now of the people of Oxfordshire. and methodological commitments that mark each £1.00 128p, 30 col illus (Plotwood 1997) Pb only £4.95 discipline as distinct. 200p (Oxbow Books 2010) Pb was £35.00 now £9.95 Archaeology from Above The English Grand Tour Archaeology and Memory by Giorgio Ferrero. by Julius Bryant. edited by Dusan Boric. This massive and visually stunning The English Grand Tour explores Archaeology and Memory seeks book provides aerial photographs paintings of historic sites by to examine the diversity of of many of the world’s greatest artists from the 18th century mnemonic systems and their sig- archaeological sites from Maiden to the present day. Subjects nificance in different past contexts Castle,to Pompeii, Karnak to Petra range from Stonehenge by John as well as the epistemological and and Teotihuacan to the Great Wall Constable to Muchelney Abbey by ontological import ance of archae- of China. Ben Nicholson, painted in the 20th century. The book ological practice and narratives in constituting the 192p col illus on every page (White Star 2010) Hb was consists of full page colour illustrations of the paintings human historical condition. £35.00 now £14.95 as well as photographs of the sites as they are today. 272p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2010) Hb was £55.00 135p col illus (English Heritage 2005) Hb was £19.99 now £12.95 now £6.95 Perilous Glory Famine The Archaeology of Politics The Rise of Western Military A Short History and Power Power by Cormac Ó Gráda. Where, When and Why the by John France. Combining powerful storytelling First States Formed This expansive book surveys the with the latest evidence from by Charles Maisels. history of warfare from ancient economics and history, Ó Gráda This book describes how states Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in explores the causes and profound formed in Egypt and Mesopotamia, search of a deeper understanding consequences of famine over the China and the Andes, and also of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for past five millennia, from ancient Egypt to the killing how the Indus Civilization functioned without a its eminence today. Its bold conclusions cast doubt on fields of 1970s Cambodia. state. It spans law, ideology, politics, economics, and well-entrenched attitudes about the development of 327p b/w illus (Princeton UP 2009, Pb 2010) Pb was psychology, the ancient world and modern history, in military strength, the impact of culture on warfare, £16.95 now £6.95 order to show how power is obtained, sustained and the future of Western dominance, and much more. deployed, and in whose interests. 438p b/w pls (Yale UP 2011) Hb was £25.00 now £9.95 440p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2010) Pb was £35.00 now £9.95 MethodHeader & Theory 3 Archaeomalacology Creating and Documenting Deconstructing Context Revisited: Electronic Texts A Critical Approach to Non-dietary use of molluscs in edited by Morrison, Popham and Archaeological Practice archaeological settings Wikander. edited by Demetra Papaconstantinou A basic guide to transferring texts edited by Canan Cakirlar. This volume attempts to address and archiving them into electronic These ten papers revisit important the fragmentation and miscon- form with lots of pointers to issues in archaeomalacology such ceptions that have developed specialized information. as provenance of raw materials, around context in archaeology, 64p (Oxbow 2000) Pb was £10.00 now £2.95 dye production and the secondary uses of industrial highlighting the common threads that link together shell waste, the role of shell artefacts in the symbolic varying contextual perspectives. world of diverse civilisations, technology and early 214p, b/w figs and pls (Oxbow Books 2006) Pb was cross-regional exchange networks. £30.00 now £9.95 104p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2011) Hb was £30.00 now £9.95 CAD Creating and Using Virtual Digital Archives from Guide to Good Practice Reality Excavation and Fieldwork edited by Eiteljorg, Fernie, Huggett edited by Fernie and Richards. A Guide to Good Practice and Robinson. This guide introduces virtual by Julian Richards. This guide offers a basic descrip- reality by considering its history, A straightforward guide which tion of CAD software, discussions philosophy and theory, and dis- provides advice on preparing and on the use of CAD, descriptions cusses good practice in planning depositing digital archives which of data acquisition methods and virtual reality projects. It presents also includes recommendations good practice in the use of the software. As well as the data management and documentation procedures for archive curators and collecting agencies and providing a source of useful generic information, required to enable models to be maintained and copyright considerations.